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	Triarii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To be the officer of the triarii was an honor.
		Triarii were sometimes, not unlike the Principes, divided into ten maniples of 160 men.
		If the initial attacks of the javelin- and sword- armed troops could not break an enemy, the Triarii served as a strong point around which the army would regroup (in the same manner as in much later centuries squares of musketmen were to provide a defensive screen for reforming cavalrymen).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Triarii (426 words)

	TRIARII FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Triarii (Latin singular ''triarius'') was the third standard line of infantry of the Roman Empire's army.
		When the Principes and Hastati of Republican army were rearmed with javelins, the Triarii retained their long spears and scutums and continued to fight as a phalanx.
		If the initial attacks of the javelin and sword armed troops could not break an enemy, the Triarii served as a strong point around which the army would regroup (in the same manner as in much later centuries squares of musketmen were to provide a defensive screen for reforming cavalrymen).
	www.popstudy.com /triarii (285 words)

	Roman Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The triarii were veterans and still much looked and functioned like the heavily armed hoplites of the old Greek phalanx.
		Behind the principes knelt a few yards back, the triarii who, if the heavy infantry was pushed back, would charge forward with their spears, shocking the enemy with suddenly emerging new troops and enabling the principes to regroup.
		The triarii were generally understood as the last defence, behind which the hastati and principes could retire, if the battle was lost.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /roman-army.htm (4019 words)

	Hastati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally entered into the second line of centuries, from III century BC began to make the first line of maniples, after Second Punic war were put in the second line.
		The hastati were armed with a hasta, a spear like the ones used by the triarii, the gladius and a smaller shield, the parma.
		As the first battle line, the Hastati were immediately behind the velites and in front of the principes, which were in front of the triarii.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hastati (275 words)

	Lord Tomyris - The Palatine Hill
		Triarii are tough, experienced, heavy spearmen who make up the third and most senior part of a Legion.
		Triarii normally march on the left of the Legion’s three marching columns and form the third (rear) line when Legion forms up for battle.
		Triarii are the Legion’s final reserve and often spend most of a battle waiting at the rear.
	www.freewebs.com /totalwar/romeunits.htm (3424 words)

	The Republican Roman Army
		The veteran triarii or pili made up the third class and were either deployed in the third battle line or left behind to guard the camp.
		The triarii were used as a last resort, the Latin expression ad triarios redisse being used to indicate that one was in a desperate position.
		The strength of the units of triarii was generally only half that of the hastati and principes Gradually new subdivisions called cohortes were introduced in the Roman legiones, probably patterned on similar formations of the Italic allies.
	s_van_dorst.tripod.com /reparmy.html (2772 words)

	Roman weapons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They were experienced soldiers, positioned behind the hastati and in front of the triarii.
		Accensi (from Latin; singular accensus) were in the army of the Roman Republic either a public officers who attended on several of the Roman magistrates or a kind of supernumerary soldiers who served to fill the places of those who were killed or disabled by their wounds.
		They were according to the census of Servius Tullius taken from the fifth class of citizens and were placed in battle in the rear of the army, behind the triarii, and seem to have acted sometimes as orderlies to the officers.
	www.soldiers-russia.com /kolobob/roman_weapons.htm (3063 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The heavy cavalry and triarii were to guard the flanks until sufficient damage had been done to the enemy to cause them to reach their break point.
		This meant the triarii and Roman cavalry would fight Pyrrhus and his companions, before the flank charge of the light infantry peltasts into the Roman cavalry would be fought.
		The triarii fresh into the melee caused the last break point on Pyrrhus, the light infantry flank charge would not be fought and nether would the cavalry to cavalry melee.
	tetrad.stanford.edu /battles/pyrrhus.html (2166 words)

	Gear and Tactics
		The Triarii were usually the oldest and very experienced of the Roman army, and their job was to defend against disaster as a last resort, or to shock the enemy with a different look at the right moment.
		The Triarii were armed with the Roman equivalent of the phalanx style spear, the Hastae.
		If the heavy infantry were pushed back, the Triarii would charge forward with their spears, hopefully with the effect of shocking the enemy and allowing the Princeps and Hastati time to regroup.
	www.unrv.com /military/legion-gear-tactic.php (1042 words)

	Triarii
		The Triarii were the veteran soldiers who formed the third and final line of the legion, arrayed in ten maniples of 60 men.
		Unlike the hastati and principes the Triarii were equipped with a long hoplite spear instead of the Pilum although otherwise they were armed in the same way as their colleagues with the Gladius and body shield.
		Only if the first two lines of the legion had been defeated would the triarii enter combat and this was normally a sign of a serious crisis.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/concepts_triarii.html (137 words)

	legions html Legion Formations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Those behind the standards, then, were the 60 men of the Triarii; plus the 120 Rorarii attached in units of 40 men to each of the Hastati, Principes and Triarii maniples; plus the 6 Accensi, orderlies or company clerks; for a total of 186 men.
		The Triarii maniples are comprised of two 30 man centuries aligned one behind to other to maintain a 6 Rank depth.
		In this version of the legion the large Velites units are shown aligned between the two centuries of the Triarii in the third line as they would have been during muster and, perhaps, during battle after they had retired.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/6622/legions.html (2905 words)

	DBA 4/28, Second (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Half of the triarii charged forward, while the other half wheeled to their left to face the enemy light horse.
		They then supported the attack of the triarii against the other Spanish formation, which was standing in open ground beyond the rough.
		Finally, the triarii in the front attacked the enemy camp with the support of the velites who had been assisting them before.
	members.aol.com /TFGrantel/dba6.html (733 words)

