RomanArmyTalk › Recreational Arena › Off-Topic v
Learning to be a Hoplite

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Threaded Mode
Learning to be a Hoplite
Praefectusclassis Offline
Administrator
*********
Posts: 6,734
Threads: 489
Joined: Mar 2001
Reputation: 27
#16
12-12-2006, 05:55 AM
Why does he remind me of Rome Total War...? :wink:
Greets!

Jasper Oorthuys
Webmaster & Editor, Ancient Warfare magazine
Website Find
Reply
TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS Offline
Primus Pilus
**
Posts: 1,095
Threads: 98
Joined: May 2002
Reputation: 0
#17
12-12-2006, 07:25 PM
Anyway, I e-mailed that professor inviting him to join to RAT, or visit it...

Valete,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini

... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...

Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
[Image: PRIMANI_ban2.gif]
Find
Reply
hoplite14gr Offline
Tribunus Laticlavius
*****
Posts: 4,029
Threads: 90
Joined: May 2005
Reputation: 0
#18
12-12-2006, 08:20 PM
Well at least he tries and if he pusrues it with vigor he will get right.
Unlike some people in my neigborhood all talk no try :roll:

Kind regards
HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
Phokean Ekdromos

http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com
Find
Reply
A_Volpe Offline
Centurio
*
Posts: 960
Threads: 24
Joined: Apr 2005
Reputation: 1
#19
12-12-2006, 10:46 PM
What is the music in the background of the wicker-shielded spartan?

He needs to keep up the practice of actually covering his upper body with that shield. Big Grin
Andy Volpe
"Build a time machine, it would make this [hobby] a lot easier."
https://www.facebook.com/LegionIIICyr/
Legion III Cyrenaica ~ New England U.S.
Higgins Armory Museum 1931-2013 (worked there 2001-2013)
(Collection moved to Worcester Art Museum)
Find
Reply
M. Demetrius Offline
Legatus Legionis [may request custom title]
*********
Posts: 7,668
Threads: 117
Joined: Apr 2005
Reputation: 0
#20
12-13-2006, 07:46 PM
Quote:and how the man in white in the last image rushes towards the enemy on his own
I imagine in a real fight, that would not be a habit-forming practice. He'd get stuck with a half dozen spears before he could do much harm, I reckon.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)

Saepe veritas est dura.
Find
Reply
Arthes Offline
Primus Pilus
**
Posts: 1,754
Threads: 216
Joined: Jul 2005
Reputation: 0
#21
12-14-2006, 12:07 AM
Quote:What is the music in the background of the wicker-shielded spartan?
According to one comment....its the USSR Red Army Choir.... :? ? !
Cristina
The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
-
Find
Reply
A_Volpe Offline
Centurio
*
Posts: 960
Threads: 24
Joined: Apr 2005
Reputation: 1
#22
12-14-2006, 01:27 AM
"USSR Red Army Choir"

Heh...Would not surprise me.
Andy Volpe
"Build a time machine, it would make this [hobby] a lot easier."
https://www.facebook.com/LegionIIICyr/
Legion III Cyrenaica ~ New England U.S.
Higgins Armory Museum 1931-2013 (worked there 2001-2013)
(Collection moved to Worcester Art Museum)
Find
Reply


Forum Jump: