12-01-2003, 11:25 AM
Sorry we can move this to another thread then.<br>
Before leaving then I would like to throw a stone in the pond and ask provocatively: if "spear poking away" at enemy line could break it then why did romans invent the "volley of pila and then sword play" in the first place! Why use risky sword play if you could do the same with spearing technique of phalanxs. The old terrain explanation (phalanxes VS legion) doesn't explain why evolution closed circles: phalanxes to - manipular - to - cohort - back to phalanxes. If this topic is interesting to the few interested in late roman army then lets open up a dedicated thread. <p></p><i></i>
Before leaving then I would like to throw a stone in the pond and ask provocatively: if "spear poking away" at enemy line could break it then why did romans invent the "volley of pila and then sword play" in the first place! Why use risky sword play if you could do the same with spearing technique of phalanxs. The old terrain explanation (phalanxes VS legion) doesn't explain why evolution closed circles: phalanxes to - manipular - to - cohort - back to phalanxes. If this topic is interesting to the few interested in late roman army then lets open up a dedicated thread. <p></p><i></i>
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
