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Roman legions consisted of regular meditarranean men with an average height of 165 cm, annihilating and conquering "Barbarian Giants" of Germania and many others.

Nowadays the best of the best fighter pilots are always below 175 cm's since the size of their bodies can endure more G force than their taller counterparts.

(and that's a good thing!)

>plane pilots
>warriors

>he doesn't row a trireme for his gains

pathetic

germania was never conquered lmao it was the other way around

Why, because you do this as well? Fit is probably the gayest board on the whole Jow Forums, yes that includes r9k

How did we know the barbarians were giants? Because the Romans wrote it down and glorified them, and probably let them fuck their wives on more than a thousand occasions. And then, after some time, the romanlets converted to cuckdom and got invaded by their taller, human, counterparts, and they were slaughtered and their women taken as concubines and that is the end of the romanlet "empire".

>As an elite fighting force, the Imperial Guard set clear standards for entry. Candidates had to be at least 5ft 6in (1.78 meters) tall which was rarer at that time than now.

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>5ft6in
>178cm

Haha i love this troll so much

Huh didn't even realize just copied it from some history website.

point still stands manlets have been shunned throughout history. Even by the manlet emperor.

5'6 isn't manlet now? Alright cool

Now it is, back then it wasn't.

this

Should manlets just become traps?

Pretty sure they had to be 5'10 or something, 5'6 wasn't that impressive even back then.

5'6 was always a manlet what you talkjing about
manlet cut off is at 6'2

The vikings were around 170 cm,and so were the germanics who raided the roman's.
So it was still pretty tall.

Is that why Alexander Leonidas a.k.a Alphadestiny is so short?

what was the battle of the Teutoburg Forest?

>battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Fucking based. So-called "savages" without the kind of military training and experience Roman soldiers, as the best of the best in the world, got, they destroyed all 3 legions without numbers on their side, only using the element of surprise. And that would be easy to expect or deflect for a Roman leader, supposedly. Well... Romans sucked ass. Their only advantage was new tactics in the beginning of the Republic, and numbers during the Empire. They had so little actually talented generals it's a fucking miracle Germans didn't btfo'd their whole state before.

> The Metapontion necropolis ... revealed that the average height of adult males was between 162 and 165 cm, that of females between 153 and 156 cm, and with a body weight of approximately 60-65 kg for males and 50-55 kg for females; in other words, the findings of earlier examinations were soundly confirmed in this respect.

> Kagan, Donald, and Gregory F. Viggiano, eds. Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece. Princeton University Press, 2013.

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Speaking of height, would you bros date a girl 2 or 3" taller than you? Im 6'0 so I wouldn't feel embarrassed or anything, I definitely think if she was shorter she'd be interested in someone else, definitely above my league

5'6 was in french measurement, which is 5'10 in english. That's also why Napoleon was depicted as a manlet when he was normal height. Skirmishers and hussars in the french army had to be below 165cm

T. Someone who has never read a single historical account or analysis of Roman military history, tactics, leadership, organization, or equipment.

Not even able to use a simple conversion tool to get rid of that imperial crap. Air getting a little thin up there, lanklet?

>kinglets

lmao. Man its good to be nordic

Greeks were like 5'2" back then kek.

Nice fantasy you got there buddy.

BASED BUTT BLASTER BROS

Annihilated by Philip II of Macedon

You gotta be some kind of faggot to not enjoy fucking some beta in the ass

Do you mean Hypaspists?
>Not Companion Cavalry
Seriously, user?

Based slave kek

>reading biased romanboos "historical accounts"

Would say alot of this is based in many Roman generals often just beiNH high born and or purchasing their position, and had led relatively comfy lives with lots of "book" learning

Fighter pilots
Tank crews
Tunnel rats
>Get fagged, lanklet

>What is modern warfare?
Enjoy being a larger target (MMs matter when dealing with shrapnel) and almost guarenteed damage to your knees and spine.

Romaboo has a nicer ring, user

I would read Germanic accounts of Teutoberg forest, if they learned how to write at all.

Don’t forget how the Germans murdered Arminius and Germanicus later came and raped them with unholy vengeance

The Spartans were not a "military fascist dictature" but a community of leisure class people, basically a society made up of the wealthy members of a class who didn't have to toil for a living.

They enjoyed living the high Greek life while also enjoying working out.