lunedì 15 dicembre 2008

SATURNALIA

SATURNALIA, LEGIONXIII ACTIVITIES.

THE XIII LEGION WILL SHOW A NORMAL DAY IN A MILITARY CAMP OF ANCIENT ROMA, DURING AN USUAL DAY OF NO FIGHT.

PLACE: RECREATION OF A CASTRUM (CAMP) IN A PLATFORM OVER ROMA (PROBABLY)

WHEN: SATURDAY 20TH DECEMBRE, 12 NOON SLT

HERE COMES A LIST OF ACTIVITIES WE WOULD LIKE TO PREPARE FOR VISITORS.

HIGH OFFICERS ARE WORKING ON PREPARING THIS ACTIVITIES, WE ASK TO INTRESTED SOLDIERS, TO SIGN UP AT THE 'CASTRUM REENACTMENT EVENT BOARD' THAT YOU CAN FIND AT OUR FORT IN OSTIA.
INTRESTED SOLDIERS WILL RECIVE A ROLE IN THIS REENACTMENT DAY, INFORMATIONS ABOUT WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO ACT.

ACTIVITIES TO BE SHOWEN UP:

1) MILITES GAMES
- Dice game
- Arm wrestling


2) CARING AND FEEDING ANIMALS
- Animals:
Horses
Cows
Sheeps
Porks
Chickens
- Animations needed


3) CARING ABOUT ARMORY (ARMOR CLEANING SHARPING SWORDS AND ARROWS MAKERS)
- Blacksmith
- Sharping animation


4) COOKING
- Preparing soups
- Making bread


5) HIGH OFFICERS PREPARING BATTLE STRATEGIES
- High officers needed


6) MAIL SERVICE (PONY EXPRESS)
- Equites that goes and comes with messages


7) ROAD BUILDING
- Showing up a piece of road being builded


8) AQUEDUCT BUILDING
- Showing up a piece of aqueduct being builded


IF YOU ARE INTRESTED IN PLAYING A ROLE IN THIS REENACTMENT DAY AND LIVE LIKE A REAL ANCIENT LEGIONARY, SIGN UP, CLICKING THE POSTER AT OUR FORT, IN OSTIA.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION, IM ACHILLE BACK.

PROMOTIONS

Salvete Amazons and Legionnaries!

The following recruits have sucessfully finished their recruitment period:
alana555 Anatra, Motromahn Jumanya (Cen I),
montgomery Shelman (Cen II) and Mateja Zanzibar (Cen III). The new male milites will get an invitation to their Century.

CONGRATULATIONS!


Scriba Nina on behalf of Praefectus Vectus Margulis and the Centuriones Brodbiz Bagration (Cen I), Achille Beck (Cen II), Zillatron Glume (Cen III) and Spaciva Ivanova (Amazons)

sabato 6 dicembre 2008

WINNER OF THE TOURNAMENT

Hello all,
I am very happy that the tournament was good and you all had fun! This is the best reward for me. Thanks to all that have taken part to this event.
I want to congrats with Melanippe who won it! Also congratulation to Alekso who ranked second and Motromahn who ranked third.
Thanks to Achille, Jo, Tonina and Spaciva who organized this tournament with me.
Take care you all,
Vale,
Brodbiz

martedì 2 dicembre 2008

TOURNAMENT FRIDAY 5th DECEMBER

SALVETE LEGIONARIES AND AUXILIARY UNITS.

The Legion XIII Gemina is proud to invite you to the Legion Indoor Tournament, Friday the 5th DECEMBER 2008
Read below to know more.


RULES / HOW TO JOIN:

Only members of LegionXIII group (and auxiliaries) can join this event.
To be able to play in the tournament, members have to sign in at the tournament in the sign up board (that i will personally build at the fort in ostia) or IM Achille Back.
The matches are deathmatches.
The same rules of the official trainig session are enabled (ready before fighting, official weapons, etc.)


STRUCTURE:

The tournament will be structured by emimination 'best-of-the-three' matches. Every turn, 2 soldiers will fight 1vs1 for three matches, the one who wins at least 2 matches, passes the turn.
Structured like below:

2 (winner)
____I___
I I
2 3
__I__ __I__
I I I I
1 2 3 4


PRIZES:

The first place wins 1000L$
The second place wins 500L$
The third place wins a Toga/Tunica from the Roman Living /Habitemus shop (sponsored by Achille Back and Tonina Rodenberger)


DO YOU FEEL GOOD ENOUGH TO SHOW YOUR SKILLS AND WIN THE FIRST PLACE? T HEN JOIN THIS EVENT, SOLDIER !

