12/27/2022 0 Comments Caesar 3 vs caesar 4![]() “I don’t think you quite understand” Julius Caesar says leaning forward in his seat, “I offer you this out of curtsey, to let you save face. We have survived for many generations without help from the Roman Empire and we’ll continue to survive many more.” “These are indeed kind words my honoured guest but our tribe has no use for your fancy promises or your offers of trade. ![]() He waits patiently for the man to stop speaking. He’s met men like this before, men with skin pale as ghosts and they are all the same, they all look down on and despise him and his people. The Elder can practically feel the veiled disgust dripping from every word as the man speaks to him. Sadly his own best warriors were out fighting otherwise he would have had them banish this stranger with his talks of peace. “Easy to say when you’re followed by a small army of soldiers” the elder thinks to himself. Having arrived earlier this day while, this stranger talked only of peace and friendship, about forging bonds between allies. The tribe elder watches the man sat in his home with caution. I reserve the right to award a vote as half or discount it entirely for reason not mentioned here if I feel it is applicable. Irrelevant votes will not be counted at all. I will inform anybody if their vote is considered a half vote and allow them to amend it to bring it up to a full point. In order to be counted in full, votes must be at least 5 lines long or have been done in an edge format.Īnything less than 5 lines but which is competently argued and thought out will be counted as a half vote. Half will be in the plains of Southern Africa and the other half within the walls of a Roman City. The battle will take place over two areas. This will be a 5 on 5 (Shaka & Caesar with 4 of their respective troops). Shaka specifically trained his men to kill every enemy and take no prisoners with the threat of their own death looming over them and when his mother died slaughtered many of his own people for not grieving enough or getting pregnant. However while Caesar certainly did have a nasty side (showcased by capturing and crucifying his kidnappers) he was not against taking prisoners and in fact many Roman armies incorporated fallen enemies into their ranks. ![]() Neither of these leaders was known for their mercy towards their enemies and even their own men and this is what gained them so many enemies. What tips the scales heavily in Shaka's favour though is the harsher nature of his environment and he specifically trained his men to block out pain by running on thorns and to run for miles each day to build up their fitness and endurance to greater extremes than the Roman legions would have been. There's no doubt that both Caesar & Shaka were physically fit individuals and would have little trouble with the rigours of battle. Shaka and the Zulu's Ishlangu weighs far less than the Scutum and without any other armour it allows them to move much quicker and their fighting style incorporates agile movements which further increases their advantage. While Caesar and his men have much more protection than Shaka this comes at the cost of it weighing them down and making their movement speed and agility restricted and that's without including the 22 lbs shield and all that gear. This ties in heavily with the above X Factor. Shaka and his men on the other hand would have worn barely any armour at all besides their shields (if you count that as an armour that is). Caesar himself would probably be wearing a centurion's Lorica Segmentata which consists of a iron cuirass fastened to leather straps with a padded subarmalis underneath. The standard Roman armour would be the Lorcia Hamata which is an iron mail shirt with leather shoulder straps as well as a leather helm helmet with bronze gilding. Shaka also conquered a lot of land and would have probably been in the thick of the battle alongside his men but these but his conquests were never on the scale of Caesar and most of the other tribes he faced had the same style of warfare which didn't give him much variety. However this wasn't as extensive as that of Caesar and his troops.Ĭaesar oversaw the conquest of the Gauls and lead a rebellion against his own countrymen and has experience fighting a wide variety of opponents even if he likely spent most of these battle away from the actual fighting. From what I can gather about Shaka he didn't receive any noteworthy training but his men went through a brutal training regime in order to build up their physical abilities and usage of the Pincer tactic. Having served in the Roman Army, Caesar and his men would have received extensive training as well as being drilled into a well disciplined unit as Romans prided themselves on having high quality troops.
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