Slitherine

Hi All,

I'm trying to put together a list for Melee in two weeks time.

I'm thinking of shaking the dust of my Palmyrans and running them, the only problem is that I have few options and the army must have legionaries.

So here's a few questions:

1 - Can I still take the legionaries in 4's?
2 - What is the advantages now of Skilled Swordsmen?
3 - Can Cataphracts do anything?

I'm not particularly caring how the games go (I'm not into ancients any more I'm more going to support the comp) but naturally I'd like to put my best foot forward.

So, on an other bent, which army would you take:
Armys available are:
"Vikings" (pretty much all options... I mean, what options are there?) - I guess I could morph them into some other kind of Dark Ages army;
"Post Viking Scandanavians" (pretty much all options);
"Palmyrans" (Roman option only available);
"Syracusans" (you can stop laughing now - yes I'm not THAT suicidal);
Loan army of "War of the Roses - Yorkist Pretender"

1 - Can I still take the legionaries in 4's?

Yes

2 - What is the advantages now of Skilled Swordsmen?

Gives a POA vs Foot sword. Unfortunately if you also have Armour POA, you don't get ++ unless there are 2 levels of armour difference.

3 - Can Cataphracts do anything?

Yes - in period. Will struggle vs Knights though.

If this is an open competition I'd go with the WotR option but it's a small army.

On the side, I'm sorry I just noticed that I put this in 'Rules Question'... it did start that way with a question about 'skilled swordsmen', but it kinda went to 'army design', if a moderator could move it to 'army design' I'd appreciate it.

petedalby wrote:Gives a POA vs Foot sword. Unfortunately if you also have Armour POA, you don't get ++ unless there are 2 levels of armour difference.

That's what I thought.

petedalby wrote:If this is an open competition I'd go with the WotR option but it's a small army.

Yeah, that was my first choice, but I just wanted to do something different ... hmm

You're Palmyrans will do just fine out of period.

Your legion is top drawer against any foot short of wildly expensive stuff.
You can take enough MF to take a piece of terrain versus anyone.
You will out skirmish knight armies.
Your Cats may not want to go toe-to-toe with knights, but it is not all bad. Just expensive.

So take them and have fun. If the enemy knights want to hit your cats then charge them in the flank from terrain.