Lard TV. Infamy, Infamy! A British Force

[@BattleBunkerHQ]

Excellent video Rich, we are really looking forward to playing this. The Britons certainly are very flexible is army builds, love it

[@ADHDlanguages]

Great video! I'm very pleased that our collective whining moved the British to the front of the line. The Celts from the Hail Caesar Roman Invasion of Britian box are kind of a pain I'm finding. They mostly have swords, but the 2 bodies with chainmail on the sprue both have spears! I may get some extra spears to convert on, and get the box with the lime-spikey heads and use those to differentiate elites. Anyone else tried something similar?

[@ADHDlanguages]

To update, the extra spears and the box with the spikey hair heads are ordered, but there are some extra spears on the sprue, and I've managed to drill out some sword hands for them. Works great, but I also jammed the drill under my fingernail, so don't do that part.

[@tabletopgeneralsde310]

Great video and a good variity of list by now. Cheers

[@ostrowulf]

Hmm, Britons are an atractive force. As an ex mechanized infantryman myself, I apreciate the APCs... I mean chariots they have.

[@Subcomandante73]

Great work on those shields.

[@BootsontheTable]

Excellent. These rules are going to be fun, the Gods of Lard tell us so

[@dancarson1479]

Gauls 👍🏼. Can’t wait for the rules!

[@paulspaintshed3511]

Great video Rich look forward to the Ceasarian Romans. Also will you be doing Spanish?

[@N51Sierra]

They are too british to not ignore Hispania. Game is quite unbalanced nevertheless

[@Guardsmen248]

Any chance of dacians in infamy infamy?

[@chalkboy8]

Are the chariots Torque driven?

[@smoessmee]

For the second list you said it's two units of elite warriors and two units of warriors but there is another unit on the table. Did you accidentally leave them in the shot or leave them out of the list description? :)

[@trevorhoffman9721]

Great video! What model are these models from? Foundry?

[@toofatlardies]

Trevor Hoffman chiefly, yes. With some Crusader miniatures mixed in.

[@trevorhoffman9721]

@@toofatlardies I was checking out Crusader miniatures and I found out that they have ancient troops and calvary deals. You can mix and match 20 different infantry models - perfect for filling in unit gaps! Seems like a good deal if you work with them.

[@MourningConstitution]

thanks!

[@Ravenicus]

Looks great!

[@ukaszcieluba1596]

Will Romans use deployment points same as Germans and British?

[@toofatlardies]

Not as many, but yes. Probably three at the most. More usually one, possibly two.

[@ukaszcieluba1596]

@@toofatlardies Thanks. Back to the assembly then. :)

[@colinupton5653]

Frothers? Did I miss something?

[@toofatlardies]

Frothers are naked loons who are used to try to disrupt the Roman formations.

[@panzerschreckpete]

@@toofatlardies oh so no real change for the modern interpretation except the target of disruption

[@colinupton5653]

@@toofatlardies Suspected as much. :)

[@duritti]

Bugger, made mine as 60mm but in a sabot style, they’ll still work. Looking good Rich

[@toofatlardies]

That's fine. The important thing is that two chariots models are enough. Three are too many as they are too wide. 50mm, 60mm, doesn't matter a bit.

[@davidwasilewski]

Before the Romans invaded Britain, did the Gauls ever try to raid or invade?

[@toofatlardies]

Not that we know of. Although the tribal names suggest a migration from Gaul and Gallia Belgica. To what degree that was peaceful is not known. What we do know is that the tribes in Gaul and Britain were of a similar celtic culture. However, tribes within that did not consider themselves 'British' or 'French' in the way we do today with our nation states. We do know that the tribes in Gaul fight each other extensively. We also know that some tribes in Britain, such as the Atrebates, welcomed the Romans whereas other opposed them. That suggests that the older inter-tribal rivalries were very much in evidence after the Romans arrived.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Caesar himself mentions the Belgae expanding into southern England, initially by way of raiding. This seems to have happened only slightly before his time. Indeed, King Diviciacus ruled a kingdom with lands on both side of the channel only decades before Caesar’s invasion. The Briton, Gallic and Belgic tribes were all probably fighting each other for many centuries before Caesar.

[@toofatlardies]

@@sirrathersplendid4825 Yes, that is correct. However, it is implied rather than stated in any detail. It seems clear to me that the Britons had a formalised and somewhat ritualistic form of warfare where high status leaders and their champions did the fighting and the rest of the tribe cheered them on. If one looks at the Belgae, Gauls, Aquitani and Germans it is clear that they were in a state of constant warfare in the way that African tribes were up to the arrival of the Europeans. These were small wars with small victories and small losses. The Roman idea of absolute conquest and subjugation was quite alien to them, until it happened.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

toofatlardies - I agree with you that there was something ritualised and even archaic about warfare in pre-Roman Britain, not least the use of chariots which were pretty well obsolete everywhere else in Europe. However, Caesar is quite specific about tribes like the Belgae at first raiding and then invading/conquering tracts of the “maritime” provinces in the south of England (Gallic War, 5.12) among other places). This had happened very recently, perhaps within living memory, certainly within a century or so, not time perhaps to alter the habits of the more backward Britons living NW of the Severn/Hull line and in Devon & Cornwall. Areas like Kent he considers as highly Gallicised (5.14) it being the nearest crossing point over from the Continent, reason perhaps to allow Gallic allies, or at least Gallic-style troops to certain of the British lists?

[@williamjones7718]

Very Homeric.