The center of gravity is off maybe cuz he is falling from the weight of the sheild and i think you could lift those sheilds up how do you think they did testudos or blocked arrows or whatnots.
I dont think they made this game too realistic to the point that its not fun. If it was going by total realism i dont think its very likely that a slave can escape to become a general or whatnot. And btw we do know a lot of what it was like during…