Auxiliary Cohort
Hello all! I managed to get my grubby paws on a Foundry Roman 'Engineer', mopping his brow, for the Onager crew. I thought about removing his dolabra (pick) and replacing it with something, but in the end decided not to - a pick might well be of use to an onager crewman, and that way I can still use him as an engineer if I want to. So that little diorama/unit is finished, and it looks pretty good, even if I say it as shouldn't. There are a couple of photos in the First Century Romans album.
Today I have finished another unit of Romans for the 'Fire in the East' project. Photos can be seen in the Third Century Roman Photo Album. I have some spare shield transfers for these guys, so I might turn this unit into the infantry part of a cohors equitata (mixed cohort), by adding some cavalry with the same shields. On the subject of the shields, they seem rather fancy - I wonder if a whole unit would have been equipped with such fancy shields. Common sense says probably not, but I have been surprised before - even 'common' Roman soldiers seem sometimes to have have owned very fancily decorated kit.