05-23-2007, 10:07 AM
Hi Paul,
I'm glad to have met you both at Tarraco. Hope you enjoyed your stay in Spain. If you want to see more pics -including your battle wounds- have a look in the relevant 'Events' thread:
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=16438
I completely agree with you that Eduardo is doing a magnificient work. But as many purists would attack a seemingly easy prey, I believe that such a quick growth for a young group should be managed with care, to avoid exchanging quality for quantity. But I insist, in this case the problems Cesar remarked were more than balanced by the right feeling of a phalanx attack that such a big number of hoplites provided, as I hope my pictures prove. As for the explanations, I'm glad Eduardo adopted some of the suggestions I made to him to modify the earlier 'academic lecture' approach.
I'm glad to have met you both at Tarraco. Hope you enjoyed your stay in Spain. If you want to see more pics -including your battle wounds- have a look in the relevant 'Events' thread:
http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=16438
I completely agree with you that Eduardo is doing a magnificient work. But as many purists would attack a seemingly easy prey, I believe that such a quick growth for a young group should be managed with care, to avoid exchanging quality for quantity. But I insist, in this case the problems Cesar remarked were more than balanced by the right feeling of a phalanx attack that such a big number of hoplites provided, as I hope my pictures prove. As for the explanations, I'm glad Eduardo adopted some of the suggestions I made to him to modify the earlier 'academic lecture' approach.