Vibius Tiberius Costa
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You guys are great. My thanks (especially to caldrail)
cheers
vtc
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Probably my dimmest question yet.
But I need to be 95% sure.
How does one join a legion? Super-exact details
What boundaries are there so not just any old riff-raff can get in (treat me like I know nothing about patricians and land-owning classes etc.)?
What do you need to join a legion? - how much does that cost, cann someone break t down into amounts per 'unit' type?
Was there a standard entrance rank or could you be entered higher depending on your class or the influence of your relatives/friends?
Where were you trained? how? with what, were there practicing swords?
If it applies I 'm specifically asking about early 2nd bc.
If there have been previous threads I apologise but ask for the link please so i can check it out.
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Much like CiceroD's point, wasn't the bait for joining the army the chance for citizenship or potential land and wealth?
However when armies were levied wouldn't archers be particularly hard to get hold of?
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Thanks, Primus Pilus. I'll be including the families that contributed only one member to the magistracies, in my revised list. It'll be an expanded list, because there were quite a few of these.Hey there
In the percentages above you gave percentages in each century could you reply or PM me with a percentage spectrum of the 2nd century senators and if you had it available, please don't go to any special lengths the percentage of each family in the 2nd century. Don't go out your way but I would be most grateful if you could do this.
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Hi, VTC. Broughton's doesn't list Senators specifically, but since election to magisterial offices brought one into the Senatorial class (for a lifetime seat), then the names of the magistrates could be counted as Senate representatives, too. I could give you a few names from Broughton's lists for the 2nd century, but it would be pretty time-consuming to go over each list of magistrates individually for a 100-year period to make a note of each individual name. If, when I re-do my initial list, it turns out that I'm compiling the information that way after all, I'll send you what I get. Is this for that book you're planning to write?
-- Nephele
It is, but it is definitely not necessary.
vtc
Ps I have written a third of it
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Thanks guys
vtc
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Example:
For the Valerii, 32% of their names appear as having held office during the 1st century BCE, 20% during the 2nd century, 20% during the 3rd, 13% during the 4th, 10% during the 5th, and 5% during the 6th. For the Fabii, 19.5% of their names appear as having held office during the 1st century, 22% during the 2nd, 22% during the 3rd, 19.5% during the 4th, and 17% during the 5th.-- Nephele
Hey there
In the percentages above you gave percentages in each century could you reply or PM me with a percentage spectrum of the 2nd century senators and if you had it available, please don't go to any special lengths the percentage of each family in the 2nd century. Don't go out your way but I would be most grateful if you could do this.
vtc
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Why did the senate suddenly agree with Catos phrase, "Furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed" And why ask them to move the city. That's ridiculously devious, If they had complied do you lot think they would still have been butchered?
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I actually bought Rome Total War plus the Barbarian expansion pack. I am trying to get used to the controls/interface. But the graphics are great, and so far seems quite gratifying.
Nothing Beats RTW! If your struggling remember don't fight like the Romans, fight a bit differently, I conquered the whole world in summer 210bc as the greeks (I don't have Barb expansion) but i don't think you really care
However have fun!!!vtc
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Probably Centaurs or maybe Cyclops or the Basalisk
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Cheers guys
So were there ballistae on the Aurelian and Servian walls?
I know they were frequently on ships but were they in ports or watchtowers?
vtc
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If only they knew what flaws UNRV would find!
vtc
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While you lot are talking about artillery, I'll add a few related questions in if you don't mind.
What did an army do with ballista bolts on the move? Could they be created easily with local wood or made on the move?
Without fletchings wouldn't the bolt go completely off course or was there spiralling grooves?
Did a legion practice the range of artillery weapons? If so where?
Were scorpions and ballistae primarily seiging or field weapons?
Thanks in advance.
vtc
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I saw this has been touched upon in a previous thread so do excuse me if it has already been said.
Basically how did a person of plebeian rank get allowed into the senate?
Can they just walk up with the correct qualifications, a few supporters and go "Can I join." Surely not.
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To some extent, as I mentioned, but modern warfare is so much more insidious and sudden
Indeed, and there is quite often no clear winner or one decisive move like a flanking. I think the Vietnamese war is far worse than stumbling into a roman civil war.
