279 B.C. LEGO Battle of Asculum, Greek Pyrrhic Victory over Rome
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- In 279 B.C. near present-day Ascoli Satriano, in Apulia, Southern Italy, King Pyrrhus of Epirus met the Romans a second time at the battle of Asculum.
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After narrowly defeating the Romans a first time in 280 B.C. at the Battle of Heraclea, • 280 B.C. Lego Battle o... , Pyrrhus spent the winter of 280-279 trying to settle with Rome and achieve an honorable peace between Rome and himself, and also the Greek cities of Italy who had summoned Pyrrhus to Italy to fight for them. The Roman senate was about to vote on terms of peace with Pyrrhus when blind old Appius Claudius spoke to them (according to Plutarch):
"Do not suppose that ye will rid yourself of this fellow by making him your friend; nay, ye will bring against you others, and they will despise you as men whom anybody can easily subdue, if Pyrrhus goes away without having been punished for his insults, but actually rewarded for them in having enabled Tarentines and Samnites to mock at Romans."
After Appius said this, the Roman senators changed their minds about peace, and told Pyrrhus he must first depart out of Italy, and then, if he wanted, the Romans would talk to him about peace; but as long as he was in Italy with an army, the Romans would fight him.
And so, closer to Rome than the first battle of Heraclea, the armies met near Asculum in 279. There was a first day of battle where the Greek elephants and phalanx could not deploy because of the wooded terrain and high points that the Romans fled to. But on a second day of battle, Pyrrhus occupied the high and wooded ground at dawn before any fighting began, forcing the Romans to fight him on a level plain. There, the two lines of infantry collided, and fought an indecisive battle for hours, until Pyrrhus unleashed his elephants from reserve. The war elephants broke the Roman lines and the Romans retreated, losing more than twice as many men as Pyrrhus.
Nevertheless, after the battle a legendary exchange took place between Pyrrhus and one of his officers. The officer congratulated Pyrrhus on the day's victory. Pyrrhus replied "If we should win one more battle against the Romans we shall be utterly ruined." Any victory gained at too great a cost may now be called a "Pyrrhic Victory."
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This guys had a pretty dam good army for that time.
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Yeah I can’t even make that smooth today
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Yeah better army than medieval
@@SloMagicANTIlgbt that’s not true, common misconception, the army’s of medieval Europe were as efficient as the ancient army’s, take a look at the Holy Roman Empire ( Germany ) for instance, or the Teutonic order, they had professionally trained soldiers, and especially in the later medieval period the German Landzknechts were basically the same as the Greek pike men, but with better armor, a medieval army could win a battle against Greek army’s just because of the fact that their weapons and armor were more efficient.
Everyone complaining about the legitimacy of this video are insane.
It's a stop go Lego animation video, and it was hard af to make. It's incredibly amazing to see, thank you so much.
Kirito Kunt *stop motion but this minor error does not reverse the adequacy of the comment
Vice TOLUCT bruh are you dumb
Stop in Christ's name
I STRONGLY agree.
Were talking bout epiruss here boisss
If this was a 2 hour movie, I still could not get enough. Well done.
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are you trolling brick dictator. to make a smooth stop motion, u most have 10 fps (frame per second), then 2 hours shall be 72000 photos. think of how long will it take to make...
Stopmotion dictator this was likely 15-24 FPS but I see your point.
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I love how that one Greek soldier keeps smiling after being stabbed in the eye
When you are happy to not see ur annoying child anymore:
Perfect example of why elephants are banned in most RTW Multiplayer games.
Yep yep not even op Spartan can stop em
Angels& Demons Ugh, Spartans are worse. Unlike Elephants, they usually form the bulk of one's army and are seldom banned from multiplayer games. Spartan boxes in the hands of a good player = OP.
+The Thinker that's why I go armored hoplites when doing it to even the field
Dou you know what I call op an army which is made up of mostly armoured legionaries
Spartan spam+noob box=OP
1:01 "I'm dying but I enjoy it !"
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Really wonderful. I wish I had as many warrior minifigs... By the way, glad you included the peltasts and slingers, and fancy hats on the Greek cavalry
I don't know how this Guy store his Lego collection... In a pyramide or ..
Even 10 years later, this video is still amazing. Truly one a classic
Very nicely made.
Technically, Romans didn't wear a lorica segmentata until about 300 years later, but I won't blame you for picking their most iconic armor. Also at this point in time every roman soldier provided their own armor so it would've been difficult to recreate.
I think it's also hard to get roman looking figures at all
Neither did they wear a Gallic helmet
also the greek were all using bronze cuirass no linothoarxes in sight and all are Corinthian helmets and the roman where probably used a scutum a gladius lorica hamata and plum as well a montefortino helmet
I am fine with being ruled by a dictator, if you are the dictator.
I think you won't be happy being ruled by a dictator, but I DO know you like to SEE lego people being RULED by a dictator
He would make us dress up as Lego figures to reenact the battles in his videos.
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How many minifigs did you destroy in that film???
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Brick Dictator Сколько человечков у тебя было всего.
