New Releases for February 2021 - The Ancients (1 Viewer)

[Julie]

NEW RELEASES FOR FEBRUARY 2021
THE ANCIENTS COLLECTION
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME
REPUBLICAN ROMANS
ROMAN MARCHING CAMP

Roman Marching camps were used to protect an army while away from a permanent base during a campaign or when conducting other military operations.
These camps were constructed by the Romans at the end of a day of marching or conducting other exercises in the field.

At the conclusion of each day’s march, legionary troops on the move were assembled at a site carefully selected at the day’s start. For the next three hours or more, they were put to work digging a perimeter ditch, erecting a rampart, and assembling a palisade with prefabricated materials. Polybius wrote that the standard Republican-era design was in the shape of a square, but always had to conform to the lay of the land and the numbers of men and animals to be quartered in the camp.
Vegetius wrote that the camps should be constructed taking into account the configuration of the ground. He warned that a secure marching-camp must be placed near a source of plentiful water, wood, and forage and not be overlooked by higher ground.

RRCAMP-03A
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE ROMAN ARMY OF THE MID REPUBLIC,
ROMAN MARCHING CAMP,
ROMAN TENT.
(1 pc)

Dimensions of Tent Base and height 5 ½” x 4 ¾” x 2 ¼”

The outline of the camp was usually marked by a ditch, with the resulting spoil used to make a rampart thrown up on the camp’s inner edge. This was then reinforced with earthen sod and strengthened by stakes carried by the troops.
When a camp was being constructed out of reach of an enemy, the entire force, except for a small picket, would participate in the building process. When the enemy was near at hand, the precaution was that half the infantry and all the cavalry would be drawn up in battle order to guard the workers building the camp. The first legion on the scene would take up defensive positions and the actual work on the camp would not begin until the arrival of the next legion in the line of march.

RRCAMP-03B
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE ROMAN ARMY OF THE MID REPUBLIC,
ROMAN MARCHING CAMP,
ROMAN TENT.
(1 pc)


The 8-10 man tent of the Roman Legions were made from goat and calf skin.
Almost all references state that ¼ of the soldiers would have been on watch at any given time, so that the tent would only have to sleep either 6 or 8 men.

RRCAMP-03C
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE ROMAN ARMY OF THE MID REPUBLIC,
ROMAN MARCHING CAMP,
ROMAN TENT.
(1 pc)

RRCAMP-05
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE ROMAN ARMY OF THE MID REPUBLIC,
ROMAN MARCHING CAMP,
CAMP WALLS - STRAIGHT.
(1 pc)

Dimensions of CAMP WALL – STRAIGHT 6” x 3” x 2 ½”

RRCAMP-06
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE ROMAN ARMY OF THE MID REPUBLIC,
ROMAN MARCHING CAMP,
CAMP WALLS - CORNER.
(1 pc)

Dimensions of CAMP WALL – CORNER 3 ¾” x 3 ¾” x 2 ½”

RRCAMP-07
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE ROMAN ARMY OF THE MID REPUBLIC,
ROMAN MARCHING CAMP,
CAMP WALLS - ENDS.
(2 pcs)

 

[Julie]

RRCAMP-08
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE ROMAN ARMY OF THE MID REPUBLIC,
ROMAN MARCHING CAMP,
SUDES CALTROPS.
(3 pcs)

BTMRR-22
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE ROMAN ARMY OF THE MID REPUBLIC,
ARCHERS
(2 pcs)

MRR-22
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE ROMAN ARMY OF THE MID REPUBLIC,
ARCHERS
(2 pcs)


ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME
THE CARTHAGINIANS AND THEIR ALLIES

The military of Carthage was one of the largest military forces in the ancient world. Although the navy was always Carthage’s main force, the army acquired a key role in the spread of Carthaginian power.
With its Phoenician origins, Carthage already had a long history as a seafaring people. This was helped in that the navy was a permanently manned force, whilst the army would be enlisted only for a particular campaign and then demobilized.
Therefore it was easier to understand how the Carthaginian army was a Combined arms force, which comprised light and heavy infantry, skirmishers, light and heavy cavalry, as well as elephants.
The supreme command of the military was initially held by the civilian “Suffetes” until the third century. Thereafter, professional military generals were appointed directly by the Carthaginian Senate.
Whilst the navy was mainly manned by citizens, the army was composed almost exclusively of foreign mercenary units, particularly Libyans, Numidians, Iberians, Gauls and Greeks.
Only when the city of Carthage itself was threatened would citizens be conscripted into infantry service.

CARTHAGINIAN WARSHIP

BTCT-08
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE CARTHAGINIANS,
MARINES.

BTCT-09
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE CARTHAGINIANS,
ARMOURED MARINES.


