WARGAMING'S MOST CONVENIENT DECALS!

Each box includes 36 shield decals for the Late Roman army. Pre-cut for ease of use and ready to apply directly to our plastic shields.

Cornuti Seniores

"The horned ones" were the senior regiment of infantry in the Western field army, raised from Germanic manpower on the Rhine. At Strasbourg in 357 they took the Alamannic charge in the front line and answered it with the barritus, a war cry Ammianus described as rising from a low murmur to a roar like surf against cliffs. Pattern recorded in the Notitia Dignitatum.

Herculiani Seniores

Named for Hercules, patron of the emperor Maximian, the Herculiani were raised under the Tetrarchy and brigaded with their sister legion the Ioviani. Vegetius records that they carried lead-weighted darts stowed behind the shield. The eagle is thought to represent the legion's own standard. Pattern recorded in the Notitia Dignitatum.

Ioviani Seniores

Named for Jupiter, patron of the emperor Diocletian, the Ioviani stood first on the infantry roster of the Western field army—no legion outranked them. They served alongside their sister legion the Herculiani from the Tetrarchy to the fifth century. Pattern recorded in the Notitia Dignitatum.

Legio X Fretensis

Raised by the young Octavian in 41 BC and named for the Straits of Messina, the Tenth fought at Actium, stormed Masada, and garrisoned Jerusalem for two centuries. The Notitia Dignitatum still lists it at Aila on the Red Sea after more than four hundred years in the field.

Chi Rho

The Chi-Rho joins the first two letters of Christos into a single monogram. Lactantius, writing within a few years of the event, records that Constantine was directed in a dream to mark the heavenly sign on his soldiers' shields before the Milvian Bridge in 312. Suitable for any Christian regiment of the fourth and fifth centuries.

Schola Scutariorum Secunda

The scholae were raised by Constantine to replace the Praetorian Guard he disbanded after the Milvian Bridge in 312, and rode as the emperor's personal escort. Scutarii means shield-bearers, though by this date the word simply marked a man as a guardsman. Pattern recorded in the Notitia Dignitatum.

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