04-01-2007, 12:41 PM
I would imagine spears or lances carried by calvery would be an effective method of reaching past the range of an infantry man, also the longer spatha, but even so, it would require the equites to actually get stuck in.
An attack from the rear would succeed if the attention of the infantry was focused to the fron, already a confused situation at Cannae, once the the heavy phalanx had started its flanking attack! The rear would have been barely in the position to smartly wheel about to face the new threat.
An attack from the rear would succeed if the attention of the infantry was focused to the fron, already a confused situation at Cannae, once the the heavy phalanx had started its flanking attack! The rear would have been barely in the position to smartly wheel about to face the new threat.
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
