What is the strongest modern-day country that couldn't beat the Roman Empire at it's peak?

You have to understand that with inflation the Roman denarius is worth many times its fiat value, as well as being collectible. With the largest precious metal currency reserve in the world, they could simply purchase large amounts of weapons and equipment.

Bhutan maybe. Or Luxembourg.

Andorra

This.

With how utterly defenseless Roman society is to modern assymmetric warfare, all it'd take is a jihadi with a mortar and rifle to assassinate the emperor while another blows up the Senate.

>The Roman Empire had the entire Mediterranean on lockdown and could obliterate Somalia
Ridiculous, think about how easily the mighty mesoamerican empires were btfo by just a handful of resourceful Renaissance era soldiers. Think how vastly more powerful our weapons are now.

Vatican City. How many niggas actually use guns there?

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low manpower and no industry to supply its army with

They btfo americans during their visit to somalia

One modern MBT could rout a roman legion. Somalia has 20 of those.

It'd probably have to be a country in an undecided civil war. Roman weapons, and more importantly economy (raw materials like gold mainly), could swing the war. So Lybia or somalia might be feasible. If we can't choose countries in civil, any country that has less Bullets then Rome had soldiers will fall, if we assume Rome commits to Total War. Liechtenstein, Monaco and Andorra are defeatable. But Luxemburg might already be too much.

>And then the Romans using their superior wit and physical vigor, did triple backlips and ricochet sniper bullets in mid-air, deflecting it into a red barrel, blowing up a fleet of Somali pirates.

>march 10 miles under the cover of night for a pre-dawn raid on a militia encampment.
>Velites kill the watchman with a storm of pilum and enter the camp, cutting throats. The alarm is rung, but the battle is over before it's begun, Roman soldiers storm through the camp freely killing Somalis left and right. A few dead and wounded, nothing major.

>they recover the strange weapons of the enemy, puzzling over their operation until the centurion NDs
>???
>profit

with all the gold and other material wealth the Roman Empire enjoys. why don't they just pay some pirates to fuck shit up for them? Even better, they could use the gold to buy modern weapons. I do believe they have a population advantage too.

yeah that's what they said about elephants too. Just wait till the concrete dragons teeth, tank traps, and anti-tank trenches start popping up everywhere.

>instead of pilum, Roman legionaries are packing RPGs. Still carrying the gladius, which is obviously superior to the more common machete.
I suppose their shields would be useless, so they'd drop those along with their armor probably. Are galea rated for shrapnel?