The Insane Logistics of a Roman Army on the March - 24 Hour Simulation 3D DOCUMENTARY
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In this history documentary we bring to life the insane scale of a Roman Army on the March! We begin with the basic marching rates for individual soldiers to establish a baseline for our analysis. We then calculate the true size of a Roman Army made up of four legions and its auxiliaries. These are then placed four men across and arranged end to end to calculate their maximum length of over 25 kilometers. However this is just part of the story.
As we know history is a bold face lie. I ask those who believe how and what did 10,000 matching soldiers eat for months on the road? How about1,000 even.its not logical to believe there’s enough food to feed those many men for that long. I say impossible! Orations in WW2 and WW1 was trench fighting because of the lack of food on long marches. Think THINK GUYS DONT BE FOOLS
We then cover the logistics of actually moving a force of this size from point A to point B. This is done by simulating a 24 hour cycle of a Roman army on the march. The result is a stunning 3D rendering in Unreal Engine 5 of what such a monstrously large force would have looked like. This hopefully gives you a better appreciation for the mechanics of ancient armies and how disasters such as the Battle of Teutoburg Forest could have unfolded.
Sources and Suggested Reading
2.5 minutes of pointless dribble at the start, skip passed
“The Roman Army” by Peter Connolly
“The Roman Army at War” by Adrian Goldsworthy
Herman was a Roman Knight, who betrayed the legions and led them into an ambush. There was no battle. Germanicus came back nine years later and wiped him and the Chirusci out. Rome was destroyed from within for many reasons. The barbarians were a factor, but not as much as northern Europeans, like to think they were.
“The Roman War Machine” by John Peddie
“The Logistics of the Roman Army at War” by Jonathan Roth
Good job bringing your sources to the video.
"Models of the Roman Army" by Gary Brueggeman
Credits:
It is fascinating to see the origin of so many English words in the terms used by the Romans. Impedimenta 🤣
Research = Invicta, Sophia Ware
Script = Invicta
This was great but you missed the taking down of the old camp. The wood of the palisades was not found and cut at each site but carried and re used.
Narration = Guy Michaels
Editing = Penta Limited
Fantastic!
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
Can you do a video on how Napoleon's army marched. He was known for marching very efficiently I want to know how he revolutionised marching
02:26 Sources
03:43 Mechanics of a March
It was almost 2 weeks since I did not think about the Roman Empire. I got my fix.
06:58 Marching Columns
08:38 Size of an Army
Amazing work and thanks for sharing this. It puts into perspective the fact that the world's armies were similarly dependent on marching on foot and horse drawn logistics until WWII when the US finally introduced fully mechanized divisions and logistics.
10:28 Length of an Army
11:20 24 Hour Simulation
Now modern Rome has the best logistics. 🇺🇸 🫡
13:06 600 am Scouts
14:06 630 am Vanguard
Great video
15:14 700 am Surveyors
15:53 715 am Command
I sincerely thank you for your efforts in putting in perspective what has been (intermittently) on my mind for decades. I lacked the knowledge that you have provided to come to some type of conclusion of how the Romans achieved these monumental expeditions. Absolutely amazing!! The lands they marched through must have been vacuumed of all resources to supply this vast amada of life. Really enjoyed and educated!! Also, I've just had to subscribe.
16:55 725 am Main Body
17:54 920 am Baggage Train
Let's all admit that...
1) We LOVE this stuff
2) We're completely crazy
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19:23 1110 am Rear Guard
20:27 1130 am Flank Guard
That's a lot of assumptions and now much historical fact
21:17 Crazy Statistics
23:06 Setting Up a New Camp
Too bad no documentary or video game engine really shows the true valli design of a Roman marching camp — the ditch and earthen rampart crowned with soldiers’ portable stakes. What we usually see instead are the static trunk palisades of long-term castella, which misrepresents how Roman armies actually fortified themselves every single night.
25:06 Evening Activities
26:37 Outro
In my headcanon, this is exactly what happens when i make my armies move in Total War.
#history
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I think this system was a punch in the balls for the tribunes organizing the armies marching orders and planning..
I beleive gross movements were made through longterm logistic bases already settled.
This kind of movements were made only on campaigning in foreign/waring provinces, or when going to battle.
and the armies must have taken diferent routes and were moved separated in such a dimension that there were no safety issues for an ambush, since they were always a help dispatch ride away from a scout from other moving roman armies.
This ensured small enough "snake" that they can still be mobile but not fragile to ambushes. And it was dificult feeding and providing drink to all the man and beasts of burden and cavalry, so the big 4-8 legion armies were broken up into legion sized pieces.. And its easier to keep and store the materials.
