Preview: The Romani

[Puupertti Ruma]

Sweet stuff! Offices seem promising, especially the "must be in Rome to be eligible" part of it, and all the pictures look niiiiiccceee!! One question: if you have most of your FMs at Rome, will there be some benefits from this. I mean, in RTW, only one FM in a city could govern it, and the rest were more or less "wasted". Also, if not so, can a new appointed consul somehow travel faster to his province of choice?

And then my answers to the trivia:

I: I'm pondering between principes, hastati samniti and the elite samnite infantry. Well, I'll guess that they belong to the principes, and I draw my guess from the number of the feathers.

II: I'm not too good with ancient swords... uppermost is a italic short sword, the very same the Camillan Hastati use in EBI. In the middle is either greek kopis or machaira, or the hispanic falcata. As machaira is the only one not guessed yet, I say it's a greek machaira :). The lowest one I think is a greek xiphos.

III: Referencing from the EBI website, the oval is scutum, the round bronze one is Clipeus, and I don't know the round one. I guess it is a scutum also.

IV: The greek aspis (round with bronze) is used by the triarii, the thureos (long and oval) are in use by principes and hastati, and the last one is the most difficult to question I think... maybe the leves used it, so leves.

V: From the three feathers and the quite simple structure of the upper left, I deduct they belong to hastati. The ones on the lower right more expensive looking, with crests and other ornamentals, so I quess they belong to the triarii.

:edit: And I started to post my answers before Horatius "made" his.