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1/31/2015 5:58:16 PM
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RE: DAMN
anyway, im convinced the roman army was savage pack of bandits with only a small fraction of the order you think was used. and this idealistic notion of thosands of armored men and discipline was only something that took place after trajan.
you see, trajan is what brought the divinity of the gods to the roman legion. much of how we think of them is from the point on.
i'm telling you, before that there was nothing special worth of note
both roman army and roman enemy were quite basic. more likely the army kept upgrading ahead as the enemy would upgrade, which coincidentally the enemy we know of was created by rome themselves, just so they could savagely beat. rome had a main advantage of power by numbers. large amounts of people that could band together did not really exist before rome. not even in egypt. not anywhere but china, which was too far away.
there literally was nothing out there. it was always like 10 vs 1. they didnt need metal armor. this is how rome won. it wasnt the 'battle' which was large, it was the romans. it took a long time for civilization to just BARELY form large tribal shit-armies to even present a number to rome, as a joke, then savagely be beaten into submussion again.
and britian was also a joke. old grand daddy rome would convince his idiots that some kind of ghost lived out in britian and everyone believed it. if anything britian is the best example of how pathetic ancient armies used to be.
rome created itself, and rome created the enemy. any *real* battles only took place twords the end, when the world actually had people to fight. and the roman army did not get real power until trajan, which was the ritual that birthed the roman military we know today
