Talk:Late Roman army

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My thoughts on the article Late Roman army:

• I did tweak the lead a bit, so that should be fine.
• The emphasis on clear cut distinction between the different time periods causes confusion and is perhaps unclearly/overly stated.
• "The army of the Principate, as it was established by the founder-emperor Augustus (ruled 30 BC - 14 AD) and survived until the end of 3rd century, consisted of two distinct corps." thats clumsy
• Use of c400 or ca. 400 breaks up the sentence a little
• "The senior officers of the army were, until the 3rd century, mainly from the Italian aristocracy: senators, the highest order, provided the legati Augusti (provincial governors, who commanded military forces in the province as well as heading the civil administration); legati legionis (legion commanders); and tribuni militum laticlavii (legion deputy commanders); the equites ("knights"), the second order of nobility, provided the governors of Egypt and a few smaller provinces, the praefectus praetorio (commander of the Praetorian Guard), the legions' remaining 5 tribuni militum (senior staff officers) and the praefecti (commanders) of the auxiliary regiments." that's one sentence.
• "The Illyrian emperors continued to rule the empire until 379" - empire is redundant
• Other sections of the evolution section appear okay.
• Try to avoid abbreviations
• single numbers should be word, not figure (i.e. three, not 3)
• There are some one line paragraphs about that need to be merged ideally
• The notes sections under the table could be wikified into a less clumsy formatting.
• WP:MOS prefers that headings don't start with "the"

All in all, it is an excellent article. Could it do with a copy edit? There are a number of things that do need tweaking, more than the ones I have mentioned above, though there are also massive chunks of text that have no major issues. It doesn't need particular attention in terms of copy editing that I can see, but like 95% of articles on wikipedia, it does need some.