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I saw this and thought it was cool. I would love to hear your thoughts on it.
executor2
https://myanimelist.net/anime/28907/Gate__Jieitai_Kanochi_nite_Kaku_Tatakaeri
justherefortheshitposting
This is fucking horribly cropped.
zeroexistence
Is't it the plot of GATE:thus the JSDF fight there? modern army vs medieval units. There was magic though and many things.
isthistherealme
This cropping gave me cancer. Good story though.
KnightOfRuefulCountenance
Here's a simple text-only version I made /a/EgHGw
Nerofido
By what standard are a US marine the best warrior ever trained? surely not by win rate, effect, skills, training, and not even equipment,
OshyuOshyu18
When was this written?
strugglesnuggler
With cropping brought to you by Hellen Keller apparently
Jovios
Yea, she's my neighbor
LeisureSuitLarryintheLandoftheLoungeLizards
That was hard to read, learn to screen grab & edit.
Mrginger128
No. There, now you don't have to read it. Even if they say yes it's still no.
MelloCelo
Good read. Shit post. Crop better m8
donegal
This sounds like a remake of that old movie when a modern aircraft carrier travels to the WWII era
johnbriar21
ITS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!!!! *80'S SYNTH MUSIC*
donegal
Yes, that one
Delta2Almanac
Couldn't they instill fear into the Romans and appear as gods? Then use that leverage to overthrow the Romans? Even use allies?
Rystefn
They would need to learn Latin to even try it
HenryPicklecopter
I can't read this fuckin thing. I'll still upvote because it's interesting content.
superbadonkey
It's a downvote for me. Fuckin unreadable .
g011um
Do people not know how to crop a fucking image anymore?
Maldraek
"Listen up, you primitive fucks! This. Is my BOOMstick!"
WhatzitTooya
TLDR: No, not in the long term.
PatronusKnight
Thank you. I'm lazy ;)
mikeatike
I want to kick ops ass for that piss poor screenshot job.
KnightOfRuefulCountenance
put me on the list too
teh0khardic
It would honestly have just been easier to post a link to the source article
fullstop
/a/iDkhP
PatIsTheBest
I read a book called Time Riders: Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow, a British author. The plot is almost identical to this
PatIsTheBest
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimeRiders#TimeRiders:_Gates_of_Rome
TheresAGermanWordForThat
Without a Navy unit to carry them to where they have to go?
JamesTrickington87
Yeah, having an LHD would be a massive advantage.
IFavoriteRecipesToTryLater
which conveniently all MEUs travel by
JamesTrickington87
Exactly
Ballofchaos
Is nobody going to bring up the disease issue? Cause, biological warfare could really fuck with the numbers here.
Rystefn
That cuts both ways. Romans can get more guys, Marines can't. Advantage: locals.
Ballofchaos
Presuming the Marines don't/can't recruit groups against the Romans. Does it still count if the Marines are leading an opp. forces?
Rystefn
How are they going to recruit? None of them speak a word of any of the local languages
IFavoriteRecipesToTryLater
if your fighting the romans back then it was good enough (everybody hated them and just needed a big friend to help out or a very scary one)
Mithelen
Only if they're near a border. Most people were happy under Roman rule.
sweetfeetpete
If they knew the rules, wouldn't the marines just use their few days of full supplies to take out the entire roman command?
HairytheSheep
They only have so much supplies, the harder you push the faster it runs out. An M1 tank is only good for less than 300 miles
ekzeko
They could but the republics, and even the empires had sturdy chains of command. Kill the emperor and the praetorian guards sure. But (1)
ekzeko
they have no mean to project coercion. Legions will just keep coming one after the other. I don't think they could win a siege against 1.
IFavoriteRecipesToTryLater
As another in the chain said go praetorian guard make the chain your bitch.
ekzeko
I read, but you can't. The moment you try to use them against the next legion, they'll turn on you.
IFavoriteRecipesToTryLater
any roman emperor would say that the praetorian were very scary and would do this all the time.
TheCalvinintheWoods
Is there a source so i can read this like a civilized person instead of spread across a crapload of pictures?
gleely
if you want to see the original stuff still on reddit, it's called "Rome Sweet Rome"
Meltemi
Sure, PDF here, and reddit posts next: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx_wEpbf68sZNjY1OWI2ZTItNjAxMS00MTEwLWI5ZTgtYjk2MzdmNTU5NzJh/view
edwaredoh
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Anonymouse64
.
Clarion5
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TheCalvinintheWoods
Oh my, this is excellent. Thank you!
