Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Gun Controllers Unwittingly Support Unsafe Societal Conditions [View all]intaglio
(8,170 posts)Didn't very well against the Romans, did they? Nor did they do very well against the well trained Carthaginians and Numideans.
The "Scots" did not exist in Scotland, the Scots only arrived from Ireland during the post Roman period and they are Celtic as well. If you mean instead the Picts then they consistently lost against the Romans although they might have killed a Roman general who was foolish enough to ride with only a minimal escort through "bandit" country. These Hibernians were then largely ignored because their land was too poor to support an occupation. However the constant cattle and slave raids by marauders were a problem hence the Antonine "wall". Hadrian's Wall was, like many Roman building projects, a way of keeping the Legions occupied as well as reducing the length of the line of interruption.
Germans won, using the German auxiliaries (trained by the Romans) under a Roman tutored leader, who was fighting a really stupid Roman general who walked into a prepared ambush site. The Germans later lost, carrying on the loosing streak that had begun with their first contact with the Romans.
Nordics; many had Byzantine training and later Norse kings established vast training camps and barracks. The "hit and run tactics" of Norse raiders succeeded briefly in the British Isles but, for 100 years prior to the Battle of Maldon were continually beaten by trained Saxon huscarls - who were professional soldiers. After Maldon Nordic kings paid far more attention to training and consolidated finally under Cnut. Cnut then won many battles using trained troops in conventional warfare.
I could carry on, but I have my wife to take to the Doctor and then have to start work.