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00:00 Persian Immortals
02:17 Varangian Guard
04:13 Mamluks
06:22 Praetorian Guard
07:54 Eagle Warriors
09:18 Jaguar Warriors
09:53 Berserkers
11:26 Order of Assasins
13:00 End
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Hey, thanks for watching!
I have an extensive list of other interesting military units, orders, or groups (excluding modern ones) that I'd like to cover in future videos. Let me know if you'd like me to go more in-depth and provide more details (extending the video duration) or keep it more bite-sized, like in this one.
A mix of both seems awesome. Personally, I love long-form videos, but I know that this rarely works for creators, due to algorithm, monetization, and similar stuff.
If it needs to be shorter, maybe just split long-form videos? As in: making one video on the history of the unit, one on the social role, one on the tactics and equipment, and finally one on the miscellaneous stuff.
Add the Alemannic Guard to the list
Can you please do some vids on these groups going against each other for example a Spartan soldier vs varangian guard ? Given what we know about their training,armour,weapons and perhaps different weather and terrain may effect the outcome ? I've been trying to find such interesting videos but to no avail 😕
Hah. None of these guys would want to face Canadians.
Look up our record of trench raiding in WW1.
The Praetorian Guard were especially deadly to Roman Emperors.
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Berserkers wore bear skins exclusively (ber serk = bear coat), the ones wearing wolf skins were called ulfhednar or wolf hoods in English
they also regenerated health
Hmm nice to learn a thing or two
@@daarom3472I am pretty sure all humans can do that with enough time depending on the injury
@@Whiskers4169 with a right build, you can be dps and tanking your team.
yes, and then there was the 3rd and often forgotten jofurr. the wild boars in English. who naturally wore the pelts of boar
As a persian I'm honored that emperor created custodes based on immortals
To be fair when people say Space Marines were only inspired by Crusaders is highly untrue.
A fellow Persian w40 fan
Such a rare sight
@@samialivand1511 به به قربون داش گلم
@axo4383 As a whole, sure, but Black Templars much?
As a fellow Persian wh40 fan thank you
We are making it out of the middle ages with this one 🔥🔥🔥
we need janissary and knight templar
Templars can be found in the first vid of his (that I watched a couple days ago, hence my fresh memory). A two-parter describing Christian Orders.
No turks pls, thx
turks are weak lol
Why not @@skibidi.G
@@skibidi.G janissarys not turks, most likely Serbian and Bulgarian noble's second sons.
Hey, I do posts on Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya etc) history and archeology, and work with other channels on the topic: I wanted to clarify and provide some corrections on the Aztec ranks/titles mentioned here with the Eagle and Jaguar warriors: I hope I don't come off as too critical, I know it's tough to find good info on Mesoamerica, but still, I hope you and viewers find it informative! Firstly, one needs to be mindful that it's not entirely clear how much these existed as distinct ranks/titles: A lot of sources on Aztec warfare state that there were Eagle and Jaguar "orders", like specific military guilds you entered with their own distinct command structure from conventional ranks. However, there's some skepticism if this is actually the case:
If they WERE distinct orders, then they would have been only 2 of 4, with the Otontin/Otomi and Cuachicqueh/Cuachic orders being even more elite and prestigious, contrary to what you say about them being the highest ranking. And indeed, there would have been warrior-priest and general/commander titles/ranks with more authority as well, most likely. And if they weren't orders, then not only would Jaguar and Eagle warriors overtly be below some of those other titles/ranks in the same hierarchy, but they may not have even been distinct ranks (also, the speed vs power thing at 9:30 isn't right, I don't think).
