Spartan19 Posted June 5, 2005 Report Share Posted June 5, 2005 Hey, I have a question. Wasnt the Roman calvary sometime abolished, and they just hired auxilia calvary instead of fielding their own? If so when did this happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerfectimusPrime Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Probably during the principate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacertus Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Romans began to use auxilia during the war with Gannibal. Cavalry was a weak spot of the Roman army always and many fights had been lost becouse of this. At second half 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrrhus Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 It was quite good as well Meant you didn't have to care all that much about them, as if they died no one could do anything because you were part of a Roman army! Genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longbow Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Why was the Roman cav so bad? wasnt there any horses in Italia??you would think a republic/empire who had such good soldiers,would have had a good cavalry of there own. ive never understood this L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacertus Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Why was the Roman cav so bad?wasnt there any horses in Italia??you would think a republic/empire who had such good soldiers,would have had a good cavalry of there own. Above all I say about cavalry of republic time (before the war with Hannibal). Roman cavalry was a part of legion and was raised in Italia. In fact Italia wasn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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