03-29-2005, 06:27 PM
I'll agree the terrain is not the best suited to Roman foritifications, but they could have improvised. They could easily have dug pits in the dirt. Well camoflaged they'd be hard to see from a horse or even on foot. To a moving horse a pit like this is as good as a land mine and would almost certianly break its leg and possibly the rider's neck. They could also have collected various scraps of iron and other metals and fashoned caltrops out of them, also unhorsing the Parthians. They would have the same effect of keeping the Parthians at bay or if they did press forward, unhorsing a large number of them and making them easy prey for the legionarries. <p></p><i></i>
