User blog comment:Cyrice1/Stormcloaks or Imperials/@comment-5228729-20120707124935/@comment-5228729-20120708143241

@MarlboroNS I never said that the Romans failed to defeat the Celts, they simply conqured, couldn't hold such a massive empire over a large stretch of land, and crumbled. Now, imagine if they had been stretched out over an entire continet rather than a sub-continet.

The situation is still the same. No one can hold an empire that large. Especially when under attack, foreign or domestic.