Polybian Legions

[Waffles_vs_Tacos]

SJWi
My Table is 15ft x 6ft .with Back boards .
So i  deploy the units in 50cm on the first turn ,for the  first box and first move goes to the edge of the first box .. and "Wella" we have an 8 ft deep table
As the 8 deep manuever boxes are important to the game .
Also in 15mm you would be surprised how good it looks , not that the figures compare ... as  the 28mm units look better up close , however the 15mm capture a Big Battle feel Very well.
Cheers

A bit off topic but cigar  ox games has those 15 x 6.5 foot mats for waterloo and Gettysburg and I have always want to buy them if I had the table and figures for it.

[SJWi]

Von Akers, I'm very jealous and suffering from "table envy"! I went 28mm back in the day because I was more of a historian and figure painter and played relatively few games.  If starting again I would go 15 or even 10mm as the "mass effect" of lots of troops looks superb, and the quality of some ranges of figures in that scale has increased dramatically from where it was back in the '90s.

[Frostie]

Yes 15mm is the way to go, I have some nice large 500+ each of all the main participants of the Punic wars and Alexander/Successor Wars collection of about 3000 figures.

!5mm allows these vast numbers.

[SJWi]

Frostie, too late for me now.  At last count I had 24 painted ancient/medieval armies in 28mm, with 4 unpainted "in the stash". My next project will be something 17th century almost certainly using 10mm figures.

[SteveBurt]

Given the scale of the game, the system in To the Strongest works very well. Line exchange is a special type of rally activation that cane be done when near the enemy. Removes disorder (and refreshes pila if replacing hastati with principles). I model the unit the same way as all deep units, 3 ranks deep, so you literally swap the ranks and it is obvious when you reach the triarii. The original system in the rules used lots of small one hit units, and that also worked fine. You could stack two of the units in a square and swap them to do line exchange.