Old Bastards!

I decided to start with the Iberians, knowing nothing of the history I decided to pick up an Osprey book on the subject.

I also ordered some decals from Vitrix , I was also forced to get a bag of hairy Irish in order to save money on postage (cough).

Next I actually started assembling the figures. It’s clearly an older Victrix kit but still decent quality. For some reason they included a bag of night goblin bases, popular with hairy Irish people of the North. I held my nose and got on with it.

Having received my book from Osprey I learned that the Iberians were double hard bastards and quite difficult to fight as they would pretend to run away and then ambush the hell out of you. That’s not verbatim from the book but you get the gist.

I also learnt that they used cavalry a lot more proportionally than say the Romans. So I had a another set of cavalry fall into the Victrix box containing my new shiny Carolingians.

I also learnt that the Romans adopted the Iberian swords as they were more durable and stabbier than the Roman one.

My reining in of hobby spending had been going quite well. I had gone two months without buying anything but a couple of boardgames and some paints.

Then Vinted sidled up to me and with all the seductive power of a twin pack of Jaffa cakes, that I don’t have to share, and they got me.

‘Psst wanna buy two £55 starter warbands for a total of £45?’

‘No, some of them are French’

‘But you already have the rulebook for your Sengoku Argy Bargy type thing’

‘Bastard!’

Not being one to pass up the opportunity to scupper a good bargain I then proceeded to the Victrix website and spent more money on shield decals than the miniatures had cost.

I then went back to look through the seller again and amid the questionable trousers and strident blouses I found a couple more bits.