Long ago it occurred to me that 2 x 240 man 1:20 "legions", added together, would give me the same number of figures (480) as in a maximum strength quingenary Roman cohort.
I don't think we know, for sure, how many ranks this would have formed up in; presumably 4, 6 or 8. These are draw up 8 deep. The photo does give some impression as to how much space a cohort must have taken up on the battlefield, and how imposing it must have looked to a tribesman from the backwoods!
Now if I just had another 4,320 miniatures... oddly, I could just about fit an entire 1:1 legion on my table, as the legion would be around 4 metres wide (assuming that there were decent intervals between the cohorts). There's a thought...





