Talk:Roman legion
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Notes on the revision:
- I decided to rewrite this when I read the sentence that said that the roman cavalry was not very well considered by the rest of the army (or something like that). Their only problem was that they were few. The Italian Peninsula is not exactly a marvellous place to raise battle horses like the asian steppes and that, I think, is the only reason for only 300 heavy cavalry in a legion.
- On the comment on the stirrups: perhaps it will not survive the next revision. It's a bit out of place I know. But I find extremely annoying whenever they appear in a roman scenario on screen.
- Much more is needed on the history of the legion. I tried to collect as much as I could from the books cited (by the way, Roman Warfare is wonderful to read and a pearl of NPOV writing), but it's still incomplete, especially on the Marius reforms. What I know of the subject is by memory, I won't risk it in a wiki-article
- In the late empire, the difference between "border" legions and "inside-the-empire" legions
- The part about legionaries is now a separate article.
- Future work: the influence of legions in roman politics, for instance the mutiny of the Danubian legions in 14 following Augustus death that almost made Germanicus emperor; the importance of controlled legions in the latest part of the empire
Muriel Gottrop 06:53, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Quite a bit of information is missing, such as the changes to the legions made after the Marius Reforms (Which should probably also have an article). Oberiko 16:05, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The terms "maniple" and "manipule" are both used but the difference is not explained. Please do so. Pdn 22:11, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
