Re: Was: [DS] Hidden Units and Recon by Fire

Z. Lakel wrote:

> 
> The Romans fought against the Parthians, Palmyrans, Huns, and
Visigoths to
> name a few who employed horse archers.  Additionally, they employed
the
> Armenians as allies, and they used horse archers.  In fact, I'd be
suprised
> to see a late Roman army w/o any mounted archers, especially in the
east.
> Also, the Romans in Byzantium used horse archery extensively.  I don't
mean
> to rant and I hope i don't come off that way, I just want to clerify a
point
> of history, at least clerify it the way I see it.

IIRC, the Roman discovery that the Parthians could use horse archers
effectively cost them an Emperor.

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