04-09-2007, 09:42 AM
All the infantry you talks are or marksmen or adopted defensive or reactive tactics often combined with archers or cavalry attacks, rarely they take offensive alone, with alternate results. Only with the swiss the infantry becomes a true offensive forces, and for this their tactic was copied by other forces.
At Flodden the Scots use the swiss tactic imported by the French allied with instructor, but they lost cohesion because the terrain broken, the archers hit the ranks and the billmen enters in the gaps to finish the work.
THe spanish after Ravenna relegate the sword and bucklers to disturb role during the push of pikes, and gradually the tercios leave it completly.
Machiavelli's ideas are in part observations of his time situation but in part idealistic elaborations of classical works, not pratical in his time, like the Florentine militia a true failure a Prato
At Flodden the Scots use the swiss tactic imported by the French allied with instructor, but they lost cohesion because the terrain broken, the archers hit the ranks and the billmen enters in the gaps to finish the work.
THe spanish after Ravenna relegate the sword and bucklers to disturb role during the push of pikes, and gradually the tercios leave it completly.
Machiavelli's ideas are in part observations of his time situation but in part idealistic elaborations of classical works, not pratical in his time, like the Florentine militia a true failure a Prato
"Each historical fact needs to be considered, insofar as possible, no with hindsight and following abstract universal principles, but in the context of own proper age and environment" Aldo A. Settia
a.k.a Davide Dall\'Angelo
SISMA- Società Italiana per gli Studi Militari Antichi
a.k.a Davide Dall\'Angelo
SISMA- Società Italiana per gli Studi Militari Antichi
