04-03-2009, 05:56 AM
I agree with every word of your last post, sir! :wink: 
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The trouble is that every battle is unique, and the armies that fight each battle too......
My remarks were aimed to counter that common cliche that after Alexander, under the Successors, the Macedonian Phalanx rapidly declined from it's heyday - which is a patently untrue generalisation. Clearly at Sellasia, a hundred years after Alexander, it was as capable as ever.
At Cynoscephalae we see a Roman Army in a high state of efficiency after the Punic wars, ranged against a somewhat depleted Macedonian Phalanx, as you say. ( Philip was also stretched to the limits financially, as well as in manpower)...
D The trouble is that every battle is unique, and the armies that fight each battle too......
My remarks were aimed to counter that common cliche that after Alexander, under the Successors, the Macedonian Phalanx rapidly declined from it's heyday - which is a patently untrue generalisation. Clearly at Sellasia, a hundred years after Alexander, it was as capable as ever.
At Cynoscephalae we see a Roman Army in a high state of efficiency after the Punic wars, ranged against a somewhat depleted Macedonian Phalanx, as you say. ( Philip was also stretched to the limits financially, as well as in manpower)...
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
