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Soldti Romans in the Eastern fronts - III century.

Roman soldiers stationed in the eastern provinces are facing a military reality is quite different from even dangerous combinations of Germanic tribes of nomadic or those boundaries Rhenish Danubian border.
Persian Sassanid Empire is rich, broad and cohesive as ever was with the previous dynasties and fielding an army of cavalry, equipped and experienced. The nobility fulfills the role of heavy cavalry with full armament and adjutants (antisignana in a sense of what will be the "Cavalleria" Medieval) other states in the population formed the light cavalry and archers giavelottieri, and the mass infantry, the whole light.

A compact as the Roman infantry, with the first two lines forming a wall of spears and shields, and behind a large quantity of bullets was launched at a strong pace, is still able to stop any horse. For this reason, the tactic was to Eastern disunity and fragmentation of the enemy lines with a speed of light cavalry attacks followed by sudden retreats and a constant launch of arrows by the archers and heavy cavalry also (the famous Clibanari ..) who threw the first to wield two-handed long Kontos and starting to canter.

If the tactic worked Orientale, heavy cavalry proved to be devastating and, to counter this, increased in a growing adoption in the Roman file of this type of weapon.

Other types of horse typically Eastern and adapted to the land they controlled, such as Camellia, was used by both sides.

At the time of Emperor Aurelian, the Roman troops were found to counter those of Queen Zenobia, in which quotas Egyptians also adopted classically-looking weapons and there were ethnic Jews foot specialist in the use of mace.

L'importanza degli arcieri nelle tattiche militari aumenta considerevolmente, soprattutto quello delle cavallerie che, pur intendendole leggere, potevano adottare complete armature difensive, anche per compensare la ovvia mancanza dello scudo.

At the time of great crisis of the third century. AD at the time of the Emperor Valerian, the weapons of the Sassanid had more reason than Roman times.