"The Sassanian Empire: Rome’s unbeaten rival in the East." Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Oct 2014 11:10 p.m. PST |
"With all its success and brilliance in Europe, the Mediterranean, and North Africa, Rome never conquered the Spah (‘military') of the Sassanian Empire. Roman emperors such as Alexander Severus, Valerian, and Julian the Apostate tried and failed to subjugate Persia. Thanks to European and Iranian military historians, as well as Classical, Iranian, and Islamic sources, we now have a clearer picture of the formidable Spah…"
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| kallman | 20 Oct 2014 5:59 a.m. PST |
The Romans were never able to develop a viable strategy or tactical answer to the mobile horse archer. Terrain also tended to favor the mobile style of warfare over the more infantry centered methods used by Rome. |
| LorenzoMele | 20 Oct 2014 7:12 a.m. PST |
The Romans won against the Parthians, but could not settle farther away than Tigris and Euphrates. More a problem connected to the stretching of meager resources than something else.
While the Sassanids were warlike and had their share of victories against romans, don't we forget about the defeats they suffered too.
Carus sacked the persian capital, Galerius did even better.
In the end it was a stalemate, often forced by the threat from other enemies attacking these two empires from west and east. |
| kallman | 20 Oct 2014 7:43 a.m. PST |
Fair points LorenzoMele, I had forgotten about those battles. It is worth mention that Sassainid infantry troops tended to be pretty inferior being mostly levies with little motivation for a stand up fight. Which meant the Parthians and later the Sassainids did not have an adequate way to take and hold ground. And as it should be noted determined and disciplined infantry will stand and win against cavalry most times. |
| Tango01 | 20 Oct 2014 10:50 a.m. PST |
Interesting if Caesar had live and made his projected campaing against them. Amicalement
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| Tango01 | 20 Oct 2014 11:48 a.m. PST |
10 Principles of Sassanian Warfare "The Spah (‘military') of the Sassanian Empire were Rome's unbeaten rivals in the East. Here we look at 10 principles of Sassanian warfare…" See here
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| BlackKnight | 22 Oct 2014 12:14 p.m. PST |
Unbeaten is totally false. Formidable and perhaps the greatest rival of Rome since Carthage would be right. Also they were finally beaten by the Islamic Arabs. |
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