Giving rifling to the Romans

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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

But the frontier is in the other direction, sir

Titus, all roads lead to Rome ... driver ... step on it

OPFOR is a state of mind

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Rome Sweet Rome finally getting adapted.

Wait, how many scifi classic rome adaptations are out there?

Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A name that makes me groan every time. It's very Reddit

GBU_28@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

"no one shall be happy!"

Is this from a movie?

I believe it's just some re-enactors messing around

Parhian shot on that thing

What would the Romans even use, seeing as inches (what the .50 would be measured by) were the units of those backwater druids?

The Roman inch was equal to 1⁄12 of a Roman foot (pes), which was standardized under Agrippa to about 0.97 inches or 24.6 millimeters.

Good enough for government work?