03-04-2010, 09:53 PM
Hmm... a dilema. I guess the next step is to figure out how good the Visigoths were. The kind of armour and weaponry they had, that sort of thing. I'll be back a little later to add this information.
A few minutes latter: Ok so here's the dirt on the Visigoths. (Mainly from Rome and Her enemies by Osprey publishers) It seems that at the time most of the men would have had little armour, if any, and a sphanghelm style helmet along with a sword, shield, and spear. Some of the men likely had patched and used Roman armour from earlier battles. Even the cavalry elite would have nothing but the occassional battered Roman scale or mail armour along with a spear but likely no shield (Most of them used a spear two-handed) and a helmet. It sounds to me like Edicius had superior cavalry facing poorly armed infantry and inferior cavalry who likely didn't even have javelins to attack against their fleeing opponents. But would the Saxons have been the same? Saxons had superior infantry, were stubborn as oxes, and as determined as their opponents. It seems as though whenever we get a lead it just winds into an ever-dowards spiral of ifs.
A few minutes latter: Ok so here's the dirt on the Visigoths. (Mainly from Rome and Her enemies by Osprey publishers) It seems that at the time most of the men would have had little armour, if any, and a sphanghelm style helmet along with a sword, shield, and spear. Some of the men likely had patched and used Roman armour from earlier battles. Even the cavalry elite would have nothing but the occassional battered Roman scale or mail armour along with a spear but likely no shield (Most of them used a spear two-handed) and a helmet. It sounds to me like Edicius had superior cavalry facing poorly armed infantry and inferior cavalry who likely didn't even have javelins to attack against their fleeing opponents. But would the Saxons have been the same? Saxons had superior infantry, were stubborn as oxes, and as determined as their opponents. It seems as though whenever we get a lead it just winds into an ever-dowards spiral of ifs.
Nicholas
