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Neither on the Romans I’m afraid. The correct “period” would be Republican Romans (Hastari, Triari etc), although Victric still do those massive 60 figure boxes for that period. They never really fought each other historically,

Enemies of the Greeks during this period are “other” Greeks, Persians, and finally Macedonians. But “other” troops acting as mercenaries in Greek armies are Thracians and Cretan Archers (but that’s about it). The Peloponnesian wars were more of a Greek civil war (well two groups of Alliances really) than anything else. Lasting roughly 50 years until Philip of Macedon came in and knocked out most of the Northern Greek City states.

BUT at the end of the day, it’s a warband/Skirmish set of rules, so just go with the “rule of cool” and build the armies you want and then scrap it out. It’s not going to be a “serious” set of rules for doing things like refights (Mortal Gods has a fair bit of fantasy elements thrown in as well). So no need to take things too seriously over a handful of figures 🙂

On the Celtic thing with using the minis, they acted as Mercenaries again (but more towards the end of the period).

BTW Thracians WIN on the “rule of cool” 😀