04-03-2013, 05:35 PM
We're getting both sides of the coin from Sidononius. The army of Riothamus plays with the girls (without permission), then gets tromped by Euric's forces. And then we have this: Ecdicius surpises the crap out of Euric's boys and rides back to a cheering throng.
Yes, the equipment and even the cavalry tactics appear to be at a military peak. Stuff of which Hollywood films are made of. From this point-- AD 470-- we supposedly slide downhill into the Dark Age, but the future is really a culmination of all that was developed in a Sarmato-Roman-Gothio-Gallic footprint. ;-)
No-one is better than anyone else; it simply depends on stategy... and just plain guts. ;-)
Yes, the equipment and even the cavalry tactics appear to be at a military peak. Stuff of which Hollywood films are made of. From this point-- AD 470-- we supposedly slide downhill into the Dark Age, but the future is really a culmination of all that was developed in a Sarmato-Roman-Gothio-Gallic footprint. ;-)
No-one is better than anyone else; it simply depends on stategy... and just plain guts. ;-)
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
