Post more pics like this
Post more pics like this
Parker Garcia
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that's almost bronze age tier fabulous
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Danes
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First schleswig-holstein war
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Low Medieval Byzantine Army
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High Medieval Byzantine Army
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An armored condottieri
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Teutonic Knight
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Henry Lewis
An Arabic Cavalryman
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A Persian Cavalryman
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A Turkish Cavalryman
Gavin Foster
Why would the Roman infantry use curved swords? The cav I can understand, but the infantry? I can't imagine sabres being very useful in a melee fight against chain mail armoured opponents.
John Ross
This chainmail should have been heavy as shit. I tried it once in a museum and it’s fucking ridiculous.
Nathan Gomez
I'm guessing once not only gets used to it but is also conditioned to use it.
Now imagine wearing both mail AND steel plate.
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Elijah Price
I wonder why late Roman aesthetics never caught on like 1st Century Rome aesthetics did
Angel Ortiz
Kek, not bad user.
John Russell
Too medieval for plebs to process.
Brody Adams
If I'd have to guess it would have to do with the chronology of archeological finds.
I mean, it's easier to associate a piece of equipment with the Romans if you find it on the large surviving monuments around the med, if you don't have carbon dating or enough means to organize proper archeological excavations.
So of course the "classical" Roman soldier appearance was depicted once again as soon as an artist decided to take a look at Trajan's column, and that became the norm in artistic depictions and what would become popular culture. By the time people could properly assess what a late roman looked like and could start dating finds and translating newfound media, the lorica segmentata was so deeply ingrained in everyone's imagination that only historians and a bunch weirdos on total war forums could know and actually want to accurately represent what those looks. Plus it's easier to make a segmentata for your extras than glorious late roman garb.
Zachary Rogers
Just downloaded the military series. Lots of interesting shit. Give a shout of anything you guys need.
The Men-at-Arms series is still being downloaded as I'm writing this
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Carter Flores
>I wonder why late Roman aesthetics never caught on like 1st Century Rome aesthetics did
Because their aesthetics are a mess and they look similar to many other armies in various periods of history.
1st c. legions had a very unique look, especially when you consider that normies picture them as all wearing red tunics with segmentata and uniformly painted shields (the RTW look). They looked unique and very 'clean'; in that their equipment was extremely functional, their decoration (crests, standards, fancy helmets, weapons, and muscle cuirasses) all was simple and bold.
Late Roman/Byzantine soldiers are generally depicted wearing a mess of gaudy shit, bright mismatching colours, strange and not cool looking (compared to segmentata and muscle cuirasses) armour. Plus they don't look distinctly 'Roman' or really distinctly anything, as a lot of their armour and weapon designs in the period were simply copied from Germanics and Persians, so they look similar to them in many ways. They're just a chaotic mishmash of overcomplicated, gaudy shit.
People like simple yet striking aesthetics, hence muscle cuirasses, corinthian helms, segmentata, aspides, and Gallic pattern helms are 'cool'.
I personally love the Byzantine autism aesthetic just as much as any other, but you really do have to have actual autism to appreciate it fully.
Xavier Smith
Because late Romans never caught on like 1st century Romans did.
Lucas Sanchez
wish I could draw in this style it captures much
Isaiah Wood
they look goofy af
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Jaxon Russell
is that tom hanks
Jonathan Rodriguez
SERGEANT HORVAAAAAAAATH
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Brody Taylor
These pics make perfect reaction images
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Adam James
Will military uniforms ever be so stylish and colorful again?
Camden Foster
Once we get power armor it will at least be badass.
Wyatt Scott
>implying you need a power armor to be badass
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Julian Cooper
Kek, saving that
Asher Barnes
Can't stop me now
Cooper Cruz
Truly, you do the Lord's work, user.
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Benjamin Gomez
Thanks, (though was one I had around for two years, it was made by another user)
Henry Kelly
These images are great, any more from early modern Europe, 15th - 18th century specifically?
Christopher Robinson
Is that a dryse needle rifle?
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Gabriel Williams
those horses are really short
Luke Nguyen
why do you think they're not riding them, user?
Alexander Sullivan
because they don't have saddles?
Christopher Adams
Clearer, perhaps?
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Juan Miller
Fuck, lemme up the jpg
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Asher Murphy
>Jewish merchant
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Ayden Bell
I used to think Napoleonic era uniforms were ridiculous, but they're starting to grow on me. The fact that there were so many more countries back then and each had its own style really tickles my autism.
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