When armed with a "medium" sized weapon or lighter, and facing an opponent wearing Roman segmented armor, how did warriors deal with the situation? It seems unlikely that strips of iron could be cleaved straight through by a less than massive weapon, so I figure warriors either hit the opponent in a place not covered by the armor, or just kept bashing and bashing until the armor fell apart. Was there any particular tactic for facing such heavily armored opponents, without using an armor-smashing weapon? Watching lightly armed troops with daggers and such (try to) take on Romans, I'm inclined to think that there probably was no tactic.