Roman Baggage Trains?

[Sean Manning]

Roth and the Strategikon are the two most convenient sources, but for a broad collection of comparative data see also chapter 4 of my forthcoming MA thesis on the Achaemenid army (plug, plug).

Goldsworthy has a chapter on logistics too (The Roman Army at War 100BC-AD200). Procopius often mentions the hamaxes, ox-carts, of the Roman army in the early Byzantine period, they really must have slowed the army down compared to the asses, mules, dromedary and hybrid camels of the Persians.

Are you sure that this is not too specific a translation of hamaxa? When I looked at hamaxa in Xenophon's Attic, the most specific meaning I could find was "a wheeled vehicle used to carry goods." I gave up on trying to decide whether these were wagons or carts, although in Xenophon's world many seem to have been drawn by a pair of oxen.