Late Roman Units - February 2022

One of my favorite historical periods is the fall of the Roman Empire. In these years I painted a lot of 28mm miniatures ... around 200 ... and I have to paint at least 24 knights and 50 infantry men yet ...

This summer I was involved in some exhibitions ... I have to write the post for this activities... but this is another story ... now I want to share some pictures of some units I painted again or added 

Herculiani seniores and ... 

... his twin unit ... Ioviani seniores

Celtae Seniores ... an auxilia palatina unit under the command of the Italian Magister Peditum

Menapii Seniores

Some units of archers

and some Cataphractarii. The armored cavalry units usually armed with a long lance called contus that the Romans copied from Parthians and Sarmatian armies.

Miniatures are a mix of Gripping Beast, Armour&Aquila and Warlord games miniatures

A normal day at La Piccola Armata - Jan 31, 2022

I'm member of a wargame club ... La Piccola Armata in Turin ... in these years my club has grown and I decided to write this post to share with others what kind of fantastic wargame area is.

I took the pictures below in a normal day ... a Saturday one of the day in which there are more people

Two tables of SAGA ... 

... SAGA it is one most played games in my club every week-ends. 

Below some Iberians painted by Antonio and ... 

... some Giancarlo's Celts ...

... and Aurelian's Lituans

A table prepared for BA while ... 

another one on which to prepare my scenario for Stalingrad ...

... some pictures of my minis

And the last two tables. One prepared by my friends to test a Napoleonic scenario

Miniatures in 15mm ... the perfect scale for a great Napoloenic battle

... and another one with a colonial scenario ... 

with the fantastic minis painted by Franco

WW2 Naval warfare - First battle of Narvik Jan 22, 2022

Last week Ezio decided to play with Alberto to some ww2 naval scenarios ... Below some pictures of Narvik First naval battle 

The battle ... or better the battles were fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940 between English and German marine forces.

Narvik provided an ice-free harbour int the North Atlantic for iron ore transported by the railway from Kiruna in Sweden. Both sides in the war had an interest in securing the iron supply for themselves and denying it to the enemy.

Royal Navy tried to take an opportunity to defeat the Kriegsmarine. So the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla (under Commodore Warburton-Lee) engaged the enemies

The battle was fought in a fjord between iced mountains

English flotilla managed to infiltrate the Narvik fjord unseen and carry out a surprise attack against the Germans that, the day before, had taken possession of the port.

TheBritish units inflicted heavy losses on German forces, effectively managing to block it in the port. The surviving German units will then be attacked by a more powerful British naval squadron on 13 April, and finally eliminated in the so-called Second Naval Battle of Narvik.

After the naval battles of Narvik, the port and its surroundings remained in German hands, as no Allied forces were available to be landed there. Naval operations were limited at this stage to shore bombardment, as Narvik was not a primary Allied objective.

In our game Germans wins the battle losing only two ships.

Bolt Action Fire Fight - Jan, 15 2022

In the last weeks my friends played BA using Fire Fight rules ... 

They decided to play some Raid scenarios using Italian and English forces ... They created two tables ... Minis are 28mm painted by Riccardo and Antonio

... English SAS are approaching ,,,

... but the Italians are ready  ...

... BA Fire Fight is easy to play and very funny. 

Some other pictures of the game

... My friends

Colonial wars TMWWBK - Dec, 2021

In the last weeks my club mates played some games using their colonial miniatures. 

The idea was to create  "test" scenarios for  TMWWBK and Black powder to help new club members to know these rule systems.

I took some pics and so I decided to write this post. Minis are all 28mm painted by different persons: Ezio, Giancarlo and Maurizio.

Some foreign Legion soldiers in action

Some African tribes that try to defend their territories

Zanzibar's men

And ... at the end ... a classic scenario English colonial troops against Zulu