>be 5'4"
>have to march 5-6 hours a day with up to 100lbs on a fucking pole
>only stop to build a giant fort for the night
>still not allowed to sleep because watch duty is three hours long
>burn it all in the morning
>do this for 16-20 years, all while fighting random backwater peoples
How the fuck did they do it? How could anyone do this for that long without literally going insane?
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Pretty sure men weren't drinking estrogens on a daily basis back then.
They built a fort every night?
that's what they were born in to so it's all they knew. Let anyone of them sleep on your couch for a week and see if they'd go back.
Every night unless explicitly told not to.
i.e. They might have to move suddenly.
Just like in modern military you didn't have to do watch duty every single night.
Even still, 3 section duty is fucking soul crushing.
Someone had to is my point, and every day while you were on campaign there was a chance it was going to be you. Stretch this out over 20 years and a significant portion of your life can said to be standing around on a rampart or watch tower while fucking mongoloids hurl shit at you and threaten the merchants outside of your gates.
I don't think it was that bad. They had to build a fort every night but they also had thousands of soldiers. So the labour of each soldier wouldn't have been so exhausting. For example when building a wall each soldier would just need to place one or two stakes. It wouldn't take much time to build the fort.
>3 hour watch
>long
kek.
>How the fuck did they do it? How could anyone do this for that long without literally going insane?
Ancient people were pretty tough.
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Not as bad as you think. There were thousands of men working on the fort. Took them only a few hours.
And you have to remember that "night" watch started much earlier due to lack of artificial light. Sure they had torches but they'd still be building the fort during sunset at about 5pm depending on time of year and weather.
>all while fighting random backwater peoples
The legionaries most likley didn't fight the day guerilla war at the borders that was the job of the auxilleries. The legions spenden most of their time building roads, forts etc
You get to loot and rape every now then. Also you can earn honour to your name by distinguishing yourself in battle so your family can live a comfy life.
Hell, there are a handful of legionnaires who's names and heroic deeds people read about to this very day. Imagine securing your name in glory for literally two thousand years.
In the military and especially the sof, lot of the most endurant guys are not very tall, thickset. They are built to carry heavy gear on long distances. 100lb on 20 miles can still happend.
you're not born into a legion wtf nigger
Romans aren't Greeks, idjit.
Roman discipline of soldiers was pretty serious, so the price for disobedience was high. Any soldiers who didn't want to do the work learned their place real quick.
The roman army was voluntary and professional you dummy. You enlisted and got paid. You are thinking of the Greek City States.
Is it even true for the city states? Didn't you have to have your own panoply in most cities? Or was that just Athens? Sparta I know you were born into it.
The Maurian legions were mostly voluntary and professional. Pre-Maurian reforms, they were conscripted from the small landholders of Italy. Long after Marius, during the late Empire, the Roman army would be primarily conscripted again.
Yeah, you had to be able to afford to fight, but there wasn't an "army" at any given time. The citizens were expected to fight whenever the generals rallied troops for battle, so technically, by being an citizen of the Polis, you were born into it.
20 miles a day with 100lb load is something literally any adult man can do after a few months of training if not before(barring physical deficiencies, of course).
What happened to crippled legionaries or wife and kids of dead ones?
Were they just forgoten after or?
Greek millitary was not just hoplites, there was always need for auxiliaries and sailor, especially good rowers.
It sounds better than countless hours of Veeky Forums.