01-10-2007, 10:52 PM
Pleasure.
My own personal take on the tunic is any colour for off-duty or when they weren't at war, like any civilian but with the military belt to maintain their status. Under war conditions and in armour, red. Not because of reasons like "it hides the blood" (which I think, given the way they were very proud of their scars, would have also proudly been shown for all to see) but because it's the colour of Father Mars, along with artistic representations of what are probably soldiers in murals and mosaics. However, that's only my current opinion, but I still see the case for military tunics under any conditions to be various colours.
Scuta, however, a different story altogether so far, and I feel comfortable that each cohort could have had its own colours for distant identification. The fact is we just don't know enough yet, and Civil War re-enactors (ECW and ACW) don't realise how easy they have it.
My own personal take on the tunic is any colour for off-duty or when they weren't at war, like any civilian but with the military belt to maintain their status. Under war conditions and in armour, red. Not because of reasons like "it hides the blood" (which I think, given the way they were very proud of their scars, would have also proudly been shown for all to see) but because it's the colour of Father Mars, along with artistic representations of what are probably soldiers in murals and mosaics. However, that's only my current opinion, but I still see the case for military tunics under any conditions to be various colours.
Scuta, however, a different story altogether so far, and I feel comfortable that each cohort could have had its own colours for distant identification. The fact is we just don't know enough yet, and Civil War re-enactors (ECW and ACW) don't realise how easy they have it.
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