Quote Originally Posted by Pontius Pilate View Post
I think it did show how the Roman army was unstoppable.
How exactly did the Roman war machine it learn from its mistakes if it never made any (ie was never stopped)?

Quote Originally Posted by Pontius Pilate View Post
On the barbarian note, did they not have a fighting style that emphazied the role of heroic and individual combat? I mean come on, it is not like every barbarian army was pulling off tactical maneuvars and was as well organized as the Romans.
GJC himself observed a Germanic phalanx. The phalanx, or anything resembling it, required plenty of discipline to use. As far as emphasising individual combat, that was actually pretty smart as they were superior individual combattants, as well as it being equally applicable in heavily-forested terrain.

And despite the barbarians "just throwing themselves at the [superior] Roman shield wall", they managed to sack Rome herself three times.

-Glee