[3.04] Early Byzantine 493 AD – 578 AD Climat : Agressivité : Zone topographique :
Chaud 3 Arable
Terrain obligatoire : Terrains facultatifs :
Rd WW, Rv, H(S), H(G), Wd, O, V, E, RGo, BUA
Avertissements Les troupes irrégulières sont en rouge, les troupes obligatoires en gras.
Liste principale Désignation C-in-C Sub-generals Sub-general Boukellarioi Kavallarioi: • all • all Skoutatoi Psiloi: • [can support Bd] • Isaurians, Armenians, Lazoi, Abasgoi, Tzanoi, Antae or Slavs Lykaonian “Isaurians” or Moorish levy Moorish or Isaurian skirmishing javelinmen or slingers Gepid, Herul, Goth or Vandal symmachoi Moorish symmachoi City racing factions Reluctantly levied city or peasant militia Ditch and bank or wagon laager to protect camp • or ditch Artillery on PF of BUA only: • Up to 1/3 • rest Dromons [Bd, Bw or Ps] Caraboi [Bd, Bw or Ps] Caraboi [Cv, LH, Kn or Bg] Hun allies Arab nomad allies
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Type Reg Cv (S) Reg Cv (S) Reg Bd (I) Reg Cv (S)
Coût 30 30 25 10
200 pts
0-4
Reg LH (S) Reg Cv (O) Reg Bd (I)
7 8 5
Reg Ps (O) Reg Bw (I) Irr Ax (O) Irr Ps (S) Irr Ax (I) Irr Ps (S) Irr Ps (O) Irr Kn (F) Irr LH (O) Irr Hd (F) Irr Hd (O)
2 4 3 3 2 3 2 9 5 1 1 1 2
TF
250 pts
300 pts
400 pts
0-5
0-6
0-8
7-12
9-15
11-18
14-24
2-8
3-10
3-12
4-16
1-6
1-8
2-9
2-12
0-4
0-5
0-6
0-8
0-3
0-4
0-5
0-6
0-1
0-1
0-2
0-2
0-4 0-2 0-2 0-4
0-5 0-3 0-3 0-5
0-6 0-3 0-3 0-6
0-8 0-4 0-4 0-8
0-12
0-15
0-18
0-24
0-2
0-2
0-3
0-3 0-3 0-3 0-8
0-3 0-3 0-3 0-9
0-4 0-4 0-4 0-12
1 1-2 0-1
Reg Art (S) 10 0-2 Reg Art (O) 8 Reg Gal (F) 2 0-2 Irr Shp (O) 3 0-2 Irr Shp (I) 2 0-2 List: Hunnic (Bk 2) 0-6 List: Later Pre-Islamic Arab (Bk 2)
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[3.04] Early Byzantine 493 AD – 578 AD Only after 550 AD Désignation Boukellarioi archers supporting generals and boukellarioi Cv (S) Upgrade kavallarioi: • 1/2 • 1/2
Type
Coût
200 pts
250 pts
300 pts
Reg Cv (O)
8
All/0
Reg Cv (S) Reg Cv (O)
10 8
All
Scouts
Reg LH (S)
7
Huns • if Sabir
Irr LH (S) 7 Irr Wb (O) 3 List: Early Ostrogothic, Herul, Sciri or Taifali (Bk 2) List: Early Lombard (Bk 3)
Herul allies Lombard allies
400 pts
0-1 per general
0-1 per general
0-1 per general
0-1 per general
0-2
0-2
0-2
0-3
0-8
0-10
0-12
0-16
0-12
0-15
0-18
0-24
This list covers East Roman armies from the end of the Western Empire until the appointment of the future emperor Maurikios as Comes Excubitorum and/or Foederatorum gave him the opportunity to implement reforms. It includes the armies of Belisarios and Narses. Kavallarioi include both stratiotai and phoideratoi banda, which now differed only in recruitment, both having bow, sword and corselet. Whether they fought in Hunnic style as implied by descriptions of shooting from all angles, or in ranks as later, is uncertain, but the former produces more realistic results against historical enemies. Boukellarioi such as Belisarios's household are taken to be the minority mentioned by Prokopios as bearing lance and shield as well as bow, since on two occasions generals are later described being protected by bodyguards’ shields. The translation of this passage in the Loeb edition is incorrect. A short, not “small”, shield hangs, not “is attached”, at the shoulders. Short implies that it is round, rather than long and oval like infantry shields. Agathias, however, describes all Byzantine cavalry lighting for Narses at Casilinum as having both bow and shield and lance, and some substituting a longer lance. This suggests that the boukellarioi practice was being extended. The “De Militari Scienta”, written before 573, describes 3 commands in a single line, each in close formation, usually but not always 10 deep, with the 1st and last rank double-armed with bow and lance, the rest with bow. A smaller group is echeloned back to each flank and each command has a small group of scouts chosen from front rankers. Possibly not all boukellarioi were double armed, since their officers were called doryphors “spear-bearers”. Frontal horse armour had not yet been copied from the Avars, although the Leones Clibanarii is attested as a garrison unit in Egypt and the author of “De Re Strategica” advocated it around 550. Skoutatoi are depicted with short spears, muscle cuirasses, pteruges and large shields with Late Roman style patterns and are ordered by the Strategikon to throw spears when attacking and use swords, but to retain spears when attacked by cavalry. They are thus treated here as degenerate legionaries. Their steadiness was distrusted, so they were sometimes supplemented by dismounted barbarian cavalry. Accordingly, Lombards, Heruls and Gepids in this list or as allies to this list can always fight dismounted as Sp (O) if the general of their command does so. Apart from this, Cv generals, as well as boukellarioi and kavallarioi, can dismount as Reg Bw (O), but only to defend fortifications, to attack enemy fortifications or war wagons, to attack camels, or when demoralised. Isaurians were armed with javelins. Isaurian recruits in 531 turned out to be mostly inferior Lykaonian rustics. Orders were still in Latin but the army's ordinary language was now Greek. Hunnic ethnikoi before 550 and Heruls after 550 are allies, as their reliability was doubtful. Arab allies cannot be used with Lombards or Gepids. The naval battle against the Goths at Sena Gallica in 551 included the discharge of arrows and fighting with spear and sword “as if on land”. Phil Barker et Richard Bodley Scott, Listes d’armées DBM – Livre 3, 2e édition, août 1999
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