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Legionary Formations
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10-12-2007, 12:33 AM
I was wondering about prominent formations in the roman cohorts and I am afraid I only know of one :oops: , the "Tustudo" in which men line up in a rectangular formation and create a "shell" of shields. Do any of you know any others.
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Sean 
10-12-2007, 12:46 AM
There are several formations on the Ermine Street Guard page, I think. Repel cavalry (sort of like testudo with teeth), wedge (cuneus) and more.
http://erminestreetguard.co.uk/ is where you can find them. Other legions may well have similar pages of info, I just happened to remember that one.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills) Saepe veritas est dura.
10-12-2007, 05:09 AM
Here's a book that would help: Roman Battle Tactics, 109BC AD313, by Ross Cowan.
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
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10-12-2007, 04:42 PM
Thanks guys!!
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Sean
10-13-2007, 04:22 AM
Sean Hux wrote: I was wondering about prominent formations in the roman cohorts and I am afraid I only know of one the "Testudo" in which men line up in a rectangular formation and create a "shell" of shields. Do any of you know any others?
Aulus Gellius (Noctes Atticae X 9 1) list the following tactical formations: “frons, subsidia, cuneus, orbis, globus, forfices, serra, alae, and turres.†|
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