>marched 20+ miles a day carrying 60 lbs of equipment
>trained two times a day with wooden swords and shields heavier than real weapons
>not only marched but swam as well
>profficient at harvesting wood, clearing forests and building fortifications
>versatile warrior, knew how to use sword and shield as well as bows, slingshots and spears
>used to uneven terrain, hunger and harsh climate
The average roman legionary mogs anyone in this board.
Lol I’m a 6’ incel and I mog him just by being normal height
>Gets killed in an instant by the manlet
An entire legion of soldiers over six feet was raised in Nero’s time, and Vegetius wrote the ideal legionary was precisely six foot tall. Just because the average person was a short grain fed person doesn’t mean there wasn’t plenty of tall people.
>tfw I'm the ideal legionnaire
Feels bretty good! It's true though, when I was in the infantry my body type was literally perfect for soldiering
Kek is that a mirror photo from a bay in sand hill? I was infantry too brotha. Rock on
these images are so stupid. like how the fuck are stones on fire, they literally cant burn
It's the greasy israelites piled inside
it's the wooden floor and furniture who are burning I guess.
I like to rationalize it as pitch covered projectiles or wooden ramparts burning away
Based and Iudea delenda est pilled
Definitely saw a lot of this in action. Less time to train lifting in general as well.
how can he hope to pick up the running israelite without stirrups or nothing?
Through hatred of Hebrews all things are possible brother
daily reminder that lucius vorenus is actually a gaul
I'll not deny it friend he has a Gallic look about him but he's as solid Roman as you are
He gonna claw dat ass cheek at 50 mph.
Stone buildings were burned all the time. I'm not sure how since I figured stones didn't burn but there you go
they were filled with flammable things and probably used wooden beams in the roof. Even so I used to wonder how they demolished colossal buildings in ancient times without complex machines. Apparently when the Romans destroyed Carthage they razed the larger buildings simply by tying up draft animals to the foundations then having them pull them down.
I mean actual rocks and stuff. Most of the Roman buildings were burned for lime by later Romans
He's also threatening to stab him with his bendy javelin
It's a pilum 🙁
I know, I'm just low iq posting
Blonds germans and anglos believing they were le romanz is as cringy and ahistorical as black going we wuz pharaohs n shit
you will never be romans
I'm pict though. Doesn't mean triumvirate rome isn't interesting.
I forget if it was Pompeii or Caesar who was described as having red hair.
Lava is pretty red so probably pompeii
Sulla would often wear a big straw hat to shield his ginger self from the sun.
Do you ever wonder, if Sulla purged like half the Senate, then Julius and then agustus both did too each next generation, how were there any old dynasties left?
Extended family.
I do often wonder how a roman from the very beginning of the republic would react to being transported to Rome around the beginning of the empire, and how he and a early empire roman would both react to being transportet to Rome 1453.
Probably wondering what went so wrong and how everybody turned so brown when most of the early Romans were gingers and lily white pale
pompeii was an assimilated barbarian
Roman feet are shorter than modern feet. That’s 5’ 10”. If a pleb was over 5’8” they were automatically considered for officer positions
>Vegetius
>Lived in 450 AD
He was talking about Croats and Germans not manlet wops fyi
>Standard deviation above average
>Normal
Did everyone forget only like 4% of men are 6'2" and above
6 feet is the average height here.
During the republic there used to be height requirements for legionaries. 5’11 I think.
Isnt that 5'7 in modern feet though
Still the average mediterranean man was 5'4 at the time
This is correct, there’s a deviation from Roman feet and inches to modern ones of slightly under two inches. So six Roman feet is about five ten and change
>died of pneumonia caused by a cold at 30
>Muh lifespan
Meme, it was just infant mortality bringing down the average
Leonidas was literally 60 years old at the battle of Thermoplydae
not a meme at all, do some research on roman grave memorials. People died as young adults all the time from "fever".
Disease spreads pretty easily in military units. Strep throat can spread In today’s barracks like wildfire. I can only imagine how things were with lower sanitation standards and less available medicine.
>not a meme at all, do some research on roman grave memorials. People died as young adults all the time from "fever".
The world-famous American education.
Ok. So is there a point you're trying to make?
And all of this while wearing sandals.
Modern shoes were a mistake, raised heels and narrow toe boxes give you an unnatural gait and fatigue you easier.
Nigga why would I want to look at mens' feet.
Pretty sure they were career soldiers for life that were literally built different from the common pleb
>Spears
You mean the pilum?
Used to hump a lot of shit in the Marines. It's not glamorous, it's a pain in the ass. My knees and shoulders are fucked. The muscular big guys are shitty infantryman, it's always the skinny guys that make it
THIRTEEN
THIRTEEN
Fuck I need to watch that show again
PULLO! BACK IN FORMATION!
They didn’t March 20+ miles a day
It was averaged
Some days they did 10
Others they did 30
Truly though it Was my nagger Marion that turned Roman soldiers in to what we know today
I think it’s another Vegetius quote. In training they would work up to 20 mile road marches but in execution it could be less or more like you said if they were force marching. 20 miles was more of a training benchmark or standard.
Despite looking like sandals those are actually hobnailed boots. The open areas are vents so your feet stay dry to prevent trench foot. Modern soldiers boots have vents as well but they are composed of a breathable material instead of just being open cuts.
I own a pair of hobnailed caligulae made by some pajeet off etsy and i cant fucking wear them cause im urbanite scum and they slip on hard surfaces. I'm pretty sure theres roman accounts of this happening back then too.
Lol I read somewhere that the early praetorians stationed in Rome would slide and trip so much they were eventually issued caligae without the hobnails
Im not reading this, go touch grass and have sex.
two times a day with wooden swords and shields heavier than real weapons
every 105 IQ historybro repeats this meme. That's like saying "I do all my boxing training with 3 lbs weights in my hand to make me stronger.", which reveals you know nothing since that would do nothing but throw off your timing completely when it came time to actually fight. Those 'heavy weapons' existed and were probably used once in a while like primitive weights, but that's it.
I train with 34oz gloves and when I put on my 12oz gloves my hands are flying (in a good way)
Worshipping people you have never met and a time you have never lived in only makes you look like a fool.
T. Ignoramus
Yeah well they're remembered and you're nobody philosophizing on the faggy internet.
So what? I also get to eat chocolate every day and then have my cavities filled. Those retards thought that Winter existed because James Woods made a bitch eat pomegranate
>t. Carthaginian
>t. Ignoramus Hubris Maximus
Alexander the Great wanted to b like Achilles, Julius Caesar wanted to be like Alexander, Napoleon wanted to be like Caesar. Looking up and admiring great men is normal. You're the weird fool for thinking you're above it all.
>JUPITER DANGLES HIS COCK AT ME ONCE MORE WITH THIS NEW MISFORTUNE
>thread barely has the proper amount of SwoleShack references
and what of good solonius?
Friends! I have something to say
give him the floor!
Good thread this.
But what of good Solonius?
Trve roman thread, got trve citizens
Quick hail Jupiter before the Jannies arrive.