Midgard Heroic Battles : The Celts

The second army I am going to build will be Celts. I don't have nearly as many Celtic warrior miniatures (87) as I do Roman troops (191), and only a small number are painted. I think I should still be able to field a full 300 points army from them, but I won't find that out until I start statting up what I think the miniatures represent. If I have to buy a few more to make up the numbers then I shall, but I will be trying to run this campaign as cheaply as possible.

Anyway, here are some pictures of what I was able to find today. I think that there are still a few more figures hidden away in the garage (some Celtic cavalry, wardogs and maybe some chariots, along with the Roman artillery and Balearic slingers)...

 Celtic Warband (37 plastic miniatures)...

• 28x Unarmoured Celtic warriors
  
• 6x Armoured Celtic warriors
• 1x carnyx
• 2x banners
  

Chieftains (9 metal miniatures):

• 2x chieftains
• 1x banner
• 1x champion
• 4x druids
• 1x dog handler (need to find dogs)
  

Skirmishers (18 metal miniatures):

• 10x slingers
• 8x archers
  

Miscellaneous (23 metal miniatures):

• 8x fanatics
• 7x spearmen
• 8x female warriors
  

I will need to work out how to base these miniatures in a coherent and logical way to use the maximum possible per base. It will be a challenge, but should be fun.

 

Addendum: Most of the prep work was completed yesterday, but it has taken a number of hours to organise the armies and write them up. Since yesterday's post on the Romans, I have been able to get into the garage and sort out the remnants of the unworked figures. I couldn't find the Roman war machines (I am pretty sure they are in with my Gondor forces) but I was able to find the crews. Here is a list of what else I was able to find...

Romans:

• 30x (1 complete box) Roman legionaries (plastic miniatures)
  
• 23x Roman legionaries still on the sprue (plastic miniatures)
  
• 1x optio (metal miniature)
  
• 11x artillery crew (metal miniatures)
  
• 1x Western auxilia miles with spear (metal miniature)
• 12x Numidian light cavalry (metal miniatures)

I will probably not have any use for the legionaries for this project, as I have plenty of them painted up already, but I do have a few of them eyed up for other games; maybe Broken Legions or Cthulhu Invictus. I will probably paint them differently to the current legionaries (which I painted in linen tunics rather than the standard trope red) to make them stand out from the main army.

Celts:

• 62x Celtic Warriors (plastic miniatures)
• 10x Celtic warhorses (will require 10 of the above plastic upper bodies) (metal miniatures)
• 3x Celtic chariots with 6 crew (metal miniatures)
  

I will be looking carefully at filling out "units" of Celtic warriors. The 37 plastic miniatures currently completed do not really add up to any coherent warband bases, so I will make up numbers in a few categories to set them apart from each other on the tabletop. The cavalry and chariots certainly make for some hard-hitting units to balance the might of the legionaries.

Next up should be a post about the type of game I want to try to run. I have some ideas on how I want this to develop as a campaign, so I need the base stats, points costs and so on before I start plotting everything on a map of some sort.