https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...3&postcount=70Originally Posted by cmacq
I thank your for your posts, but I do believe I understand this situation. I am familiar with the Boii,Insubres and even the Roman allies the Cenomanes(They did turn on the Romans at one time). I have read multiple authors and have also posted on this situation, so my understanding is fine.Originally Posted by cmacq
I have read the texts(several times over the past year) in which you have posted here but you have repeatedly failed to answer my questions. I will ask the same questions and hopefully ask them in a way you will understand what I am after.
Where is it written or where are you getting your information on the difference between the 'naked fanatics' and the Gaesatae?Originally Posted by cmacq
Where does it say or where is your information on the "'naked fanatics' appearing among the ranks of Gaesatae"?
Where is it written or where did you get your information on there being a small group of fanatics among the Gaesatae?Originally Posted by cmacq
I think the questions I asked here are all supposition on your part as there is no writing to support what your saying. If there is please let me know where that is. Just about all the historian who write on the Gaesatae say about the same thing, they are semi-professional mercenaries. None of the historians I have read, nor anywhere in the texts I have read(this would of course include the ones you put on your post) say anything about a small group of fanatics among the Gaesatae.
I agree with you on this. Again looking at the battles the Gaesatae where involved in there is nothing at all to justify their stats with the exception of a good(not high) morale, intimidation and vulnerability to missile weapons.Originally Posted by Elmetiacos
You agree with the stats of the Gaesatae, based on what; Clastidium, Telemon?Originally Posted by cmacq
@anyone
Where can I find any information that would support the high stats for the Gaesatae? For those that point out the battle of Thermopylae in 279/8 BC you have to remember no Gaesatae was mentioned. The ones who were mentioned was the Tectosages, Trocmi, Tolistobogii and some others. Even if we were to pretend that the Gaesatae were present, this still doesn't bode well for them. While it was a narrow pass you still would have had roughly the same numbers of combatants facing off against each other. If the Gaesatae were so tough why did they get defeated so badly at Thermopylae? The Celts outnumbered the Greeks and the reason the Greeks went back home was that they were about to be flanked just as their ancestors were against the Persians. Overall the Celtic foray into Greece was a disaster for the Celts.
Ill state as I have in other posts that the Gaesate would have the intimidation ability and the vulnerability to missiles, other then that their amour,attack rating and moral should be reduced. I base this on their performance at Clastidium and Telemon.
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