The "Myth" of the "Dacian Falx" as a super weapon

[Paullus Scipio]

The actual location tought to be the ancient Tapae is not an open space, is a narrow one.
I don't see any problem for a population to fight in it's own techinques. Or to learn new ones from the Romans.

So I think Dacians were quite tough.....................miners :mrgreen: (the French team at Ro?ia Montan? - GOLD MINE - found evidences that the mines were in use before Romans came in Dacia. And I believe them - was there, saw some material) So the Romans must have known about the quantity of gold present in Dacia

Quite right on both counts, Nina! Tapae was the site of several battles precisely because it was a 'bottleneck' - a pass through the mountains. Its physical size precludes any 'large battle', let alone deployment of the "biggest army ever used against a foreign enemy" ( which seems to have been divided into several different invasion forces coming from different directions, not just all invading via Tapae/Iron gates.)

It is also surmised that 'Dacian gold' was one of the prime motivations for Trajan's invasion - certainly the Gold and other minerals from the new Roman province provided a "shot in the arm" to the Roman economy for many years.