All those things are great, but they’re not tactics, i.e, battlefield level organization and disposition of forces, maneuvers, and operations. I’m not passing judgement on the Roman army as a whole, but just saying that if you specifically revived their infantry tactics and tried to use them in the 1300s to 1400s, which is what I was asked originally, you’d face some real difficulties.
I don’ think you’re giving Roman tactics a fair shake. Yes their infantry tactics wouldn’t work out great and their cavalry is behind but those weren’t the core contributions of the Romans to military history. Military academies, professional standing armies, citizen armies, standardized training, use of field artillery, earthworks, some degree of literacy. Roman legions sometimes got more done with shoves than with swords
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