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>game is unfair
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literally impossible
Just flank bro
mouth watering
>onager
Primitive weapon for more primitive times.
>getting killed by loads of rocks falling toward you
Ouch. Like a thousand hammers smashing your bones to dust.
>skirts
>open toe sandal boots
Romans were homosexuals
Carthago was better
>we can totally win this Punic War shit-ACK
>got Rome by the balls and only needs to land a killing blow
>diverts all resources to Spain instead
Carthage deserves to get deleted
Slimey politicians destroyed Carthage. Hannibal had Rome dead to rights, but politicians were afraid he would become king after he conquered Rome so they didn't give him enough support to finish the job.
Yup, even funnier how after the war Hannibal Singapores the whole economy in a few years despite the crippling debt and war reparations
i am convinced that we live in a simulation now, each and every time the known world is about to be completely taken over by some great and unbeatable army it just doesn't happen.
>we can totally stop this barbarian migr--ACK
>thank god the fourth crusade has to he--ACK
>these walls have never been breached let alone by a big can--ACK
Every civilization is a tragedy over a long enough timespan. It's sophmoric to pretend that might = right as your ass would be mongol or worse br*tish if that was the case.
You don't know what "might" is.
Quality response.
African empires looked like THAT?!
Carthago delenda est
>was
until they weren't better and got btfo because they suck and they are gay also
gay homosexuals to be exact
you just got owned, raped, and fricked
Truer words have never been spoken.
Imagine the smell
No, they were fricking men, like only the most masculine and heterosexual men do
yes we know they were fricking men thats why they are gay
the weather is hot in the Mediterranean
>t. wears constricting pants with no airflow that causes the temperature if his balls to be too hot thus causing reduce in sperm count
this, that's why real men wear skirts and panties
CRASSUS
THEY'RE NOT RUNNING OUT OF ARROWS CRASSUS
LANCE CHARGE FROM BEHIND!!!!!
>hello sirs
Poor elephant cuties.
At least they get armor.
Elephants are so smart that they literally refused to go into battle without armor. We have a lot of information about those times and the elephants refused to go forward even if they were physically abused.
>this made PRÖÖÖHS :DDddd shid and piss themselves
Oink
>the trees start speaking german
The trick is that there are even more of these turtle fricks on the left and right. If you go far enough either side you get calveryed instead. if you get into melee range they don't turle form anymore either, since archers don't generally shoot randomly into huge melees
>Meta can be beaten with enough persistence
This is a rendition made for dramatic effect and is not real. If arrows were good, then the longest empire in history would have made more use of them. Bowgays keep coping.
>the longest empire in history would have made use of them
the mongols did make use of the bow
Mongols being a formal empire in the same way as other traditional empires is the biggest meme ever; Fictitious. Probably shorter than all the others if were going by a stric definition and not historians with an agenda. Also they made use of bows due to the "meta" in their native lands but it never really contributes too much to victories outside the steppe. That's just another meme.
Bows have always mostly been tools of attrition and harassment. They aren't the weapons you think they are, didn't become dire lethal until crossbows. The reason they even used Bows so much was because it wasn't just for warfare but everyday life. Also they weren't as advanced in terms of logistics, organizations or tech in the same was as actual empires. So they were deadly against the softer target that is(namely themselves) but also most other troops in the steppe.
Muh horse archers is the biggest reddit meme to ever plague history. You think other cultures didn't field them in smaller numbers also? They've always been relegated to skirmishers and maneuver support. Mongols were no exception. The difference with them being that they were so Asa backward that their tribal confederations consisted mostly of that.
>Muh horse archers is the biggest reddit meme to ever plague history. You think other cultures didn't field them in smaller numbers also? They've always been relegated to skirmishers and maneuver support. Mongols were no exception. The difference with them being that they were so Asa backward that their tribal confederations consisted mostly of that.
People vastly overestimate china and thus the mongols by extension.
arrows weren't not used as much because they were bad, they weren't used because they were expensive and keeping enough of them was another thing to haul around for an army. British kings nearly bankrupted themselves on supplying longbowmen with arrows.
>This is what English actually belive
The reason arrows became "expensive" was due to the high demand and inability for the existing infrastructure to keep up with the war effort. Not because fletching is something that's inherently expensive.
Next you'll be telling me that the Normans weren't french
>he thinks longbow can penetrate plate armor+chainmain+gambeson
That's not what happened at Agincourt, m8.
>However, the Parthians had stationed camels carrying arrows to allow their archers to continually reload and relentlessly barrage the Romans until dusk.
Why didn't the romans just walk forward and beat up the sissy archers?
Low T flight response in the face of PARTHIAN BVLLS
>He thinks that's unfair
Wait until you get to the pikes and black powder. Also eventually there will be things that can delete you beyond visual range.
>game is literally impossible to beat
>old and busted game gets worshipped by secondaries
many such cases
Hey So basically I'm just gonna not fight you head on I Know..... UGH I know... It's just that I'm not gonna do it is all. I'll just go around hahaha. Enjoy being tied up by peasants I guess. I hope over half of your practice drills were turning in obliques. Good luck!
>*loses battle instantly by not fighting*
whoops
your loss????
More battles were won by not fighting than the opposite.
