{"title":"Rome at War","description":"\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's Rome at War runs from the late Republic through to the imperial legions — the men in the ranks with scutum and pilum, the centurions and optios who held them in place, the auxiliaries recruited out of the provinces, and the commanders whose rivalries finished the Republic off: Caesar, Pompey, Agrippa and Augustus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery figure is hand-painted metal at 1\/30 (60mm) scale in a matte finish, based and ready to display, with a triumphal arch to march them under. Build a battle line, a column or a camp — a diorama needs somewhere to end, and the history behind each man is on his own product page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kneeling-roman-legion","title":"Kneeling Roman Legion","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe shield he is hiding behind is the most sophisticated object on the battlefield. A scutum is not a plank — it is a laminate, three layers of thin wooden strips glued into a single curved board, and the one complete example ever recovered, from Dura-Europos in Syria, is built from strips two millimetres thick and comes to a total of between four and a half and six millimetres of wood. Polybius describes the finishing: canvas laid over the face first, then calfskin, with iron along the top and bottom edges and an iron boss set at the centre. That gets a shield about a metre tall, thirty centimetres deep in the curve — enough to wrap a man — and weighing something like ten kilos. Curved, they overlapped into a barrier that arrows had to work at. And the boss was not decoration. A legionary punched with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country have him down on one knee with the scutum grounded and the pilum angled out past its edge, butt braced, waiting for a charge to arrive rather than going to meet one — the red face carrying wings, thunderbolts and a legionary emblem, the segmented armour and helmet behind it. He is the crouching half of a designed pair: \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/standing-roman-legion-throwing-pilum\"\u003eStanding Roman Legion Throwing Pilum\u003c\/a\u003e is sculpted to stand over him with a shield raised across his back. Extend that unit along a front with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-roman-legions\"\u003eThe New Roman Legions\u003c\/a\u003e and put \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-ballista-command-set\"\u003eThe Ballista Command Set\u003c\/a\u003e on higher ground behind, and the diorama tells the whole Roman method in one glance — a line that holds while something worse shoots over its head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM060 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946375114980,"sku":"ROM060","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/ROM060-KC.jpg?v=1764020523"},{"product_id":"standing-roman-legion-throwing-pilum","title":"Standing Roman Legion Throwing Pilum","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryone knows what the pilum did — the soft iron shank bent on impact so the enemy could not throw it back. It is a fine story and it is probably not the right one. Plutarch credits Marius with replacing one of the two rivets with a wooden pin so the shaft would twist sideways, but the archaeology from the 80s BC through the early empire shows that redesign was never taken up, and M. C. Bishop's later work concludes that a pilum is unlikely to bend from its own momentum at all; much of the bending we dig up looks like the work of men wrenching them out badly afterwards. What the experiments do support is simpler and rather worse. The weapon is two metres long and weighs between one and two and a half kilos, and behind its small pyramidal head runs an iron shank six hundred millimetres long and seven thick. The head punches a neat hole through a shield, the shank follows it through, and it keeps going far enough to reach the man holding it. A pilum lodged in a shield is also very hard to pull free, so the shield becomes unmanageable and gets thrown away. Same outcome as the legend — a disarmed enemy — by a nastier route.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country catch him at full extension, weight going forward, the scutum swung high to cover the man crouched beside him. That is the moment the whole system turns on: a legionary carried two pila and loosed them at fifteen or twenty metres, close enough that the enemy had no time to recover before he came on behind them with the gladius drawn. His segmented armour places him in the imperial legions, a good century after the mail-clad soldiers \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/gaius-julius-caesar\"\u003eGaius Julius Caesar\u003c\/a\u003e led into Gaul — worth knowing if you are building to a period. He is designed to stand over \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/kneeling-roman-legion\"\u003eKneeling Roman Legion\u003c\/a\u003e, and a diorama gets its rhythm once you extend that pairing along a line with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-roman-legions\"\u003eThe New Roman Legions\u003c\/a\u003e and put \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-centurion\"\u003eRoman Centurion\u003c\/a\u003e at the end of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM061 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946412339428,"sku":"ROM061","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/19570_m.jpg?v=1713215957"},{"product_id":"roman-auxiliary-saluting","title":"Roman Auxiliary Saluting (LOJ022)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe man saluting here was almost certainly not a Roman. Auxiliaries were raised from the \u003cem\u003eperegrini\u003c\/em\u003e — free provincial subjects without Roman citizenship — and they served twenty-five years for a third of a legionary's pay, three hundred sesterces a year. What they were really paid in came at the end. On honourable discharge an auxiliary was granted Roman citizenship, and so were all of his children, the whole thing recorded on a folding bronze tablet he could carry and produce as proof: the military diploma. For a provincial family that was a document which changed the generation after it. And there were more of these men than