08-22-2016, 07:06 PM
(08-22-2016, 07:02 PM)JaM Wrote:Quote:Are you sure you read me? I have shown as far back as 2007 that you will not suffocate due to the aspis. No front ranker can "get away" in a phalanx. Phalanxes have to break from the rear
precisely - but those in rear rank are not being pushed... they are pushing, and don't know whats happening in the front...
And if the phalanx is getting pushed back because they aren't winning the othismos then the only thing the men in the rear ranks of the losing side will know is that they are losing. Hence their morale plummets and then they break and run to save their own skins, because the sooner they break the more distance they get, they might survive the rout.