#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

2926.502 - 2950.952 Gregory Aldrete

My guys aren't as good as the Romans anyway. So he lines up some of his less good troops in the center against the big menacing Roman phalanx, and he tells them, okay, when the Romans come – You're not really trying to win. Just hold them up. Just delay them. And even tells them you can give ground. So you can retreat and sort of let the line form a big kind of C-shaped crescents.