Oh.. it's a bad sign for us but we're not experiencing any military shortfalls that are significant to our actual homeland security. Also, Rome was conquesting for new territories, it's a lot easier to just hire the conquered people into your army and have them hold garrisons there under a few citizen officers.
Diversion.. but that's why I liked Caesar. If you surrendered before the siege ram touched the wall, you basically paid fealty to Rome and everything was more or less forgotten. Hold out for even one second too long, total slaughter. Anyways, really got people to surrender very defensible positions out of an understanding of what it was they were fighting.
And for a long time, the military wasn't allowed with arms inside the city. It was a very different model that played to the strengths and weaknesses they had at the time.
Oh.. it's a bad sign for us but we're not experiencing any military shortfalls that are significant to our actual homeland security. Also, Rome was conquesting for new territories, it's a lot easier to just hire the conquered people into your army and have them hold garrisons there under a few citizen officers.
Diversion.. but that's why I liked Caesar. If you surrendered before the siege ram touched the wall, you basically paid fealty to Rome and everything was more or less forgotten. Hold out for even one second too long, total slaughter. Anyways, really got people to surrender very defensible positions out of an understanding of what it was they were fighting.
And for a long time, the military wasn't allowed with arms inside the city. It was a very different model that played to the strengths and weaknesses they had at the time.