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

When what's left of most Roman forts are just a few stones in the ground, how do we know what they looked like, how they worked? Take a look! This video runs you through the basic parts found in most any Roman fort from Scotland to Jordan, and uses "Medieval Engineers" software to show something of how they may have looked in real life.
To see more Roman fort rebuilds, check out my other KZbin videos, and visit my Vindolanda build (steamcommunity....) and Housesteads build (steamcommunity.....
This video wouldn't have been possible without the gorgeous aerial cinematography of Kent Photo Pics ( • Vindolanda Roman Fort ... ), Newcastle University's Future Learn program ( • How did soldiers use t... ), and Wayne Carr ( • Hardknott Roman Fort ). Their videos are beautiful & illuminating!

[@MrMarekRosa]

I loved the transition from the real to reconstructed!

[@Stori3d_Past]

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.

[@WinternGhost]

I got back into medieval engineers yesterday as of this comment. I found your name in the workshop and honestly by chance I found you here. Incredible content and criminally underrated.

[@FauxDemon]

What an excellent video, enjoyable watch.

[@willsteiner8021]

An excellent video of an extraordinary period in Western Civilization. Thanks

[@RestitutorEuropa]

RIP western civilization

[@GerackSerack]

I liked this both as a student of History and as a player of Medieval Engineers. Awesome stuff.

[@Stori3d_Past]

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.

[@HollyMarieF69]

Fascinating video! Please make more!! Love the computer recreation

[@niyanair7275]

Currently doing ocr gcse latin and this was so helpful!

[@Stori3d_Past]

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

[@nilsc_4290]

Nicely done, fun to watch and well explained.

[@ernestorodriguez3637]

I have been asking for this for SOOOOO long thank you!!

[@damuses1452]

Superb. Thank you for this.

[@robinfereday6562]

Very informative thank you

[@PortsladeBySea]

Excellent presentation. I recently joined a guided tour of Chichester, attended their excellent Roman reenactment day in Priory Park and visited the site of the Chichester amphitheatre 🏛️🤺🗡️🩸

[@blitzer3973]

Your voice is so calming and inviting, this was really informative and well constructed. Wish there were more people with you voice......that sounded weird but you get what I mean.

[@Stori3d_Past]

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

[@airplane800]

The temple mountain in Jerusalem is actually the Antonia fortification where 6,000 Roman soldiers lived. The temple location was in the City Of David. Bob Cornuke did a great research about this topic.

[@conorhenderson8537]

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.

[@oliviermosimann6931]

Absolutely superb. Cheers indeed. You have a new subscriber.

[@peterwood2246]

Excellent cheers 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Blackout-ot2uq]

Excellent video! I am impressed on how you were able to construct models very closely on ME. Just earned a sub.

[@Stori3d_Past]

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.

[@burymedeep-be7dm]

Everything still layed out very nice

[@adamanderson3042]

Such a great video needs more views, I shall be sharing with friends.

[@Stori3d_Past]

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.

[@jamesellsworth9673]

Another revelatory 3D computer reconstruction, this one accompanied by much useful information.

[@Jerbod2]

Very nice video, loved the reconstructions!

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

The roofs were rebuilt with an excessive and unnecessary slope. Roman tiles do not require that slope, partly because the rainwater regulation system is very efficient. The roofs could only have that slope in the early days, when the buildings were still temporary, with wooden walls and the roofs equally made with shingles. "Medieval Engineers" offer advantages and limitations, in this case.

[@Stori3d_Past]

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.

[@annamosier1950]

very nice

[@tarasbulba7114]

thankyou very much. i would like to have such video in my language.... i work at school and it is a paradox that the best documentaries arent in italian...

[@dramit1949]

Nice.. Very nice!!!!

[@RosalegaFrumlegt]

This was great!

[@KrunshCraft]

Nice video.

[@Vestu]

It's kind of funny how 700 years later the Non-Frankish European forts (Old Saxon, Danish etc.) looked really primitive compared to these.

[@jpavlvs]

Remember in Latin the letter "C" is Always hard.

[@aramisortsbottcher8201]

I dont think so.

[@nm425]

great video thank you

[@Randomdudefromtheinternet]

What are the buildings outside the walls?

[@andyurwin3988]

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

[@fhagerber4079]

very good vid

[@Stori3d_Past]

Thank you!

[@faydulaksono]

why only few stone left from many roman building? and what made upper wall building are they made from wood? so cant survive?

[@stephenlyon1358]

people looted the stones mostly.

[@elianbogaert3572]

This is really great😍

[@Stori3d_Past]

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

[@totall2952]

class thanks

[@BobanOrlovic]

I didn't know the romans used 19th century style romanticized english wattle and daub

[@Stori3d_Past]

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!

[@jasonfang5522]

hello, i have watch your video. actually, i'm a student of Newcastle University. And my game project is about Roman Fort but I don't know how to make those building models. Can you share those model with me or Can I pay for those models ?

[@Stori3d_Past]

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.

[@jasonfang5522]

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?

[@Stori3d_Past]

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!

[@jasonfang5522]

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

[@Stori3d_Past]

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.

[@Mastertechnomusic]

like

[@JacobP1234]

I just subed

[@Stori3d_Past]

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.

[@reppepper]

“about 30 to 32” Isn’t that about 31?

[@nevisstkitts8264]

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.

[@tomriddle4121]

They did not call Roman armies Cohorts.. that was an individual unit within the whole legion.. A cohort was part of a Legion. A Legion consisted of 5000 men plus an additional 2000 camp followers.. This video seems like mis information leading to the truth about Jerusalem's true temple location being in the city of David and not on top of fort Antonia..

[@Stori3d_Past]

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.

[@NelsonClick]

I did enjoy the video. Very much. Thank you