New Romanii Unit Question :

[V.T. Marvin]

I would think that scouts are best represented by guard towers and spies.

[abou]

Scouts as being described with the Arcani are difficult to represent in TW games. The closest you are going to get is probably as spies and/or light units. Of course, a lot of EB's lighter cavalry are scout units, but they are easier to represent in a battlefield context.

Key example: Prodromoi.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Scouts as being described with the Arcani are difficult to represent in TW games. The closest you are going to get is probably as spies and/or light units. Of course, a lot of EB's lighter cavalry are scout units, but they are easier to represent in a battlefield context.

Key example: Prodromoi.

This is the basic problem, that and the fact that such units are rarely actually used in battle and as such don't warrent battlefield unit slots. The Prodomoi were scouts, yes, but they were used in battle at various times and the version we have is probably rather on the heavy side anyway.

[Elmetiacos]

There's also a word "espy" in early modern English... and there were the Areani (as opposed to Arcani) who were mercenary-spy type people employed in late Roman Britain to keep an eye on troublesome Picts and Scots, but they ended up stabbing their Roman paymasters in the back, plus they're well outside the EB period.

[Obelics]

è una Babilonia! questo che parla francese, Konny che parla tedesco... ma perchè? Ora aspetto uno che scriva in cirillico!

[Fenrhyl]

I never learned italian, and i understood what you wrote! answering in italian is another matter though.

[Olaf The Great]

Can't you just use spys as scouts?