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Tommiatkins01 May 2008 3:20 p.m. PST

Your mates are all piled up front, Constapatirix your leader is right up there with the front "Rank", youve been watching the fight from behind a mass of hairy heards like a Rammstein Gig attender who came late.

What do you do?
Cheer your mates on?
Try and pull people outta the way so you can get stuck in with the Mosh?
Read a book?
Chat with the rest of the rear rank about holidays and girls back at the camp?

What would you do….its a long battle, gotta fill the time somehow.

adub7401 May 2008 3:30 p.m. PST

Honestly? Pee in my pants and then poop myself.

Hundvig Fezian01 May 2008 4:45 p.m. PST

It's a good spot to be in when the Romans break your warband and the rout starts.

lugal hdan01 May 2008 4:48 p.m. PST

Fall back a bit and move towards a flank.

La Long Carabine01 May 2008 4:56 p.m. PST

Darn kyotoblue, don't drink all the mead before I get there!!!

LLC aka Ron

Paul Y01 May 2008 5:14 p.m. PST

Spend a little bit of time trying to work out if the cavalry now pouring out from behind that little hill on your left flank are yours or theirs…wait a sec, they all have the same coloured cloaks and plumes!
Then you can spend the rest of the time running like hell ;)

Personal logo John the OFM Supporting Member of TMP01 May 2008 5:39 p.m. PST

Considering the Gaulish concept of rank relief, I am waiting for everybody in front of me to get killed. Shouldn't take long, if that propaganda sheet that that Caesar dude writes is any indication.

Personal logo McKinstry Supporting Member of TMP Fezian01 May 2008 5:40 p.m. PST

I'm practicing saying "I for one welcome our new Roman masters" while edging further to the rear mumbling something about fetching Constapatrix's good helmet from back in the next town.

Personal logo Virtualscratchbuilder Supporting Member of TMP Fezian01 May 2008 6:04 p.m. PST

Turn to the guy next to me and say "lets go German. I hear them women across the Rhine are purty purty. Can you swim?"

Wyatt the Odd Fezian01 May 2008 6:30 p.m. PST

Pee in my pants and then poop myself.

And now you know why kilts were invented grin

Wyatt

Fifty401 May 2008 8:14 p.m. PST

With my luck, the legionary 57 BC equivalent of Joe Montana chucks a pilum all the way into the back row and safety-pins my shield to my chest!

Aloysius the Gaul01 May 2008 8:50 p.m. PST

Like all good rear-rand-warriors I cheer heartily as long as it's looking good….if I actually get to see a Roman then I'll be making like het rear rankers of the Imperial Guard attack columns at Waterloo…..

Hastati01 May 2008 11:42 p.m. PST

I'm practicing my Latin and start to wander back to camp to see how things are going there with the women.

myrm1101 May 2008 11:54 p.m. PST

I believe that ululation was the fashion of the day….

Sane Max02 May 2008 1:32 a.m. PST

Rhubarbatrix! Rhubabarbatrix! (How's it looking? can you see what's happening? Are we winning? Whoops Defecatobelinus is looking) RHUBARBATRIX! RHUBABRBATRIX! (No, I never liked Constapatrix either, why am I here? it looks bad doesn't it? ah, here we go) RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

Altius02 May 2008 6:27 a.m. PST

Pin a KICK ME sign on the back of the guy in front of me.

LEGION 195002 May 2008 6:59 a.m. PST

Learn to like pizza!!!!!!!!!!1

Caesar02 May 2008 7:36 a.m. PST

I'd be questioning my life decisions up until that point.

vtsaogames02 May 2008 7:51 a.m. PST

Keep shouting, "give it to 'em, boys!"

Keep an eye peeled for a covered way off the field. Should the Romans give way, move forward hollering even louder.

religon02 May 2008 9:08 a.m. PST

I'm going to find Asterix, my best chance to resist Roman oppression.

mashrewba02 May 2008 9:31 a.m. PST

I'm in the back of a Gallic warband!!111
I'm never touching acid again…

Prince Rupert of the Rhine02 May 2008 2:34 p.m. PST

Depends are we the sort of Guals that fight bollock naked because if so I'm standing well back from the rest of my buddies and probably with my back turned to them to. No pushing into a scrum of naked blokes for me. If we're clothed then I reckon I'll be one of those rare (as hens teeth) gualish archers and give the Romans a few arrows.

CooperSteveOnTheLaptop03 May 2008 1:27 p.m. PST

To quote BARD byb Morgan Llewellyn (Top novel on celts)#

"I'm not sure I can manage an erection to intimidate the enemy"

(The bloke who says this doesn't survive)

cameronian03 May 2008 4:06 p.m. PST

Shout "Roll a 6! Roll a 6!"

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