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War sucks in any century. There were and are dozens of ways to die instantly and dozens of ways to die long slow agonizing deaths. That was true then and it's true now. Fallout says it best: War never changes.
The major difference is in when you might die, ancients didn't face a constant threat of gruesome death.
Imagine winning a sword fight and then getting tetanus because you got grazed