I am all for making Romans the hard asses they were, but it is my opinion you can represent them with a greater fight value and more might points for heroes for command rolls than adding in special rules that will slow the game down.

I think the pila should be the primary weapon that needs a special rule.  I'd say when the roman charges, he throws the pilum, and gets an extra attack on the charge to reprsent the disruption to the enemies shield when it sank in and bent.

--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Terry Maltman <terrymaltman@...> wrote:

From: Terry Maltman <terrymaltman@...>
Subject: RE: [LOTRvariants] Re: Rome at War (was New file uploaded to LOTRvariants)
To: lotrvariants@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 3:35 AM

> To: LOTRvariants@ yahoogroups. com
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> Perhaps
> One Roman fighting One Opponent Shield is plus one defence
> Multiple Romans fighting One Opponent Shield is plus two defence
 
I quite like that. It is purely defensive so they have no better chance of winning a fight but a better chance of surviving if they lose. Also it only applies if the Romans work together within an existing rule mechanism.

<snip> Another thing that might be worth trying is the big shield counting as
> cover from the Romans front arc. A big shield against missile combat is
> more like hiding behind a wall rather than better armour
 
That would be an 'in the way' roll against missile fire. It might work for a special formation like a testudo but I can't think how to apply that in LoTR. Maybe 4+ in base contact with each other, declare before moving and half move penalty.
 
Terry

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> Duncan

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