11-18-2008, 01:16 PM
Quote:Thanks for that. However, I think your group needs to narrow its period. You are talking a period of c120 years, during which time equipment and probably clothing changed substantially. If you try to cover that whole period in one go, unless you are doing a static display of figure types, your unit will look like the equivilent of Napoleonic, Crimean War, Zulu War and World War I soldiers all marching together. These big time periods are fine for types displays (we often do a types display covering a seven hundred year period) but for a unit display you need to try to have a focus of less than fifty years (and even that is a reasonably wide timeframe). My suggestion therefore, would be to pick the quarter century you really wanted to concentrate on and all equip yourselves for that period. Keep your original 120 year timescle for types displays where you can show the public just how much the Roman soldier changed during that time.
We did try to do that at our last event, Magius (Byron) has alot of helmets, so we took some from the early republic straight through to the imperial era, aswell as showing off a variety of different gladius, pugio and armor types.
The reason we chose such a vast time period to show off is that was obviously how long the romans were in Scotland for. but when it comes to us doing group displays we do try and ensure to equip ourselves the same, however we are still starting out as a group and im still assembling alot of my own kit, so thats where things might look a little rag tag in the impression shown above
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