Why Legatus replacements cost 5 NM when buy a legion cost only 2? Which is the historical reason for that?
Ok 30 denarii but 5 NM seems to high (playing Clodius in the Septimius Severus scenario).
Cfant wrote:I thought the legatus replacement means, you have lost a legatus and this means you lost the sacred eagle of the legion. The gods are angry, and therefore you loose moral. If you simply raise a new legion, people are not happy with the conscripton, but that's less worse then suffering the same of loosing the eagleI thinks its wanted.
pantsukki wrote:
But I agree, the current system seems quite illogical.
pantsukki wrote:Regarding the "special status" of the men serving in the legatus elements, I don't remember it precisely, but isn't the element a few hundred men strong (or even a little bigger, 4/6 hundred?) ? I doubt that so many of them would've been part of the senatorial or knight classes. It can't all be officers? Also Goldsworthy claims that even some of the tribunes were pretty much professional soldiers, even if they had originated from the knight class. Thus they wouldn't be "important people", i.e. that well connected back home.
Narwhal wrote:Good point, but maybe they got fragged ?![]()
But then it's even more unlikely that they would suffer from attrition as badly as the ordinary grunts.
Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 9 guests