Later Visigothic

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Historical Overview Section

The Visigothic Kingdom was a Western European power in the 5th to 7th centuries, created in Gaul by the German people of the Visigoths when the Foederate Romans lost their control of their empire. In 409 the Vandals, with the allied Early Alans and Germanic tribes like the Suevi, swept into the Iberian peninsula. In response to this invasion of Roman Hispania, Honorius, the emperor in the West, enlisted the aid of the Visigoths to regain control of the territory. In 418, Honorius rewarded his Visigothic federates by giving them land in Gallia Aquitania on which to settle. The Visigoths soon became the dominant power in the Iberian Peninsula, quickly crushing the Alans and forcing the African Vandals into (unsurprisingly) north Africa. By 500, the Visigothic Kingdom, centred at Toulouse, controlled Aquitania and Gallia Narbonensis and most of Hispania with the exception of the Suevic kingdom in the northwest and small areas controlled by the Basques and Cantabrians. However, in 507, the Franks under Clovis I defeated the Visigoths in the Vouillé and wrested control of Aquitaine.

In 554, Granada and southernmost Hispania Baetica were lost to representatives of the Early Byzantine Empire (to form the province of Spania) who had been invited in to help settle a Visigothic dynastic struggle, but who stayed on, as a hoped-for spearhead to a "Reconquest" of the far west envisaged by emperor Justinian I. Visigothic Hispania and its regional divisions in 700, prior to the Muslim conquest.The last Arian Visigothic king, Liuvigild, conquered the Suevic kingdom in 585 and most of the northern regions (Cantabria) in 574 and regained part of the southern areas lost to the Byzantines, which King Suintila reconquered completely in 624. The kingdom survived until 711, when King Roderic (Rodrigo) was killed while opposing an invasion from the south by the Ummayad Arabs in the Battle of Guadalete on July 19. This marked the beginning of the Muslim conquest of Hispania in which most of the peninsula came under Islamic rule by 718.

Using the army in FoG

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Allies

• Burgundi - Early Frankish, Alamanni, Burgundi, Limigantes, Rugian, Suebi or Turcilingi . Date restrictions: Before 467 Book: Legions Triumphant Page: 59 - 8 minimum HF Impact foot swordsmen make these rather uninspiring as an ally
• Ostrogothic, Italian . Date restrictions: 467 to 621 Book: Decline and Fall Page: 16 - No allied list published, however its safe to bet that it will have a load of Sup Armoured lancers in 4-6's, and about a dozen MF/LF Bw
• Suebi - Early Frankish, Alamanni, Burgundi, Limigantes, Rugian, Suebi or Turcilingi . Date restrictions: 467 to 621 Book: Legions Triumphant Page: 59 - 8 minimum HF Impact foot swordsmen make these rather uninspiring as an ally

15mm Manufacturers supplying figures for this army

Realistically you are looking at using Gothic type figures for this army. There are plenty of manufacturers with such ranges.
You can see some of the figures in the Bulgar Photo Gallery also on this site

• Essex Miniatures Slavs and Goths
• Donnington Slavs & Goths
• Gladiator Miniatures by Fighting 15's (Previously Black Hat) Dark age range
• Old Glory 15's, Slavic range
• Magister Militum - Goths, dark Ages
• Minifigs - Dark age goths
• Irregular Miniatures Dark Ages ranges
• Lancashire Games - Goths, Sarmatians
• Tin Soldier - Slavic Range
• Isarus - sold by 15mm.co.uk Gothic range
• Outpost Wargame Services - Avars & Slavs
• AlainTouller Figurines - Slavs
• Two Dragons - Saxons (at a pinch)
• Khurasan Miniatures - Avars
• Viking Forge Sarmatians, Saxons
• Splintered Light. Possibly their v. nice Saxons may be OK for some foot
• Battle Line Miniatures - Sarmatians, Goths
• Miiature Wars - Sarmatians, Slavs
• Legio Heroica have a Rome's Enemies range with various Germanic and Gothic horse and foot

Core Troops

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Army Lists

Sample army lists for this army

Name of Army / Date

• Using asterisks inthe edit mode creates a bulleted list in the actual site
• This is a lot easier to do than easier than setting up tables
• For FoG I suggest listing your army in order or march
• with troop desctiptions on each line, for example
• 4 HF Armoured Average Drilled Impact Foot Swordsmen
• 8 LG Undrilled Unarmoured Poor Bowen
• Dont forget to include your Generals !!!

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