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toby

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Re: Cavalry Globus?
« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2008, 01:19:09 PM »
The word globus is being used in the original Latin sense as a translation (I think) of drungos. I think the original passage is something in the Strategikon about placing a unit in drungos in ambush who will then leap out at the enemy. Being in drungos is a Byzantine (non-)formation of being unordered, but I suspect the individuals in the unit would still be facing in the same direction, just not in ordered lines.

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Re: Cavalry Globus?
« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2008, 07:36:05 PM »
It's just commentary as far as I can see - it's not a rule, its parenthisised (so can be ignored), and it's using the ancient definition of "globus" and not the modern English one.

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Now who is making up new rules?
Anything in brackets is not a rule and can be ignored?!
Try page 18 "depicting terrain" or page 15 "scouting" or page 16 "changing deployment" for some of the many examples of parenthisised rules.

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Re: Cavalry Globus?
« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2008, 04:41:15 AM »
AFAIK Phil is making up new rules.

It's not a rule because it doesn't tell you to do anything.

Everything else you are so outraged about is my opinion about this particular bit of writing - nothing else.