Re: "Ancient Warfare" in Wikipedia
that TOTALLY looks like some amateur put in RTW as if it meant anything besides childish nonsense, which is SAD... the whole point of skirmishers is trying to get the enemy to attack them... WTF!?'oh no guys, our meat shields got attacked!' - 'now our most expendible / poorly equipped troops are gone - RUN!'
Seriously, tactics? what a joke! there is no tactical information involved in that description... makes me really sad for Wikipedia.
Even Caesar VS Pompey at Pharsalus had the whole factor of large horses plowing into ones' troops chaotically... it's really not the same as rabble running by... See Battle of the Bulge and the fleeing US forces who pass by the Airborne troops who hold fast and bravely, despite a potential 'domino effect' (which by the way, has NOTHING to do with 'ancient' warfare more than ANY other. if anything, 'ancients' were more accustomed to such than modern day people who run easier!).
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