Quote Originally Posted by The Internet
Funny, the experts believe differently?
Two questions:

What experts?

And:

Who am I?

The Romans did it yearly, the Greeks only did it when it was needed, mercenaries were used a great deal more.
Legions were recruited yearly but the level of training was actually fairly even. Greeks didn't actually go to the gymnasium just to get buff.

Small numbers of men compared to the rest of the citizens who formed the rest of the army. Much like in Celtic society where a small number of men would be full-time fighters and the rest were conscripts.
Compared to none of the Romans?

I have tried to explain this every way I can think of but you all simply refuse to pay attention to what I am saying.

So frankly I'm done.

The Romans were not amazing, for most of our period they were just another citizen militia, you might think about how they won in spite of that.