THE ROMAN ARMY Structure Camps Standards Officers & Troops Auxiliaries Armor & Weapons © 2008-2012 MDW.

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THE ROMAN ARMY Structure Camps Standards Officers & Troops Auxiliaries Armor & Weapons © MDW

Eight Men to a Tent Party (contubernium)STRUCTURE

Ten Tent Parties to a Century (80 men)STRUCTURE

Six Centuries to a Cohort (480 men); 10 Cohorts to a LegionSTRUCTURE

StandardsSTANDARDS signifer

aquilifer and imagniferSTANDARDS

legatus (in charge of legion) centurio (in charge of century) optio (deputy; assisted centurio)OFFICERS

Legionary Soldiers TROOPS: THE LEGIONARY SOLDIERS

TROOPS: THE AUXILIARIES Cavalry

TROOPS: THE AUXILIARIES Masks for Cavalry Men and Horses

Praetorian Guard TROOPS: THE PRAETORIAN GUARD

ARMOR tunica lorica segmentata cingulum scutum

ARMOR galea caligae

ARMOR The Testudo Formation

WEAPONS: HANDHELD pugio & gladius

WEAPONS: HANDHELD Notice the protected fighting pose

WEAPONS: HANDHELD What problems are presented by this pose?

WEAPONS: HANDHELD pilum

WEAPONS: SIEGE ARTILLERY machina (siege tower) aries (battering ram)

WEAPONS: SIEGE ARTILLERY ballista (giant crossbow)

WEAPONS: SIEGE ARTILLERY catapulta (sm. crossbow) onager (hurls rocks)