03-07-2021, 05:00 PM
Renatus wrote:
Hence he chose a position in a defile where the enemy would be forced to engage him on his own frontage.
This is unfortunately the problem.
Immediately they broke out of the defile unless the plain was delimited they would have been surrounded and overwhelmed, which is what I am referring to.
Seutonius Paulinus would have recognised this. I think Dio also recognised this which is why he breaks the army into 3 divisions but in reality they would have been too small to survive as there would have only been 3,500 men in each one.
I suspect we are going to have to disagree on this.
Hence he chose a position in a defile where the enemy would be forced to engage him on his own frontage.
This is unfortunately the problem.
Immediately they broke out of the defile unless the plain was delimited they would have been surrounded and overwhelmed, which is what I am referring to.
Seutonius Paulinus would have recognised this. I think Dio also recognised this which is why he breaks the army into 3 divisions but in reality they would have been too small to survive as there would have only been 3,500 men in each one.
I suspect we are going to have to disagree on this.
Deryk