Romans and Dacians Completed for Historicon

 Both the Roman and Dacian armies for my game at Historicon are ready to go.  I was about to repeat the term "complete" but is any wargaming army ever really complete?  The first shot shows an overall view of the table.  The Romans need to get the Emperor (in the lower left) to the fort.  The Dacians need to prevent that event from occurring. The game is being sponsored by Architects of War and appears to be the only Hail Caesar game at Historicon.   I know the scenery looks sparse, this is just a test game and we'll be adding a lot more flavor.

 The Roman field force consists of two commands, a force of battle hardened Legionaires (5 cohorts) with two command stands, one being the Emperor.

 The second Roman command consists of 2 units of Auxiliary calvary and 2 units of Auxiliary Infantry.  All of the Roman figures are from Warlord and have been painted by me.  The commander of the Roman Auxiliary group will have a difficult choice - turn to his/her left and face the oncoming Dacian light cavalry or turn to the right and support the main column against the Dacian main force.  Oh decisions, decisions...

 Lastly, there is a unit of Roman allied Gallic infantry holding the fort plus some artillery units.  I may add a 5th player to the game to command this group.

The Dacian main force consists of 6, 32 figure units of infantry, armed with the Legionnaire splitting Falx and a unit of Sarmatian heavy cavalry.  While the force looks like it could quickly overwhelm the Legionaires it has one drawback - only one command stand.  Since this game is a demo game, I wanted to showcase the command dynamics that are built into the "Hail Caesar" ruleset.

The second Dacian command consists of four units of light cavalry.  I still need to finish painting two of the figures but will get that done in the next day or so.

Here's a Legionnaires eye view of an onrushing Dacian infantry unit.  Those two handed falx's must have been terrifying.  The figures are from Warlord and were a lot of fun to paint up.  Barbarians allow for lots of color choices which is a nice relief from Roman red.

The Sarmatian heavy cavalry.  These figures are from Old Glory.  I'm looking forward to the new Sarmatians from Warlord and will likely be buying another 2 units worth to flesh out the force.

I still have a bit of play testing to balance out the rules and a lot of work to flesh out the table top scenery.