Promotion in a Vexilatio

[Crispvs]

"You've never had to hear shouted commands on a windy day, have you Mark? Crispvs

Yes I have! And remember, the entire century are contiguous and the centurion is next to them and not the other side of a parade ground."

Well, not trying to burst the bubble, but we quite regularly find that when training on a windy day, the normal noise of shields and weapons knocking against other equipment and the jingling of equipment is multiplied by the wind, which also buffets shields around, often noisily. Even when we are marching in close formation and the centurio (who has a strong voice which generally carries well)is just a few feet away, his shouted commands are often difficult to make out clearly, carried away by the wind and further obscured by the increased level of noise. That is my own experience of shouted commands on a windy day. A trumpet with a standardised set of calls gets around this problem.

Crispvs