I have always liked the Ancient British from my early days collecting Airfix figures. In fact I only parted with them at a bring and buy early this month.

The Britannic tribe, although the chariots are missing and not all of these could be used at any one time.

With 27 infantry, two cavalry and eventually three Victrix chariots it is certainly an army on a budget and easy to assemble and paint in a reasonably short time.

I hope to assemble mine early in the New Year.

I have already posted on Boudicca and the two druids, but I thought that I also needed a warrior Hero with spear, sword and shield. all of these are from Victrix.

A standard bearer that provides a +1 to morale for friendly units within 12″. At an additional 20 pts on top of the figure and equipment costs makes me doubt that it is worth the points. A Warlord plastic figure.

A horn bearer is perhaps worth thinking about. Again the 20 pts on top of a figure (8), sword (2), spear (3), and shield (5) is expensive at a total of 38 points. His real advantage is when your opponent needs to take an end of turn morale check the minus two it provides on top of the Wild Charge faction order of a further -1 can make it difficult for standard warriors to pass. A warlord plastic figure.

Naked Fanatics have an extra attack and with Spear, sword, and shield are reasonable value at 26 pts. I have put together 4 miniatures as I think the cost will prohibit recruiting any more. The Miniatures are from the Old Glory range.

The armoured cavalry are just your standard Noble Warrior on a horse. The horse doubles movement and you get one extra attack and one extra health, which is worth the extra fifteen points. Still with the horse, shield, spear, and sword you are looking at 43 points, which is a large chunk of the 250 points standard army.

A great set of figures from Warlord games. I particularly like the handler whistling the dogs! I think these are must as their extra movement and three attacks make them quite dangerous. If you decide to use them you should take the maximum three dogs.

Noble warriors from Warlord games. The extra attack, one point of health, and two extra morale do make them more of a warrior than the basic villager. I would always strive to take at least two. The figures are from the Warlords Celtic Warrior set.

Villagers with sword, spear and shield. The are your mobile shields that can support and help your leader and warriors come to grips with the enemy without looking like a pin cushion. Try and take enough to make up a shield wall between them and the nobles.

Slingers have a larger range than bowmen, but normally suffer a -1 penalty to hit. The Faction Bonus allows Britannic Tribes to field slingers without the -1 penalty. Extra range than bows and you shoot with the same factors; why would you not prefer them?

I try to field half of my men with bows, but the British opt out and use slings instead.

It will be interesting to see how they go agsainst their likely Roman opponents.

All I have to do is paint the little blighters!!