07-19-2007, 01:41 AM
Well, what were the things used for? Weapons of terror? Battlefield domination? Sweeping away hordes of uncouth long haired SOBs? Highly accurate sniper fire to take out key personnel, standard bearers, officers, and such? Augmentation for the legionaries as the pressed forward? Shooting the bad guys along the flanks as they try to get out of the way of the approaching Romans?
Crispus, I understand what you were saying, and I tend to think out loud via the keyboard, so if I ramble or stray a bit, forgive me. And beware all for the future, that is how my thought process works sometimes.
Maybe surpressive fire, Robert, was not a known concept? You use that to keep the heads of the bad guys down, pin down a section of the enemy so you can do other neat things somewhere else, and so on. No one would have been ducking and bobbing much out there, except maybe when they saw arrow volleys coming at them, not that hard to do, especially as the archer shooting at you is further away, and his trajectory has to be pretty high.
However, a tension machine fires bolts fast and flat, and they skewer lots of intestines, shields, eyeballs, armor, horses, etc. Maybe that was called freakout fire back then?
Anyone found a Roman artillary manual yet?
FM-XXIV, maybe? The 2nd century edition, please.
Crispus, I understand what you were saying, and I tend to think out loud via the keyboard, so if I ramble or stray a bit, forgive me. And beware all for the future, that is how my thought process works sometimes.
Maybe surpressive fire, Robert, was not a known concept? You use that to keep the heads of the bad guys down, pin down a section of the enemy so you can do other neat things somewhere else, and so on. No one would have been ducking and bobbing much out there, except maybe when they saw arrow volleys coming at them, not that hard to do, especially as the archer shooting at you is further away, and his trajectory has to be pretty high.
However, a tension machine fires bolts fast and flat, and they skewer lots of intestines, shields, eyeballs, armor, horses, etc. Maybe that was called freakout fire back then?
Anyone found a Roman artillary manual yet?
FM-XXIV, maybe? The 2nd century edition, please.
Dane Donato
Legio III Cyrenaica
Legio III Cyrenaica
