Ersatz Legionaries

After the Roman Legions smashed the Carthaginian and Hellenistic armies in quick succession there began a fashion for copycat Legionaries among armies such as the Numidians, Seleucids and Pontics. The assumption was that it was the weapons of the Legionaries that made them invincible, rather than their training or other factors.

So what does a fake legionary look like? Who knows, but this is my go at modelling some.

For my Pontic army I took Wargame Factory's inexpensive Cesarean Legions and (i) trimmed and painted the pilums to make them look more like general purpose spears/javelins, (ii) replaced the Roman heads with Hellenistic and Pontic heads, and (iii) painted the shield in more Hellenistic colours.