I think Offensive Spearmen is highly unlikely - the Romans used spears initially as they took their military system from the Etruscans whose own was similar to the Greeks. The weapons allegedly copied from the Samnites would not have been that sort fo spear system as they already used it.

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Hi, Im doing more research about samnites... in " Early Roman Armies " from Osprey the writers conclude that the Samnites fight in two lines of maniples (presumably the romans took the idea from them), the first line armed with pila acting as shock troops (much like romans with pilum or iberians ...

Thanks!, I have done some research... what do you think of something like this?

Skirmishes
Light Foot, Unprotected, Average, Undrilled, Javelins, Light Spear
Optional Upgrade to Protected

Warriors
Medium Foot, Protected, Average, Drilled, Light Spear, Swordsmen
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I would like to make an Samnite army (they are so cool...), but I hope that they have more variety than in DBM list... can I have some info about troop types and choices? please!, Im collecting some Oscans from Xyston (btw what do you think about this minis to represent Samnites?) and I ...