How many Roman soldiers would die trying to take down a single BTR-80?

[Finder]

The BTR-80 is an armed troop transport, with not a whole lot of weaponry to its name.

If you transported one back to Roman times, how many soldiers would they have to sacrifice to stop this not particularly impressive military vehicle? Would they have *any* weapons that could be effective against it?

We're ignoring the diesel fuel the BTR needs, of course it will run out sooner than later.

 

[MadStan]

They'd dig a big ditch. Give them some credit.

End of story.

 

[Distant Ranger]

A million Romans followed by two Crazy Krauts

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

They'd dig a big ditch. Give them some credit.

End of story.

And then bury it.

Though dousing it good with greek fire might accidentally immobilize the thing; by stalling the motor and igniting the tires. I expect the Romans would quickly find a way to make a BTR burn.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

Anyone in the BTR has to come out sooner or later. Once they're out, they're meat for the Roman grinder.

 

[MadStan]

And of course, then there is the favorite roman receipt for sinners - they simply dump tons of oil on it and literally cook the thing and it's occupants to death.

And they did this enough to be rather good at it, sadly.

 

[Penis Drager]

Roman times

Nigga, that's a 500 year window we're talking about. What time period? And are they in a fortified position? Do they have war engines like catapults or ballistas on hand?

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

Did the Romans ever break open dams upriver of armies like the Chinese would?

 

[Penis Drager]

Did the Romans ever break open dams upriver of armies like the Chinese would?

Nah, building giant walls around enemy cities to starve them out was more their speed.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

They would often reroute rivers and dam springs to deprive a besieged population of water.

 

[MrTroll]

None, the Roman soldiers would entice the tank crew to come out for anal sex and wine. Who could turn down a good butt-fucking and a goblet of wine from real, actual Romans? Not me, that's for sure.

 

[Kaede Did Nothing Wrong]

a vehicle that gets 1 mile per gallon won't do much of anything during classical antiquity

 

[millais]

I think you might need 3-4 full grown Roman war elephants to charge and flip the BTR, and a centuria of infantry to draw fire while the elephants get into position.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

It would only take 2 soldiers with an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter that was also inexplicably transported back in time, the soldiers are somehow trained in its operation. This is just as likely as a hostile BTR appearing out of nowhere so I don't think it's an outlandish answer.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

None, the Roman soldiers would entice the tank crew to come out for anal sex and wine. Who could turn down a good butt-fucking and a goblet of wine from real, actual Romans? Not me, that's for sure.

so you admit to being a little bitch
nothing worse in roman society than being the bottom.

 

[David Brown]

Nigga, that's a 500 year window we're talking about. What time period? And are they in a fortified position? Do they have war engines like catapults or ballistas on hand?

It's the Roman military at its strongest and best form, and with all the best technology it had available until, let's say, 100 AD. I'm not OP obviously but I think that will make for the most interesting theorizing.

 

[MrTroll]

so you admit to being a little bitch
nothing worse in roman society than being the bottom.

As the Beatles once sang, in the end all the love you take is equal to the love you make. I'm pretty sure they were talking about the importance of being a bottom and not just selfishly demanding to be a top all the time.

 

[mikaylatoads]

Marcus would think of something

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

And of course, then there is the favorite roman receipt for sinners - they simply dump tons of oil on it and literally cook the thing and it's occupants to death.

You literally repeated exactly what I said, but with different words. Think much for yourself, lately?

And they did this enough to be rather good at it, sadly.

"Sadly"??

lol, what a fag.

 

[OctopodaEnjoyer]

It might take them awhile to figure out what exactly they have to do, but if they can get some flammable liquid onto it that's a good first step.

Even today the Molotov is a relatively functional extremely cheap way to kill an armored vehicle; they all have inlets and seams somewhere.