Tempted by lowered defences, riches on the Roman side of the Rhine, or just pushed forward by peoples further east, Germanic tribes started to raid and then come across Rhine in large numbers from the third century onward.

Theme: Empire under Pressure

• Peter Crawford, 'Introduction to the theme - Crossing the Rhine'.
• Vedran Bileta, 'Cornered at the wall - Crossing the Rhine 406/407'.
• Peter Crawford, 'Charietto the headhunter - A vigilante makes good'.
• Michal Stephen and Jakub Mroczkowski, 'Limitanei - Soldiers on the border'.

Features:

• Gary Brueggeman, 'True-scale battle maps - CAD and Cannae part 2'.
• Duncan B. Campbell, 'The ballistarii - Artillerymen in the Roman army'.
• Jon Coulston, 'Conflict landscape archaeology - Waging war in the archaeological record'.
• Maksymilian Krason, 'Achaean armoured fist - Philopoemen's heavy hoplites'.
• Graham Sumner, 'Face to face - The Imperial imaginifer'.