04-29-2021, 03:05 PM
My apologies - wrongly identified.
In addition - and I realised this whilst getting ready to collect Grandson...
There is at least one well known example when the 'frontage' was indeed, effectively, doubled - and that's dear old Arrian's array against a cavalry army. Done deliberately to cover a greater frontage and done with doubling the spear/hasta-armed numbers of the legionnaires to face said cavalry and relying on less depth than normal given the lack of an opposing infantry force.
In addition - and I realised this whilst getting ready to collect Grandson...
There is at least one well known example when the 'frontage' was indeed, effectively, doubled - and that's dear old Arrian's array against a cavalry army. Done deliberately to cover a greater frontage and done with doubling the spear/hasta-armed numbers of the legionnaires to face said cavalry and relying on less depth than normal given the lack of an opposing infantry force.