there were legionaries — by the second century the auxilia fielded as much infantry as the legions and made up three-fifths of Rome's regular land forces, something over two hundred and twenty thousand men under Hadrian against about a hundred and fifty-five thousand citizen soldiers. The army that held the empire together was mostly not Roman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything about the figure says auxiliary rather than legionary: mail instead of segmented plate, a flat oval shield instead of the curved rectangular scutum, a spear instead of the pilum. The gesture is worth a word too. Raised-hand salutes are genuinely Roman — they appear on monuments for greeting, for acclamation, for a commander addressing troops — and Roman teachers of rhetoric held that the hand should not go above the level of the eyes, which is roughly where this one stops. The straight-armed salute most people picture is not Roman at all: it appears in no Roman text and on no Roman monument, and was invented for a French painting in 1784 before spreading through Victorian theatre and early cinema. Show him with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-roman-legions\"\u003eThe New Roman Legions\u003c\/a\u003e to make the equipment contrast obvious, put \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-centurion\"\u003eRoman Centurion\u003c\/a\u003e opposite as the man being saluted, or use him where King \u0026amp; Country intended — a provincial soldier in a Judaean street scene with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/jesus-enters-jerusalem\"\u003eJesus Enters Jerusalem\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: LOJ022 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45672155709668,"sku":"LOJ022","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/9165_m.jpg?v=1727470669"},{"product_id":"the-death-of-caesar","title":"The Death of Caesar","description":"\u003cp\u003eNearly everything most people picture about the Ides of March comes from a play written sixteen centuries later. Caesar was not killed in the Senate House, nor on the Capitol. The Senate was sitting on 15 March 44 BC in the Curia of Pompey, a hall inside the theatre complex Pompey had built, and Caesar fell near a statue of Pompey himself — the rival he had beaten and outlived by four years. Nor did he say \"Et tu, Brute\": that line is Shakespeare's, written in 1599. Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that he said nothing at all, while noting a report that he spoke to Brutus in Greek, \u003cem\u003ekai su, teknon\u003c\/em\u003e — \"You too, child?\" Plutarch has him silent, drawing his toga over his head at the moment he saw who was standing there. What is certain came afterwards, from the physician Antistius, whose examination of the body is the first autopsy on record: twenty-three wounds, of which only one, below the ribs, was fatal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country stage the moment as four figures rather than a crowd — Caesar at the centre with his toga gathered, three conspirators closing from three directions with daggers drawn, the whole thing readable from any angle. The togas do the work that armour does elsewhere in this range: these are politicians, and the violence is being done in ordinary clothes. It belongs beside \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/gaius-julius-caesar\"\u003eGaius Julius Caesar\u003c\/a\u003e in his cuirass, as the same man eleven years and one civil war apart, and beside \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/pompey-the-great\"\u003ePompey the Great\u003c\/a\u003e, whose statue is the only fitting backdrop the scene could have. Add \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-emperor-augustus\"\u003eThe Emperor Augustus\u003c\/a\u003e and the diorama becomes an argument rather than a tableau — the conspirators believed they were restoring the Republic, and what they actually produced was standing quietly in the wings, aged eighteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM083 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 4 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46458991247588,"sku":"ROM083","price":179.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/Caesar_Death.jpg?v=1751666418"},{"product_id":"the-roman-war-dog-set","title":"The Roman War Dog Set (ROM052)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Romans did not think in breeds. They thought in job descriptions, and their writers sort dogs accordingly — \u003cem\u003ecanes villatici\u003c\/em\u003e for the yard, \u003cem\u003ecanes pastorales\u003c\/em\u003e for the flock, \u003cem\u003ecanes nare sagaces\u003c\/em\u003e for following a scent, \u003cem\u003ecanes pugnaces\u003c\/em\u003e for the fight. Varro held that every household, and certainly every farm, wanted a guard dog and a hunting dog, and that the guard dog should be white so that nobody mistook it for a wolf in the dark; Columella preferred a black one for daylight, on the grounds that it frightened thieves better. The studded collar this dog wears has a name too. It is the \u003cem\u003emelium\u003c\/em\u003e, made thick and set with studs to guard the throat against wolves — Varro reasoned that a wolf which had once bitten one would think twice about every dog it met afterwards. A collar recovered from Pompeii carries an inscription praising the dog that wore it for saving its master from exactly that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country give the handler a drawn gladius and a taut leash, in segmented armour over a red tunic, with the dog leaning into the collar ahead of him. What the army demonstrably used dogs for was sentry work, patrols and tracking — in 231 BC Marcus Pomponius put keen-scented Italian dogs onto Sardinian rebels and followed them to their hiding places — so this pair belongs at a gate or on a road, not in the battle line. Post them under the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-triumphal-arch\"\u003eRoman Triumphal Arch\u003c\/a\u003e, or on the edge of a camp scene with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-soldiers-at-ease\"\u003eRoman Soldiers at Ease\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-centurion\"\u003eRoman Centurion\u003c\/a\u003e who set the watch. A dog gives a diorama something a rank of legionaries