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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 2296936, member: 73473&quot;]Very nice set!</p><p>Congrats.</p><p><br /></p><p>Though the battle of Mursa Major was bad (like really bad as far as deaths go) Constantius II brought order and stability to the Empire. Was the Fel Temp Rep series propaganda? Yes! Was it totally untrue? Probably not.</p><p>The economy of the west was not as productive as it had been in the principate, but it still was impressive. As for the military, well there are two schools of thought about it. One is that the Late Roman military was actually much larger than the armies of the Early Empire, the other that it was about the same size or a tad smaller. Either way the Late Roman Army in the 4th cent. usually won most pitched battles against the barbarians and was a fairly effective fighting force (until the civil wars of the last 20 years of the 4th cent)</p><p>See</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Strasbourg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Strasbourg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Strasbourg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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