Early Or Maurikian Byzantine?

[grahambriggs]

The legions are too expensive to use as baggage guards really. You need to use them or the rest of your army will get swamped.

A 12 with the IC around will hold on for a long time in V2. Do you need more than one BG of 12 legions? Not sure. I think that would need a bit of experience playing with the army to sort out.

[hazelbark]

I think of the Legiones as filler,

Lately we've been thinking of your whole army as filler. You ready to change things bucko?

[babyshark]

I think of the Legiones as filler,

Lately we've been thinking of your whole army as filler. You ready to change things bucko?

We shall see at Historicon.

Marc

[ItalicaAcies]

Thanks everybody for your replies...today I'll try te list against a Later Seleucid army, I'll let you know how it behaves...infantry in 12 gives me a solidity feeling, but I'm not to glad to attack with them, since they're quite vulnerable to many enemy, I think I'll look for a strong defensive position and place them there asap, then wait to be charged letting cavalry to do the main job...

[hoodlum]

I have just played this army in an open tournament in NZ. It was an open theme 900 point competition. I finished 3rd out of 6.

I had two big losses and two big wins.

first game was against an italio norman - he had a mix of armoured knights 6 and protected bow. I got caned I didn't get any lancers into the bowmen the knights got in the way.

second game against Classical Indians. Another nightmare match up - bowmen and elephants. tried to break the battle line up but after I had and charged them nothing went my way.

third game against early successor - 18 bgs!!. Luck went my way - I forced the battle line to break up and took out the soft troops. every evade I caught and the disrupted legion won a combat against a pike unit disrupting it - killing the general and then the pike rolled double one and broke in one round.

fourth game - against Magyar. I got straight into combat lancers against cav bow/sword. Won the impact and then ground him down.

overall it is an army for risk takers because with the wrong match up you are toast. Also I like the legion in a big unit it takes either two powerful units to grind it down. or it can be a useful decoy. It can't be ignored.

[KiwiWarlord]

I have just played this army in an open tournament in NZ. It was an open theme 900 point competition. I finished 3rd out of 6.

Also I like the legion in a big unit it takes either two powerful units to grind it down. or it can be a useful decoy. It can't be ignored.

I was most pleased to see you use this powerful BG only as an overlap in our game Hoodlum.
I was expecting it to rip through my archers...