Roman Metal Armour-Polished or Dull?

[Magnus]

In the absence of roads they would have to march through whatever terrain was between them and their destination. Of course they could have had a "Dalek and stairs" problem off road. :wink:

Come to think of it they never attempted Ireland....

True, but any animal is going to take the easier road. Show me anyone that is going to purposely march through a bog... 8) And even then, there are always paths and bits of high ground to move through. That's where the scouts come in...keep in mind they have baggage trains and pack animals to also transport, so moving through swampy muddy terrain is not going to be feasible.

Point being that while I'm sure it wasn't the best of terrain to move across, it wouldn't have been to the point where they were all covered in goo. Thus keeping the armour clean would have been more of a challenge because of some mud spatter, but not difficult.