High Imperial Roman army vs Late Roman army

[Robert Vermaat]

[quote="Maurits Huijbrechtse " post=345808]Until the desastrous battles of Adrianople and Frigidus, the majority of the late roman soldiers were roman citizens, too. I doubt, german romans, african romans or syrian romans were worse soldiers than italian romans. The pannonian romans even claimed to be the best romans ever.

Actually I've read that the infantry from Gaul was highly appraised during the mid-4th century, and considered far superior to the infantry from the Syrian provinces.