The long neglected allied legion is finally making some progress. The Hastati are done, bar the basing, and I am beginning to get base colours onto the Principes and Triarii. The Velites have been ready for over a year and have found themselves being used to pad out other forces in several games.
All the Hastati figures are HäT plastics, as are most of the Principes and the command figures. Some Principes, all of the Triarii and all the Velites are Newline lead figures. The main colour scheme for this first allied legion is off-white, with a third to a half of the figures in each group having tunics of varying muted colours. The shield patterns of the black boar are transfers from Little Big Men Studios.
I am having second thoughts about the basing arrangements for the Legion. I will continue to make up bases of four figures but am reconsidering the big sabots with Hastati, Principes and Triarii arrayed in succession. It depends on whether I decide to make amendments to my own ancient rules following the trials with other rule sets that I have been doing over the last few months.
On which front, armies are being arrayed for another fight tonight using Three Ages of Rome. I have decided to side-step the phalanx problem - how does an army with a pike phalanx take on any other sort of army when it has less units and a narrower frontage - by having both armies with pike phalanxes!
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| The Antigonid line-up : 8 assorted light units in the front row; 2 unarmored Theureophoroi and an armoured Thorakitai in the second; 2 armoured and 3 unarmored pike blocks for the phalanx; 2 light cavalry and 2 heavy cavalry with the generals in the rear. |
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| The Seleucid array : 6 assorted light units in front; 4 Theureophoroi and 1 Thorakitai in the second row; 3 armoured pike blocks and 2 elephants in the third row; Companions, Lancers and 2 light cavalry with the Generals in the rear. |
The pictures above just show the troops each side will command. Who will take which army and which side of the field of battle will be decided after all players have arrived.
Your army is coming along nicely. Looks like you are getting close to Impetvs-style basing schemes.
ReplyDeleteCertainly I seem to have rediscovered the impetus for painting ancient figures. On the basing, the set up for this game may well be like Impetus, but I can reconfigure things easily. For this game I put 2 light infantry bases on a sabot I would use for the Age of Hannibal rules to hold 2 massed infantry bases. For my slowly developing system I would normally have 4 bases of pikes in a column, representing a syntagma of the phalanx, while hoplites might be arrayed in two rows of 2 bases - unless refighting Leuctra or Delion. Having the flexibility to change things around seems like a good idea, even if it does mean a bit of extra work.
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