What if the Jews did guerilla-esque tactics on the Romans and won the Kitos war? Will it mean a restored Judaea? And will it affect Christianity?
Otherwise, you'll just have occasional punitive expeditions, repression, mistrust, and random violence, or as they called it in Judaea, Tuesday.
Sorry, but that's not true. Guerilla tactics were the only way of fighting romans. The big mistake most insurrect forces did was starting a battle on Roman terms. This was something they could not win even if they had superiority because they all lacked the discipline of the Roman legions....
Not to mention guerilla tactics are not a good way of fighting the Romans. Not unless you can muster the necessary number of fighters, which I doubt the Jewish rebellion can, and not unless you are willing to wager the existence of your population base on your ability to transition from guerilla to regular military force. Otherwise, you'll just have occasional punitive expeditions, repression, mistrust, and random violence, or as they called it in Judaea, Tuesday.
Sorry, but that's not true. Guerilla tactics were the only way of fighting romans. The big mistake most insurrect forces did was starting a battle on Roman terms. This was something they could not win even if they had superiority because they all lacked the discipline of the Roman legions.
Parthia much? The Romans lost a force of about 45,000 to a Parthian force of about 10,000 at the battle of Carrhae. The Romans also lost a war against Pontus in the east (and came dangerously close to loosing all their provinces east of Italy in another). The Romans, wern't some unbeatable force on the battlefield, though they did have advantages over all other opponents.Sorry, but that's not true. Guerilla tactics were the only way of fighting romans. The big mistake most insurrect forces did was starting a battle on Roman terms. This was something they could not win even if they had superiority because they all lacked the discipline of the Roman legions.
A Greek comment about the Romans was "They create a desolation and call it peace"
The other great powers could beat Rome in battle, the normal insurgents however could not. They had to be creative. Arminius for example defeated Rome in a running battle in an aera which did not support Roman tactics. Other insurgents became too confident and tried to beat Rome in battle with the superiority of numbers and lost, because that was that Rome wanted.Parthia much? The Romans lost a force of about 45,000 to a Parthian force of about 10,000 at the battle of Carrhae. The Romans also lost a war against Pontus in the east (and came dangerously close to loosing all their provinces east of Italy in another). The Romans, wern't some unbeatable force on the battlefield, though they did have advantages over all other opponents.
The other great powers could beat Rome in battle, the normal insurgents however could not. They had to be creative. Arminius for example defeated Rome in a running battle in an aera which did not support Roman tactics. Other insurgents became too confident and tried to beat Rome in battle with the superiority of numbers and lost, because that was that Rome wanted.
Later Rome lost its provinces because civil war had diminished its legions and thus had not enough legions to put down rebellions in the provinces or stop invading barbarians.
So the best way to beat Rome is:
- hit them hard in places where it will hurt them (e.g. destroy their colonies, raid their supplies)
- avoid the legions in areas which support Roman tactics
- pray, that Rome has enough problem elsewhere, so that at that moment retaliation is unlikely
So, to make the Jews win Kitos War other events have to become worse for Rome. The war against the Parthians has to tie more Roman legions in Mesopotamia than IOTL so that Trajan could not send Legio III Cyrenaica and Legio VII Claudia against the insurgents in Judea and Cyprus.
I'm not sure I totally agree with you Elf, but Egypt at least simply cannot be lost by Rome. It just can't. Better to let the Persians pour into interior Anatolia than lose Egypt.