Gaulish and Roman Panoplies: A Comparison

A short video on a topic that could get very complicated and deep. My goal wasn't to infer anything from the panoplies on the differences in military tactics. That is another topic for a later video.

[metatronyt]

Thank you for the video, very interesting.

[antocnl]

Awesome, finally a good quality channel dedicated to ancient gauls ! Super travail, c'est une très bonne initiative de présenter, en anglais en plus, un peu sur le format de The Metatron, l'état de nos connaissances sur les gaulois.
Courage et continue !

[Jtbrahh]

I was always fascinated by the idea of an alternate history where the Gauls manage a sort of "industrialization" and start producing professionally armed units of soldiers to match the Romans. It's a fantasy more or less but it's an interesting thought to let run wild in your head.

[kalibanghoul]

Tellement dommage que tu ais arrêter les vidéos :/ Elles sont vraiment super bien réalisé et cool à suivre

[LaurentLugonMoulin]

Great video as usual ! Keep up the good work et merci !

[brunomattos]

Great video! You brought some interesting points. Gauls are normally shown in representations using their long swords to try to hack and slash the romans. I believe this is far from the truth. Caesar for example used words like phalanx to describe the gauls fighting. So what you said, that the main weapon of the gallic common warrior was the spear, makes a lot of sense. Trying to break an enemy formation using long swords would be a very stupid idea. The sword would be more like a backup weapon, very useful for the cavalrymen when they lost their spear. When the romans clashed with a gallic infantry, they would be facing a solid wall of shield and spear. The disadvantages of the gallic infantry would be that the romans would be way better equiped (since most of the noble gauls would be fighting on horseback) and that the roman manipular legion was specially good in breaking infantry formations. The romans didn't fight defensively waiting for the angry barbarian charge as shown in movies or documentaries. The roman infantry most of the times had a very aggressive stance in the battlefield, throwing their pila while charging.

[thegreenmage]

The Roman writer Varro attributes the invention of chain mail to the Celts.
The Romans did not use it before encountering the Celts.
This is odd, because they would have seen the technology before with the Etruscans (from whom they also stole many things people typically call ‘Roman’ today), but we know it is not the same type.
Etruscan Mail segmentation is different from Celtic, and it is the latter sort which the Romans layer adopt.
They stole everything from the Celts, in addition to murdering a great number of them and taking as many into slavery.

[MarcelloFabretti]

That third helmet with the cheek protection with the 3-disc decoration is Samnite. The style may be based on what the Senones brought into Italy, but the decoration is definitely Italic

[northernknight]

Most likely you shield won’t break. Shield are usually pretty sturdy and unlikely to break