They specifically hired guys who have "manly man" voices. It's usually easy to spot a fake "manly man" voice because they can barely say "Hello" before sounding like they are out of breath.

@@ae4164 I beg to differ, I can put on a very similar voice to the main actor without shortness of breath. xD

Tarack1 because youre manly dude

BOOP and I didn’t even know! ❤️

i luv it, sounds so badass

Josias Waldeck plus after watching him go on about traction, Also after watching Lindybiege, I'd love to see how those nails deal with a hard surface like a well paved road or any indoor surface.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I admire the roman army, but it wasn't perfect. And their ideas were probably seen in countless cultures before they adopted them.

Censor Duck You're probably right, but that is why they were such a successful Empire. Well, Republic, the Empire was a little too fond of civil war.

Josias Waldeck Well I think the success was due to logistics and organisation. Their tactics were quite good, but the way the republic and the Empire was organised and the sheer mindset of the People of Rome itself was what gave it it's success.

Censor Duck Of tolerance and inclusion.

There is a reason why the game was released one month earlier

went into mike hawk

You will be surprised how cheap it is to hire out re-enactment groups

Yeah lol

@@atomichorizen3987 A lot of these guys even do it for free since they see this as just a hobby. Just show up on re-enactment day with your camera crew. But they would want to see their names in the credits.

+Matt Dean A friend used to own a reproduction Gladius, really more of a hacking weapon with the way it's weighted and shaped. It's kinda hard to get a clean slice, but it would easily hack through a Greek arm or skull with one or two blows.

+Matt Dean Deadliest Warrior tried a Gladius on a ballistic dummy, it managed to dismember it with a slash. It seems he wasn't joking around.

It can be use for slicing, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. You'll have to get up in your opponent's face if you want to get a good hit with a swing since it's a shortsword.

In physical combat even if the soldiers are trained only to thrust the natural reaction in the body when stressed is to swing and strike, even though it will often deliver less mortal wounds.

Fake Name The point is, he said "perfect" for slicing and cutting, which it definetely is not.

This_American Instead they spent money showing us how cool it would be if they had it in the game, smart right :P

Your comments are really funny and relevant even now. I have even subscribed to you.

Like what? How do you suggest they should have implemented sandals or any of the other things in here?

DEI mod

instal the mod - DEI - divide et imperia

Soldiers being what they are, I imagine what you heard and the official word for "thing I have to carry the length of the bloody empire" were pretty much interchangeable...

the auto generated subtitles agree: "This fucker right here ..."

@@locarno24 This works surprisingly well in Latin, too: fututor vs. furca. Not as close, but not terribly far either.

wooosh

Is that a pun?

@@DanielNighteyes Yes, I could not resist taking a stab at a bad pun. ;)

It should also be noted that firstly, for most of the roman history, half the roman army was auxiliaries, and secondly, the roman army lost many, many battles. The main advantage that the roman army had until it's peak, was their ability, to stand up new armys and new navys, after having been defeted.

@@oloflarsson407 try to repeat that without crying

Took a lot? U mean dead Gauls! The only battle they won was Gergovia with Vercingetorix and they lost the War and Gaul was annexed.

Can you elaborate about the belt thing cuz I didnt notice that ever

@@TESkyrimizer They wore their swords on belts. The belt sits on the hips and carries the weight of the lower part of the hauberk. Go to any serious re-enactment where guys have made their own mail, and they immediately discover this when they belt on a sword.

Holy crap

@@peenplays4219 That's what i was like.

yeah he does now that u said it, he sounds like batman too.

ya sounds just like him i was thinking " who does his voice remind me off "

I thought along those lines as well.

@Kardz22 It was funny how he told his wife not to name the tortoise because they might eat it and his wife named it anyways and they had to let it go, lol.

