Roman Soldiers - Demonstration of Imperial Power 

Erm, never heard a dutch word in there.

Thats exactly how the roman army was like, which is pretty cool!

carpa nera No it’s not..

Dino4002 MineCraft No shit, Latin commands.

They were speaking romanian: stang-left, drept-right, unu-one, doi-two, trei-three and so on

Bonk

soo sad

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I thought of the same

where?

@@gian847 Behind the ordinary legionaries. With the javelin men.

Same dude.

Yea imagine watching this tactic in real life from a much more disciplined and organised army in action.

There was a city that rebelled, the Roman army had other problems, so the general decided he needed to take the city quickly His tactic: march the legion back and forth, run it through drills and formations in front of the city for a day The city surrendered

@ragnarian yeh, see its shit like that that makes me wanna see it in action.

mr.amazing 18 where does one get artillery

mr.amazing 18 is Craigslist a good place to get artillery?

mr.amazing 18 Tell me when you got artillery. I'll wait

Wouldn't it be more fun to have navy seals swimming around your house in your moat? ;)

Most guy's want young girl's roaming around there mansion ..Jeff Epstein.

Return in two years it's been 1 decade an are you still alive in this acc

@@Zack-4960 i dont even know man he's probably dead

@@DannyCurrinton yea he ded as hail

RIP

CIIR ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

ROME MIGHT OF TRAINED ME RAISED ME BUT MY LOYALTY STANDS FOR MY PEOPLE FOR GERMANIA

CIIR Arminius? Hermann you mean? The teutoborg's liberator

@Eyre Borne Still butthurt eh Varus?

@@irvinnazifizak3467 Arminius: Hey Augustus! I got your legions! Germanicus: Hey Arminius... how are wife and kid?

Mutt Hoople 249

Alexander the Great 322

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You mean gauls During the first punic war there wouldn be any legionaries like we see them here

The Ermine street guard are from the UK.

Los alemanes terminaron admirando a los romanos, hasta le copiaron formas del idioma.

The re-enactors you see here are actually mainly from Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium and some other countries.

@TheCrazyKid1381 No. Majority are descendent from the Frankish tribes intermixed with gauls and latin people. go be american somewhere else if you cant read books.

@@Powersnufkin oh boy the irony of telling him to go be American somewhere else...

It’s probably more to do with thrusting in a forwards and backwards motion rather than swinging from side to side means you can stand in even closer order. Which has all kinds of benefits of its own. (I’m not denying the bit about the 3inch wound though. I’m just saying as a reason for why they adopted the tactic. Probably the thought process is “how can we stay close so we don’t get broken up and killed” than “I’m pretty sure stabbing them is 35% more efficient than slashing” especially since they’d be both stabbing and slashing anyway if there was no specific fighting style mandated. Sorry I kinda went off. I’m really high, forgive me.)

Rome is by far the best faction I personnaly love the armoured legionaries.

+samuel van der schoor Truth they ware very advanced in tecnolagy and more

Although (maybe a bit late) their lack of cavalry is bad, personally I go with macedon if I want to hammer and anvil.

samuel van der schoor Funny part is that I beat two Macedonian armies!

Vendetta yes, that's possible but macedon can beat rome of they use their pikes as anvils and attack with the cavalry.

+Isaiah MacDonald Not exactly.. least not entirely. History is much more complicated than we think, sure, Rome had many wars with Germanic peoples (see for example the wars Roman-Germanic), but over the centuries, there were many covenants also (with whole tribes). And not just when the empire was in decline but even when was in great health. Without forgetting that there were many Roman general of Germanic origin (and many soldiers also), especially after three hundred AD. The same Arminius (Battle of Teutoburg), grew up and was trained as a Roman, in fact, he was a commander of the Roman cavalry when destroyed the Varus legions (I'm simplifying... its history is much too complex). Sry, I don't speak Eng but I hope you understand me in any case.

You should read more about Roman history. Not ALL the soldiers they had at the time were Roman especially not in the later stages of the Romantic Empire they used to rely heavily upon Auxiliaries

This isn't a Phalanx.