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In modern warfare, the risk of death is different, and more present in the background. You might step on a mine. You might be in the area of an artillery strike. An aircraft can drop a laser guided bomb on you without warning. A sniper can take you down from over a mile away. A parked car might suddenly explode. A civilian gift of food might contain a nasty suprise. Your enemy is camouflaged, hidden, and waiting around every street corner. Combine that with the noise and damage that modern weapons cause, you have a combat enviroment far less 'enjoyable' and definitely more stressful.
But shouting, screeching and heart-rendering battle-cries, seige engines firing and archers volleying, the gush of blood, screams of agony, boulders and ballista bolts tearing through people cutting them to ribbons. Limbs, torsos, asorted body parts and blank-eyed heads everywhere. Assassins, quite possibly in the mix. Flanking maneuvres that could wipe out your entire legion. Cavalry (they are pretty scary). I would have thought it was equal to worse in terms of enjoyment. Your right about deaths at the back of the line so to speak, the triarii were probably less likely to be killed than a hastatus. Your parked car exploding probably has a roman analogy of a hidden trap or camouflaged units in the darkness and cover of a grove of trees.
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The Parthians, were a right pain i bet, they just shot you down and flittered light infantry everywhere. I think Crassus would have voted with me.
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Actually, there were quite a few praenomina (compared to what most people commonly read about Roman names). At least 64 have been recorded. The reality is that there were few praenomina in common use.
here is a list I nabebd from wiki (it has been glanced through by me to try and verify it:
Appius (Ap.)
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I doubt the Romans would have had combat stress, it was their life and customs a lot mroe than today. Even if some did they woudl then be useless to the army, they would either have to get over it or go home as an utter disgrace (if they are allowed to go back not killed for being a big wet crybaby who wants to abandon his terms service)
Question: A fair few emperors were 'mental' so was ever a connection made that they were mad because emperors were supposedly demi-gods, summat like that?
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Priene?
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Is it Yenihisar or Didyma (same place but different)
vtc
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Get RTW, play it for what it is, you don't need to care that much and then later starting finding the flaws and historical inaccuracies. Or get a dated game like teh original Age of Empires or an Empire Earth (I and II) are good. I like EE1 it is dated but the scenario editing is gr8 fun I can make maps of Rome and build roman armies even if they are littered with historical inaccuracies.
It about 20 aussie dollars now so 8ish pounds (i don't know american dollars but cheap) get it and if you don't like it you haven't wasted much money. Ignore the graphics focus on the scenario building.
edit: this is the four roman infantry units in what i hope i made to be a gallic forest: you can see the graphics (oh dear 2d trees). Also with a bit of easy trigger programming you can channge cames of units, I did it on the standard bearer to show you.
and this is a thing i did, its the servian wall around Rome, I did this very quickly so if you ha the tiem you can recreate a good roman city
I like this thread im, finding it just as useful for purchasing new games myself
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I know I'm a bit old for this but I have not said anything in this. I had my friend - those who read my blog will know he is the one I started my novel with to write what he thought i was as soon as i had arrived in Perth, i was later however to call the book off with him.
So, hello i'm vtc
I am younger than you think - 0 in fact and i am new to UNRV so be kind
vtc
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that's a great photo
is it chersonnesos?
is it paphos?
just guesses
vtc
Salve! Nope/Nope.
Anyway, we are still on the eastern half of the Roman world.
Keep guessing!
Oh no, I almost let this thread die, is it pergamum
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Would you want to own the dagger from the last thrust against Caesar? I think I might but how would I feel about that particular artifact from the past?
I think holding that in my hand would make me shake like one of the conspirators. . . from the awe I'd feel.
Good point, a lot of distress, anger and buried history is in that dagger, not only would it have stabbed Caesar, wouldn't we be an accessory to a crime
I wouldn't mind to view it in a museum though.
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Who were the infantry 'Elite' of the Repubican army?
in Gloria Exercitus - 'Glory of the Army'
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Before Marius the elite might have been the local warriors not the romans themselves. In theory a new recruit could be far better than a veteran triarii member, only age and experience would cahnge the ability. I would think in battle as everyone was formed a giant working grinder and everyone did the same pattern of movement and defending that it didn't really matter if you were a better soldier than the man next to you.
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