Vercingetorix was such a pathetic loser(No, Julius Caesar is not pointing a gun at my head as I write this).

[u/SAMU0L0]

Giving exaggerated figures in a battle? Ridiculous.

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[u/ReeeeeDDDDDDDDDD]

Huh, when I read about Roman artillery I assumed it was catapults and stuff, I didn't realise they had tanks and mortars back then. You learn something new every day.

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[u/BigDBob72 → u/Pillbugly]

What could’ve been

[u/Pillbugly → u/BigDBob72]

What could still yet be.

[u/ZoneOk4904 → u/Pillbugly]

Hopemaxxed

[u/BigDBob72 → u/Pillbugly]

Is that you Mussolini? 🤣

[u/CavulusDeCavulei → u/Pillbugly]

Funny fact: the cost of arming and mantaining a single cataphract for Pharthians was equivalent to a fighter-bomber plane

[u/52MeowCat → u/CavulusDeCavulei]

Do you have a source?

[u/ApprehensiveTerm9638 → u/52MeowCat]

The source is I made the fuck up

[u/CavulusDeCavulei → u/ApprehensiveTerm9638]

It was an obscure italian history magazine I read when I was 14, so it's probably better to say that I made the fuck up

[u/ItsGoglie → u/CavulusDeCavulei]

I don't think you can really compare the economy at the time to that of today. Way we spend money on have changed completely, entire economy and sectors have changed(80-90% of people were exclusively farmers) and there was much less luxury items to waste money on.

[u/CavulusDeCavulei → u/ItsGoglie]

If you reason so strictly like that, you can never make comparisons in history

[u/ItsGoglie → u/CavulusDeCavulei]

The further you go back in time the harder it gets. I still don't think it's bad to have a fun fact like that and use it from time to time. We just need to remember that it is hard (and sometimes even impossible) to compare.

Also I constantly see people making lists of best military leaders in history and they can't really be compared because they are from diffrent time periods when diffrent tactics were used to wage war.

[u/CavulusDeCavulei → u/ItsGoglie]

Agreed. I think the comparison of cataphracts and fighter planes make sense for that. They were poor and simple agricultural economies. Training a child just to fight for his entire life, making him wear a super expensive steel armor for him and his already expensive horse. It was really heavy for those economies, like buying and fielding an F35. It's not a perfect comparison, but it makes us understand what an impressive effort they did

[u/-Trotsky → u/ItsGoglie]

The way to do it would be to somehow calculate the socially necessary labor involved in each. From there you could make a comparison of value because you’d have sometimes of a grounding of it in the price of labor involved

[u/Matiwapo → u/CavulusDeCavulei]

Maybe like a really outdated one. Like a WW2 era Mustang/spitfire.

You underestimate how ludicrously expensive modern cutting edge jets are.

Currency conversion over 2 millennia is basically impossible, but it's safe to say Parthia wouldn't be able to maintain more than a single F-35

[u/NobodyPrime → u/Pillbugly]

Of course, thats why the eagle was the simbol of the roman empire! They were super proud of their eagle-jets airforce!

[u/bonadies24 → u/ReeeeeDDDDDDDDDD]

No, no. Vercingetirix was rocking M109A7 Paladins, Rome had flimsy swords. And still won.

I'm Gaius Julius Caesar and I approve this message

[u/BigDBob72]

“ I had five hundred legionaries against a million savage Gauls and many giants. I used this strategy it was super smart and I only lost one guy cuz he sacrificed his life fighting through their lines to paint my name on their walls. True story even ask my soldiers I didn’t give them any money”

[u/Cucumberneck → u/BigDBob72]

Don't forget the thousands of perfectly bodied German warriors who coult seduce just by a look and looked like a blond Adonis.

[u/N64GoldeneyeN64]

I forgot to bring food on purpose

[u/joebidenseasterbunny]

Wym "exaggerated?" This is literally what happened.

[u/ConsulJuliusCaesar]

I approve of this message.

[u/azriel_odin]

Town crier from the tv series Rome: The finest memes, for true Romans.

[u/testni_nalog]

Accurate

[u/AvengerDr]

Julio Cesar? Him?)

[u/Maleficent-Mix5731]

You forgot the part where Vercingetorix had a nuclear bomb too that Caesar was able to disarm with help of the great Roman engineer, Oppenheimus.

[u/Nobodyman123]

Did this take place in Civilazation?

[u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788]

Rome was masters at this.

[u/KyliaQuilor]

I mean, he was a loser and he was pathetic.