Tuesday 26 April 2011

Velites

The skirmish line troops for the Polybian Roman Legions. Armed with light javelins, called hastea velitares, they would form a screen in front of the main body of the legion, harass the enemy forces and attack any enemy chariots or eles.
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11 comments:

  1. Nice work on those Paul, nothing lie a few skirmishers for causing a little mayhem.

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  2. Great job Paul. The depth of your collection amazes me.

    Cheers
    Will

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  3. Great work Paul, they look very nice.

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  4. Is one of them carrying a Pilum? - That would upset the Carthaginians!

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  5. I was always useless at using skirmishers. I would usually end up with them getting caught in the open by rampaging cavalry and ridden down to a man.

    Maybe if they looked as good as Paul's figs they might have peformed better...

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  6. They look mean, and that mud is very realistic.

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  7. Very nice Paul!
    The contrast between the tunic(white) and the wolfskin(grey) is very vivid!!!
    T.

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  8. I missed your great work during my holiday ;-) Nice work, again!

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  9. Пауль добрый день!А кто этих велитов делает?И какой масштаб?

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  10. I can see them trying to protect the Ox-carts against the Greek skirmishers:-)))

    cheers
    uwe

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