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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 234690" data-attributes="member: 1645">Chapter IV -- Conquering GaulIt had been a short but profitable campaign for the men of the 10th.  They had stripped thousands of dead Swiss and German troops.This is sounding much more like D&D than I expected!Caesar himself had gone to northern Italy to carry out his duties as chief judge of his provinces...Something for high-level heroes to do besides plunder even meaner monsters' lairs.Against him it was estimated that the tribes of the Belgae could muster 260,000 mean...These numbers still amaze me.The Nervii were a proud people, famous fighters originally from Germany who even barred traders from selling wine in their territory because they believed it made men soft...Not the image I had of Germanic barbarians...To further awe the Germans, Caesar then had his legions put a wooden bridge across the rhine, near modern Koblenz.  Forty feet wide, according to Caesar it took just ten days to build.Again, the engineering!</blockquote>