Adoption of manipular tactics and the pilum

[Nicholas Gaukroger]

I'm sure this has been discussed before, however, it is clear that I am being incompetant at searching the forum :?

Can somebody please point me to any such discussion threads and/or suitable sources on this subject.

Many thanks in advance and again apologies ofr being useless at searching hock:

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

A very good paper about that question is here:

http://www.ffil.uam.es/equus/warmas/onl ... %20def.pdf

It's in spanish, made by one member of the forum: Fernando Quesada, AKA Thersites. Includes an extensive bibliography of the question.

If you can't read spanish, you can see that paper of the same autor:

http://www.ffil.uam.es/equus/warmas/onl ... EFINIT.pdf

It's dedicated to the roman and iberian ways of fighting.

Hope it helps...

[Proximus]

Hello,

I just asked some questions about something near your interogations in this section, a few days ago. Maybe you've seen it ?

Here is the link :

http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=25077

[antiochus]

Why is it considered that manipular tactics were adopted with the introduction of the pilum? Just curious.