Alan Military Tactics

[Robert Vermaat]

For example the 401/410 date in Italy are Alans in Alaric's army who defected to Romans in 414Ad at siege of Vasatae so the line they follow is Alaric's route.

I assumed as much. It's just so that these 'simplified' routes continue to give the reader the wrong ideas about the 'völkerwanderung' of all the tribes into the empire. In rality, the large arrows should be exchanged for a myriad of smaller ones, which would make the map unreadable (and rightly so). Alans, like Germanic groups, did not move 'lock, stock and barrel' from A to B. their presence within the empire as given here by the dates (which are from the sources) almost always represent volunteers and mercenaries who were attached to regular Roman armies as federates or shortterm allies.