Um. Holy carp? Issue 12 announced...

[MechaDeuce]

Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:

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Someone's been doing their research, too, what with crests going both directions. (If memory serves, the side-to-side crest indicates a higher rank than
back-to-front.)

Hi Folks! ^_^

Ahhh...it's been a few years since my ancient history classes, but the Roman Empire was always one of my favourite topics.

Anyhow, if I'm remembering correctly, the Centurions had the tranverse-crested helms - the centurians were the enlisted officers, in charge of the maniples
and cohorts of the typical Roman Legion (Centurion - in charge of 100 men, called (duh) a Century). Six centuries formed a cohort, and ten cohorts made up a
legion. (This isn't counting support staffers and such). Generally, anyone with a transverse-crest was a working soldier, higher up having fancier
accoutrements.

The ones with the front-to-back crests were usually the (politically appointed) officers, the tribunes and higher. Sometimes they were competent commanders.
Sometimes they weren't.
Thus endeth the history snippet for today. ^_^

Later!

Bert V.V.

skyknight@sentex.net

(Hmmm....MechaDeuce with Roman Legionary armour.... hmmm....)