Biarchus
Centurion's helmet crest
I noticed last night that the Centurions in the numbered and named legions have the same helmet plume, only red, that the legionaries have and it streams back, but the Centurions with the antesignare have what I think of as the correct plume, the horizontal brush-like plume. He also has segmented armor and decorations; it's an impressive model. Do the legions not get this guy until the imperials? If so why do the antesignare have him now?
"With a population of around a million, Rome (in Claudius' time) was a vast city even by modern standards. It is worth pointing out that during the early Renaissance the population of Rome was no more than fifteen thousand-- living amid the ruins of a civilization that dwarfed their own. It was not until the nineteenth century that the population of Rome returned to the levels it had enjoyed under the Caesars. That is eloquent proof of the fact that human history is not a tale of steady progress towards greater knowledge and achievement." Simon Scarrow
Artifex
Re: Centurion's helmet crest
It's because they're available before the Imperial legions are - they're first available alongside the generic legions of the late republic, aren't they? In which case, since you can't have the centurion change halfway through, and having the imperial centurion would be anachronistic, we gave them the old one.
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Biarchus
Re: Centurion's helmet crest
Rory,
Thanks; I figured it was like that. Great mod; the named & numbered make it so much more engrossing.
"With a population of around a million, Rome (in Claudius' time) was a vast city even by modern standards. It is worth pointing out that during the early Renaissance the population of Rome was no more than fifteen thousand-- living amid the ruins of a civilization that dwarfed their own. It was not until the nineteenth century that the population of Rome returned to the levels it had enjoyed under the Caesars. That is eloquent proof of the fact that human history is not a tale of steady progress towards greater knowledge and achievement." Simon Scarrow
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