Re: In A Perfect Game: SG/DS/RPG's - Experience Vs. Training

KH Ranitzsch wrote:

>On Romans vs. Germans/Gauls
>
>From: "Don M"
>
> > I disagree there are to many examples like Teutoberger where linear
> >formation was defeated by the training and preparation of the battle.
>
>The battle of Teutoburger Wald was more of a large-scale ambush in
terrain
>where the Romans could not deploy properly.

The Roman army was marching along a narrow road through marshes... well,
I 
guess you could call a march column "linear" of sorts, although it is 
perpendicular to what is normally meant by a "linear formation" <G>

Later,

Oerjan
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