A Roman List for Of Gods and Mortals

[Inkpaduta]

Was wondering if anyone has made a Roman list of OGAM.
I am going to start making one and was wanting to see what
others had done.

[Easy E]

Well, I think there are a few ways to go about this.  You could place it in the very early days of Rome when they still used a Phalanx, but then the list would pretty much be the same as the Greek list but with different names. 

Heroes could come from the Aenied (sp) with Aeneas being a top contender.  It has been a while since I read it, so other heroes and monsters are escaping me.  You could also have the twins Romulus and Remus as a Hero single base, or as individuals. 

However, it would probably be more exciting to use a early Republican Roman model with Hastati, Principes, Triarri, and Velite options.  The Romans might be a bit Mortal heavy compared to some of the other lists.  In this case Heroes could be some of the early Romans of myth such as Cincinnatus? 

Monsters, I would need to do much more research on. 

[Inkpaduta]

Thanks Easy,

This is what I am looking at for a 1,000 point game.

God: Jupiter

Legends: Cacus (Firing breathing Giant), Basilisk (poison snake) and Iulus (legendary son of Aeneas, thought to be founder of Rome).

Mortals: Unit of Roman archers, unit of legionaries, unit of Lemures (spirits/undead).

How does that sound?

[pws]

Thanks Easy,

This is what I am looking at for a 1,000 point game.

God: Jupiter

Legends: Cacus (Firing breathing Giant), Basilisk (poison snake) and Iulus (legendary son of Aeneas, thought to be founder of Rome).

Mortals: Unit of Roman archers, unit of legionaries, unit of Lemures (spirits/undead).

How does that sound?

Nice!
Apart the obvious founders you could also add those from roman classics
- legends Horatii (Orazi) the three twins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatii_and_Curiatii
- Guard Geese (Oche del Campidoglio): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose
And/Or add something from Etruscan myths like Phersu + his dogs and first gladiator games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Augurs  https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phersu https://sites.google.com/site/phersuminiatures/galleries/the-etruscan-phersu

[Inkpaduta]

Good ideas. Thanks

[Easy E]

Perhaps adding Vestal Virgins somewhere as a "Hero/Monster" base.  Perhaps 4 or so on a single large base to represent their connection with the gods? 

I may have to go back and review the rules as I maybe getting them mixed up with Dragon Rampant..... 

[dadlamassu]

Some possible monsters to consider:
Basilisk 0r Regulus (“Little King”) from Cyrene, Libya
A small snake “not longer than twelve fingers” with a crown shaped crest on its head. At times, the basilisk is seen with the head of a cockatrice due to its odd birthing ritual involving a toad and cockatrice.
Eats almost anything and attacks by bite or gaze; its bite or gaze is extremely lethal.
Sources: Pliny the Elder’s Natural History
 
Yale or Eale (“To move back”) Ethiopia
Looks like an antelope or goat-like creature that is the size of a hippopotamus, with an elephant’s tail, usually black or tawny in color, with the jaws of a boar and movable horns.
Eats people and large animals and rams its prey with its horns and tusks.
Sources: Pliny the Elder’s Natural History.


Cacus ("The Evil One”)  A giant who breathes fire and smoke. He is the son of Vulcan originally from Rome on the Aventine Hill.
Eats human flesh, but not their heads. He nails the heads of his victims decoratively outside his cave.  He attacks and kills its enemies and prey by breathing fire and smoke onto them.
While Cacus has not been seen since Hercules apparently strangled him to death.
Sources: Virgil, Aeneid, Ovid, Fasti, Propertius, Elegies.
 
Amphisbaena (“Mother of Ants”) from Libyan Desert sprouting from the blood of Medusa’s head, and later seen by Cato’s army.
It is a two headed serpent, whose tail has the second head; however this “serpent” is about the size of a long worm. The addition of wings and chicken feet was reported by some sightings.  It has a poisonous bite.
Sources: Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, Aelian, On Animals, Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History.

Manticore ("Man-Eater") from Persia, Parthia with the body of a red lion, a human head, with a trumpet-like voice. Sometimes it is seen with horns or wings and eats people and large animals.  Attacks with is tail which has been reported in the form of a dragon or scorpion and it can shoot poisonous spines that paralyse and kill its victims.
Sources: Ctesias, Indica, Pausanias, Guide to Greece, Aelian, On Animals, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Eusebius, Against Hierocles, Photius, Myriobiblon.