Old Bastards!
Iberians
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.
