The Romans Are Desperate at the End of the Seventies

He inherits the troops who have been defeated by spartacus. The two consuls have to give up their troops to him as well. He regards them as being cowardly and decimation was a traditional punishment that the romans could impose upon their armies. But, you know, rome is desperate at this pointn so what kind of man is crassus then? What kind of a leader is he? He's really tough. You would not want to go up against him, and you want to be troops under him either. Some say that crassus too, having engaged in battle with his whole army and having been defeated, decimated the whole army, and was not