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Seems like the low performers would have been taken care of already from the battle.

• scrumper 4y ago
  Not necessarily. Cowardice is a viable individual survival strategy.
  • illumego 4y ago
    Where would a Roman run? To somewhere in Gaul? "Ave! Auxilium requiro." "Oxnychz navar werun dosh? [laughs in extinct language]" "Quid?"
• SuoDuanDao 4y ago
  In that kind of setting I imagine the low performers would sometimes be likeliest to survive, if they broke rank to run away. I imagine the lots would come out if everyone gave an honest effort.
• illumego 4y ago
  That's not how the legions worked. The men assembled three ranks deep. The first rank was comprised of those with middling experience, who had seen combat before. The rear rank was the senior veterans. The cherries with no experience went in the middle, both to be reassured by the E4 mafia laying skunion in the front rank, and to be prodded on by the very experienced guys behind them.