What's your take on the theory that Roman infantry were more like heavy skirmishers?
What's your take on the theory that Roman infantry were more like heavy skirmishers?
Ethan Thompson
Jack Davis
forums.spacebattles.com
based on Alexander Zhmodikov
Nathaniel Perry
Considering that both the written and archaeological evidence support this, I would agree. At least throughout the Republican era and the civil war. Later Imperial legions functioned more as heavy shock infantry and the skirmisher role was delegated to the auxilia.
Eli Gutierrez
I think that Jow Forums is a FUCKING LEGION BOARD
NCR AND BOOMER FAGGOTS GET OUT
we true to Jow Forumsaiser around here
Ian Brooks
That art is fine and all, but...
... where's the seawall?
Jacob Cook
Fuck you dirty commie caeser fags. LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC.
Justin Wright
we comin for dat ass you jew serving hillbilly cowards
Joseph Sullivan
fine day to raze jerusalem
Lincoln Allen
Ethan Myers
This
Charles Fisher
/how do I join this religion?
Jace Wilson
melee play through
dont use drugs
kill all degenerates and purge the weak
Jose Foster
Fixed.
Alexander Lewis
Mason Turner
bet you weren't prepared for this one, huh?
Lincoln Parker
For the Enclave!
Jackson Bennett
stay mad
Samuel Jones
>dat velites
Andrew Smith
Legion is Jow Forums and you fucking know it. They eschew things like actual guns in favor of muh non degeneracy
Owen Wilson
WE ARE LEGION ROUND HERE
Joseph Martin
Nuking both the Legion and NCR is the only sane solution 2bh
Xavier Foster
*blocks your path*
John Wright
like Im scared of gun grabbing neets
>oh no paladin! they are distributing printable gun parts!!!!
Benjamin Wright
some highlights:
>large shield is bad for melee because:(1) it blocks your view if you try to defend your head with it and (2)it is overall unwieldy
1.a it doesn't matter that much if you fight in formation
b.nothing stopping you from defending your head with sword
2.doesn't matter in formation
>throwing stuff is easy
lel
>romans were bad against heavy infantry
but he actually doesn't mean heavy infantry but phalanx
>romans didn't have armor on limbs so the weren't dedicated melee troops
a.this is true for most contemporary armies
b.post Marian reforms they did use armor on their sword hand several times
c.majority of their body is covered by shield and their fighting style exposes their sword arm very little
>roman armor was bad in melee but good against range
lel
>throwing weapons before attack makes you skirmisher
lel
>t.nihilist communist
lel
Connor Powell
House is clearly the best option.
>doesn't give a shit about you unless you violate the NAP
>has an army of assault robots
>legalizes drugs, gambling and prostitution
>cucks the NCR and takes all their money
>BTFO gungrabbers in the BoS
>wants to go to space and eventually make the human race immortal
Andrew Long
This. Legion is Jow Forums, Boomers are definitely Jow Forums.
Josiah Parker
>but he actually doesn't mean heavy infantry but phalanx
Also they weren't anyway.
Jason Taylor
BASED
it's true. the fat old guys who'd been around forever held up the rear, the young guys with the cannons for arms were up front chuckin' spears.
Jacob Anderson
this, house is trying to create the holy state of ancapistan
Adrian Nguyen
>i love dictators as long as they give me cummies and let me live the rest of my life in an immortal goo battery
Luis Rodriguez
Legion's buliding capability is what makes them so special, they can build fortifications literally anywhere they go.
Roman forts like pic related could be built in an afternoon.
They built large walls, dams in a matter of weeks: youtu.be
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Camden Hill
>Yes Man, an independent go it your own path development
>reddit
>implying Caesar’s Legion isn’t r/donald in a nutshell
Next you’re gonna say boomers over at Nellis aren’t Jow Forums as fuck.
Colton Walker
+
Got most of it. Also the whole Maniple organization was so they could charge you, in units, twice. And then decide whether to go back to the fort, or hit you a third time.
Xavier Watson
That is fucking retarded. Skirmishers dont hold terrain well, and the Legions sure as hell did, think Zama, Alesia, Walting Street, Catalunian plains, etc.
The point of skirmishing is to run faster than enemy units and screen them, can't do that with a big shield. He's just trying to confound the Scutum with the medieval Italian Pavise, but we know and have iconography of scutums being used actively in melee, and similar shields like the Celtic and Iberian counter parts as well as the Hellenistic Thureos were also melee weapons.