06-23-2014, 09:23 PM
Interesting video Bryan. You may also be interested to know that the unit commanders are also at the back in South Korea.
Watch it again and pick out an individual in the front rank to keep an eye on. Then ask yourself how much situational awareness that individual has of anything other than what is happening directly in front of him and how much influence he could possibly have on what the rest of the unit is doing.
I am not saying that Centurions definitely commanded from the rear, I just don't know. But what I do know, and have said before, is that based on my experience as both a shield man in the front rank and as a commander in real fights if the leaders were in the front rank then a century was a one shot weapon. You told it to engage and it just fought until they won, lost or both sides disengaged due to exhaustion.
Watch it again and pick out an individual in the front rank to keep an eye on. Then ask yourself how much situational awareness that individual has of anything other than what is happening directly in front of him and how much influence he could possibly have on what the rest of the unit is doing.
I am not saying that Centurions definitely commanded from the rear, I just don't know. But what I do know, and have said before, is that based on my experience as both a shield man in the front rank and as a commander in real fights if the leaders were in the front rank then a century was a one shot weapon. You told it to engage and it just fought until they won, lost or both sides disengaged due to exhaustion.
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.
