Late Republician Roman

david53 · Post by **david53** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:45 pm

Hi There

How many bases would make up a legion in this army?

jlopez · Post by **jlopez** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:43 pm

Depends on the scale you're playing at really. With 5000 men to a legion an 8 base BG gives you 625 men to a base.

Jhykronos · Post by **Jhykronos** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:43 am

Measurements in the rules seem to be scaled on 250 men to a base, so ~20 stands for a full strength legion. Probably closer to 16 stands for a field strength legion. 12 or less for, say, some of Ceasar's vets after long campaigns (9th and 10th legions a Pharsalus).

prb4 · Post by **prb4** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:33 am

Measurements in the rules seem to be scaled on 250 men to a base

OK, that's interesting.

So how many chariots would you say a heavy or light chariot base represents?

grahambriggs · Post by **grahambriggs** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:31 pm

There is no fixed scale, it depends on the army. I think the army lists for romans give some guidance?

grahambriggs · Post by **grahambriggs** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:32 pm

plus there's the sticky at the top re mid republicans that might help.

Jhykronos · Post by **Jhykronos** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:20 pm

prb4 wrote: OK, that's interesting.

So how many chariots would you say a heavy or light chariot base represents?

Heh, when someone discovers an Assyrian military manual specifying the typical formation density and depth of a chariot force, this will become much easier to answer. Based on the missile ranges, ground scale (with quite a bit of fudging found in all wargames) is about 1:1500 for 15mm, so I guess the question is how many chariots can manouver comfortably in a 60m frontage, and how many lines would they be deployed in?

Of course, the rules themselves suggest not overly worrying about bottom-up design scale, but instead focus on representative forces, so YMMV.