cannot — a diagonal, and a reason for civilians to keep their distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM052 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47372446531812,"sku":"ROM052","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/rom052-kc_3.jpg?v=1766701063"},{"product_id":"pompey-the-great","title":"Pompey the Great","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 67 BC the Roman people handed Pompey something no man had held before: three years of authority over every province within fifty miles of the Mediterranean, the money to spend as he judged best, and the right to appoint his own commanders. Piracy had grown bad enough to threaten the grain supply, and Rome had run out of patience. He carved the sea into districts, put fifteen legates in charge of them, took the grain route under his own hand and swept from west to east. The western Mediterranean was clear in forty days. The entire war was finished in three months. And the reason it went that fast is the part usually left out — he had a reputation for clemency, so most of his opponents surrendered without fighting at all, and he settled them on land in cities the Mithridatic wars had wrecked rather than crucifying them. It was the most competent thing any Roman did that decade. It was also the precedent — one man, one command, one sea — that a younger rival would put to entirely different use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country give him the gilded cuirass and heavy red cloak of a man who celebrated three triumphs, the last on his forty-fifth birthday. He is unavoidably half of a pair: display him with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/gaius-julius-caesar\"\u003eGaius Julius Caesar\u003c\/a\u003e, the son-in-law who became the enemy, and the story runs from alliance to Pharsalus in 48 BC, where Pompey's thirty-eight thousand men and seven thousand horse were broken by Caesar's twenty-two thousand. He was murdered in Egypt weeks later by a Roman officer who had once served under him. \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-death-of-caesar\"\u003eThe Death of Caesar\u003c\/a\u003e completes that sequence, and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-marcus-agrippa\"\u003eGeneral Marcus Agrippa\u003c\/a\u003e finishes the family off — it was Agrippa who destroyed the fleet of Pompey's son Sextus. A two-figure diorama with a table between them tells the whole Republic's ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM040 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47928411128036,"sku":"ROM040","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/ROM040-KC.jpg?v=1771528176"},{"product_id":"the-emperor-augustus","title":"The Emperor Augustus","description":"\u003cp\u003eAugustus is called the first Roman emperor, but he never used the word, and the care he took not to is the whole story of how he survived. Rome had killed his adoptive father for looking too much like a king, so the settlement of 27 BC was built entirely out of republican parts. The Senate gave him the name Augustus, meaning simply \"the revered,\" and the style of princeps, \"first citizen\" — the man at the head of the queue, not above it. Imperator he had held since 38 BC as a victory title, the sort any successful general might be acclaimed with. He took tribunician power and censorial power, both borrowed from offices that had always existed, and he pointedly declined to keep standing for the consulship, because holding it year after year was exactly what a monarch would do. Nothing in the arrangement was formally new. Everything about it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country put him in a gilded muscled cuirass and the red cloak of a commander, pteruges at the shoulder and waist, the scroll held out at arm's length in his right hand — which is the honest emphasis, because the scroll did far more of the work than the armour ever did. He is the last chapter of a story that begins with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/gaius-julius-caesar\"\u003eGaius Julius Caesar\u003c\/a\u003e and turns on \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-death-of-caesar\"\u003eThe Death of Caesar\u003c\/a\u003e, the murder that handed a nineteen-year-old a name worth an army; the battles that followed were largely won for him by \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-marcus-agrippa\"\u003eGeneral Marcus Agrippa\u003c\/a\u003e. In a diorama he wants distance rather than a melee — a step of marble, a standard-bearer, a scattering of togate figures at a respectful remove — the leadership vignette that a shelf of legionaries is arranged around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM039 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47928455430372,"sku":"ROM039","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/ROM039-KC.jpg?v=1771529376"},{"product_id":"gaius-julius-caesar","title":"Gaius Julius Caesar","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaesar fought the Gallic wars twice — once in Gaul, and once on paper. The dispatches became the \u003cem\u003eCommentarii de Bello Gallico\u003c\/em\u003e, and he wrote them in the third person, so that Caesar does this and Caesar decides that, and the account of his own war reads like the level testimony of some other man entirely. This was not modesty. His enemies in the Senate were waiting to prosecute him the moment he surrendered his command, and the Commentaries went straight over the Senate's head to the Roman public, presenting nine years of conquest as a run of just and necessary defence. The arithmetic went over too — he reports a single engagement in which 430,000 Gauls died and not one Roman, a figure modern historians treat as invention. And the last turn is the best. The prose was so clean and so clear that it became the standard Latin schoolbook, which means that for centuries the West learned Latin by translating Julius Caesar's account of Julius Caesar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country show him on campaign rather than in triumph — muscled cuirass, red cloak thrown back, arms folded, waiting with visible patience for somebody to finish speaking. It suits a man whose other great reform was to the calendar: in 46 BC he found the Roman year so mangled by political tampering that he