Carpi Campaign

 I have decided on a theme and rules for my MayDay Game - it will be a Hail Caesar game set in 272AD around the time of the Roman campaigns of Aurelian against the Carpi, a Dacian tribe on the eastern edge of the Empire that was not subjugated by Trajan in the Dacian Wars. This setting allows me to use my Dacians with allied Goths and Sarmatians as foes for my late Imperial Roman army. For the past few weeks I have been working on Dacians and a few stands of Goths (to me these are generic warriors, fully clothed, with round shields, example below) to fill out the forces, and in the near future I will start working on filling out my Late Imperial Romans.

I also decided that the theme for the DBA tournament at MayDay will have an elephant theme - "Pachyderm Pandemonium" - any army with an elephant element can be entered and player score bonus points for elements destroyed by elephants. I have Sassanids and Abysinnians to choose from, but there are some very formidable elephant lists in DBA, so this should be very competitive.

Dacians

First batch of Dacians, here we have 4 bases of warband and two of skirmishers for my MayDay game - system to be determined. I am currently leaning towards Impetus.

The figs are a mix of Foundry and Warlord.

Warlord Auxilia

I finished a box of Warlord Games Roman Auxilia - these guys - in 28mm for my MayDay game.

Nice figures, really nice, but they are a bit over-animated for my taste which makes them hard to rank up. I based them on 30 x 60mm frontage so they can be used for DBA.

I am thinking of running a Dacian Wars battle for my big MayDay game. I have some Foundry and Warlord Dacians, as well as a horde of Sarmatian cavalry. My quandry is which ruleset to use - I picked up the Hail Caesar supplement over Christmas and it has some nice ideas for scenarios, and Hail Caesar is a good participation game for a Con. Although I prefer WAB ... I dunno...