Real Life:
>Greeks are spearfags
>Barbarians are axefags
>Rome beats the shit out of both of them with sword&board
Vidya:
>Spears are always weak af
>Axes are gimmick weapons
>Sword&board shits on both of them by being versatile yet strong
Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
Romans used spears too, boifucker.
Based
Sword and board is shit for retards. A lot of boards put together with heavy support from cavalry won wars.
Everyone you care about used spears. The only people who didn't use spears got wiped out before doing anything meaningful because spears are killy as fuck. Range is king.
Yeah, but they are mainly known for the shortsword and shield combo.
It's gladius&scutum, not spearfag sucking scrotum, ok? Ave Imperator.
How viable is sword and open palm as a figthing style?
Large spear/polearm formations dominated the battlefield for literally almost all of human history. Anyone who says otherwise is a dumb faggot.
Based
>On the second day, Archelaus made a determined effort to escape Sulla’s web of dikes—the entire Pontic army was hurled at the Romans—but the Roman legionaries were pressed together so tightly that their short swords were like an impenetrable barrier, through which the enemy could not escape. The battle turned into a rout, with slaughter on an immense scale. Plutarch notes that two hundred years later, armour and weapons from the battle were still being found. The battle of Orchomenus was another of the world's decisive battles. It determined that the fate of Asia Minor lay with Rome and her successors for the next millennium.
cope and seethe spearfag
Why didn't the romans just use guns
Retarded
What is fallout new Vegas
Lmao. Is that why Rome wiped the board with everyone by using the gladius? Trying wielding a spear when the enemy's shield is pushing up against yours and your face is inches from his.
It's been over 1800 years since Rome figured out how to beat the spear-wall. Fucking spearfags thinking they're hot shit.
Limp wristed tranny right here lmao
Can’t hear you over my shield. Break a few more fingers trying to punch through it
the barbarians and greeks should have teamed up
Cry more slaveboy, only true romans here not cocksucking fodder.
Cope, cvck
Spears still work, you just gotta use them carefully with envelopment tactics. At least that's what I learned from Shogun 2.
>Barbarians
Not a single Celtic or Germanic tribe used Axes you fucking inbred.
>"Roman" Soldier
>Needing vast support networks to supply your cavalry, skirmishers and ranged support
That's a good meme.
Are there any games with a good roman aesthetic? I heard Imperator was shit so I'm lookking for something to scratch that itch, doesn't need to be a strategy game or anything
>Rome
>Beat the Germans
If you mean "Walk up to their territories then logistically fuck up every time and then bribe them to be immigrants" is beat, then sure.
*laughs in augustus*