A NIfty Trick... (using Groups)

[Al Amos]

Tim,

I like putting centurians with each century. That's why so many leaders. There doesn't appear to be one leader for the cohort, and with an abundant number of leaders - six per cohort, the Romans can stay in command much better than the Gauls. This should increase the endurance of the Romans, and it frees up the Tribunes and Legates to move about and direcet the battle, to go to hot spots as it were.

Of course if a player feels a cohort occupying six hexes is too wide, he can consolidate two of the centuries to form a maniple sized unit, and stack both leader on top of it.

I'll be setting up some legions for Punic Wars on the same basis, of course grouped in maniples. From what I understand the maniple was considered too small when fighting Gauls, so the cohort was adopted (simple version), and setting up the Romans this way should give players a feel for that between the two games. I hope so anyways.

I like providing logistic support at the cohort level, water supply and medical support (wagons and civilians), as they were probably there, but they may be in the way, too much. I like them to be in the way a bit. What did you think Tim? Should I keep them as I go into the legion sized battles or not?