Slitherine

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.

babyshark wrote:
I think of the Legiones as filler,

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

hazelbark wrote:

babyshark wrote:
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

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...

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.

hoodlum wrote: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...