"Roman line relief in Optio" Topic
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| Bolingar | 02 Feb 2025 1:03 p.m. PST |
Here's a blog post on special formations in Optio, focussing on line relief.
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| Gray Bear | 02 Feb 2025 5:26 p.m. PST |
Thanks for sharing. Interesting mechanics. |
| Sydney Gamer | 02 Feb 2025 6:42 p.m. PST |
It's nice that Optio takes this into account. |
| The Trojan | 03 Feb 2025 6:22 a.m. PST |
I'm doing 10 bases to a legion (5 hastati and 5 princeps), with each base of 40mm x 20 mm holding 14 figures in two rows of seven figures. With your rules having four bases to a legion, I'm fast on my way to Cannae. I have no bases for the triarii as they guarded the camp. |
| Bolingar | 03 Feb 2025 10:29 p.m. PST |
I whittled the legion down to the bare bones. Triarii rarely featured in actual battles (the only ones I can think of are the battles of Vesuvius and Pharsalus – in the latter the Pompeian third line was committed) so I removed them. Velites sometimes operated separately from the legion so I allow for that, but it seems simpler, when they're part of the legion, just to assume they're there and give the legion their missile ability. I suppose one could add velites stands if one wanted to – I'll leave that up to the player. |
| The Trojan | 04 Feb 2025 5:26 p.m. PST |
Oh, I should have said the 14 figures to a base are 10mm from Cromforty Forge 3D miniatures. Agree, whittling the legion down to bare bones is a good move, and also agree, triarii not on battlefield, but defending camp, so not needed on the table. Ok, gotta get back to debating you on SOA forum. |
| Bolingar | 05 Feb 2025 11:03 a.m. PST |
Ready for a punch-up any time. :-) |
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paints some fast cats.