I have been thinking on those odd bases : egyptian axemen, Byzantine menaulatoï, tibetan sorcerer and so on ..;

What bothers me is that they are too easely targeted when shooting and so regularly they will die before impact or on impact because one will just go for the kill .

My idea is the following : all those odd bases should be deployed on the second rank and when it is melee or just before the charge, they may be swapped for any base to the front and fight ( a green card perhaps ).  That would give those odd bases a real effect in a fight .

Just an idea

I sympathise with the view.
Another option would be to say that all shooters at a unit have to target the troop type that is in the majority.
So if you you shot at a three wide unit with a central "odd" base they could never target that "odd" base.
If you shot at a two wide unit with one "odd" base you would then have the choice of target.
Lance.

I think we may have sorted many out with list improvements to how they are represented.
I'll have to check.
Interesting ideas.

S