Gladius Romae Sum, Belisarius
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About the Project
Finally I get around to actually doing the Impetus Army I've been talking about for a few years now. The Last Roman, Belisarius. This Army will primarily be for the Forces of Belisarius in North Africa and against the Sassanids. A friend of mine is doing up a Sassanid Army and who knows, maybe next years project with be the Goths... As the excellent Song by Farya Faraji goes Gladius Romae imperi sum, Ubist nostrum imperium? Ne plora, mater Roma, Denuo florebis
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The Kavallarioi
This is a force for Impetus based on the army Belisarius took into North Africa and against the Sassanids. In the army there will be eight units of Cavalry split between six units of Kavallarioi and two units of Buokellarioi. I’ll look at the Boukellarioi in the next post.
The Kavallarioi were the medium Cavalry although they are a bit more interesting than just that. They wore a maille shirt (chain or scale) and a helmet and primarily fought with a spear but they also carried a composite bow. Traditionally when we think of mainline cavalry we think of them either as melee troops in armour or as lightly armoured horse archers but the Late Romans combined these roles. They still used heavy shock cavalry but even those were modified by Belisarius personally to create bow armed heavy shock cavalry, the Boukellarioi.