>>18747845Probably depends on how mant bullets tbere actually are in somalia and whether the romans can keep their historical track record and convince the ones in somaliland to shoot the others for them.
Somalia wins and it's not even close. Rome can't even take advantage of Somali internal divisions because they're not strong enough to effect the balance of power therein.
>>18747845What is the word building here? Is the rest of the world also ancient, with the sole exception of 2026 Somalia which somehow teleported into the past?
>>18747845>can swords beat gunsNo.>b-but I hate niggerz!?1?1?1!!!!Ok? And?
>>18747855*world building
>>18747845Rome is so fucked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_Somali_Armed_Forces
>>18747845I don't know, you tell me
>>18747861>Somali Armed Forces: IISS estimated 19,000 in early 2026>Roman Army: In the time of Emperor Septimius Severus, the Roman army reached around 500,000 total individuals, with 33 legions (182,000 legionaries[16]) and more than 400 auxiliary units (around 250,000 auxiliaries[17] of which around 75,000 served as cavalry).
>>187478801 Somali commando armed to the teeth can run down middle and carve a path directly to the emperor himself
>>18747845The Romans can reverse engineer drones and guns
Would the Roman Empire win against 2026 Vatican City? The Swiss Guard do have pistols, rifles and submachine guns. Could they take down Rome?
>>18747899reverse engineer drones? lets be realistic now, they somehow get a hand of a somali baykatar they would have no concept of what it is
>>18747907The Pope alone could BTFO the Roman Empire with the Popemobile and one armed guard who drives it. All he has to do is drive over to the Forum and run over the Praetorian Guard with his impregnable car, then coup the Emperor. If some Roman soldier tries to start shit the Pope's guard can shoot him and this would scare other Romans shitless.
>>18747899Roman metallurgy wasnt advanced enough for guns even if they understood the chemical/mechanical properties of how it worked.
Rome. Somalia as a distinct nation would dissolve in a couple centuries, there's always going to be some greek/german/italian/turk calling himself "roman"
1 fucking trainer jet would body an entire roman legion
>>18747880On the other hand, this is my BOOM stick!
>>18747891Nah. They're not American commandos. It comes down to this. How much ammo do they have. Same with that WW2 Europe vs 2026 Africa. Europe can win but they have to get past the high tech stuff that Egypt has first. However, If they can take out planes before too much damage is done then they have a chance. Remember Egypt can't rebuild shit, Europe could.
>>18747845Somalia wins easily but they're gonna keep fighting each other for the control of the empire until they run out of fuel/bullets and get subjugated by some other group who proclaim themselves the new romans
>>18747990Does moral just not exist in this scenario, I think the legionaries would refuse to resist after watching a few thousand of their cohorts drop dead within a few seconds. Ammo doesn’t matter, but the somalis probably have more than 500,000 bullets.
>>18747845Yes, somali ******* shot into the air while romans bring ballistas. After the first battle they reverse engineer an ak-47 and you have romans with guns
Just a reminder that whenever someone here says "reverse engineer", they mostly just mean carving guns, drones, and cars out of wood a la pacific island cargo cults
assuming rome can some how get to somalia>pay some large sum of gold to some warlord>make them fight other warlords for you>when they are weak kill them and get their guns
>>18748033Why do you believe them to be so smart? No they unironically believe Romans can create this one day after they see a Somali using one
>>18747845Rome has a numbers advantage but that’s it. Otherwise they’re getting slaughtered by Al-Shabaab alone
>>18748038You're the one who believes Romans cannot reverse engineer it, explain yourself
>>18747990>Egypt
>>18748033>>18748038I thought people were memeing but lmao many actually genuinely believe it
>>18748042If it was so easy to reverse engineer every country on Earth would be making them at home. Anyway take a look at this>"Glass is believed to have been first shaped into mold-formed vessels in ancient Phoenicia around the 4th millennium BCE. The earliest Egyptian glass vases date to around 1500 BCE. Glassblowing was invented in the Syro-Palestinian region during the early first century BCE, and is thought to have come to the Roman world on their annexation of that region in 64 BCE. Large numbers of glass objects are not evident in central Italy until the beginning of the first century CE. The Roman glass industry arose and reached full maturity within a couple of generations during the first century CE."Why did it take multiple generations for them to adopt foreign glass making technology? This is just molten sand, now imagine a fucking tank
>>18748037Guns arent the only thing Romans would have to worry about
>>18748056They can use other materials. They can also reverse engineer AI
>>18748056Women got drafted to build tanks and planes in ww2, musnt be that hard
>>18747845Confederate States of America (Dixieland)
>>18748061What other materials can compare to the modern stuff? And you're missing the point if glass making technology took that long to adopt then they have no chance at all.>They can also reverse engineer AIAnd now you're blatantly trolling. A rich Somali kid with a modern GPU will outdo anything they can come up with
>>18748061>>18748042If you don’t have schematics or instructions on how to make something than it’s going to be far harder to reverse engineer it. Most “reverse engineering” in history involves people hiring experts or copying blueprints.
>>18748062Yes technology that they knew how to build using factories that already existed. Rome has no ability to replicate anything here, the manpower is the least of their worries.
>>18748070If a woman can do it, so can a roman
>>18748078Women were just extra hands following instructions in an assembly line, they didn't reverse engineer shit.>>18747880Romans can't even take on Mogadishu alone even without the Somali military. They'd be ramming the legionaires with their cars. Also population wise they are 4 million while Rome (the city) was just 1 million
>rome actualy has food>africans donthmmm, without aid from charities africans would starve, a few infiltrators shitting in somalians crops and water sources finishes the job.
>>18748084>Somalia takes over Roman crop fields and starts consuming the yummy Romans themselvesez win for Somalia
>>18748088that implies the prefrontal ability to cross this
>>18748103Somalis arrive by boat every single day onto the shores of Europe. Those are the poorest ones and the hungriest too. Imagine all those plump white boys in sandals with huge juicy butts ready to be turned into steak
>>18748084Around half of Somalis are pastoral retard, sabotaging their sustenance enough to cause a crippling nationwide famine would require killing tens of thousands of AK wielding pastoral tribesman and seizing or killing their animals. Only the South could be affected seriously by crop raids and that's assuming the Romans don't get tracked and ambushed to death along the way by an enemy they can't even fathom.
>>18748109i shit inside your water source, you fall over and die from diseases, thats all there is to it
