Um…great video but morale is pronounced with an “a” as in apple.

BC BEFORE CHR ST

General: " Emperor, the enemy are close, there will be fighting soon". Emperor: "Very good, make sure the men are ready" General: "We'll have a game of Chinese Whispers" Emperor: "Huh? Wtf..??" Later: General: "Sorry, the wrong word came back. The men failed Chinese Whispers... they're not ready, we can't fight today. The enemy will just have to go away for a few days, we can't be having battles if they're failing CW." Emperor: "Huh? Wtf....??" As if.

It is not said, but it is glanced in video that the best thing to do then was teaching children foreign languages, because he had 50 denarii a week with every family, but he could teach greek in five or ten families at a time, so he could earn around 500 denarii a week, making him somewhat rich, because you can teach as long as your mind is healthy, that said, even when you are old. So he could teach greek to others whole his life, for around 200-500 denarii a week. Not bad, for speaking greek. Knowledge is power!

Excellent video!

😂... You're wrong on schooling. Same training is used to this day. You will be surprised to see the major amount of military academy graduates that are REPLACED by skilled and experienced Noncommissioned Officers selected to be Commissioned Officers. This was DEFINITELY produced and written by a Democrat millennial.

10:11 they did use whistle, the historian who told otherwise is dumb. Even in the heat of battle a whistle sound is loud enough. Tell the historian who told you that a f moron

Total War music in the background makes it even better

La Colonna Traiana a Roma è il certificato di nascita della nazione rumena.

Which groups of people were enlisted in the fourteenth?

This is HIGHLY underrated

This practice would be very useful in the context of business as well to indicate how effectively the different levels of management are operating.

Before fake paper money.

Where are the Greek Armies today? OK

Being branded on the hand... hmmm, ok. Im curious if the Generals, politicians, and Elites were branded too?

And what if it didn't come back?

Word's "hold my beer"when the word came back "where's my beer"General "OK the boys are ready"😮

So, did they have to give a different word or it was like the Arab telephone?

How do we pronounce that? KAEOE !

How do we know this?

I just can’t be happier looking at this visual beauty!🌈💫

Clay was not used for shrapnel from what I know. It's just a cheap and easy way to get very consistently sized and aerodynamic rounds. Clay isn't quite dense enough for shrapnel to be extremely effective. They usually bounce off of the ground anyways. However, just because it won't work well doesn't mean they didn't at least try it.

Desirable traits, not feats.

wtf....this tells me nothing

I did 22 years of service, fought in three wars, multiple advanced degrees, one in military history. I’ve had talks with officers, peers, who did not understand at all how bad morale can get, they got an earful about this. There’s a reason the US is so serious about paying military and veterans what they were promised in return for service, even if we don’t remember why. I get it, Iron Age. The stories of what soldiers do when they aren’t paid, have tours extended indefinitely, or run out of supplies are all the same. To put it in military speak - shit goes south fast. Amazes me how some of those soldiers went years without pay. It’s a lot of faith they put in their government. Often misplaced.

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You say, that hoplites were holding their shields at some angle to deflect missiles and strikes. But where they will be deflected? They will deflect at his neighbour to the left. As a man, who was taught to fight in a formation with shield, I will never ever hold my shield in the way, that will deflect strikes at my neighbour. 'cos it's definitely the way to lose the battle. I was taught to protect my neighbour to the left and always to keep as a target the opponent of my neighbour to the right. That's the way to win. That's why I can't take seriously all conclusions, you making out, 'cos they're based on wrong point

Pack pak pak

I noticed the stronghold music

The boys would often be forced to fight and would be whipped until they yielded which sometimes led to death

For those Waraboos who missed the key lessons. Those who only do the fighting only needed to practice fighting. Those who did the winning needed experience almost everywhere else more. Logistics is king, an army fights on it's stomach

12:51 What kind of weed seeds are we talkin about. Just what ever was around ( e.g buckwheat ) or like cannabis seeds... Did the ancient romans have or talk about hashish? got me all thinkin'.

A sense of humour, that would be offensive nowadays.

They were the badasses until they met the great Hannibal

What a disgraceful show by the Romans. Really shameful.

This reminds me much of defense in depth tactics, but in a much smaler scale.

Ditches: check! 10/10 on the Konijnendijk scale 😂

I like the fact that barbarian formations also got mentioned. Yes history is written by the victor, in that case romans, and mostly it gets depicted as some weird savage cavemen charging at the romans without system but they were almost equally sophisticated and organized as them, if less profesionally or disciplined.

Drop the goddamn ai voice

Wow! That was shocking, very interesting.

Im just curious the video uses Total War Rome 2 right?

how these medival war battles shown by blocks videos called?

Army of chomos

So funny how solders today are so similar; spending all there money on “luxury items” and women 😂 human beings are funny creatures

That’s what I got right now 15 denari s 😂

Really good video, love the research. One question though - you mention the idea that the Romans put their best fighters at the front and yet the Roman Republican army actually used their most inexperienced fighters (hestatii) in the front line. So presumably initial contact with the enemy would be very hesitant.

Rome:how do you have such large army? Dacia:magic

Can we just acknowledge that a specifically dyed and specially made dress for the land owner’s wife is only $15k, or a year and a half of the soldier’s wages, LESS THAN AND ADULT MALE LION? That’s like a modern dress being in the millions at least!

Nice

cool and comprehensible vid ,now i've Curiosity about the battles between romans and greeks and the roman advantages on greeks in combat , i hope you make a vid about it .