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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 220232" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Chapter II--Impatient For GloryPage 7, Quote:____________________________________________________"Recruiting officers were soon bustling around the province, drafting thousands of young men from throughout Baetica, which roughly corresponded with the modern-day region of Andulasia. Within days, the recruits assembled at Cordoba. Following the pattern set by Pompey, Caesar gave the new legion the number ten. And Legio X was born.For its emblem, the 10th took the bull, a symbol popular in Spain then as it is now. The bull emblem would appear on the shield of every man of the legion, and on the standards of the legion."____________________________________________________End Quote.I find it interesting that it only took the recruiters a few days to recruit some 6000 men. That's raising armies for you! Imagine what the young recruits were thinking? Caesar seemed to have a particular skill in raising legions quickly. I can see how these ideas would be very useful in the game. Powerful lords and influential leaders could sweep through the land, raising armies very quickly. The Leadership feat takes on a new sense of importance. Has anyone done an expansion of the leadership table? Forget raising a hundred or so soldiers! THOUSANDS is the way to get the job done! The importance of the bull emblem becomes quite apparent with some thought. The emblem would serve as a symbol of inspiration and courage. Can you visualise the bull symbol flapping in the breeze from the banners? Or carefully inscribed on their shields? Damn, that's got to be very cool, you know? I can see developing special magical properties for unit banners and standards, that provide general magical powers, but also some unique properties from the specific emblem. For example:Bull: Provides Bull's Strength 3/day to all allied soldiers within 1000 yards of the enchanted banner. The Bull standard, crafted from gold, and inlaid with rubies, allows all allied soldiers within 1000 yards to make use of the feat "Bull Rush" up to 3/day.Very cool!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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