#Arminius varus full#

When Emperor Tiberius dispatched the Roman general Germanicus to the forest four years later, he learned that not only had all three legions and their auxiliaries been annihilated, but that the skulls of the fallen Roman soldiers had been nailed to the tree trunks throughout the forest to serve as a warning against future invasions. All that is really known for certain is that 30,000 Roman soldiers entered the woods and none returned. No written record survives of exactly what happened at the Battle in the Teutoberg Forest.

However, as the Roman Legions broke ranks and tried to make their way through the heavily wooded forest, Arminius and his men fell upon them in an ambush and totally kicked the living shit out of them, cutting them to pieces over the course of the three-day battle. Their goal was the conquest of the Eastern German tribes and the expansion of Roman rule across the Elbe river.

#Arminius varus full#

He set out on an expedition into the Teutoberg Forest in the Fall of 9 CE accompanied by three full Roman Legions: Legio XXVII, Legio XXVIII and Legio XXIX, as well as several Cohorts of Auxiliaries and support units. Meanwhile the governor of Germania, Roman general Plebius Quinctilius Varus, was about to launch a massive raid into the German lands in an effort to expand the Empire and bring glory to himself like the total cock that he was. The German tribes liked the idea of killing Roman bitches, so they decided to join up and stab some things with their axes and/or swords. He took a brief leave of absence from the military and traveled to Germany to try and unite the tribes there for a counterattack against the Roman aggressors. Well once Arminius realized that he was totally screwed over and was actually dealing with total dicks he busted out a plan to fuck Rome's shit up once and for all. When Arminius returned from his successful campaign in the Balkans, he found that the Roman governor Varus was making a great deal of progress for the Empire by beating up on Arminius' clansmen in Germanica. The son of the tribe's war chief, Arminius was shipped off to Rome at an early age to be trained as a military commander, obtaining the rank of Equestrian and eventually leading a Roman auxiliary military force in the Balkans from 4-6 CE. He was born in the year 16 BCE as part of the Germanic Cherusci tribe, located East of the Rhine River on the outskirts of the Empire. Arminius was a German tribal chief during the early part of the 1st Century CE, and is best known for being a total badass and giving the Roman Empire the beating of their lives.