Question about early roman formations

[G. Septimus]

hmmm...
that's quite amusing. do they wear the same Clothes as Hastati?

[irelandeb]

do they wear the same Clothes as Hastati?

legionaries had to buy their own weapons, armour, clothing and other equipment. So even different soldiers of the same type would be wearing different clothes.

[Iasonis]

There were 120 men in each maniple except for the Triarii who were grouped into 60 men. They reorganized the army after the second war with Samnium and they did it in this way mostly to protect the aristocracy because of the earlier defeat and slaughter of almost all of the Patricians at the battle of Alia, by the Senones under Brennon. Marcus Furius Camillus was given the credit for the reform.