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In games like Medieval and Shogun, bows seem to shoot farther and more accurate at longer distances. What is up with that? There is always this myth floating around everywhere, that muskets...

Not surprising. Horses don't do well well they are against a wall of infantry. Again the Huns use Steppe ponnies not the stronger warhorses of Medieval times.

The causalties of Adrianople were...

Do you have proof the cavalry is weak in the game? Last time I checked the video was about Hunnic cavlary doing a frontal charge on the Roman infantry.

The "Cavalry revolution" was mainly...

In comparison to Modern armies, the entire structure of the Principate Roman Army is just abysmal. There was almost no central command besides the commander's relationship with the emperor. The...

"Cavalry played a crucial role in the Gothic victory"

So what? Cavalry played a crucial role in Gaugmela, Cannae, Alesia and Constantine's battles. The "Cavalry revolution" in Europe is an...

The Romans were having trouble deploying at Adrianople due to the Romans fighting on all fronts. Gratian was busy with his units in the West, and Valens was in the Middle East. He scrabbled as much...

100,000 was possible to deploy in one location as shown in the Battle of Cap Bon.

Source? 1/10 is a more better estimate.

Oops question answered by another post I forgot to read.

Attila's army was probably no more than 30,000 yes, but he had Vassal states just like the Romans like the Ostrogoths and Gepids. So in that case Attila was able to muster 60-80,000 at the Battle of...

Uh by increasing it use and importance on the battlefield....size does not mean importance.
For example Romans in the Principate used their cavalry mainly for harrasing, skirmishing and pursuit but...

Sorry I meant Light cav as in skirmishing and missile fire. The Persian Savaran were both armed with bow and lance. The tactics in many battles reflected slow skirmishing and drawing the enemy down...

Was the Alans and Goths in the Gallic field army actually standing units?

Hunnic 80,000 force was more of a coalition of Huns, Gepids, Ostrogoths etc. The core Hunnic force led by Attila was no more than 10,0000-30,000.

Mostly for garrison? That is false. The Sassanids would always have a attatchment to their army with infantry. Most Sassanid battles in the 400s were sieges so the infantry played a vital role. Heavy...

In BI unsettled barbarians are massive hordes of unstopable fighters capable of breaking into the empire and steamrolling rather small Roman armies. This should not be the case in BI. Typical Roman...

Indeed. The Sassanids did make some major battles against the Romans during the 3rd century crisis with Shapur such as the wars against Gordian and Valerian and the Paulmayrenes and later Gallienus....

Because returning home is easier than a lenghty siege plus facing Shapur army....

Kinda. It absorbs blunt trauma better but its less durable and can be defeated by upward thrust.

Goths were nomadic? Kinda. They had permanent settlements until they were kicked out. Still no proof they were mostly cavalry when it is a historical fact that they were mostly infantry at Adrianople...

The problem is most Sassanid infantry ARE untrained levies. There were elite infantry yes, but most were levies.

"a crowd of pitiable peasants who come into battle for no other purpose than to dig...

So they were citizens?

Aetius's Alans were Romanized? i thought they were just foedereti allies?

How should Roman Clibinarii/Cataphracts be depicted? The most powerful heavy cav in the game or should that be the Sassanids? Or not even close to the most powerful heavy cav? Because having both...

The game is accurate. The Legion was citizens and heavy infantry only by the time of Marius. A few fought as light infantryment(antegsegani or lanceri) but none report bow use. Bowmen were usually...

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The armor of Late Roman Army is highly debated. Some people say they were less armored since due to poorer economy, like what Vegetius says. Some say they were all heavily armored due to...

Yes, Germanic allies. They got routed at Chalons by Roman and Visigoths.

The Cuirbouli vs Longbow video on youtube is so misleading. The bowmenn folded the leather in a poor fashion like a piece of paper and properly sewing the leather in 1 piece. The arrow could have...

That's what I said....I said ALL rivited ring mail didn't come till 14th century.

Actually all rivited ring mail didn't come till the 14th century. People previously were using simply rivited-solid rings which where much less likely to fracture along the rivit. Roman mail was...

The distortion of facts is unbelievable. First of Roman mail is heavier and less wide than Medieval mail, just read Dan Howard. Second, 15th century mail was munitions grade and had no solid rings...

Source? Isn't Williams the same person who tested how hide armor was vastly inferior where only less than 30-50 joules from arrows went right through fabric armor? While it took at least 80-100...

Hilarious rebutal! You can argue and now you bring up heat, when leather is a poor insulator.

Rawhide is nowhere as protective as mail or scale. Its almost laughble that Metal scale armor would...

That's not always the case. Knights wore cloth for asthetic pleasing and to bear the emblem of their house.

No but they wore mail and scale.

Uh yes they did. China had metallic armor. Leather armor was common in the Warring States but when advancements of metallurgy and production came along during the...

That is pure speculation. Just because the economy was worse means the soldier's kit is lessened? Its all pseudo-Math. The decline of metal production doesn't mean the metal was all gone or scarce....

What? That's meaningless. That simply means armor was simply more expensive. Its all pure speculation that the Roman infantry completely scrapped metal armor.

Historical texts tell us the Huns instead of deploying cavalry on flanks to encircle an enemy like traditional armies(like Romans or Persians) usually deployed in the center to do a frontal charge,...

The currency was devalued during Severan era to afford a larger army, yet it somehow cannot afford armor?

Remember this is the devaluation of silver and gold, its not like the Romans somehow...

No Hungarians are Magyars