POSTER of the IMPERIAL ROMAN LEGION

[D B Campbell]

And perhaps you have some comments about the poster before we print it

Hmmm ... quite a lot to comment on.

You have selected a legion from "the second and third centuries", so (as others have observed) the manipulus is not relevant.

You have depicted each centuria with a centurion and optio, but only one centuria per cohort with cornicen and signifer. In fact, every centuria had a full set of principales -- which should include a tesserarius, too. You can see this in Ross Cowan's excellent article in the Ancient Warfare Special.

You have decided to depict the First Cohort with six double-strength centuriae. You would struggle to defend this archaeologically, and might be safer to go with the (normally accepted) five double-strength centuriae. The names of the centurions are incorrect (there is no "centurio triarius" or "centurio hastatus"). Again, Ross Cowan's article shows the names of the respective centurions.

You have labelled each entity in the singular (which is fine): miles, contubernium, centuria, cohors. But "8 miles" (which means "eight soldier") should read "8 milites" ("eight soldiers".

Off to have dinner now ...