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to elaborate on the germans getting wise to the romans tactics, its not like rome won every battle they ever went into, nor did they ever conquer all of the germanic peoples.
the difference was that germanic tribes didnt have a strict training regimene per i dont know much about germanic combat training or tactics, but i think the general idea is that they didnt do very much training, or at least in a way that we would recognize as training. the other thing is that rome could eat major defeats and loss of troops, and not even lose their footing, its how they won the punic wars. presumably these two things factored into it.