Brace yourselves... LAST LEGION (late Roman film)

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One thing that always amazes me in movies: what use is formations, if it all becomes a free-for-all?

I can't remember but i think it was in the movie Augustus with Peter O Toole as Augustus. In the first part of the movie Octavianus rides to join Caesar who has cornered Pompeius' soldiers in a fort in Spain. When Caesar's army is going to storm the fort Caesar and the officers have the troops manoever and adopt different formations in front of the fort for about 10 minutes, Then Caesar gives the signal to attack the fort and all the soldiers (who were aligned into neat blocks, after the 10 min of manoeuvering) break formation and form a mob while storming the fort :lol: :lol:

Hm, I don't remember seeing any manoevring.
Doesn't the scene start with Caesar's soldiers standing in front of the fort in skirmishing formation? Haven't seen that movie for quite some time though, so I might be wrong.
Then Caesar gives the signal, about half of his army charges, and they all get killed by a single volley of arrows :roll:

The only good thing about the battle scenes in that movie was the correct use of pila.