There's a reason that maniples supplanted phalanx for general purpoes use.
there's a reason why your mom cant sleep on her back anymore
What's the point of holding the poking sticks diagonally? Are they worried about aerial units?
It was an effective defence against missiles.
No, after the first wave charges they fall back and the next row lowers their spears and attacks next.
there are so many rows that if the guys in the rear lowered their pikes they would be poking the front guys in the ass
>beaten by literally longer sticks handled by men with deeper rows
>beaten by manipules that just skirted around the frickers and shanked them in the flanks
>muh phalanx is unstoppab-ACK!
>units still holding the field are all phalanx-style heavy infantry
wew lad
that's more on me just being a shitter at total war and playing on very hard where units don't rout when they normally would
the real battle was way more one-sided
>speargays jerk off over how swords are heckin unrealistic as a primary weapon
>meanwhile romans used swords to conquer 1000s of people doing this with the longest spears in recorded history
umm spearcucks? our response?
The shield and maneuver was the workhorse. Don't forget jalevins too. They still used spears until things devolved into cqb. They used both and then some.
so they had good tactics and side weapons, but they still used swords as the primary instead of poking the other guy with a big stick like every renfaire gay does before posting on reddit about how lame it is that more video games don't have spears? got it
They still used spears dingus, even in the height of pike and shot or pre gunpowder pike heaven; They had people with shorter weapons or themselves had sidearm. Only in certain epochs of Roman history did they(due to battlefield need) use swords more often. Spears will always be the primary weapons. Or at least the first weapons to be used before forces stop maneuvering and commit. 90 of battles are decided before committal(and also in preparatory phase). So this is where the sentiment comes from. It's a moot point to try and argue which weapon specifically saw more action in the bloody half.
>once everything went to shit they started using spears again
so spears =plebian and swords =patrician, which is why every game uses swords and redditors need to stop coping about how hecking unrealistic it is - got it.
Romans used complex tactics honed by discipline and skirmish infantry in front of their lines rather than grouping up and running in like a bunch of barbarians. The simple fact that a tired roman can fall back in the line for a fresh one to take his place is a massive advantage on an individual scale, let alone the massive population and industrial base that let them outfit armies to take huge losses and still keep going like it never happened. If Epirus or Parthia had happened to any Achaean their city would be ruined entirely.
Just get longer spears?
Testudo!
Romanes eunt domus.
Syria Palaestina Delenda Est
GG no RE
Stop embarrassing my empire reeeeee, fricking indomitable Gauls. What are they doing in Egypt anyway? Frick off.
Just drop caltrops and harass them from a safe distance with bows or something.
This
The formation is literally useless if they can't stand
Then you pick them off with arrows from a distance
Alternatively, use oil and fire
Who the frick taught you to type like such a homosexual?
You’d need to have a shit ton of those to stop an entire legion
>destroys your entire empire and larps as it
nothing personnel, medcvck
VARUSSSSSSSSSSSS
Why do they have pickaxes?
I HATE horse archers.
>game is funfair
>Shoots through the gap into their face
Romankeks your response?
What's the point of wielding shortswords in such a formation? Wouldn't pikes be much more effective?
The Romans didn't destroy the phalanx to adopt it, anon.
>Wouldn't pikes be much more effective?
If all you had to do was sit in that formation and never move then sure
But the point of the maniple was flexibility and maneuver. It destroyed the phalanxes for a reason.
Kneel
So you idiot chud think it just takes an unarmored swordmanlet and a fat bastard who doesn't even have a weapon to defeat 16 trained, armored warriors?
Learn about warfare, chud.
>punch roman soldier so hard he goes flying backwards and breaks up the formation
why wouldn't this work
Because you will get impaled on their spears before getting into punching range, chuddy.
Your post was stupid. Better delete it before more people see it and laugh at you.
Read more history books, moron. "Les irreductibles Gaulois" had the secrets to a potion magique and kicked César's ass and his fou de Romains and that is a fricking fait.
*circles behind you and starts shooting you in your butt*
what now romecvck?
How are you gonna do that when your horse lies screaming on the ground with its hoof split open?
Horse Steel Boots
Imagine how many of these things you would have to forge for each battle.
Imagine the costs.
could probably just reuse most of them
Roman smithing and mining operations were fairly robust. Also they had slaves. When the roman army went on campaign, they brought a lot of camp attendants. 1000's of them. Not a stretch to say they could have them just pick up the caltrops behind the army after a battle.
I wish I could've been in Caesars legion massacring smelly Gauls
Gods that sounded like a fantastic time
TRIARII!!
CREESHAN ARCHERS
Your accuracy is shit
why dont you just attack them from the side
cavalry protects your wings
Just take the RTS pill and play AOE2 DE
is very fun
rts is too hard for my chud brain, i play bannerlord instead
Beating barbarians is a sport we should bring back.
I never knew Roman soldiers did moronic character select animations.
I never knew there was tiktok in ancient rome
>patch adds in a whole new class to play
>it's op as all hell
Every FRICKING time
Ranged attacks were a mistake.
Just kill their centurion and they crack like eggs
god did you even listen to gnarl?
I'm sure the people that brought us roads, aqueduct and industrialized warfare; couldn't figure out Command succession.
where are my Oversimplified homies at?
Leave the horse archers to me.
>enemy attacks while being immune to your attacks