had to stretch it to 445 days to drag the seasons back into place, and the system he put in its stead governed European time for over 1,600 years. Set him against \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/pompey-the-great\"\u003ePompey the Great\u003c\/a\u003e, the son-in-law who became the enemy; give the vignette its ending with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-death-of-caesar\"\u003eThe Death of Caesar\u003c\/a\u003e; or place him with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-emperor-augustus\"\u003eThe Emperor Augustus\u003c\/a\u003e, the great-nephew who inherited the name and made it mean something permanent. In a diorama he is a still point — put the movement around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM038 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47928464998628,"sku":"ROM038","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/ROM038-KC.jpg?v=1771530290"},{"product_id":"roman-centurion","title":"Roman Centurion","description":"\u003cp\u003eA centurion's badge of office was a short staff cut from a grapevine, the vitis, and it was not ceremonial. He carried it to drive the men in front of him forward, to beat anybody trying to go the other way, and to administer formal floggings. Tacitus records where that could end. When the legions mutinied after the death of Augustus, the soldiers turned on a centurion named Lucilius, whom they had nicknamed \u003cem\u003eCedo Alteram\u003c\/em\u003e — \"Give me another\" — because when he had broken one vine-stick across a man's back he would call out loudly for the next, and the next. They killed him. That is Roman discipline seen from below, and it is worth setting beside the fact that the rank was also lethal to hold: a centurion's place was at the front right of his eighty men, and centurions consequently died in numbers out of all proportion to how few of them there were.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe scarlet crest running crosswise over this helmet is the point of the whole figure — mounted transverse rather than fore-and-aft precisely so that eighty men could find him in the noise and follow where he went. King \u0026amp; Country have also given him mail rather than the segmented plate of the ranks, a variation seen among officers, with the scutum up and the gladius already out. Put \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-marching-optios\"\u003eThe Marching Optios\u003c\/a\u003e behind the formation while he holds the front of it, set him at the corner of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/rome-at-war\"\u003eRome at War\u003c\/a\u003e where the line meets the enemy, and keep \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-soldiers-at-ease\"\u003eRoman Soldiers at Ease\u003c\/a\u003e at the far end of the diorama — far enough away to talk about him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM004 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47960607457508,"sku":"ROM004","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/14656_m.jpg?v=1772061649"},{"product_id":"the-ballista-command-set","title":"The Ballista Command Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eA ballista is not a large crossbow, whatever it looks like from the front. A crossbow keeps its energy in a bent limb. A ballista keeps it in rope — two skeins of twisted animal sinew standing in the frame under savage tension, each gripping the butt of one arm, with the bowstring strung between them. Winding the string back on the winches did not bend anything; it wound those skeins tighter still, and everything the machine did came out of them unwinding. What that bought was reach and precision together. The bolt carried over five hundred yards, and by the fourth century the largest machines could put a dart past twelve hundred; the sources are full of accounts of ballistarii picking off individual men, which is not something you say about an area weapon. Smaller versions existed for exactly that work — the scorpio, a precision piece — and the carroballista rode on its own two-wheeled cart so a legion could bring the guns wherever the legion went.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country give you the men rather than the machine: a senior officer with his crested helmet tucked under one arm, pointing out a target, and his guard standing at his shoulder watching everything else. The officer is worth a close look — greaves on his shins and a harness of discs across his chest, the phalerae awarded for valour, both of which mark him out from the ranks. Line the pair up behind \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/rome-at-war\"\u003eRome at War\u003c\/a\u003e or a rank of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/kneeling-roman-legion\"\u003eKneeling Roman Legion\u003c\/a\u003e, with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-centurion\"\u003eRoman Centurion\u003c\/a\u003e holding the front, and the diorama gains the dimension most Roman displays leave out — depth, and something shooting over the top of the infantry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM034 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47960621678820,"sku":"ROM034","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/18231_m.jpg?v=1772062608"},{"product_id":"roman-soldiers-at-ease","title":"Roman Soldiers at Ease","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty years, and five more on the reserve list. That was the bargain Augustus set for a legionary in AD 5, with three thousand denarii waiting at the end of it — roughly thirteen years' wages, which tells you how badly the state needed men to stay. Very little of that time was spent fighting. Legionaries built the forts they slept in, and the roads, bridges, harbours, public buildings and entire new towns of the provinces they garrisoned; they policed for the governor and kept the records. They were also forbidden to marry, a decree of Augustus that stood for two centuries and was, by about AD 100, quietly ignored by nearly everybody. We know how these men actually spoke because their letters survive — more than seventeen hundred ink-written wooden tablets from the fort at Vindolanda, most of them from around AD 95 to 105. Among them is a birthday invitation from one commander's wife to another, perhaps the oldest