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Few people enjoy facing a prickly Alexandrian phalanx. You’d have to more than whip me to run at one. To my knowledge, much was just shield bashing, posturing,
by gherkinnn 7y ago
Few people enjoy facing a prickly Alexandrian phalanx. You’d have to more than whip me to run at one.
To my knowledge, much was just shield bashing, posturing, and manoeuvring. It’s very hard to convince a group to close in on an enemy.
Problem is, that would make for a very dull film. Logistics, waiting, posturing, passively starving out a city. No speeches, no charging sword aloft.
The notion that we’re only marginally more intelligent than our ancient predecessors is quite a beautiful one I think.
- nickik 7y agoIf you read reports of how the Roman beat those armies, its pretty clear that their more dynamic troupes would actually directly engage the phalanx and break their lines. That said, roman were the first in 100s years to achieve that, so its fair to say that most of the time you are right.