Happy New Year everyone! I appear to have recovered from my lurgy, and am feeling fine, which is a relief.
I've started painting some Warlord Games figures, but haven't been feeling very enthusiastic about painting, so I'm not getting on very fast with them. I don't have any suitable shield transfers for them yet, because Steve at Little Big Men Studios hasn't made any yet. I expect that once I see the transfers I'll be overcome with enthusiasm, and will get them finished off in short order, just so I can see how nice the transfers look!
But, in the meantime, I have got very enthusiastic about the rules again, and have been madly researching and writing the army guides. Some of them are fairly well finished, and I'm quite confident. Others of them are very much 'works in progress' and will need a fair bit more research and a lot of play-testing. But I have finished a first draft, which is a good feeling, not least because now I have an idea how the whole project will 'feel' when it's finished.
In case you're interested, so far I have done some work on each of the following army guides: Rome Early Imperial Rome (25BC – AD97) Trajanic Roman (AD98 - 117) High Imperial Roman (AD118 - 192) Severan Roman (AD193 – 235) Empire in Crisis (AD235 – 275) Barbarians Ancient British (55BC – AD211+) Occupied Gaul Batavian Revolt (AD69) Dacia Early German (25BC – AD117) Middle German (2nd - 3rd Centuries) Arabs Western Arabia Southern Arabia Palmyra Parthia ( - AD224) Sassanid Empire (AD224 - 275) Jewish Great Revolt Bar Kochba Revolt Sarmatians Alans Iazyges & Roxolani Desert Tribes Mauri/Numidians Blemmyae/Nobades (AD197 – ) I am open to further suggestions, if anyone has any - but please bear in mind that the rules are aimed purely at Rome and her enemies 25BC to AD275! I've also written a couple more special rules for the, er, rules, which are, I think, needed to cover the attributes of some of the armies listed above.