08-11-2003, 02:40 PM
Ave, Warrior11<br>
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But I'm pretty sure that like in armies of any age, the legionary must have had some type of individual training to help him cope with the types of situations you just mentioned ( 3 on 1 ambushes, for example )...right? I mean, maybe I'm a little biased towrds the legionary, but, I'm assuming that a well trained legionary would be able to handle just about anything pertaining to the combat arts of his day.<br>
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I remember reading somewhere a passage from a Roman writer ( was it Tacitus? ) that the roman legionary was ( or was trained to be ) more afraid of his commander than of the enemy. <p></p><i></i>
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But I'm pretty sure that like in armies of any age, the legionary must have had some type of individual training to help him cope with the types of situations you just mentioned ( 3 on 1 ambushes, for example )...right? I mean, maybe I'm a little biased towrds the legionary, but, I'm assuming that a well trained legionary would be able to handle just about anything pertaining to the combat arts of his day.<br>
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I remember reading somewhere a passage from a Roman writer ( was it Tacitus? ) that the roman legionary was ( or was trained to be ) more afraid of his commander than of the enemy. <p></p><i></i>
aka: Julio Peña
Quote:"audaces Fortuna iuvat"- shouted by Turnus in Virgil\'s Aeneid in book X just before he is utterly destroyed by Aeneas\' Trojans.
