06-21-2013, 01:07 AM
Dear RAT members!
I don't know if this is the right place to write my questions to you, if not, feel free to move it to the right place.
I'm starting this topic, because me and my brother talked a bit about our enthusiasm of historcial video games and decided on trying to make one. The basic concept of the game would be a simple thing. The player has to train a cohort sized force of legionaries, then try to move with them from destination A to destination B. The game would take place during the gallic wars, but I cant say anything more accurate of it, beaceuse it's not decided yet.
I would like to ask you guys about the following things, required for making the game as historically accurate as possible.
1. What was the actual number of people who were trained paralell? Is it possible that a whole cohort could be trained during a short period of time (eg. in 6 months)?
2. As far as i know, all the recruits or tirones received the same training during their "boot camp". If some of them were better at things like throwing pilums or fighting with a gladius, were they selected in separate groups amd then enlisted in the same centuries by their "special" attributes? Or this was an insignificant fact and they were put thogether randomly?
3. Do the legionaries use any kind of projectile weapons beside the pilum (eg. slings)?
4. When did the training or the buccinators and signiferies start?
5. When did the training of the immunes or specialists start (eg. enginners, surgeons, craftsman etc.)? Were they choosen during their enlistment or during their training? During a conflict were these soldiers part of the actual fighting force or they had a special status?
These would be my first questions, we are at the beginnig of the plannig phase, but I thought it would be a good idea to ask some of you, who are more expedienced in this field.
Thanks for your cooperation,
Attila
I don't know if this is the right place to write my questions to you, if not, feel free to move it to the right place.
I'm starting this topic, because me and my brother talked a bit about our enthusiasm of historcial video games and decided on trying to make one. The basic concept of the game would be a simple thing. The player has to train a cohort sized force of legionaries, then try to move with them from destination A to destination B. The game would take place during the gallic wars, but I cant say anything more accurate of it, beaceuse it's not decided yet.
I would like to ask you guys about the following things, required for making the game as historically accurate as possible.
1. What was the actual number of people who were trained paralell? Is it possible that a whole cohort could be trained during a short period of time (eg. in 6 months)?
2. As far as i know, all the recruits or tirones received the same training during their "boot camp". If some of them were better at things like throwing pilums or fighting with a gladius, were they selected in separate groups amd then enlisted in the same centuries by their "special" attributes? Or this was an insignificant fact and they were put thogether randomly?
3. Do the legionaries use any kind of projectile weapons beside the pilum (eg. slings)?
4. When did the training or the buccinators and signiferies start?
5. When did the training of the immunes or specialists start (eg. enginners, surgeons, craftsman etc.)? Were they choosen during their enlistment or during their training? During a conflict were these soldiers part of the actual fighting force or they had a special status?
These would be my first questions, we are at the beginnig of the plannig phase, but I thought it would be a good idea to ask some of you, who are more expedienced in this field.
Thanks for your cooperation,
Attila