Roman Battle Formation

[Ionut Alex]

Hello guys

First of all congrats on the work you are doing

I have limited experience in modding but i am curious if in EB2 we can see one of the roman battle formations something like this (better shown at the end of the video the last minute)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndh3...eature=related

good luck in your work

[Ludens]

This rotation principle has come up several times before, but there is no evidence that it actually worked like this. Personally, I doubt it would have occurred in such an ordered and predictable manner: in close combat, moving in predictable pattern is a good way of ending up dead. You notice that the video doesn't show actual combat during the moment of rotation, presumably because the rotating soldiers would have been squeezed together and unable to fight back.

[Aulus Caecina Severus]

Great video.
Thank you Alex and welcome to our.

[antisocialmunky]

Man those old 60s movies where they actually used ridiculus amounts of extras were so much more epic...

Also for the whole Leroy Jenkins stunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaf...eature=related

But yeah, what Ludens said. It probably wouldn't be so easy during combat conditions depending on how hard you're being hit and casualties.

[Publius Aelius Hadrianus]

Great movie... fantastic tactics
Roma victoria

[Ardri]

Very nice video, and I agree that the older movies are much more epic than the computer generated movies they create now (with a few exceptions). It would be very interesting to see how well the Romans actually were able to rotate soldiers from front to back of the cohort during combat. It seems that it would lead to a natural giving of ground. I say this because logically it appear to be easier for the front unit to move back off the front and allow the second rank to assume the front of the formation from their current position as opposed to moving all the ranks behind moving up to fill the space of the now vacant front rank, but that is just pure speculation on my part. Would seem easier to coordinate 1 direction of movement as opposed to 2 directions while in combat nonetheless.