re: #276 Aunty Entity Dragon

I thought it was strange that the Romans had absolutely no counter to the Parthian light cavalry at the Battle of Carrhae (more like massacre of Carrhae) during the First Triumvirate.

The Parthians were an exception and in part because much of their land was flat (remember they ruled modern day Iraq). Italy doesn’t have that much flat land and some cavalry was of limited use. As it was the Roman legion’s emergence as a distinctive style of fighting formation was a response to the difficulty Greek-style phalanxes experienced in rolling ground against the swarming tactics of the Gauls.