Hello, welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare magazine podcast. I'm Angus Wallace.

In this episode, we're going to be looking at volume 12, Issue 6, An Empire Under Pressure, Germanic, raiding and invasion.

Beyond our patrons who are watching live.

Hi guys, with me to discuss the topic is Regulars Jasperortage, Lindsay Powell, Mary Dam, Mike Cole and Mark DeSantis.

So to kick off, the introduction to the theme of the magazine suggests that the Germanic tribes along the frontier had been largely quiet.

Now, I can loop this in, this question, with one from one of our patrons, Cosma, to kick us off.

In the aftermath of the Battle of the Tuttenberg Forest and the successful revenge campaign of Germanicus

that resulted in the death of Arminius,

did the Empire enjoy a period without major Germanic raids?

On the Ryan, yeah, I think that's fair.

I mean, you could, even during the Batavian revolt, the Batavians actively tried to involve Germanic tribes from across the Rhine into

their revolt, and it doesn't seem to really have worked.

So as far as we know, it's always a good thing to interject the course.

It was fairly quiet.

So why was there a change in the early third century?

Yeah, it starts in the early third century? Yeah, it starts in the early third century.

Well, it's difficult to say why the Germans suddenly decided to start raiding the empire.

Because, of course, they didn't leave any sources or hardly any.

It seems to be a combination of opportunism.

You know, if the Roman Empire is perceived as being weak,

that means that it might be attractive to go and find something.

Because, of course, they've, you know, the third century,

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