Romans as no-retreaters

It is not quite true that the Romans never retreated. They tended to have a
very strict system of military discipline, and a bad performance could get
your cohort or legion decimated (one man in ten executed) so if the order was
to not retreat, they probably would not. But it did happen once in a while.

And I don't think you can point out that their engineers had a similar
attitude - the desire to overcome huge obstacles to assert your
fundamental rulership of the universe where doing so will not kill you dead
can't exactly be compared to standing and fighting when that could often get
you dead.

This had more to do with their psychology and the way they organized their
society and their military than any necessity of the race. They were just as
varied, just as adaptable, and just as flawed as most other iterations of the
race (maybe a bit more successful than most).

> Thomas Barclay of the Clan Barclay wrote:

> It is not quite true that the Romans never retreated. They tended to

A bit like the NKVD riding behind the main assault troops and machine gunning
anyone who was a bit reluctant to advance...

> Thomas Barclay of the Clan Barclay wrote:

> It is not quite true that the Romans never retreated. They tended to

For the most part, the roman army was the engineers. One show said that the
troops perfered battle to all of the heavy labor. (building roads, forts,
aquaducts, ect.)

Oh yes!