Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-4531192-20140102134332/@comment-26484881-20140105202515

Indeed, I agree wwith Bei, though my reasons are slightly different.

The Legion cannot hope to outmatch Camp Half Blood on their own grounds, they would literally be surrounded by enemies, with a forest of angry spirits (not literal spirits but I mean nymphs, satyrs/fauns and the such) while they also face the end of Greek spear and sword from the front. A combination of high mobility, being surrounded, and having more resources, magical and non- would overwhelm the Legion, despite their 'better' equipment and training. On an open field battlefield, I would believe that the it would be more even but as I have mentioned earlier, the Romans are extremely vulnerable in that they have no forces to support their centre line, unless they put in the officer corps (mounted) and veterani cohorts. Their lack of cavalry has always been and would be their undoing, as with their reluctance to use magic. They are also quite lacking in skirmishers, rendering them easy to be skirmished to death. You would simply just let them walk into Camp, presenting a solid line to hold them in place while on the flanks and behind, you deployed pegasi cavalrymen and nature spirits armed with skirmish weapons (slings with armour piercing rocks, archers, javelinmen, peltasts) and the Legion would fold under the weight of this.

Indeed really, it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the Greeks had not been engaged in petty disputes and civil wars with one another. I do not believe then that Rome would have been able to conquer them (in history).