Meme warriors hired by meme empire. Am I supposed to be impressed

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>>1746801
dude normans were fucking fearsome and btfo'd anything they versed until generations of breeding patterns alliances and tech dissemination later

ground unit cataphrats

>>1746809
Double edged battle axes will never stop triggering me.

>>1746809
The Varangians were only recruited because it was virtually impossible for them to betray the Emperor, they didn't speak and were also well compensated for their services.

>>1746912
Pretty much. The East learned from the problems of the older unified Roman Empire, and the biggest one of those was that an imperial bodyguard unit that consistently has political aims is not good.

I'm (sorta) sad they got rid of the Praetorian Guard, but the Guard has only itself to blame for how many times they killed their own fucking emperor.

>Meme warriors
Why is it that anti-Byzantine posters are always so uneducated?

The Varangian guard, under Maniakes and Harald Hardrada, reconquered Sicily. The only troops were Varangians and some mercenaries. They were good soldiers, really good soldiers.

>>1746934
Lmao who the fuck thought you history? That shit Vikings show? I bet vikangz under Harald Hadrada conquered Egypt too.

>>1746944
Shitposter is bad at shitposting, what a surprise

Reminder that post 1066 the Varangian Guard was majority English. Eat shit vikingrboos

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>>1746801
>Byzantine Empire was a pile of shit.
Good thing the righteous House Osman scooped it away.

>>1749138
Reminder that they would have been pretty much indistinguishable from vikings.

>>1746801
>western empire falls because of the emperor constantly being blown the fuck out by his own troops
>after a millenia realise that the best way to solve the problem is to have non-Roman soldiers guarding the emperor
>they're loyal as fuck

You're an idiot OP.

>>1749143
Fuck off turkroach

>>1749143
Kek

They were know as the emperor's wine bags.

The Julio-Claudian emperors had also a "Varangian" guard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_German_Bodyguard

>>1749249
Varangians assassinated emperors and refused to fight for a besieged Constantinople until they got paid more.

>>1746818
they are cool af in games desu

>>1746930
Yeah, reading about the Praetorian guard always pisses me off.

>>1751301
Not as much as the Praetorians.

>>1746930

They were like the second leading cause of death ffs

>>1749159
True, which is something vikingrboos need to realise, everyone in Northern Europe looked the same, whether Dane, English, Norman, Scottish.