Equipment

As of any soldier now days, the ancient romans had their own uniform on which the basis for all other military uniforms are designed off today. as far as personal weapons, i already discussed the Pugio; however, roman soldiers were also given a "Gladius": which was their main weapon of choice, which would compare to modern day assault rifles, your Gladius, or sword, was your life... literally. for more information on the Gladius please follow the link, but be advised i will be posting some more on this in a latter posting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladius) as well as the Gladius, roman soldiers were assigned a javelin, for long range fighting and for later improving the tortoise formation, a bow, for long range attacks and much more... but now i will focus on the armer of ancient romans: each soldier was assigned his own piece of chain mail, which was basically sheets of metal that were piled up overlapping each other, as well as chain mail, a roman soldier would be assigned his main piece of body armer,Lorica squamata or scale armor

consisting of a shoulder piece, chest guard, and grieves.

There has over time been much debate regarding how much weight a legionary actually had to carry. Now, 30 kg (ca. 66 lbs) is generally considered the upper limit for an infantryman in modern day armies. Calculations have been made which, including the entire equipment and the 16 day's worth of rations, brings the weight to over 41 kg (ca. 93 lbs). (click here for more information or for a more in depth look here) (photos used from here)