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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[โ€“] PugJesus 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Explanation: The Macedonian phalanx involved a great number of troops with pikes, some of whom had to raise their pikes up in the air to prevent crowding the troops in front of them or poking them in the back of the head. Obviously, ROMAN FORMATIONS ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO THIS GREEKOID NONSENSE

[โ€“] bergie 3 points 1 month ago

There's a whole set of articles analysing this one: https://acoup.blog/category/collections/legion-and-phalanx/