why was the roman army so successful?

Answer 1

It was because of many reasons. They learned from the people that they conquered. The Greeks, Egyptians, Gauls. Everytime they would conquer another land they took the best things from that conquered army and used their enemies military power to add to their own.
The more they fought and won the more powerful they became.
The Romans were ruthless in combat but so were the other armies that they fought against. What gave Rome the edge was better armour, weapons, and tactics that they stole from their conquered foes.

Answer 2

There are a number of reasons. Perhaps the most important one was the Roman Legion's discipline, and unity. Most armies were made up of warriors. A warrior is a fighting man who fights as one. The Roman Legion was an army of soldiers. A soldier is a fighting man who fights as a group. The Legionairre did not fight alone, and he did not try to gain individual glory. The Romans had good training, and good equipment. They did have some faults, like never having an effective cavalry force. But they did understand some basic and very important military concepts. For instance, the legion was a highly mobile unit. The Romans showed the legion to be superior to the Greek Phalanx, when the phalanx tried to charge them down, the Romans just side-stepped and then attacked from the exposed rear. The Roman Legion was inventive. The Tortuga was the undoing of many British hill forts. They constantly attacked. They always moved forward, even when fighting defense. And by the way, the idea that the other peoples of the world didn't know what "attack" meant is just idiotic. You get the idea pretty damn quick when a bunch of soldiers comes at you with swords bared. And to say "that is probably wrong but it's what i think" is just as dumb. If it's wrong, there is NO value in keeping that idea! And just because people didn't know how big the world was didn't mean that they simply said they won't fight. They fought all the time! Have you ever even GLANCED at history??? And by the way, the people of the ancient world were much more connected than many people think. There is evidence of trade between the Egyptians and the South Americans during the time of the pharoahs. Scandinavia is mentioned in the Oddysey (spelling?). Japanese were known to settle on America's West Coast.

Answer 3

Good organization, equipment, tactics and a massive population to back everything up.

Roman infantry favored a more uniform and flexible battle formation, with each man having enough space to fight in. This also made the formation easier and quicker to move.

Meanwhile, other armies lacked the cohesion, discipline and numbers of the Roman Legions. The Greeks were an exception but still relied on their previously-dominating Phalanx tactics. Phalanx tactics involved one massive formation of soldiers packed closely together, armed with shields and long pikes.

Although a Phalanx could pack a lot of punch when moving forward, the Roman infantry were quite capable of moving around the relatively immobile Phalanxes and attacking them from the sides and rear where they were weak. As time progressed, the Romans found themselves quite adept at making siege weapons.

Although they had some defeats, their obvious advantages kept them the top dogs for a long time.

Funny how some idiots like bringing irrelevant modern politics into this.

Answer 4

there are many things that led to the roman legions being the best fighting force in the world but one particular man by the name of Gaius Marius transformed the roman army from a good fighting force into the most professional highly trained army of its day, the changes he implemented were the reason the legions became legendary, each soldier carried what he needed on his back from weapons to rations eliminating the need for long supply chains, this meant they could travel further distances and move quickly, with superb training and discipline the legions were unflappable, there equipment was the best you could get and they took everything they learnt from the way their enemy fought and improved upon it, the roman legions were without doubt the best of the best

Answer 5

Fighting as a unit does better than the single man on his own style of fighting. Major successful armies stayed successful when organized armies were surrounded by unorganized armies. They also don't upgrade their style of warfare either (the reason swords, spears, shields, bows etc. didn't change much for hundreds if not thousands of years).

When Europe switched back to individual style of fighting, they lost in the Crusades and to the Mongels. When they switched back to unit fighting they started to win. When two organized armies fought each other, there were major arms races.

Answer 6

Because the Roman army didnt have to deal with bleeding heart Liberals trying to prosecute them for doing their job, much unlike our military today.

Answer 7

'semisista' you should know if you had the benefit of a Scottish education that the Romans did indeed come to Scotland at least as far as Black Hill near Ardoch,Perthshire.

Answer 8

Discipline

Answer 9

Organization, training style, and logistics all played a part. And Roman engineering.

Answer 10

Good weopons, superior tactics, a relatively fair government that paid all the soldiers, and excellent experienced generals (like Caesar).