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support you can give legionary Optio and Centurion. Now, this question is another from Jsoth

2675 and they ask, out of curiosity, if Crassus knew Caesar, then during Karai, why not build

a heavily fortified camp the night after the first day, as Caesar may have done, if the Parthians don't fight at night and the army was comprised of 10,000 all-mounted troops.

That seems like it would have made some sense.

In particular, Crassus would have been able to make Palisades tall enough and simply encamped another day, thereby giving more time to come up with

a proper answer to the situation. So the interesting thing about the defeat of Crassus at

Karai against Parthia is, of course, that it destabilizes the situation in the first triumvirate

between Crassus, Pompey and Caesar. The defeat and death of Crassus then leads to the disintegration,

the situation between Pompey and Caesar,

that leads to the civil war, that leads to Caesar's becoming dictatorial life.

So it's a snowball effect.

And so the Battle of Carai is fascinating for those reasons.

It's also a huge disaster.

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