How many figures makes an "army"?

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• 1265 Member Posts: 949

  December 2012

  Depends on how you portray the army. Is there an opposing army?

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• mgs Member Posts: 3

  December 2012

  i am trying to build a roman fort with roman soldier minifigs and future centurion figures. Currently got my hands on 3 roman soldiers and 5 highland battlers. Not sure if I should get more highland battlers or if 5 is a nice number lol. :/ Also series 6 figures are getting hard to find in stores.

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• LegoDad42 Member Posts: 63

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  The minimum I think of 8 works for foot soldiers for each side.
  It's manageable and 8 looks good on a battle field as a decent sized fighting force. If you can add another element like a ballista or catapault to the armies and a horseman (leader) again for each side it'll look decent and fuller.

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• graphite USMember Posts: 3,260

  December 2012

  I'd say about this many is an "army"
  
  

  

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• 1265 Member Posts: 949

  December 2012

  ^^^
  Nice.....I'm betting on the three gladiators to squash that army.
  
  It's an impressive build.

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• mgs Member Posts: 3

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  oh wow, that diorama looks amazing! Too bad I dont have enough money to get so many lol. 8 sounds like a good number. Perhaps I'll get a few more Celtic warriors. I can use them to battle my knights too, pretty versatile! :)

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• indy1973 Member Posts: 70

  December 2012

  I agree with LegoDad42. If you have 8 infantry, plus one or two extra units like cavalry or artillery or leaders on each side, then it looks like a nice little formation, and if the troops stand in two rows of four, it creates the illusion that they are just one small cohort of a larger unseen army.
  
  I think that TLG agrees. Generally, if you buy all the sets in a single wave, you will end up with about eight foot soldiers plus two special troops, like a knight and a king, for each side.
  
  Plus, having 20 figures total makes a shelf-sized diorama look fully-populated!
  

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• CCC UKMember Posts: 18,482

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  I also go for eight as an absolute minimum (although usually 16 for more common minifigs), then add in multiples of four.
  
  See this thread as well - similar subject is covered.
  
  http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/comment/139378/
  

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• akunthita USAMember Posts: 1,034

  December 2012

  I'm an army-builder myself, and I have 16 guys in each army. But I would agree somewhere around 8-10 you start to have an army that looks good in displays and dioramas and it is manageable to collect and equip with the best weapons, etc. possible.
  
  To me, huge armies like the one pictured is too overwhelming. I can no longer enjoy the details. It just looks like a bunch of colorful plastic dots on a table. They loose their personality...

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• MasterLego Banned Posts: 38

  January 2013

  akunthita said:

  I'm an army-builder myself, and I have 16 guys in each army. But I would agree somewhere around 8-10 you start to have an army that looks good in displays and dioramas and it is manageable to collect and equip with the best weapons, etc. possible.
  
  To me, huge armies like the one pictured is too overwhelming. I can no longer enjoy the details. It just looks like a bunch of colorful plastic dots on a table. They loose their personality...

  Still, it is amazing to see the effort that went into building 2 massive armies seen above in the picture.
  

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