Meltemi
Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_destroy_the_entire_roman_empire_during/c2giwm4/
Meltemi
Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/RomeSweetRome/comments/k6012/day_7_part_2/
Meltemi
Part 3, and that's all that went up from pruf himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/RomeSweetRome/comments/k1wu0/day_8/
psychoticwaffles
I'll just leave this here .
ANightAtTheCocksbury
tl;dr: eventually you run out of ammo.
PatronusKnight
Thankss
Sirsir94
Duh
ulmflb
If you don't run out of antibiotics first.
octoberr
SickOfThisCessPool
Burn the stick
ltsDizzyD
72 virgins never stopped a war but a 100,000 hookers could beat the marine corps
LuxVertas
I like that!
flamelier
I'm sorry but burn the stick? Then it's isn't a stick anymore
redneckjep
Match made of stick. Stick win every time.
ashipthatshipsshippingships
#TeamStick
ButterMyButtAndCallMeBiscuit
Tie sharpened stick to rifle, stick is now Marine.
Maldraek
Stick win every time.
bambrick
Have to read it in an Asian voice. Ancient Chinese proverb
TheGreatLeslieNielsen
I read it in a thick russian accent. "You see Ivan..."
GlassCannon570
Marines. They have gasoline and lighters.
LordSupergreat
Now there are millions of tiny sticks. Stick win every time.
GlassCannon570
Ok then. Marines have RPGs. Now it's liquid and ash. Marines win.
Leetish
Now you have millions of tiny sticks and sticks in liquid form, stick win everytime
GlassCannon570
Send it into the sun. If we can't kill it, then we can at least imprison it.
JaegerBombster
Remember you don't have to kill everyone. Really you just need to make enough of an example that nobody is willing to fight /1
FrankyBabes
Agreed but that only works for a few battles. You couldn't do that to every legion in Europe.
JaegerBombster
Wouldn't need to. Wipe out a few legions in key areas and take control of the capitol
FrankyBabes
Yeah but once you've got the capital (as we've seen) you've still got at least one civil war to fight. Always generals eager to take power.
JaegerBombster
I apologize I failed to point out that everyone in a position of authority would be murdered.
FrankyBabes
Well that's no good. You might have a rebellion on your hands. Roman soldiers were famously loyal to their commanders.
FrankyBabes
Yeah but once you've got the capital (as we've seen) you've still got at least one civil war to fight. Always generals eager to take power.
JaegerBombster
A few massively horrifyingly one sided massacres tends to convince people you won't be beaten. Heavy machine guns and armored vehicles 2
DisguisedLizardThing
In the 2nd punic war the romans lost 30.000 men in the first battle. About 6 times more than Carthage. That basically just pissed them off.
JaegerBombster
would do that fairly effortlessly even without fuel
cyno01
Good news is, you can make somethin thatll run a diesel engine outa just about anything, that was kinda the point. They had olive oil.
EmanNiemThcin
Not with Rome, after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae they just equipped an even bigger army.
ekzeko
They hid behind walls for years avoiding major engagements where possible. Attila roamed for close to two decades.
DisguisedLizardThing
Always loved the stubborness of the roman empire. "So you're better sailors? Guess what, this is a land war now!" *boarding bridges fall*
IFavoriteRecipesToTryLater
So you're better at crossing mountain ranges to get to us? Haha fuck you we crossed a sea to get to you while you were at this point 1/2
IFavoriteRecipesToTryLater
pointlessly faffing about and not defending yourselves 2/2
SevenLeagueBoots
So much much repetition it made reading made reading this difficult. OP needs to practice cropping cropping practice cropping.
Snowman25
OP needs to practice cropping cropping practice cropping. I stopped after 4 images after 4 images.
euphoricopportunity
Looks like the cropping was done on a mobile, too.
corbynDallas
Read this with a mild hangover. It almost killed me
VelvetElvisAndDogsPlayingPoker
Yes yes it it was was rather rather difficult difficult to to read read..
JSid
Yeah it's really hard to read, and cropping is not difficult.
temoce
It was really infuriating
KnightOfRuefulCountenance
Here's a simple text version I made
FrozenTime
"A Roman centurion would say 'Let's take 1000 of these guys. Five hundred of them don't come back? Get another 500 guys'"
causality
If you want a sci-fi version of this story, check out the Empire of Man series.
causality
Space marines spend a year trekking from one side of a primitive planet to the other.
orangatuan
this difficult. OP needs to practice cropping cropping practice cropping. I agree.
fullstop
/a/iDkhP
BossBMe
All the +1s
temoce
Thank you, kind dude
Isorikk
The hero we need
baldewok
Maybe he works at the department of redundancy department.
