Libyans and Carthaginians finished. Just need to do 24 Celtic horse and 160 foot, and one or two camp and terrain items, and Zama is green light, people!

"Home stretch" - is that a period of house arrest?

No, it's a method used for keeping an extreme masochist lover happy in the dungeon.

Three Gaulish units to go. They're crummy soldiers, but they are certainly fun to paint!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 01 June 2014, 02:46:24 PM
They're crummy soldiers, but they are certainly fun to paint!

Gauls? Seriously? It was almost 800 years after Brennus sacked the city before anyone else managed it.

Crummy soldiers - seriously not!

"Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, fair and ruddy complexion: terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of great pride and insolence. A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance who is usually very strong and with blue eyes" - Ammianus Marcellinus

Oh, brave and fierce for their own little tribes. But they slept through a critical battle because they were more interested in hitting a bottle than hitting the Romans. The Metaurus was a great turning-point in world history.

In other words, great warriors and dismal soldiers.

Without the Gauls in Hannibal's army there would have been no army for Hasdrubal to reinforce. Had Hasdrubal been in Italy and Hannibal been on his way to join up we might all be speaking a derivative of Phoenician.

Or had Hannibal thought to bring a siege train. Alexander wouldn't have made that mistake.

Two Gaulish tribes to go....