Quote Originally Posted by fleaza View Post
well i wouldnt call slave trade unprofitable. julius caesar made quite a few pennies from what ive read from the gallic wars
thus the reason why juliues cesar made a profit out of it cause he only needed 55000 legionaires but one must admit that considering the census of the time that to conquer and vanquish 4 million gauls and 2 million belgae in 10 years with a 55000 army was at best considered impossible even if they where divided as they where (the reason why the senate avoided to get pulled into a massive war on gaul and instead prefered to play it´s political cards at keeping the regions status quo)

gaius julius played not only his best military thump cards but also several great political victories like when he went to britania and then to germania to show that anyone rebelling and plotting against him would be punished. his hability to mantain the remi on his side, his continous anihalition of one tribe after another 1 at a time

and finally the hand cutting of 4000 gauls(?)

@epi sorry i guess i felt a bit insulted on the personal level for calling sweboz weak when infact they where amazing warriors perfectly adapted to their native land and would hardly be defeated in their native land.

@Macilrille i feel alot of hostility from you so as not to make this personal:

- visit the blackforest and imagine how it would be like not being able to see 5 meters in front of you and looking up and 30 meters above you there´s only darkness in the mid summer day

- read some of the units description in eb

- germania from tacitus

- even you must admit that germania was a non profitable region and there was no unity in germania in terms of politics and you would have to defeat one tribe at a time cause none would surrender

so these are my sources the blackforest (in some parts it´s still almost as wild as before), eb (and i´m sure you´re not calling the eb team an inproper source ??), germania from tacitus (altough i find it wierd that it was such a small book), and some common sence (and yes i admit this source is very biased)