11-14-2016, 02:42 PM
You are taking this to ridiculous extremes. Nowhere have I suggested anything about individual duels, disregard for protective equipment or brainless zombies. What I am saying is the idea that the majority of soldiers huddled behind their shields hoping they wouldn't get hurt while a minority of psychopaths did the actual fighting seems ridiculous to me. It most definitely isn't true now and I see no reason why it would have been true then.
Every time a soldier moved his shield to thrust with a weapon, he took a risk. Every time he took a step forward to get inside the killing area of an opponent with a longer weapon, he took a risk. If individual soldiers didn't take those risks, and just hoped that the psycho three files down was doing enough for all of them, then the Roman would not have bothered training thousands of people. They would have just have had a selection process to find out who the nutters were and trained everyone else how to use a shield to protect the tent party maniac..
Every time a soldier moved his shield to thrust with a weapon, he took a risk. Every time he took a step forward to get inside the killing area of an opponent with a longer weapon, he took a risk. If individual soldiers didn't take those risks, and just hoped that the psycho three files down was doing enough for all of them, then the Roman would not have bothered training thousands of people. They would have just have had a selection process to find out who the nutters were and trained everyone else how to use a shield to protect the tent party maniac..
Adam
No man resisted or offered to stand up in his defence, save one only, a centurion, Sempronius Densus, the single man among so many thousands that the sun beheld that day act worthily of the Roman empire.
No man resisted or offered to stand up in his defence, save one only, a centurion, Sempronius Densus, the single man among so many thousands that the sun beheld that day act worthily of the Roman empire.
