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Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - jkaler48 - 02-25-2008
Today some of my grandchildren visited. They wanted to play Roman Legion so I let them take hamatas, helmets, shields, a set of segmentata and wooden swords out to play. (They are 12 10 8 and 7 years old) I had told them about the Roman Legion's duties - Fight barbarians, build roads and forts, keep the peace and collect taxes etc. I thought they were going to play in the yard! They decided to go to houses in the neighborhood and "Collect taxes". They came home with $19.00 in "taxes"!
John Kaler
MSG, USA
Retired
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - Narukami - 02-25-2008
hock: Clearly you have taught them well!
Congratulations -- you now have your own legion. Use it well.
:wink:
Narukami
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - rusty myers - 02-25-2008
I will have to Challenge my son Minimus... all his legion does is march around a leave needlefelts out in the rain... Taxes eh???
Sounds like great fun. Minimus (Jonathan to those who know him) is soon to be 12, and at Castra Romana he led the kids cohort complete with crest and centurio gear. He has the neighborhood kids trained to fight in Centuri and Phalanx style. Great fun to whatch. Kid is after my job. What will the next Generation of Romans look like????
Good to see your kids are still young at heart John. Now admit it... you snuck some armor time in there too, didn't you!
No wonder kids that grew up En Castris were such a valuable tool to the legions.
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - jvrjenivs - 02-25-2008
When Gerard and me are on the roman 'watchtower' at fort Vechten, we are used to ask taxes from the bypassing cars. (Note that that way is the only one to leave the modern fort). Of course we are corrupt, so we could do with some candy-stuff, and don't accept money. It's always a lot of fun, and you've some nice meal during the day.
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - Libitina - 02-25-2008
Quote:Today some of my grandchildren visited. They wanted to play Roman Legion so I let them take hamatas, helmets, shields, a set of segmentata and wooden swords out to play. (They are 12 10 8 and 7 years old) I had told them about the Roman Legion's duties - Fight barbarians, build roads and forts, keep the peace and collect taxes etc. I thought they were going to play in the yard! They decided to go to houses in the neighborhood and "Collect taxes". They came home with $19.00 in "taxes"!
John Kaler
MSG, USA
Retired
Aww haha very enterprising! I'll have to train up my 6 year old. We could rake it in at events :lol:
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - Gaius Julius Caesar - 02-25-2008
Hmmm, we tried that in Borneo, but my friends dad told us not to be so stupid :roll: Mind you we had machine guns and rocket launchers..... :lol:
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - rusty myers - 02-25-2008
I suspect the cute little kids in armor would get more... Voluntary tribute.. than a bunch of grown men in armor...
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - Marcus Iulius Chattus - 02-25-2008
That sounds famillar :lol:
One and a half year ago, my group has been in Trier at the "Kaiserthermen". My soldiers have much to doo, as usual, but our kids where bored. The night before, there where a great show in the catacombs, with lightshows, mystical music, dancers (most of them women and halfnaked) and 100s of candles in the wallniches. So, our kids started in the morning to collect all candles and spend them at the entrance of the catacombs to all visitors. Most of the visitors paid voluntarily for the candles, especially a group of japanese tourists, who paid 20euros! As all candles "spend", the kids ran to the exit of the catacombs to get all candles back and "spend" them again.
In the afternoon, they earned more than 80euros :lol: !
At the next day, we saw our kids only with icecream, goodies and chocolate in there hands and a shiny smile in there faces.
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - A_Volpe - 02-25-2008
Of course we Adults would take that Taxes/Extortion thing to the next level...
Pay us money/Give us good food/beer, or your car becomes the new target for our Ballista!
Muahahah!
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - Methos - 02-25-2008
Quote:Today some of my grandchildren visited. They wanted to play Roman Legion so I let them take hamatas, helmets, shields, a set of segmentata and wooden swords out to play. (They are 12 10 8 and 7 years old) I had told them about the Roman Legion's duties - Fight barbarians, build roads and forts, keep the peace and collect taxes etc. I thought they were going to play in the yard! They decided to go to houses in the neighborhood and "Collect taxes". They came home with $19.00 in "taxes"!
John Kaler
MSG, USA
Retired
This is the funniest thing I've read all day!!! :lol: I think it's absolutely brilliant that your wee ones were so enterprising in their re-enactment endeavors!
D
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - DanM - 02-26-2008
Kind of reminds me of when I wore my Roman kit to recess when I brought it to school. I need to get some real stuff and walk around Chicago's beaches saying that the legions need money for conquests.
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - jkaler48 - 02-26-2008
Quote:Kind of reminds me of when I wore my Roman kit to recess when I brought it to school. I need to get some real stuff and walk around Chicago's beaches saying that the legions need money for conquests.
Rusty at SOTW has pretty good prices on kit with discounts for RAT members:
www.SOULOFTHEWARRIOR.com
If you have some tools the XX legion website has good info on making
some items yourself.
Glad to see some younger people have an interest in history - A lot of current reenactors are ,well, getting elderly.
I belong to the Legio V in Tennessee and they are an exception being mostly
college students and I have a hard time keeping up with them - Drill Drill
and more Drill - my feet hurt by the end of the day and then they want to sleep in the Legion Leather tent on the ground! OH my back!
John Kaler
MSG, USA
Retired (I guess I didn't get enough marching in the Army!)
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - Senovara - 02-26-2008
Quote: ... They decided to go to houses in the neighborhood and "Collect taxes". They came home with $19.00 in "taxes"!
:lol: What a great story! LOL, ideal Roman citizens in the making.
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - Iagoba - 02-26-2008
That was great... :lol:
I remember one little girl with even sharper eye for business, Claudia, those from Spain must know her.
While she is in charge of their parent´s roman replica´s shop in events, she is a must see!
hock:
Re: Grandchilden decided to play Roman Legion today. - Libitina - 02-26-2008
Quote:Hmmm, we tried that in Borneo, but my friends dad told us not to be so stupid :roll: Mind you we had machine guns and rocket launchers..... :lol:
That would be fairly persuasive. Faced with that I'd probably pay up :lol: