but seriously, the romans arent that much of big shots before a certain superhero whose last line was "et tu, brute?!!11!" appeared. my *****, carthage's hannibal barca literally ohko'd the roman army in italy, with an ingenious tactic.
alexander the great's phalanxes rekt the brunt of darius' (haha hes a loser) huge ass army.
the spartans too were defeated by a much smaller kingdom, by a prince (idr the little ****'s name) who made a minor adjustment to his army, by strengthening his right flank so as to render the spartan left useless.
medieval knights are total pricks, theoretically the amazons would be able to wreck them without even lifting a sword. all they have to do is stand in from thine good sirs who dont attack women.
gladiators, are uhm losers too. vikings are like ferocious af but their assaults are too rage driven and some planning from even a non caesar-led rome could finish them off so idk.
now look at storm troopers. unless they run into over charismatic han solos, they follow the true words of his lord darth vader. they also have the death star.