Skirmishers in this period are often underestimated. Even if they never killed anyone, forcing the enemy line to stay in formation and with shields up while your own line could take a knee to rest and get water brought up to them would have a big effect when the lines finally clashed.
I love that the main image of the guy in the video is looking like a sling like he's never seen it before, very good way to make your point about familiarity
Josh when im finally able to transfer funds and have income your getting a majority of my funds (funds being the amount im giving to different educators) You have taught me so much and i look forward to continue learning and helping here and there like i have in the past with advice and info, Look forward to your great rise to yt power 😊 Also mabey re think some of what you say you fall into the same issue i do, repeating yourself Also i think but am uncertain but pama i think has more emphasis on the a, or p idr, And pronounceation of rorari ect needs some work but it gets the point across, Just dont let the metatron find this hahaha
Thank-you man means a lot! and yes, this video had a lot of editing as the original script repeated itself a lot. And haha if Metatron finds the video i'll be happy, it'll give it some more views!
Heard about these guys from a game "Total War: Rome 2" DLC Rise of the Republic. So now when can you talk about the Rhodian Slingers or the Hellenisation of the Egyptian Army after Alexander's death?
Never got round to playing Rise of the Republic! And im around halfway through ancient Italy at the moment, i think the next series of vids after i finish Rome (one more) will be the Etruscans, and then the Greeks of Italy. And then probably some more Greek units!
Velites came from the Polybian reforms where Manipular system was applied (Velites,Hastati, Principes, Triarii.). What History guy forgot to mention is that they existed in different eras. Rorarii, Accensi, and Leves were classifications of light infantry troops that accompanied the armies before Rome adopted manipular organization. They trace their origin from way back to the Kingdom era where a Roman army was followed by a number of Lightly armed troops who acted as Skirmishers but after the Polybian reforms was done with and grouped only as Velite. Btw. The leves, Rorarii, and Leves operated differently. Leves were at the front and were frontline skirmishers, rorarii were the reserves before the triarii who filled the gaps within the lines of need be, and the accensi, its explained in the video.
To make it more convoluted: Velites came as a result of an effort to simplify and increase the flexibility of the Roman army. The Previous Camillan System might've been useful against the Celts but they were rendered useless against the Southern Hillbillies known as the Samnites. In the Camillan System there were four classifications of troops. The poor (Leves, Rorarii, and Accensi), the less poor hoplites (Hastati), well off hoplites(Principles), and the rich old bastards (triarii). See those three kinds in the poor section? They were useful against the Celts when they invaded Italy and fought the Etrurians. Furus Cammilus who didn't have good political record but was the man Rome needed thought that to beat the Celts is to be a celt, he assigned more skirmishers in the army resulting in three distinct kinds of light infantry with different roles all because he saw returning soldiers with shields turned into porcupines. Leves at the front, Rorarii who acts as in-between a skirmisher and a hoplite despite wearing almost no armor save for a shield and helmet, and the Accensi. In this case the Rorarii and Accensi were reserves while the Leves screened against cav and other light infantry in the flanks or wherever they were assigned. That's pretty much all you need to know other than the Velites performed all three roles.
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Skirmishers in this period are often underestimated. Even if they never killed anyone, forcing the enemy line to stay in formation and with shields up while your own line could take a knee to rest and get water brought up to them would have a big effect when the lines finally clashed.
I love that the main image of the guy in the video is looking like a sling like he's never seen it before, very good way to make your point about familiarity
Haha! You know that wasn't intentional!
Josh when im finally able to transfer funds and have income your getting a majority of my funds (funds being the amount im giving to different educators)
You have taught me so much and i look forward to continue learning and helping here and there like i have in the past with advice and info,
Look forward to your great rise to yt power 😊
Also mabey re think some of what you say you fall into the same issue i do, repeating yourself
Also i think but am uncertain but pama i think has more emphasis on the a, or p idr,
And pronounceation of rorari ect needs some work but it gets the point across,
Just dont let the metatron find this hahaha
Thank-you man means a lot! and yes, this video had a lot of editing as the original script repeated itself a lot. And haha if Metatron finds the video i'll be happy, it'll give it some more views!
