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Back around the turn of the century there was one manufacturer who did a boxed set containing a “full unit” or 19 (19!) Dwarven Roman Legionares (with full command group). Unfortunately I can’t remember which company it was. I know it wasn’t Alternative Armies but it was around the time when Alternative Armies was a popular brand that all the hobby shops were stocking. I want to say it was around 2,001/2,002.

 

I’ve still got the box somewhere. I never glued them in the bases or painted them because 19 was a really awkward number to try to fit into a rectangular or square formation.

 

They were not the Dwarf Wars Roman Legion (which has 24 figures, an axe etc). These ones looked more Roman, if that makes sense. I think they might have been the ones from Black Tree Designs. This looks like them (not my paint job),. There was a short piece of descriptive/narrative text on the box about how this unit belonged to a dwarven commander who was experimenting with some new tactics. All the other dwarfs mocked them for looking so un-traditional but they stuck with their new tactics and got good results.

 

Also Hasslefree do a great Halfling version of Maximus Decimus Meridius (although they call him Minimus instead of Maximus).