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

Well, the first major defeat of Romans by Parthians was Crassus, which
was late Republic.  There were Roman victories against Armenian
cataphracts and horse archers before Crassus (Lucullus), and victories
against Parthians soon after Crassus (Labienus).  Roman "discovery" of
horse archery (Parthian or otherwise) pre-dates the imperial period.

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Edward Lipsett [SMTP:translation@intercomltd.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:20 PM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	Re: Was: [DS] Hidden Units and Recon by Fire

> 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