Tempted by lowered defences, riches on the Roman side of the Rhine, or just pushed forward by peoples further east, Germanic tribes started to raid and then come across western Europe's great river in large numbers from the third century onward.
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AW124 - Barbarians
AWA: Cavalry shock tactics without stirrups?
AWA: What do we know about the Persian Immortals?
AWA: Were late Roman armies as bad as they say?
AWA: Did the Romans uses phalanx tactics?
AW119 - Rise of the Legion
AWA: How did the Romans adapt to cavalry enemies?
AWA: How were mercenaries recruited?
AWA: Were Pila designed to bend?
AW115 - Rams and Ramming
ANA: How did Ancient Greek cavalry operate without the stirrup?
AWA: Why did Sparta adopt the Macedonian Phalanx?
AWA: Could Boudicca have won?
Warfare in Hellenistic Asia Minor
AWA: If the Roman Legion was superior to the phalanx how could Hannibal use such inferior methods and defeat the Romans for years?
AWA: Did the Romans downplay their navy before the first Punic war?
AWA: Female Warriors seem to have come from steppe nomad cultures. Were there any others?
109 - Traitors, discipline and punishment
AWA: Why was Roman republican cavalry so poor?
AWA - Why did the Roman army draw lots in AD69?
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