08-07-2007, 12:42 PM
Greetings
An issue has recently occurred to me regarding the roman equipment and the composition of an Imperial Roman Legion Dating around 100 AD and how it was supposed so uniformity distributed across the empire. I raise this because while the typical roman legion made up of mainly foot soilders fought well against Barbarian armies to the West eg Britions considering the Britain’s like the Romans engaged mainly in hand to hand combat, where the harsh discipline, vigorous training & Superior Arms of the Romans normally prevailed.
Although I cannot see the legions mass use of heavy infantry and a legionaries standard equipment proving so useful in the Eastern ends of the empire, considering nations like Prathia preferring to use mass amounts of light and heavy Calvary and relatively few foot soilders often using hit and run tactics.
Surely the Roman Legions in the East would be fighting in completely different ways and using different equipment to the roman legions in the West to compromise with the different tactics used by their enemies in the east. I’m sure many of you know something about this and if you would be able to enlighten my young ignorant mind I’d be most appreciative. It’s just from what I’ve read from the very limited sources around here was that most Roman Legions were identically armed and equipped and followed the same basic composition.
Thanks for reading.
An issue has recently occurred to me regarding the roman equipment and the composition of an Imperial Roman Legion Dating around 100 AD and how it was supposed so uniformity distributed across the empire. I raise this because while the typical roman legion made up of mainly foot soilders fought well against Barbarian armies to the West eg Britions considering the Britain’s like the Romans engaged mainly in hand to hand combat, where the harsh discipline, vigorous training & Superior Arms of the Romans normally prevailed.
Although I cannot see the legions mass use of heavy infantry and a legionaries standard equipment proving so useful in the Eastern ends of the empire, considering nations like Prathia preferring to use mass amounts of light and heavy Calvary and relatively few foot soilders often using hit and run tactics.
Surely the Roman Legions in the East would be fighting in completely different ways and using different equipment to the roman legions in the West to compromise with the different tactics used by their enemies in the east. I’m sure many of you know something about this and if you would be able to enlighten my young ignorant mind I’d be most appreciative. It’s just from what I’ve read from the very limited sources around here was that most Roman Legions were identically armed and equipped and followed the same basic composition.
Thanks for reading.
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