Jovios
sorry, I'll do better next time.
fruitybootyhole
SHAME. jk good work! Thanks for sharing!
MarshmallowFluffernutterPie
See that you do. Harumph.
WarpPig
Too late. I have cancer
katelikesrectangles
<3
captainjugwash
Good because this is fucking dreadful, go to your room and do it again
SevenLeagueBoots
I'll forgive you this this time...
YourPalCal
I won't.
SquidJesus
Agreed. This is a case where reposting is fine, if only to fix the mistake @OP. For now, downvote, but if fixed, double upvotes.
HiggsBosonYoFace
The year Erwin chose (23 B.C) falls in the reign of Augustus, great-nephew of Julius Caesar and... 3rd time I saw that I stopped reading.
YourPalCal
you took an awesome story and made it suck.
vaginaboogers7
Post more please! Just don't make it suck again. Fuck the haters!
P0G0THECL0WN
HenryPicklecopter
At least you didn't post a SpongeBob meme we have all seen 1746t6e920 x10^4 times
Jovios
True.
plastikb0y
http://imgur.com/PC3eQKi
HenryPicklecopter
I like the cut of your jib
PurelyCoincidental
I downvoted for this reason! If you don't repost cleaner I will later.
HenryPicklecopter
You probably smell like hotdogs.
Jovios
Go ahead. I didn't write it
mckingkongslovin
Thank you this was really cool an I hope if you find more stuff like this you post it!!! Plus practice makes perfect !
Jovios
Thank you for being one of the few polite critics. :)
RedRoverGames
Yes but still good job OP!
P0G0THECL0WN
Agreed, stopped reading because there agreed, stopped reading because there was too much repeating
IATTM
JamesTrickington87
Wouldn't even have to kill many Romans. Imagine the terror of having an HMLA squadron fucking up everything, as if dragons were real
JamesTrickington87
Fear would be the biggest and best weapon. Also a MEU would have a VMFA unit, too. Atleast 6 harriers dropping bombs. Not to mention MEUs...
JamesTrickington87
Travel by LHD which have their own crew and armament.
VinnieJonesDiary
Problem with the Romans is u DID have to kill that many;Hannibal killed 30,000 Romans, Rome said fuck u do it again, he did, they raised 1/2
VinnieJonesDiary
another army, he killed another 70,000, and they just raised another army, they did not give a fuck.
JamesTrickington87
Yeah, but they thought they had a fighting chance. Plus the alternative to fighting wasn't a good option
VinnieJonesDiary
Good chance?Those marines would struggle to beat the ass whopping Hannibal gave the Romans, he won perfect victory after perfect victory 1/2
VinnieJonesDiary
by all conventional logic he won the war, but Rome simply refused to admit it and just kept building new armies until they learnt how to win
JamesTrickington87
Aaand Hannibal lost to Scipio. You forget the HMLA and harriers, artillery, and tanks that can engage at long range with great accuracy....
krapmyself
Reminds me of the anime GATE.
Ciffer
that japanese propaganda trash
Winterhathcome
I liked the show, but all the politicians and journalists being bad guys and the military being a shining beacon of good was BS.
vivalacony
I thought only a few of the politicians and one of the journalists were bad.
KoRplussomeletters
Came down here to say this.
Tunagod
I'm with you on that
Danivuk
https://youtu.be/-Eahhj0pvTU
vonKaiser
I still love it for the homage to Apocalypse now. /a/93nWq
Racealistic
Yep came here to say that. Except Gate had dragons and magic and shit. And 900 year old loli's
Likkalu
With the exception that there is no resupply. with resupply, even a basic bitch unit could easily over take them, because big guns go boom.
Likkalu
and we saw this in the anime. Basic units destroyed armies, and created a path for not only alliances, but holding of territory.
Likkalu
Even the main character himself is someone of import in the new world. he holds titles that would rival many people.
Icanfaptoeverything
read Zipang
AndrewPChapman
"Marines are the best warriors ever trained"?Quite a few units would dispute that, some even from the US military.
cyno01
Other branches have their own special forces, seals, delta, uh... idk what the AF and CG have. Do the CG have special forces? Hilarious... +
cyno01
that are more elite than your average marine, but i guess if youve been through marine basic you can transfer down to any other branch, +
cyno01
but not vice versa.
ajrock9
Maybe the best in such large numbers?
Thrishul
Ghurkas?
DespiseEveryone
Marines would dispute that, once someone explained the word to them.
PurelyCoincidental
Golden Band or Spartan Hoplites anyone? Let along some of the very scary special forces such as NZSAS, SBS etc.
ozzyozzofozz
My favorite thing the Romans did to the Spartans was that they battle-starved them. Refusing to fight these ferocious people, leaving them.