surviving Latin written by a woman; a sour nickname for the local Britons; and a note listing a parcel sent north to a soldier — two pairs of sandals, two pairs of underpants, and socks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhich is the scene King \u0026amp; Country have sculpted: one man on his feet mid-sentence with a hand raised, the other sat on a rock with his pilum upright, listening. No shields up, no weapons drawn — just the other ninety-nine per cent of the job. They give a camp diorama the thing it usually lacks, which is somewhere for the eye to rest between the action poses. Set them near a gateway with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-roman-war-dog-set\"\u003eThe Roman War Dog Set\u003c\/a\u003e on watch, keep \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-centurion\"\u003eRoman Centurion\u003c\/a\u003e at a comfortable distance — the copy on the box has them grumbling about him, after all — and post \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-marching-optios\"\u003eThe Marching Optios\u003c\/a\u003e nearby to remind everyone the conversation is on borrowed time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM062 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47966510743780,"sku":"ROM062","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/19572_m.jpg?v=1772144221"},{"product_id":"rome-at-war","title":"Rome at War","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Roman army was assembled the way a wall is, out of one block repeated. The block at the bottom was the contubernium — eight men who shared a tent, a millstone, a cooking pot and a mule. Ten of those made a century of eighty. Six centuries made a cohort of four hundred and eighty, and ten cohorts made a legion, except that the first cohort was almost double strength, five outsized centuries of a hundred and sixty apiece, which brought a legion's paper total to something over five thousand two hundred men. Not one of those figures is impressive on its own, and that is precisely the point of them. Rome's advantage was never a single overwhelming army. It was a unit small enough to be trained, fed, housed and commanded properly — and then reproduced, identically, until it reached from Britain to the Euphrates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis six-figure set is the smallest honest piece of that structure you can put on a shelf: three-quarters of a tent party, caught doing the two things the line existed to do. Three kneel with their shields grounded and locked, three stand behind them at full stretch with the pila going out overhead. The set is made up of three \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/kneeling-roman-legion\"\u003eKneeling Roman Legion\u003c\/a\u003e and three \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/standing-roman-legion-throwing-pilum\"\u003eStanding Roman Legion Throwing Pilum\u003c\/a\u003e, so it extends seamlessly if you buy either separately — and it wants finishing at the edges rather than the middle. Put \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-centurion\"\u003eRoman Centurion\u003c\/a\u003e at the flank where he could be seen and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-marching-optios\"\u003eThe Marching Optios\u003c\/a\u003e behind the rear rank, and the diorama stops being six men in armour and becomes a unit with someone in charge of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM064 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 6 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47966549082340,"sku":"ROM064","price":299.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/19571_m.jpg?v=1772145177"},{"product_id":"the-marching-optios","title":"The Marching Optios","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoman discipline usually gets written about as a quality of character. It was closer to a piece of engineering, and the optio is where the mechanism is visible. Every century had one, picked personally by its centurion — the word comes from \u003cem\u003eoptare\u003c\/em\u003e, to choose. The centurion led from the front. The optio's station was the rear of the formation, facing his own men, and the staff he carried was there for exactly that: a hastile, about as tall as he was, used to keep the legionaries in line and put back anybody drifting out of it. He drew a duplicarius' pay, double a legionary's. He ran the century's paperwork in camp, took command if the centurion went down, and if he was rated an \u003cem\u003eoptio ad spem ordinis\u003c\/em\u003e he was being groomed for a centurion's post of his own. So an army whose ranks did not break was not simply braver than everyone else's. It had a man standing behind it whose pay, authority and promotion all depended on the line holding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country give you two of them stepping out with the hastile carried upright and the shield slung back off the arm — walking pace, nothing drawn, the look of men supervising rather than fighting. Sold in a pair because that is how you use them: one at the back of each block of troops. Put them behind a column of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-roman-legions\"\u003eThe New Roman Legions\u003c\/a\u003e with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-centurion\"\u003eRoman Centurion\u003c\/a\u003e out at the head of it, and the diorama suddenly has a chain of command running through it instead of just a crowd. They work just as well in a camp scene alongside \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-soldiers-at-ease\"\u003eRoman Soldiers at Ease\u003c\/a\u003e — the administration was as much of the job as the stick was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM084 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47966652465380,"sku":"ROM084","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/21225_m.jpg?v=1772148400"},{"product_id":"general-marcus-agrippa","title":"General Marcus Agrippa","description":"\u003cp\u003eGo to Rome and stand in front of the Pantheon, and the letters across the portico say M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT — Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, made this in his third consulship. He didn't. Agrippa's Pantheon, raised to commemorate Actium, burned in AD 80; the building