>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.