Midgard Heroic Battles : The Romans

Following on from the previous post, I have collated details of the Roman miniatures I have in my collection. It quite surprised me when I opened the boxes (the first time in several years) to find that I had so many. Here are a couple of pictures of the whole army except the unpainted figures (taken from my phone, so apologies for the very poor quality, the phone just didn't want to focus on anything properly today)..

 

And, here is a list of all the painted miniatures I have...

Imperial Roman legionaries (92 miniatures)...

Centuria (86 plastic miniatures):

• 2x centurion, 1x signifer, 1x optio, 1x buccinator, 1x tesserarius = 6 "officers"
• 9x contubernia (7 contuberlanes + 1 decanus) = 72 legionaries
  
• 1x contubernium (8 contuberlanes) = 8 legionaries
  

 Centuria (6 metal miniatures):

• 1x legatus
• 1x primus pilus
• 1x centurion
• 1x aquilifer
• 1x signifer
• 1x buccinator

Mounted Auxilia (11 metal miniatures): 

• 1x legatus (mounted)
• 7x auxiliary cavalry
• 3x auxiliary cavalry command (decurion, signifer, buccinator)

Auxiliaries (88 metal miniatures)...

 Western Auxilia (44 metal miniatures):

• 1x centurion, 1x optio, 1x signifer, 1x buccinator = 4 "officers"
• 3x contubernia with spears = 24 milites
• 2x contubernia archers = 16 milites
  

 Eastern Auxilia (44 metal miniatures):

• 1x centurion, 1x optio, 1x signifer, 1x buccinator = 4 "officers"
• 3x contubernia with spears = 24 milites
• 2x contubernia archers = 16 milites

As you can see, there are a small number that need some repairing (some shields have popped off and a few weapons have broken), which I will carry out when I make up the units I will be fielding.

I also have a small number of unpainted Roman figures - an onager and three ballistae (which will also be doubling up for Gondorian artillery), and some Balearic slingers. I may not worry too much about these just yet as I have plenty of other troops to be getting on with. If I wish to play with artillery then I can always sort them at a later date.

The next post will feature the Celts and then I will get onto the stats and what I need to do to get both armies up and running.