Imagine missing diferent legions on the same camp, and both legions have a 1st cohort, and a 2nd, 3rd, 4th cohort and everything is double...
And mistakes can be made and materials or tools can be taken by mistake..
What makes sense is that these movements were rare events. And were not the norm of how the legions moved.
This is a campaign scenario
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Stop measuring in KM. We don't know what at Kilometer is
@QueenElizabethII-f4c3,700 MULES?!?!😮😳😲🤯🤔
@ORIGINALREALDILLPICKLEProbably because of this, plus that most people still travelled on foot in the medieval age why there is a settlement in Europe around every 20-30 km in almost any distance
@SuperSentientCityScannerImportant question: 23:20 You say 'around 10:30am all the scouts have arrived' at the new camp..
Is this 10:30am on the next day? Around 28 hours after they left the previous camp? Or is it 10:30am the same day, meaning they have only been marching for around 4 hours. Doing all of this for a measly 4 hours of progression seems like a waste. Marching for 24+ hours straight seems like it would make much more sense.
I asked google and it says that it was every day. So they only progressed about 4-5 hours at a time and then set up the new camp. I guess that answers the question. Personally, i would hate a schedule like that that forced me to be up and working every day with the longest period of rest around 8 hours or so. Longer shifts and much longer rest periods are preferable to me personally. At least they knew that more rest than work is more efficient when it comes to sustainability. Sled dogs rest something like 70% of the time to reach their peak time performance for long endurance marathons.
Yo team This post super impressive Thanks for sharing this Killed it :)
@AxakuhinoAmazing video
@SaiedrocksA very good approximation of a legionary marching camp in ideal circumstances based on known evidence. In reality there would have been some variation based on troop numbers, weather, terrain, tactical considerations etc
@trinovantes-q9vSunset at 9 PM. Damn.
@Astra141-73In a current model, 1200 pack horses would be needed to haul cell phone equipment, meth and fluffy pillows to cry in.
@TravisBrady-wn8frIt is totally insane to have noise in the background when a narrator is speaking. It annoys the crap out of old people like me that might be having trouble hearing what the speaker is saying. Believe me you are in no way enhancing the video experience. Your taste in music sucks too.
@TheRoon4660Excellent video.
And ...
So many couch-potatotories listening to how speculatories & exploratories scouted and marched.
25:33 sorry buddy but the Roman army didn’t forage for food
@ElephanthajsnenExcellent video.
@tski3458amazing work. the foraging part would have gained a lot of my attention, like quantifying the food required and thus the amount of people assigned to the task and the time needed to gather such quantities. also what proportion of consumed food was carried by the baggage train and what was sourced locally. anyway mayube for a future video? thanks for the video!
@PH5749-e2fInvicta - an absolute delight and pleasure to come across such a detailed and so well-explained historical-based YouTube, which unfortunately is now becoming rare because of moronic and full of mistakes AI-generated scraped ones that now YT has so many of. Will certainly subscribe and watch more.
@wakeupuk3860i loved this documentary style video , super informative!
@conormurray4019So they only march a little over four hours a day? Thats kinda insane especially during a 20 hour London summer day.
@211212112Latrines?
@sugar-saltyThis is AWSOME!!!
@thisfugginguyMind boggling details.
@chriskakavetsis1960Shima Qian (China first professional historian) mentioned army in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 men in the Chinese age of antiquity. Now just imagine that scale of logistical operation.
@drakistanWhich narrator is the correct one? The one used to peddle the mobile game trash or the English AI one?
@ignat007I did 600km walk along Croatian coastline, I confirm you walk from 30km up to 50km in a day. I agree you could push to 70km in perfect weather perfect terrain perfect mood. I also gave myself the challenge on how much km I do in 24h straight, wich was around 110km, again, I chose the perfect day and region for that. I suspect people who do the Compostelle trail average more around 25-35km per day.
@Etrehumain123I pay for ad free YT and I still have to endure mindless adverts. Why?
@ozzie-sk9dhThat is impressive, glad I joined the f'n navy. 😇
@KarlDubheAnd there was me moaning after a 12 mile hike last week
@CheeseyCrumpetThe Romans these days would prefer to retreat rather than go through this madness again. Hence the joke that Roman tanks have one forward gear and 4 reverse gears.
@johnpro2847then at the end of this horrendous journey, they were expected to get themselves slaughtered or badly injured all for the glory of the Roman Emperor.
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