Slitherine

Hi all,
have a few games comming up using my LRR army @ 800 points. was wondering if anyone could vouch a few ideas for army list composition other than taking legions, legions and more legions.

Opponents i'm likely to face include spear/pike armies and also light horse with cataphracts from imortal fire/rise of rome list.

cheers

What figure scale are you fighting at. It makes a considerable difference.

15mm figure scale to 800 points
current army is bascially
3 x tc's
6 x 4 sup arm legionaries
2 x 4 lh j/lsp
2 x 4 cav arm sup sp/sw
1 x 6 mf impact sword
1 x 6 mf offensive spear
1 x fortified camp

a smattering of lf to make up the points - normally 2 bgs of archers and 1 bg of slingers

I would think about the Brutus option, add some LH Bw to delay a flank (possibly dropping the Lt Sp LH), certainly not to fight unless at a big advantage, but not the MF Bow. Also I would take the Thracian MF as your opponents get a lot of armour.

any disadvantages that heavy weapon medium foot get in the rough so to speak against other armed troops?

Skilled sword armoured heavy foot would still be at a single plus, but less dice.

Something people often forget is how good "impact" heavy foot are in rough against other foot. They may lose 1 dice per three, but are a POA up against spear at impact and the Romans being superior and armoured makes them very good. Their problem is being so slow moving in there.

jhedwards007 wrote:any disadvantages that heavy weapon medium foot get in the rough so to speak against other armed troops?

Not really - they get the same points of advantage and number of dice as they do in the open. And often their opponents lose dice or POAs. As Phil says, "proper" legions (IF, SSw) still have a POA advantage in rough against HW MF but:

- the legion will have less dice, and
- if the HW boys lose in the melee they don't get a -1 for MF losing to HF as they are not in the open (though at impact they still get a -1 if they lose to impact foot).