Clash of Spears: Carthaginians

Having completed (well almost) one historic army, rather unusually for me I'm starting on a second with the first of the forces for Clash of Spears. I've had the Carthaginian box for a little while now so it was nice to crack it open again and start on the goodies inside.

I thought I would break myself in easily with the skirmisher troops so started with the slingers and javelin men. As Clash is a skirmish level game all the models are individually based rather than the multi-base units of KoW and I opted for a nice bright green colour base mix from Geek Gaming. 

I kept them nice and simple with a couple of different off white washes over a plain white base and then a touch of colour on the shields.

Units in Clash are assigned four stats to define their base abilities which give a target amount to be rolled against on a D6. Those stats are Melee, Shooting, Grit (morale), and Save. As these are lightly armoured troops with small shields/bucklers then their save is not very good. Some abilities also modify the save score so both these units benefit from the ranged save bonus associated with being Skirmisher Specialists.

These stats are from the very useful Clashculator. 

The other skirmisher unit in the force is Libyan Javelin men and I converted a couple of the elephant crew over with a head swap to bulk them out to eight men.

It seems the Libyans traditionally wore red and had some very punk hair cuts, but given that these are very cheap troops @ 9 points each (compared to 18 for the slingers) I suspect they won't be causing too much anarchy in the Roman provinces.

I also broke out the Numidian elephant which was the first model I painted up for this game for a little photo-op.

It looks like this should be a nice colourful game once all the men are painted up which seems to be a little bit of a continuing theme from the last army.

In other Clash news I also took delivery of the Roman starter box which had been Covid delayed so I now have plenty of painting to do and all the troops for both sides.

Again it comes with a good selection of models to give a nice varied army which hopefully should make for a tactically interesting battle.