>>38522 >>38524 By that time, the military formation was outdated. It was mostly a Macedonian tactic. With Rome capturing everything, it pretty much kys'd after a while. Here's some backstory on it.
>The ancient Greek historian Polybius goes into some detail about the effectiveness of the Roman legion against the phalanx. He deduces that the Romans refused to fight the phalanx where the phalanx was most effective and offered battle only when they felt that they could exploit the clumsiness and immobility of the phalanx.
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