I’ve painted up a few more Iberians during the week. After doing the initial batch of scutarii I found I wasn’t happy with the basing. They looked far too neat and tidy with three to a base in nice neat ranks. As tribal warriors, I felt that they needed to look a bit less regimented. 

After asking some questions on forums and deciding what rules I would be using them with, I decided to put them onto IMPETVS style bases (80 x 40mm) single bases. I did the same with the new figures I painted too.

I prefer this basing. I think it looks better and it will make moving individual units easier too. I expect to be playing To The Strongest and Sword & Spear with them and both sets of rules work well with 4xDBA base size as a standard unit. I will never play DBA/M so it’s really quite pointless for me to base my units in such a manner.

I like them and I now have the nucleus of an army done. Next up, I think I’ll paint some cavalry before getting back to more infantry.  

Scutarii – Another benefit is that I’ve only put 11 figures on the base which saves me a painting a few extra figures and makes them look a bit irregular.

Caestrati ~ (light infantry) I only used 6 figures instead of 8 which means I will probably be able to make an extra 2 units with the figures I’ve purchased. Another bonus is that I can paint a 6 figure unit quicker than an 8 figure unit.