Why couldn't Rome take Germania?

They didn't want to. Not worth the effort desu

Because this gullible retard named Quinctilius Varus existed.

Difficult to navigate and a logistical nightmare for a campaign. You'd need native support and Arminius showed you can never trust a fucking german

It was a shithole and not worth the risks

Overland transport in Roman days was about a hundred times as expensive per mile as oversea.

That and the Germans didn't have a lot that the Romans wanted. And them thick forests.

>>1673926
Augustus failed to, and he later set up a policy of no more conquests and holding easily defendable borders. Most emperors except a few like Trajan continued this policy.

>>1673926
Romanlets had nothing on Germanic master race.

>>1673982
except civilization :^)

>>1673926
Not much serious effort was made to conquer the Germans after Tiberius had Germanicus killed, beyond the Marcomani war under Marcus Aurelius.

If they put their backs into it I'm sure that they could have before the crisis of the third century.

>>1673926
I blame corrupt politics.

>>1673988
Yeah.

>>1674005
Galo Sengen.

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>>1673940
Varus had no effect on hundreds of years post-Teutoberg of Roman forces operating further past their traditional most northern boundaries in Germania fighting other Germanic tribes.

>>1673982
Except genociding like three or four proto-Germanic tribes and beating them in wars until the late 5th century for nearly 900 years. And they were manlets. How can the Germanic even live with this disgrace?