The New Jedi Order vs The Roman Empire
The NJO as of FOTJ is dropped off in the far reaches Egypt. Can they manage to defeat the Roman Empire? The Roman Emperor, who let's say is Nero, is somehow immediately alerted of the NJO and wants to eliminate them. The New Jedi Order has access to comlinks, datapads and other SW technology. To be fair, the Roman Empire gets an additional 1 million legionaries.
Originally posted by ares834
Lol fool Roman Empire crushes. Ewoks were able to beat the most powerful militray force in the galaxy. Imagine a true fighting force (the Romans) vs a far lesser military force (the NJO Jedi).
LOL that's a little funny. You're joking right?
However, the Romans might have actually fared better than the Imperials in that situation though since the Romans would be in shielded formations that could easily deflect those rocks and such that the ewoks threw.
As a historical side note: the Roman Empire was destroyed from within. The constant coups and backstabbing caused the demise of the Romans.
As for military tactics I have to agree with Hewhoknowsall. The phalanx was virtually unbreakable. Shields in front and covering heads. Even Jedi would have trouble breaking the phalanx. A phalanx consited of give or take 1,000 men roughly a regiment in todays standards. The NJO lacks the manpower to break a well-disciplined fighting force. Without support troops, I have to give it to the Romans.
No that is the tortello, the phalanx is a wall of shields with a guys shield overlapping the edge of the one on his right with spears facing outwards, but its very vulnerable from the back.
The tortello is what you said, it was created to deflect missile fire, but in a straight close range fight, your screwed because you cant hold it while fighting.
oh and btw,LIGHTSABERS
Originally posted by Darth Truculent
As a historical side note: the Roman Empire was destroyed from within. The constant coups and backstabbing caused the demise of the Romans.As for military tactics I have to agree with Hewhoknowsall. The phalanx was virtually unbreakable. Shields in front and covering heads. Even Jedi would have trouble breaking the phalanx. A phalanx consited of give or take 1,000 men roughly a regiment in todays standards. The NJO lacks the manpower to break a well-disciplined fighting force. Without support troops, I have to give it to the Romans.
I was stating that a Roman army might have fared better in place of the stormtroopers
against the ewoks. However, I don't see how traditional Roman formations would stand any chance against guys that can Force push them apart and slice their weapons and such to bits and people that can sense where they are going and communicate across vast distances via both the Force and space age technology. Oh, and the Roman army would have little chance of tracking down or doing any harm to Jedi; if Jedi can block blaster bolts they can easily block any weapon the Roman Empire had. Also, the Jedi could gain numerous supporters that would greet them as liberaters and aid the Jedi.
Sorry, maybe Luke or another powerful Jedi vs the Roman Empire would be more balanced.
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Um, hi? As soon as the Romans see swords of light that can't be stopped and seeing their soldiers being tossed about by unseen forces, they won't fight the Jedi--they'll bow down and call them gods.
And 2000 years later you'll have hippies wearing "Goerge Lucas is my Homeboy" shirts.