The start of my Roman Legion

I've been thinking/looking at getting into Warhammer Ancient Battles alot recently. The idea has been with me for quite sometime but with the release of 8th ed warhammer fantasy my mind was made up and ancients here I come.
So on the shelf goes my Dark Elves, Dwarfs and the Orcs and Goblins.

Coming in the post i have

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All with the help of my moneyback from Maelstrom.

So thats the start of the Legion, following these im undicided at which thing to get its either going to be a these from Totalwargamer or these. With the first option it is more of a complete army where as the second choice has more troops but no Auxiliaries. Which would make another £24 needed so abit more expenive but you get alot more stuff. So we will have to wait and see how my sales go of the above mentioned Dark Elves and Orcs and Goblins before I order anything else.

The  Legio sexta Victrix (Sixth Victorious Legion)

This is the Legion that my force will be base on. The Victorious Sixth as a Legion has a very good history. It was founded by Octavian in 41 BC. The Legion was the twin of the Vi Ferrata Legion and held many of there veterans in there ranks. The legion got bloodied in Perusia (Perugia in modern Italy) in 41 BC, sieging Lucious Antonius (Mark Antony's Brother). It also saw action against the Sextus Pompeius, who occupied Sicily and made threats to discontinue sending grain to Rome. In 31 BC the legion fought in the Battle of Actium against Mark Antony which proved the decisive battle of the final war of the Roman Republic. The following year the Legion moved to Hispania Tarraconensis (North East Spain now). Here it served Augustus (Formally Octavian) in the war agsinst the Cantabrians which lasted from 25 BC - 13 BC.

The Legion maintained its base in Spain for nearly a century and received the surname Hispaniensis. Here it recieved the cognomen  Victrix. When the Governor or this area decided he wished to overthrow Nero, the Victorious Sixth Legion supported him and he was proclaimed Emperor in the VI Victrix legionary camp. With the VI and the newly formed VII he marched on Rome, where Nero killed himself.

In 119, the Legion was relocated to Northern Britannia by order of Hadrian, to assist the already present legions in quelling the resistance there. The Sixth Legion was key in securing victory, and would eventually replace the diminished IX at Eboracum (York). In 122 the legion started work on Hadrian's Wall which would maintain the peace for thfor ere two decades.
Twenty years later, they helped construct the Antonine Wall (running West from the Firth of Forth in Scotland), but it was largely abandoned by 164.
In 185, the British legions mutinied and put forward a commander of their own, named Priscus, to replace the unpopular Emperor Commodus, but the former declined. The mutiny was suppressed by Pertinax, who would later become emperor himself after Commodus was murdered.

So there you have a brief history of the Legion i will be basing mine upon. Just need to hope I have even a fraction of the victories of the Victorious Sixth I will be a happy man.