10-12-2011, 12:42 AM
Macedon,
Can you please describe in detail how you believe the Romans fought. Pick a time period where the maniple styled legions existed, or early cohorts were used and describe how they were composed, organized, deployed and battled in melee.
Great post BTW. For the life of me can't figure out how some of those sources were included. Must have been tired. Also, I don't comprehend Latin or Greek but am curious as to how not one book I have read included your translation meaning of the word phalanx. How is it that every historian I've read got it wrong? If it is true then all the speculation is over, the Romans fought in one superlong continuous phalanx, just in three lines. But then why is there still debate? Why do major historians throughout the last couple hundred years (who also read Latin and Greek) argue with each other about Gaps and such?
Can you please describe in detail how you believe the Romans fought. Pick a time period where the maniple styled legions existed, or early cohorts were used and describe how they were composed, organized, deployed and battled in melee.
Great post BTW. For the life of me can't figure out how some of those sources were included. Must have been tired. Also, I don't comprehend Latin or Greek but am curious as to how not one book I have read included your translation meaning of the word phalanx. How is it that every historian I've read got it wrong? If it is true then all the speculation is over, the Romans fought in one superlong continuous phalanx, just in three lines. But then why is there still debate? Why do major historians throughout the last couple hundred years (who also read Latin and Greek) argue with each other about Gaps and such?
