01-28-2006, 11:35 PM
Quote:Perhaps different units preferred different weights of plumbata. I know that I have a preferred weight of slingstone. Some units might have hated the damn things altogether (depends how many casualties they inflicted on their own side!)Indeed, we even don't have any information about what units used plumbatae.
I mean, we know it probably started out with the Ioviani and Herculiani, but how fast did it spread? Did even all Roman units use them?
In fact, even though vegetius and Maurikios prescribe their use not only in a pitched batlle but also with reconnaissance or with defending the siege train, how come that so far no plumbatae turned up in the Middle East or Norh Africa?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)