tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240037031475318548.post2337100782016919427..comments2023-11-18T22:16:45.497+00:00Comments on Denyer's Bits & Bods....: Action, Accounting and Assessing Risk....Ian Denyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09125926108621282248noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240037031475318548.post-60520169997523366942021-10-06T22:38:40.067+01:002021-10-06T22:38:40.067+01:00My pleasure.
If you ever have any queries about ...My pleasure. <br /><br />If you ever have any queries about any of my posts please don't hesitate to ask.Ian Denyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125926108621282248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240037031475318548.post-27068912116234501242021-10-03T06:40:43.498+01:002021-10-03T06:40:43.498+01:00I am happy to find this post very useful for me, a...I am happy to find this post very useful for me, as it contains lot of information. I always prefer to read the quality content and this thing I found in you post. Thanks for sharing. <a href="https://nungmunhd.com/category/%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%9C%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%87" rel="nofollow">หนังผรั่ง</a><br />SEOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15958270143733054273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240037031475318548.post-7046642084441746342019-06-26T22:00:49.666+01:002019-06-26T22:00:49.666+01:00Cheers... Am part way though the (first) Arbela ba...Cheers... Am part way though the (first) Arbela battle (my working week started today, so "Worked stopped Play" - ho, hum..).<br /><br />Yep; the paper strength v effective strength thing is SO basic, yet lost on so many people ("Indoor-bound Historians: I'm looking at you").<br /><br />Luckily a lot of practical groundwork, in terms of pacing-out genuinely identifiable battlefields ("You can't FIT that many men on this ridge!!") and archaeology, provide a leavening of common sense and reality..<br /><br />I was leafing though the Vindolanda letters last year (stumbled across a remaindered copy at a re-enactment event) and in particular chuckling over No. 154 - the Strength List of the 1st Coh. Tungrians, an Auxiliary Cohors Milliaria.<br /><br />First there is the actual total strength "on the books" of 752.. BUT taking out "deductions" in the form of men on detached service (including a large number of guys at Corbridge - more than at Vindolanda itself) or sick the number of actual troops left for garrison duty at the unit's base falls to a mere 265... "Yay!! I've got an auxiliary unit of a thousand to hold of those pesky Picts!! Oh. Wait.... A little over a quarter of that.. DOH!!". <br /><br />It is reasonably clear that the idea of a 5,000 fighting strength for the legions is likely VERY wishful thinking - especially when you look at the somewhat ad hoc way the Romans had to replace losses..<br /><br />Apropos; I was reading something the other year suggesting that the (much beloved) "double sized First Cohort" under the Empire was actually the same fighting strength as the rest, with the "extra" troops attached to that unit administratively being all the non-combatant admin. and specialists (ok. even in a modern army the cooks and the pay-clerks have to sometimes pick up a rifle, but....) on the basis that they had to come from somewhere....<br /><br />All I CAN say for certain is that if my legions finish this campaign at much more than half paper strength I will be VERY surprised... Ian Denyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125926108621282248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240037031475318548.post-31299918336810153242019-06-26T16:07:35.596+01:002019-06-26T16:07:35.596+01:00Wow! I actually thought the 2nd to last pic was re...Wow! I actually thought the 2nd to last pic was real.<br />The numbers on paper and the actual numbers engaged Point. When I was into ancient Romans I really got into the Varus battle. (My Avatar is a clue to that) Bought the books, visited the site, ate the chocolate etc. One Thing that really annoyed me was the "20,000 Romans soldier died during the battle" Claim. Sometimes put out as "up to 20,000" but still 20thou. There are excuses like "3 legions with all their attached auxillaries, Baggage etc" to bump the numbers up but I tend to think they were way less..max 10,000 and possibly less than that. Why? The reasons you give. Also, being already stationed in Germania and not brought in for purpose, they would have left a Portion of each legion behind before they set out in order to protect thier home bases (nope..not the Hardware stores :-) ) Also...was a legion ever full strength? Is an army ever full strength?<br /><br /><br /><br />Paul´s Bodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07698894821198907112noreply@blogger.com