Marine inc.

[lobf]

I hadn't thought of the rowers. That makes sense, considering I had also read about legionnaires on boats. I just figured that real legionnaires only started getting thrown on when the corvus was invented.

[General Appo]

I know that at least in Carthage the poorer population could always found occupation in the fleet as rowers, a great way to keep poor unemployed people away from the streets where they´ll just cause a lot of trouble for everyone.

[Eduorius]

Mostly the same troops that were used for land, were used for sea. Carthaginian citizens were more often found serving in the navy than in the army.

Also from what I read in the Osprey book of "Roman Legionary".

After the naval battle of Actium between Marcus Antonius and Augustus, many of the legionaries of Augustus that served as marines used the surname "Actiacus".

Vegetius suggested that marines should use blue tunics and shields painted blue. Not sure if maybe this was to camouflage with the sea and the sky.