To give you an indea of the task I had put over my head, let's do a little body count.
CoTE has 6 players, each with
- 20 legionnaires,
- 10 cavalry,
- 8 scorpions,
- 10 galleys,
- 4 generals
- and one emperor.
When I decided to go for 6mm, that meant we would have 12 infantry per legion, 3 horses per cavalry unit, 1 scorpion and two servants per artillery piece, plus generals and retinue. Total: 1440 Early Imperial Roman legionnaires, 180 mounted auxilia, 48 scorpions, 96 servants,10 galley, 4 generals, 1 emperor, 20 praetorians or so... Grand total : 1799 little tin pieces to paint and base.
At this moment in time everybody sensible would have thrown the project to the rubish bin, and either put the miniatures on top of the lead mountain. Actually, a REALLY sensible one would have tried to recover some of the money by putting them back on ebay...
But not me. Nooo sirrrreee. Instead I did what every geek would have done: train somebody! I was lucky to find a competent painter here in Pondy. With his help, we are doing good progress. Let me show you some of our work in progress pictures :
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