Roman Lion Rampant update

I’m much taken by the Roman Lion Rampant concept and accordingly units are being painted at a fair lick.  It’s great to see stuff bought in the 80’s and early Nineties making it onto the table.  I’m tempted to look at reflecting Roman regular status by giving them a better ‘Courage’ rating at a cost of 1 point.  Maybe just for the Legions and Palatinate units and yes, this will make them expensive. 

Of course, the danger of over much tinkering with rules systems is that you unbalance the whole-so I’ll be mindful of that.  The table top will serve as the acid test.

First, here are the units that slot into the given Lion Rampant categories.  Two lots of Roman 'Bidowers', slingers and Legionary skirmishers.

Now some variants, distances reduced for 15mm.  Here I'm guided by Roy Boss's excellent work on Justinian's Italian Wars published by Montvert.  The hard charging Franks liked to say the Visigoths were prone to running away but really they were doing something else.

Unit Name:  Visigoths Nobles	Points: 4 Models:6
Attack 5+	Attack Value 5+
Move 5+	Defence Value5+
Shoot 6+	Shoot Value Hit on 5+ Max range ‘3
Courage 4+	Max. Movement 5
Armor 3	Special Rules Counter-charge, Skirmish, Evade

As far as I can tell you would find these fellows anywhere in the Diocese of the Gauls which includes Britannia. Hard hitting, charging cavalry with Kontos, or Contos if you are more used to a hard 'C'. 

Unit Name:  Roman Lanciarii Cavalry	Points: 6 Models:6
Attack 5+	Attack Value 3+
Move 7+	Defence Value5+
Shoot -	Shoot Value -
Courage 3+	Max. Movement 5
Armor 3	Special Rules Counter-charge,

Here's a Roman unit of Moorish light cavalry which I'll field as expert mounted yeomen with javelin and an armour factor of 2.

More to follow.