Roman Armies and Tactics: Roman Siegecraft
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Our series on the evolution of Roman armies and tactics continues with an episode on the Roman Siegecraft in the late Republican and early Empire periods.
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30ft 40 ft and 50ft is 9m 12 m and 15 meters.
86 feet is 26.5 meters
330ft is 100meters.
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I was just scrolling down to see this comment
It is our bad.
@@KingsandGenerals All good! Different people, different preferences.
"A talen of gold to the first man to scale the walls!"
*Heavy legionary breathing*
TMW your commander in the army offers a bonus of around 2 million USD converted to today’s currency for scaling the walls first when he was gonna make you do it anyway xD legionaries were balllllling for sure with donatives like that
"We are Rome. Your technological and cultural distinctiveness will be added to our Republic. Resistance is futile."
Rome: The borg of the ancient and medieval world
Ancient Rome+Western Roman Empire+Eastern Roman Empire: All your technology and culture are now belong to us!
To be fair there were so many instances where Rome could have been crushed but ended up winning due to dumb luck. People also greatly admired them and were partially willingly adopting the Roman way of life. The same can not be said for the Borg. No one really wanted to be assimilated ever. Except maybe the crazy scientist parents of 7of9. They were basically asking for it.
“We will add your biological distinction to our slave markets as well”
That's because the best armies are usually the most adaptable ones. Just look at Ottoman Turks. They went from being nomadic steppe horsemen one minute to mastering naval combat in the Black Sea and Mediterranean in barely any time.
Caesar: "I will build a wall, and build another wall, and another wall, and The Gauls and Pompei will pay for them all!"
The irony is that the Gauls and Pompei did just that.
Cesar Trump
Caesar: the wall just got ten feet higher
Pompey was just glad that a clerical error sent the bill to the citizens of Pompeii, who were so shocked that they all turned to stone. I think that's how it went down anyway
@@milly623 😂😂😂
I've seen the siege ramp at Masada. It's astonishing. Several legionary campsites remain, and they are visible from the mesa top. Josephus, leader of Jewish forces in Galilee, described the siege at Yodfat employing a twin ramp. In 1992-93, I mapped Yodfat National Park for the IAA. Using Josephus as a guide, we found the remains of the ramp with many concrete revetments intact. It was indeed a twin ramp built to the city wall. Large quantities of ballista shot were found by the archaeological team at the wall ramp interface. Again, using Josephus and the locations of ballista, we were able to relocate the sites of Roman artillery. We ultimately mapped the entire ruins and a 1.5 square kilometer area surrounding them. Josephus's descriptions proved very accurate!
0:44
"Het Lucius, can I borrow your sword?
- Sure Decimus, here it is, but where is yours?
- Oh I have it on me.
- So why do you need mine?
- The centurion told be to watch over the new ram and that I needed to be double sharp about it.
- ...
- ...
- I'll go speak with the legate about giving you some less intellectually demanding tasks Lucius."
Oh I beg to differ decimus, now fall back in line legionnaire
Dude, I love the Total War and AOE sound effects and ost you work in. Hahaha
Yuup I got triggerd hard at 11:25, I know its AOE but what completion sound is it?
@@offchance789 If im not mistaken, the barracks completion sound.
The firing onager at 3:55 made me giddy too
@@offchance789 I think it's when you select a barracks
every once and a while you'll hear some AoM sounds too
We have explained it a few dozen times. Macedonians were undoubtedly Hellenic, but when you differentiate between the Successor Kingdoms and the city-states/leagues, you say Macedon/Seleucids/Ptolemies and so on. It is a standard historical practice that has nothing to do with the modern diplomatic realities. There is no controversy here.
Just an example of how normal it is - Plutarch - Parallel Lives - Life of Eumenes V: And when Craterus and Antipater, after overpowering the *GREEKS* were crossing into Asia to overthrow the power of Perdiccas, and were reported to be planning an invasion of Cappadocia, Perdiccas, who was himself heading an expedition against Ptolemy, appointed Eumenes commander of the forces in Armenia and Cappadocia with plenary powers. He also sent letters on the subject, in which he commanded Alcetas and Neoptolemus to look to Eumenes for orders, and Eumenes to manage matters as he thought best. Alcetas, then, flatly refused to serve in the campaign, on the ground that the *MACEDONIANS* under him were ashamed to fight Antipater, and were so well disposed to Craterus that they were ready to receive him with open arms.
