12-19-2003, 02:17 PM
Quote:</em></strong><hr>The roman army went to war and that meant they marched through the countryside so you don't need anything else other than 5500 legionaries. ( this is a bit of a pointless argument as we wont see 5500 roman re-enactors in one place in my lifetime)<hr><br>
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Not necessarily. Vexillations, detachments, skirmishing units, and certainly small groups of soldiers after a battle has gone poorly for the Romans (ie. Varus), could be seen at any given time. Not to mention this would also mean that there would be 60 scorpion artillery pieces per legion, and what, 120 or so Cavalry?<br>
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Every event I've gone to, I've yet to have someone come up and say "Hey, aren't there supposed to be more of you guys, if you're an army?" I think the reality of the public just doesn't work that way.<br>
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Quote:</em></strong><hr>What I was saying is wrong is parading 8 legionaries and an eagle without telling the public that this would not have happened in the roman army<hr><br>
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That would indicate that some legions are misleading the public. I don't think that's the case, and certainly I've never seen that here, nor heard of it.<br>
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Quote:</em></strong><hr>There is nothing fundamentally wrong with a centurion and even only two other soldiers, The other standards might well be paraded with less than a century but an eagle wasn't.<hr><br>
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So again you're stuck on the "an Eagle and 5500 men or nothing" ideal, which sounds to me that you've missed the point of our debate here. A simple explanation to the public, or even a diagram of a roman legion as per Connolly's "Greece and Rome at War" would do the job quite nicely. So I fail to see how this is a problem. <p>Magnus/Matt<br>
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Not necessarily. Vexillations, detachments, skirmishing units, and certainly small groups of soldiers after a battle has gone poorly for the Romans (ie. Varus), could be seen at any given time. Not to mention this would also mean that there would be 60 scorpion artillery pieces per legion, and what, 120 or so Cavalry?<br>
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Every event I've gone to, I've yet to have someone come up and say "Hey, aren't there supposed to be more of you guys, if you're an army?" I think the reality of the public just doesn't work that way.<br>
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Quote:</em></strong><hr>What I was saying is wrong is parading 8 legionaries and an eagle without telling the public that this would not have happened in the roman army<hr><br>
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That would indicate that some legions are misleading the public. I don't think that's the case, and certainly I've never seen that here, nor heard of it.<br>
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Quote:</em></strong><hr>There is nothing fundamentally wrong with a centurion and even only two other soldiers, The other standards might well be paraded with less than a century but an eagle wasn't.<hr><br>
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So again you're stuck on the "an Eagle and 5500 men or nothing" ideal, which sounds to me that you've missed the point of our debate here. A simple explanation to the public, or even a diagram of a roman legion as per Connolly's "Greece and Rome at War" would do the job quite nicely. So I fail to see how this is a problem. <p>Magnus/Matt<br>
Legio XXX "Ulpia Victrix" Coh I<br>
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"Lay your hand, or thy tongue against the greatness of Rome, and feel my wrath." - Matt Lanteigne<br>
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