Reinforcements June 2025

Might be the only ones I get painted this month but reinforcements that can be used for both my Normans in Nunnery and The Red Boots of Byzantium campaigns (although they could also work as Byzantines for the A War Like No Other crusades campaign too) are now on the blog:  two battle groups of 8 stands of Byzantine Spearmen that can work for late Nikephorian and Komnenan Byzantines plus one battle group of 8 stands of Byzantine Archers that will also fit the same era.

All figures are Old Glory 15s.

The front battle group of spear (blue and yellow shields) were all painted by yours truly.

The second battle group of spearmen are mostly off EBay with 8 more that I had to add to finish out the bunch.

The archers are from the same seller off EBay as the middle spearmen.  I also added 8 of these to compete the set.  I plan on using these archers and the 2nd group of archers as two battle groups of mixed Nikephorian foot.

I have a battle group of western spearmen and one of western archers from the same time period as these that I plan to add at some point (hopefully by the end of the summer).  A battle group of Lombard/Communal Italian lancers plus a commando stand or two may also join the blog.

Revised Map

 Been working on the Normans in the Nunnery Campaign scenario a bit and added a revised map.

Alos working on revising the campaign rules and painting some additional Byzantines to field a Nikephorian faction.  Hopefully will have some new additions ready in the next few weeks.

Final Figures for 2024

Managed to finally finish a battle group of Late Roman Auxiliary that had been languishing in the near finished box for a bit thanks to a renewed interest in the last 70 years of the West Roman Empire.  These figures are all Essex 15mm miniatures.  A handfuls were picked up eons ago from Hinds Limited out of the UK when FOG first came out.  Unfortunately, the lighting was not the best.

The figure on the end of the back rank and 2nd from the end front rank are my favorite pose of these but unfortunately they are no longer available.  They have been replaced with a similar pose that comes with a separate shield.  While nice and allowing for a bit more variation with the positioning of the shield, it just does not seem as good as the original.

Hopefully, there will be a few more figures painted in the months to come.