07-12-2013, 10:03 AM
Quote:............................ But everybody pushes and everybody will be tired - there's just no question of anyone being 'fresh'.
Perhaps this is different for other eras, but for the 4th c. it's not.
Robert, that's rather valuable. Can you please describe in more detail exactly what's happening? I'm particularly curious about how you have the ranks fighting? Any form of 'rank relief' (however theoretically practicable it might be as a drill exercise) would assume that the guy in the front rank is doing an awful lot more than the guy(s) behind him. What are your 2nd (and behind) rank guys doing that tires them out so?
I am assuming that your 4thC troops are armed with the oval shields and spathae?