DID EUROPEAN WARFARE AFTER THE FALL OF ROME REGRESS SO MUCH THAT EVEN MEDIEVAL WARRIORS LIKE KNIGHTS WOULD BE DEFEATED EASILY BY DISORGANIZED LESS WARLIKE BARBARIANS LIKE SHEPHARDS IN ENGLAND AND BATAVARI VILLAGERS IN NETHERLANDS?

[EvaWolves]

One of the cliches always repeated was that warfare by the time of Medieval Ages has regressed so much from the Greco-Roman era and armies of the Medieval Ages were so much more primitive that a typical Greek city like the Argives had much more organized and disciplined armies than the best knights and even a generic Roman auxiliary drafted during the time of Spartacus revolt would destroy any Crusader army.

So it makes me wonder........... Did warfare in Europe become so primitive that even against untrained disorganized barbarians who weren't bloodthirsty in nature like say a large farming community in Gaul and warriors living in buildings made out of straws in Spain easily beat a bunch of Medieval KNights?

Would Dacia slaughter the entire force of over 100 K troops that volunteered for the first Crusade? Like not a single Dacian city would have ever been captured by the over 10,000 remnants of the exhausted battered Crusader army that besieged and captured Jerusalem because Dacian warfare must have been more advanced than 13th century European military science since the Dacians have defeated the Romans?

Its always made out of how much the Feudal System had degraded the quality of Greco-Roman warfare especially in organization and tactics (particularly use of formations). So it makes me wonder if a Medieval Army was so backwards that even primitive more docile barbarians who weren't the most warlike of that the Romans fought (and in fact the Roman Legions easily slaughtered) like mountain people in Turkey would easily beat them?

If not, than how would say the army of King Henry V would have fared against the more aggressive barbarian groups like the specific Gauls Vercingetorix came from or the Picts of Scotland and the Northern Germanic tribes that slaughtered Varus's Legions? Were the Iceni more organized than William Wallace's rebels?

[caldrail]

Medieval warfare was not primitive. Unsubtle maybe, but it did usher in the era of firearms. As to your speculations, it's impossible to say, although the Teutonic Knights did not find the Lithuanian tribes an easy opponent.