We know that soldiers could advance through the ranks or be granted unique military titles or offices via acts of bravery, capturing enemy soldiers (both of which you say in the video, though note not all captives would have become slaves: Some were sacrificed, some ended up regaining their freedom, etc), but it's quite like that multiple warsuit designs were available to soldiers of the same rank/title, contrary to many sources looking at the Codex Mendoza's sample rank advancement pages: Those likely only show one hypothetical set of equipment per rank tier, and likely only shows one potential pathway up the ranks, since the Mendoza also shows other potential rank paths (like for Warrior priests) and the tax/tribute section shows, say, Cuextecatl patterned warsuit designs (which the advancement page shows being worn by two captive soldiers) sometimes with very elite jewelry and regalia which would have likely only been available to even higher ranking soldiers, suggesting a three, four, etc rank soldier might wear the pattern as well.
On that note, the actual design of armor, equipment, etc as shown in the video is often quite off. Actual Aztec soldiers (keep in mind "Aztec" can refer to a variety of different cultural and political groups, but here, you and I both mostly mean the Mexica of Tenochtitlan) would have been mostly unarmored for junior soldiers who had not yet taken captives, with perhaps them and 1 captive soldiers likely wearing Icahuipilli gambeson vests or tunics, made from cotton (Cotton was normally only available to nobles: I don't think it's likely all commoner soldiers were barred from wearing Icahuipilli, though: Maybe they really were, or maybe military operations were an exception, or maybe they made do with lesser kinds made from maguey fiber), and then higher ranking soldiers had additional warsuits (Tlahuiztli, technically the term meant the entire warrior getup together, though) or skirted tunics (Ehuatl) made from thick cloth and then feather mosaic on the outside, worn over the Ichcahuipilli, with the feathers arranged to make different designs and colors to indicate rank and unit division (allegedly, commoners in the Jaguar order or with Jaguar warsuits made do with lesser kinds made from actual Jaguar pelt rather then cloth/feather mosaic).
You actually mostly describe this correctly at 8:28 one or two things aside, but the image used, a art piece by I believe Jesus Helguera, isn't depicting the actual armor and equipment you're describing (rather, it's showing a mix of Aztec royal/ceremonial dress, but with some incorrect details like a made up tilamtli cloak design also worn the wrong way; with a Mixtec ceremonial Eagle helmet). The art of Eagle and Jaguar warriors seen at the top right at 7:58 and 9:21, the images at 8:51 and 9:07, etc are also mostly made up/inaccurate, as is the warrior with the bow at 8:50, and the famous Classical painting at 9:00 is also inaccurate... so what did Eagle, Jaguar, and other Aztec warriors actually look like? Well, the Eagle warrior at 9:21 on the bottom left actually looks pretty good! The jaguar warrior on the bottom right at the same time isn't *as* good, but it's decent too.
What about weapons? Well, as you say at 8:47, Macuahuitl and Tepoztopilli were used frequently, though Macuahuitl are closer to swords then to clubs (see below), and while bows&arrows WERE used at times, the Aztec generally preferred Atlatl (as seen at 9:21 wielded by the Eagle warrior) as their ranged weapon of choice: The Atlatl was seen as a refined weapon representing civilized warfare and royal power, wheras bows were associated with "barbarian" nomads from Northern mexico or as a simple hunting tool. That's not to say they never used it in war, they did at times, as with slings, but it wasn't their go to ranged weapon. We also have a variety of clubs, maces (both more clearly blunt smashing weapons, in contrast to the Macuahuitl being sword like), axes, other polearms, etc seen in manuscripts; but they are less frequently depicted, at least for the Aztec specifically.
Lastly, keep in mind Cortes and his Conquistadors did not conquer the Aztec singlehandedly: the city-states and kingdoms of Tlaxcala, Texcoco, Huextozinco, Chalco, Itzapalapan, Xochimilco, etc all provided armies: In fact, the Conquistadors were likely less then 1% of the offensive force during the Siege of Tenochtitlan! Local kings/officials like Ixtlixochtli II, Xicotencatl II, etc were also often manipulating Cortes to their own political ends, it was as much them calling the shots as him, at least at specific portions of the Conquest. The fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521 also didn't mark the total subjugation of the Aztec Empire: Many former Aztec subject states had to then be conquered by Spanish, Tlaxcalteca, and now Aztec forces working together, as well as other parts of Mesoamerica which had states and empires never under Aztec control to begin with.