The military of Carthage was one of the largest military forces in the ancient world. Although the navy was always Carthage’s main force, the army acquired a key role in the spread of Carthaginian power.
With its Phoenician origins, Carthage already had a long history as a seafaring people. This was helped in that the navy was a permanently manned force, whilst the army would be enlisted only for a particular campaign and then demobilized.
Therefore it was easier to understand how the Carthaginian army was a Combined arms force, which comprised light and heavy infantry, skirmishers, light and heavy cavalry, as well as elephants.
The supreme command of the military was initially held by the civilian “Suffetes” until the third century. Thereafter, professional military generals were appointed directly by the Carthaginian Senate.
Whilst the navy was mainly manned by citizens, the army was composed almost exclusively of foreign mercenary units, particularly Libyans, Numidians, Iberians, Gauls and Greeks.
Only when the city of Carthage itself was threatened would citizens be conscripted into infantry service.



LIBYAN – PHOENICIAN INFANTRY

The backbone of any Carthaginian army and their most reliable troops were the Liby-Phoenician spearmen. The Libyans were not merely mercenaries but could be provided by allied city states or might have been conscripted from a peasant base.

CTL-06A
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE CARTHAGINIANS,
LIBYAN INFANTRY.

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ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE CARTHAGINIANS,
LIBYAN INFANTRY

Before Hannibal’s Italian campaign they were presumably armed with long spears, round or oval shields and wore bronze helmets, and wore a linen cuirasses as protective armour.


THE SPANISH

There is some confusion over the precise identity of the Spanish troops that fought in the Punic Wars. The original inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula were the Iberians, a Caucasoid people who were famed as warriors, and who served as mercenaries in many parts of the Mediterranean world. They served as mercenaries in the Carthaginian armies from at least 342BC.

By the 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] Century BC the Celts,9who had invaded from the North) and Iberians had merged to form a distinctive new people in the north east and central plateau of the peninsula, known as the Celt-Iberians.
The Celt-Iberians fought for the Carthaginians and by the time of the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Punic War it is thought that both soldiers were similar in appearance and equipment.

CTSP-06
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
THE SPANISH,
IBERIAN LIGHT CAVALRY.
(2 pcs)

 

[Julie]

GERMANIC WARRIORS

Following two decades of Roman occupation, Germania Magna erupted into revolt in AD 9, resulting in the stunning loss of three Roman legions to an alliance of Germanic nations at Teutoburg. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varian Disaster by Roman historians, took place in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic tribes ambushed and decisively destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus.
The alliance was led by Arminius, a Germanic officer of Varus' auxilia. Arminius had acquired Roman citizenship and had received a Roman military education, which enabled him to deceive the Roman commander methodically and anticipate the Roman army's tactical responses.
Despite several successful campaigns and raids by the Romans in the years after the battle, they never again attempted to conquer the Germanic territories east of the Rhine river. The victory of the Germanic tribes against Rome's legions in the Teutoburg Forest would have far-reaching effects on the subsequent history of both the ancient Germanic peoples and the Roman Empire. Contemporary and modern
historians have generally regarded Arminius' victory over Varus as "Rome's greatest defeat", one of the most decisive battles recorded in military history, and as "a turning-point in world history"

The Cherusci nation, was a Germanic tribe that fought at the Teutoburg Pass, Weser River, Idistaviso and the Agrivarian Wall under its war chief Arminius. These warriors were perfectly equipped for the Germanic landscape of open fields, forests and swamps. The weapons which were used included the long lance or Framea, which could be swung, thrust or thrown at an opponent.
Hair was grown long and often tied up in a figure of eight or “Suebian” knot.
In the Cherusci warrior the Roman Legionary met a formidable opponent. The Germanic warrior was a well trained, battle-hardened, combat ready and motivated fighter, who excelled in irregular warfare, ambushes, raids and petty warfare. In an ambush the lightly armed Germanic fighter could decisively defeat a heavily equipped legionary by using surprise and the terrain to his advantage.
In a set-piece battle the German could stand up to the Roman Leginary discipline and formations for a while, but in close quarters combat the advantage eventually shifted to the legionary, as at the Battle of Idistaviso, and the Angrivarian Wall.

AG-05A
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
GERMANIC WARRIORS,
CHERUSCI WARRIOR .
(2 pcs)

AG-05B
ARMIES AND ENEMIES OF ANCIENT ROME,
GERMANIC WARRIORS,
CHERUSCI WARRIOR .
(2 pcs)

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[jason foote]

these Roman archers are the best that have ever come to market. The gold and blue combo is amazing, I love it. Definitely getting more archers and a German.

 

[Panzer ace]

The Roman camp pieces are simply incredible.

 

[Guest]

The Roman camp pieces are simply incredible.

I agree with you on the marching camp pieces, I really look forward to the release of the surveying team and there was a Roman wagon in a previous update that looks great and i look forward to both being delivered.

 

[BHogan]

The Roman camp pieces are simply incredible.

I'd love to see John do something similar for the "Drums Along the Mohawk" and "Peninsular War" series!

Brendan