Centurion Position in Battle

[ValentinianVictrix]

How many of the posters here are ex-military? Can they have some input on how they drilled using both voice commands and bugle calls.

I could, but is that relevant? In my case there was never a deafening din of batle which would make the sound of bugles (or the voice of the commanding officer) difficult to hear.

I believe it is relevant Robert in that when you read good accounts of battles you get the sense that when the opposing lines drew close they halted a short distance from each other before the signal to attack was given. I would suggest at that point although both sides would have been trading insults, calling on their God's, ancestors etc, raising war cries, I'm certain it would not have been as noisy as when the battle lines actually clashed.

Any visual signals would have been difficult to observe once both sides were in hand to hand combat, one obvious reason being the clouds of dust which the ancients often stated were raised during the battle.