There's more I can say, but that clarifies on the basics of what you covered. Hope you found it interesting, and again, apologies if it comes off as rude or anything, not my intention! If you ever cover Mesoamerican stuff again, feel free to reach out and if I have time i'd be open to providing some information and accurate images.
I think of my videos as a 'gateway' for people to explore the given topics on their own so I really appreciate people like you providing more context. 👏
@@TheBasedPlato Happy to help, and yeah, I get that this is way more info you can feasibly include! I do think you should try to stick to more accurate images, though. Would you be interested in me sending an email that way if you cover Mesoamerica in future videos, you could contact me and I could proofread stuff, send you images, etc?
Ima check you out man! Ty for the knowledge
Super insightful! Love it.
Damm chill out
I think videos about military history are sponsored by the authors of Total War and Age of Empire, because after watching such videos I always go to play these games
These empire/war stuff are really cool stuff
Wow, that's a solid first video to see of your channel. Really good, well explained and displayed, with no wasted time. A lean and mean vid. Subscribed and can't wait to watch more.
What about the winged husars?
Thanks for sharing this video. 😁 I would love to see more videos like this in a video playlist. So its easy to find. This "units of history" series is great. And i really hope to see more.
Fantastic video! Love the history, love the humor. Gotta say, your two Crusader Military Order videos are superbly inspiring for D&D games to use as examples to build fantasy military orders, in-game. Thanks for doing these superb videos! Cheers!
Another banger to savour! 😊
Please do episode two, I enjoyed this type of videos :)
So that last one inspired Ubisoft into creating Assassin's Creed?
Yup
Another thing being ubisoft don't know what templars are.
Great video, Sir.!!!!!!
you added the AmonAmarth Album Cover from "Berserker" love the theme, love the album and i like this informative Video
Thank you for your video. U just gained a sub!
Thank you for using the accurate pictures of persians.
2:59 On the left is a Mordhau custom loadout. Its nice that the game allows for extreme detailing so you can make other pieces of media using the game.
Great video! One cool detail to mention about the Mamluks is that they were one of the few forces out there to defeat the Mongols head to head and do so several times for that matter. They're the reason why the Mongol Empire never made it to Africa.
It is interesting that see two different kinds of Persian Troops (Assassins and immortals) in one clip.
Exactly magnificent
Order of Assassins were from Bagdad, Iraq
@@RomanArabicus they were in saljuk empire and they speaked persian u are on to nothing lol
@@rtmf4337 hey guess what I am of iraqi descended, my father is iraqi and egyptian, he told me stories that was told to him by his grandfather and his grandfather told him etc so on, they were from Bagdad I know my history i might've been born in italy but I know my iraqi history, I'm a history fanatic anyways I love history so if I know what I'm talking about it then I do
@@RomanArabicus iam sorry to tell u u dont know shit hasan ibn sabah speaked persian
and knew arabic too and so many of hashashin were persians who hate saljuk
you started talking about the subject of the video in the very first second so you get a like in the very first second 👍 great video as well
Man i wish all of these units remained longer in history
What not many people know is that the praetorians predate the empire, they originated during the republic as soldiers who were handpicked to serve as bodyguards for Roman generals. Scipio Aemilianus had such bodyguards in the 2nd Century B.C. During the late republic both Octavian and Mark Anthony had praetorian guards.
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Berserkers were so named as they were elite retainers of the Jarl, who wore Bear Shirts, bear skin jackets or the like, which were a mark of their status. They were not particularly prone to rage fighting any more that any other Norseman. As for armour, why wear it when you have the protection of a well tanned bear skin, which, I would imagine, was more protective as any normal leather jerkin
Interesting 🤔
What about the idea that they would take schrooms before a fight to basically become demons and fight without worry towards pain and suffering?
