09-13-2010, 07:14 PM
Quote:Funny how, every time a Roman cavalry unit is mentioned nowadays, it's always a "crack cavalry regiment". I'm sure there were rather a lot of moderately efficient ones, whose troopers hid their mediocrity beneath some flashy gear ... like this helmet! :wink:
And the balance of probabilities is that there were some that were utterly pants too. Ala Petriana is usually singled out as being the bees' knees on no evidence other than the fact they were milliary. One is reminded of Bader's Big Wing (as in 'where is Bader's Big Wing?') and the curious way in which we judge things to be 'crack' or 'elite' - it's what Coulston and I tend to view as Elite Mobile Syndrome (I'm writing about that unit so they are the best).
The Utterly Elite and Very Mobile Mike Bishop (or TUEVMMB as the military would probably have it ;-) ) )
