Having been beavering away painting the Trojan Wares minis it never occurred to me just how they would be organized into units. As I was now approaching the end off the project I decided to sit down and organize the units for basing. I only have eight archers and eight chariots left to paint so I figured that I could sort the rest into units and start basing the minis. I dug out all the painted minis and laid them out on the game table, I was mildly surprised at how many I have actually painted. I began grouping the spearmen into units of eight. I placed them on a base and decided that they looked awfully sparse so I re-organized them into tens. This gave a satisfyingly dense-looking unit. Then I sorted officers, musicians and standard bearers into the formations.
my high-tech method of organizing minis,
lay bases on the table and pile the minis on the bases,
not the sort of thing a proper quartermaster would approve of but it works for me.
the additional archers will be incorporated into the spear units,
the unpainted chariots will form four more units (when I finally get assembled and painted)
I interpreted the descriptions of some of the units differently from the units listed in the rules book. Research shows that archers were often incorporated into the spear units so I added a few in the back row of the bases, that way I can treat the units as Heavy Infantry Warriors or Heavy Infantry with Missiles under the rules. I also decided that I would treat the Myrmidons as loose order troops (
Peltasts under our modification of the rules) that were Drilled, Fearsome and Brutal to reflect Homer's depiction of their impact on the fighting.
While basing the minis I left a gap in the middle of the back rank so the when a general joins the unit the miniatures can be placed on the base. I'm not sure if I am going to dedicate chariots models to generals, they take up a huge amount of space on the tabletop not to mention the cost of the models!
