Lol I remember crash course attributed it to somebody but I couldn’t remember who.thanks for the clarification. To be clear though im not saying that the games arent great and loads of fun, ive got 1900 hours on rome 2 and i bought it the day it came out, same with rome 1, they were as accurate as they could be essentially the problem with the whole game was that it ignored the way in which different states waged war differently, Gauls didnt have standing armies but the game needs them to so it bends history, post Marian reforms the game sorts itself out a little bit, but still doesnt implement the differing cultures and styles of individual legions because it uses the phrase legion interchangably with army A system like crusader kings where you levy troops and your ratios of infantry to cavalry and such are determined by the wealth of the area and your culture would have worked better. The whole thing is too long to type out so i'll just say that with the pre marian maniples, the game engine treats them like regular soldiers as we understand them, ie, governmentally assigned roles into which career soldiers fit, whereas those troops were levied for individual campaigns based on social status, the idea that one could choose to raise an army of only triarii and maintain them indefinitely makes it unrealistic. Sorry this is strucured and formatted terribly, and almost certainly very boring, also i havent looked at the actual dissertartation in ages so i probably missed loads I suggested that because the Empire reached its limits with this form of mobile warfare and it was pretty praised by classical historians and became a sort of design classic, thus forever giving us a weird image of the Roman military that ignored how it worked for most of Rome, i mean we view legions as the epitome of the professional army, but the closest modern translation of the world is levy, and if any the regiments of Palatina and Comitatenses were closer to that Obviously this is simplified and doesnt mention computer games and how they depict the legionary decked in Lorica Segmenta with his Scutum, Pila and Gladius almost regardless of time period. To summarise the final message the early principate legions, roughly Augustus through Antonius Pius (thats the period i focused on) was relatively well documented in Seut/Poly/Vege and the end of mobile Roman warfare, with the Danube/German/African and Arabic Limes the Roman army became sedentary and more focused on defence and reaction and frankly, thats less sexy. My degree was ancient history, but my module choices always favoured roman and tended to be militaristic, so i ended up writing my dissertation on modern perceptions of the Roman military, specifically in computer game media, after my first draft i pivoted that to what formed the stereotypes that we as a society have. Seeing stuff like this on reddit makes my day i wrote my dissertation on why we adopted that view of an early Principate legionary over all others Instructions and advice on how to best do an AMA. Want to do an AMA or know someone who does? Message the mods! Comments should be on-topic and contribute.ĭiscussions are limited to events over 20 years ago.If a post breaks one of our rules or guidelines you will be informed about it. So it is perfectly normally for your post to not show up in the new listing. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyone's favorite figure of minor French nobility is!Īll posts will be reviewed by a human moderator first before they become visible to all subscribers on the subreddit. r/History is a place for discussions about history. Join the r/history Discord server to chat with other history enthusiast!
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