Sorry I’m bad at history but in the ancient wars like Rome etc. both “teams” seem to always have a perfect setup in a huge open battlefield that spreads for miles, atleast in all movies. Did they agree upon a location in which to battle beforehand in like a wide clear open space? Or these were mostly wherever they met up in middle and sometimes the battle was actually in a mountain valley type of situation?
I answered this question for Classical Greece a while ago here. I hope someone else will be able to write on Rome. Meanwhile, feel free to answer follow-up questions in this thread :)