03-31-2013, 02:28 AM
Finally, it's published!
definitely your best and most complex thing.I like the scope of details you tried to include.Also composition is nice.Only it seems like those romans probably suffered serious loses if so many different units is closely mixed in one single mass :wink: .
From the shields depicted I especially like that bearing image of Aetius.What unit is supposed to be that with leters VAL.TERS?Is Emperor Valentinianus depicted on it?
From historical point of view there's maybe too many Roman infantry units.What I know it is generally assumed that it was mainly battle of cavalry if not almost all cavalry battle(which I think is very unlikely)who had decisive role and really roman units(if any)were rather very scarce in the Roman lead allied army.But also our sources are very limited,so who knows.
In my imagination,battle of Catalaunian Fields is something like Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the ring opening Battle of Mount Doom from Last Alliance of Elves and Men.And surely it must have been an unforgettable sight if reports about greatness of gathered armies, states, kingdoms and tribes are at least from half the truthful.Something of really gigantic scale that happens only very rarely,and usually with a distance of many centuries,something which is remembered in heroic tales and songs even many generation after.I don't know of any other ancient battle in which so many nations,generals,princes and kings fought at the same time and on the same place.
Best regards and do not stop drawing
definitely your best and most complex thing.I like the scope of details you tried to include.Also composition is nice.Only it seems like those romans probably suffered serious loses if so many different units is closely mixed in one single mass :wink: .
From the shields depicted I especially like that bearing image of Aetius.What unit is supposed to be that with leters VAL.TERS?Is Emperor Valentinianus depicted on it?
From historical point of view there's maybe too many Roman infantry units.What I know it is generally assumed that it was mainly battle of cavalry if not almost all cavalry battle(which I think is very unlikely)who had decisive role and really roman units(if any)were rather very scarce in the Roman lead allied army.But also our sources are very limited,so who knows.
In my imagination,battle of Catalaunian Fields is something like Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the ring opening Battle of Mount Doom from Last Alliance of Elves and Men.And surely it must have been an unforgettable sight if reports about greatness of gathered armies, states, kingdoms and tribes are at least from half the truthful.Something of really gigantic scale that happens only very rarely,and usually with a distance of many centuries,something which is remembered in heroic tales and songs even many generation after.I don't know of any other ancient battle in which so many nations,generals,princes and kings fought at the same time and on the same place.
Best regards and do not stop drawing