17th December 2005, 3:42 AM
DJ/ Yunno how people say "100 dollars was worth 100,000 in such and such time period"?
well if you could apply what Rome understood about tactical warfare and what they were able to accomplish in the time period and gave them the same amount of technological firepower that is available today they would enslave all of modern Earth and man-kind in less than 4 hours. if rome wouldn't have fallen victim to its in-fighting, they would completely rule the world today. In contrast, if we were currently living inside a bronze age our knowledge of warfare would be no match against Rome.
Just remember... their tactics revolved around the ideal of killing every single thing that moved. If the wounded survived, you enslave them, if there were women or children that survived you publically rape them in a free for all to the point that either they bleed to death or die of dehydration and feed their bodies to animals. You burn the crops and salt the fields so nothing can grow again and poison the water sources and seal them, take what works but destroy every piece of art, architecture, designing principals, idealogy, religion, and you make that entire culture vanish off the face of the Earth and then put their leaders or people of importance in a public circus where they are tortured to death in unusual, painful ways as entertainment and mention your victory over them in a blurb of recorded history where you mock their pitiful attempt to exist in a world clearly owned in favor of Rome so that for all eternity, the only recorded history of that place and those people is a stale, rediculed joke.
Unless their city happens to be in a prime location, then you do all the above except the salted fields or poisoned water.
The major difference between the two empires is that America with all it's firepower doesn't try to take over the world or stake claim (we're the only country to ever have that mind frame). We just stick our noses in to other countries and aire other people's laundry for fun because we're bored policing our own people in to a submissive goo that explodes at the drop of a hat.
well if you could apply what Rome understood about tactical warfare and what they were able to accomplish in the time period and gave them the same amount of technological firepower that is available today they would enslave all of modern Earth and man-kind in less than 4 hours. if rome wouldn't have fallen victim to its in-fighting, they would completely rule the world today. In contrast, if we were currently living inside a bronze age our knowledge of warfare would be no match against Rome.
Just remember... their tactics revolved around the ideal of killing every single thing that moved. If the wounded survived, you enslave them, if there were women or children that survived you publically rape them in a free for all to the point that either they bleed to death or die of dehydration and feed their bodies to animals. You burn the crops and salt the fields so nothing can grow again and poison the water sources and seal them, take what works but destroy every piece of art, architecture, designing principals, idealogy, religion, and you make that entire culture vanish off the face of the Earth and then put their leaders or people of importance in a public circus where they are tortured to death in unusual, painful ways as entertainment and mention your victory over them in a blurb of recorded history where you mock their pitiful attempt to exist in a world clearly owned in favor of Rome so that for all eternity, the only recorded history of that place and those people is a stale, rediculed joke.
Unless their city happens to be in a prime location, then you do all the above except the salted fields or poisoned water.
The major difference between the two empires is that America with all it's firepower doesn't try to take over the world or stake claim (we're the only country to ever have that mind frame). We just stick our noses in to other countries and aire other people's laundry for fun because we're bored policing our own people in to a submissive goo that explodes at the drop of a hat.