Legions Advance!

 

Here's the next lot of units for the early Imperial Roman army, with another full legion and four auxiliary formations including a cavalry ala and three cohors of foot troops. I was going to include a third legion base but a couple of the castings were wonky, so I used the good ones to equip an auxiliary cohort instead. The cohors milliaria originally had some missile troops deployed in front, but I decided to save those to make a whole unit of Eastern Auxiliary archers later on, consolidating the infantry cohort blocks into one unit instead. I'm also thinking of how best to model a cohors equitata with a mix of infantry and cavalry elements, although without the rules to refer to this is a bit of a grey area. I'll start painting the auxiliary infantry units first then move on to the rest once I've worked out the best way to paint the cavalry. I'm really busy today, however, so it may be a while before I can slap some paint onto some metal!