How did manlet armies win in ancient warfare?

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You look at the Romans, and they're 5'6" men fighting against German savages that are 6'+ and 180-200 lbs. You look at Japan, and they're like 5'3", so it's just like how did they have these amazing armies? How did the Romans beat down guys with a 50+ lb weight advantage and 8+ inches of reach on them?
 
You look at the Romans, and they're 5'6" men fighting against German savages that are 6'+ and 180-200 lbs. You look at Japan, and they're like 5'3", so it's just like how did they have these amazing armies? How did the Romans beat down guys with a 50+ lb weight advantage and 8+ inches of reach on them?

Fight other manlet armies
 
Humans traded physical strength and intestine length (ability to digest low nutrition raw vegetation like leaves) for endurance and brain size. Fire and cooking is our ancestor's most significant achievement. You win with smaller, physically weaker men in the same way that you can kill a 1000 lb+ mammal with nothing but hand tools. Strategy. You can jog down almost all animals to death, including migrating herd mammals. We are the alpha predators on this planet. We can kill anything that has a heart beat. It would also be detrimental for troops that have to march long distances to be large and heavy.
 
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Humans traded physical strength and intestine length (ability to digest low nutrition raw vegetation like leaves) for endurance and brain size. Fire is really our ancestor's greatest achievement. You win with smaller, physically weaker men in the same way that you can kill a 1000 lb+ mammal with nothing but hand tools. Strategy. You can jog down almost all animals to death, including migrating herd mammals. We are the alpha predators on this planet. We can kill anything that has a heart beat. It would also be detrimental for troops that have to march long distances to be large and heavy.

And we're so Alpha, some of us fuck anything with a heartbeat...or at least a still-warm corpse....

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Neanderthals are manlets who would whoop regular sized humans today:

Neanderthal-VS.-Homo-Sapien-2.jpg
 
Quite honestly in the case of the romans I suspect they had numerical superiority in most cases and they certainly had the ability to supply their armies with provisions in a way that the newer/smaller societies largely lacked.
 
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