For four months the new recruits were subjected to relentless training. Upon completion of this period could be called survivors and soldiers and military. Those who could not resist the training were rejected.
First they were taught to march marking time. Then they had running, pushing hard until they were able to cover 20 -30 km-Roman miles in five hours. They would then have to go charged the same distance with all its equipment, including weapons and armor, kitchen utensils, sticks to the fence, digging tools and supplies for several days, since the end of each gear had to build a camp with defensive ramparts and moats .
The training continued until they were able to travel 24 miles -36 km-in five hours. At first the legionaries used beasts of burden and carts to transport the equipment. But the famous general Gaius Marius driving major reforms in the army, forced them to personally carry almost all the baggage needed to reduce the size of caravans Quartermaster (they called "mules Mario"). The entire team must have weighed at least 30 kg, and weapons and armor over 20
Legionaries marches performed three times a month for 25 years. This training and ability to move was one of the reasons why the Roman army was so superior to other armies. This was only part of the instruction, since the training program also included running, jumping, horse riding and swimming. When he was considered physically fit to begin instruction in the use of arms.
The recruits were taught to attack a heavy stake in the ground with a heavy wooden sword and a shield of wicker that weighed twice as much as a normal shield. They insisted that hit the front, without describing arcs with the sword, which can be avoided more easily. They were also trained on the launching of heavy wooden javelins against the stakes.
Once this happened, they were considered worthy to bear arms genuine leather-lined to prevent accidents, they seem very slight compared to the heavy wooden weapons.
The Effective
A legion consisted of ten cohorts ((unless it was a court of assault or invasion that were formed after 20 or 30 men)) of 480 men each which gives a figure of 4,800 men in total ; that in theory, since there appears certain that the legions have been with full pictures, much less. Normally
each century was a box 10 x 8 men. As the second century of each handpiece down to close the gap, the depth of the front line of the legion was 8 men. Since three lines were able to present a legion, the battlefront was structured as a series of lines with 8 men deep. Cannae remember that the handpieces formed with folded depth, ie with 16 men, an experiment that cost 50,000 dead Romans. Since the secret tactics of the legion was none other than their flexibility, the front line with 8 men deep was the rational and best suited to this essential feature. But if you had to reduce the depth, the same operating flexibility to allow the miracle of "thin" lines.
the Roman soldiers, CLOTHING IN WAR
depended on the expertise of the weapon used to fight, all carried in the neck with a red handkerchief to prevent rubbing of the shell, dried blood and sweat (hence used that color), a ring-shaped label which signed their letters, a bag of skin that looks like a bag, a helmet and sandals, then divided into those who used the javelin battle, called PILIUM, were the infantry., ran walking distance and throwing., were kept in the PORTA-PILIUM and also carried a shield.
On the other hand, those who ran the GLADIUS HISPANIENSI, who carried it into the sheath and it is a machete Pugie assistant, a last resort, ideal for stabbing, may with a good rush, pass a coat of Mayans also had a shield this time round to avoid the attack of the enemy. The gunners drove
military weapons, the crossbow, the Onaje and scorpio.
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