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It's good to see alternative historical novel. I want little more detail about war , military reform and economic development.(i still read ep 11) for me concept of legion is good but too costly for small empire to lose a single battle and military plan is old too use against Parthian tactics that why they change tactics but still not good enough to counter turk or western army. I enjoy it very much. Thx author-San
The Rebirth of the Purple Phoenix
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indeed, for standing Legion to function, it has to be properly equipped and financed for expedition. In times of war, the cost of maintaining such field army cost more than medieval standing army. Notwithstanding the cost of provisions and war supplies, constant drills and training were necessary, however, during its decline, it was not due to the Legion failing military plan that brought it to end, it was its general incompetency and lack of effective communications and decline in discipline. In fact, without shadow of doubt, the Legion can still stand toe-to-toe with medieval period arms if not for the said circumstances. Various reforms were made before legion-type field army were abolished which failed miserably due to countless civil wars and loss of morale amongst the soldiers which constantly fighting against within and without conflicts. Justinian period legion were the last of its kind before it was replaced by more provincial-type arms introduced by Heraclius known as Themata. More effective in defending the empire but not so much in handling incursions. Themata were the field arms used till the end of the empire with substantial reforms made but failed to revitalized the spirits of Rome due to another lack of discipline and loss of morale. Territorial integrity slowly being chipped away by their adversaries helped little to mitigate the failing empire, with loss of finance, plagues and various issues further expediate the decline. In fact, the empire still held strong army even if they loss plenty of land, but lack of manpower and finance deemed revitalization impossible until its eventual fall. The reason why it stood tall while being surrounded by the Turks were that, they are still being feared.
for me. I thought we should recruit Bulgarian for pikeman to slow the enemy aggression with number of manpower cause,we already have shock Calvary ,fire greek and long range weapon. maybe, increase bow spacialist regiment from turk to increase flexibility to defend horse archer or introduce cheep papar to increase education reform and introduce new agriculture for decease food price. thx so much author-san.
lordgsh:indeed, for standing Legion to function, it has to be properly equipped and financed for expedition. In times of war, the cost of maintaining such field army cost more than medieval standing army. Notwithstanding the cost of provisions and war supplies, constant drills and training were necessary, however, during its decline, it was not due to the Legion failing military plan that brought it to end, it was its general incompetency and lack of effective communications and decline in discipline. In fact, without shadow of doubt, the Legion can still stand toe-to-toe with medieval period arms if not for the said circumstances. Various reforms were made before legion-type field army were abolished which failed miserably due to countless civil wars and loss of morale amongst the soldiers which constantly fighting against within and without conflicts. Justinian period legion were the last of its kind before it was replaced by more provincial-type arms introduced by Heraclius known as Themata. More effective in defending the empire but not so much in handling incursions. Themata were the field arms used till the end of the empire with substantial reforms made but failed to revitalized the spirits of Rome due to another lack of discipline and loss of morale. Territorial integrity slowly being chipped away by their adversaries helped little to mitigate the failing empire, with loss of finance, plagues and various issues further expediate the decline. In fact, the empire still held strong army even if they loss plenty of land, but lack of manpower and finance deemed revitalization impossible until its eventual fall. The reason why it stood tall while being surrounded by the Turks were that, they are still being feared.
i did plan for future campaign to use Bulgarians as the mainstay infantry units, thx 4 the suggestion... notwithstanding their proficiency with the bows due to their traditions as both slavs and turkic ancestry... as for the turks, i still dont have determined role for them yet(for the benefits of the empire)...and cheap paper, i did mentioned it to one of the commenter which mentioned it, i planned to focus more on development after this volume...since normally, peace treaty between nations last for about 5-10 years depending on the attitudes of its rulers, i have time to spare for the development and advancement...for now, i focuses more on challenges...earlier chapters and volumes i did include developments but they were mingled with various topics that I havent properly covers...i then found out that my chapters were convulated with unnecessary info dumps which leds me to go on hiatus once more to study more authors to refer to...
Krittanut_Khumdum:for me. I thought we should recruit Bulgarian for pikeman to slow the enemy aggression with number of manpower cause,we already have shock Calvary ,fire greek and long range weapon. maybe, increase bow spacialist regiment from turk to increase flexibility to defend horse archer or introduce cheep papar to increase education reform and introduce new agriculture for decease food price. thx so much author-san.image