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Tango01  | 02 Aug 2024 12:15 p.m. PST |
"The term clibanarii and exactly what it means has long been the subject of vigorous debate amongst historians, particularly in terms of how they differed from catafractii. This is because there is no clear consensus as to their definition from ancient writers, some of whom even seem to use the terms interchangeably, and indeed for long periods we have no mention of either term in works on Eastern Roman armies. The answer is probably that there was no consistent distinction between the two, but in the modern world we like to impose structure and order on such things, so a common modern approach is to see the clibanarii as heavy cavalry and the catafractii as extra heavy cavalry, and this appears to be the method adopted by RedBox for this and its sister set…" link
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