Rome is your Friend....

[irondog068]

No my Swiss are painted (still not used, my friends seem to be slackers in the painting dept). I am moving to my Roman army, Figures arrived.

My question is this, How fragile is a 4 stand Legion?
The starter army is only 4 bases per BG so I am basing my 800 point Legion like this
I Cohort: 6 stands
II to VI Cohort: 4 stands

Would I be better having my cohorts 6 stands and drop the number of cohorts to 4 or, the flexiblity of 6 cohorts?

Thanks, I will sit down and wait for my answer

[miffedofreading]

It seems to me to be swings and roundabouts.

The larger unit seems to be better value for money if you are going to put a general in the front rank.

A 4 element unit is so small you often find the number of hits against it is very small. So if they for example win an engagement or draw you have to inflict 3 hits before rolling on a death dice which means small Roman units tend not to lose elements.

Once you lose just one though you have the modifier for 25% losses.

I am not very keen on 2 element Triarii, I have found them very brittle. Rolling only 2 dice there is a limit to how much damage they can do.

Andy