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How did the romans who all looked like this defeat anyone militarily?
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>>18055870
What the fuck are you babbling about?
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They were digging a lot of ditches and burning a lot of Teuton witches
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Organization, good equipment and strategy beat the unorganized, ill-equipped, and badly led every single time. It doesn’t matter how tall and buff the losers are.
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>>18055870
Dany DeVito is half Albanian
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>>18055870
The pen is far mightier than the sword
Especially when you spend all night writing out how to build trebuchets

Not to mention Italia wasn’t where soldiers were conscripted from once things got rolling

Italia became a powerhouse for art and literature, leading to weak fat dudes
The heavy lifting was done by recruits from across the empire

They were good a government
Bar bars good at rock banging
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Looks don't have to do with anything. Rome built fleets quickly, adapted tactics, and ultimately destroyed Carthage through strategy and persistence, and all of its soldiers looked like cavemen.
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they didn't look like that they looked german.
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>>18057233
Of course they did. Cope.
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>>18057233
You don't even know what a German looks like you ugly mullato from New Jersey.
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The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar

Book 2, Chapter 30

And on the first arrival of our army they made frequent sallies from
the town, and contended with our men in trifling skirmishes; afterward,
when hemmed in by a rampart of twelve feet [in height], and fifteen
miles in circuit, they kept themselves within the town. When, vineae
having been brought up and a mound raised, they observed that a tower
also was being built at a distance, they at first began to mock the
Romans from their wall, and to taunt them with the following speeches.
"For what purpose was so vast a machine constructed at so great a
distance? With what hands," or "with what strength did they, especially
[as they were] men of such very small stature" (for our shortness
of stature, in comparison to the great size of their bodies, is generally
a subject of much contempt to the men of Gaul) "trust to place against
their walls a tower of such great weight."
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The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar

Book 2, Chapter 31

But when they saw that it was being moved, and was approaching their
walls, startled by the new and unaccustomed sight, they sent embassadors
to Caesar [to treat] about peace; who spoke in the following manner:
"That they did not believe the Romans waged war without divine aid,
since they were able to move forward machines of such a height with
so great speed, and thus fight from close quarters; that they resigned
themselves and all their possessions to [Caesar's] disposal: that
they begged and earnestly entreated one thing, viz., that if perchance,
agreeable to his clemency and humanity, which they had heard of from
others, he should resolve that the Aduatuci were to be spared, he
would not deprive them of their arms; that all their neighbors were
enemies to them and envied their courage, from whom they could not
defend themselves if their arms were delivered up: that it was better
for them, if they should be reduced to that state, to suffer any fate
from the Roman people, than to be tortured to death by those among
whom they had been accustomed to rule."

tl;dr Roman legionaries were like army ants
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>>18057233
>we wuz romans und scheisse
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>>18055870
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>>18058452
Whats the broder context, where would a Italian from Lombardy place?



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