2016年9月14日 · When was the earliest known use of the testudo formation by the Romans? Wikipedia's article on the testudo formation includes a quote from Cassius Dio which mentions …

In a close testudo formation the shields can overlap providing additional protection, with side protections, you lose those overlaps. You can also find many images of a variant with no side …

2017年4月13日 · It is hard to rationalize that the much larger Ballista would have a harder time of piercing a Testudo formation than that of the much smaller Parthian bows. As there were no …

2016年7月21日 · The Roman "testudo" was a formation specifically for siege warfare, and it was mobile because the first row of shields was NOT on the ground. Remember that neither the …

2013年4月18日 · I don't believe the Testudo formation dictated what shields were used by Roman infantry. It was a very specialised formation with many weaknesses. Given the Roman track …

2013年1月16日 · Couple this with the fact that such a formation would quickly attract huge volumes of rife and machine gun fire, any hole in it would quickly be filled with bullets, and as …

2024年6月24日 · When was the testudo / tortoise formation first used by the Romans? When was the earliest known use of the testudo formation by the Romans? Wikipedia's article on the …

The basic phalanx, soldiers in a tight, rectangular formation moving forward as a unit, usually with polearm and shield, was around for millennia by the late Egyptian period. The earliest …

2017年7月11日 · To keep mounted units far enough away, very long spears, aka pikes, are required, as the Hellenes and later the Swiss did. However, such units have difficulties to …

2015年8月7日 · The three-line, checkerboard formation (princeps, hastati, triarii) was used only in the Republican period, having been developed by Camillus and largely abandoned by the time …