Reenactment Legion Uniformity vs Variety

[jkaler48]

Perhaps local shortages of armor sometimes led to some (esp the new recruits) being unarmored.
(This is often reflected in reenacting with the new guys not having armor
the first few events)
Also some individual assignments may have made wearing armor at times undesirable. I can think of slingers, couriers, scouts and historical accounts
of hasty river crossings as some examples.
Having your camp overrun in the middle of the night or otherwise might cause some troops to have to escape with what they could grasp quickly. Perhaps just helmet scutum and gladius.

Errrm... nice ideas, but shouldn´t we stick to real evidence, instead of making up our own? :wink:

Yes whenever possible. But a little educated speculation and fill in the blank logical choices ought to be allowed. It is of course up to the individual reenactment units and their members to decide using their best judgment. RAT and this sort of discussion is a valuable resource for reenactors and everyones opinion (and evidence) should be most welcome. And of course there is the old truism: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.