@Gorath : If you want to seriously learn more about Roman occupation, then you should read "Die Römer in Bayern", if you can get it cheaply. It is an excellent write, and imho quite easy to read compared to other works of Archaeology !
The lowest priceI found is this one :
http://www.amazon.de/Die-Römer-Baye...r_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268313720&sr=8-10
The book also shows that they did some "roads", too, for example, mainly for military reasons (easy and quick way to get their Legions from one point to another and for collecting tributes).
The woods I have encountered in Drakensang 2 are rather looking like modern woods in some places, imho. I have been a lot throgh woods in my youth (collecting mushrooms
) , and I must say that here are very ifferent types of woods.
The woods almost oly consisting of conifers (especially fir trees) were mady by humans, because onifers are not he natural "wood-trees". The Beech Tree is the "natural born wood tree", so to say, and this has evolved through the last tens of thousands of years, through time, after the last great glacial periods.
Conifers should be relatively rare within "modern" woods.
The Oak Tree is a wood-tree, too. This tree dominated the German woods before th Beech came and took over.
The Elm tree had played a prominent role, too, but it had several times of declinations, nowadays as well. This was during the stone ages when people (prototypes of farmers) cut off their lowest branches as food for their animals, his made the Elm tree vulnerable for fungi, which destroyed them, large-scale. A similar "event" is happening nowadays, too. The Elmn tree is right now so much in danger that it might die out here in Germany or even in central europe soon.
Now, hat we find in Drakensang 2 are woods with lots of "lower" plants, and few, very, very thick trees, as far as I have seen so far. Europe ust indeed have had "tree giants" in the past, a hing I know only from the north of america. But they vanished, because people needed woods. Especially for fires, pottery, melting metal. A lot of woods seem to have vanished during the "metal ages".
I personally don't know many woods like those I have seen in Drakensang 2, but they might have been much more common hundreds or even thousands of years go, I guess.