Greetings, everyone! I recently stumbled across an excellent site that discussed some ancient Roman tactics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Labienus
This site leads to other informative sites, I think.
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I'unno, Wikipedia says
artillery can't fight in close-quarters combat. I'm inclined to disagree - we kill 'em just as dead up close as we do far away.
I wonder how best to utilize Roman tactics in WFB. If I recall correctly, for a good span of time they were just heavy infantry, light infantry, and light cavalry with some war machine support.
(04-11-2010 05:38 AM)Solaris Wrote: [ -> ]I'unno, Wikipedia says artillery can't fight in close-quarters combat. I'm inclined to disagree - we kill 'em just as dead up close as we do far away.
I wonder how best to utilize Roman tactics in WFB. If I recall correctly, for a good span of time they were just heavy infantry, light infantry, and light cavalry with some war machine support.
This article tells about how Titus Labienus outsmarted his adversaries, especially while he was Caesar's second-in-command in Gaul, often turning imminent defeat into complete victory.
(04-11-2010 06:00 AM)miklamar Wrote: [ -> ] (04-11-2010 05:38 AM)Solaris Wrote: [ -> ]I'unno, Wikipedia says artillery can't fight in close-quarters combat. I'm inclined to disagree - we kill 'em just as dead up close as we do far away.
I wonder how best to utilize Roman tactics in WFB. If I recall correctly, for a good span of time they were just heavy infantry, light infantry, and light cavalry with some war machine support.
This article tells about how Titus Labienus outsmarted his adversaries, especially while he was Caesar's second-in-command in Gaul, often turning imminent defeat into complete victory.
Ja. The line of thought that led to the artillery was: Pompey -> "Wasn't that related to the invention of the field artillery 'cause someone got the bright idea of turning onagers on troops rather than fortifications?" (Not that I could find, by the way - I'm still not sure what battle I was thinking of) -> several more links -> Artillery. Then I looked at them saying the only aspect of warfare artillery couldn't perform in was close-quarters combat.
It tells about 'em, but it really doesn't go into the hows and the whats of his victories. He does seem to like his cavalry, though.