Even more Gladiators

Found some more Gladiators or rather Gladiatrix , these are West Wind figures from their Gladiator Wars range not the most accurate portrayal of female gladiators peraphs but defiantly more sexy than the Foundry ones.

Foundry on the right , not sure if the West  Wind figures are still available .

These are West Winds 'ethnic' gladiators - L to R  German, Gaul, Egyptian (?), and Britain . Again a bit stylised but nice figures.

Finally a couple of Foundry of (rather out of focus) Dwarf gladiators.

Noxius

Been busy painting up some more Gladiator type figures.

The figures are Foundry 'revolting slaves' .

They are a tough looking bunch and don't look a easy walk over by the average gladiator .

The Foundry rules play quickly and the average one to one fight does not last long , but they really start being useful in mass battles of 6 per side and more.

Playmobil Roman Arena

Continuing with my Gladiator theme, I dug out this Playmobil Roman Arena I bought from a Car Boot Sale about 3 years ago . OMG  I had forgotten how BIG  it was, about 70cm across the inner !!! .Truly  a Circus Maximus ! . Think I got it for a few quid and have just checked on EBay and they seem to be priced from the reasonable to the extreme. Very impressed by it , didn't look at it to hard when I first purchased it .

A view through the gates into the Arena

Some of my Gladiators - a mixture of WestWind and Crusader

Have started reading the rules and they seem simple enough - to simple in one to one combat maybe but will work well for bigger battles and using animals and so on . Will have to give them a try before finally deciding .

Oh no ! not another period !

Not really jumping on the bandwagon, been dabbling in Gladiators on and off for years . Tried many sets of rules - some simple , some complecated , so when these came out I  could not resist them .( when I started work many years ago a old man I worked with used to say - so and so 'could never resist a pretty ankle' - with me its pretty rules . Oh and ankles !). Busy reading them and they look promising , photos soon .