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		It was comprised of: The triarii and principes made up the first two lines of heavy infantry.
		Throughout the next 70 years, the rorarii and accensi were combined with the hastati and leves, respectively and half of the triarii was combined with the principes.
		This was usually a maniple of each of the five classes of infantry (hastati, principes, triarii, velites, and cavalry).
	www.essaycity.com /free_essays/00722.txt (978 words)

	The Roman Republican Army - History Forum
		The Princepe were expirienced soldiers, positioned behind the Hastati and infront of the Triarii.
		When suffering defeat, the first and second lines, the Hastati and Principes, fell back on the Triarii to attempt to reform the line and allow for a counter attack or withdrawl of the other lines.
		Triarii, not unlike the Princepes, were divided into ten manipules of 160 men.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1476 (2078 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the Roman army, the Triarii were the veteran soldiers who formed the third and final line of the legion.
		Triarii The Witch-King Casper van der Waerden 24 kenchi_witchking@hotmail.com
		The principes and the triarii are armed in the (Download Songs) same manner likewise as the hastati; except only that the triarii carry pikes instead of javelins
	triarii.iqexpand.com (338 words)

	Classical Hack - The 2nd Punic War - page 6
		Velites usually formed in front of hastati line or in rear with triarii.
		Triarii can use their swords only after 1st contact and then they cannot use long spear again until next melee.
		Triarii should be one class higher than the highest class of princeps.
	classicalhack.com /article/armies/0009/6 (788 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 495 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The third line, the Triarii, composed of tried veterans (veteranum militem spectatae virtutis), was also in fifteen divisions, but each of these was
		In these triple manipuli the veterans or triarii proper formed the front ranks ; immediately behind them stood the Rorarii, inferior in age and prowess (minus roboris aetate factisque)) while the Accensi or supernumeraries, less trustworthy than either (minimae fiduciae manum\ were posted in the extreme rear.
		If the principes also failed to make an impression, they retired through the openings between the maniples of the triarii, who up to this time had been crouched on the ground (hence called sztb-sidiarii\ but now arose to make the last effort (whence the phrase rem ad triarios redisse).
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/0502.html (708 words)

	Trebbia - Fisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The triarii held firm for long enough to enable the troops in front to finally break through the Kelts and a division of Africans in the centre.
		The standards were with the triarii and used for keeping position.
		The fact that the triarii were kept at 600 also implies these extra men added to the depth, not frontage, of the maniples.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /trebbia-fisher.htm (2195 words)

	Triarii - TheBestLinks.com - Infantry, Roman Empire, Centurion, Principes, ...
		Triarii - TheBestLinks.com - Infantry, Roman Empire, Centurion, Principes,...
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		The Triarii is the third standard line of infantry of the Roman Republican Army.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Triarii.html (209 words)

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		Still, fighting was hard and Manlius was considering whether to call the triarii forward from where they were resting on one knee.
		Casualties on both sides were appalling in that the battle came down to opposing ranks of triarii.
		The Latin triarii are not subject, but once any Latin AS triarii unit has engaged any Roman infantry unit in shock combat, the Roman player is released from the doctrine.
	patriot.net /~townsend/GBoH/gboh-veseris.txt (1775 words)

	Codex Legion of House Manticore
		Triarii Iactus are the Archers of the Legion.
		Their ability to strike at enemy formations at a great distance and disruption of these formations are incalculable.
		Triarii Iactus may be assigned to either Linea or Velite formations as they should be equally efficient in either of these roles.
	www.housemanticore.com /legion/codex_legion/index.asp?codex=cdl214 (201 words)

	SCC Forums > Pre vs. Post Gaius Marius Reforms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Just as your hastasi, depleted and exhausted, look set to rout after slaughtering the main portion of the enemy force, suddenly slide backwards, and the equally exhausted enemy is faced with fresh Princips, who proceed to break the back of the enemy.
		Then, as the enemy, wavering and it tatters, looks like somehow, his forces might break through the lines of the princips, the triarii march through, spears level, and and I can almost imagine the enemy general inventing some new swear words on the spot, aimed at my armies general direction as he flees.
		And finally, the triarii provide a solid base, and one last, desperate reserve, which is where the roman phrase, 'taking it to the triarii' came from, meaning doing something to the very end.
	www.stratcommandcenter.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t7509.html (2206 words)

	triarii- Phalanx - The Guild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I went into the export_desc_unit file and copied and pasted the formation entry for one of the other spear units in the game that uses the phalanx formation and put that for the triarii formation.
		RTR the germanic lancmen (dont know their original name) they have 2 row deep spears, their spears seem longer to me than triarii spears but i could be mistaken.
		If right away thats the unit file, if when you start a custom battle that the model file and if in campaign that would be the building file.
	forums.totalwar.org /vb/showthread.php?t=41349 (843 words)

	A Warhammer Ancient Battles Site
		The drilled Triarii managed to evade the elephant, and the Celts were quickly exposed of.
		The second Triarii unit could now move towards the main battle, knowing that the thread from this flank was eliminated.
		Just before the Triarii could skip the balance in favour of the Romans, the general and battle standard got caught in the fight and fled.
	home.zonnet.nl /richardevers2000/Battles8.htm (1044 words)

	The Guild - Question : triarii recruit time
		I clearly remember it took 2 turn to recruit triarii before 1.2 patch.
		By the time you get access to them old Marius is just around the corner (the next city upgrade) waiting to do his thing and get rid of them.
		So it is possible to keep Triarii for a while.
	forums.totalwar.org /vb/printthread.php?t=44323 (157 words)

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