RES GESTAE part 1 : GENS IVLIA

**Cyrus the Virus** · May 09, 2006, 02:41 PM

Thanks for answering
Sounds great, gameplay will be longer than most mods. :sign_omg: Viva la RES GESATE!

**Armenian soldier** · May 09, 2006, 09:49 PM

Cool1

**Slaxx Hatmen** · May 10, 2006, 11:18 AM

No double posting please. :original:
BTW who heck are the guys with axes? I'm probubly gonna use them to hack down Muaryan Elephants but what was there historical use?

**PROMETHEUS ts** · May 10, 2006, 12:16 PM

Cohors Alaudae , equipped by Caesar to cut down Elephants in the Battles of the Civil war...

**Shqiponja_Hayabusa** · May 10, 2006, 03:52 PM

How many units are there for the romans,more than 20?

**Slaxx Hatmen** · May 11, 2006, 12:51 AM

Originally Posted by PROMETHEUS ts

Cohors Alaudae , equipped by Caesar to cut down Elephants in the Battles of the Civil war...

Wow, great minds think alike!

(Putting myself in higher esteem then I deserve.

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**Shqiponja_Hayabusa** · May 11, 2006, 09:17 AM

It would be great if you could explain why the Antesignani carry long triari spears and also javelins?And any description about the Cohort gravis would be kind.

**PROMETHEUS ts** · May 11, 2006, 09:58 AM

Antesignani is my hypotetical reconstruction based on sperimental archeology , Antesignani of later time where an elite troop used to make first line operations , they where light equipped , but wasn't specified their equipment actually , there are descriptions of them in the De bello Civili , but also other later fonts ... They carried lances and shields , the schield has the wings attesting their elite status and so a granted citizenship for valour ... here is a reconstruction of the lorica I used as inspiration ....

From Arsdimicandi Site...

about the Reconstruction of the legionary with manicae and heavy equipment , I followed severall reconstructions , this for one can be self explanatory ...

By the book of P. Connolly....

**Remco** · June 19, 2006, 05:27 PM

Your mod really looks great and realistic to me. Keep up the good work!
I do however question Roman Legions using axes, is the any evidence of them doing so?

EDIT: Could you tell me where you read/found Caesar equiped them to counter elephants, I would find it very interesting to read about.

**Alish** · July 14, 2006, 05:38 AM

The same question, never heard about it , where did you get it. Very interesting.

Your models are absolutely perfect.

**PROMETHEUS ts** · July 14, 2006, 07:03 AM

Originally Posted by Remco

Your mod really looks great and realistic to me. Keep up the good work!
I do however question Roman Legions using axes, is the any evidence of them doing so?

EDIT: Could you tell me where you read/found Caesar equiped them to counter elephants, I would find it very interesting to read about.

from http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/War-elephant

but you can find in the De Bello Civile .....

In the next centuries, further use of war elephants in Europe was mainly against the Roman Republic. From the battle of Heraclea (280 BC in the Pyrrhic War) to the famous march across the Alps by Hannibal during the Second Punic war, elephants terrified the Roman legions. Like Alexander, the Romans found a way to cope with the dangerous elephant charges. In Hannibal's last battle (Zama, 202 BC), his elephant charge was ineffective because the Roman maniples simply made way for them to pass. More than a century later, in the battle of Thapsus (February 6, 46 BC), Julius Caesar armed his fifth legion (Alaudae) with axes and commanded his legionaries to strike at the elephant's legs. The legion withstood the charge and the elephant became its symbol. Thapsus was the last significant use of elephants in the West.