Onwards and upwards?

I have been developing a set of simple rules so that very large games can be played solo as well as multiple player. The concept is an expansion of my solo "red pom-pom" rules using two dice per side to decide winners and losers in missile fire and melee,whilst relying on units(be they warbands or legions etc) being a certain size,ie. in the case of Legions vs Gallic Warbands-8 bases!

Top photo shows the notes to date and the equipment needed to play the game-bottom photo shows a "Legion"-with the figures I have, I can now field 4 Legions and 2 Auxiliary Legions,plus cavalry,skirmishers and officers......................

A Warband-8 bases too-I chose the same number of bases for both Legions and Warbands for convenience sake,not wanting to have split units,and trying to work out how to decide casualties on them!!

The Roman army(minus skirmishers)-Impressive!

The Gallic army(minus skirmishers!)-quite a few!!

Getting "stuck in"-the Warbands received 2 pom-poms for pila casualties,whilst the Legion received 1 pom-pom for javelins etc. At 3 pom-poms the unit is minus one from their dice score,at four pom-poms they are at minus one but are pushed back-at five pom-poms they are off the board-routing/destroyed.The same rules apply to cavalry(who are all 4 bases strong)

Both flanks will have the same number of cavalry,initially,as I play-test the rules to exhaustion!!

Top photo shows a chariot attack-they will skirmish with the Legions but will not be allowed to melee-bottom photo shows a general attack developing.

This is how many figures I had on the board-using these simple rules I had no bother controlling both sides,whilst trying out various situations,like flank attacks,two vs one etc.Tomorrow I will once again play-test these rules until I get it perfect,and then try to persuade the "boys" to try them.My main idea for these rules was to use them in a Demonstration game some time next year-let's see!!