Isaiah MacDonald Testudo not phalanx

Its not a phalanx like in literal sense of greek style formation but what you likely dont know is the fact that Roman authors themselves used word "phalanx" also in more general sense to refer any compact military body from germanic barbarians to Roman army itself.

In the ancient times, I bet nobody would notice the smell. Everything would smell worse.

***** My Vietcong victims might disagree with that if they werent dead of course

Breaking formation was the biggest crime after deserting in the Roman army. Punishable by flogging, and forever dishonor by the soldier's comrades.

don't people shit themselves when they die? least of their worries.

I did that all the time I'm formation haha because nobody could tell it was you lol. Everyone says it wasn't me and you just say the same hehhehehehe

Hundred years war English would've annihilated them. Using pretty similar technology.

Cool cool nerdy

English Heart maybe because of the size of their empire they wouldn't just fight great britain

German Armies are better c:

***** Better than?

Big thanks for the compliment! I'm glad you like it!

Were those the ones with the round shields and older helmets?

@@emorynguyen1583 yes

Imagine an ancient centurion seeing them

@@emorynguyen1583 Those are not older helmets.They are just different models from exactly the same time.

LEGIO XII FUL MANATA Ave ceasar

ROMA LVX MVNDI

AVE ROMA!!!!!!! SIMPRE FIDELIS!!!! ROMA PER SEMPRE!!!!

They had their"artillery", such as ballistas/skorpions, most of their adversaries weren't so advanced (except Parthians)

The Romans were in Xanten, they called Castra Vetera.

The romans were in south,central, and west Germany during their height of the empire; yes the romans spread nicely in Germany. Germans today are made up of Eastern European, Nordic, and Western European people.

Thank you very much!

ROMA VICTA I think that's wat it is

Shix Lo It's actually ROMA INVICTA, saying VICTA would mean "Rome conquered" so instead say ROMA INVICTA.

Hail Caesar

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@@enkianunnaki2967 what?

@@samuelesandrini3104 in Latin it means: Rome is the light of the world. Roma (est) Lux Mundi.

@@enkianunnaki2967 perché non in italiano?

They are called a pilum (singular) pila (plural)

The real ones would have done neither. These are just modern cosplayers.

British

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Punishable by flogging that is how dare they disrespect rome on the battle field

ROMA LVX MVNDI

Yes, Rome!

+Michele Vogliardi “VogliuzGuy” LOL I agreed with you BUT... In the last years of the Roman Empire most of the Legionaries where hired in the Balcans and in modern Germany, Ukraine and Lybia / Algeria (read Wikipedia) expecially for the commanders, the explorators / scouts on horses and archers... SO... The guttural idioms spoken by those former "tribesmen" now enlisted (by necessity and or self will) in the roman legions where often spoken or, if they tried to speak latin, they retained their guttural accent... More or less it still happens when a German speaking person tries to speak a Latin Language like modern Italian or Spanish... The results are almost hilarious... Just like the middle italian trying to speak English... ALL THE WORLD IS THE SAME PLACE; my friend !!! No matter the time and men... LOL

What accent? So u can still remember how they talked 2000 years ago, huh?

TribuneTestudo The Italian dialects all come from the Latin language and they all share the same type of pronunciation, also very similar to the spanish one (and spain was the most colonised province by the latins). So the english way of speaking it, is surely the worst.

+Michele “VogliuzGuy” Vogliardi The pronunciation of Latin evolved over the centuries and even evolved in other languages. How can you then say if the "Northern Accent" hurts if you don't even know the real pronunciation of Latin words? Maybe the "Northern" pronunciation is more closer to the Roman pronunciation then the modern Mediteranian? And don't say that the Italian pronunciation has to be the closest one just because of the location of modern Italy. Remember who came when Rome fell and brought their own cultures and languages?

