RussianFluff, Think before you take a joke seriously, or you'll make yourself look like an idiot.

He's Army Special Forces and a former Drill Sergeant that is gonna take a toll on your voice.

Very intimidating

because he is

3 reenactors?

Keith Larsen 3 very lucky (and now very rich) reenactors. :P *sarcasm*

Dominic Mercurio one was batman, oh he wasnt reenacting?

Dominic Mercurio The main one (the one wearing the black t-shirt) was in a survival show I believe

The point is get the game finished before you blow it on pointless hype and accessories for people who pre order. I don't need Jungle Jim looking at scrotums as I can watch a documentary or better still read a book and I don't need an office onager with my game. I need a game that works and as a loyal fan the very mention of Rome II was enough hype for me.

He sounds like the blacksmith in Whiterun

"I'd be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a bellyful of mead..."

"Yes, Dovahkiin? How can I help you?"

"By the Gods! What manner of power is that?"

"What is it, Argonian?"

Funny enough there was a show on the history channel that used the first Total War Game called "Decisive Battles" who would have thought?

I remember watching a History Channel show about Rome and they used the original Rome Total War for the battle scenes, but they called it their "Advanced simulation software" or something like that lol.

Is that the show that decided the best weapon of the time was a throwing axe based on a total war game and some bullshit reasoning? Because that made me laugh my ass off when I saw it.

Y'know now that you say that I do remember something about throwing axes. Damn, what was the name of that show?

BandNerdcp I don't remember because I think I watched it in like 2004 or 5.

+Revrot It survived until the 15th century. How much longer could you expect?

+Patrick Riley It would have lasted a lot longer had caesar not fucked it up

+Aelius Magnus No. Cross the Rhine, and crucify unwashed barbarian who dare stands before the IMPERIUM OF ROME NEVER FORGET THE SEVENTEENTH AND NINETEENTH LEGIONS

+Revrot Most of our laws are based on Roman laws.

+beyondthelol ceasar didn't fuck it up constantin did. he wanted to make constantinople the capital of ROME. that's when the eastern and western roman Empire divided. the western Empire got attacked by the germanic tribes and the eastern roman Empire didn't help. that caused the fall of the (western) roman empire.

That's what I heard, too.

+Jezi It's almost as bad as misspelling scutum on Google.

Ayy AngryJoe

lmao

Angry Joe

Actually its main use was to pierce enemy shields, rendering their shield useless which meant no shield for that guy.

Because it make the shield too heavy due to soft iron tip round itself

not to heavy but u cant use a shield with a pilum hanging on front of it stoping all ur movements

The Mid easterner and roman be like: RIGHT IN THE NIPPLE BITCH! Come at me bro.

Actually, from what I've read, pila had a hardened iron tip and a softer iron shaft. The pointed tip needed to be hard to penetrate the enemy's shield and body, while the javelin shaft was softer so it would deform upon impact, making it useless to throw back.

thanks captain obvious

wish i had 1

Times never stand still my friend that's life and every Empire rises only to fall...Rome lasted for century's but tore itself apart by greed and corruption

boomerhgt That's true. Time moves on all the time, but we never learned from Rome the first true Empire what inevitable greed and corruption do. They brought the Roman Empire and every other empire after that down. We'll be next. That's unfortunately what I think.

+Benjamin Blake Mitchner I totally agree every Empire has its rise and fall

+Benjamin Blake Mitchner I disagree with you that the Roman Empire was the first one. Egypt and Babylon were both great in their heydays and both were eventually brought down by greed and corruption. The Chinese dynasties to the East. It has happened again and will continue to happen over and over again. The greed of man knows no bound. It is possible to build an utopia society and world but highly improbable due to people's unwillingness to share and cooperate. And unfortunately, it is those same people that are in charge of modern day's governments and major superpowers. I mean if you look at the northern Scandinavian countries such as Sweden, they got a pretty great thing going there. It is possible but the rest of the world isn't gonna follow that because the people in charge don't want to lose power. But hey, what can you do. We are all just pawns in the scheme of things. If Earth self-destructed right now, the Universe wouldn't bat an eye. All we can do is hope World War III doesn't happen in our time and hope humanity will still be there after World War III.

+Benjamin Blake Mitchner "I bet you if he and or The Romans came to earth now they'd be horrified and call us a bunch of fools and idiots and losers." Jesus? probably. The Romans? No way, we got everything they had and more, mostly because our civilization was build on the fundament of their ideas. We got sanitations everywhere, not just in our capitals and big cities, we got democracy and a Roman based judiciary, we got well equipped and disciplined armies and soldiers. Basically, if a Roman would stumble into today Western civilization the only things he would wonder about are that none speaks Latin and/or Greek, women are equal to men before law and everyone is wearing pants, not just the soldiers in Northern climates. You romanticize the Roman culture as being enlightened in every aspect, as generous and wise above all else when Romans were mostly pragmatic first.

Nick Zad Someones/things abilities has to end somewhere.

Search Reenactment Associations which focus on the Roman culture. Legio XXI Rapax or Terra Dacica Aeterna who boasts Legio V Macedonica. There is also Legio I Italica. Then there would Legio XIII Gemina and many more. Keep a close eye on them as during summer, they attend several events throughout Europe and all they do is basically... live like the romans did on campaign. Very, very educative. Not to mention that the battles they do can be entertaining as well.

@@Dynamiczx I don’t think he ever did look those up.

really? isnt shogun harder?

+Rafael Llaban from my own experience, shogun 2 is slightly easier from rome 2....well, this is just my opinion

Ehh it's a pretty good game now.

+Johann Schmidt they did cut occasionally when not in formation but not how this guy is doing it

+Johann Schmidt In these days I doubt you can say the word "never" that easy. If you look at records of Roman VS Macedonian battle, there are depicts of Macedonian infantries' heads and arms cut off which can't be done by stabbing only. Of course those who slice were mocked by others but slicing was kind of impromptu.

How was it?

+Eric Jesperson Depending on how much vinigar you put in: mostly liquefied feet sweat.

Zajin13 Yum!

Eric Jesperson Well, if you prefer that taste over getting diarrhea from bad water you better get used to it soldier!

man woman wild

Billy Murry god dammit you're right. and now i'm remembering scenes of that show. pls kill me now

Watch a marathon of it and your dreams will be fulfilled lol

Tell me how can you carry a backpack with a lorica segmentata

runfire1337 would you need to ? did they march in full armour ?

mcpartridgeboy Yes, to wear this armor you need to be helped! and during a battle isn't fine to fight without armor

runfire1337 drunk fuck here but if you got help you can take my backpack as esy as taking m6y stick, the main force of labour would be putting that metal on right ? I'm drunk !

main force of what? it's a legion, an army not a group of common slaves!