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rubenandthejets · 06-21-09, 10:44 PM

The flaming pigs were REAL!

The Romans tried a buch of crazy stuff when Pyrrhus handed them their butts using elephants in 275 BCE (Livy tends to talk the Romans up a lot-they wouldn't have totally overhauled their millitary if they won as easily as he writes), including flaming pigs, wagons with swinging hooks and scythes and elephant sized caltrops.

Finally, after a little experience, light troops (velites, auxillia) sticking spears into an elephants' neather regions was found to be the best way to take them out.

06-21-09, 10:44 PM	#6
rubenandthejets 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 279 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	The flaming pigs were REAL! The Romans tried a buch of crazy stuff when Pyrrhus handed them their butts using elephants in 275 BCE (Livy tends to talk the Romans up a lot-they wouldn't have totally overhauled their millitary if they won as easily as he writes), including flaming pigs, wagons with swinging hooks and scythes and elephant sized caltrops. Finally, after a little experience, light troops (velites, auxillia) sticking spears into an elephants' neather regions was found to be the best way to take them out. __________________ HMAS Sydney III "Thorough and Ready"