The romans did not use rectangular shields

[talemore]

You seen it on tv but the issue is they don't have the ability to interlock with another shield meaning that the traditional turtle formation never happened the way they showed you on tv.

The main reason is that if you look at the tv version you would end up with a hole where you can poke in as many spears you want.

It would been better to just use the shield to cover yourself instead of creating a window where anyone can throw in a spear.

This is why the romans didn't used rectangular shields in a turtle formation.

[Xero_Daxter]

Цитата допису Hobbit XIII:

So stupid question how did a small band of Roman soldiers defeat Boudica's charging warriors numbering in there thousands if not hundreds of thousands?

Can I have the link to that? I wanna do my fact check.

[Tsubame ⭐]

They did. They were called scutum. They were not necessarily only rectangular, they could also be oval or circular, and be of different sizes.

However, in contemporary popular view, Roman shields are associated mainly with the large rectangular ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutum

[Lokaror]

The romans never used any weapons. All roman enemies saw their roads and gave up.

[Hobbit XIII]

Цитата допису Xero_Daxter:

Цитата допису Hobbit XIII:

So stupid question how did a small band of Roman soldiers defeat Boudica's charging warriors numbering in there thousands if not hundreds of thousands?

Can I have the link to that? I wanna do my fact check.

It's pretty much well known a big part of history was the Boadicea / Boudica rebellion.
I don't have a link off hand as we did at school and watched documentaries on it and got lots of other stuff to write on the forums. Probably Wiki may have it in detail it was a massacre.

You had heavily armoured and well trained Roman Imperial soldiers vs a lot of uncontrollable warriors of a very different mindset.
They assumed by their numbers and warrior spirit they would finally crush the Romans and charged into battle with little direction.
Some were armoured and many were not preferring to go naked into battle.
I will make a guess a lot of them had the blue cabbage over them which is a healing thing and they probably wrote runes or symbols over themselves.

The warriors smacking into the Roman 'Tank' would not be able to flee or even step back because of the press of all the other warriors wanting to get at them these guys were raging and then it turned into a major panic as confusion and slaughter reigned from this disciplined formation into the wild warriors.