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Vindolanda Roman Fort
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STORI3D PAST Productions  [udvikler] 30. maj 2016 kl. 9:34
Roman Fort Life
With now two Roman fort builds in Medieval Engineers, I wanted to take some time to walk through them. What was a Roman fort all about? What were its pieces? How did soldiers live, how did life look?

A Roman fort generally took the form of a playing card: rectangular, with rounded corners.
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A fort would typically have four gates (sometimes six), with or without large gatehouses & towers. Fort walls could be turf with a wooden palisade on top. But the Romans preferred stone walls, backed by a rampart of clay or turf.

If a fort was large enough, as at Housesteads, there could be corner towers and interval towers along the long walls. But while these could be bases for catapults and ballistas, unlike a Medieval castle Roman forts weren't built to withstand sieges. Romans didn't like fighting from within their forts. They preferred an open field of battle. To them, a fort was more like a secure base of operations.

A Roman fort could typically be broken into 3 ranges: the forward range, central range, and rear range. The central range would hold the key administrative parts of the fort, and the buildings on the other ranges would be barracks and workshops.

All around the inside of the fort walls ran an "intervallum road." This road was dotted by bread ovens built into the rampart backing (to reduce risk of fires), and one or more communal latrines used by the soldiers (generally with channels & sluices to flush away the waste).
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STORI3D PAST Productions  [udvikler] 30. maj 2016 kl. 9:34 
The heart -- literal & figurative -- of every Roman fort was its Principia, or headquarters. The Principia stood in the center of the fort, at the intersection between the fort's two main roads. It was generally the most solidly built structure in a fort, and one of its largest. The entrance would typically open into an open-air courtyard, ringed by narrow rooms that were probably offices, armouries, and storehouses.
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The far end of the courtyard opened into a large roofed basilica or crosshall. At the rear of the hall, straight across from the entrance, sat the Chapel of the Standards.
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This was the most sacred spot of the entire fort for the garrison. It held statues of the reigning emperor(s), as well as the standards and other portable items that were carried out into the field of battle. Behind the statues was often a sunken "strongroom" where the regiment's most valuable objects were kept. This room was guarded 24/7.

To either side of the Chapel sat a couple more offices. It's believed that this was where pay was doled out, and where important administrative information about each soldier & the unit was kept.

The large hall was always buzzing, with comings & goings of soldiers receiving pay, making payments, updating personal information, perhaps receiving mail, checking in on assignments, paying respects at the chapel. And at times the hall would be crammed full with the entire fort's regiment to hear addresses by the commander. If you visit a Principia at an archaeological site today, look for a raised platform at one end or the other. That's where the commander would stand to address his troops.
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STORI3D PAST Productions  [udvikler] 29. juni 2016 kl. 11:47 
An updated and better representation of the "Chapel of the Standards."
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The statue would of course change every time there was a new emperor. The standards are long poles topped by a flag or banner, with the cohort's symbol on top (a bear, or horse, or eagle, etc.). They were carried into battle so that the cohort would be able to stick together in the thick of the fight. Losing the standard was considered the worst of sins, and the person carrying them, the "Signifer," had a huge responsibility.
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