did romans really charge at enemies with pigs on fire?
I can't find a real pic (only videogames and CGI) so I'm doubtful now
Did romans really charge at enemies with pigs on fire?
>real pic
Nigga wut
Yeah they did it during the punic wars to scare the enemy war elephants
Fire pigs were commonly used throughout the history of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire but there aren't any surviving photos, remember cameras were much rarer and less mobile back then so it would be incredibly hard to use one in the middle of a battle field.
I think OP means pics of a replica
That's just plain wrong, the biggest problem is to convert the pictures to modern devices, because we still have troubles to convert our time into microwave time
A replica of a fucking pig of fire? M8, just take a can of petrol and a lighter down t McD's farm.
holy damn fpbp
>shills trying to derail the thread
fuck off
How did it work? What was used as an accelerant? Were the pigs drenched in lard or animal fat or olive oil or what? How did they ensure they would charge into enemy lines and not just cause widespread chaos everywhere?
Timur the Lame used camels with straw on their backs lit on fire against Delhi sultanate's elephants.
if this is real it's something brilliant
since muslims consider pigs to be impure, this could have been the fist attempt of psychological chemical warfare
no wonder that Chartage got utterly BTFO
...are you actually implying Carthage was muslim?
>muslims
>romans
>Chartage
???
> majority of army is auxilia
> no heavy infantry
> array of different siege engines
> war dogs
> flaming pigs
> general in archer unit
what the fuck am i looking at
REEE FUCK OFF NORMIE CARTHAGE WAS ALMOST A MILLENNIA OLDER THAN ISLAM FUCK YOU
They look like when you melee someone and their shield appears in halo
This thread is b8ted as fuck
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The Fall of Rome
Yet again completely wrong, the reason we don't have many pictures is because their cameras printed into biodegradable paper instead of saving in a digital format. It was a lot cheaper in those days to print out pictures than to store them digitally.
Is this a meme?
Is this a meme?
He's just operating on another level of irony than you.
Please respect the autism.
They mainly used it on northern african and middle eastern powers, or generally anyone who used elephants or other large mammals to their advantage. The pigs on fire would spook the animals in question into a frenzy, often times having to be killed by their own forces to prevent a loss of life
best thread on Veeky Forums right now
followed by this
Fuck off faggot, his comment had nothing political to it. Jesus, /pol/-posting is really getting old now
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Obviously they weren't Muslims, don't be stupid! Islam didn't exist yet.
They WERE Jews though....
Holy shit this entire thread is a trainwreck
include me in the screencap lol this thread is hella epic
I hate myself for browsing this board.
After rereading this thread I learned it was doomed from the start.
mfw sudden urge to pork semites
Nigger what?
muslims fought romans for hundreds years though
Carthage fell in BC
Muslims are AD
any other historical events where retards can't comprehend simple humour?
I am a homo
hitler banned all jokes retaining him
>Byzantines
>Roman
t. Alexandros Papadopoulos
he also banned dirty jokes, I think
>be me
>be gual
>romans wont stop invading and attacking allied tribes
>told to get ready to fight
>a few tribes combined forces
>our spies tell us that there is a roman army marching towards us
>prepare for an ambush
>hear the sound of thousands of feet
>shit crawling down my leg
>the sun disappears to the bottom of the flat earth
>except theres light
>hundreds of lights
>no hundreds of thousands
>the chaotic squeal of a few hundred thousand burning pigs makes my ears bleed
>our lines shatter before they even reach us
>fucking romans
>real pic
What did you smoke, user?
Stories have it the pigs were so well trained they were sent from Rome with just one torch and no herders.
he meant pics of a replica
the guy you responded to didnt say anything about carthage
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someone screencap this shit
replicas of pigs?
see