Stat	Value
Category	infantry
Class	heavy
Morale	10
Hit Points	1
Primary Attack	13
Primary Charge	3
Secondary Attack	9
Secondary Charge	3
Armour	12
Defense Skill	5
Shield	5
Recruitment Cost	740
Upkeep Cost	210

• Disciplined
• Hardy
• Can Use Testudo Formation
• Sapping Capability

Roman legionaries are tough, professional troops with good armour and superb weapons. Their hallmarks are discipline, obedience and tactical flexibility. When approaching enemy fortifications, for example, they can use the turtle formation, or testudo, overlapping their shields for protection.

Every legionary's flexible banded armour, the lorica segmenta, is of very good quality, as is the rest of his gear: a metal helmet and a large curved shield. They fight with two throwing spears (the pilum, plural pila) and a short stabbing sword, the gladius. Each pilum has a soft iron shaft behind the piercing head that is designed to bend as soon as it hits a target, making it impossible to pull out and throw back. Embedded in a shield a pilum hampers an enemy. Embedded in a man, it usually kills. Once the pila have been thrown, legionaries close and continue fighting with the stabbing gladius.

The lorica segmenta armour was adopted because it was cheaper to make and offered more protection as the earlier chainmail.