01-05-2017, 09:06 PM
Not enough is known about antesignani to really make a call of who they were, if they were established into actual cohorts within a legion, if they were within a century of normal milites, or if they were just normal infantry who took their armor off and left their packs with the baggage train to make them very very mobile.
Catalina's first rank were evocatii too, made up of Sulla's discharged veterans of the Mithridatic and Civil War who'd joined up with Catalina over his call for debt relief and because he'd been a loyal lieutenant of Sulla and admired officer in his own right. Those of the latter ranks were poorly armed supporters, escaped slaves, farmers who answered his call, more a mob than actual soldiers. Marius and Sulla had actual armies, levied legions properly organized, supplied, and led.
Catalina's first rank were evocatii too, made up of Sulla's discharged veterans of the Mithridatic and Civil War who'd joined up with Catalina over his call for debt relief and because he'd been a loyal lieutenant of Sulla and admired officer in his own right. Those of the latter ranks were poorly armed supporters, escaped slaves, farmers who answered his call, more a mob than actual soldiers. Marius and Sulla had actual armies, levied legions properly organized, supplied, and led.
