same here!

Me as well

Same here

check out sulla vs marius also quite interesting

Great work! I have always been a fan of Ancient Warfare magazine, and thanks to you guys, I can get a discount. By the way, your videos are amazing too.🎉

Thanks philly, we are still not getting any sponsors so thats the reason why we have not posted in a while, also this video is basicly costing us money :(

oh jazeker wel, maar dat mag allemaal!

Want ik kom gewoon terug hoor. Denk erom dat ik er een ben. Hoe zegt die Schwarzenegger dat aan het einde van die film?! I’ll be back

It's Britney B1tch!

To hear that from Julius Caesar himself is of course the greatest honour!

Spread the word!;)

Thanks, glad you liked it!

I still think the "incentives" that makes Post Marian Legionnaries great. For the poor , landless guys , a pension in the form of a Plot of land is a great motivation!😂

@@Gitsmasher Yup. Better than starving in a gutter somewhere in the Sabura.

If they were a "better" force overall or not is probably impossible to answer and perhaps a bit problematic as a question to begin with. Combat experience would vary greatly from unit to unit at both times and even within units, as veterans often were used to form the core around which a new force was built. Though especially during the Civil Wars of the Late Republic there were plenty cases of new Legions comprised mostly of green recruits hastily thrown into service out of pure necessity and entire Legions being lost. Meanwhile apart from the Teutoburg disaster entire Legions being lost or dissolved due to high casualties just didn't really happen in the 1st-2nd century AD, there was always a low but steady influx of new recruits in combination with older veterans guiding them on, so that likely gained experience wasn't really lost on a unit level. Simultaneously there was probably a lot more time that could be spent on selecting and training new recruits, so that the training level overall might have actually been higher. That is the benefit to having a professional military force. What we definitely do see in the finds though is that personal gear and equipment becomes a lot more elaborately decorated in the relative peace of the 1st century AD, as also alluded to in the video, as opposed to often very utilitarian pieces from the time of the Civil Wars, where a lot of gear was lost and had to be produced quickly. So instead of saying the Legionary force was better or worse it maybe has more merit to say that the character of their deployment often changed, perhaps not unlike the US military in the past decades that has become more accustomed to counter-insurgency operations than full peer-on-peer warfare and is only now starting to reorient itself. Of course in the Roman context things changed and became more unstable during late Imperial times again, with equipment and force structures changing accordingly.

tbh, I've always thought it was just a rather robust Iberian take on the Xiphos.....

@@FelixstoweFoamForge it may have been. with the greek colonists and traders around, that and the falcata could of both been imports or just independent development

That's very close to my current thinking.@@TotallyNotTimothyMcVeigh

Thanks Luis (not Luisa if i remember correctly ;P)!

Glad to hear we could satisfy your republican needs haha

Ah Renatvs, our oldest and most loyal follower, glad that you are still with us!

Haha, and it was 2 degrees Celcius so he was also pretty cold lol

Thanks a lot, great to hear it's appreciated, i hope youtube will catch on sooner or later, but it seems just not all of our videos are as popular as the more "clickbaity" or "popular" topics

Damn spain and their powerful, evil sword.😂

Cheers!

One of those is in the works already, just wait a bit to see which ;P

Thanks Andrejapaunic!

No you are right, that is because we are unable to get any paying sponsors:(

Thanks Joe, we are struggling a bit to be honest, we still don't get any paying sponsors and these video's cost quite a lot of money. We do not want to give up but we are having some troubles unfortunately... And the soldiers are not acting, they were genuinely cold hehe.

Well lucky you, we might just have something like that in our pipeline ;)

​@@ImperiumRomanumYTIt would be very interesting to see something from the Eastern Roman Empire too, specifically during the reign of Justinian, and Belisarius' soldiers and bucellari(probably spelt wrong) As always, fantastic videos, cant wait for the next one!

@@ImperiumRomanumYT🤩

they have a digital version fwiw

@@WBtimhawk Yes I saw that, thanks. I want my magazines in physical version. That inspires me to read them.

Same! Great to hear :)

Hahaha thanks michimatsch5862, the idea came up spontaneously and we are glad it worked out the way it did!

Thank you!

Thanks!

We love it as well, one of the greatest games ever made!

Can't beat the Rome 1 soundtrack

The problem I have with this is that the first mention of the Marian reforms comes from Sallust in his Jugurthine Wars written in 40bc, 13 years before Augustus became emperor.

There would seem to be less uniformity for sure. On Trajan's column there is a scene of soldiers marching across a bridge. One of the standard bearers carries the eagle and another next to him carries some kind of four legged animal - yet totems other than the eagle supposedly stopped getting used around 100bc.

Thanks a lot Peter!

Cheers!

He will be disciplined next time for sure, thanks for pointing it out

thanks :D

Thanks therapier4214, we always try to create an atmosphere of authenticity and we are glad you notice:)

Glad you liked this new format and we will surely take a dive into that era:)

Hi Wayne, we are planning on covering multiple periods and also non-Roman peoples so you will be statisfied:)

Cool mate i`m in@@ImperiumRomanumYT

Bedankt Robert, goed te horen!

thanks!

Wow, Salkvi816, this helps us out so much, everything helps so you have our utmost thanks!

Thanks John:)

Thank you, as the presenter I thank you for your comment:)

Cheers Tony!

Thanks Ginny!