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Offline Oliver

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Re: Hello from London
« Reply #20 on: September 10, 2016, 21:29:16 »
Thanks guys!

Don't get too excited about the customisations, I feel it will be a slow process for me!

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Re: Hello from London
« Reply #21 on: September 10, 2016, 22:01:18 »
And another (belated) welcome from Germany, Oliver!

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Re: Hello from London
« Reply #22 on: September 10, 2016, 22:19:48 »
Don't get too excited about the customisations, I feel it will be a slow process for me!

This is known as "playmocrastination". I do it a lot, having been promising a big effortpost on my legion for oh around four years now.
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Re: Hello from London
« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2016, 22:39:57 »
Sorry Oliver for hijacking your thread. But Macruran, are you actually trying to raise a Roman legion?! That's like 5,000 men!! I once dreamt about something like this too, but then decided (because of time, space and money needed) to scale down to a single cohort. It's still not finished yet, at the moment I have only about 200 soldiers in arms and no baggage train.

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Re: Hello from London
« Reply #24 on: September 10, 2016, 22:48:17 »
I'm not doing a 6000 man legion, no, it's much scaled down. I field about 100 figures at the moment, maybe more, though that's expandable with all the 7878s I have in reserve.

My big post will explain it all. Joking aside, I hope to have it finished before Christmas.
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Re: Hello from London
« Reply #25 on: September 10, 2016, 22:49:19 »
It's still not finished yet, at the moment I have only about 200 soldiers in arms and no baggage train.

"only about 200"  :o :o

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Re: Hello from London
« Reply #26 on: September 10, 2016, 23:02:47 »
@ Oliver: Yes, that's a lot of soldiers already, but my full cohort shall be comprised of about 600 people. So I have only about one third now.

@ Macruran: Lucky you! I was so mad when DS discontinued 7878 because you can't build an army properly with 6490. But then I saw the new 5393 set. Perfect! This will save me!

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« Reply #27 on: September 10, 2016, 23:44:27 »
@ Macruran: Lucky you! I was so mad when DS discontinued 7878 because you can't build an army properly with 6490. But then I saw the new 5393 set. Perfect! This will save me!

PM US still sells 7878, last year I bought about 100 sets of it, this year much less but I feel an itch. I am going to get some with the current discount. If you need 7878s I have many to spare! Let me know. I understand the need.

5393 disappoints me, they've mixed in centurion torsos and metal greave legs, it's not a proper army builder set in my view. Still, it's better than a stick in the eye.
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Re: Hello from London
« Reply #28 on: September 11, 2016, 10:08:49 »
Thanks, Macruran. You have a PM.

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Re: Hello from London
« Reply #29 on: September 18, 2016, 03:12:51 »
Welcome! :)