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Personal logo Flashman14 Supporting Member of TMP12 Mar 2025 1:43 a.m. PST

Is there supposed to be a "None of These" option?

robert piepenbrink Supporting Member of TMP12 Mar 2025 2:25 a.m. PST

I would have thought so, Flashman. I went with "other" for now, and I'll switch later.

79thPA Supporting Member of TMP12 Mar 2025 4:53 a.m. PST

If you have enough figures, can't you field any/all of them?

robert piepenbrink Supporting Member of TMP12 Mar 2025 7:35 a.m. PST

79th, if you have enough figures, you can field all of anything. But why bother? The uniforms aren't that distinctive--if they're distinctive at all--and I can't remember any instance of an ACW "legion" actually fighting as a mixed-arms unit. That moves them so far from my Loyal Lusitanian Legion or my Black Legion of Vengeance that I can't really take them seriously.

If a legion isn't a miniature army capable of fighting a small battle, or at the very least an eye-catching uniform and a legend, what exactly is it?

Personal logo John the OFM Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse12 Mar 2025 7:24 p.m. PST

I think of "Legion" in AWI terms. As above, mixed troop types in one "unit".
In the ACW, the term was just a name. Were Great War Grenadier Guards really grenadiers? In fact, were AWI Grenadiers really grenadiers? Did they throw grenades?

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