Shields?

[Banzai!]

If you went all historic on the Romans and gave them shield and body variation, this is what they would probably end up looking like [particular emphasis on last panel] (originally posted by Geneva in the TWC):

I'm not sure if this is the desired result of taking historical realism to the max: Romans looking like Gauls.

Aside: lol at the shirtless guy who thinks he's so tough in the third panel, then getting pwned by the first javelin exchange in the fourth panel.

[/Bean\]

I'm not sure if this is the desired result of taking historical realism to the max: Romans looking like Gauls.

Well, why not? Especially if it's the early Republic. They must have been heavily influenced by the Gauls, even at this point, having had many a contact with them.

[SwissBarbar]

And being conquered by them and using similar language and being at least as barbarian ^^

[desert]

Hmmm, it seems like it was (cheap, that is). They made it from blood sometimes. Green and blue weren't that expensive though. Mardians and Persian archers have it.

http://www.cais-soas.com/cais/histor...quip.htm#Spara

This link is interesting.