@@xcd87 saw that episode lmfao

@Kardz22 and the snake

"Light" in Light Infantry isn't about weight... it's about armament and capabilities. In the modern sense it's Light Infantry vs Mechanized Infantry.

it's about armament and capabilities": lighter weapon and supply trail because they are expected to move more than the heavy infantry (who are expected to be an "anchor on the battlefield", hold their ground and fix the enemy in one place while the light infantry move around to attack from a better place.) the roman use the word "impedimenta" to describe the supply trail. a good enough traduction would be "what slow us down". a smaller supply trail would mean a better mobility so weight of the supply needed would affect the unit capabilities. because what was called the "heavy infantry" is now called the "mechanized infantry" doesnt change the fact that the modern "light infantry" is indeed "lighter" than the "mechanized infantry" be it in regard of the weight of the equipment or the weight of supply it need.

@@ericlanglois9194 I was in the heavy infantry, Mortars, but luckily I was using 12 cm mortars which are towed.

@@ericlanglois9194 "Light" and "Heavy" back then was about armor. They were clearly heavy infantry.

well...I always thought the Legion proper was regarded as heavy infantry, with the attached auxiliary forces playing the "light" part...

I know why, it's awesome!

now imagine being on a date with the dude

I kind of feel like that's how a 2nd person video game would sound (from the farmers' perspective) lol.

😁

MrPAACK lol angry joe

MrPAACK it isn't funny tbh😕

Yep most of the docu's are there historians that all repeat the same thing over and over again

@Kardz22 i meant the script not the man

@Kardz22 but the script is more inportant and he didn't make it

@Kardz22 and?

@Kardz22 yes

N7 Offtank lmao I can only imagine what went through his head

Rude

@Zayed Haroon Pleb*

@@emmanueltrejo4226 not a rock.

"Bitch, you thought".

WOW finally someone who said this :D i totally agree. the game would be much better if the release date was. say ... today or something :D

Yes

Because you are 7 years old

Posca*

+Francisco Not better than furca. :P

+Lukas K it sounds like f*cker

Shix Lo thank you. No one would have been able to get that without you explaining it.

+Lukas K ur welcome

Dromaro probably just years of smoking

As surprising as it is, he either genuinely sounds like that or is remarkably consistent. Dude has a lot of content, never sounds like anything else.

@@PhillyB20XX I watched a full 2 season of his survival show, man, woman, wild, and I can say, I found it funny at first, but that is this guys genuine voice. lol I think you alluded the the lost of content and consistency with that

He reminds me of the master chief voice lol

Masculinity bothers him guys. Probably a male feminist, y'all.

Enable to become a green beret you have to walk 26 miles with 80 pounds. That's also at the end of the 3 weeks with 2-3 hrs of sleep a night, with running, rucks , and smoke sessions. all of that is just the tryout to go to green beret training, then you have to pass the training where more 80 pnd rucks are involved plus carrying your weapon, which if you have the machine gun is an extra 20 pounds. The training is a selection process in itself for all the guys that passed the initial three week "tryout". I see what you mean, the cultural upbringing does help. And basic training is literally meant to counter act that. Takes the soft pussified generation and turns them hard. Or harder then how they were. That's why basic military training is getting screamed at, sleep deprivation, and this. Rucking.

@Walter Dumbrowski lol light infantry units are more than capable of that. As well as most recconaissance units, paratroopers, mountain units, heck even mechanized infantry units. And then special forces is a whole other ball park. It's pretty silly to assume that modern soldiers who are better equipped and fed (also heavier equipment) aren't capable of 20+ miles a day. Although i highly respect legionnaires don't think of them as titans. For they still walk among us today. As for 20+ miles a day? Sucks. But doable. Been there. Done that Yours truly, Infanteer, PPCLI. 1st battalion 💥

@Walter Dumbrowski takes 10 minutes for the brain to succumb irreversable permanent brain damage. Also some people can hold breath for much longer than 3 minutes

@Walter Dumbrowski humans are very capable of that. Ask any canadian infanteer that fought in tora bora or other parts of afghanistan in 06' or 02'. Daily patrols would go for over 13 km and carrying over 120 lbs of gear. The reality is we have documented and recorded footage of these feats. I am by no means diminishing romans but like anyone who writes history they will overspeak of anyone they worship. Im sure romans coulsnt keep that up for a year. Add in casualties and camp followers and you'd be surprised that they actually walked at a very slow pace. You can easily walk 6 km an hour with 100 lb of gear (nothing out of the ordinary for western infantry units) and in 5 hours boom you walked the distance of a legionnaire. They were human just like us. And we too like them. And seeing as how we are better fed better trained and healthier overall we can easily accomplish their feats. Im sure you can too. It's all in your head. If you truly believe that no one today could do what a legionnaire did for months on an end you are seriously mistaken. Great soldiers ofc. But walking 30 km a day at a normal walking pace with 60-100 lbs of gear for months on end is nothing crazy to brag about. Hurts but you get used to it.

