did romans really charge at enemies with pigs on fire? I can't

>>2684251
>real pic
Nigga wut

Yeah they did it during the punic wars to scare the enemy war elephants

>>2684251

Fire pigs were commonly used throughout the history of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire but there aren't any surviving photos, remember cameras were much rarer and less mobile back then so it would be incredibly hard to use one in the middle of a battle field.

I think OP means pics of a replica

>>2684307

That's just plain wrong, the biggest problem is to convert the pictures to modern devices, because we still have troubles to convert our time into microwave time

>>2684315

A replica of a fucking pig of fire? M8, just take a can of petrol and a lighter down t McD's farm.

>>2684282
holy damn fpbp

>shills trying to derail the thread
fuck off

How did it work? What was used as an accelerant? Were the pigs drenched in lard or animal fat or olive oil or what? How did they ensure they would charge into enemy lines and not just cause widespread chaos everywhere?

>>2684336
Timur the Lame used camels with straw on their backs lit on fire against Delhi sultanate's elephants.

if this is real it's something brilliant
since muslims consider pigs to be impure, this could have been the fist attempt of psychological chemical warfare
no wonder that Chartage got utterly BTFO

>>2684384

...are you actually implying Carthage was muslim?

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>>2684384
>muslims
>romans
>Chartage
???

>>2684251
> majority of army is auxilia
> no heavy infantry
> array of different siege engines
> war dogs
> flaming pigs
> general in archer unit

what the fuck am i looking at

>>2684384
REEE FUCK OFF NORMIE CARTHAGE WAS ALMOST A MILLENNIA OLDER THAN ISLAM FUCK YOU

>>2684251
They look like when you melee someone and their shield appears in halo

>>2684251
This thread is b8ted as fuck

>>2684419
>>>/pol/

>>2684412
The Fall of Rome

>>2684320
Yet again completely wrong, the reason we don't have many pictures is because their cameras printed into biodegradable paper instead of saving in a digital format. It was a lot cheaper in those days to print out pictures than to store them digitally.

>>2684251
Is this a meme?

>>2684384
Is this a meme?

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>>2685143
>>2685141
He's just operating on another level of irony than you.
Please respect the autism.

>>2684251
They mainly used it on northern african and middle eastern powers, or generally anyone who used elephants or other large mammals to their advantage. The pigs on fire would spook the animals in question into a frenzy, often times having to be killed by their own forces to prevent a loss of life

best thread on 4chan right now

followed by this

>>>/an/2352402

>>2684437
Fuck off faggot, his comment had nothing political to it. Jesus, /pol/-posting is really getting old now

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>>2684384

>>2684401
Obviously they weren't Muslims, don't be stupid! Islam didn't exist yet.
They WERE Jews though....

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Holy shit this entire thread is a trainwreck

include me in the screencap lol this thread is hella epic

>>2684384
I hate myself for browsing this board.

>>2684251
After rereading this thread I learned it was doomed from the start.

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mfw sudden urge to pork semites

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>>2684384
Nigger what?

>>2684409
muslims fought romans for hundreds years though

>>2687526
Carthage fell in BC
Muslims are AD

any other historical events where retards can't comprehend simple humour?

I am a homo

>>2687841
hitler banned all jokes retaining him

>>2687526
>Byzantines
>Roman

t. Alexandros Papadopoulos

>>2687934
he also banned dirty jokes, I think

>be me
>be gual
>romans wont stop invading and attacking allied tribes
>told to get ready to fight
>a few tribes combined forces
>our spies tell us that there is a roman army marching towards us
>prepare for an ambush
>hear the sound of thousands of feet
>shit crawling down my leg
>the sun disappears to the bottom of the flat earth
>except theres light
>hundreds of lights
>no hundreds of thousands
>the chaotic squeal of a few hundred thousand burning pigs makes my ears bleed
>our lines shatter before they even reach us
>fucking romans

>>2684251
>real pic

What did you smoke, anon?

>>2688177
Stories have it the pigs were so well trained they were sent from Rome with just one torch and no herders.

>>2688189
he meant pics of a replica

>>2687544
the guy you responded to didnt say anything about carthage

>>2689454
>>>/pol/

>>2684384
someone screencap this shit

>>2689254
replicas of pigs?

>>2689254
see
>>2687508