ENEMIES OF ROME POWER RANKING THREAD Hannibal ad portas tier:

Tfw too irrelevant to be even mentioned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Civilis

>>3307886
Irrelevant loser tier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampsicora

>>3307886
No way is mithridates that high up.

>>3307886
Sulla, who destroyed the republic

>>3307886
Add Mavia to Enemy of the State tier. She remains one of the only enemies of Rome to not only beat them, but to straight up be hired by them afterwards to fight Goths with her Tanukhid Arabs.

>>3307886
Antiochus was the ruler of one of the few equal powers with Rome. Shame that he decided not to do a single intelligent thing fighting the Romans when he cucked the Armenians, Ptolemies, Bactrians and Parthians. Must be some energy field around Romans that turn other peoples retarded.

>>3307886
>no King Pyrrhus of Epirus.

>>3307886
Brennus needs to be his own tier since he took rome and burnt it to crisp.

>>3308773
He never directly threatened rome, he wanted to expel roman influence in magna graecia, which he was unable to do so he turned south into sicily and attacked the Carthaginians.

>Mithridates that fucking high
>Atilla that low
>Alaric that low
>No Chosroes II

>Commodus isn't in Hannibal ad portas tier

>>3307886
>>3308784
Brennus is the reason why I don't feel bad for Gaul during Caesar's invasion
It was mere revenge

>>3308824
Attila didn't even manage to reach Ravenna, and he was fighting the Empire at its deathbed too.

Alaric should be higher though

>>3307886

Destroyer of Rome tier
> Jesus Christ
> Smallpox
> Pretender Emperors

>>3307886

Pyrrhus is conspicuously absent from this list.

>>3308856
>Alaric should be higher though

Seriously. His actions, both directly and indirectly are probably the cause of the most serious amount of harm to the Roman Empire in the west that wasn't caused by Romans to each other. He was so good that he kept the Western and Eastern empires in a state of virtual cold war for like two decades.

>>3307886
Where is Gaiseric

>>3308793
Half the people on that list never directly threatened Rome, most of them are provincial threats at best.

>>3308793

>He never directly threatened rome

Other than Hannibal, he was probably the one who came closest to destroying Roman power during the Republican era.

>caesar not #1

sad!

>>3307886

Trajan fought 2 wars against Decebalus.

He actually lost the first one.

The reason he won the second one was because he fucking had all the legions in the empire at that time (which would be at its largest extent ever after getting 1/3 of Dacia) recover manpower and zerg rush.

>>3307886
>>Brennus

p sure the "vae victis" story is apocryphal

>>3309081

and it was that hard because Dominitian had just bribed him and let him fortify the fuck out of Dacia.

lets be honest, without that condition the Romans would have gotten to Poland with the same momentum

>>3307886
Roma capta tier:
>Brennus
Roma minata tier:
>Attila, Geiseric, Hannibal (either here or the tier below)
Italia minata tier:
>Boiorix, Phyrrus
Provincial threat tier, serious:
>Shapur
Provincial threat tier, annoyance:
>Mithridates, Jugurtha, Arminius, Viriathus, etc.
Meat for the grinder tier:
>Vercingetorix, Antiochus, etc.

>>3307886
Shapur I should be at the top. He really, seriously, fucked Rome up when he captured Valerian at Edessa. The empire split into three and the third century crisis - which was already bad - took a nosedive. If it weren't for the practical godsend that was Aurelian, the empire would almost definitely have collapsed by the turn of the fourth century.

>>3307886
You forgot to put Caesar in Enemy of the state tier.

Rome's own fucking citizens

>>3307886
would really move boudiccea to either Do I really need to leave the provincial capital tier or Enemy of the state tier, she instigated a revolt so strong that it overwhelmed the shit out of roman forces and sent all of britannica into rebellion, while slaughtering any romans, whether soldier or not, that she saw

Christianity

>>3314221
Boudicca got fucking wrekt by a smaller Roman contingent when the Romans actually gave an effort. She sacked a understaffed town full of civvies, and killed herself when confronted by a proper army. Stay mad britfag

>>3314300
not even the right continent pham

>>3308861
add
>Scipio Africanus
>Julius Caesar
:^)