@Walter Dumbrowski i would highly suggest you look at your comment about being able to walk with alot of weight for dozens of kms and drink in 3 day increments. Thats not how hydration works. You'll suffer heat stroke and die. If you were a soldier you'd know that that is bullocks.

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I never seen that footage of that general killing a soldier in the game.

Do you expect a battle to be gently fought?

@@christostheocharides4689 Not gently, but not inefficiently and dangerously either.

It's one of the most reliable and fastest ways to kill someone with a thrust. Stabbing downward through the shoulder into the heart has little to no resistance whereas if you stab in the chest or torso you'll either hit the sternum or one of the rib cages. Which either means you just hit bone and fail to kill your opponent or you just your blade lodged into the bone and have to discard the weapon.

@@gojimoji9085 You wouldn't be doing bloody pirouettes and disregarding your shield completely tho. I think that's what they meant. Also, I know I'm being pedantic, but in the human body there is only one ribcage :p

Yeah, the entire point of classical land warfare was to break apart the other guy's shield wall. If it comes down to individual combat, you're already screwed. The Roman legionnaire wasn't designed for individual combat any more than the Greek hoplite was.

@@flatebo1 the Romans where better at the individual Combat because of their sword, but besides that yes break the formation and you condemn those besides you

Don't forget that even the victors lost units. Battles are usually made up of several different units of soldiers in formation so it was likely that the romans lost formations here and there.

roman legion tend to not break formation because during fight they regularly switch exhausted first line soldiers with soldiers from back lines

@@CanadianHoneybadger Cycle and Close Ranks usually what happens when someone went down

@Dr. Krieger The special forces guy, that could easily kill you yeah I guess

Steven Seagal laughs at this guy

@@Kyrelel Steven Seagal can't laugh without running out of breath

@@Dobermann89-dr2rc gonna die from laughing at his voice

Sounds like Solid Snake

@@TheCheat_1337 Solid snake sounds like an innuendo.

That's what a man's voice is supposed to sound like. It's not supposed to sound like the nasal whine of your average pasty pile of dough that sits behind a computer all day.

@@hajjibarbara2900 LOL

@@hajjibarbara2900 No. That's what a man's voice sounds like when his natural sound is a nasal whine and he's trying to compensate for it by artificially lowering his pitch and adding 'vocal fry' to the mix, so as to sound more gravelly. The strain achieved by that vocal restriction also makes it easier to keep the voice deep without risking high pitched sounds slipping through. It makes him sound like a teenager who's pretending to be Batman.

Hadrian´s Wall?, ah, but then the 9th was from Spain...

@@paavobergmann4920 it may be called the VIIII (yep, with four `I´) Hispanica, but the integrants of the legion could come from anywhere. And in Spain there are a lot of blonde, white skined people, specially in the North. Greetings from the Canary Islands mate

@@Macharius89 Yeah, you´re right. sure. It was maybe first assembvled in spain, or had a memorable deployment there, or whatever

@@paavobergmann4920 Actually the legions name´s were settled for greater actions or defeats (XII Fulminata), geographical origin (VIIII Hispanica, III Cyrenaica) or other matters (XXX Ulpia Victris, X Fretensis, etc). It´s great to see or read other people interested in one of the greaters pillars of the Roman Civilization

Lmao

The only time i can agree with you is when they turn corners. But they never break line unless they are overwhelmed

This comment was made when the game released when it was very very buggy and, well bad. It still has a lot of the original problems but they're far less noticeable than they were at release.

