thanks to a a roman ballista kit i found on ebay really cheap, and the fact my basing materials orders shoudl be arriving any day now, i’ll be able to get started soon. (and if i can bring myself to stick my old 40K stuff up for sale, i might even be able to buy the rest of the stuff i need to hit 2300 in one go.)
the current build plan is using just the stuff i have:
4 regiment bases of Footguard (legionaries and praetorians), set up so they can be combined to make hordes.
2 Troops of Mounted Sergeants (late roman light cav)
the ballista
a general, standard bearer, and hero.
together i can make a 1000pt force from these. a good start.
the mounted sergeants obviously aren’t part of the larger army plan, but i have a box of light roman cav from gripping beast i got on black friday. not long after i finalized my theme idea and realized the mounted archers need to be auxiliaries not roman, but waste not.