Shatter Enemy Lines With Gripping Beasts’ Roman Cataphracts
June 6, 2018 by brennon
Gripping Beast keep the ball rolling and the armies building for SAGA and Aetius & Arthur as they added their Roman Cataphracts to their webstore.
The set gives you eight of these riders that would have been brought in to serve the Roman Empire during the period. The set gives you a mix of different horse bodies with some fully barded whilst others are only clad in half the amount of armour.
They are a legendary unit for your warbands in Aetius & Arthur, heavy cavalry who could charge through the breach and smash apart enemy lines with their powerful horses. They also carry spears for riding down their foes.
I'm not sure if the shields really were meant to be that small, but I'm sure one of you history buffs in the comments will be able to tell me whether or not that is accurate. They seem a bit small considering the size of these horses and the armour they're wearing.
What do you think of the set?
"They are a legendary unit for your warbands in Aetius & Arthur..."
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Very nice! Would these also work for Byzantine heavy cav?
The comment I was about to make, almost word-for-word, sir.
short answer yes
Yeah, looking very good. Would work for early Byzantines as well I suppose.
fabulous armoured heavy cavalry.
That’s a beautiful paint job on some nice figures.
I think the wee shields are based on Sassanid Persian rock sculptures. Helmets are based on Roman cavalry types found in northern Europe (including Neverlands).
They found some barding at Dura-Europos (Mesopotamia/ northern Iraq).
Does the Notitia Dignitatum have pics of Cataphract sields?
🙂 would work for Byz and you could add Sarmatian bits for Roman Brit.
I know next to nothing about this period, but just FYI Dura Europos is in eastern Syria, not far from the Iraqi border. It’s beautiful. Or was before the war – hopefully it is remote enough to be of sufficiently little strategic value that it hasn’t been damaged in the fighting.