This is the first of two posts detailing the stats for each of the forces I will be using for the first Midgard Heroic Battles scenario. It will be 300 points a side and will represent the first time this particular Roman contingent encounters the enemy and finds out that they have become isolated.
The 300 point starting force consists of 3 units (centuriae) of legionaries, 2 units (centuriae) of formed archers, 2 units (turmae) of cavalry, along with a mounted praefectus, a primus pilus and another senior centurion of the cohort to lead them.
Here is the 300 point army for the first scenario...
Here are their stats and pictures of the miniatures and/or bases created to represent them...
Lucius Valerius Corvus, praefectus castrorum...
Marcus Aurelius Bellator, primus pilus (centurio)...
Gaia Pomponia Thrax, pilus prior (centurio)...
III centuriae of legionaries...
Although I am using figures armed with pila, I am not classing these units as having missile weapons - they are to be used as heavy infantry only.
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| Centuria III |
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| Centuria II |
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| Centuria I |
II centuriae of auxiliary archers...
I centuria of archers from Gaul...
I centuria of Hamian archers from Syria...
II turmae of cavalry...
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| Turma I |
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| Turma II |
This is the initial force garnered from the Roman legionary and auxiliary cohorts. There are three more legionary centuries, two more turmae of cavalry and four more centuria of auxiliaries (these will be randomly rolled for each reinforcement phase with a preponderance going forward for milites rather than sagittaria). I have more than enough legionary miniatures to make up several more bases but I am limited with archers and cavalry, so I will have to be careful with what reinforcements I am able to give to the Romans.
Next post will hopefully feature their opponents - a fictitious tribe of Britons from somewhere in the midlands of Britannia.
