> mfw I've got a gallic look about me.

>>85728922
How would game of thrones armies that attack each other haphazardly in large scale battles fare against the romans who fought in tight knit well organized and displined cohorts? Minus the dragons of course.

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>>85729184
No contest. The largest army fielded in westeroes is around 15K. Rome could easily muster 10 legions in any given territory. Plus the quality of individual soldier is also much better .

>>85729295
>ywn see Dany's army get steam rolled by Caesar

>>85729295
>He has his sword on his right hip. Correctly placed

That little bit makes me so happy.

>>85729295
Four words. Shock cavalry and crossbows. It's common knowledge that any high medieval onwards army would BTFO a late Republic/early Imperial Roman legion.

That's not even going into the improvements in metallurgy that occurred in the 1000 odd years from the fall of the WRE and rise of the knightly class.

>>85729184
Compare how good you were on your first day at work to how good all the people around you were.
That's the Romans vs almost everyone they were fighting against on a daily basis.

>>85729551

The roman infantry dealt with cavalry charges all the time.

>>85729693
Heavy cavalry of the type in the Medieval period did not exist in Antiquity. Plus you know, Carrhae and all that.

I think it all comes down to the innovation of the stirrup. It made Charlemagne and the Mongol armies the super powers of their times.

>>85729796
>>85729551
What books do you recommend on this subject?

Also we are talking about game of thrones armies not well trained medieval armies.

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>yet another thread where people interpret the "Roman army" as being specifically the Roman army during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD for some reason

>>85729551
>Shock cavalry and crossbows.
Romans had both of these things

>>85730015
Any of David Nicolle's stuff is pretty good but obviously get the books focused on Western Europe and not the ME or the Ottomans.

Goldsworthy for the Roman parts. The Complete Roman Army is especially great.

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>>85730328
>tfw Late Romeaboo so Goldsworthy's dismissiveness of the period annoys me but I can't deny that he's a great historian

>>85729184
pretty even match considering most GoT characters can teleport themselves and their armies/navies anywhere at will

>>85730262
Game?

>>85730776
Looks like mount and blade to me, famalam.

>>85730776
Total War Attila

>>85730864
I wish Mount and Blade looked like that

>>85728922
is that a lovecraft reference?

>>85732069
>does a statement overtly regarding the Roman goddess Fortuna made by a character living during the time of Julius Caeser contain a reference to an american author from nearly 2 thousand years later
Just drown yourself in your own turds, dude.

>>85732336
>I've got a gallic look about me
I thought that might be a reference to the Innsmouth look from Shadow over Innsmouth.

>>85732474
Sulla wrote that, didn't he?

>>85732495
I have no idea, i didn't study the greek. Yes that was a joke.

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>>85732474
In the context of the line he's giving a speech while running for political office and a heckler yells "Go back to Gaul!", in reference to his strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes, to which he replies "I may have a Gallic look about me, but my father, and his father, both shed their blood for Rome"

>>85728922
Lucius and Titus were truly Garius and Martius of the gens Stuii.

Prove me wrong.

>>85732698
Ohh alright, well it would've been funny as a Lovecraft reference.