What, i thought like at least 20....then, how many swords, spears, arrows did you destroy in the film ? (including being cut or painted red paint on it)
Ikr
Brick Dictator that really smart, did you make it so that you switched them out?
I swear, there needs to be a movie about you guys called "Rated-R Lego".
Lol.
Very impressive, mate. I congratulate you.
Xissor thanks
Brick Dictator hey where did u get all these minifigs especially the spartans
Brick dictator you are awesome for taking the time doing all of this for us to enjoy! I hope this takes you to further heights and can make good money at it. Good job!
You are by far the best battle stop motion LEGO animator of all time and I would like to respectfully lobby you to please do the Siege of Vienna 1683 in the way that only The Brick Dictator can do!!! (I would also love to see your take on Pile and Shotte in LEGO!!!)
This is the best LEGO war stop motion ever! The elephants make it SO much better too! Great job!
I know this was made 7 years ago but, for historical purposes imma state it out. During 279 AD, the roman army didn't have the short sword; Gladius, instead they had spears, basically hoplites.
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I agree kst did you watch a new cartoon about Rome that came out 3 years ago? Rome vs. Lego Warvores
@@Noobs841 no but i'll watch it
@@Yoo-Kang Look it did Russian but the animation is beautiful
@@Noobs841 haha it's wonderful
Thank you very much for your exhaustive labor in creating all these historical recreations, Brick Dictator! It's both instructive and very enjoyable!
PS: Congratulations on this particular video about the battle of Asculum! And Thank you!
Here i am again 8 years later and its beautiful
10 year old me at Best Buy - “Mom can I get Rome: Total War?”
Mom - “You have Total War at home”
Total War at home
This is epic though
Magnificent battle, for all history lovers young and old.
He should do another stop motion with those greek minifigs, with the Macedonian style phalanx
1:02 i love how that guy gets stabbed in the face but is still smiling lol
Bro, this is so nostalgic
This is so goddamn awesome.
Bravo sir!
Caesar Himself if you are Caesar then why do you like this video even do the Romans lost
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This is an amazing video. One of the best stop motions i have ever seen
the nostalgy hits like a truck
Bro- imagine being this lucky- I would never be bored if I had these
This reminds me too much of Minas Tirith. :'D
I love to see an army of Soilders with shields
Marching into battle
My friend in school argued with me that spears aren’t big and seeing those spears made me think of that
"Spears aren't big." Good argument
Awesome seeing slingers among the light infantry. Would have been cool seeing them in action though!
haha I can see the 'Rome: Total War' in this video! It was perfect! :D
Great job again! Battles are really your thing! :)
Warning!!No real legos were harmed during the filming!
Roman Reigns but before filming we cut the hell out of them
lol
Lol one guy on the elephant looked like a caveman. 😂
Thank you for making these videos! They’re great inspiration for me. Keep up the amazing work!
Wow
My mother just called me and i paused the video, but when i came back i noticed that the time i paused it was the thumbnail.
It's just so nice to see intense and awesome battles in the weekends and plus I like EVERY SINGLE BATTLE
Swing the soulless happy smiles of Lego people getting stabbed in the eye with a gladius isn't something I thought I was gonna see
another great video dude
Pyrrhus of Epirus win/won because they have archers,spear men's,and the defensive ones and non-defensive
And also horsemen
Rafi athia Prasetyo The Romans also had cavalry but they DID manage to inflict a large number of casualties upon Pyrrhus' troops despite being unused to fighting war elephants.
***** Yeah but they simply favored melee combat, due to being experts at it.
Keep up the good work also please do battle of marathon or Rome vs Carthage plz
I like how it’s intense combat and someone is just fucking around with bricks in the back 😂
This would be awesome if it would be a loooong movie.
I could see the whole story of it together with the smooth animations made with a lot of hardworking!
I am a animator too and i understand that even if this video was short but i can see the incredible details
the animator has put into the short Brickfilm
Great Animation I say!
Please do the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields please? Flavius Aetius VS Attila the Hun.
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Could you show us a collection of all of your ancient/medieval minifigures?
Great work! I love how you tie in the history with the LEGO stop-motion.
Thank you for another amazing recreation brick dictator!
Just a correction the Romans always advanced in tight formiation and they'd throw their pilas (long spear) before drawing the gladius (short stabbing sword)
Noah Alexander what if they were at a job interview?
Brick Dictator They'd throw pilas only if they didn't get the job. Btw Roman army looked different at that time. Still your movies are awesome!
Brick Dictator just a suggestion and are you being funny or sarcastic?
All of the hundreds and hundreds of $$ spent on all these custom accessories and decals! :o
The cool first Lego 4k stopmotion
Wow 10 years ago…. That’s a long time!
For about 6 years, I've wanted to amass some sort of massive medieval/Bronze Age Lego army. I check your channel every day to see if you've released another epic and inspiring battle using oodles of minifigures, I would really like to know a few tips on how to buy in bulk or how to save money when building a Lego army. My progress has been going SO slow, since, obviously with lego's no violence policy (yet they have Star Wars and had Lord of the Rings) there's no legitimately easy way to get minifigures of such an era. Please, I need your help.
P.S.
