11-16-2017, 07:51 PM
You might find this lengthy thread interesting:
Infantry Relief System
The general consensus seems to be that the Romans during some periods probably did have a way of relieving or replacing troops in the front lines - Dionysius (8.65) describes a republican commander ordering that "the troops which were still fresh and were being reserved for this very purpose should come up to reinforce the parts of the line that were in distress and that the men who were wounded and exhausted should retire to the rear." How common this was, and how it actually worked in practice, though, is unknown!
Infantry Relief System
The general consensus seems to be that the Romans during some periods probably did have a way of relieving or replacing troops in the front lines - Dionysius (8.65) describes a republican commander ordering that "the troops which were still fresh and were being reserved for this very purpose should come up to reinforce the parts of the line that were in distress and that the men who were wounded and exhausted should retire to the rear." How common this was, and how it actually worked in practice, though, is unknown!
Nathan Ross