Winter is coming: bit.ly/2kRVWX8
The fact that video's duration is 14:53 is a pure coincidence.
Kings and Generals, when are you gonna make a video on the Malacca Sultanate?
(:
I'm still waiting for Ali pashe Tepelena video.....
Ottomaan battleess.
Your my hero kings and generals
i've always loved the pragmatic Roman sayings, such as "The Ram has touched the walls" meaning we are past the point of no return. Rome was merciful, up until their deadline arrived, after which point that mercy evaporated and turned to utter ruthlessness.
Agree to peaceful terms albeit now with an overlord or die horrendously in a sacking? I'm surprised so many chose the latter.
@@charaznable8072 very free choose the latter. We only hear about the latter because it’s so much more interesting.
3:55 Gotta love how you the sound from AOE 2 of the onagre :)
Lmao I noticed it too. So nice
A thing of beauty :')
I was just about to point this out!
And at 11:25
12:40
Last time I was this early Rome was still an empire.
So early there is still a king
I was so early it was a republic.
I'm so early the Gracchi brothers are still alive.
And the dead sea was only sick
3:53 nice age of emoires sound
I LOVE!!!!! these kinds of documentary's , specially the little details that no one thinks about at 8:00 how the battering rams needed ropes around them to stop it shattering under the pressure of hitting something hard. Theses are the kind of details you NEVER think about. I never knew that was the reason i had seen ropes around battering rams in games and movies!!!!!! MORE PLEASE, KEEP IT UP my good man!
3:54 now that's the sound of age of empires II Onager
11:26 oh no they build the siege workshop already
12:46 and that the sound of Ram
was thinking the same thing! AOE2!!
O memories
They needed an Aoe2 trigger warning! I'm going to be up all night!
@Ryan Borganson a "definitive edition" if coming in November...
That's actually sound of a war elephant in 12:46
Masada: "Walls, food and water storage, on a steep, highly defensible mesa. We're safe here!"
Romans and entered the chat.
Masada: Hah, they don't have any siege engines that can reach this high!
Romans: *build a man-made mountain*
Masada: Wait that's illegal
Didn’t they build not one but two ramps I mean, man made mountains?
Salve, they built one ramp (soldiers and Jewish captives) but they built on top of a natural formation. Archaeological research clearly shows that they didn’t build the entire thing, the Roman took advantage of the landscape.
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" some people should know when they're conquered "
Gladiator
They cheated.. 'replaced by AL'
the agger was the most common way to siege btw
Such nice illustrations though, the artist is very talented.
Arb Paninken did the Art it says it in the ending credits I have to agree with you very talented.
Kings and Generals: *Uploads a video about siegecraft*
The Iron Warriors and Imperial Fists would like to know your location.
I'm pretty sure they already have them under siege.
Instantly thought of 40K when he said the best Legion at siegecraft was the 10th. My thoughts were, "The 4th and 7th legions would disagree".
Frumentarii: *4 missed calls*
Frumentarii: *delet siegecraft video now plz*
Frumentarii: *2 missed calls*
Frumentarii but messaging you on Facebook: *hello r u there*
*FORTIFY*
*I am fortifying this position.*
One more second and the video would have been 14:53
Edit: Thanks for the likes
The comment section is a war zone.
The year of the fall of Constantinople
@@mmubarak4411 the fall of Rome
@@hexa-kun4654 *Eastern Rome...no turk has ever and will never take the real ROME
@@mmubarak4411 1492 year of fall of Al Andalus 😜👉🏻👌🏻
true, but Moscow is also considered the new Rome, also the Catholic church is remnants of the actual Roman Empire and the pope is interim caesar amirite
Nice video, I’m glad you depicted soldiers from different time periods including the Republic era, because the discussed methods were not only used when the (cliché) lorica segmantata were fashionable 😉 Keep it up!
