Roman Prototypes 8 AUG
Update 8 AUG 22 ROMAN AUXILLIARY CAVALRY As part of the military reforms of Augustus around AD 14, the Auxilia were re-organized. They would be trained to the same standards of discipline as the legions. They were mainly drawn from a wide range of warlike peoples throughout the provinces, and would receive Roman citizenship on completion of their 25 year sevice. Senior officers in contrast were Roman citizens. Roman Auxilia cavalry were usually heavily armored in mail and armed with a short lance, javelins, the Spatha long sword, and sometimes bows for specialist Horse archer units. These men primarily served as Medium missile cavalry for flanking, scouting, skirmish, and pursuit. Cavalry units were known as Alae, and were made up of 16 Turmae. A Turmae consisted of 30 troopers, and was commanded by a Decurio, and a second in command called the Duplicarius. Update 16 AUG 20 July Update below Roman Marching camps were used to protect an army while away from a permanent base during a campaign or when conducting other military operations.
At the conclusion of each day’s march, legionary troops on the move were assembled at a site carefully selected at the day’s start. For the next three hours or more, they were put to work digging a perimeter ditch, erecting a rampart, and assembling a palisade with prefabricated materials. Polybius wrote that the standard Republican-era design was in the shape of a square, but always had to conform to the lay of the land and the numbers of men and animals to be quartered in the camp. Vegetius wrote that the camps should be constructed taking into account the configuration of the ground. He warned that a secure marching-camp must be placed near a source of plentiful water, wood, and forage and not be overlooked by higher ground. The outline of the camp was usually marked by a ditch, with the resulting spoil used to make a rampart thrown up on the camp’s inner edge. This was then reinforced with earthen sod and strengthened by stakes carried by the troops. The 8-10 man tent of the Roman Legions were made from goat and calf skin. Roman carriages had iron-shod wheels (they did not have rubber then) which means that they made a lot of noise! MID REPUBLICAN ROMAN COMMAND SETS
The Roman army of the mid-Republic (also known as the manipular Roman army or the "Polybian army"), refers to the armed forces deployed by the mid-Roman Republic, from the end of the Samnite Wars (290 BC) to the end of the Social War (88 BC). The first phase of this army, in its manipular structure (290–ca. 130 BC), is described in detail in the Histories of the ancient Greek historian Polybius, writing before 146 BC. For set-piece battles, the heavy infantry were usually drawn up in three lines. The Principes (singular princeps) were originally men in the prime of their lives , who were also fairly wealthy, and could therefore afford decent equipment. These were the heavier infantry of the legion, and their usual position was the second battle line.
ROMAN AND CARTHAGINIAN WARSHIP CREWS
Finally managed to get a picture with most of the figures for the Warships. There are still several figures to be included, but most should be released before the end of this year. JJDESIGNS MAY 2020 NEWS UPDATE The military of Carthage was one of the largest military forces in the ancient world. Although the navy was Before Hannibal’s Italian campaign they were presumably armed with long spears, round or oval shields CARTHAGINIAN VETERAN INFANTRY
It would also be possible to imagine many of these veteran infantry were armed with the Roman scutum. The Numidians were the Berber population of Numidia (present day Algeria and in a smaller part of Ancient authors, such as Polybius and Livy, tend to stress Carthage’s reliance on mercenary units, which MID REPUBLICAN ROMANS
PRINCIPES
By the time of the Punic wars infantry were sorted into classes according to age and experience rather The velites would gather at the front , and cover the advance of the hastate. If the hastate failed to break
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