Montgomery Shelman's bio

Caius Sabinus

Descendant from an ancient and noble, thought not roman family, origined from the marriage between a princess of the apulii ?
(japigi) and a prence of sabinians, celebrated to set an alliance between these two italian populations.The legend says that ?
when the Sabine rape happened, at the very beginning of the roman history, one of them were already pregnant and after few ?
months she gave birth to a not roman child, so called by all "sabinus" to distinguish from the others born after the rape.
It is told that Caius still possess the legendary seal of the ancient alleance. His family has been living in Roma since the ?
foundation, though with alternant fortune. He joined the XIII legio although being very young, to obtain on the battlefield ?
the glory he think to deserve by heritage.

Discendente da un'antica e nobile famiglia, seppur non romana, originata dal matrimonio tra una principessa degli apuli (japigi) e un principe dei sabini, celebrato per stabilire un'alleanza tra queste due popolazioni italiche. Quando avvenne il ratto delle sabine, agli albori della storia di Roma, una di loro era già incinta e pochi mesi dopo dette alla luce un figlio, non romano, per questo chiamato "sabino" per distinguerlo dagli altri nati dopo il ratto. Si racconta che Caio possegga ancora il leggendario sigillo dell'antica alleanza. La sua famiglia ha continuato a vivere a Roma fin dalla fondazione, sebbene con alterne fortune. Si è arruolato nella XIII legione sebbene molto giovane, per ottenere sul campo la gloria che ritiene di meritare per discendenza.

Alekso Minotaur's bio

Alexius Sejanus, brother of Lucius Aelius Sejanus, since he was a little child, was sent to military schools to get him ready to represent his family in the glorious army of the Empire. When he was only 15 years old he has been sent to Greece for the campain going on there. This took almost two years, cause the training plan of his powerful father was to let him growing among the soldiers in several garrisons along the way to Greece, to temper his bones. Once he got to Greece, he had several battles, and regardless to his lineage, he ever was in the frontlines as a Milites. Fortunately he came out of each battle just slightly injured, due to his long training, watching the Death in the face sometimes. Finally, his service period came to the end for Emperor's order, after 12 years of training and battles along the way and in the final destination battlefield, Greece. Once the longed order to come back to Roma has been received, he was embarked on the first ship sailing to Ostia, but...already at his first trip day, a terrible storm involved the ship and sank it down, leaving Alexius in the middle of the sea, grappled to a barrel, until he approached to the Insula Minotaurii, an island blamed to be the Minotaurus descendant's shelter. In reality, the population was kind and polite, just very furry and shaggy headed, reason for the sailor's fear and cause of that legend. Unfortunately, that population had only primitive tools for building, that made Alexius working for further 3 years in order to be able to build a solid boat, capable to reach the Cretae's coasts.

Finally he reached Cretae's coast, after one whole day rowing against the sea's and wind's evilness, and once landed he just could reach the closest roman garrison, falling down fainted. When he woke up, he could talk to the local Praet Praefectus, being aknowledged about the rumors of his survival in the cursed island. The local population was scared and astonished by the fact that Alexius came back from that island still alive, assigning him the nickname Minotaurii, "of the Minotaurus". This time, the local Praet Praefectus organized a group of ships to reach Ostia, cause there were many legionaires who had to go back home, and cause if any problem would be occurred along the way, he wouldn't be alone. Taking advantage of both issues, the Praet Praefectus could organize a fleet quite quickly, and as quickly Alexius could get on board of the ship which would have brought him back to his family.

Once at home, Alexius didn't know what to do of his life...his father died in the meantime, and all his family believed he died too on the battlefield. The politician's life just didn't fit for him, and all the family's business were already occupied by his relatives...thus he decided to go back to the Legion, as Milites as his father's order said, waiting for the right moment to be promoted while serving the Almighty Emperor in the extreemely difficult mission of bringing the civilization upto the known world's borders.

lunedì 1 dicembre 2008

LEGIONAIRE OF THE MONTH

Hello dear members, today it is the first of December and so it is time to announce the legionaire of the month. This month the winner is Ocean Lynagh.
He did a very nice job while Zillatron Glume was busy in RL. He came to training, and events also, as he always did.
Congratulations Ocean!