Spartacus-uprising Army list ??

[dschabbalai]

Hi... is there an existing army list for Hail Caesar to play a Spartacus-Slave Army??

I have one for WAB ... but now we are just completely playing HC..... And I want to play it again...

Such a list would be great not for the spartacus uprising but also for the sicilian-Slave-wars and the sacrovir-revolt..

[zedeyejoe]

I have thought about Spartacus as well. To me it is fairly simple, you can use Gallic type units and imitation legionaries (like raw legionaries).

[rick priestley]

Yes one of our gallant sales team - Steve - has promised to have a go at a Spartacus list - the plan is to put more lists up onto the Warlord site so any suggestions would be welcome.

Rick

[dschabbalai]

A spartacus list would be great for christmas, wouldn't it?

I am eagerly awaiting such list... I have a nice little Spartacus army....and was a bit dissapointed, that it didn't made it in the Army list book...

[howayman]

I'm SPARTACUS !

[Cubster]

Show me your chin ... no you're not.

[Targa]

This army would need a stat line for "Rabble" or former slaves armed with anything they can get their hands on. In other words, "gladius fodder", for the lack of another term---or maybe grist for the mill? I would think that they would be at least 50% of the army.

[zedeyejoe]

Well we know that 2 legions (10,000 men) could defeat a group of 30,000 slaves (lets assume 10,000 fighting men there) so even after training slaves still not as good as Romans. But Spartacus army of 70,000 (23,000 fighting men?) then easily beat those 2 legions.

Then for the final showdown you have 120,000 slaves (40,000 fighters?) vs 8 Roman legions (40,000). I suggest that you can ignore the women and children, they do not seem to have made any difference to the combat.

For equipment, the slaves had the weapons they looted from Capua (gladatorial training centre) and from the 15,000 (at least) Roman legionaries they beat. Plus of course anything they could scavenge/make.

[Targa]

I was peeking at another ancients rule book whose name escapes me and found a description of "rabble", but I can't recall the relative fighting value compared to regular troops. Perhaps the stat line for a standard-sized unit of slave rabble would be 4-4-2-0-0-6. Or, should they have reduced stamina? Some useful rules that could apply --- Levy, Militia, Freshly Raised, Wavering. They would be based as a 4-rank Warband, I think. Or, perhaps because of the desperation of their situation, they might fight harder -- perhaps Wild Fighters would be applicable? I like the variability of Freshly Raised. Thoughts?

[zedeyejoe]

Ah but the rabble have to be deployed at the back and once they routed a unit of my out-flanking cavalry, very dispiriting.