November Ancients

[tim.w]

I could be in for Hail Caesaring?

Just counting up what I have and so far have the following Rebulican Romans:

X16 Numidian Foot
X6 Numidian Horse (will add another x6)
X2 Numidian Elephants

X12 Velites
X24 Hastati
X24 Principes
X24 Triarii

I could add more cavalry and a couple more of the legionary types but this will be maxing out my painting possibility between now and November. If that would do then I should be in. I'd have around 10-12 units in all.

[goat major]

Excellent !

Gary remind us what is a typical unit size ? (Frontage I guess...)

I can provided mostly hoplites and pikes. I base my hoplites 2 deep and my pikes 4 deep rather than the figure sales enhancing depths that warlord push .

[garyp]

Standard units have a frontage of 150mm-200mm, so a 2 deep battle line would typically be 16-20 figures.

Pikes and warband should be 4 deep with the same frontage.

Skirmishers are small units so 6-8 figures. I put them on a 180mm frontage to cover a unit

Republican Roman cohorts are all small units so 12 figures. A legion has 2 6 man velites, 2 hastati, 2 principles and 1 triarii - that's a readymade division

Cavalry should be 2 deep but that looks stupid so a single rank, typically 6-8 figures

Elephants are single model units

Most artillery are single model, although Roman legionary ballistae are typically 2 to a unit

You need 1 commander per division (a division normally has a minimum of 4 non-skirmisher units) plus in HC2 you can gave an additional army general who can move from division to division to help out

[garyp]

If you guys can let me know what figures you have, I'm happy to come up with balanced forces and a scenario.

[goat major]

Thanks Gary, I’ll do an inventory in the next couple of days

[Jamanicus]

I'll have a look when I'm back from Anglesey, but it'll probably be a similar force to the one I used last time we played at Ayton

[garyp]

And the chances of me remembering what you have are zero, or worse. You forget that I'm due to get my pension in less than 6 months, so I'm verging on the senile

[Essex Boy]

Errrrr........too easy.

[Jamanicus]

These were from November 2021, so probably roughly what I used

[garyp]

Errrrr........too easy.