You are right... In the last period most of the major legions and "local" armies were made by Germans, Hun mercenaries, and arabic "auxiliarii" knights... So... The languages spoken into the legions of the last 2 / 3 centuries of the Roman Empire were more similar to a mixture of Latin and Arabic in the Middle East and Latin / Celtic or Latin / Germanic in the northern borders or in the region of the modern Turkey and Crimea... Were the dieing Empire gave birth to the Eastern Empire, which eventually became the Empire of Constantinople and Byzantines... During the middle ages and over !!!

ROMA LVX MVNDI

Thank you and good luck with your work!

Very glad you like it! The event took place in the archaeological park in Xanten, Germany: www.apx.lvr.de.

+1415Razor thank you for the information. I would like to visit there.

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Italicus sum. You would add ego only if you are emphasizing or refuting an objection.

Josem De Mira I imagine they'd be all "Aw, fuck! What is that.... Kill the guy with the weird boomstick! I want it!". Next thing you know your friendly demonstration amounts goes from 0 to 100 REAL QUICK!

Brianna Gordy lol

Josem While they would have no chance on the battlefield, if your first encounter wouldn't be really friendly, Romans were always cunning with adapting foreign technology. So even if you killed thousands of them , someday they will somehow have gunpowder weapons pointed at you. Or something similar. Maybe you don't even fight because you don't have the chance. Killed by some hooker payed by somebody who has the coin and a hard on for boomsticks.

@@PoliticallyDonutTasty Definitely. One thing that sets Romans apart from other ancient civilisations is their sheer will no matter what technology you have you will not scare them, they will find you and they will kill you

Guy 2,000 years from now: Imagine if we could go back to 2024 with a neutron plasma disruptor...

The Romans are part of our history, too. Besides, identifying with the old Germanic tribes became somewhat difficult after the Nazis used them in their ideology. And Romans are cool, aren't they?

dude, ancient romans were in the fascist ideology too, i don't see anything fascist about a historical reenactment

Davide Ghirelli I totally agree with you. It's not that it really IS fascist, but many people here instantly think of Nazis when they see it.

unless you march with the nazi helmet.. that could be nazi

Davide Ghirelli It could. But there are some awesome reenactors in the UK displaying Wehrmacht- and SS-Soldiers - without being fascists.

Roman naval battles were so cool especially the boarding parties and bridges

I don't speak Italian, but I salute my fellow Italians.

@@mrchessmaster809 👍🤝

+TheArrowsPath triarii are from a is completely different time period.

these are not the manipular legions these are the Marian legions

Those are auxiliaries. (barbarian troops)

@@lucfxgambitgaming7494 Auxiliaries were in fact mostly composed from so called Peregrini(inhabitnts of the Roman Empire without Roman citizenship)not from Barbarians which were only a minority in ranks of auxiliary cohorts compared to Peregrini.Understanding Auxiliaries at this time as barbarians is pretty common misconception.

lol a awnswer o_0

me too^^

John Alexander where you in Rom at that Time

Yes but if that was the real world you wouldnt have a Computer to write about it right?

actually computers do in fact exist in the real world

Rebel Friend , they didn’t when Roman Empire existed

@@macgruber6739 Lol the first Computer was ancient Greek. It just shew the stars und all, but it was the first Computer

Alex Jemand mit einem Namen cool smarty pants but can it type RU-vid comments?

Pac1fic0 i dont know what your talking about search soccer idiot

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wut..

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It would take 20 times the amount of legionnaires there are there to do that.

To do what?

The legionnaires would slice them like a hot knife through butter.

It's almost like they are civilian reenactors or something...

@@cr3160 AVE CÆSAR ✋

gtrrzdl Come on ,as a region under the control of the limp wristed ,limp dick English ,they became one of the most powerful empires yet.

+Raptor King Nice Charthage symbol xP

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AAAAAARRGGGHHHHH!! *Barbarian use Howl "raises the user's Attack stat by one stage".

I know

Paul Lewendon Why bother for the show if you ain't gonna do it proper?

Due to employment rights, they are not allowed to whip out the vitus and issue some good ol school Roman army discipline.

How exactly does it differ from the actual situation at the time these reenactors are doing?It does not.And not all of them are Germanic.Their group is Britain based.