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- May 19, 2018
Parthians. Carrhae was basically a masterclass in "horse archers vs. heavy infantry," because they Parthians knew that the Roman strategy when faced with a hail of arrows was to hunker down behind their shields and wait for the enemy to run out of arrows- so they set up supply trains of camels to make sure they never ran out of arrows. So the Romans get completely encircled by an enemy they can't catch (and who promptly wipes out their cavalry contingent when they try to break out, and hand Crassus his son's head as a bonus) who's raining arrows on them for an entire day. Morale drops like a brick, Crassus has a meltdown and is effectively overthrown by his second in command, and the Romans are forced to retreat at night to Carrhae, abandoning their wounded to slavery and/or death at the hands of the Parthians. When they get to Carrhae, they're promptly surrounded and forced to give up Crassus, and... well, it doesn't end well for him.Correct. When roman was denied the battlefiled of their choosing, they would get fucked up. Another battle is the battle of carhere, where the Persian used their horses to great effect and had put up an effective supply line with ammo.
Bringing this back to Blob, his worldview is like that of a latter-day Optimate as written by Plautus when he's in an incredibly nasty mood: spoiled, lazy, entitled, and so assured of his destiny that he, Crassus-like, would stumble headlong into easily avoidable disaster because he thinks he's so superior (and his opponents so inferior) that he can't possibly lose no matter how what. The difference is that Crassus actually got out of his fucking basement from time to time, unlike Bobicus Adipose.