02-25-2014, 12:57 PM
Carlo,
But I'm not talking about working Roman units continuing in existence in the west(although it is highly possible some Western army units were indeed kept in service by new barbarian overlords)-I'm talking about cultural and military traditions that usually can't disappear so quickly and especially not in such case where even invading ethnics were heavily inffluenced by Roman tradition and tried to imitate it for many centuries yet to come.With this you even go against your own words-remember how you defended continuation of ridge helmet in frankish army and how this evolved to famous Carolingian helmets?
But I'm not talking about working Roman units continuing in existence in the west(although it is highly possible some Western army units were indeed kept in service by new barbarian overlords)-I'm talking about cultural and military traditions that usually can't disappear so quickly and especially not in such case where even invading ethnics were heavily inffluenced by Roman tradition and tried to imitate it for many centuries yet to come.With this you even go against your own words-remember how you defended continuation of ridge helmet in frankish army and how this evolved to famous Carolingian helmets?
