How Roman Legions built their Marching Camps | Age of Empires 2

[@Gitsmasher]

" These Romans march and built their camp in orderly fashion, they dont looks like barbarians to me" -Pyrrhus

[@faogx]

This was so interesting, and the animation really sells the idea of what's happening as well as the narration, keep up the good content, also lovely use of the Civ3 track at the end.

[@historyforgamers]

Thank you very much! I'm glad you found the video interesting and that you know what game the ending theme is from 😉

[@victorcortez8472]

2 hours to build a fort? that's insane, when you understand the work they used to made there. An interesting example of roman efficiency 🦅

[@SpikeundMaus]

sorry but i dont see it. To build a fort in 2 hours seams impossible regardless of effort AND Tec. Maybe 2 Days if everyone knows exactly what to do. But 2 hours....

[@ulisesherrera9632]

Buena parte del material para los portones, torres y estacas. Son transportadas por los propios legionarios. Además que, de ser posible, la construcción se hacía en terrenos altos. Los exploradores, no solían ser los primeros en localizar el terreno apropiado. Solían ser los exploradores auxiliares especializados, con días de anticipación. Para cuando los exploradores legionarios arribarán, ya tenían barias opciones. Sin contar el tren logístico con el que contaba cada legión, que de ser necesario podía conseguir más recursos. Es básicamente, un ejército moderno. Limitado solamente por la tetecnológica

[@healthfadsverified603]

2 hours to raise camps, after defensive structures

[@stilettoassassino]

@@SpikeundMaus Yes. Sources say normally 3-4 hours. From digging ditches to setting up camp and palisades. IIRC they carried parts of the palisades with them. I think that perhaps you are picturing a log fort or something similar. That would be impractical since it would take forever to build and the legion needs to set up fortified camps every night during campaigns. Look up pictures of historical recreations of fortified Roman camps and it'll become clearer.

[@NiklasLehtinen-c5o]

@@SpikeundMaus Remember that there were 4800 legionares + another 5000 slave/engineers/other staff to do the work. So 2 hours are really nothing for almost 10 000 humans building one camp.

[@spdutahraptor777]

one of the best uses i've seen of this game... amazing video

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks for watching and for your comment!

[@carineaerts3735]

Fun facts: so one group of soldiers in the tent was called a ‘contibernium’, if a legionary was to be punished, it was done by the rest of his ‘contibernium’. And the camp was always made in the same order, so when the camp was attacked, the soldiers knew where everything was

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[@historyforgamers]

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[@historyforgamers]

Noted. Thank you very much for your comment Emanuel.

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[@historyforgamers]

Thank you very much for your comment and for the sub. I will continue making this type of content given the support it is receiving.

[@ScarryHarry93]

Imagine marching all day on foot just to have to build your house to sleep for the night, complete with backyard fence and tool shed lol

[@meyack2220]

J'aime énormément vos vidéos, elles sont toujours très bien faîtes et intéressantes. Celle-ci montre la construction d'un camp romain, chaque soldats portaient près de 30kg de matériel. Lorsque les tranchées étaient construitent, les soldats devaient avoir leurs gladius ou spatha à portée de mains sinon la punition pouvait être d'une sévérité extrême voir la mort. La capacité de construction des romains en a fait un des plus grands empires. Les soldats étaient avant tous des constructeurs avant d'être soldat. Il y a plein de choses à rajouter, mais ça prendrait trop de temps. En tout cas, merci pour ces vidéos et continuer si vous en avez le temps.

[@historyforgamers]

Merci pour votre commentaire et pour avoir fourni autant d'informations détaillées 👏🏻👏🏻.

[@dakotah4866]

I'm so glad I found this I am slowly in the process of making my own game primarily in the 17th century maybe mid-century 16th century era and yes this is for the back than that but it's going to come in handy with trying to probably make a siege camp or temporary camps depending on how I structure the armies.. thank you

[@historyforgamers]

Thank you for commenting and good luck with your project. If you have a website or social network, I would like to be able to follow its development.

