Spartacus' army

**duncan.gill** · 11-03-2008, 07:01

How would you represent this in EB units? Making an army of "freed slave" units does not appear to do them justice. Any thoughts?

**Decimus Attius Arbiter** · 11-03-2008, 07:29

Use units from multiple factions. Its not a complicated thing to do. Probably recruit lots of Thracians since Spartacus was from Thrace I think. Maybe some upgrades too.

**SwissBarbar** · 11-03-2008, 08:24

nay, they did not fight in thrakian equipment, thrakian background aside.

If anything, the slaves - who were thrakians, gauls and sure from any other country where roma drew slaves from - fought with roman weapons and armor, stolen from the legionnaires they slaughtered..

**Dutchhoplite** · 11-03-2008, 12:32

Where are those gladiatorial units from vanilla when you need them :P

**Tyrfingr** · 11-03-2008, 14:04

Originally Posted by Dutchhoplite

Where are those gladiatorial units from vanilla when you need them :P

They are still not needed, as the "army" of Spartacus was armed with pretty much everything they could find. I would say they were not much more of an army, than an angry mob.

**ludwag** · 11-03-2008, 14:20

yes. He said "we are not an army of slaves, we are army of gladiators"

**Ca Putt** · 11-03-2008, 14:27

Spartacus did organise them into a kind of "forgein legion". most important imo is that they should get at least some chevrons. the hulk of the starting force(70 gladiators) were Tracians, Celts(i think Gauls) and Germans but undoubtably they were soon outnumberd by a whole lot different ethnic mix which is not as clearly documented.