"figures for Aurelian" Topic

Hi,the Aurelian game has got me interested in the period of the third century. To find figures for this may be a challenge. After standard imperial lorica segmentata as many imperial miniatures are fashioned after, yet prior to the true "late" period in look I fear? I have not yet decided on scale.

Khurasan have a range specifically for this period in 15mm.

28mm: A&A miniatures ?

A&A miniatures do them in 28mm, quite a full range and very nice in my opinion.

Got the 28 mm figures from A&A they are wonderful figures and when painted up are cracker.
Cheers. BTW what size are the bases for Aurelian in 28mm?

Legio Heroica in 15mm looks like a great choice for this period – big bases with lots of figures!

I have a bunch of the A&A miniatures. They are quite nice and I would highly recommend them. Aventine do a few packs of legionaries in scale and mail that look awesome too. You can get the oval legionary shields from Aventine also to go with them if you like that rather than the rectangular shields.

Both A&A and Aventine do very nice Sassanids. I'm chomping at the bit for Aventine to release its version of Sassanid infantry (soon hopefully).

There are lots of figures that will work for Goths available from multiple manufacturers.

I'm not sure what to do about Sarmatians. A&A have some in their 4th century Roman range.

Crusader does later Romans as well:

jkgminiatures.com/#!shop/co68

Forged in Battle will be starting a Kickstarter for 15mm figures specializing in this range of Romans. The Kickstarter begins this coming Saturday.

Or if you have any period of Imperial Romans, Sassanids, and some kind of hairy Barbarians that could double up as Sarmatians and Germans you could just roll with it.

If you have a Dacian army it would no doubt be handy, enabling you to have the foundations of both Sarmatian and generic Barbarians that you could expand on.

I can't imagine there's too many folks out there that could genuinely point out what mid to late 3rd Century Sarmatians and Germanic tribes actually looked like – and prove it!

Well … if there was one person who would know the difference between 2nd century Dacians and 3rd century Sarmatians, it would be … Trajanus (the original).

:)

Thank you, thank you, I'll be in the forum all week, and try the garum, it's appalling.

More seriously, that's interesting and very timely news from Forged in Battle about their new upcoming range.

CAT,

I don't think my alter ego saw too many 3rd century Sarmatians him being dead and all, although he certainly got to see a lot of 2nd century (just) Dacians.

Probably a good deal more than he liked! :o)

I'm sure the press release from FiB stated that their range would only extend to the late 2nd century – despite my having suggested to them during an exchange of emails a few months ago that, with the impending release of Aurelian, it might be commercially wise to produce 3rd century Romans.

Hopefully they'll pick up on the developing interest and revise their production plan accordingly.

I'm sure the press release from FiB stated that their range would only extend to the late 2nd century – despite my having suggested to them during an exchange of emails a few months ago that, with the impending release of Aurelian, it might be commercially wise to produce 3rd century Romans.

I am AMAZED that Aurelian's Sarmatian army has tons of infantry. Didn't Sam check with Phil Barker on what a Sarmation army should look like???????? I feel a scandal brewing….

Wow, thanks for all the feedback, I am looking at Legio Heroica and I guess I'm not up to snuff enough on the appropriate period kit. In the LH site, it is indicated that many of the miniatures can be used for "earlier and successive periods". I have the Simon Macdowell books on this period published by Osprey but those are really true "late", are there any other books which might offer insight into uniform, arms, armor, gear for the third century. It seems the scale mail look is very nice and telling as well as scutums evolving into short ovals.

I hope that Forged in Battle do "skip over" the early imperial period and concentrate on the 3rd century for their next Kickstarter. I took a look at their current figures, and if they are anything to go by then they would do a great job with the later period.

The only thing that made go "hmm …" was the random packaging, but I'm not sure how random it actually is.

idontbelieveit
do you mean this sort of thing!!!

Baccus and Heroics and Ros in 6mm do late imperial romans and others.

Ah! Well trouble is with Romans is you have to work on your definition of "Late".

Auralian was Emperor from 270-275 AD so really only counts as "Middle" there was a lot more Rome after him!

However It has to be said without him there wouldn't have have been! :o)

I agree A&A make a great line of 28mm Middle Imperial Romans. I am currently working on my Middle Imperial army composed entirely of figures from them.

More on the Forged in Battle Imperial Romans and foes.

link

@mashrewba – yeah. I'm dying waiting for the figures other than the command to come out.

Me to -I'm very pleased to see those interesting shields with the pointy tops (or bottoms…).

The first batch of Aventine Sassanids spearmen are now available (the armored versions) and apparently the unarmored ones are right behind. I'm there.