08-07-2012, 02:42 PM
Thanks for all this Deryk, I'm guessing it can feel like being at the wrong end of a shooting gallery sometimes with this game. Here's my pot-shot;
with the Romans arrayed at the foot of the principal slope how does that square with the following statement;
"Chapter 37.
The engagement began. The Roman legion presented a close embodied line. The narrow defile gave them the shelter of a rampart. "
The translation from Latin is adapted from Arthur Murphy (Works of Tacitus, 1794)
I'd always read this as being on top of the feature rather than in front of it, but I think being in front is the only way to meet Steve's slope angle criteria.
with the Romans arrayed at the foot of the principal slope how does that square with the following statement;
"Chapter 37.
The engagement began. The Roman legion presented a close embodied line. The narrow defile gave them the shelter of a rampart. "
The translation from Latin is adapted from Arthur Murphy (Works of Tacitus, 1794)
I'd always read this as being on top of the feature rather than in front of it, but I think being in front is the only way to meet Steve's slope angle criteria.