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Add slaves. It's simple. Only a few civilizations skipped slavery at this time (Han Dynasty).

If you are looking for more designs, try to look for "légionnaire césarien" in google images. François Gilbert did a lot of things about it, although not totally correct for things like leather armband, it is quite good on the others.

For the "barbarians", provocative poses could be interesting. Hitting the weapon against the shield for example.

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And close to the spina and umbo boss. But leather torn apart could be possible, if the blade glide on the wood it could do that.

Steel quality is indeed lower in the beginning of the Roman Era than during Medieval Times. Even for the Romans. For Celtic swords, there were very poor to very good examples but poor and very poor steel was the most common. Damages to the shield are possible but I would be skeptical about damages distributed over the entire shield. Actually shield use in fighting should have been much more active (not only for the Vikings, but for Celts and Iberians). I don't think fighting would have consisted to blindly smash the opposing shield.

Basically there is little evidence for native helmets and armor among the Germans. Only chainmail is known. But there are evidences for mercenaries and auxiliaries material. Imagine a noble Suebian, where could he get his helmet if he wants one? What are the relationship of the Suebians with Rome? Edit: for those interested From the Baltic to the Danube: Early Roman Iron Age Warriors from Hagenow, Mecklenburg, and Their Relations with Barbarian and Roman Worlds. http://briai.ku.lt/downloads/AB/08/08_058-068_Voss.pdf Relations between Rome and the German 'Kings' on the Middle Danube in the First to Fourth Centuries A.D http://www.kroraina.com/varia/pdfs/pitts_Relations between Rome and the German 'Kings' on the Middle Danube in the First to Fourth Centuries.pdf

I open this thread to offer a starting point for those that want to deepen specific topics and to centralize the different useful sources found by the members of our community. Anybody can propose a reference to add to the list. I will update the list when I can. To ease the reading, I put the title first, then the author name and the year. The goal here is NOT to reference EVERYTHING. There are too many books on the same topics. The best option should be to propose some key readings on specific topics, the best references available. Some books in foreign languages are welcomed. We should avoid to post direct links to Library Genesis or Sci-Hub here, but checking if the book is available there will be an appreciated effort. Proposing very rare and overpriced books is not useful, except if it is still possible to find it in an electronic format. I start with Rome and I will continue later. Recommended Classical Literature Rome Celts Mauryas / Ancient India Hellenistic / Diadochi / Alexander and his successors Others will follow up...

https://www.newegg.com/global/hn-en/gigabyte-radeon-rx-570-gv-rx570gaming-4gd/p/N82E16814125966 From a quick search

Some talk: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php/51155-EB-Imitation-Legions-Thuerophoroi http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?628825-Hellenistic-romanized-sword-bearer

The City Besieged. Siege and Its Manifestations in the Ancient Near East. https://brill.com/view/title/16583 Available online

Now an Asus RX560 I got on a sale. Before it was a GTX 460 OC, again got on a sale 8 years ago. Both were able to run AC: Origins but clearly it was a bit difficult for the GTX.

My strategy in building long lasting PCs is to bought a correct CPU and to upgrade the GPU after some months/years. 8 years ago, I put 220 CHF in a i5 2500k and recently I was able to play Assassin Creed Origins on decent settings. Simply by upgrading one time the GPU during these 8 years.

The Romans army often carried out their small engines with them, like the scorpion. Edit: siege tower and battering ram were clearly built on site however.

That face omg

Polybius 30.25 : 1 This same king when he heard of the games celebrated in Macedonia by Aemilius Paullus the Roman general, ambitious of surpassing Paullus in magnificence sent out embassies and sacred missions to the towns to announce the games he was about to give at Daphne, so that people in Greece were very eager to visit Antioch then. 2 The festival opened with a procession composed as follows: 3 It was headed by five thousand men in the prime of life armed after the Roman fashion and wearing breastplates of chain-armour. Next came five thousand Mysians, 4 and immediately behind them three thousand Cilicians armed in the manner of light infantry, wearing gold crowns. 5 Next came three thousand Thracians and five thousand Gauls. They were followed by twenty thousand Macedonians of whom ten thousand bore golden shields, p145 five thousand brazen shields and the rest silver shields. 6 Next marched two hundred and fifty pairs of gladiators, and behind them a thousand horsemen from Nisa and three thousand from Antioch itself, most of whom had crowns and trappings of gold and the rest trappings of silver. Next to these came the so‑called "companion cavalry," numbering about a thousand, all with gold trappings, and next the regiment of "royal friends" of equal number and similarly accoutred; next a thousand picked horse followed by the so‑called "agema", supposed to be the crack cavalry corps, numbering about a thousand. Last of all marched the "cataphract" or mailed horse, the horses and men being armed in complete mail, as the name indicated. All the above wore purple surcoats in many cases embroidered with gold and heraldic designs. 11 Next came a hundred chariots drawn by six horses and forty drawn by four horses, and then a chariot drawn by four elephants and another drawn by a pair, and finally thirty-six elephants in single file with their housings. Book - THE SELEUCID ARMY Organization and Tactics in the Great Campaigns: "The Seleucid phalanx at Beith-Zacharia is indeed described by I Macc, as 'equipped with chain mail' , but the source, perhaps an eye witness, was evidently carried away by the sight of the one contingent armed in Roman style, which is recorded as being similarly equipped at Daphne (Polyb. 30.25.3). The generalization may also be attributable to the positioning of the 'Roman' infantry in the advance 'elephant divisions', which were first to enter the defile (see p.181 below)." Probably that the most "extraordinary" fashion for observers at that time is the chain mail, not usually adopted by the Hellenes. I cannot rule out the possibility that it is simply Thorakitai slightly inspired by the Romans.

Imported egyptian blue is attested for high-ranking burial.

Where is the limit? Should they have used pilum and montefortino helmets?

Oh it is worse than that, they seem to have skipped Diomedes. Hey! It was the first mod I tried! One of my favorite! I played months hardcorely as a teenager on it