After kicking around for some ideas I decided to pick the Harii as a suitably nasty opponent.
These are Wargames Factory figs, nice, reasonable poses, just enough detail and a very good price - IMHO(!) and certainly good enough for a project like this. One box of warband and one of cavalry, £30, a few command and some archers and that's that.
The Harii were a particularly nasty tribe described thusly by Tacitus in the Germania "
"As for the Harii, quite apart from their strength, which exceeds that of the other tribes I have just listed, they pander to their innate savagery by skill and timing: with black shields and painted bodies, they choose dark nights to fight, and by means of terror and shadow of a ghostly army they cause panic, since no enemy can bear a sight so unexpected and hellish; in every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered".
I've picked moons and white symbols on their shields to highlight the black and painted broad black stripes on their skin. figures painted completely black wouldn't be much fun but I'll keep the tones dark. The standard bearer is waving a vexillum embroidered with the faded letters LEG XIX - destroyed under Varus in 9AD!!
These tribesmen from the dim and distant past ought to have the Legions trembling in their caligae!
More Hoegaarden figs to come shortly.
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