Rambo light character in the movie here sounds just about perfect right but the bizindines are going to start you know there's going to be a tone i feel like that comes into the writing here where they're making fun of the barbarians who consider the bizantines so weak. "They fight violently in hand-to-hand combat either on horseback or on foot if they are hard pressed in cavalry actions and line up on foot although only a few against many horsemen" They do not shrink from the fight, armed with shields lances and short swords slung from their shoulders.