Early Imperial Roman auxiliaries - posted by James Hook, 31 October 2024

Bought a Warlord Imperial Roman Starter Army. Happy with the individual figures but the Auxiliaries are massive brutes compared to the skinny legionaries. Sad when they came out the same box.

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Dean Goble

They all look awesome though! I tried to balance them up a bit by cutting off the 'puddle" base of the Auxiliaries and then using thinner card than the Legionaries for the unit bases. My understanding is that they are different generations and sculptors apart....

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Julian Hannam

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Your Auxiliaries are highly likely to be Germans who were much bigger than the teeny Italians. Not satisfying for us rivet counting 21st century folk - but actual reality.

Hope that helps 

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Tilman Dang

Julian Hannam support that, all Germanics are somewhat oversized brutish....safe the paratroopers, submariners and Tankers of later times that is, and given their horrible casualty rates the result can be seen on Italian and Balearic beaches today ......

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James Hook

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Yeah that is how I will justify the difference to myself when I deploy them in an army.

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Vincent Cholewa

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I know the feeling. I got a deal on a box of Warlord auxiliaries when I was adding some elements to my existing Roman army. They are BIG. If I was starting the army from scratch I would have mounted them three to a base but, instead, I did what I could to fit four on because that's what the other elements have.

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Ben Vartok

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As far as I know the Warlord business model is buying other companies figures/ranges and then repackaging under the "Warlord" brand. That unfortunately means big variation. I do agree though with comments above re Germans and Italians plus you are not mixing them on the same base. You could build up the Legion bases a bit?

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John Way

Yeah.I mounted my Warlord Marians 3 to a base and even thats tight with the Pilum-dudes.

Remeber those Auxilia are most likely Celts or Germans, so bigger makes sense!

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Vincent Cholewa

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John Way hush your mouth! Thrace was the biggest source of auxiliaries during the early empire. Interestingly, as they served long enough to become citizens, their sons were eligible to be citizens as of right and many of them became praetorians. [Chris Webber, "Gods of Battle: the Thracians at War, 1500bc-150ad" ]

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Paul Graham

A media spokesperson from the Thracian Empire?