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Originally Posted by El_Zoido
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The Roman Army had auxiliar archers which definatly had a higher accuracy and more ammo than possible atlatl spear throwers... Plus: they could fire in a balistic flight path over the head of the heavy infantry into the bulk of the attacking enemies.
AND I ALMOST FORGOT!
The Roman Legion was equiped with a number of light and heavy field artillery... The Legions Arsenal consisted of about 55 Balista (range 200-500 meters) and 10 Onagar (Heavy Artillery - range about 300meters)
So they had better dart weapons I would say...
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those were components added in the imperium not during the republic by and large. The Romans if anything were very dynamic and always adjusted to battlefield circumstances, if an enemy had an effective weapon the Romans would come with an alternative or equivalent, something better based on the same model.
an atlatl could never match the pilum as the weight of the weapons discharged have a momentum hence added energy all their own, the atlatl could not throw a weighted pilum like dart etc. And as others alluded, the pilum could be sued as a thrusting weapon as well.
The roman third line triaii had thrusting spears, velites were the republican light troop components of the legion until the Marian reforms.
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