DBA Armies

II/66 EARLY VANDAL 200 AD - 442 AD

This list covers the Asding and Siling Vandals from their first appearance beyond the Roman Danube frontier until Gaiseric’s consolidation of their African conquests and construction of a fleet. During the third century, they attempted to raid across the Danube but were foiled when Aurelian fortified it. They settled in Pannonia, but then joined the great barbarian invasion across the Rhine into Gaul of 406 together (but not co-operating) with the Suevi and Alans; and then continued across the Pyrenees into Spain in 409. Although the Suevi and a faction of the Alans also crossed into Spain, the Vandals were not allied with them and fought them incessantly, as also did the Asdings and Silings each other. The Siling states in Spain were destroyed in 416 by the Visigoths acting on behalf of Rome. The Asdings and an Alan remnant crossed to Africa in 428 and captured Carthage in 439. Jordanes (the historian of the Goths) considered the Vandals to be Gothic in origin, so they can be depicted as similar to Tervingi. Reference: Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome P. Barker.

II/66 — Early Vandal Army 200 AD - 442 AD

List: 1 x General (3Kn), 2 x nobles (3Kn or 4Wb), 7 x warriors (4Wb), 1 x nobles (4Wb or 3Kn) or Alans (LH), 1 x dregs (Ps)
Terrain: Arable
Aggression: 3
Enemies:
Allies: II/57 or (II/58 and/or II/72c)