The Roman Triarii (Camillan) - Historical Warfare

[@cjthebeesknees]

Triarii just chillin ringside by the ropes until their needed to be tagged in and pin some hectic barbarian foes.

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Chilling and killing anyone that runs away !

[@magnushorus5670]

The quality of these videos has been improving a ton... well done!

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thankyou!

[@qwaz67]

Gotta love how long the Romans held onto the Hoplite style. Albeit, a tad bit unusual in comparison to the more traditional Hellenic Hoplites.

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Keep the tried and tested way as a backup incase this new way don't work

[@brendanmurphy8727]

A reason you did not cover to have spear armed troops in the rear was their function as a rear-guard. The type of enemy that can most likely circle around to attack your rear is cavalry, and spear-armed troops are better equipped to deal with this eventuality than sword-armed troops.

[@_teamspeedyplays_3715]

Love this video 🎉 I hope this channel only receives successes in the future. It’s a shame how history has been declining in KZbin, probably thanks to yt shorts. This is my first video for this channel, but it definitely will not be the last!

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thankyou! There has been a decrease in revenue compared to when I started but that's mostly due to youtube trying to be a bit more on it when it comes to weapons. History channels aren't the only ones that got affected by this, Star wars channels for example got quite badly hurt by this as well. It's ultimately all about making content that fits within the parameter youtube sets and as I don't talk about 1930s germany I don't really suffer from the demonetization that a lot of youtubers do. Only problem is that that era gets a lot of views so you have to balance out views and growth and income basically.

[@maxkaufmann833]

God bless mate keep the good work up please.

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thankyou!

[@untr3gg3rd]

I'm curious about Camillus' thought process where despite the military reform to remove the weaknesses of having a phalanx based unit still maintained a phalanx based unit - heck, even used as a last line of reserves - still being used after the reform.

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

I guess having a backup of the tried and tested incase his new infantry didn't work makes sense

[@Jauhl1]

The phalanx was tactically inflexible but still had advantages. The Triarii spearwall served as a defensive anchor. Which could stabilize a gap in a buckling line or allow the standard infantry to reform behind it or fall back in order without being routed.

[@Ethan-0000]

"Down to the Triarii" was a a Roman saying, equating to "Down to the elite reserves." I imagine a General saying that to one of his sub commanders.

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Yup! And the Rorarii!

[@Rasterizing]

And that answers the reason for only one guarded leg/knee being armoured. "it all comes down to the Triarii"

[@Waffles9255]

I am the first to comment woo! I love your videos keep up the good work!

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thankyou!

[@antoniomoreira5921]

Not sure it's the right niche but Schwerpunkt just started an incredibly thorough series on Roman archaic warfare

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

I'll check it out when I get the chance

[@theromanorder]

CALLED IT idea for a Christmas video you may want to start working on now... The roman holiday of saturnalia, The channel incavaia or something i can't remember his name sadly has a good video But i would love to see your style on it... Your alot more family friendly.... Best of luck, its a "spanking" good holiday 😅 Oh wait thats the original valentines nvm lol, But yea i can't think of a joke foe it but um... You get the point ... good luck, hope you do the video Also... your Corinthian helmet design is um..... mabey re think it next time lol

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

I always mean to do a video on saturnalia and then I just forget lol!

[@theromanorder]

@@AncientHistoryGuy lol, write it down man, I keep a pad snd pen next to my bed so i can try snd have a reminder for the next day,

[@Ziddings]

Great video! do you know the approximate ratio between bronze cuirasses and iron cuirasses used within this era?

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thankyou, and truth I don't know! But a majority would most likely have been bronze.

[@Ziddings]

@@AncientHistoryGuy thanks for the response

[@chowderman8888]

I think you meant to say large shields overlapping at the end but said large spears lol

[@bombasticbadassbrigade3552]

How do you think Triarii (say 1000) would fare against say a Spartan hoplite units (say also 1000)?

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Depends on the era/battleground. Around this time the triarii were more heavily armoured than their spartan counterparts so you could say that would have given them the edge plus more flexibility than a regular phalanx

[@bombasticbadassbrigade3552]

@@AncientHistoryGuy do we have any examples of ho0w they fared against Greek style hoplites? We know the history of Pyrrhus and the Macedonian wars etc...

[@regularrory4692]

Triarii are the purple and brown belts who skip warm ups in jits.

[@micahistory]

interesting

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thankyou!

[@micahistory]

you're welcome@@AncientHistoryGuy

[@mikepette4422]

Just one look at the scutum and hoplon and I know I'd way rather have a scutum

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

I'd rather have a Hopton, but that's only because I want one at the mo lol

[@yanisbourgeois9028]

It's not "curiass", but "cuirass" (pronounce "queer-ass")

[@enricodilella1325]

Do use of the pronuncıa restıtuta, please 🧐