03-10-2014, 11:01 AM
Quote:armour is armour... a shield is just a shield... a sword is just a sword... There is in fact no real reason to fundamentally change battlefield tactics... between the first organised soldiery and the founding of the 'city state' and the 19th century... the Napoleonic period also reintroduced the same tactics and organisations that the Romans used... none of them require or need any changes in basic tactics or organisations... for the arms and armour change very little, if at all.
I think most people studying the late Roman period - or indeed any period of ancient military history - would probably disagree with that!
If organisation and tactics were so obvious or organic, and changed so little, there would be no need for lengthy discussions such as this one... :-|
Nathan Ross