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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2680362, member: 76194&quot;]As you can see from the first image I posted and from this one below, 3rd century Roman legionnaires would have looked very different to what we are accustomed to. At that time every property owning citizen had to serve and buy their own armour and weapons. There was no standardized army like there was during the last 70 years or so of the Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you were a poor farmer, you might be a skirmisher wearing no armour. If you were slightly better off, you might have been able to afford a proper shield, helmet, and maybe a chest and back round or square bronze plate that covered part of the body, and those well off would have had full body chain mail vaguely similar to the armour of the later Republican time most of you are familiar with.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the armour would have varied tremendously due to owner&#039;s ability to pay, the battlefield must have been very confusing indeed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one thing the Romans did have though was training and discipline. That&#039;s what made the real difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]599052[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman soldiers Circa 270 BCE.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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