How many Legatus are there?

[Doho]

Just in case you were wondering, there are so many plural forms of legatus lol

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/legatus

[syntaxlies]

Ah nice. Well I guess they're 13 now. :P

Well if a leader dies wouldn't they just appoint another one unless we are to believe we killed everyone from that legion?

[Majidah]

Well if a leader dies wouldn't they just appoint another one unless we are to believe we killed everyone from that legion?

Well, if they ported me away for 5 years and people didn't die, I'd be pissed.

[Makwa]

XI Legatus is an angry roegadyn turned purple?

[Alaltus]

I figure the Empire will rebuild a new VIIth legion and send another legion to reinforce the XIVth.

[Shadow_Sama]

how does one say the word "Legatus" is it:

[leh-gah-tus]
[leh-gay-tus]
[leh-gah-too-s]
[leh-gay-too-s]

?

[Majidah]

how does one say the word "Legatus" is it:

[leh-gah-tus]
[leh-gay-tus]
[leh-gah-too-s]
[leh-gay-too-s]

?

1, maybe 3. don't see the difference in pronunciation.

[REDace0]

OP's quote from the Lodestone post got me wondering how large an Imperial Legion actually is:

1 Legion = 10 Cohors
1 Cohor = 3 Manipulae
1 Manipula = 2 Centuriae
=> 1 Legion = 60 Centuriae

One would expect a Centuria to be 100 troops. However, we would also expect it to be led by a Centurion, which we have seen (e.g. Into The Dark) leading groups of 5-15 soldiers, so perhaps far less. This yields a Legion size of 3000-9000, or 60000 if you take Centuria literally. Based on what we see in Castrum Novum and the End of an Era trailer, 6000 seems appropriate, but if you include the randomly spawning imperials, assuming they belong to the VIIth, perhaps 60000 is correct.

Sorry for being slightly off-topic!

er...6000 = 60 * 1000, so it's definitely 6000 as 300-900 would be too small for the End of an Era trailer.

Based on the link below, it's also probably Cohort/Cohorts instead of Cohor/Cohors, to more closely match the Ancient Roman delineations.

[Majidah]

OP's quote from the Lodestone post got me wondering how large an Imperial Legion actually is:

1 Legion = 10 Cohors
1 Cohor = 3 Manipulae
1 Manipula = 2 Centuriae
=> 1 Legion = 60 Centuriae

One would expect a Centuria to be 100 troops. However, we would also expect it to be led by a Centurion, which we have seen (e.g. Into The Dark) leading groups of 5-15 soldiers, so perhaps far less. This yields a Legion size of 3000-9000, or 60000 if you take Centuria literally. Based on what we see in Castrum Novum and the End of an Era trailer, 6000 seems appropriate, but if you include the randomly spawning imperials, assuming they belong to the VIIth, perhaps 60000 is correct.

Sorry for being slightly off-topic!

http://www.unrv.com/military/legion.php

that seems about right

[Majidah]

I think the theory that each legatus is associated with a FF is interesting. Might be true also.

Nael was in charge of the 7th, and he has plenty of FF7 and sephiroth references.

This seems more than a coincidence, if you ask me. SE is known for being attent to detail. I doubt its just a fluke.

Then again, I don't think there are 14 FFs. Just a renaming issue... so maybe that disproves it? lol