Hey, headhunter asia next, please
nice Video, one thing more for the Mamluks, they stopped the Mongols from conquering egypt and more thinks in the south
just parry bro
Harald Hardråde (Harald Hardrule) was a cruel man, named by the byzantiums as the bulgarburner when he was varangian guard
ruling in norway, he burned down hedemark, hadeland and to be extra sure the norwegians caught on, he went down to ringerike and burned all the houses and killed everyone there aswell, this man was a fan of burning people alive, he ruled with an ironfist for 16 years, which gave him his name
then the king of england died, Harald wanted that throne, so went on viking to england, murdering and burning englishmen left and right until the battle of Stamford bridge in 1066
He purposely landed in Yorkshire as he thought the Anglo-danish people of northern England would rise up and join him. Don't know how many Yorkshire folk did actually join him but he did capture York (jorvik)
Okay... he sounds like a Dick...
I was told that the Beserkers were using schrooms to get high, and then would attack like they were demons, since pain wasnt a big deal.
berserkers with wolf theme are called ulfserker :)
On the other hand, their only weapons were not swords, bows and spears, but not only were there special horses for them, but they also had chariots and other special things.
Funniest thing is
I'll remember this entire video
but I don't remember hardly anything from school
The praetorian guard weren’t there to fight battles, and you could pay your way into the guard, so idk that they count.
The Mongols where awesome at mounted warfare.
The idea behind immortals is a pretty good mind game, imagine fighting tooth and nail to destroy the immortal army, just to see them all come back to the field the very next day.
And the Golden Hordes Mounted Mongol archers and the Turkish mounted archers and the Egyptian chariot archers. And the Spartan Hopolites.
I recommend putting the winged hussars in the next video
Definetely will include hussars!
The berserker cut down Anglo-Saxon Warriors. They weren’t English yet.
It was the Kingdom of England they fought against but yeah, they were Anglo-Saxons.
That is very pedantic. They called their home Angleland so they kind of were English. The name England (Angleland) came before the Norman conquest. It is likely the Angles were far more numerous than the Saxons or Jutes, hence why the country took their name and it is not called Saxonland today. Anglo-Saxon is a modern term used to help us describe the mix of people living there at the time but they never called themselves Anglo-Saxon.
@@richbob9155that's correct. The Angles were the most numerous and they had the most land. The Anglish kingdom of Northumbria alone was the largest kingdom in Britain
"We'll put their name to the test!"
Nope they didn't. the greeks were lost without doing any damage to persia.
part 3 needs to have the shoguns
Next video profesional units from history
Since you've done two Norse warrior types, you should include the Jormsvikings
Got my eyes on them :D
No Anglo-Saxon Housecarls
You forgot about the Qin archers of the Qin Empire.
Qin crossbow so very advanced and nearly same level of machine gun 😱
Shih huang ti army..
If you're talking archers, you have to mention longbow men
I would say, Janissaries and the Knights Hospitaler.
Everyone forgets about Spartans… 😔
06:50 Lorica Segmentata isn't chained mail.
I said, Lorica Segmentata OR chainmail (i.e Lorica Hamata).
You forgot the infamous Almoghovars, the most Elite of the light troops
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What about Cossack Kharakternyk ?
Well, Spain had the tercios, who destroy both eagle and jaguar warriors
Good video overall. But there is one interesting detail that you missed when talking about the Viking beserkers. You mentioned that they often appeared to be in a trance like state in battle and the reason for that is because just before a fight, it was common practice for them to take psychedelic drugs. I also think you could have talked about the Gurkhas here too. Even though they still exist today, they've often had a fearsome reputation as some of the greatest warriors in the world throughout much of history. But like I said, it is a very good video 👍
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! I haven't found evidence of them getting drugged (although I might not have researched enough), so it felt safer to omit that detail.
Finding any sort of historical accuracy on berserkers is very difficult.
What about the winged husars? Edited: My bad - Hussars are in the part 2.
Got them in part 2 :D
Winged hussar were elite nobles with being undefeated for 100 years
Destined for Valholl
So two of the coolest military forces were Persians so cool
NIce video. However I missed also the elite warriors of Chinese, Mongol and Japanese armies.
Any particular units you'd like to see?
