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Re: [DBA] Galatian Blades from Wargames Factory figures?

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Nick Nascati<nnascati@...> wrote:
> All,
>     I am getting back into DBA after a looong break. I have decided to pick
up the very nice Wargames Factory Romans, Celts and Numidians. It seems pretty
easy to make the Celts work as Gaul, British and Germans. I assumed Galatians
would also be an option, until I came across the need for 2 x 4Bd in the list
for that army.  What would Galatian blades look like? Would they basically be
imitation Legionaires?
>

The Bd are indeed imitation legionaries. These particular imitations
were good enough they were simply promoted to actual legionaries when
Galatia was annexed by Rome.



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Andreas Johansson

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Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:57 am

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All, I am getting back into DBA after a looong break. I have decided to pick up the very nice Wargames Factory Romans, Celts and Numidians. It seems pretty...
Nick Nascati
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Jul 18, 2009
7:30 am

... The Bd are indeed imitation legionaries. These particular imitations were good enough they were simply promoted to actual legionaries when Galatia was...
Andreas Johansson
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Jul 18, 2009
7:58 am

yup, however they imitated legionaries in their combat tactics and training, that is they fought in disciplined close order formations rather than charging...
sheikyurdices
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Jul 18, 2009
10:19 pm

Claudio, Thanks for the information, Yes, I have since discovered that the German would indeed have a different look from the Celts. I am surprised at your...
Nick Nascati
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Jul 19, 2009
2:19 pm

well, to begin with let me clarify this is all rather speculative, there are sources for the look of the Galatians of the early period, most notably the very...
sheikyurdices
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Jul 20, 2009
2:04 pm

I'm currently painting up some 15mm Donnington miniature Galatians for my Seleucid army. Two of their figures look very un Celtic I'm assuming this is a...
martyn simpson
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Jul 19, 2009
1:18 pm

Cicero does say that Deiotarus had 30 cohorts of men armed in the Roman fashion. PK ... From: "sheikyurdices" <claudio@...> To: <DBA@yahoogroups.com> ...
Peter Kershaw
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Jul 20, 2009
4:44 pm

Now that I've got the figures in hand, I think what I am going to do is simply put a Celt head on the bodies of the Legionaires, maybe not entirely correct,...
Nick Nascati
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Jul 20, 2009
5:52 pm

Indeed. Legio XXII Deiotariana ("of Deiotarus") was a Roman Legion formed in 48 a.C. (and probably destroyed in 132-135). Cicero says that Deiotarus originally...
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