How did Roman border forts work? Why wouldn't Germanic tribes

Germans were like Native Americans. They didn't understand the concept of borders.

>>3090752
forts didn't exist to enforce borders, they they were QRF garrisons

>>3090752
Like every other forts: the enemy can't ignore them and walk into your territory without being surrounded. If he want to secure his advance, he have to take the forts as he progress.

>what are patrols

FOBs: Afghanifrance AD100 Edition

>>3091152
So, they didn't work and the barbarians could still run all over the place causing mischief?

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>>3091247
Roman ROE were quite different to modern America.
The standard course of action after a tribe started shit that couldn't be ignored, was to take a legion or three and burn the motherfucking place down and kill everything that couldn't climb a tree, until someone finally came forward and said sorry

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>>3091333

pic related

>give traders a safe place to trade
>give garrisons a safe place to sleep
>provide a hub for communications and logistics

Not that complicated.

>>3091333

In the Republic and early Empire. Later they cut deals with invaders, making conquered tribes give them conscripts. They also settled invaders on the frontier so they would defend it and pay tax.

America was way more like old Rome. They basically exterminated the Natives, so idk what you're talking about desu senpai.

>>3091540

This. But also, if your army passes forts to the east and west, you will get surrounded.

You're supply lines and lines of communication are fucked if you leave forts behind you.

Cannae should tell you what happens to antiquity armies that get surrounded.

>>3091578
Cannae? I know the army was surrounded in the battle but wasn't that down to Hannibal's skill rather than his forts? Or where you just making a statement about the armys getting fugged in general and im just being dense

Because as soon as the Romans get word that you're fucking around in their neck of the woods, Titus and Maximus are gonna take their troops to every village and start crucifying people until they tell them where you're from, then they're gonna go to your village and rape and enslave all your women and children and burn everything that looks halfway flammable

>>3091620

Just in general.

Most of history a double envelopent meant destruction. Hannibal did it with skill, but bypassing Garrison's just gives the enemy it .

Only recently has it not mattered. In Korea the Chinese encircled USA Marines but the better disciple, and more importantly, their ability to easily spot PRC units and call in jets, led to the PLA getting raped while encircling an enemy.

Same thing happened during the Israeli-France wars. If you surround the enemy and commit to holding the circle, enemy planes know exactly where you are.

>>3091695
Heh. Google autocorrects Arab to France.

Strangely accurate

>>3091558
>America was way more like old Rome. They basically exterminated the Natives, so idk what you're talking about desu senpai.
we were talking about America in the sandbox, not America 300 years ago and how it compares to Rome's punitive campaigns against tribes who might have been pacified before or not.

in 14AD Germanicus literally took third of Rome's army and went to town on Germans behind Rhine for two years as payback for Teutoburg Forest. No land or cashcrabs, just wholesale carnage.

>>3090757
>They don't understand the concept of borders.
fify

>>3091844

Germans understand borders!

Say it loud!!!!

Say it clear!!!!!

>>3091266
Same let's be friends what's your Snapchat mine is robthebreadman