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/hugs CF

Central Facehuggeria wrote:

Trailers wrote:=(

Ahh, delicious tears.

Romans for the win.

Romans=Run at hoplites then fall down.

Trailers wrote:

Central Facehuggeria wrote:

Trailers wrote:=(

Ahh, delicious tears.

Romans for the win.

Romans=Run at hoplites then fall down.

Romans=Toss pilli at Hoplites and lulz as the pilli get embedded in the shields and make them too heavy to wield.

Romans = draw phalanx onto broken terrain, pilli/pin, then roll up the flanks.

One could argue that the Macedonians were corrupted by the Greeks in that last battle. Instead of being a unified wall of spearpoints, the final Macedonian phalanx was a big square-shaped gaggle of guys running as fast as they could at the Romans, something picked up from the Greeks.

The last Macedonian phalanx happened to be a motley assembly of varying and random unit types put together mish-mash from what was left of the Peloponnese army, with some Macedonian conscripts thrown in for kicks. At least their cavalry was intact and formidable as ever. Routed and killed the Roman cavalry, but got out flanked when the infantry broke..

And in the same vein, Roman Legionaries were far, far more formidable during the late Republic and Imperial years.

Yet they still didn't conquer as much territory as Alexander and his phalangites.


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Rome was only concerned with efficiency, after the early Roman Empire they decided they didn't need more land as it would stretch out the empire too far, which was completely correct. There is also the matter that the Roman Republic and Empire was more united than the Greeks after Alexander, and as such it was less in their interests to conquer huge amounts of land just because they could. It did, however, make them considerably more powerful than the Greeks.

Try telling that to a Traileric hoplite.

I'm a history major. I know that technically Rome was a better example of an empire, I just like the Hellenites more. If properly applied, the phalanx is just as deadly as the maniples.