Following the Marian Reforms, and the Allied Wars of 90-88BC, the Socii were reduced to nothing as full citizens they were absorbed by the regular Roman Legions. I basically make 1 Equites, 4 hastati, 2 principes and 1 Triarii (general) And fill the rest up with Socii auxiliary cavalry, 1/5th Socii elite infantry, 1 socii hastati, and then complemented with a few auxiliary hoplites and auxiliary peltasts and tarantine cavalry. The name refers to their nature i.e. pursuing the flying legions, in three days after the battle occupied Rome. The extraordinarii were the elite troops of the Roman alae, recruited from the socii, Romes Italian military allies. Extraordinarii were recruits specifically taken from those states. I (of 2), by Polybius This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost. This imbalance was famously exploited by Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae in 216BC, when the Carthaginian cavalry under Hasdrubal routed the weaker Roman cavalry while the crack Numidian light cavalry waylaid their Socii allies, such was the difference in troop quality. Socii were individual, independant states within italy that were permanent allies with rome. By tradition, Roman cavalry was habitually deployed on the right flank, while the equites extraordinarii were sent to the left. As there were typically two or three times the number of Socii than Roman cavalry, a consular army of two Legions could have some 1,800 Socii cavalry, of which at least 600 would be considered part of the elite equites extraordinarii. Up to a third of allied cavalry could be selected to join the equites extraordinarii. The socii ( / soia / in English) or foederati ( / fdreta / in English) were confederates of Rome and formed one of the three legal denominations in Roman Italy ( Italia) along with the Roman citizens ( Cives) and the Latini. The equites extraordinarii were drawn from amongst the Socii, allied non-citizens who provided most of the early Republic's cavalry. Roman Cives in green, Latini in red, Socii in orange.
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