Roman Army

Roman Emperor

Constantinople (eastern empire)

### Date dissolved

395 A.D. (split between eastern and western empire)1453 A.D. (Fall of Constantinople)

## Other information

### Affiliation

The Roman KingdomThe Roman Republic

The Roman Empire

### Species

Humans(Chads

Wojacks

Virgins)

The **Roman Army** were the institutions dedicated to the defense and expansion of the Roman civilization at each stage of its history.

While the military proved to have notable flaws, it was resilient, adaptable, and efficient enough to defend the idea of ​​civilization throughout 1000 years of history.

## Founding and early years.

Although it is reasonable to say that the predecessors of the Roman army was the Trojan army.

In practice, it was the followers of Romulus who invaded Alba Longa to rescue Remus from captivity, following the brothers to the 7 hills next to the Tiber river.

After the discussion between the brothers where it was decided to make a wall to separate their side of the city, the followers helped in its construction until the tragic death of Remus at the hands of an unknown barbarian.
Shortly after the founding of Rome, the ranks, structures, and powers of the Roman army were established by the newly appointed King Romulus, this would be necessary for when the Sabines attacked for the lies of the women until the king pardoned them and the future conquests of Tullus Hostilius (including the destruction of the already infested by barbarians Alba Longa) and a duel between 3 Romans and 3 soldiers from the city.

## Late Roman kingdom and the rise of the republic.

Much later, Servius Tullius not only made the assignment of post fairer (which helped the army) but he also managed to defend the city from barbarians during that time and created the concept of a century (which would be a of the foundations for the future Roman military).

Unfortunately, during the mandate of Tarquinius the proud; The army was used to repress those who opposed the usurper and led to senseless wars to have the power of the Latin league (mostly made up of barbarians) to fight against other barbarians in an attempt to make the Romans forget how he came to power.

## "Trivia"

* The army is one of the few things that is present in every episode of the unbiased history of Rome, from episode 1 to the Byzantium mini series.
* In reality, early Roman armies were deeply inspired by Greek hoplites because of the influence of Hellenistic culture at the time, which Unbiased History portrayed their tactics being descended from Trojans.
* Although the series is highly in favor of the patricians and tries to show that they were better than the plebeian soldiers, the reality is that since the Marian reforms, it cannot be said that this was the case because they all did a physically extensive training and require strict wealth and property requirements to join the Roman legions. In fact, it is known that many members of the nobility did not even know anything about military strategy and were only in charge because they were friends or relatives of someone influential.
* Although in the Tetrarchy, it was made clear that public offices and military ranks were definitely separated from each other, in reality this was done during the Crisis of the Third Century.
* The Roman Army after Third Century increasingly adopted non-Roman armaments and culture with the Eastern ones adopting compound bows and Persian cavalry (proximity to Sassanid Persia in Mesopotamia) with the Western ones adopted Germanic swords and helmets (proximity to Germanic tribes across the Rhine).
* In reality, Limatanei were issued with chain mails as "pseudo-Comitatenses" when they were impressed into expedition along with their lack of armor being due to both cost-cutting measures and dual-roles as mobile skirmishers against raiding bands.
* Punishments such as decimation were extremely rare due to the serious effect of lowering morale and loyalty among soldiers and were only carried out in rare and very extreme circumstances.
	+ Furthermore, the examples occurred with instances of army being made up of conscripts (such as Crassus and Galba) rather than professional army.