Why do Veteran&Praetorian Cohorts have 6 pila attack?

[TWFanatic]

I'm curious what the logic behind this is. All other Roman citizen units (which have pila of course) have 4 pila attack.

thanks for your time

[blacksnail]

The writings of Suetonius clearly indicate "cohorti veterani et praetoriani pila grande fifti percenti est."

[cmacq]

Very good Latin

those of veteran praetorian cohorts have half as many more pila?

it took me too long

[Erik Bloodaxe]

The writings of Suetonius clearly indicate "cohorti veterani et praetoriani pila grande fifti percenti est."

What does it mean?

[Goth47]

that veteran cohorts have half as many pila again as ordinary cohorts. So in EB that translates to 6 for veterans as opposed to 4 for non veterans.

[Watchman]

...am I the only one who made the Freudian leap of assuming that bit of Latin meant something like "have pila half again as big as the regular cohorts"...?

[Pharnakes]

But surley that means that they should have half as much again ammo, not attack?


Though incidentaly I also think they should have more attack, though maybe only 1 more.

[mAIOR]

The writings of Suetonius clearly indicate "cohorti veterani et praetoriani pila grande fifti percenti est."

I'm not going to tell you what that sounds like in Portuguese

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

I'm not going to tell you what that sounds like in Portuguese

Sim. Não é uma frase lá muito indicada para os círculos sociais...

[TWFanatic]

They all have two pila, so they all have the same ammo. Also, Praetorians and Veterans have longer range than other legionaries.

So the question still stands, unanswered...

Eu não o começo. Talvez eu apenas não sei a língua bastante. Satisfaça assim perdoam meus erros.

[QwertyMIDX]

From a stats system perspective they were stated as being more skilled with their pila. As to why that's up to the Roman folk but at least for the vets one would imagine 25 years of throwing the things has something to do with it.