background: schematic of a deployed cavalry Moira as shown in the Strategikon - made by the AoD2 team
foreground: Justinian; official symbol of AoD2 - made by Joar
Wonderful! I look forward to the next post.
Wow! Great prformance PM!
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Last edited by juvenus; March 23, 2011 at 07:33 AM.
How did I miss this? Great topic Pompei, you always outdo yourself.
after reviewing the original Greek version of the Strategikon I can now confirm 100% that the Tagma merely represents a general order of battle. Whenever the Strategikon goes into detail the infantry is referred to as Arithmos, and the cavalry is called Bandon.
Therefore I have to improve post#1 a little. But the changes are minimal.
Medieval Greek are a bit confusing.
And my english are not the best in TWC unfortunatly...
Meros is the sum of the 3 moiras that contane drougosκαι μέρος ὲστὶ τὸ ὲκ τριῶν μοἰρῶν συγκείμενον ἅθροισμα ἤγουν δροῦγγος
moira is the sum of tagmata otherwise known as arithmoi or banda [plural].μοἰρα δὲ τὸ ὲκ ταγμάτων ἤτοι ὰρἰθμῶν ἤ βάνδων συγκείμενον πλῆθος
A moira has 2-4 drougos
A drougos or Taxiarcea (for cavalry) or hiliarchea has 3-4 tagmata or arithmoi or banda.
Medieval Romans has the number 3 as the basis of creating units.
But if sircumstances would be diferent a drougos could have 4 tagmata or a meros could have 4 moiras (also known as Tourma) etc...
Medieval Romans had this "bad" habbit for us to use scimilar terms describing same or even diferent things.
For example Tagma is a battalion but when it comes to Scholae units Tagma represents a whole army or better a meros!
This is an exelent research PM!
Last edited by AnthoniusII; September 02, 2011 at 07:10 PM.
TGC in order to continue its development seak one or more desicated scripters to put our campaign scripts mess to an order plus to create new events and create the finall missing factions recruitment system. In return TGC will give permision to those that will help to use its material stepe by step. The result will be a fully released TGC plus many mods that will benefit TGC's material.
Despite the mod is dead does not mean that anyone can use its material
read this to avoid misunderstandings.
IWTE tool master and world txt one like this, needed inorder to release TGC 1.0 official to help TWC to survive.
Adding MARKA HORSES in your mod and create new varietions of them. Tutorial RESTORED.
exactly.
what you make is once more jumping back and forth in the times. I told you several times that the romans had a clear wording which enlights a lot if you have the greek written versions of those manuals.
Depending on what time period - some terms disappear - other terms are transformed by the colloquial way to a generally valid expression. If you follow this flowing development from the 4th century and beyond that you get probably a better overview.
One can therefore not be talking about a bad habit - which is purely a subjective perception.