>>18124571
With fierce warriors like the Dundee dual wielder its no surprise.

War paint

>>18124571
Based

>>18124571
It was not an especially consequential moment in Roman history. The north of Britannia was isolated and of no great threat to the Empire. But the Caledonian campaign is a good story to begin understanding the Empire’s later history with barbarians. Septimius Severus, an experienced general, marched up to Caledonia with the might of the Empire behind him, expecting to be able to conquer the region while carried along in the shade of a covered chair. But the Caledonians played by their own rules, as did so many other barbarian groups indisposed to fielding armies directly against Roman ones. Like the Caledonians, over the course of the later Empire, barbarian tribes struggling to defend their homelands, or to just survive, gradually proved to have more martial stamina, tenacity, and innovation than the multi-headed and schizophrenic Roman executive branch leading rebuffs and conquests against them.