I'm building a big set of Footsore late Romans that include many spearmen.
I am finding it difficult to position them so that they are all facing or marching forward and such that the spears don't interfere with them standing in formation.
Mostly, it is the back end of the spears that get in the way, often against the shield.
Bases are 25mm square. Spears are pretty long, I did not clip them shorter than 40mm because I really like the look. That may have been a bad idea.
Does anyone have a system for positioning a big square of advancing spearmen?
Thanks!
Oh, as a side-note: I read somewhere that the words Alaman and German both stem from old words for spear-man (Ala and Ger meaning spear, apparently). And the word "uptight" or "uppity" in German, spiessig, stems from Spiess, or spear. Can any native-German speakers confirm any of this?
Ich danke euch!