| Well the new research into ancient warfare has shown that even humans in peak physical condition lose significant effectiveness after 5 minutes when trying to hack slash and thrust their hefty weapons while wearing all the armor. So new theories have come up to say that ancient battles where more 10 minutes of fighting followed by 10 minutes of resting back and forth kind of combat.
I'm pretty skeptical about this model but it is a new theory that is out there. One thing is pretty sure, it would be very near impossible for an ancient Roman/Macedonian/Greek infantryman to stay in the fight for an hour, much less the whole day. |