What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from War Machines
Choosing the Army
- Whilst it’s easy to say yep I will do a Roman army… But which period? Well the idea originally came out of a vision of having war machines… Onogars and Ballistas… So that actually limited me to Late Romans. From there is was starting to think about the Triumvirate period in particular Julius Caesar… (Nothing to do with the fact I grew up reading Asterix … honest)
So this lead me to forming the Army around the Xth Legion.
The List
The army will consist of the following
5 Units (Legions) of Heavy Infantry – 1 with 8 bases anda4 with 6 bases
4 Scorpion Bolt Throwers – may not be very mobile but fun
1 Unit of Heavy Cavalry – although Cavalry is my weakness in most battles I need some to survive being out flanked.
1 Unit of slinger’s – always good to have some people with stones
1 Unit of Javilin – more skirmishers to harass the enemy
1 Unit of Light Horse – more horses more for me to figure out
A small army but the Legions will hopefully act like a battering ram.
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