11-25-2012, 08:17 PM
Hey! Here I am again :-)
I have a question about the battle formations of a legion. Before the Marian reforms, it was most likely to deploy a legion in the triplex acies formation with manipels. But with the changes of Marius the manipel wasn't a standard unit anymore, it became the cohort. But was was a standard legion deployment with cohorts? Was this with the quincunx formation, thus a 3 3 4 formation?
And does anyone have a good source of various battle formations with cohorts? I already got this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mpl-fr...ations.png but those formations are based on manipels and not cohorts...
Thanks again
I have a question about the battle formations of a legion. Before the Marian reforms, it was most likely to deploy a legion in the triplex acies formation with manipels. But with the changes of Marius the manipel wasn't a standard unit anymore, it became the cohort. But was was a standard legion deployment with cohorts? Was this with the quincunx formation, thus a 3 3 4 formation?
And does anyone have a good source of various battle formations with cohorts? I already got this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mpl-fr...ations.png but those formations are based on manipels and not cohorts...
Thanks again