08-08-2010, 04:43 PM
The use of the heavy Carthaginian pahlanxs on th flanks hemmed them in.
If you cannot swing or even draw your elbow back to thrust, you will tire far more quickly than the guys hemming you in.
You cannot exchange places with some one behind you, because it requires room to manuver, you can fight back, but you will be a sitting target as soon as you step out to give yourself room to fight.
another similar fight was in North Africa, where the dead did not have room to fall over. I can't recall if that was in the Punic wrs or later in the civil wars.... but it was also documented.
All these people were not friends of Rome, and Hanibal had roused them up wit hthe aim of destroying Rome, not just defeating them.
Red mist would set in for sure .....humans are capable of many things.
If you cannot swing or even draw your elbow back to thrust, you will tire far more quickly than the guys hemming you in.
You cannot exchange places with some one behind you, because it requires room to manuver, you can fight back, but you will be a sitting target as soon as you step out to give yourself room to fight.
another similar fight was in North Africa, where the dead did not have room to fall over. I can't recall if that was in the Punic wrs or later in the civil wars.... but it was also documented.
All these people were not friends of Rome, and Hanibal had roused them up wit hthe aim of destroying Rome, not just defeating them.
Red mist would set in for sure .....humans are capable of many things.
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.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
