Late Roman Combat Training 2008

Filmed near York 2008 by Roman re-enactment group Comitatus. It was a training exercise, and there may be a few modern boots, etc spotted amongst the participants.

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• Roman
• combat
• shields
• warfare
• ancient
• legion
• Rome
• battle

[toot65]

the late roman armies ain`t got crap on the roman soldiers of 0 to 300 ad

[Zelithe]

wow i actually dont recall saying anything as stupid as what the comment says a i said. must have been high, ignore the comment everyone. i probably meant rome total war or something.

[JULIANUS78MB]

Realy cool video but i think that in the shield wall you have to hold the spear up to you hed, because when you hold is under it when you try to hit someone whit your spear the sield wall is broken, and in this video everyone uses the spear as the principal weapon an Flavius Renatus vgetius in his militari compilation saids that the main weapon for the roman infarntri was the sword, bun it a great video.-

[Lavard14]

@Vegetius93 Or the other way around. The Germannic troops started to use late roman army tactics.

[Lavard14]

@MrBsct Ofcourse they did. The late roman army won all three gothic wars against the Goths. The Persian wars were stalemates, but from the early to the late roman army they managed to defeat the persians regards of lorica segmata or lorica hamata. All of the wars started by the Huns against they were defeated by the late roman army.

[MrBsct]

@Lavard14 yes but they ever beat Rome in a war?no. Rome was defeated by coruption and by the German tribes.

Persian wars was a stalemate.

Goths found new home in France/

Huns retreated after Charlons.

The Vietcong was defeated over and over by Americans. Did the Americans win the war?

[Lavard14]

@toot65 This is the army that defeated the persians, goths and huns over and over again.

[Lavard14]

@toot65 There you are wrong. Infact the late roman army defeated all of the invasions and settled the ones they defeated and made them foederati. What happened to the western roman empire was not military collaps it was financial collapse and infighting between usurpers. The late roman army was far more flexible and specialized. Their cavalry were even better.

[Vegetius93]

You can see that the late roman army was dominated by german soldiers by the way that they use the spear.

[TheCharliebro]

this seems more similar to a greek phalanx to me...

[LordAzanko]

@G33KN3rd no worries man but its rather fascinating to wonder how they would have fared against each other but possessed very powerful armies and both were very good at terror tactics that's the reason they conquered so many cites....