Lovely!
As George has said, some of your finest.
Regards, James

Ummm, I think that I missed the subtlety of your humour Claus. Set 069 came out last year. I have two boxes in my collection. Lovely figures. Forty figures. Fine poses and varied armour/armament—for half the price of the coming sets, but we won't start that again, hahahaha!!
Regards, James

Merci Brist. Bonne figurines, mais pour deux dollars chaque figurine ils sont un dollar et demi trop cher pour moi pour l'utilisation que je ferais.
Best to you all Andreas and to the collectors.
Regards, James

What a ripper!
Now have this, the nellies and several others on the wish list.
Thank you Andreas and co.
Regards, James

Excellent painting, as always 'figurenmaler'. You have represented the gruesomeness of the slaughter in a realistic manner.

I find it intriguing that these subjects can be shown as masters, figures and now your version in 'living technicolor', but not set 088. As with cinema, one can depict a man having his head blown off, but not phucking his brains out. It's a funny world, n'est pas?

Happy 2025 to all. May it bring much joy in this peaceful and enjoyable hobby.

Regards, James

Too true Stéphane; soooooo butch. I'd like to see the results of his urine tests please!
Regards, James

Simply superb! Congratulations and thank you again to you all.

Are they a 'big box' since the nellie is a big beast, or since there will be a minor herd of them?!

Have a grand, restful and well-earned break—hopefully some time for some hobby activities of your own?

Kind regards,
James

Wonderful! Congratulations and thank you Andreas and all at linear-a.

Your wonderful sets keep coming through at a steady rate. I note with some excited anticipation that #s 24 and 64 are not far behind this one.

Regards, James

I collected my package of figures today. Wow!

Those centurions and standard bearers look great in the picture on this forum, but they are something to behold when you get to look at them closely so as to admire the complete figurine. Simply outstanding.

The scorpion, onager and ballista are seriously big and robust models (with beautifully sculpted crews). They are gonna be a joy to put together and to paint.

Well worth waiting for, along with the excellent figures of your previously released small sets and the 'nothing left to the imagination' that is the Bacchanalia!

Thanks so much Andreas and co. I look forward to those late republican Romans and French engineers... in time.

Regards, James

Bien sur Stéphane.

Le site: https://troopertoysoldiers.com.au
La liste de linear-a dans le e-magazin: https://troopertoysoldiers.com.au/shop/o...gories/linear-a

J'ai acheté de Roger plusieurs temps (hier pour les boites de linear-a). Il est un bon homme.

Bien cordialement, James

For those antipodeans (and others), Roger now has the photos of the boxes and figures on his website and available for sale.

I think that his presentation and photos may exceed those on your own shop Andreas! :)

Regards, James

Dear AMMPictor,

If you click on the link to the 'linear-A shop' above, choose 'shop figures' at the top (you may have to dismiss an info. box to see this) and then select the logo of linear-A figures you'll see the listing of current and imminent sets and can scroll to set #066. There is an image of the rear of the box which can be enlarged by viewing in its own tab. The figure is listed as a legatus and holds his staff as a symbol of his rank. I am not sure whether it has an eagle head as such figures are often depicted as holding.

Regards, James

p.s. Another marvellous looking set of figures Andreas and co. Looking forward to these and the rest of the late republican Romans!

Great news Andreas, thank you.

He is no doubt busy photographing the boxes and figures to go on his website—in between his day job!

It's gonna be beaut to have a 'local' supplier.

Regards, James

Beautiful once more. These three sets are going to be fabulous.
Thank you Andreas & co.
Regards, James

Wow! I find it amazing to read such strongly held convictions about anything in the ancient world, when the sources are rare, incomplete or patchy and most-often one-sided. This written evidence is complimented by artefacts (frequently shreds of) and a lot of detective-work-like scholarship.

Pharsalus is a classic case in point as the specific location still remains a disputed mystery and the 'contemporary' sources contradict one another about much of the detail. Philip Sabin, in his 'Lost Battles' provides an erudite summation of the information available and from which he made decisions about the armies and their fighting values for his game-model. Here is an extract of the section about Caesar's army:

"Caesar (B. Civ. III.84 and 89) says that he fielded 80 legionary cohorts totalling just 22 000 men because of earlier losses and attrition, and he also had 1 000 Gallic cavalry. Appian (B Civ. II.70) repeats these numbers and adds a force of Aetolian and Acarnanian light infantry, but says that some writers gave Caesar either one-third or two-thirds of a total of 60 000 or 70 000 Italian infantry engaged. Eutropius (VI.20) and Orosius (VI.15) put Caesar's army at 1 000 horse and less than 30 000 foot. Delbrück preferred these higher estimates, but most scholars** reject them in favour of Caesar's own figures. The legions seem all to have been highly experienced, and their performance certainly warrants a veteran classification. Caesar also claims (B. Civ. 84) that his 1 000 cavalry were able to get the better of the 7 000 Pompeian horse in earlier skirmishes, with the assistance of picked light-armed legionaries [my italics]. He does not mention such integrated support at the battle itself, nor does he say anything about the Greek light troops ascribed to him by Appian, but his cavalry clearly deserve veteran status, and the number of units should be rounded up rather than down to account for the possibility of some accompanying infantry as Frontinus (Str. II.3.22) claims."

Sabin's solution, for the scale and purposes of his game-model, is to give Caesar 15 units of veteran legions and two of cavalry, while Pompey gets 15 of veteran legions, 1 of light infantry (archers and slingers) two of cavalry and a unit of light cavalry.

Piecing together information from several sources when designing scenarios for battles and armies is a big part of the fun, I reckon and ancient battles make it just that bit more interesting!!

** His note for 'most scholars' are Delbrück, Rice Holmes, Fuller, Morgan, Le Bohec, Montagu and Goldsworthy

Of course, there is the excellent prospect that there are more figs to come on this 'subject' more broadly (late republican Roman/end of the republic) in #063, 065 and 067...

These look grand. The differences from extant sets are a big attraction to me, since it affords variety.
It is difficult to determine dimensions and perspective from photos, but I warrant that the figures will be excellent 'in the flesh'!
Regards, James

That is beaut news Andreas!

Roger is a top bloke and really good to deal with. I look forward to giving him more custom.

Regards, James

So many wonderful sets to look forward to there Andreas; #69 and #70 on the cusp of release, as you have already shown on this forum, with others progressing nicely too.
I am particularly looking forward to the legions of the first triumvirate as well as further figures/topics of the successors. Above all, I am really excited about another of your occasional forays into Napoleonics with #24!
Regards, James