{"id":332,"date":"2018-04-25T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2018-04-24T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:16:42","slug":"what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>At the next meeting we are having a game of Sword &#038; Spear. We&#8217;ve played it couple of times and really enjoy the game. What&#8217;s so good is that both sides are involved in the game at all times, so you don&#8217;t have to just sit back and take a good kicking without being able to do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a 15mm game with Romans against Sarmatians. So ahead of the game I&#8217;ve been building some Roman buildings &#8211; a camp, a villa, and a couple of houses. All to help create that Roman feel to the games table.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-332 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/villa\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Villa.jpg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"334\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/villa\/\" 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href='https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/house-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/House-1.jpg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"335\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/house-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/House-1.jpg?fit=459%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"459,427\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"House 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/House-1.jpg?fit=459%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/house-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/House-2.jpg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"336\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/house-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/House-2.jpg?fit=402%2C363&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"402,363\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"House 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/House-2.jpg?fit=402%2C363&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/marching-camp\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Marching-Camp.jpg?resize=250%2C141&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"337\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/marching-camp\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Marching-Camp.jpg?fit=459%2C316&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"459,316\" 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Made from a variety of bits and pieces &#8211; cocktail sticks, milliput, balsa, card, foamboard, and some filler.<br \/>\nThen just a matter of slapping some paint on. I decided to give them a bit of external colour. We know the Romans painted the inside of their buildings and I decided to elaborate on that and give the outside some decoration as well. I&#8217;m pretty sure they would have done as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you fancy giving Sword &#038; Spear a go then pop along and you&#8217;d be more than welcome to join in &#8211; whether you see yourself as a mounted barbarian from the Black Sea, or a Provost from the hills of Rome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the next meeting we are having a game of Sword &#038; Spear. We&#8217;ve played it couple of times and really enjoy the game. What&#8217;s so good is that both sides are involved in the game at all times, so you don&#8217;t have to just sit back and take a good kicking without being able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modelling-and-painting-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Parade.jpg?fit=459%2C312&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-5m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}