Re: Who were the roman republic's worst enemies?
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Originally Posted by seienchin
The romans werent better armed only more consequent. They were kind of uniformed, while celts and germanic warriors weare the armes they bought themselves and fought in kind of a mob formation
Oops! I meant to put armored not armed. I would consider better armed in conjunction to the tactics of the Romans, the gladius for the formations they used, the spatha for their cavalry, etc.
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Originally Posted by Cyclops
Thank you for informing me about Noreia, its an interesting precursor battle in the Cimbrian war that I knew little about. Is there a source for it on-line? I'm just getting dusty old Mommsen or some bogus wiki-military history.
Livy writes very little on it as does Strabo. Here is a link to Appian:
http://www.livius.org/ap-ark/appian/...c_3.html#%A711
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Originally Posted by Cyclops
Once again, the Romans respected them as fearsome individuals (especially the naked ones)
The stereotype of 'Celts' was generally the naked barbarian. If you are referring to the Gaesatae, the Romans were nervous of them, until they engaged them and crushed them; at Telamon it was the Insubres who turned out to be the real trouble.
As far as the Marcomannic Wars are concerned there is not to much I can say right now. I know it was a big problem at the time and the Romans lost quite a few soldiers. I will have to do some more reading on it.
