Comments by "SCINTILLAM DEI" (@scintillam_dei) on "Deadly Moments in History - Avenging Crassus" video.

  1. In many civilizations, the heroes are murdered or persecuted by their own people. Jews did that to Jesus and many prophets including Moses. Hannibal failed because of Carthaginians scheming against him. Athenians murdered Socrates who gave their city fame, at least in future centuries. Spartans were betrayed by a fellow Greek at Thermopylae if I recall correctly. Goths lost almost everything to Islam when a Gothic lord turned to Berbers for help.
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  2. I guess you could say (takes off glasses, and puts on sunglasses): he should have had a GASSOUS BELLY that day, so he would have been pooping over a hole instead of sweating in the desert with arrows coming in without ceasing.
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  3.  Prince William of Satsuma  There is no justice without the death penalty.
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  4. I guess you could say (takes off glasses, and puts on sunglasses): he should have had a GASSOUS BELLY that day, so he would have been pooping over a hole instead of sweating in the desert with arrows coming in without ceasing. (This is a pun on CASSVS BELLI meaning cause for war, in case you're a noob at Latin terms, you plebe.)
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  5. Pride precedes the fall.
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  6.  Abu Troll al cockroachistan  " easy lemon squeezy" If it were easy, the Parthian Empire would have extended to Iberia. To defeat cavalry archers, Caesar could have built walls. China did that to keep back hordes, but Caesar would have built walls WITHIN walls.
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  7.  Abu Troll al cockroachistan  If he went around it was because China didn't finish the wall or underestimated the enemy or both. Caesar finished his walls. Cavalry cannot charge if he plants spikes or has men with spears waiting for them. He was known to use barbarian cavalry, and had Roman cavalry at his disposal, which he could have used to intercept or distract the enemy, letting his engineers complete the walls which Romans were known to do in a relatively short time. Wooden walls don't last long against fire arrows but there are ways to prevent fire damage, like using hide and making sure they are wet, or plating the walls with something perpetually fireproof. The Roman Empire had the funds to make it not just possible but abundant. "Caesar would meet the same fate as Crassus or Anthony against Cav archers" If he went into the middle of a desert far from resources, yes, but he wasn't an idiot like you wish. Using the terrain to his advantage he could counter enemy archers. If he went through Mesopotamia by a river, he could easily use that as a natural wall, and cavalry archers would be limited in their options. Persians relying on cavalry archers is ironic considering the Mongol devastation was thanks to cavalry archers. Mongols took down Russians with ease because Russia is mostly vast plains like in Ukraine. Western and Central Europe allow the defenders much more power to succeed against those like the Huns. After all, in Gaul, Huns were defeated by Romans and barbarian allies, and Huns struck more terror into the Roman psyche than any Parthian or Persian ever did.
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  8.  Abu Troll al cockroachistan  So you imagine mangonels slowly crawling their way in plain sight of the Romans, and wish that the Romans would just sit and wait? You clearly don't know about IVLIVS CAESAR. I never said he would do a continent-wide wall, so that's a strawman. And why are you calling me "little Fanboy"? That's an AD HOMINEM fallacy. Your feathers are ruffled because your arguments aren't working. Your new argument is "Anthony equals Julius." They have minds of their own. They're not clones. No cigar.
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