06-26-2007, 04:23 PM
Your comments are interesting gentleman, and I may try doing the cat thing. However If anybody has room to swing anything it's the guys in the front before contact. You step out and throw, then close up. Vegetius may possibly probably never seen a battle line, and the tactics used against cavalry would be different than against foot.
So if ever faced by Dutch formations, closed up at just four deep, I'll look forward to ramming them back a good 100m at first contact, by which time they will find themselves in really open order! I could even reduce the depth of the files and extend my front around your flanks.
It seems European conquest could be relatively easy after all!
So if ever faced by Dutch formations, closed up at just four deep, I'll look forward to ramming them back a good 100m at first contact, by which time they will find themselves in really open order! I could even reduce the depth of the files and extend my front around your flanks.
It seems European conquest could be relatively easy after all!
John Conyard
York
A member of Comitatus Late Roman
Reconstruction Group
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.comitatus.net">http://www.comitatus.net
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalinterpretations.net">http://www.historicalinterpretations.net
<a class="postlink" href="http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com">http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com
York
A member of Comitatus Late Roman
Reconstruction Group
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.comitatus.net">http://www.comitatus.net
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalinterpretations.net">http://www.historicalinterpretations.net
<a class="postlink" href="http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com">http://lateantiquearchaeology.wordpress.com