Cliche xD? But the lorica is such a great piece of equipment D:
Yeah but hamata deserve more love ;)
Carlotta Hastatis pectoral armor for life
@Macped Literally ‘for life’, in their case :)
Sure the segmantata is cool but the lorica hamata is just plain 🤟🏻heavy metal🤟🏻 in my opinion
My beloved AOE2! 11:26
Also, could you please make a video over the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula? Everybody knows about Gaul and Britannia, but Romans faced here over a century of warfare to fully subjugate its entirety. We also have our legends, as Viriato and Sertorius, our sieges and battles, as Numancia, and horrific stories, such as the mass suicide of the Cantabric people. Also, it was in Iberia that the Pars Occidentalis of the Empire first begun to fall, when Galecia was taken by the Suebi in 409.
Interested?
The Roman Army has always been my favorite thing to learn about in History. Thank you!
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I absolutely loved the new art style! Would love to see more of it!
11:06 why would you use feet instead of meters? Ideally you should show both.
Very disappointing. Metric system should of course be standard...
@@sntm87 metric is already standard, as even the US, Myanmar and Liberia use it for science and medicine.
@@alinalexandru2466 and industries especially the ones for exports
Have to pause the video to do the conversion. Totally kills the flow.
And if you insist, at least use Roman feet! (pedes)
The animations and art styles you do in your videos are always different from the previous video's but equally excellent. Every video has it's own style.
Man, 3 ideas:
1- A playlist (or a new channel, or just an Excel worksheet) with all the videos in historical order.
2- A video about the ways by which information used to reach commanders. How would someone know that the enemy was marching toward him? How would someone know how much time he had to fortify the city? How would he know that the east coast of somewhere had been crush 2 months ago? Stuff like that.
3- When you're presenting the army - for example, the army X was composed by 500 light cavalry, 2000 heavy infantry etc. - put some images of the troops on the screen, so we know how they were.
Thanks a lot for the videos!
To answer your second question: people. Human intelligence goes back as far as urban warfare. You gotta who you're fighting, where they're coming from, what they're good at, who they distrust etc. Information has always been the most important part of war. You can get it from locals (fleeing or under occupation) who can get it from traders/slaves, who can pass it onto spies and scouts. Now Rome only made the latter policy and put into regular practice after they'd already conquered half the Mediterranean, but the relay of communication and verification is what has created every empire. I have no doubt that Sargon and Darius' troops were no more elite than any others they fought, but that internal discipline, preplanning and information networks were the best of their times. Allied tribes in foreign lands make all thr difference. I imagine traders more often than not found themselves involved in military preaction.
I would always wonder how the hell did soldiers manage to build stuff while people were throwing rocks and shooting arrows at them. Plus the use of mines was always a mystery to me. Thanks Kings and generals. ❤ Oh and please continue the Thomas Cochrane series I'm dying to see the next parts!
Love these different tactics and units of renown videos you guys have been doing! Still my favorite channel!
Loving the new art style! Reminds me of old history books I had when I was a kid. Great work!
Idk why but this is one of the best episodes you put together! Keep it up!
I'm a simple man. I see K&G post a video on Rome AND Siege craft...
*prepares comfy spot to sit like at a movie theater*
*smashing Like button intensifies*
I love this new tactic series you’re doing
0:31 im sorry btu just seeing this guy walk in the snow bare legged give me the chills.
also he's got two swords^^
@@jkb6084 so true
Well, not exactly bare-legged
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but still exposed nonetheless.
I loved the 11:26 sound of an AoE Battering Ram
Great video, these drawings and animations are some of the best i’ve seen on this channel. Good job.
I love the manner in which these videos are narrated. Very clear pronunciation!
I love rewatching these Roman videos
At 2:40 The battle of Salamis in 306 BCE was in Cyprus, not Crete.
3:53
That Age of Empires II sound effect tho
Edit: AHHH and at 11:27!!!
Nice video. I knew most of what the Roman's used in their siege's but not all of it. Glad I know now. My Thanks to those who made this video a reality.
Hearing our narrator saying "Its Epic Awesomeness " really just made my day😂
Well, that was very interesting once again! I especially enjoyed the siege tower part. I would have "loved" to see a siege in action (from the technological aspect).
*IT’S ALMOST HARVESTING SEASON*
Thx guys! My day just got better!
Keep them coming!
rome total war taught me that ladders were invincible.
