Roman Forts - Building Stories from Stones (featuring "Medieval Engineers") 

Hey Marek, thanks! It's one of the many things I love about the software. Being able to get things so real. You guys are on the cutting edge of something really big here.

Thanks much for letting me know, that made my day! I'm glad you found it helpful.

RIP western civilization

Hello to a fellow Medieval Engineers player! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I really can't wait to get the time to sit down and revisit these forts using all of the new blocks and technology that are in the game now, compared to when I first made these. It just gets better & better.

Thank you very much! For the nice comment and the share. I'd love for more people to get a chance to see this, I'm still proud of how it came out.

Thanks a lot, Dan. I really appreciate that. I don't take it as weird at all, just a very nice thing to say!

Hey Blackout! Thanks much for the note & the sub. Yeah, this game can do things I've never seen any others do. I think if they can keep at it it's going to be amazing.

Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Jerusalem is no city of david and there is no david in Truth. Jerusalem is a Palestinian aka Canaanite city. Romans blessed they crushed the Jews and their Unholy temple and false god.

If you see my later videos, I spent a lot of time reconstructing & using a complete set of lower-pitched roofs to take that into account. But it may or may not have been accurate to do that. In the northern provinces, especially on Hadrian's Wall, winter snows could have been sufficient to need a steeper sloped roof. If you look at all the reconstructions by experts in the field, some have the more Mediterranean low-sloping roofs, some have a more "medieval" high-sloping style. Over the centuries the Romans seem to have adjusted some of their building styles on Hadrian's Wall to take account of local conditions. For example by the 3rd Century roofs were made of slate instead of tile. So maybe they changed slopes too. We'll probably never know for sure.

Thank you!

The vicus, or civilian settlement. With several hundred soldiers in the fort, there was a lot of money to be spent...

I dont think so.

people looted the stones mostly.

Thanks much for the support, I appreciate it! I hope to be putting out more videos again soon. There's been so many changes & additions to the software it's hard to keep up.

Yeah, a nasty side-effect of using early-release Medieval building software to recreate Roman environments! That said, the Romans in Britain actually did use a huge amount of half-timbered walling filled with wattle-and-daub. In ways it would have looked very much like Medieval or romanticized-Medieval wallwork. For Vindolanda's first 80 years, it was a timber fort with timber, wattle-and-daub-filled barracks. I was there on site once when part of a demolished wattle-and-daub wall was being excavated. It was quite a sight!

Hi Jason. Thank you for the note! This model is built within the game called "Medieval Engineers." It is for sale on Steam -- and there is actually a summer sale going on right now, so the price is very reasonable. (About $12 U.S., whatever that translates into pounds.) Both my Vindolanda and Housesteads builds are up on the Steam Workshop for the game. So if you buy the game, you may download and explore both for free. They use an older version of the game, but the game makers have made that older version available to anyone who wants to use it. If you buy the game, I can give you more detail about how to find and install the older version.

ok, i have buy this game .and Can you give me the old version of Roman fort building like this video?(might be you can see a new transaction on steam for a Chinese card for me ) i mean how can i find the old version of models? by the way, can i ask a question about those model can or cannot support the unity?

Hi again Jason. To use the old version of the game, you must open Steam on your computer desktop, and then go into your Steam Library. Find the "Medieval Engineers" game there. Right-click the game name, and then click "Properties." In the "Properties" window, click the "Betas" tab. Then select 0.2.70. That will download and install the old version of the game. Once you have done that, you can simply go to the Steam Workshop pages on the Web to subscribe to my Vindolanda and Housesteads forts. The link for Vindolanda is steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=687444958. The link for Housesteads is steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=642911759. Please note: These forts both make use of player-made mods (modifications). Some of them may be broken now, because these are so old and the game has changed so much. Hopefully there will still be enough left to make these worlds enjoyable. I don't think this supports Unity -- the "Medieval Engineers" game uses its own game engine, called VRage. Good luck!

ok i have subscribed your Vindolanda.how can i get your FBX file?

Many FBX files are not available in the game. They have been wrapped into the game's own code system. But on Steam you may have access to the "Medieval Engineers ModSDK". Open Steam, look in "Library," and look in "Tools." You may see "Medieval Engineers - Mod SDK" there. That contains many of the game's original files, including FBX models and textures.

The Roman republic organized cavalry in turma units of 30. After Augustan reorganization, a turma consisted of four contubernia. Each contubernium consists of eight fighting men and two military slaves. Thus the later turma consists of 32 fighting men. In operational terms, it is quite likely that the unit size for battle was 300 riders, ten sets of 30. What happened to the other 20 men? IMO these were special duties which always required horsemen: two subgroups of two speculatore each (total 4), two subgroups of eight exploratore each (subtotal 16). The special operators thus number 20. Most likely, at least one man in each subgroup was evocati. This ensured each legion included the minimum force strength for scouting and reconnaissance, and a full strength complement of cavalry. The numbers would be useful in planning, building and supporting the required military infrastructure for basing purposes. During wartime campaigns, the count would swell appreciably from addition of evocati reserves, socii levies, and even mercenary hires.

Cohorts were definitely part of a legion, but auxiliary troops in the Empire were formed into their own bands also called cohorts, and they operated independently. All of the forts along Hadrian's Wall were manned by cohorts of auxiliary (non-legionary) troops. Mostly about 500 troops, but a couple of the larger forts had cohorts of 1000 troops. The cohorts were usually named after the tribe they originally came from. So on Hadrian's Wall there were Gauls, Batavians, Tungrians, Hamians, Vardullians. Peoples from everywhere from north Africa to the Syrian desert to the edge of Germany.