[split] Psychology of the Roman soldier

[Bryan]

You describe the scutum as a pavise (which is wasn't even close to in size or weight)

really?

check this then:

http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=2711


And? Do you think because a kite or heater was strapped to the arm similar to an aspis they were also used the same way? You are drawing conclusions that have no historical evidence to match up. Pavise are not scuta, scuta were not pavise, no matter how much you want to see both and try to make them identical because you feel the need to find similarities. 


and no, Plutarch was not describing testudo.. but something like this:

http://www.padfield.com/bible-times/roma...rmy-04.jpg


LOL, that's still a testudo. The only reason is isn't fulled out is because there are 20 reenactors in two ranks, not the 60-100 in a century there normally would be. Or do you think Romans commonly formed their centuries in ranks of two? 


And regarding shields on the ground, do you really thing Triarii knelt with shields in the air???  lol

Triari knelt while waiting, they didn't fight that way! Or do you think they fought that way? 

Yours in Italics. 

Still waiting on you to tell me whether or not Samnite/Gaul/provocator/murmillo/secutor all fought laying their scuta on the ground and fighting around it as a wall.