RE: Orders of Battle (was cheese)

G'day Chris,

 >I did a "compare and contrast" between
 >the organization of a Roman Legion
 >and a 1980's US Light Infantry Division.
 >The US division has more "artillery"
 >and 3 times as much "cavalry/recon"
 >but there are some similarities. Most of the
 >differences where troops doing jobs that
 >didn't exist 2000 years ago (EW,
 >Chemical Defense ...)

What about at the lowest scales though. Its been a long time since I did

any Roman history, but weren't they based around units of multiples of
10 
or something? I haven't had a chance to look up my Achaemenid Persian
stuff 
but I had a feeling they broke the "laws" of modern warfare too. OK
maybe 
modern gizmos produce the ratios we see in use today, or maybe its just
the 
way things are done now. For instance things were very different back in

the Napoleonic period.

Just another thought

Beth

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