Cav balance

[Watchman]

...and the whole passage makes it quite abundantly clear that despite some very spirited efforts, and in the process falling back to many of the universal staples employed against opponents too heavily armoured to be meaningfully vulnerable to one's main weapons ("grapple and stab" was actually a pretty common way for heavily-armoured warriors to deal with each other too - it's not like their weapons had an easier time at it after all), the Gallic auxiliary cavalry was at a very decided disadvantage in a straight fight with the far heavier armed cataphracts. In fact it makes it quite clear they got their asses thoroughly kicked, and most of the battered survivors who made it back to the Roman lines did so without their horses which the catas had rather unsportingly but entirely according to universal SOPs cheerfully run through to dismount their opponents.

So your point was what exactly, other than that you didn't properly read and digest the whole of the account ?