there now is Hadrian's, put up around 125, and Hadrian chose to carve the old inscription back onto the front of it. Which is a fair summary of the man's whole career. Against Sextus Pompey he cut a channel between the Lucrine lake and the sea to make himself a harbour, built bigger ships and a better grappling hook, and at Naulochus in 36 BC destroyed all but seventeen of the enemy fleet. At Actium on 2 September 31 BC it was Agrippa who commanded the ships, and Octavian who became Augustus. In between he took the aedileship, an office beneath his rank, renovated an aqueduct, became Rome's first water commissioner and had the sewers cleaned. Only one honour was unambiguously his: a naval crown ringed with the beaks of ships, which Cassius Dio says was given to nobody before or since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country mount him at the walk on a paved road, in muscled cuirass and crested helmet with a blue cloak falling across the horse's flank — a commander riding, not charging. He belongs at the side of \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-emperor-augustus\"\u003eThe Emperor Augustus\u003c\/a\u003e, the man he made; there is a quieter link to \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/pompey-the-great\"\u003ePompey the Great\u003c\/a\u003e, whose son's fleet Agrippa broke at Naulochus; and he has every right to ride under \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-triumphal-arch\"\u003eRoman Triumphal Arch\u003c\/a\u003e, given how many triumphs he supplied to other people. For a diorama, give him \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-marching-optios\"\u003eThe Marching Optios\u003c\/a\u003e as escort and leave space ahead of him — a mounted figure only reads as a commander when nothing else is in his way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM080 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47974677151972,"sku":"ROM080","price":129.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/21222_m.jpg?v=1772314150"},{"product_id":"the-new-roman-legions","title":"The New Roman Legions","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoman soldiers were nicknamed mules, and they had earned it. A legionary on the march carried his armour, his weapons, his cooking gear, his rations and his digging tools, and on top of all that the sharpened stakes for the palisade — which means a legion moving up a road was carrying its own fort on its back and could throw a ditch and a stockade around itself wherever it chose to halt. The nickname was \u003cem\u003emuli Mariani\u003c\/em\u003e, Marius' mules, and the usual story is that Marius invented the practice to cut down his baggage train. The nickname is genuine. The invention is not: forcing soldiers to shoulder their own equipment was something several successful generals of the period did, Metellus and Scipio Aemilianus among them. Modern specialists have gone further and taken apart the whole notion of a coherent package of \"Marian reforms,\" calling it a construct of nineteenth-century scholarship — the army changed through the Social War and the civil wars that followed, out of circumstance rather than one man's vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country give you two of them advancing in step, pila upright, scuta carried at the side rather than braced — the posture of men going somewhere, not fighting yet. Sets like this are bought in multiples for a reason: rhythm only appears in a column once you have six or eight identical figures, and two at a time is how a line gets built. Break the rhythm at the front with \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/standing-roman-legion-throwing-pilum\"\u003eStanding Roman Legion Throwing Pilum\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/kneeling-roman-legion\"\u003eKneeling Roman Legion\u003c\/a\u003e where the column meets trouble, or march the whole thing through \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-triumphal-arch\"\u003eRoman Triumphal Arch\u003c\/a\u003e for a triumph diorama — then put \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-soldiers-at-ease\"\u003eRoman Soldiers at Ease\u003c\/a\u003e off to one side, because the march is what these men did most, and stopping is what they wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM082 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 2 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47974716080356,"sku":"ROM082","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/21223_m.jpg?v=1772315064"},{"product_id":"roman-triumphal-arch","title":"Roman Triumphal Arch","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Arch of Constantine, which this piece follows, is the largest triumphal arch Rome ever built — twenty-one metres high and nearly twenty-six wide — and the Senate dedicated it in July 315 to mark ten years of Constantine's reign and his defeat of Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge on 28 October 312. What makes it extraordinary is that most of the sculpture on it is second-hand. Constantine's builders stripped reliefs and statues from monuments to Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius, set them into the new arch, and recut the old emperors' heads into his. The round medallions above the side arches show Hadrian hunting and sacrificing, except that Hadrian's face has been carved away and replaced in every one of them. The prisoners standing above the columns are Dacians, taken from Trajan's monuments to a war fought two centuries earlier. It is a victory monument assembled out of other men's victories — and, for a fourth-century empire quoting its own golden age, that was rather the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKing \u0026amp; Country's version is a lighter and sharper remake of their own mid-1990s design, with the three bays, the relief panels, the medallions and the four figures on the column tops all present. At 1\/30 it is a backdrop that finally gives a Roman collection somewhere to go: march \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-roman-legions\"\u003eThe New Roman Legions\u003c\/a\u003e through the central span, put \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-marching-optios\"\u003eThe Marching Optios\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-centurion\"\u003eRoman Centurion\u003c\/a\u003e at the head of the column, and bring \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/general-marcus-agrippa\"\u003eGeneral Marcus Agrippa\u003c\/a\u003e up behind them. A triumph is the one diorama where the architecture outranks the figures — build the procession small and let the arch do the talking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: SP117 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"color: #cc0000;\"\u003eFigures shown for scale purposes only.