A few questions.

[Tenebrous]

I've been kicking around the idea of the writing a fiction on the Teutoberg Forest. I already own and have read a few times "The battle that stopped Rome", but have a few questions. I would also like to thank the EB team as this mod reinvigorated my interest in the topic, and I might not have ever got around to starting this if it was not for you guys. That being said, now that I am running into some rather specific questions, I thought why not come to the place that have reignited my fascination with antiquity.

I understand my lazyness of not finding these out for myself may make you guys a little peeved, but I figure some of you guys might just know this stuff off by heart, and for some of these question, may be the only ones who would know the answers.

1) What social background would an Augustan centurion have? Would they be of upper middle class, or work their way up from the lower class, or either? (My main character will be one)

2)Some pleb names, or where to find them? (I'm planing to use Marcus Caelius for the main character, the famous gravestone guy).

3)Would is be LS yet, or the older armor?

4)In the old Germanic used in EB names that a village might have, as well as where to find all the names used in EB within the EB folder.

5)As well, just to confirm, Centurions would have still be mostly Italian in origin?

Thank you guys so much either way, and I can't wait for EBII!!

[Iraklis]

I cant realy answer eny of those questions my self, but i could sudgest you to read some of the books of Valerio Masimo Manfredy. He is writing a lot of fiction about ancient times and he is an archeologist him self. Perhups it will help you with your project. Good luck.

[Tenebrous]

They are minor to say the least, myself I enjoy Adrian Goldsworthy, and those questions aren't essential I just want to try and keep minor things historically accurate. I've done a lot of "research" ( I read non-fiction history for fun) so have a good feel for whats going on. I know I read somewhere about my question about centurions, but don't remember the answer, or even which book, and I'm not feeling the idea of re-reading for such a minor thing. I thought I would ask on here as someone might know the answer off by heart.

I'm asking no one to research for me, just if someone happens to know already, it would be a big favor.

[Celtic_Punk]

no LS... It wasn't used widely till the 100's CE

[Julius Augustus]

OK Tenebrous, I'll try to answer your questions one by one(If I can).

1. A centurion could have had varied social backgrounds. Many centurions were reenlisted veterans, which could be plebians of patricians. I'm guessing though, that being high class would make it easier to gain command positions.

2. Sorry, I don't have a great knowlege of Roman names. For names, reference my answer for question for number 4.

3. Armor like the Lorica Hamata (Mail armor) would most likely have been used. At this time, LS would have been very rare. It existed, but was not in common use yet.

4. I don't know much about old Germanic, but I do know where to find the names. To find them, do this. Open up My Computer. Go to Local Disc(the one titled C) . From there open up Program files and go to The Creative Assembly folder( some people have a folder titled Activision). Open up Rome-Total War/EB/data/text/names. This should bring you to a long list of names.

5. I'm guessing so, but I have no real solid evidence to back this assumption up.

Hope this helps.

Tenebrous, you read non-fiction for fun? For shame.
Jk, I read history for fun too! We are kindred souls in a world of darkness.

Yeah, I do know that sounded really gay.