[@dakotah4866]

@historyforgamers I have a KZbin channel for gaming I'm not sure if I'll make a new one the moment I start with a few test models I'll I might record it or stream it I don't know. I haven't been on the KZbin channel for about a year and a half maybe 2 years. Where I live when it gets hot that the point where I can't stream or record and when it's cold it gets too cold and vice versa. What's the different types of mechanics and putting into the game it's going to be the main thing I'm going to make is an MMO. but I'm going to start small with the mechanics and make smaller games based on the mechanics To test out before integrating them into a multi Mass game. What I'm going to do with the placement of the game and error would probably be around the 1600s to around late 17 more of like a medieval fantasy game. Maybe I'll go a little earlier on the era

[@historyforgamers]

It sounds very interesting, complex, but if you implement the different mechanics little by little without losing sight of your final objective, you can achieve it. I say this as a former game programmer. Good luck with your project!

[@philipepics]

i love it this format of story and gameplay

[@historyforgamers]

Yes, I intend to continue making these types of videos. Thanks for the support!

[@ivanstrydom8417]

A superb video sir! I would love to see this level of complexity in Age of Empires DE2 Ancient ‘’Chronicles’’.

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks a lot mate. Personally I really liked the Chronicles DLC. I'm looking forward to the announcement of the next one and for it to be a campaign about Alexander the Great, otherwise I'll be a bit disappointed.

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This is a neat idea. You got a sub.

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Thanks and welcome!

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[@r-aoe2]

This should be in game. Respect

[@Forgotten_Foods]

I was thinking they would march all day only to spend the whole night setting up camp, I was wrong

[@marielle-q9j]

This video is very good and will serve as a tutorial for camps. question question what are the troops in the Roman camp that defend the camp ?

[@historyforgamers]

Thank you. The units are part of the Romae ad Bellum mod and are called "Elite Legionary".

[@marielle-q9j]

@@historyforgamers thanks

[@PenguinDoc]

excellent job, really love videos like this. very pleasing to look

[@historyforgamers]

Thank you very much!

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[@giglomesh123]

Gotta look up that DLC

[@KingTiger10588]

ugh this done everyday is wild

[@AtlasJotun]

Roman encampment: Gets assaulted Some Greek guy: "We're under attack!" AoE/AoM/Civ mashup to demonstrate Roman campaign tactics? I'm sold(and subbed)!

[@1AEGIS]

u're a chad. u got 2x more views than aoe official 5 years thanks video

[@Spetnaz23]

Hey bro ! I've been working on custom scenario for roman camp building on the same game for the past month ! I'll definitly use your infos to remaster the building order of my camp ahaha. But I'm using the vanilla game with xs scripts, Chronicle provided tons of cool things !

[@historyforgamers]

I'm glad you found the video useful 😊. Yes, the new DLC has added a lot of new, very cool graphics and I hope that in the next ones they will include even more improvements.

[@HawkknightXC88]

This is why I love Age of Empires 2. The Game itself is archiving history specially with the Romans.

[@GaricG]

Really enjoyable video!

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks!

[@umairak4]

Hi great video, what tool are you using for voice - is it AI

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks! The voice is made with ElevenLabs.

[@slec22]

What's the name of music used? Thanks in advance :)

[@historyforgamers]

This is the theme that plays in the menu of Age of Empires II DE - Battle For Greece.

[@ericmek8262]

Excelente video, genio.

[@historyforgamers]

Muchas gracias!

[@TheResonanceCompany]

yooooo, you should do this kinda thing but with star wars galactic battlegrounds

[@AlhanAhmed19]

Perfectly well made inly thing you need is to be in the mod or campaign maker of age of empires 2 definitive edition. I personally think if like Greeks they could make Chinese Romans bengalis and other empires, it would he best, and if they continue to explore and add more dlc to it, it will be a boom !!! Love yah content keep it up !!!

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks Alhan! Taking advantage of the new DLC, they should definitely release a campaign about Alexander the Great. Later on, other DLCs about Rome, Egypt, China or Japan would be nice.

[@AlhanAhmed19]

@historyforgamers that's what I am thinking about bro !!! It will be confirm hit on I am sure like if only they could hear our voices man you deserve to be in the Microsoft mid community head area. You works ambition understanding of history is really good and you actually listen to your fans.

[@carloscampo9119]

So well done

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks!

[@JoseLeybaDiaz]

NICE history for games is back

[@1AEGIS]

neat, can't wait for mongol invading scenes

[@Randomguy-u5q]

Like bunch of ants when they find a sugar cube

[@0oSCHMILLENo0]

This was awesome

[@mahathirabir6201]

one idea comes to my mind - Age of empire but first person.

