User blog comment:Kazanshin/Barbarians made Kings: Aterui vs Fritigern/@comment-17814994-20190701114817/@comment-17814994-20190703135331

1. I am pretty sure the angon CAN pierce armor. It can pierce through the bronze cuirasses used in Roman times, I'm pretty sure it can pierce through Emishi iron slat armor.



Although its not stated in my reference here, I think its pretty known that warriors at that time carried more than just one pila or angon.

2. And yes, let us talk about the Emishi "armor". While the Emishi did utilize iron armor, by the time they were fighting Yamato forces, they have already replaced it with leather armor. Which would be easily penetrated by the Goth's weapons.



^ Warriors of Japan as portrayed in the war tales by H. Paul Varley^

And yes, while you made a great point that the Emishi cavalry are armed well for melee combat, they're still a primarily horse archer unit who's armor are weak leather compared to mail (so I doubt they would even be that good against . And I am still sticking to my point that a mix of shock melee cavalry and horse archer cavalry is better than a predominant

3. Fritigern's defensive strategy is not reliant on him knowing who his opponent is or what. During his time, the Goths basically avoided any fighting any force unless they have to. They used guerrilla tactics on the people the forces met across the Danube. The environment of this battle actually works well for the Goths since they have been using forests and trees to conduct said tactics before. They even used it to counter Hunnic and Scythian horse archers:



^ Imperial Brothers: Valentinian, Valens and the Disaster at Adrianople By Ian Hughs ^

Also Ty, your opinions were pretty good themslves. I just wanted to point out that Fritigern himself is not a pushover in this battle. Yes, I might have needed to rephrase it better but hopefully the above references I posted helped.