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Jolt
03-19-2008, 04:26
Something I was wondering for some days now, when playing vanilla (EB is getting on my nerves with all that slowness), I've known for quite sometime that, whereas Roman Citizens in the army who fulfilled the total mobilization time recieved an amount of land, the non-citizens incorporated in the auxilliary. And there I was, wondering about a certain soldier who survived a myriad of battles, and when he was close to being discharged (say, 3 years), he would get a crippling injury. What would happen then? I know that modern soldiers get free healthcare and pension, etc. But what would happen to a non-Roman soldier? Meh, being discharged with no benefits must suck, if it happened.
Centurion Crastinus
03-19-2008, 05:43
Best I can remember, they received a pension with the amount depending on how much time they served.
pezhetairoi
03-19-2008, 15:34
As long as he was discharged with honour, he would get his pension and land to settle on, I believe. And of course, whatever honours and accolades he would have earned. Like the Coronae he won, which would have meant the entire audience in the arena had to rise when he entered wearing it.
Jolt
03-19-2008, 17:10
As long as he was discharged with honour, he would get his pension and land to settle on, I believe. And of course, whatever honours and accolades he would have earned. Like the Coronae he won, which would have meant the entire audience in the arena had to rise when he entered wearing it.

I thought the only award a Non-Citizen Soldier recieved was the Roman Citizenship. He also recieved land? Neat.
pezhetairoi
03-20-2008, 15:01
Oh, non-citizen. That's different. Now I'm not sure. Whoops.

Though it could be said that JC tried to get his veterans recruited from Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul land to settle on in Pannonia or some other such place. That had to count for something.

And I think the crowns, as medal equivalents, were for everyone. Possibly the only corona they could not get was the corona civica, since it required them to save a 'fellow citizen' which was kinda pointless since they were citizens themselves. Definitely things like the corona muralis, for example, was given to the 'first man up a wall', not the 'first citizen up the wall'.

Unless OP was talking about imperial times?