08-17-2002, 03:36 AM
The point was just that Scipio must have had considerably more than 15,000 foot at Zama, based on the amount of troops he set out with and the numbers we have of his force at Zama. I never said that he didn't have any losses in the earlier campaigns, but it is very unlikey that they were high enough to bring down his infantry to 15,000, this would assume that he had a rather high casualty rate. If 23,000 infantry fits nicely with 2 overstrenghted legions and ally contingents at Zama, then wouldn't this mean that his losses were minimal in his earlier campaigns to still have 23,000 initial infantry? Of course there is always the case that he could have had the ranks refilled at times, this I am not sure about. <p></p><i></i>