TheCloney
Yeah I bet Aus SASR would have something to say as well..
FrankyBabes
Yeah we all played Rome Total War
RaptorCav
The first two are understandable. The latter two suffer from being special forces. They don't have the numbers to do more than their jobs
JustANoobOnImgurWithOneCat
The writer has never heard of US Navy SEALS, Russian Spetsnaz, British SAS etc... very ignorant of him to write that in the article.
TCTom
Ghurkas.
NOINOON
Comparing special forces to marines is equally ignorant. The context was significant here. I guess the autism causes blindness for details.
JustANoobOnImgurWithOneCat
No it's not. He said the Marines are the best warriors ever trained. I simply pointed out that SEALS, Spetsnaz and SAS are better warriors.
cantstopfire
Marines: knowledge of military history. Aha
Sophie1998
Ya that was such an ignorant thing to say.
GuyNamedSean
Definitely something a Marine would say, though.
Horloko
Maybe compared to other modern military units, but I took it as historically, they generally represent the epitome of military advancement.
krapmyself
Yeah.. what about rangers and seals and special forces? And that's just in our era.
FrankyBabes
Yeah exactly - what about a single samurai warrior, with a katana (best sword ever made, folded a million times of glorious nippon steel)
HairyBallzonya
What if it was 2,200 force reacon marines?
MechaNinja
I mean you could maybe make an argument for "best trained non-elite", thus excluding all the Earth's SpecOps, but even then...
implodingrat
I would think that title either goes to ROKs Marines or the Royal marines
MechaNinja
I was trying to exclude those who are BLATANTLY better trained in an effort to make the statement SLIGHTLY less silly.
feeltheice
Wars are won on logistics. RoK's are bad ass but no logistical support to back it up for an extended time.
implodingrat
Oh for an extended fight for sure. im more interested in a small skirmish type of fight.
feeltheice
Toss up. We train rest of the world.
MechaNinja
(Not sure "non-elite" is the term I'm looking for, but my argument is that even leaving out all special forces, there's still so many...)
TakWriterOfWorlds
I never understood the fetish for Marines. Their publicity team is great though.
cougar9001
As a contained battle unit they are designed to be dumped off a ship somewhere and fight with what they have on hand.
cougar9001
For regular military units they are the most highly trained. There are better trained specialist units in the army and air force
cougar9001
That could take platoons and companies of Marines one on one and wipe them out but the MEU aint nothing to be fucked with
TakWriterOfWorlds
They're not the most highly trained. They just like that people think that.
ReLeVaNtUSERNAMESareReLeVaNT
They aren't the most highly trained. People confuse toughness of the the training with a training ability to improve the training subject
YouWillNotLikeThis
How would marines compare to the Waffen SS from around 42/43, to my understanding the SS excelled because they combined fighting ideas of1/2
YouWillNotLikeThis
2/2 no man is a small cog in the machine and will fighting and think on his own, with the every man sees him self as a cog in the machine
implodingrat
"for regular military units they are the most highly trained" The Royal Marines would like a word with you...
cougar9001
Regular American Military units
feeltheice
Hey we scrapped with the Royal Marines once. It was a blast. The RoK Marines are batshit insane tho.
DickPicEnthusiast
I have a fetish for Marines, but I imagine it's very different than what you had in mind.
Alozar
I find it very hard to imagine that, without modern weaponry, your average marine would win against his ancient equivalent.
BlackIC
True to some extent. Marine hand-to-hand combat training is no joke. But yes, the warrior with all his gear beats the one with nothing.
IFavoriteRecipesToTryLater
MCMAP is some scary shit no doubt and both warriors without their gear and weapons would most likely favor the Marine say like in an ambush.
Mithelen
Romans always had their gear. That's why tuetoburg took three days.
Alozar
Teutoburg was also a joke. You'd hardly see an army stretched 20 kilometers long with men who never fought like that.
Alozar
And let's not forget that Arminius had extensive background knowledge about the romans and how they would react, tactically.
ideologist
Why? On average, a US Marine is probably 8 inches taller than a Centurion, 50 pounds heavier and at least as strong.
Mithelen
Didn't stop the Romans from stomping the celts.
Alozar
I don't necessarily mean a roman, but historical soldiers would be much more familiar with weapons/equipment/MA of the time period.
ideologist
Oh, Hoplite vs a Marine wielding a Hoplite setup? No contest, agreed on all counts there. I just meant in general single combat
Alozar
I was just thinking in terms of the story here. If the marine ran out of ammo and supplies, I think he would lose to most soldiers. 1/2