My Roman legion is going to be made out of Victrix plastics. I'd like to get some Agema plastics and Aventine metals too but the Victrix guys are quite big so I won't be mixing them in the same units.
So far I have these guys at various stages of incompletion...
I started off planning on using eight guys in mail with pila as Hastati but as time's gone on I've given it further consideration.
The Victrix box contains 60 figures of which 18 are unarmoured velites. I only need twelve for my planned three four-figure units so I'm going to use some of the velites, with legionary shields, helmets and pila, as poorer hastati. I think I'll also give the hastati a larger proportion of men wielding gladii. My thinking is the the hastati are the first into action so should have thrown their pila earlier than the principes.
Principes will be distinguished by all having pila (apart from officer and standard bearer) and full armour whilst the single unit of triari will get long spears and the fancier helmets. I also want to see if I can get a general element out of this box to represent the legate in charge of the legion.
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