🐘 Why Romans didn't use war elephants 🐘

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[avengersnewbie]

Flaming pig, the pig was roasted alive and they ate them while at war for energy burst

[ridvirgo]

-record scratch-
Pig: Yup, that's me, you're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.

[pjay]

Horsemen : Charge!!
Horses: I mean everyone is dying right there ok if you say buddy!

Mahout: Charge!!
Elephants: Oh hell no! You charge! Get of my back. I work construction now.

[kingjimmycraftofcalderonia]

I thought flaming pigs was just a total war thing.

[Aki-.]

Elephants are generally impractical they're expensive and difficult to train and can be dealt without much difficulty by a skilled archers

[bleekskaduwee]

I believe that Claudius had a troop of war elephants on stand by for the invasion of Briton

[theromanorder]

Yea they are too expensive and just a hasle to use so all the upsides they had were counteract by the enemys tactics and there coast so they clearly weren't worth much

[JayM]

The Romans did use war elephants. The Battles of Cynocephalea and Pydna both had Roman war elephants.

[kendraharris]

"War Elephants, I'll raise that!" " Send in the flaming pigs" 🐘 + 🐖🔥= 🕊️
Brilliance.

[ineedabetterusername]

... Don't forget the battle of Cynoscephelae, in which Roman war elephants played a potentially decisive role in disrupting the New Macedonian phalanx. I say "potentially" decisive because it was a chaotic battle with many variables leading to the collapse of the enemy phalanx; but in a combined arms operation, they definitely played a major role...

[mr.bluefox]

"The Roman was not impressed with War Elephant on the battlefield" is really a good line to explain this question.

It also cost lots of times & resources to maintain a decent War Elephant alone, instead the Roman are better off spending them on dozens of Horse for there cavalry forces. Or better, hired riders from friendly Gaul and Germanic (and more) tribes who has there own gears & being experience horse-men, in which the Roman usually do.

[stevenanthes]

Nothing more frightening than a flaming pig running between the legs of an

[KonigGustavAdolph]

"Why didn't the most disciplined army in the world use an expensive, unpredictable animal that could do just as much harm to them as to the enemy?"

[paocut]

You can't just leave it at "flaming pigs" without explaining 😫

[salvatoresev]

Pontians: "We have war elephants, we have won!!!"
Romans: "Pff...unleash the flammeable hogs"

[carapo]

Centurion: Deploy the swine, make them well done!!

[Davids_Canadian]

I appreciate the subtitles much more after this day, I was board as hell in class and started watching this on no volume.

[howidostuff-qc]

"elephants are fairly reasonable and intelligent animals, they'll always avoid chaos and violence when given the opportunity" - says it all really

[FlatlandMando]

These are interesting short clips...with uniformly high quality & expressive art work. Well done!

[esochibuike]

I heard they used elephants for other activities though. Like it took 9 elephants to drag a statue of emperor Nero to the colosseum and they were sometimes used in the Arenas.