EnderGhost119 ^ agree. I kinda hoped RTW II had the meaty and cool RTW I stuff tho.

The problem is that unlike rome 1, the units in rome 2 don't actually exist in the respect that they can phase thru each other and dont have mass.

That was the joke...

Dan Otten if you pause it at just the right moment, his shield disappears, then he kicks it from nowhere.

You're contradicting yourself. You said it was wrong that formations would eventually breakdown, then immediately say they do sometimes. What the video is saying is that, ideally, you would want to be in formation, but in case you weren't because of certain reasons, the Gladius could still be used as a slashing weapon for extra versatility.

+Thoughtful Potato - No, I said it was wrong that all formations breakdown. "Sometimes they do" means that... well, sometimes a formation breaks down. That does not mean it is inevitably going to happen to all formations, but it will happen to a given percentage based on factors in the battle. Put it another way; dude is saying that if there are ten formations in a battle line, they will all break down over the course of the battle. I am saying that, depending on how the battle goes, some of them may break down. The only time they will all break down is if they end up routed. There's a big difference between the two.

MrElis How is this not the top comment, I was looking for this lol

Hockey is not a sport fyi

lmao how is it not a sport

I’m 6 years late but he’s a former operator from the special operations community

Lol special forces. How are you going to talk crap about him😂

Adam The idiot hockey player thinks he can do better.

You could use the Furca to get yourself that moment you need, and you also have your shield Though that won't work for modern combat Same with the Boots, any fragmentation flying around will rip your feet apart

@@Voron_Aggrav Sure. The fearsome Parthian air burst fragmentation grenades....No seriously, where is the issue? You get attacked on the march while resting, you simply shrug, and you´re good to go. I wouldn´t have wanted to ambush a legion on the march, unless they were unaware and mingled with their trail, like in Kalkriese. A legion was literally a 12 000 -footed killing machine, 24/7

@@paavobergmann4920 for the Boots in a modern war a lot more shards of Things goes flying around, which is what I Meant with Fragmentation, most organised fighting forces would be ready to go in an instant and yeah dropping the Furca would also be quite simple

@@Voron_Aggrav yeah sure. The boots were excellent at the time. Nowadays? No, thanks...imagine barbed wire...eehw...

@@paavobergmann4920 yeah Exactly what I was having, Modern combat made them so Obsolete it's not even Funny to try them now for that role, I'd love to have them for daily use though :D

Jackie Gamez lo

You get the zubbonian award for least depressing comment of the video award. Award. Singing *HOBOS DON'T CRY!!*

@@zubbworks Thanks, I think. Zubbonian? (walks away while still seated at the computer singing: "Third box car, midnight train, destination, Bangor Maine, Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues I smoke old stogies I have found, short but not too big around I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road")

@@Grynslvr2 Man that is the last song on a cd I have and I quite like it.

@@zubbworks Yeah, Roger sang a hell of a tune. He single handedly taught me not to try to roller skate in buffalo herds. Ah, songs from my childhood. Sigh. A long, long time ago.

nobody wants to sound like that lmao

Mycock 😉

Yeah, because 'Stringfellow' was already taken...

Well, I believe there might be a vacancy in the Polanski family....

Then just go to Italy

@@richardlew3667 I'm from the future, don't go to Italy.

Check out reviews around release. This game had one of the worst releases of a game in gaming history. Was criminally misadvertised and utterly broken. It wasn't until years later that it was in a playable state, and today, It's stlll an unimpressive and uninspired sequel with money grubbing dlc practices. Big fan of the first rome total war though. Fell so far from the standards and business practices of that amazing game.

@@analtubegut66 So basically like paradox's imperator now?

He's done shows lectures and documentaries in this very same voice, I can't tell that he's kinda putting emphasis but this is his real voice.

Spending 20 years in the Army barking orders, singing cadences, and teaching soldiers will do that to you.

That's the thing with the Internet, you don't know who's gonna hit your video, especially when you're doing big advertising. You can't presume knowledge.

his voice is so funny. i wonder if he really talks like this

@Ya Boii My hubby is a spec ops vet, he laughs at this guy:)

This video was made before the game came out you idiot.