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Offline Giorginetto

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Re: Army size.
« Reply #20 on: June 22, 2012, 06:41:17 »
WoT has a good point. With reference my collection i have only about 50-60 tall hats and i would love to have much much more especially now with the hussars making a comeback . Same with western i have always wanted to have more union soldiers and increase confederate too

BUT i have focuccsed in the medieval army and also secondary to the romans . I just hope  the tall hats stay for a while so i buy some more in the distant future !!!


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Re: Army size.
« Reply #21 on: June 27, 2012, 08:43:54 »
I think you may grow to regret selling your klickies.  Thirty to fifty klickies is a nice number for an army.  As others have suggested, try limiting your collection to only a few favorite themes.  This is what I have done primarily due to space considerations.  (Storing lots of buildings and ships takes a lot of room and large numbers of klickies and parts take up space too.)

Regarding army size, while huge armies like Giorginetto's look very impressive, they're expensive to create, bulky to store, and time consuming to set up and move.  My largest army is my Romans which consists of around 500 klickies.  While I'm glad to have them and would never sell them, it's a lot of effort to set them up and move them.  I've found that I can have just as much fun, and maybe more, with a few dozen men as I can with a few hundred.

Regardless of an army's size, I like to break it down into units with officers.  Generally speaking, I've decided on around 20 men for a unit.  I've found this to be a good number because it looks fairly substantial but is easy to set up and move.  (It just so happens that I've got 20+ Roman units, which is honestly too many.  My British redcoat army of 2 units is much more manageable.)  Some of my knight units (lances) have as few as three men and, when combined with other lances, are perfectly fine.
« Last Edit: June 27, 2012, 08:49:29 by Justindo »
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Re: Army size.
« Reply #22 on: June 27, 2012, 11:40:57 »
I still need more medieval soldiers sometimes, not too much but just a few. Enough to actually portray a siege battle or give the illusion of a war. I believe right now my largest faction army is 6-7 soldiers led by two knights.

There's no rush though, theres still plenty of medieval stories to tell that don't require more soldiers than just a few guards to stand in the background.
Simply having the option to deploy an army can be nice though, but I certainly wouldnt need more than maybe 12 soldiers for a faction.


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Re: Army size.
« Reply #23 on: June 28, 2012, 09:26:24 »
Justindo you just reminded me i have some  romans to collect from the funpark !!!!   :loco: :loco: :loco:
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Re: Army size.
« Reply #24 on: July 02, 2012, 18:00:50 »
Justindo you just reminded me i have some  romans to collect from the funpark !!!!   :loco: :loco: :loco:

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