![]() In action, movements were fluid, and clipping was not as obtrusive as other games. The detail on individual units was surprising. ![]() Perhaps the best example I have seen in modern cinema was some of the early episodes of HBO/BBC’s Rome, starring Kevin McKidd. These were the tactics that made Rome great. The grip of your gladius was deeply grooved, the pommel the size of a fresh apple, because your hands would be covered with the blood of your enemy after several shifts at the front. Like in modern hockey games, the line would change: you and your rank fell back, and were replaced by men behind you. Enemies crashed into your shield, you held your ground, and stabbed at them relentlessly until you tired. The gladius-sword-was short, barely more than 2 feet long, because space was at a premium in the crush of the front ranks during combat. The immobility of it was actually an advantage, as coupled with the immobility of the shield of the man to your left and right together you created a wall, which you used to stop the enemy’s advance. Their armor was, first and foremost, their shield, a thing so big and wide as to be nearly useless unless it remained fixed in front of you. There was a method to their madness, honed since the time of the ancient Greek phalanx, refined through generations of unrest, and eventually perfected (or at least well marketed) through the so-called Marian reforms in the second century BC. Legionaries didn’t wade into combat, flailing about themselves with a short blade, whirling and twirling their bulky armored frames in between the enemy. The problem with the first half was, in my opinion, the severe lack of historical accuracy. ![]() The story hooked me in the end, and I do recommend the flick. It was one of those movies where a quarter of the way through you’re hoping your wife won’t come in and find you watching something so inane, and then halfway through you would fight a bear to get the bandwidth needed to finish streaming it. I streamed it on a whim one night off Netflix. The last good sword and sandal movie I saw was The Centurian. King Arthur II: The Role-Playing Wargame Prologue: The Dead Legions. King Arthur II Prologue: Dead Legions – PC Game Preview By Charlie Hall ![]()
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