01-12-2006, 06:36 PM
Maurikios also recommends that soldiers carry slings. However, I'm not so sure that units of slingers existed. The funditores of old seem to have enhances the pila, but fire power increased a lot since then. So slingers as a separate support uinit may no longer have been needed when archers, javelin-, plumbatae- and others small missile support existed.
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
