The everyday life of a soldier

[stratigos vasilios]

What did they eat?/What were they fed? (The men not the horses ;-P).

[Duguntz]

Oats, barley... in some kind of pudding (as I try to think what would have been the easier to transport) they would have goats in the following caravan, for milk and meat. This is at home, and when in ennemy territory, of whatever they could find, as rarely would they send for more provision. as Sun Tsu said : one peck (of provision) from the ennemy is worth 20 pecks from home (as the animals that would be used to bring the food and provision up to the front would also have to be feed during the way, so it would take 20 "unit" of barley in oprder to bring one to the front)...