Background to army

I've played fanstasy warmaster since it came out but have recently been introduced to warmaster ancients. The same warmaster game but with historical figures and armies. And as I'd recently got into ancient history, aided by the Rome serise on TV, and had become a bit jaded with my main wargaming format of Warhammer, I decided to have ago at something alittle different. So leavingthe fantasy behind I bought the WMA rule book and got cracking.

The army that first jumped out at me was the Dacians. I'm not sure why, i'd never heard to them before, who where they? Why hadn't I heard of them? The background in the book had them as enemies of Roman from the Romanian area of Europe, north of the Danube. The were conquored by Emperor Trajan and absorbed into the Empire in around 100AD. I did a bit of reading around the subject and found that there is very little know about the Dacians. The main source is Trajans Column, carved to celebrate Trajans victory and placed in the Senate in Rome. The carved images on the column show the Dacians warriors clothing and weapons but not the colours they wore. It also had their shield designs, which are ornate, but once again no colours.

So with a lot of enthusiasm and a little money I ordered the Dacian army deal from Pendraken miniatures and set about creating a 1000 points army. Now this army deal problably has more than 1000 points of troops in it, and I also ordered a few other bit so the army had a selection of miniatures. This gave me a choice of what to put in the inital army. Here is my starting 1000 points:

General with portents

Leader

Cheiftain

8 Warrior units

3 Archer units

2 Foot Skirmishers units

1 Falxman unit

1 Rholoxani Skirmishing Cavalry unit

2 Rholoxani Heavy Cavalry units

Due to a lack of criteria for painting I settled on a simple colour scheme of Bleached bone undercoat and combinations of terracotta, regal blue, catachan green and scorched brown. This allowed me to get a unit (three stands) done in about 2 hours all in with basing and undercoat. They are nothing special painting wise but being only 10mm and with eight models on each stand I think they are servicable battlefield standard.

I'll post the first units tonight; I've started with the foot skirmishers.

Hope you enjoy my little adventure into 10mm historical figures.