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To: Chainmail

Romans had scorpios and trebuchets- artillary.


24 posted on 04/18/2024 6:24:01 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Your history is just a little off: the Romans had ballistas, not trebuchets - they had a few centuries to go before that beast showed up.
Siege engines were useful but not mobile enough to support infantry attacks - the primary mode of rapid attack was via cavalry, which both the Japanese forces and the Romans employed.

The problem we both have is anachronism: the Samurai and its warfighting tactics came into being about 600 years after Rome disappeared from world power.

We are doing the “what if the Confederates had AK-47s” silly stuff - so we’re both wrong!

And not to be overly picky, but “artillery” is spelled with an “e” in the middle; I was a career artillerist, and we contend that “Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl”.


28 posted on 04/18/2024 7:47:08 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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