Quote Originally Posted by Southern Hunter
I'm aware of the structure of a post-Marian legion. In fact, it differs from your post only in that the first cohort has 5 Maniples, thus making a full strength of 9 x 480 + 1 x 800 = 5,120. This doesn't include the 120 light cavalry and 30 light artillery pieces.

The previous post I THINK we were talking about polybian era legions, which is when many of the legions were 'oversized' to fight particular threats.

They were 'typically' of 1200 Velites, Hastati and Princepes, plus 600 Triarii, or 4200 all up. Again cavalry ala of 300 and artillery notwithstanding. But they did go to 6000 or more in a single legion, presumably by expanding the size of each line (more of everything in other words).

Hunter
I don't think the enlarged 1st Cohort existed before the Empire.

About the bigger legions. I have been 'fiddling' with many ideas about how to represent this, and without buggering the Ai I don't think it can be done. My final conclusion was that you could take along an extra 'stack' of units that follows the big stack, and avoids battle, to replace loses. That in some way gives a feel of a bigger army (by being able to eplace loses etc) even if the actual battles are fought with the normal sized units.

On others things. How have you found the battle Ai handing your new formations? With a unit of romans having a frontage of.....60 something?, and phalanxes having a frontage of 40, it's significantly narrower.

The reason I ask is that I'm convinced that work has to be done to 'standardise' the frontage of units (with the player 'promising' not to alter them ). I reckon it will really help the battlefield AI as unit centres will target unit centres without having to angle in etc.....

Anyway, I'm rambling. But can you let me know what your thoughts about what impact your changes are having on the AI please?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Quilts