I love the empire earth audio playing in the background. Just and aside.

I swear, every video you make impresses me more than the last. Keep up the great work, you're already one of my favorite channels.

@EasternRomanHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers SuperCell

Finally a channel that focuses on the late and Easter roman emipre

Love the video ERH! Keep it coming. Always love to learn more on the Romans, especially their later periods.

These are some of the best videos for late Roman armies. Thank you.

@EasternRomanHistory

4 жыл бұрын

No problem, thank you.

Thank you for these videos! I have been interested in the Byzantine Empire but could not find many good videos. Especially their soldiers arms and armor.

Plumbata, the forerunner of Lawn Darts . . . .

Have you played Mount and Blade Bannerlords, there is a faction inspired by Byzantium

@Romellenios_Lanz_Daemos

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes the "Calradian Empire" They even have the same flaw like the Romans and late Romans.

There is a debate wether late Roman infantrymen were kitted with leather armour or mail armour. Advocates for leather armour say that because of the great increase of the army from the time of Septimius Severus onwards and the increased demand for cavalry armour meant that cheaper methods of armouring infantry had to be found and the Romans found the right candidate in leather armour. My opinion is that there were five types of protection which were padded, leather, mail, lamellar and scale, however, I know that this debate goes much further than my simplification. So, I would like to hear your opinion about this.

@EasternRomanHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Andre, based on the research that I did for my forthcoming video on Late Roman Armour, I can say that the mast majority of Late Roman Infantry used mail or scale armour. For these advocates of leather armour I would ask why Late Roman soldiers, when depicted wearing armour, are always shown wearing metal armour. Also why would the empire need a cheaper solution to armour despite the economic upturn the empire experienced in the fourth century and in the east, fifth and sixth centuries too. In addition, if Septimius Severus was struggling to pay the army why did he increase army pay during his reign. As far as I am aware, I don't know of any debate over Late Roman armour, I know there was a suspicion that the Romans wholeheartedly abandoned armour and helmets because of Vegetius but the archaeology disproves what he said. My sources for my information are 'The Late Roman Army by Pat Sourthern and Karen Dixon, the Later Roman Empire by AHM Jones and Warfare in the Late Roman World by Hugh Elton. I would be fascinated to hear what sources they have used?

Hello ERH nice video. I liked how you discussed various Late Roman Arms.

Late Roman uniforms are extremely underrated.

Thank you for this informative and well researched video!

Another excellent video.

I just got a new Osprey book called constantinople 717-18. I dont know if it could tell you anything about the siege you dont already know.

Awesome!

They look like a new form of hoplites

Very idle speculation, but given the Roman issues with enemy cavalry, one wonders if the plumbata could have been reshaped to function more like caltrops.

@paprskomet

Жыл бұрын

...A form of plumbatum that served like that actually existed.

Nice simple and to the point. Do we know when if at all they stopped using hand thrown missile weapons? I have been facinated that the arms of infantry and cavelry are the same for close combat but the missile weapons are different. The Composite bow for mounted troops and the darts/javelins for foot soldiers.

@EasternRomanHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I am afraid I will have to get back to you on that one, probably during the early seventh century. The Romans still used infantry archers and light cavalry did use javelins but did not use darts or slings.

What about shields? Awesome content by the way 👌🏻

You misconverted the length of the spatha. 70-90cm =2.3-2.9 ft= 2ft 4in- 2 ft 11 in. Imperial system is weird.

do you think the late roman army was lesser in training compared to the early imperial legions? I wonder if returning to the spear was due to the increase of cavalry use in the east and europe...

@giftzwerg7345

11 ай бұрын

No they where not, remeber they nearly conquered everything back that was lost. i think the reason mid be more armoured enemys, losing in on an armoured enemy doesnt give you a big advnatae as it odes with an unarmoured one. another reason mid be and beeing on the defence, spears are good to keep somebody away, they led themselves more for the defence, if youre outranged you have to attack. now horses mid play a role here too, but honestly, the spear shield sword and plubata combo is just so mutch more flexible than the legionary. Also they had the auxiliar with the same combo minus the plubata before, and they performed really well in some of the last conquests o and battles of the romans, they got the overwellming majority of the credit of the dacian wars, despite not even beeing citizens.

Why did they not use the gladius (and its tactics)?

Cool

do you know what was the last recorded use of slingers ? I was always curious how it would be efective agains middle age plate armor

@alexmag342

3 жыл бұрын

@Emilio Duarte Pretty much useless against plate armor, annoying and maybe nauseating if you hit the helmet you wouldn't damage it but it would be like having your head inside a bell but a mace or sword directly hitting a helmet would have the same effect The Portuguese and Spanish used slingers against the moors light infantry, and I think we(Portuguese) used them against Spanish in the battle of aljubarrota, it was effective against lightly armoured infantry but more of an annoyance and used to harass heavy infantry and knights. The Spanish still used slingers up until the 14th century against the moors. The Germans used them in the siege of Torana in 1155, and slings seemed to be fairly common in 11th and 12th century Italy. The Bayeux tapestry portrays them being used for hunting too. And in 12th and 13th centuries there was the staff sling which was relegated to sieges. Also the irish used slingers, Brian Boru had slingers in his army, and was friends with several of the greatest slingers (as you can see here archive.org/stream/storyofirishbefo00fergrich/storyofirishbefo00fergrich_djvu.txt). The Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters includes slingers in the composition of the Irish armies of the time (in the light infantry, or Kerns), and in the Danish forces opposing them. I'm not sure but the last time they were used might have been the hussite war in the 15th century but by then they are likely an outlier, although im unsure.

@tamlandipper29

2 жыл бұрын

Not going to do much against armour of any type, but not everything on a person is armoured - particularly light infantry and skirmishers. As for last use, afaik the IDF has stones thrown at them to this day.

wouldnt there swords get caught in the scuta

Why was the pilum phased out?

@histguy101

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't. It just got about a foot shorter

@vincentmalasawmkimajongte7489

2 жыл бұрын

Plumbatas were used in their place as well

Arrowheads are socketed or TANGED, i.e. with a TANG, not "taged". You picked up a typo I'm afraid.

@EasternRomanHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clearing that up, sometimes I struggle with pronouncing words I am not familiar with.

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Who do you think is the most underrated Eastern Roman general?

@EasternRomanHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Most of them actually

@theoldcavalier7451

4 жыл бұрын

Eastern Roman History lol but if you had to chose 5

@EasternRomanHistory

4 жыл бұрын

@@theoldcavalier7451 Hmm John Troglita, Alexios Philanthropenos, Katakalon Kekaumenos, John Kourkouas, Count Theodosius, are people i can think of odff the top of my head. Have you heard of any of them?

@theoldcavalier7451

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard of the last 2 time to research about the rest

@EasternRomanHistory

4 жыл бұрын

@@theoldcavalier7451 5 others I could add would be: Liberius the Patrician, Heraclius the Monostrategos, Nikephoros Phokas the Elder, Nicholas OOryphas (admiral) and Andronikos Kontostephanos or poosibly Alexios Branas as well