Michael Schaefer not if they catch fire :p
2:33. Salamis is on Cyprus, not Crete
I think it was not done on purpose since they covered the siege of Salamis on their channel.
Anyone interested in Roman siegecraft simply must visit Masada. The remains of multiple Roman siege camps surrounding the fortress have been preserved to this day and partially restored, and you can also see some reconstructed siege engines, not to mention the massive causeway the Romans had piled up to the walls which are 300m (~1000 feet) above sea level. Also, there's a great view of the Dead Sea from the top! :D
the graphics with the sound of the testudo being smashed by the catapult is pure gold
*video talked about Roman siege weapons and tactics*
Me: Ah, interesting... Truly, the Romans were adaptable-
*video talked about how at the end of a siege, Roman legionnaires would massacre, pillage, and loot settlements*
Me: ... Well, that's a 'tactic' too, I guess?
I mean, that was like uniform practice for just about all of history
Too many wars whats next Sunday more Ottoman, Napoleon, Thirty years war, Third crusade, Mongols, Mithridatic Wars
I😃 I can only guess
Mongols most probably
A new series that they will never end. xD
Korean 🤭
Its amazing how rich men can convince thousands of other men to kill and die for them so they can get richer.
Yay another video !
Great looking animations and explanations, superb vid!👍
Yeah! It's pretty cool buddy in your link 😎😎👕👕👕with roman symbol
Last time I was this early I was still 5th in line to be emperor
You mean 4th in line.
You made me spit my beer out laughing, all over my laptop, darn you
I really love these Roman series videos
As usual, Fantastic video.
[Iron Warriors and Imperial Fists would like to know your location]
The 225677th Fragment of the Man-Emperor of Mankind You’re insisting on a fisting!
FORTIFY
@@LovelyDodgems SIEGE
@@hiperblaszter FORTIFY
Given how Rome was the main inspiration for Ultramarines, they would also like to know their location
The thumbnail got broken when I pressed it so hard.
I love the harmless and almost cute noise that they used for the ballista sound effects in this video haha
Outstanding documentary.
Last time I was this early Romulus just killed Remus.
You can't just mess the with Roman Empire.
@Aleksa Petrovic unless you are Goth or Vandal, or Hun, or an Iranian. Or Roman.
Or unless ur the Arabs
@@Thormil576 Yeah, the Byzantines count as well.
Turks two can mess with ottoman empire with that logic.
Goths and Vandals were butchered so many times in two centuries that they could prevail only after roman civil war. Arabs came after a 200 hundreds years war and Turks primary victory came for the treason of Ducas noble family against Romanus IV. The only people that actually matched Roman power were Persians under Sasanid Family and at last they lost at Ninive.
@@nicholasp9239 Wow Calm down Ceaser.
The Vadals and Goths are not even that old by the time they attacked Rome.
Byzantium was 95% dead by the time of the Ottomans. Iranians Screwed Byzantium and Rome so many times. But does that means Rome was weak, unmatching those they call Barbarians. Heck No!!
Rome was only old, really old.
That's it.
When missiles are shot using tension instead of gunpowder to produce the missile's velocity (and such was the case in all pre-gunpowder warfare) one shouldn't speak of 'firing' but of 'releasing' the missile. As in: "the arrow was released at the enemy", not as "the arrow was fired at the enemy".
otherwise, I love this channel!
It is awesome that that ramp is still present. And camp sites.
Please make a video on Franco-Prussian War
Go check out the armchair historian, they made a video about that
The war where the French surrendered?
@@AksamRafiz Yes, that war happened during unification of germany
Bf: can I come over?
Gf: you can't, I have walls
Bf: *creates catupult*
That sound at 11:25 hits you right in the nostalgia
Some Roman content again. Glorious!
Just one thing. I would appreciate it if you could give measurements not only in feet but in meters too.
AOE sound effects 👌
At 2:37 you made a mistake. What do you mean greek and macedonians ? With greek you include all greek inventors, macedonians, spartans, athenians or else. I did not expect that from you kings and generals
The Macedonians are not Greeks, you fool. They are south Slavs from the Indo-European family. But they just followed the Hellenistic culture.
