Combat questions - Romani perspective

[QuintusSertorius]

They were also spoiled, weak city slickers when compared to most of the less civilized people even though the Romans were perhaps the most agriculturally focused nation in the antiquity before the latifundas came in. So important was agriculture that all other professions/social classes, such as craftsmen and merchants were left for the foreigners to fill. Senators were prohibited to engage in anything but agriculture in the early days. For roman soldiers it was the discipline and superior training as well as quality standarised weapons & armor that made them so much better than the others, not weapons skill, strength or bravery.

Uh, no. Roman soldiers pre-Marius were smallholding farmers in the main. There was a property requirement to be in the legions, unless your free city-dwelling citizen was rich enough to own land in the countryside as well as a home in Rome, they wouldn't be eligible to join the legions at all.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Uh, no. Roman soldiers pre-Marius were smallholding farmers in the main. There was a property requirement to be in the legions, unless your free city-dwelling citizen was rich enough to own land in the countryside as well as a home in Rome, they wouldn't be eligible to join the legions at all.

That's true that they were farmers, but to barbarians, all of the Romans must have seemed like spoiled city dwellers. Romans were farmers and most of the barbarians were hunters and warriors. The Roman way of life seemed very pampered to barbarians. Romans weren't city slickers but when compared to the tough and ruthless barbarians they sure seemed like ones.

[Moros]

I think it might have been the otherway around in a lot of cases. Take the Celts for example, the average celt had nicer looking cloths (colours, fashion, torcs,...) while the average roman would wear just a plain uncoloured tunics. Also For celts levies were mainly farmers too. While the professional soldiers/warriors were well soldiers/warriors...
Dacians weren't that poor and only hunters either. Certain Iberian tribes weren't that bad off either. Now while the Lusotanann were perhpas mainly sheppherds and the germans weren't that rich either, not all barbarians would be that poor.