[@OrangeSolaire]

Anyone know which song is used in the background?

[@ChinonsoNnadozie]

How do you animate this ? What softwares do you use?

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Uh, he used Age of Empires 2, it's a Real Time Strategy game

[@ChinonsoNnadozie]

@NiCoNiCoNiCola it looks too good to be some dumb game

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

@@ChinonsoNnadozie that's literally in the title, my nigrumps. It's a game footage with a bit of editing done so it looks seamless

[@historyforgamers]

I only use Age of Empires 2 to make the video and Sony Vegas to edit it.

[@historyforgamers]

It is a great game that, in addition to having fun for many hours, allows you to learn about history.

[@hurrdurr98]

Is this pre recorded? Because currently the mod isnt working

[@historyforgamers]

No, despite some minor bugs it works pretty well for me.

[@Saphintosh]

@@historyforgamers Weird, because i never managed to make it work

[@historyforgamers]

@@Saphintosh Yes, there are some very specific steps to take to make it work, but you can do it.

[@diegogoncalves2213]

I love your job Congratulations

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks Diego ☺️.

[@adhamzayed911]

Great Video

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks! 👍🏻

[@aristospagang2446]

this is so cool

[@hinchadelmasgrandedemexico]

Love the Roman empire from Mexico 🇲🇽 Now, after the Roman fever on Tiktok, I say we Mexicans are descendants of the Romans too! 🦅

[@russianstudies3537]

you have the aztecs and mayans they were brutal as fuck man you already have a pretty nice history.

[@nicolaaffatati5355]

Sir, trust an italian, the roads names you gave are partially wrong, the "via decumano" is just "decumano", splited in half, "decumano est" and "decumano ovest", instead the "via principalis" you said is instead called "cardo", splitted as well in half, "cardo nord" and "cardo sud"

[@historyforgamers]

Yes, I had always studied that cities were divided mainly by the cardo and the decumanus. When I searched for more information for this video, I found that in a roman castrum the road that goes from North to South was also called principalis, that's why I included it. Thanks for the info Nicola.

[@nicolaaffatati5355]

@historyforgamers thanks to your kindness, Sir, keep up the good job!

[@downhillchaos3012]

Theu should have made the Roman troops once upgraded to legionary be able to build or at least build military buildings.

[@Captain_Cinnamon]

Well made yo

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks! 😉

[@aristospagang2446]

same for mongols, or even huns?

[@lordroy8170]

Genius ❤

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks!

[@soldier22881]

very nice i like

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks for watching and commenting 😉

[@soldier22881]

@@historyforgamers 😄

[@Tiger1AuasfE]

Is this a mod? How to get those units as Roman?

[@historyforgamers]

It's a mod called Rome at War.

[@EricTheVillager]

I see hardworking men.

[@xotl2780]

Now do the same video again, but halfway through they get attacked and wiped out by Gauls!

[@xotl2780]

Nvm that pretty much happens in the video already.

[@macobuzi]

Or make them build a wall around a wall

[@javieravendano7772]

Me gustaria escucharlo en español ya que la mitad solo comprendi como lo dijiste en ingles

[@historyforgamers]

Probablemente hoy lo tengas en el canal en español 😉.

[@LayadMahmood]

Name a game

[@DarkKing009]

Rome Invictus

[@dakotah4866]

6 ft for the world and I'm 6'5 lol

[@syedali5699]

Isnt it age of empires??

[@historyforgamers]

It's Age of Empires 2 with the Romae ad Bellum mod.

[@onlyyoucanstopevil9024]

INSTANT SUB 😊😊😊

[@historyforgamers]

Welcome! 😉

[@rome98]

And some of the camps will go to become cities

[@historyforgamers]

Exactly!

[@sireaustin]

These videos would be much better if you didn't use AI voices, personally. I'm not a huge fan of that, and likely won't watch another because the AI voice sounds so awful to me. Nice video otherwise!

[@historyforgamers]

Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it all the same.

[@missnobody6151]

Silly Fight

[@Hairy_McClairy]

this would actually be cool if it wasn't for the awful ai voiceover

[@AbelIgnacio-g8t]

Nice woman camp