@@mysteriouspast6510 If you are referring to the nearly 30 year old fake ass state of skopje-former yugoslavia, then you are the fool here. You said it. They are slavs. Macedonia is a greek word, Macedonians were always greeks. If you don't have the patience to simply read history, then there is no reason talking about this matter
Great illustrations !
Appreciate the age of empires sounds I hear from time to time in these vids
Use metric system like 99% of the world plz.
@Karman Bassi And how do you count this? Btw any person on Earth understand metric system, even from US. But no one exept US know or care about this old-shit stuff.
@Karman Bassi You are gonna get disliked to death by this, you know?
@Karman Bassi lol, dear wannabe-nazi, do you even understand what you call literally the rest of the world except US the third world?
Just learn both and get over yourselves
@Karman Bassi ones who will cry here - its your parents, when they realise what their son is racist.
Did you all just miss that AOE sound effect? 11:26
Great video. It's interesting to see how Romans defended their lines while building their siegeworks.
Love the age of empire sound effects!!!!
greek and macedonian enginneers, what's the difference?
Yeah what is this thing now? what is this differentiation?
@@islamisthetruth3402 Yeah and also the English are africans and they came from the modern day Egypt hahahahahahaha
@@islamisthetruth3402 Wow and i forgot to mention the now day Americans that came from the Moon after the Transformers and the Aliens invaded their Moontown new york and after that came to earth and created the modern day America as we know it now
@@islamisthetruth3402 Slavs didn't enter the area till the 600s AD and Balgariaians were a Turkish/Steepe people who were slavised due to heavy intermarriage.
@@islamisthetruth3402 Macedonians were always greeks. Skopjans are bulgarians 100%.
Please can you make more videos about African history before age of discovery?
Thank you for this great work
Patiently waiting for next Thirty Years War video :)
2% of the world population uses feet as a system of measurement
well, 2% and kings and generals youtube channel
The US alone is about 5% of the worlds population, so you're exaggarating the insignificance of the archaic imperial measuring system.
@Pommy Pie Never in science, because even they know its a shitty system not acceptable for serius matters
Your salt has been noted.
Dude, this ain't Math class. Stop showing off and put your head down on your desk and nap .
You're probably a grammar nazi in your spare time also ??
😆😆😆 I'm kidding ya. in addition, I'd like to speak for the 2 percenters , we like to look at y'all 98 percenters as conformists, and ourselves as egotistical enough to view our 2% to be greater than 98%....😄😄 which also might be proof why we dont go metric, any math that has 2% greater than 98 is some kinda magic math , maybe also a little witchery involved. 🤣🤣🤣
By saying greeks and Macedonians it's like saying greeks two times
I know right? Cuz the macedonians are the real Greeks.
@@deinvater797 cuz Macedonians are greeks they are a greek tribe like Spartans and Athenians
@@user-so8cj1nh2j You sir, are fake news.
@@deinvater797 prove it
@@user-so8cj1nh2j The Greeks stole all their inventions from the Macedonians. they couldnt do anything on their own.
I love the artstyle!
Just booted up a new game of Imperator, thanks for this.
the macedonians engineers are also greeks. do not separate them
There are no Macedonians and greeks...
They are all Greeks speaking about history
Were the ancient macedonians really that Greek though ?
@@hristoaleksovski9414 Greek but literally not Slav 😂😂😂
Rly now that's the stupidest thing I have ever heard....
@@hristoaleksovski9414 Ancient Macedonia exist 2000 years before you...
You dont even know what the word macedon means
@@taxiarchiskalyvas8198 Macedon means tall person ahhaa
@@hristoaleksovski9414 yea and how do u know and from who
This is such a good freaking channel
Thanks!
Very good my friend!
Don't let Trump and his supporters see this video, they'll have a heart attack.
sjewitt22 ORANGE MAN BAD
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 If you say so.
3:56 I immediately recognized that sound.
Awesome,
Waiting for another videos...
Total War footage makes this channel soooo much better over similar ones
love the age of empires sound effects!
Great content! Please do a video about the First Messenian War, or one about Archaic Greece.
Wow, love the animation bowaa
The sounds of Age of Empires II are awesome!
Those Age of Empires sound effects made my day.
I love how the Onager sound effects were totally from AOE2.
Amazing video :)
I love the Age of empire sounds great feature