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So this is more of a “chart” than a gaming picture, but these are the beginning sketchwork pieces I will have for a Roman legion.  Each piece isn’t a man, or ten men , or 100 men … it’s a Century, usually running about 80 combat troops in ten 8-man  contubernia files.  Six Centuries to a Cohort (at least cohorts II thru X), usually informally paired up into three pairs, each called a maniple.  The first cohort (elite) is made up of five centuries, but these are double sized (160 men each).

Anyway, I’m thining of designing these “counters” more like large game tiles, so I can actually put top view of 80 legionairies (plus centurion, opito, signifier, and tesserarius or course) on each large maneuver tile.  It will make for big game boards, but it’s in a computer, so it’s all good.

The point is I hope to have a FULL LEGION, every man represented, on a table rolling dice by the end of the week (at least in initial playtesting)

We’ll see how it goes!