Who Would Win?

If the British Empire in 1800 (just Britannia no overseas colonies) was transported to 100 AD would they be able to beat the Romans?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    yes, they could sail anywhere in the world, they had breeds of horses and muskets that would allow them to overwhelm any army, the only limitation would be disease as the redcoats march inland and the lack of manpower, but they would basically take over every coast

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    obviously they could easily reach rome and put some puppet emperor

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They take over the seas effortlessly only losing ships to random storms. Within a month a fleet with 10k men is in Rome and forces the senate to accept George as the new emperor. Praetorian guards do what they do best but it is a futile effort as the real power by then wasn't with the king anymore. New restoration of the republic for real this time.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Praetorian guards do what they do best
      Wait, how would them murdering the emperor help Rome in this scenario?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        its really their only move. you work with what you have. But also OP's question is a joke of course a premier power from almost 2k years later with artillery could beat people's whose best tactic is still stabbing in a line

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Britain alone vs. the entire Roman Empire, with no overseas trade or resource imports to keep their industry going, would probably lose. Eventually Britain would run out of gunpowder, lead, and men, while the Romans could just swarm them with bodies.

    Rome would take catastrophic losses mind you, we're talking many hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but eventually Britain would fall.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not saying Britain can't form trade or set up colonies, they just don't start with that. Although I'm not sure how much it would help them.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Their entire supply chain system would have to be rebuilt from scratch its just not fricking feasible.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >dudes with swords vs dudes with guns
    hmm...

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Guys with guns are outnumbered.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Rorke's drift

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Guys with guns are outnumbered.
        The population of Britain and Ireland in 1800 was about 14 million, while the Roman Empire had about 50 million at that time that was spread across the whole empire. The British could deploy more men to any given location at once, and could certainly keep them supplied better.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Another moronic "what if" thread. The answer is yes because Britain in 1800 had guns.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Look dude a few weeks ago someone asked if Rome could stand up to modern America, I felt this was more reasonable.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the british empire(without the empire bit)
    it's really difficult to make a thread stupider than all the others on the catalogue but you managed it spectacularly

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    them alone without its colonies to provide them
    with resources?
    no

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      in 1800, britain was more than self sufficient in terms of iron, lead, food and gunpowder, the empire was trade goods mostly, it had 14 million versus the 50 million of the roman empire circa 100ad so the manpower disadvantage is not so extreme.

      a british regular force at this point could probably expect to beat romans at more than 10 to 1 numerical disparity and would have better mobility to boot.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Absolutely. When the Mediterranean trade dies, because 100 gun ships of the line beats galleys with swordsmen, the Roman Empire sues for peace or slowly dies.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    obviously

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