04-07-2006, 01:13 PM
Quote:Two main conclusions can be drawn of Late Roman units (Nicasie):
a) in practise, the actual number of troops fielded will have been lower than the paper strengths.
b) it seems possible that Late Roman units did not have fixed establishment strength s at, but varied between a certain minimum and maximum according to need.
I can only agree with this. Very good summary! Since the use of vexillations it seems that the Roman Army became more flexible and evolved to smaller units for the field army, I presume.
Can you give me some more detail about iuniores en seniores units. Does this say the the iuniores were not long in service and the seniores were "veteran"of the same unit? Or was this simply a difference in pay like comitatus troops and pseudo comitatus troops? Or was this a new unit of the same name but younger in creation?
Tot ziens.
Geert S. (Sol Invicto Comiti)
Imperator Caesar divi Marci Antonini Pii Germanici Sarmatici ½filius divi Commodi frater divi Antonini Pii nepos divi Hadriani pronepos divi Traiani Parthici abnepos divi Nervae adnepos Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus ½Adiabenicus Parthicus maximus pontifex maximus
Geert S. (Sol Invicto Comiti)
Imperator Caesar divi Marci Antonini Pii Germanici Sarmatici ½filius divi Commodi frater divi Antonini Pii nepos divi Hadriani pronepos divi Traiani Parthici abnepos divi Nervae adnepos Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus Arabicus ½Adiabenicus Parthicus maximus pontifex maximus