@@AncientHistoryGuy alot more,
Honestly other then some repeating your main issues is not "enough" videos ...
I'm dumb, are slings not line of sight weapons? Were they able to arc their shots?
Yeah you sling the rock upwards not down or straight ahead otherwise the shot would be far short of target
@@54032Zepol ah ok, I'd assumed it would lose too much velocity, but I guess the trade off of coming in from above would have greater value
@@RushlockMediaYoure right Slings are much more dangerous as line of site but would you like being pelted with rocks from above? Still has value.
Similar thing with archery, Aim upwards and then on its way back down the arrow speeds up. :)
@@AncientHistoryGuy yeah for some reason it makes sense to me for arrows but not slings. Probably my lack of awareness of size of shot for slings
Heard about these guys from a game "Total War: Rome 2" DLC Rise of the Republic.
So now when can you talk about the Rhodian Slingers or the Hellenisation of the Egyptian Army after Alexander's death?
Never got round to playing Rise of the Republic! And im around halfway through ancient Italy at the moment, i think the next series of vids after i finish Rome (one more) will be the Etruscans, and then the Greeks of Italy. And then probably some more Greek units!
Will you ever branch off further into Roma's history? I'd love to know more about the Akritai.
Very very thanks 🙏👍👍
You're welcome!
interesting, i had never heard of them before
When does the Hittite video come out
Did they use archers in this time period
It would be interesting to see a coop with Schwerpunkt and his Archaic Roman warfare content
schwerpunkt is really good at rambling about nothing for 30 minutes before delivering 5 minutes of info
Also you cannot understand the Guy either He sucks in speaking or has a shitty Mic but i cannot understand him at all
What's the different between them and velites, other than their weapons?
Velites came from the Polybian reforms where Manipular system was applied (Velites,Hastati, Principes, Triarii.).
What History guy forgot to mention is that they existed in different eras. Rorarii, Accensi, and Leves were classifications of light infantry troops that accompanied the armies before Rome adopted manipular organization. They trace their origin from way back to the Kingdom era where a Roman army was followed by a number of Lightly armed troops who acted as Skirmishers but after the Polybian reforms was done with and grouped only as Velite.
Btw. The leves, Rorarii, and Leves operated differently. Leves were at the front and were frontline skirmishers, rorarii were the reserves before the triarii who filled the gaps within the lines of need be, and the accensi, its explained in the video.
To make it more convoluted: Velites came as a result of an effort to simplify and increase the flexibility of the Roman army. The Previous Camillan System might've been useful against the Celts but they were rendered useless against the Southern Hillbillies known as the Samnites.
In the Camillan System there were four classifications of troops. The poor (Leves, Rorarii, and Accensi), the less poor hoplites (Hastati), well off hoplites(Principles), and the rich old bastards (triarii). See those three kinds in the poor section? They were useful against the Celts when they invaded Italy and fought the Etrurians. Furus Cammilus who didn't have good political record but was the man Rome needed thought that to beat the Celts is to be a celt, he assigned more skirmishers in the army resulting in three distinct kinds of light infantry with different roles all because he saw returning soldiers with shields turned into porcupines.
Leves at the front, Rorarii who acts as in-between a skirmisher and a hoplite despite wearing almost no armor save for a shield and helmet, and the Accensi. In this case the Rorarii and Accensi were reserves while the Leves screened against cav and other light infantry in the flanks or wherever they were assigned.
That's pretty much all you need to know other than the Velites performed all three roles.
So they are like the old home guard if they fought on the front
These guys were even poorer than the Rorarii?
Third (love your stuff btw)
Thankyou!
Sassanian pushtigbans
Or Sassanian immortals