Talk:Arverni Guard

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This is stupid in the way it is written and pretty much typical of Wikipedia. I don't know how credulous the person who wrote this is but clearly somethings not write with their "bias metre" as I like to call it, otherwise it would be going through the roof like mine is. How could Vercingetorix discipline this force so it was on par with the Roman Legions in the space of less than a year in a country as fragmented as Gaul was? Second of all how does anybody know how well a particular tribe of people actually fought nowadays? There's no conclusive archeological evidence which is really all we have to rely on for this sort of ancient military history and there never will so there is no need to mention the "fighting skills" of the Belgae. The ways in which all "Celtic" people prepared for war were generally the same and any discrepancies in these "skills" have obviously arisen from the highly inaccurate accounts of the Roman historians of the time. What were the skills anyway. It's not as if the "barbians" had any specific tactical doctrine other than geurilla warfare and that sort of thing. Certainly it is not the kind that could be developed in a proper army like Rome's which is basically what this page alludes to. The mere fact that the term "gaurd" is used is an indicator of this. Instead of an accurate page this is a clear example of the of the type abusive presumptions made by some people in unstudied areas that is so prevalent on Wikipedia. Present to me some sort of source that confirms these claims and I will be a lot less scathing. No doubt a groups of warriors from the cream of all tribes in Gaul would fight better but not in the way this page suggests. This unsigned comment was added at 21:21, 6 February 2007 by User:84.71.239.107.

You fancy improving it rather than just complaining? ;-) Neddyseagoon - talk 10:06, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

No I don't, because the "Averni Guard" probably never existed. I'd much rather rather point out how stupid some people are than do resarch on such a trivial part of history.