Article draft \"Fighting Greeks, Naked Celts\"

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It would be truer to say that Roman troops adapted eventually in theatre to the enemies that they faced . The Pompeians cited above had been in Spain a long time and had adapted to the more skirmishing warfare of the Iberians. However Caesar's troops, newly arrived in Spain found this difficult to counter. I doubt that a legion could just arrive in any theatre and have in place drills for anything that standard legionary methods were not suited for. Hence they struggled to cope with Numidians and Parthians.
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