I'm Canadian, so eBay might be a little tough for me to get figs from.
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I do hope you know Brickmania only sells more modern military kits and minifigures.
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Despite the namesake victory of King Pyrrhus, you must admit his victory against the Romans was well earned
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Very realistic for a lego battle. Very entertaining
I felt like the Greeks had the Monster energy drink symbol on their shields lol.
What girls see: ahh what cute little things
What boys see:
Of course the war elephants has to come and ruin the fun
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Ele op pls nerf
I wonder where he got the elephants from, they're not on ebay, not on amazon, where are they?
holy fuck this is amazing makes me wanna buy a shit ton of legos and make my own movie and fail at it bravo brick dictator
Elephants were quite litterally the tanks of antiquity 😂😂😂
This video reminds me about total war
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You wish!
Uniforms are not really historical...
But that's awesome, I can't imagine how it could be long to work on that kind of project
Same with the roman fighting they didn't attack the perish in front well they were train to block the person in front then stab the person be side the person the are blocking
That pike phalanx looked awsome
Brick Dictator?, more like Brick Director. Well done, my dude
Very impressive video, but there's some issues like Roman Legion was a Polybian Legion. Romans did have Velites as Skirmishers. Those are just nitchpicking, but I like the video came out.
+Republic Empire Very true
Republic_Empire in my opinion, its merely for entertainment. a lot of effort goes into these videos, and I personally know that , nitpicking is a part of the true nature of a historian but please, sometimes you have to gauge as to whether it is necessary
No one gives a shit it’s LEGO
Romans still won in the long run.
+Crazy FBI
yep. look at the pope
Just because of sheer numbers
the romans were outnumbering the greeks but they were still owning them
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just so you know greeks were seperated and fighting at the time
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This was the first Video of Brictator that I watched from him.
Can we appreciate that he had to destroy his legos to make this video
The Romans aren't very historically accurate but still good video
Yeah
What should he do? Its Lego there are only Post marian armor romans
S.P.Q.R Roma invicta
But I don't think those are official Lego Romans.
S.P.Q.R Roma invicta he could make his own
Yeah but it's still really good animation
Instead of piercing your lego. Give it to me
NO! I want some too pls
You are too good if there was a jaw dropped emoji I would use it the video is AMAZING
this is really cool i like all of your vids man there great
Long live the Roman empire
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Why do you broke lego?
Looks like some people in comments cant read description-"why spartans lose battle", "there was no elephants in battle of heraclea" etc.
one of the most fantastic videos :O
Im making a Macedonian army. Is black armor good or should I use the traditional bronze/yellow armor and shields?
black is fine.. howvever i reccomend u to put on historical armor to be accurate
my mom named me after leonidas of sparta for my middle name
Alexander Shinkle I named Leonidas of Sparta after breakfast
ha funny bro
Leonidas means "Lion".
duh man everyone should know that
Riley The Flaming Wookie Cookie No,it doesn't
now this is what youtube is about
tfw a Lego video teaches you more than your history teacher did
I know, right?
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+Brick Dictator Are you working on a vid right now? its been 8 months! WOULD BE AWESOMEE :DDDDDDDDDDD ~thanks!
PLease reply!
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Its periphic victory not phyrric...
the Greeks didn't beat diabetes
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It's a Phyrric victory. Named after Phyrrus of Epirus. It's a historical term meaning: We've won the battle, but at what cost? Many have paid the ultimate price.
The arrows going through metal/steel roman armor:
This is my favorite of your videos
So many uneducated Lego historiansssss :O
RussianFluff says a russian whit his propaganda history books
Anton Snellman im not really russian xD
I am
All the swords sound like spoons and forks.
You got to do the battle of Thermopylae
Getting major Rome 2 Total War vibes
Awesome pal, enjoy a wonderful weekend. :)
Should've named the channel *the Bricktator*
The leader of the good guys is pretty badass
This is so good keep up the good work 👍🏿
Great, just great!
You never fail to impress.
The ONLY thing I don't like is that Romans would NEVER do that against spearmen, they would have made a turtle [ shields on top, front, sides ] and let the enemy come to them, the Roman sword was made for horseback, not front-on assault. But besides that this was a AMAZING stop motion.
The Roman "Turtle" (Testudo) formation was used in siege scenarios or scenarios in which called for secure protection from projectile attack. What the Roman army at this period, would most likely have done was use it's auxilia to entice it out of position, using horse skirmishers and then come in by flanking, or use auxilias to charge in to cut openings for the legionaries. The sword you speak of is the spatha, a cavalry sword. The primary sword used by legionaries was the gladius.
Bob Marley Ah, sorry I was wrong, but still they wouldn't have charged against spearmen like that without real support. And yes that was the sword I was talking about.
You know nothing about the design of the roman swords, and how they were used with their shields with great success.
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***** Yeah, Roman tactics where designed to protect men not just throw them carelessly into battle
That was awesome Brick Dictator. I could see this all day!
War elephants + shields and spears = op
Oh my goodness, I never knew lego had Roman and Greek sets!
Where did you get them!
This is so much fun. Great job.
Cool man keep it up you are a big inspiration of mine!