"Tired of Romans?" Topic

As an Ancients player, are you tired of playing Romans? Or tired of playing against Romans?

No.

not yet but its like asking a Napoleonic player are you tired of fighting the French

I've hated the Romans ever since 9th Grade when Latin was on my curriculum.
It got worst in 10th when Caesar was on the agenda and all we studied was "having been influenced by these things" and his impedimenta.
We never got to the good stuff.

When I read Livy on my own, I grew to despise his fussiness.
The only good Roman army is a dead one.
I always root for the barbarians.
And I think that the success of the Roman army had nothing to do with any tactical finesse, but a bloody mindedness that made them come back for more after being defeated. It's amazing how defensible frontiers keep expanding, isn't it?

And I really dislike wargaming rules that manufacture artificial "+2 for being Roman" rules. Somehow they can always walk and chew gum.
They won strategically. Not tactically.

He who is tired of Rome is tired of life.

Romans? What have they ever done for us?

No. Romans are great. I always find them the fastest force to paint up, and they fight so many different armies (including each other) that you never lack opponents.

After 30+ years, I still enjoy playing my Caesarian Romans. I also playing against them with my Gallic and Germanic tribes.

Nope – still like 'em, especially Early Imperial

Although I think I do have more barbarians in my Ancients collection than Romans

Not even.

A Roman, in the gloamin…

The vast majority of my ancients games have not involved Romans at all.

No. I always want to play Romans or Byzantines and generally do not play a game if I cannot use one or the other.

no

I don't really play ancients, but I certainly enjoyed reading Caesar in Latin class in high school, and I once painted a box of Airfix 1/72 Roman soldiers with green skin and gold armor, although I don't remember why. It must had something to do with Dungeons & Dragons.

No

Nope – refurbing some old Minifig EIR auxilia at the moment having just wrapped up some OG MIR auxilia and added some more auxilia, legionaries, and cavalry to the queue.

No, and although its been a long time since my Roman forces have been in battle, some of them get some use in Call of Cthulhu Invictus

Actually considering them for a project in the future after watching Roman Empire on Netflix

I think the Roman army (say 200 BC to 250 AD) is probably the hardest army to model in miniature rules. I have not seen any rules set that does them full justice (ie. they lose more often than they win.) As Peter Heather in his book the Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History the legions at their prime were killing machines and have no parallel in ancient or modern history.

No

Never.. Given the timeline that the Roman army covers I will never get tired.

Maybe…nah.

Never have grown tired of them,

I have four Roman armies, early republican, post Marian, imperial and late. About to build early Imperial this winter.

cheers
Matt
Herce Salon de Guerre
Mayenne
France