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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sword-dancer" data-source="post: 417196" data-attributes="member: 1491">Re: Re: Also Greater Range than longbow or light crossbow?The roman slingers, spearthrowers were skirmishers, not the rain of death of the british longbow(or if the french had used them the picards).Or the armor piercing of the crossbowThey sieged it so long till the defenders committed suicide for starvation, nothing spectacular. Financial or ressourcial reasons, not technologyAnd the romans lost the knowledge of it, AFAIKHellos SHARK Vegetius was a classic for medieval warfare. It may function.Night maneuvers aren`t something the romans were reknown for.At the roman dictator circled hannibal he tricked the legionaries by night with cows with torches on their horns. The roman defeated the avars, persians and parthians?CarrhaeWhich was the name of the roman empereor a persian king used as step when he went of his horse.It was the alliance of visigoths and romans who carried the day at the catalaunic fields.The avars were defeated and broken by charlemagne.The Hungars were defeated, by Heinrich I of Germany, and annihilated to never  come back by his son Otto I the great and Konrad the red, with the first armoured forefathers of knights.After they were attacked on the march by the Hungars on their back." and secure us of the arrows of the hungarys."  In which battles and campaigns did the romans made regularly use of field arillery In which battle these troops encountered longbows or crossbows, the range advantage would be deadly an an conroi of knights would have made short work with skirmishers in loose formation. CaannaeFlaminius and the trasimenic lakethe battles wit the cimbern, teutons who annihilated repeatedly roman armies, if they attacked rom instead of only looking for new areas, rome maybe had reexperienced the days of brennus. The romans never adopted to the polearm against the heavy gothic cav, not for or even after the annihilation of adrianople40.000 men the empereor and his chief officers died, after attacking the gothic camp and get attacked by the gothic main force.So i don`t think its reasonable to say they would.The short sword isn`t an effective weapon against a full armored knight especially in plate armor.  Crecy, agincourt. Legnano, bannockburn, the crusades, especially the first barbarossas slesian infantry was no halfarmed peasants, elite crack infantry would i think fit better, maybe many of the so called english archers used the bill instead of the bow.Or the swiss pikemen and most city militias would be better armored than the romans, and no roman armor stops a halberd, or so.The organisation of the swiss was more advanced than the macedonian phalanx. They were also (with exception of the earliest time) better armored.Organisation and Logistics.Barbarossa sieged milano for two years.Then the city fell.EquipmentThe medieval steel could be of higher Quality than the roman,(depending on time) so the europeans fought with MW Weapons, the romans with standard.<a href="http://netsword.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000219.html" target="_blank">http://netsword.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000219.html</a></blockquote>

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