Maybe personal guard of Djinges Khan (Mongol); From the Han dynasty general CaoCao his personal guard; Predominant Samurai warriors like Mushashi Miyamoto…
Leather shield ?!
I was waiting for companion cavalry of Alexander's army
And the foot companions too.
You forgot to mention that the last one inspired the Assassins Creed series
Surprised spartan hoplites didn’t get their own section
Imagine berserkers with automatic weapons
wasn't Rashid ad din sinan the one known as the old man of the mountain, reffering to his mountain fortress masyaf?
When an immortal died, he was replaced ... that's how all military units work ?
Well it is. But imagine fighting in a field killing like 500 of the strongest troop you can fight just to see them with their full number in the next day. Its scary
it is noted that exactly lke that. imagine in a field battle destroying 20 tanks and enemy replace them with another 20 tanks
We need Urumi swordsman.
It was the darius III who founded the immortals not the great cyrus
Hakkapeliittas should be in the next one
Varangian Guard
leonidas had 7000 with him at thermopylae, 1000 at the last day when the rest had retreated
Fun fact: Mamluks were captured at a young age and would often forget their mother tounge. They trained these stolen kids because they would become more cold hearted and fearsom then turkish and arab soldiers the reason being they had no homeland no family so they had nothing to live for.
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Watch lindybeige on berserkers. I personally think it's simply a "champion" of the bear, wolf, etc. A prized fighter who distinguishes himself in the old tradition of "acquiring animal traits".
They, of course, used armor.
The crazy canon fodder naked dude, who doesn't know what's going on or what he feels due to some mushroom potion, that's a whole different thing.
Would be a shame to clad these short living dudes in expensive furs.
I don't think it's too far to say that the praetorian guard are modern cia.
Spartan Royal Guard
Bro forgot jannisry
Winged Hussars
The roots of Varangian Guard are nordic, but with the time they became more and more russian/slavic. Its more like a russian Guard in Byzantine service
what about " sassanid cathaphracts" or " shahsavaran"?! they were more skilled and equpped than immortals!
Immortal guard were kids of royal familys and they started they training in age8and they fought with so many weapon and they even has wrestling training (wrestling is over national sport)and for being brave they kill lions ( I don't know its historically true or not but 😊)and they were great warriors and they don't steal or rape people because they from great familys
I’m mad that there is no Spartan hoplites are on this
Based af
No modern day SOF units ?
Any for honor players here?
Spartans?
The otomi warriors never get mentioned they where more elite than the jaguar warriors
Almogavars entered the chat.
The video is good and all but probably should mention that we have no actual historical claims for specific “Berserkers” other than the battle of Stamford bridge which everyone talks about with no other evidence and it is safe to say that guy didn’t have bear skins on him and most likely has a shield with an axe of sword perhaps a spear. How did he hold the enemy for a long time you ask ? Well that I do not know but if he alone could simply block the bridge there ain’t no way there was more than one man able to attack him in close range
The saga of harald fairhair mentions "wolf skins" who "carry bloody spears to battle" and hack through enemy shields. There's also Snorri Sturlsson's accounts of "Odin's men" fighting in a trance-like state that made them "as strong as bears or oxen" and impervious fire and steel, but would then be weak for days afterwards. Berserkers are mentioned many more times in the Sagas, their role becoming more villainous as time went on due to christenization.
Fight of stamford bridge in 1066 is nothing compared to 2011 stamford bridge battle
Where is Napoleon's old guard?
What about the Comanche?
the funny thing is that it wasn’t the spanish themselves who beat the Aztecs, it was their deseases
Funny thing that that a small country, with no special units, or big numbers, destroyed the Persians.
Did I hear a Bravestar reference? Please tell me I did.
Haven't heard of it I'm afraid. What was the supposed reference out of curiosity?
Janissaries
Berserkr is not a military unit but a champion fighter of the hird of a norse warlord.
Hasan Sabah and Cyrus the Great🇮🇷
So many of these are in age of empires 2 😊