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Aeronautica Imperialis, the atmospheric combat wing of the Imperial Navy, and the faction from which the name of the game is derived. This force is composed primarily of air superiority fighters, strike aircraft and bombers. They focus on controlling the airspace and performing bombing runs against ground targets. Astra Militarum. Aircraft ...
Legio XIV Gemina ("The Twinned Fourteenth Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army, levied by Julius Caesar in 57 BC. [1] The cognomen Gemina (Twinned) was added when the legion was combined with another understrengthed legion after the Battle of Actium.
Nero, Sestertius with countermark "X" of Legio X Gemina. Obv: Laureate bust right. Rev: Nero riding horse right, holding spear, DECVRSIO in exergue; S C across fields. This is a list of Roman legions, including key facts about each legion, primarily focusing on the Principate (early Empire, 27 BC – 284 AD) legions, for which there exists substantial literary, epigraphic and archaeological ...
Although not part of a legion, some paramilitary corps in Rome consisted of one or more cohorts: The nine cohortes praetoriae , never grouped to a legion, the Praetorians . The term was first used to refer to the bodyguard of a general during the Republic ; later, a unit of imperial guards (temporarily restyled cohors palatina (imperial cohort ...
Legio VI Victrix ("Victorious Sixth Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in 41 BC by the general Octavian (who, as Augustus, later became Rome's first emperor). It was the twin legion of VI Ferrata and perhaps held veterans of that legion, and some soldiers kept to the traditions of the Caesarian legion.
Inscription about a frumentarius from Legio VII Gemina.. The frumentarii were an ancient Roman military and secret police organization used as an intelligence agency.They began their history as a courier service and developed into an imperial spying agency.
Legionary inscription: "VEXILLA TIO LEG VI FERR" ("Detachment of Legion VI Ferrata"), Hecht Museum, Haifa, Israel. Legio VI Ferrata ("Sixth Ironclad Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army. In 30 BC it became part of the emperor Augustus's standing army. It continued in existence into the 4th century.
Legio IV Flavia Felix ("Lucky Flavian Fourth Legion"), was a legion of the Imperial Roman army founded in AD 70 by the emperor Vespasian (r. 69–79) from the cadre of the disbanded Legio IV Macedonica. The legion was active in Moesia Superior in the first half of the 5th century. The legion symbol was a lion.