Roman Battle

[BoqnskiqMaistor]

Philippi was a bulgarian city for a while there...

[MyOpinionOnline]

Bad reconstruction, the Romans had squared shields as they were more useful for their tactics, they started using round ones much later after the barbaric invasions and then, they didnt have the patterns shown on this video on their shields.

[fschd1]

@MyOpinionOnline hi if i may point out ... you can open your eyes and watch again as there is square and oval shields square for legions and oval for auxaliria

[t1t296]

@billythewookie wat a stupid observation do u think they didnt come across people with bows and arrows?! Anyway there are hundreds of other factors that could win or lose u the battle. Hail caesar

[Billythewookie]

If this were a realistic depiction then the Romans would have lost to anyone with a bow and arrows.

[TheRomanBond007]

After seeing 1:46 I'm in pain.....

[spartanairsoft98989]

Great battle...Portrays the brutality quite well. It's dissapointing, however, that they didn't use Pila.

[TheRomanBond007]

@spartanairsoft98989 There's a Pilum that got that guy's head @ 1:15

[SuperHuynher]

The battle is actually realistic not like 300. LOL

[Michaeltanase]

Whats funny and what most people don't know is that a typical Roman or any ancient battle lasted not more than 20 minutes. They did a scientific study noting that a human being cannot last more than that in fight and flight mode, and would tire out very easily even though many people think they lasted for hours.

[naq29]

@Michaeltanase: The Roman replaced soldiers continually during battle. If they didn't, some would die and other would replace them. It can take hours to make all those soldiers dead.

BTW, why they didn't use they javelins/spears? They carried them, marched and then engaged without them?

[KazzoKiller3890]

@naq29 there were fairly expensive and the civil war cost allot of money so they prob couldn't afford it, correct me if I'm wrong.

[fuckcapitalism666]

@KazzoKiller3890 they were used in that battle, actually, but not in this video. but yes im sure that in thousands of battles they didn't use them, or used less than the regular amount.

[fuckcapitalism666]

@Michaeltanasethey actually lasted from dawn to dusk (well a bit less but it sounds romantic). You cant possibly kill of 80 000 men (or most of them) in 20 min, especially when their fighting techniques. there s a \nother rome video which show this technique (front row is replaced by previous row at the soudn of the whistle).

it also largely depended on the number of units, terrain, their quality, and their morale.

but yeah obviously a man cant fight for 20+min non stop

[Michaeltanase]

@fuckcapitalism666

I meant a person's endurance cannot fight for more than 20 minutes, so its only the fastest and the one that had the most endurance that won the fight. That is why they were the best military because they were trained to fight and win.

[Michaeltanase]

@fuckcapitalism666

BTW: AWESOME account name...capitalism sucks. It's just feeding the wealthy, while the rest fights over the crumbs; We get drugged by the drug companies making billions. Work like slaves; Just to serve a few billionaires; fucking asshole! I say we did what was done before kill off the wealthy and powerful and create REAL democracy. For fuck sake we are in the 21st century. Wake up people, the rich what you to think that working hard will make you one day rich. BULLSHIT!

[Wolfen443]

@Michaeltanase, I agree' it makes their military actions even more impresive.

[77LeGaCy77]

is this a movie, if so, whats the name

[Stuslat]

it's from the television series ROME :)

[absinto92]

@77LeGaCy77 It's from HBO TV series ROME, 2nd season... In this episode, general Mark Anthony and Octavian are fighting against Marcus Brutus army (after he kills Caius Julius Caesar and run out from Rome).

The roman cavalry you saw going to support infantry was lead by General Agripa, personal friend of Octavian. That's actually the last battle Mark Antony and Octavian fight together. Months later Mark Anthony was sent to Egypt, and sometime after broke with Octavian, starting a civil war =D

[AlexAlexno]

who is who?

and who is where?

[TheTymera]

i think he was talking about the eastern roman empire. Nontheless a retarded comment.

[boy123604]

Roma victorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[StueyLestrange]

No that was Rome you ridculous child. This is the battle of Philippi and actually rather accurate for a BBC seris :p

[HazeEmperor]

THIS. IS. SPARTAAA

[AmicoDelGrillo]

SPARTA MY ASS

[Acunga]

what is this movie?

[AnahiemerOC]

ROME:its an HBO show season 1 and 2 pretty good show but it has some nude though you cuold see this 2 season dvd collection on Best Buy if you want to but it..like i did..

[mmadddog]

islam? nothing to do with this video,islam are nothing but dirty black monkey cowards that hide behind 10 year old suicide bombers that still live in dirty caves

[Schlachthausbruder]

Islam didnt exist when the roman empire did

[GetenGeten]

Allah is mighty, but is he knowledgable?

[HazeEmperor]

Gtfo muslim :D!!!!

[littlemflu]

dude Islam was not even around until after the Roman Empire had already fallen. It came like 100 years after Rome had been sacked.

[Stuslat]

thats true...

[opendrol]

actually it really established 600 years after.

[MyOpinionOnline]

@littlemflu not really, Islam was founded when the WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE had fallen. The East (Byzantine Empire) still was in control of parts of Italy and the whole Easter Roman Empire.

[andrewajax]

Can't argue with "little flu", but you should get some points for mopping up.

And no matter what, it's never easy crushing proudness! Pride's no a piece of cake either, but at least you know where to find it. Where the heck do look for proudness? Not in the dictionary, that's for sure.

[Johnny42427]

Is this from a movie and if so, whats it called please?

[Stuslat]

it is from the television series ROME :)

[andrewajax]

No, Johnny. This is a home movie our family did last Thanksgiving. We do something like it every year ... it's our tradition while we wait for the stuffing to dry out. Dad passed away the year before eating boiled shoe leather when we did Stalingrad (apparently athletes foot poisoning is a very real and silent killer) so we thought the symbolism of mom getting a new ring at the end, was pretty cool.

[starsonsticks]

The Pontic Kingdom made an attempt but was crushed by Caesar.

[hollywoodwerewolf]

It boggles the mind how the rest of the known world didn't take advantage of the decades of internal strife of the Empire. I can understand Caesar not worrying about Gaul because he pacified it, but what of the East? If not during the battles between Caesar and Pompey (for I believe Pompey had many small Eastern kingdoms as clients) but during the battles of Antony and Octavius?

[Astartes19]

Most of the known world was under Roman rule or were too scared/busy to attack, and the Romans would have just teamed up against the foreign agressors anyways and then gone back to squabling.