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47974767362276,"sku":"SP117","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/18753_m.jpg?v=1772316158"},{"product_id":"praetorian-archer-preparing-to-fire","title":"Praetorian Archer Preparing To Fire (ROM098)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRome did not teach its own men to shoot. The archers of the imperial army came from places that already had the skill, and the clearest case is a Syrian one — the First Cohort of Hamian Archers, raised at Hama on the Orontes, about a hundred and ten miles north of Damascus, in country Rome had taken in 64 BC. They appear in Britain under Hadrian in 122, garrison Carvoran and Housesteads on the Wall, move north to Bar Hill on the Antonine Wall around 158, and are back at Housesteads by 163: Syrians spending their careers in wet Northumberland because the army wanted men who had grown up with a bow. The usual version of that story then takes one step too far. From the reign of Augustus, Romans and Italians were levied as dedicated archers as well. The craft was imported; the recruiting was never restricted to the importers — which is how a man in Roman mail and a Roman helmet comes to be standing in a Roman street with a composite bow in his hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA relief dug up at Housesteads in 1822 shows one of those Hamians with five things: a composite bow, a short tunic, a conical helmet, a quiver and a dagger. This figure has all five. He wears a mail shirt over a long-sleeved white tunic with a dark patterned hem, purple leggings beneath it and open laced boots; the gilt helmet has hinged cheek pieces, the quiver rides on his hip on a red cord, and a decorated hilt shows at his belt. The bow is painted bone-white, which is the right instinct — composite bows were tipped with bone, built up from horn and sinew over a wooden core, and nothing about them resembled a stave cut from a hedge. He is not drawing. The arrow is in his hand and not yet on the string, which is what the title means by preparing. For a diorama he belongs behind the heavy infantry rather than in front of it — set him up behind \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/standing-roman-legion-throwing-pilum\"\u003eStanding Roman Legion Throwing Pilum\u003c\/a\u003e and he is shooting over the line, which is where Roman foot archers actually stood. \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/praetorian-archer-aiming-high\"\u003ePraetorian Archer Aiming High\u003c\/a\u003e is the next man along in the same shooting line, \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-auxiliary-saluting\"\u003eRoman Auxiliary Saluting\u003c\/a\u003e is the wider world of provincial specialists this bow came out of, and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/the-ballista-command-set\"\u003eThe Ballista Command Set\u003c\/a\u003e is the army's other missile arm — the same job done by torsion instead of muscle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM098 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67767065379044,"sku":"ROM098","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/ROM098.jpg?v=1792699011"},{"product_id":"praetorian-archer-letting-loose","title":"Praetorian Archer Letting Loose (ROM099)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Roman archer had no sights, so he used the arrow. The bow was held vertical, the left arm straight, and the string came back to the chin, the shoulder or the ear; then he aimed over or under the arrowhead according to range, the point itself serving as the foresight, raised for distance and dropped for close work. That much the sources agree on. What they do not agree on is the thing you would expect to be settled first — which fingers held the string. Petru Ureche states it flatly: every archer in the Roman army, foot and mounted, used the Mediterranean technique, three fingers on the string and the arrow on the left of the bow, the oldest draw known. Against that sits the thumb ring, which reconstructions of these units routinely put on the archer's hand — and a thumb draw sends the arrow down the other side of the bow entirely. Tens of thousands of men did this for several centuries, and the most basic question about how they did it is still open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the half-second after the loose. The string hand has snapped open beside his jaw, fingers spread, and the bow arm is still up exactly where he left it, which is what good release looks like — the follow-through is not a flourish, it is the proof that he did not snatch. The arrow has gone, and that is why this particular figure cannot settle the argument above: with nothing on the string, there is no side to read. Worth noticing instead is the dark red band on his bow forearm. That is where a bracer belongs, taking the string's slap on the arm holding the bow, and K\u0026amp;C have put it on the correct arm. He wears mail over the white tunic, the same dark-edged hem and purple leggings as the rest of the set, and he carries no shield at all — which is the bargain an archer makes. \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/praetorian-archer-preparing-to-fire\"\u003ePraetorian Archer Preparing To Fire\u003c\/a\u003e is the second before this one and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/praetorian-archer-reaching-for-an-arrow\"\u003ePraetorian Archer Reaching For An Arrow\u003c\/a\u003e is the second after, so the three stand together as one motion broken into thirds — the obvious diorama, and a better one than three identical archers in a row. \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/kneeling-roman-legion\"\u003eKneeling Roman Legion\u003c\/a\u003e is the man who does have a shield, and the reason this one does not need one: he is standing