Balearic Slingers - equipment and gear

[michelemaggioni]

It’s all fun and games until one of these stone tossing boys puts a hole through your body and armour.

[Valentin_]

Humanity's greatest weapon, the rock

[MadAtGasCar]

Saw a dude throw one in Spain yesterday. it’s pretty damn impressive and actually looks like it does going flying in game, albeit a bit less far. The sound it makes is also pretty cool as it breaks the sound barrier or something making a loud crack.

[Reepicheep-]

"It's only a bunch of shepards, centurion."
'SHIELDS!!'

[dochkodochev]

The legend of how David killed Goliath. Exemplary!!!!

[aenaros]

Proud to be from Mallorca, our ancestry is often overlooked by many of our own.

[lukeskywalker]

Xenophon and his 10000 mercenaries in their epic march back to Greece from Iran/ Iraq ( Persia ) from when their employers turned on them as enemies .
The 10000 were all hoplites with no ranged weapons . When they started being harassed by groups with ranged weapons . Xenophon recruited those few hundred who were familiar with slings .
These volunteers placed themselves as needed as skirmishers point, flank or rear guard as needed .
Of course they dressed as described after discarding their armour .
The Hoplites returned to Greece relatively unmolested thanks to this resourcefulness.

[stefanstoyanov]

Love that you use music from the Praetorians. That old game has arguably one of the best soundtracks in all gaming.

[HistoriaMilitum]

This short is one of many more that will cover interesting ancient units, gladiators, and more!

We had the honor of attending the "TarracoViva" festival in Spain, that was kind enough with providing us with special interviews and footage of the reenactments in this video. Below are links to the festival:
Here are the reenactors:

[Madjo-qjge]

Well Sun Tzu said
"All warfare based on deception"

[zorey]

I literally just watched Roman's having used javelins and now this. YouTube knows to much sometimes

[juyver]

Absolutely love skirmishers and light infantry of antiquity. My top three being the skitarai (not sure if I’m spelling their name right) the balearic slingers, and Nubian archers. Truly some of the finest warriors of the age. Something interesting to note too which made the balearic slingers interesting is that most if not all the times they were hired as mercenaries they would prefer food or even women as payment rather than money as they had little use for money back in their homeland. This made them for the standards of the civilizations hiring them at the time very affordable and cost effective mercenaries. A fine addition to any army of antiquity.

[rollsroyce]

Wow I love you graphics
Your brief and amusing delivery in the short time
And the accuracy level of academia

[jimmycimitir]

I love the fact they had 3 slings of different sizes right on them. One working as a belt, the other as a bad ass bandana and the third as the actual weapon.

[cookietrouble]

Please make more 😍 very good quality channel.. just need more content 😊

[Valkyani]

Finally someone does justice to this legends, thank you. Shepherds had to defend themselves and their herds from the predators, their weapons were a staff and a sling. This guys perfected it to an élite level

[dariotaddei]

Grazie, fa piacere che anche i barbari ricordino il passato.

[nix-cipher]

Gives a new meaning to getting "stoned"

[wrecker]

When they release the stone, it cracks like a gunshot. Super loud, super scary.

[fnapFNAP]

Sometimes I just forget people used to use slings in battle