Alan Military Tactics

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Well... it sounds like a bold proposal. Linguistically it is possible, although not probable (exactly like in English, saying "the Alan drill" may imply "drilling against the Alans" although the first thing that comes to mind is "drilling as the Alans did"). The improbability further increases if one looks at the rest of the Drills, for then "the African Drill" would be drilling against the Africans, "Italian Drill or The One To Use" would be drilling against the Italians, the "Illyrican Drill" one against the Illyrians (??) etc . However, it is also obvious that the Drills are not portraying the manner that these peoples fought in reality, in my personal opinion, they were called so because of certain tactics within them that were adopted and fitted into the Roman manner only.

Furthermore it would not make sense - the other drills would have to be named after the tribes they were adopted from. The African drill implies a drill used by African Legions, not against Africans of which you have several different groups. The Italic drill would be called the Gothic Drill or the Lombard Drill if it was against the peoples in Italy. The Illyrian drill makes no sense at all - there were no Barbarians in Illyria and the Illyrians had annexed for 700 years by now.