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2mm Rome vs Carthage

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A Hail Cæsar battle

A battle we had a while ago, between arch rivals in 2mm. I try to show the potential for the 2mm scale range and hope to see some of my fellow players join in, as all the models are mine. The plan is to have some battles in our campaign in 1:1 ratio.

Roman battle plan. Superior cavalry take the flank while legionaries take center. Triarii hold flank against heavy african troops.
Carthage plan is exactly the opposite. Brake the cavalry flank and crush the center with a flank maneuver
Romans. Cavalry with gauls on the flank. Hastati and principes in center.
Triari and velites on the flank.
Carthaginian lines. Cavalry with numidians and celtiberian warbands in center.
Phalanx in center with heavy libyans and veterans on flank.
Celtiberians advance.
Romans advance.
Phalanx advance with a screen of medium spanish scutarii infantry.
Libyans advance.
Carthaginian cavalry advance but pull back to draw away the roman cavalry.
Roman cavalry led by brave gauls aim for the pass to get behind enemy lines.
Skirmish battle.
The missile troops prove quite effective in reducing units, but it does not help the celtiberians.
The large picture. Hastati has engaged the spanish scutarii…
…winning the combat. The Phalanx is sadly stuck in support of their inferior allies.
The celtiberians get stuck in on the left flank.
Meanwhile, the light troops fight it out in brushy terrain and orchards while the heavy infantry tries to maintain order.
The libyans march confidently forward and brush away any attempt by the velites to stop them. The Velites fail miserable in their orders to flank the libyans.
Its come to the Triarii to stop the libyans on the flank, but the phalanx of veterans is almost unstoppable.
The Triarii divison is broken an retires. The Libyans quickly turn back to help the center and left.
The cavalry form in line abreast.
The roman cavalry win against the Carthaginians and the backdoor to the celtiberians is open.
The phalanx and scutarii hold and push the romans back.
And the romans push the phalanx.
Soon the celtiberian front collapse and legionaries pour in against the remaining heavy infantry.
Numidians flee…
…from the superior romans and gauls.
As the battle lines collapse, the troops take their toll.
One phalanx hold fast.
But the division is broken.
The victorious roman and gallic cavalry
Hastati and Principes mop up the enemy.

 

Hope you enjoyed the images. The Carthaginians lost due to a failing flank and not being able to deploy their heavy infantry in the right places. They won the flank against the Triarii, but it was too far to the other front to make any difference.

 

2mm ancients progress

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I have collected some 2mm miniatures from Irregular miniatures recently. They look better than one would think taking in account what is generally represented through the pics you would find on the web. I have based them to be used with Hails Cæsar and tried to follow what historical documentation there is with the setup and structure of the soldiers.

The legionaries follow the Polybian structure. I chose to place the frontline Hastati in a battle line, as i guess this is the way they would fight when done with manouvering about with their handy maniples. They are two maniples to a base with 80 man in each maniple.

The gauls or celtiberians are about 150 – 160 man to a base.

Hoplites are placed in 6 ranks, as this is a little more economic than the 8 ranks, and is more proportional to the other units. 240 men to a base.

The macedonian phalanx is 300 men to a base. I wanted them to be 16 deep as this was probably the standard used in ancient times. 10 blocks of pike make up one base.

Heavy infantry/light infantry is otherwise placed in 4 ranks deepth. H inf 160 men. Light inf 100.

Skirmishers are about 30-40 men.

Cavalry is between 30-50

Light cav is 15-30

I placed some selvat dust clouds behind some of the troops to make some effects. I really love the way you can pley around with formation movement and individual models as well as blocks. I will make some “in fight” bases in the future. I also used some skirmish troops as casualty markers in the same fashion as we do for our 6mm figuers.

The models accompany my langton ships quite well and the lan is to have enough soldiers to field some battles historical or fictional in 1:1 ratio without problems. As Hails Cæsar is a very versatile system, all i have to do to get a faster game is to double the base width. I hope more people start using this scale to represent model battles, because you can really do great and epic things with them. Apart from Irregular miniatures, Langton makes superb ships and buildings. Brigade models makes a great assortement of buildings. To my eye 1:900 and 1:1200 goes well with eachother.

Right now there are about 10 000 2mm soldiers. 4000 of these are in a Polybian legion.