01-30-2010, 10:58 AM
You may may all be interested to know that my own latest record of Taefaly is in Tealby Lincs. It came as real surprise. If anyone visited that area it would be worth looking for tamgas. If they were there ,assuming the Taefali had them, they would remain now.
Ref discussions about cav fighting on foot, I can only comment viz Sarmatian cav etc and not Roman and they were famed for hating and despising both that and even walking at all! A lot of records refer to that and that they were pretty pathetic militarily if forced to dismount. I do agree that the Goths were a foot soldier bunch and in reaility these divisions remained right up until 1939 45. The Taefali re enter the equation because they seem to have been a Germanic crowd...proto Goths...who got absorbed by the sarmatians and learned the cav business. One can imagine them retaining their infantry skills and using them if need be and probably having variants in kit that allowed it.
Thre is something about Gildas that is infuriating. I am sure that a lot of his stuff is useful but the agenda led stuff is so prolific you end up not believing any of it or of anything else. Compare that with Jordanes who also had an agenda but who is hugely readable and credible..and he makes his bias clear.
Vix heavy cav discussios and dates, John Conyard sent me pics of his Taefali Cav equipped in Ribchester style..lancers at that. Very impressive and worth seeing. It isnt heavy cav as per 12 century, say, but pretty heavy for it's day. And he has a trooper with kontus too.
Ref discussions about cav fighting on foot, I can only comment viz Sarmatian cav etc and not Roman and they were famed for hating and despising both that and even walking at all! A lot of records refer to that and that they were pretty pathetic militarily if forced to dismount. I do agree that the Goths were a foot soldier bunch and in reaility these divisions remained right up until 1939 45. The Taefali re enter the equation because they seem to have been a Germanic crowd...proto Goths...who got absorbed by the sarmatians and learned the cav business. One can imagine them retaining their infantry skills and using them if need be and probably having variants in kit that allowed it.
Thre is something about Gildas that is infuriating. I am sure that a lot of his stuff is useful but the agenda led stuff is so prolific you end up not believing any of it or of anything else. Compare that with Jordanes who also had an agenda but who is hugely readable and credible..and he makes his bias clear.
Vix heavy cav discussios and dates, John Conyard sent me pics of his Taefali Cav equipped in Ribchester style..lancers at that. Very impressive and worth seeing. It isnt heavy cav as per 12 century, say, but pretty heavy for it's day. And he has a trooper with kontus too.
Roderic Wout..
Today\'s truths are often tomorrow\'s lies
Today\'s truths are often tomorrow\'s lies
