Reveille 2019 - the AAR

Last Sunday was the 2019 edition of the Lincombe Barn Wargames Society's annual club show, Reveille II, at our usual venue, the Downend Folk House in Bristol.

There was a wide range of traders and private sellers plus a lot of very nice demonstration and participation games. I think that the general consensus from attendees that the show was a lot of fun and that they were looking forward to next year's event.

Major traders included Warlord, Magister Militum, Ironclad and Great Escape Games, but there were many other less well-known traders at the show.

The photos here show a mixture of traders and games, in no particular order. As you can see, there was a wide range of things, something for everyone!

Planning a Dux Britanniarum campaign

A few of us at the club are thinking about getting a Dux Britanniarum campaign going next year, so we are looking at our existing armies to see what would fit. 

As I already have masses of Gripping Beast Late Romans, augmented with slingers, levies etc from the "Dark Ages" boxes, I automatically assumed that I have everything I'd need and wouldn't have to do any work at all.

Unhappily, as things transpired when I started looking in depth, the one area where I was lacking was basic levy troops. It isn't that I have too few, it is more that I have based most of them up eight to a base for Sword and Spear.

So, I had to assemble and paint up six individually-based levy types using some of the many spares I have lying around, and here they are;

I wanted to make them look a bit muddy and battle-worn, so I put most of the effort into making their shields look old and battered. I think that they fit in pretty well with the existing dozen individually-based levies I have, although those guys look a bite more nicely turned out. Perhaps the new ones might represent a group of really unwilling peasants pressed into service at the last minute?

They'll also fit in with the slingers I intend to use as missile troops, although I'll only need four of those;

The rest of my Dux troops will be taken from my Late Roman armoured and unarmoured infantry.