Who Were the Professional Veterans of the Roman Army?

This video reenacts what it was like to join the Roman legion. The process included passing a physical test, proving one's qualifications, and taking a Roman soldier's oath before the commander. The coexistence of older troops and junior recruits proved valuable, since the older men could be expected to pass on their institutional knowledge to the next generation which was to eventually replace them.

Credits:
Research = Chris Das Neves
Script = Chris Das Neves
Narration = Guy Michaels
Reenactment = Imperium Romanum, Veteres Milites Sibiu

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[tanvir_zaman]

Man the clothes, armour and dedication of these Roman roleplayers is amazing!

[TonyTwoTwice]

You had to sign a contract for multiple years of service upon joining the Empire's Legions, too.

[AhNoWiC]

Your YT clips go hard, they honestly draw me into your longer videos more often than not. The presentation combined with the more serious tone (than the average yt clip) draws the attention so well

[Rynewulf]

Dont forget the Veterani, where we get the word veteran from. Retired soldiers who had completed their service, then reenlisted or in the late empire formed armed bands of their own

[jamesnoonan]

Thrust, twist, pull, and repeat young man, you won't go far wrong 😂

[BarefootDruid]

Before and after the Gaius Marius reforms in other words

[martinlewis]

This applied to the early republic as it’s what the empire’s principles were built on and develop from this social structure and it doesn’t make a difference if they were or were not recruited from Italia they were still seasoned and skilled veterans present.

[kkupsky]

Man I take so many antibiotics I’d be dead at my first stubbed toe or papercut. I’m between 30-40 but it took lots of surgery and tech to get here. Good on em.

[hamish]

Thats why sergeants are the backbone of the army.

[Nervii_Champion]

Classical Greece and Italy before the rise of the Roman Republic, when Rome was simply just Roma, had the coolest equipment though.

Those southern Italian Tribes had the best drip, just saying. Samnites, Lucanians, Bruttians, etc.

[tomoyaitoi]

I thought it's already been roman citizen volunteers (legionary) by the time of Augusutus and it was auxiliaries that was introduced?

[dud]

We gotta bring the cape back, nothing more fashionable than a fricking cape, this is what men want to dress like, or at least what I do.

[vonn]

at their height. the approaching legions would scare the shit out of enemies with their maneuvers alone as they approached undisciplined barbarian hordes

[DaemonwarriorJulius]

Never underestimate an old man in a trade in which people tend to die young.

[Cleeon]

I think I just seen a trailer of movie created by professional, thank you

[danielefabbro]

The reform of Caracalla was indeed a huge strike on Roman military... 😑

[bluewizzard]

The abolishment of the citizen Army was also a mistake in my opinion. Armies comprised of citizens we're loyal to the state and rome itself. They didn't revolt all the time like the later pure professionell armies would. The Roman state was severely weakened by all the senseless revolts and civil wars. These troops were only loyal to themselves. Legions would proclaim their own Cesar and so the Roman Empire nearly constantly fought with itself. This was Not the Case with earlier republican armies before the 1 century BC.

[GreenMantis]

wheren't the profesional elite roman legionaries the evocati? they where soldriers that spent more than 25 years serving the romans and refusing to get their promised farmland.

[victorlyubomirov]

vets are masters and mansons, legiona are bruth machine for expansia

[-RONNIE]

True at the time but they're arrogance and inability to adapt was their downfall