behind him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM099 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67767250583780,"sku":"ROM099","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/ROM099.jpg?v=1792700153"},{"product_id":"praetorian-archer-reaching-for-an-arrow","title":"Praetorian Archer Reaching For An Arrow (ROM100)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe know Roman archers practised, because one of the things they practised on survives. An ox skull excavated at Vindolanda carries forty-five clear perforations across the frontal bone alone, with three more below the facial crests — about forty-eight small holes in one animal's forehead. A 2019 study scanned the cranium together with arrowheads from the site and fitted the two to each other: bodkin-shaped heads physically match most of the holes, biting between 1.28 and 1.84 centimetres into the bone. Ballista bolts were tested against it and fitted nothing, so this was men shooting rather than machines. The internal angling shows the arrows came from the front and were aimed at the face, and a hole through the back of the skull is most likely where it was fixed to hold it upright. In places an arrow had been pulled out and the same spot shot at again. That is what repetition looks like when it survives eighteen centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure is that repetition, caught in the middle. The bow stays upright and the drawing hand goes back past his shoulder for the next arrow — the one movement an archer makes more often than any other, and the only one nobody puts on a monument. The arithmetic behind it is unforgiving: Petru Ureche reckons an archer empties a thirty-arrow quiver in roughly three minutes, after which a man in mail is holding a very expensive stick. It is the reason he stands where he stands, behind the line and inside the fort, rather than out in front of it. He wears the same mail over a white dark-hemmed tunic, purple leggings and gilt helmet as the rest of the set, with a banded quiver and a red-bound fitting at his left hip. \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/praetorian-archer-letting-loose\"\u003ePraetorian Archer Letting Loose\u003c\/a\u003e is the instant before this one, and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/praetorian-archer-aiming-high\"\u003ePraetorian Archer Aiming High\u003c\/a\u003e completes the four — stood together they read as one man shown four times rather than four men doing the same thing, which is the better diorama. For the fort that produced the skull, \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/roman-soldiers-at-ease\"\u003eRoman Soldiers at Ease\u003c\/a\u003e is the same garrison off duty: Vindolanda gave us both the target and the letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM100 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67767561453796,"sku":"ROM100","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/ROM100.jpg?v=1792700696"},{"product_id":"praetorian-archer-aiming-high","title":"Praetorian Archer Aiming High (ROM101)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA raised bow means two opposite things, and K\u0026amp;C's own description names both without quite noticing. Aiming up at a man on a roof is direct shooting at a target you can see, one arrow meant for one person. Plunging fire at distance is the reverse: nobody is aimed at. Petru Ureche describes Roman volleys in the language of small arms — the arrows \"describe a cone,\" and what lands is an ellipse of ground he calls the beaten zone. Archers were posted so that the ellipse covered the enemy, which is why the sources put them where they do: foot archers behind the heavy infantry, shooting over their heads or through the gaps, or out on the flanks beside the slingers. Titus and Valerianus both \"placed their archers and spearmen behind the legions.\" The arithmetic is unforgiving in both directions — shooting over your own men costs you range, while shooting from a slope gives it back. The elevation on this figure is a decision about which of those two jobs he is doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is the only one of the four who kneels, which makes him the front rank: a kneeling man lets the rank behind shoot over him, and he is also the smallest target for whoever is up on that wall. He is at full draw, and that matters, because the other three cannot show what this one does. The arrow runs down the \u003cem\u003eleft\u003c\/em\u003e side of the bow — the Mediterranean draw, three fingers on the string, the oldest technique there is, and exactly what Ureche says every archer in the Roman army used. Reconstructions that put a thumb ring on these men imply the opposite. The sculpt takes a side. Otherwise he carries what the rest carry: mail over a white dark-hemmed tunic, bright purple leggings, gilt helmet, and a bow painted bone-white for the horn and bone it was built from. The set is designed to be bought together — \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/praetorian-archer-preparing-to-fire\"\u003ePreparing To Fire\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/praetorian-archer-letting-loose\"\u003eLetting Loose\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/praetorian-archer-reaching-for-an-arrow\"\u003eReaching For An Arrow\u003c\/a\u003e are the same shooting cycle in its other three positions, and the four read as one man four times rather than four men doing the same thing. Put them behind \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/rome-at-war\"\u003eRome at War\u003c\/a\u003e, the six-figure legion set, and the diorama is built the way a Roman commander would have built it: the heavy infantry in front, the arrows going over their heads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModel: ROM101 \/ King \u0026amp; Country \/ 1\/30 (60mm) scale \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"King and Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67768912249060,"sku":"ROM101","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/ROM101.jpg?v=1792702218"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/collections\/rom034-kc_4.jpg?v=1787259795","url":"https:\/\/breagans.com\/en-ca\/collections\/rome-at-war.oembed?page=2","provider":"Breagans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}