In Reply to: Re: The horror: the Gladiator not using the Gladius!!!!!! posted by Tom Brennan on June 2, 2000 at 08:04:20:
***I think a late Republican or early Imperial Roman army would have rolled over any Medievil army,Well, maybe, if not for the crossbows and Damascus steel...
*** Mongols and Swiss would give them the hardest time.
I don't know much about the Swiss army except that they adapted the world's first repeating rifle in military service. Please explain what you mean here. You don't mean they would use that rifle against the leather-armoured Romans?
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- I understand the Mongols part... - Victor Khomenko 16:45:05 06/02/00 (5)
- Re: I understand the Mongols part... - Tom Brennan 05:15:06 06/03/00 (4)
- "aggresive and very cruel, gave no quarter and expected none. " - Andrew T. 22:10:03 06/11/00 (0)
- Thank you, Tom - Victor Khomenko 07:28:29 06/03/00 (2)
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