Principate Romans, Legionary Lancari...

[BeansNFranks]

I have some extra legos and was thinking of just putting round shields on them and basing them as MF. Would this suffice, if not who makes a good line of these?

[Polkovnik]

I have some extra legos and was thinking of just putting round shields on them and basing them as MF. Would this suffice, if not who makes a good line of these?

Is your whole army made of lego or just these troops ?

Something like this, maybe ?

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4644698

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4644699

[MatthewP]

Cool Lego figures. When you get bored with one army you just take them apart and rebuild them as a different one.

To answer the original question, Essex (surprised?) make some good Legio Lanciarii figures.

[BeansNFranks]

Cool Lego figures. When you get bored with one army you just take them apart and rebuild them as a different one.

To answer the original question, Essex (surprised?) make some good Legio Lanciarii figures.

Do you think the Essex ones match up well with Corvus Belli?

[sadista]

I used the Corvus Belli Legionary's with winter cloaks for the lanciarri.
Painted the cloak black so they standout when next to the legions and painted the shield with a different design and colour to further differentiate.

[BeansNFranks]

I used the Corvus Belli Legionary's with winter cloaks for the lanciarri.
Painted the cloak black so they standout when next to the legions and painted the shield with a different design and colour to further differentiate.

What did you use for the shields? I thought they had much smaller shields than the Legos?

[nikgaukroger]

What did you use for the shields? I thought they had much smaller shields than the Legos?

I don't think there is any real evidence that they did. The evidence for what they were equipped with all (IIRC) comes from Apamea where Legio II Parthica (amongst others) was based in the east and grave stele of lanciarii show them as unarmoured and with realtively small oval shields. However, at that time (C3rd) it was conventional to depict soldiers unarmoured and often with the shields shown under size for artistic reasons. The main, equipment, difference for the lanciarii, therefore, appears to be their use of the lancea rather than pilum.

[BeansNFranks]

What did you use for the shields? I thought they had much smaller shields than the Legos?

I don't think there is any real evidence that they did. The evidence for what they were equipped with all (IIRC) comes from Apamea where Legio II Parthica (amongst others) was based in the east and grave stele of lanciarii show them as unarmoured and with realtively small oval shields. However, at that time (C3rd) it was conventional to depict soldiers unarmoured and often with the shields shown under size for artistic reasons. The main, equipment, difference for the lanciarii, therefore, appears to be their use of the lancea rather than pilum.

So just basing some legos as Medium foot would probably work?

[philqw78]

Use later ones, so what were Mid Imperial Romans. More modern kit.