building the impossible: the roman war machine. part 1

[TheAdskidids]

It's obviously not a team of experts...its got a woman on it.

[Boilerz1]

I remember hearing from some friends of mine that apparently the team ignored Alan Wilkins (the historical consultant) advice on a number of counts as they thought it might make the machine too expensive. An example of this is that Alan Wilkins wanted the catapulta to be made of oak or ash but the BBC team went ahead and made it of PINE.

[PompeusMagnus]

It's not a Catapult its a Ballista -.-'

It's not a small catapult, it's a Scorpion -.-'

[thatsMrSmileytoyou]

Well looks like something's gunna to die

[ftge87]

any one got episode one building the first submarine ?

[BiffaTW]

great vid, roman artillery was classic.

[tonygillis2007]

Leaving aside serious questions about the quality of the work done on this show, I will focus briefly on the trivial: Caroline Baillie there is a bit of a babe!

[northreach]

2000 years! rubbish, people were still building catapults just big as that, if not bigger till about 400 years ago

[delamoxica]

Not that kind of catapult, a trebuche (sp?) is not a roman catapult.

[northreach]

I know, but they also used Mangonels and large ones run on basically the same principles

[kyleisreallycool]

@northreach 400 years ago they had and used cannons not catapults

[300warrior300]

@kyleisreallycool It's true guns were used pretty widely by then. But it would often be used alongside guns because they were much cheaper. Cortés used catapults

[G3CK0GUY]

5:20 would seriously hurt

[whowantsabighug]

i heard the iberians made helmets out of sinew, but i hav no idea how!

[boosra]

I tend to like anything where they attempt to recreate ancient technology and weapons, but I hate this show - the presenters are a pair of complete cocks.

[255Knights]

LOL I can see people in the year 4000 AD remaking a US artillery, and only fire half a mile!

[SergiFranqueza]

very good comment. XDDDD

[flippingfo0l]

yeah it makes you think what sort of weapons they will have in the year 3000. Then people might be laughing at our weapons.

[255Knights]

I was not laughing at the Roman Artillery.

Roman was the best in the would at the time, and one of the best in human history! Nothing-laughable about Roman Artillery! I was laughing about what they did and said about the Roman Artillery They would not admit that they simply built it wrong, or did a bad job on it.

I just made a example: I can see people in the year 4000 AD remaking a US artillery from 1998, and only fire half a mile! A US artillery can fire 15 mils Get it?

[Deadman1709]

One of the best comment I have ever heard.

Thumbs up

[Alex2149]

@255Knights i think its more likely that they will be rebuilding 'Fat Boy'

[jukio02]

@255Knights high school students in the year 4000 AD will build space shuttles for their science projects

[FACTUNTHJU]

caroline is a pretty deadly weapon herself  :-P

[Darius92TheGreat]

In the 2nd video one guy of the team

sayd that he found a "document" where he read that the weapon could fire 120 meters and not 400 as Vitruvious says.

I think it's bull shit, it's only a pretext because they aren't able to fire it more than 90 meters without breaking it.

It's impossible that during the siege of jerusalem this ballista was stationed within 120 meters from the walls of the city.

It would be a favourite target for the jews

archers. What do you think about this??

[SergiFranqueza]

an ancient archer couldn't fire more than this lenght. the roman archer was worse than the medieval. the roman arch was of half meter, and the medieval was of 2 meters.

and if you want to destroy the wall to enter in the city, you will shot gigant rocs.

the archers in this age wasn't a good weapon

[255Knights]

2 meters??? The Roman archer was of half meter??? Yoy are joking?

Dude Roman archer was not bad at all; they had composite Recurve Bow... Bows shoot very far...

[Ameed1992]

Please upload it Rapidshare ?

[SaFuBlack]

Ala... que wapo tio, tenian una maquinaria avanzada de guerra para la epoca.