No, this isn't a bunch of howitzers or mortars, although that would be cool. No, the Romans developed a bunch of exciting long range lobbing devices that scared the very living crap out of the cultures they conquered, and as is usual for any wargamer I just had to have some in my growing roman legion.
First up here are my repurposed dwarven bolt throwers as Early Imperial Roman ballistae. The crew are a kitbash of regular Warlord Games EIR and the spares that came with their very nice plastic scorpion kit. I've based them for Hail Caesar as a unit of artillery is usually on 2 models on 50x100m bases.
And here are the aforementioned plastic scorpions based the same way as the ballistae. I quite like the plastic Warlord kit, the crew are better sculpts than the regular legionnaires but still the same scale so don't look too weird. I painted everything in my usual "it doesn't matter too much as I have to paint a bucketload of these because its Hail Caesar and you need tons to make an army" style.
Now I just need to find out if ancient artillery suffers the same curse as WW2 armour - freshly painted means utterly useless in their first game!
