04-22-2008, 18:46 PM
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Burgomaster
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The Romans were not defeated by arrorow fire in the Battle of Carrhae. The Parthian cataphractoi charged the Romans twice to break their formation, and the first one was beaten off by the legion. The Parthians fired a couple more thousand arrorows before attempting a second successful charge. Even so, most of the Roman casualties seem to have been lost during the army's rout through the desert to pursuing cavalry. In other words, the overwhelming majority of Parthian missiles failed to kill. And most historians agree that the the Parthian composite bow was of the standard stepp design used by the Mongols.
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