Realistic Roman Armies...

**Dayve** · 12-26-2005, 21:01

Given the limitation of only being allowed 20 units in a 'stack'... What would be the most realistic units to fill up that 'stack' with... What different kinds of infantry and cavalry and importantly how many of this and that? I mean for all of the Roman era's not just early...

Oh and also... What kind of auxilia troops can Rome recruit when they conquer smelly barbarian land? Just plain old lightly armed spearmen or something?

**Narakir** · 12-26-2005, 21:09

I would say 3-4 units of each type (velite/roari, hastatis, princeps, triaris) plus the general and 1-2 unit of equites, the general and the rest will be for auxillias. For post marian 9-12 cohorts of legionaries and the rest for auxillias. So you have your main core of legionaries.

**Kralizec** · 12-26-2005, 21:17

This looks like a good online source on the Roman army.

If I got this right, there are roughly 3 times as much hastati as velites. As much principes as hastati. And about half as much triarii as hastati, as their maniples were only half in size. In other words...err, numbers...

2 velites
6 hastati
6 principes
3 triarii

That's without counting the equites or the allied soldiers, mind you.

**Dayve** · 12-26-2005, 22:12

So does anybody know what kind of allied soldiers we will be able to recruit exactly or is it a surprise?

**vizigothe** · 12-26-2005, 22:16

Suprises are the best!

**Reenk Roink** · 12-27-2005, 01:11

There was an allied Italic cavalry unit revealed in the "Guess What Faction" thread

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**Ranika** · 12-27-2005, 01:12

It is a surprise, but it should be sufficient that we have not short-changed Roman auxilia; we really want a much more vibrant auxiliary system than training generic 'auxiliary spearmen' and such; Romans will benefit from various native populations. I should hope you'd expect no less of EB.