Sentinum 295 BC - Roman-Samnite Wars DOCUMENTARY
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In our new animated historical documentary on the history of Rome, we will talk about the period when the Roman Republic wasn't dominant in Italy and had to fight wars of conquest and survival against their neighbors. This video will cover the Latin War and the Samnite Wars with a focus on the battles of Caudine Forks and Sentinum.
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When your great-grandson is so famous that your name isnt even mentioned.
Well, he was named Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus.
I guess it is better that way than to be remembered like one of his sons who due his ineptitude (he got the honor of commanding the first roman fleet and was also the first roman commander to lose all his ships and get himself captured by the enemy) got the lovely nickname of Asina which means female donkey, this donkey man was Africanus' great-uncle.
I debated with myself whether to write what I did, or to say his actual name. My rationale was that, if I just said 'Lucius Cornelius Scipio', he would just be another of the Scipios - noteless and relatively unknown, but if you know it's the grandfather of the famous Scipio, it links in with future times.
Hope you guys enjoyed the video. : )
@@Mattyhollis Of course, very good video ;)
Matthew Hollis Thank you for writing the script to this great vid
Fun fact: the Second Samnite War began the same year Alexander's troops refused to conquer any further, and he turned around to begin the march back.
thats pretty cool, thanks for that.
@Thats reality folks Im the Camaraman The synchronicity of destiny of men who grasped the sword amd placed themselves forever in the conciousness of history.
@Thats reality folks Im the Camaraman coincidence? I think not!!
If Alexander lived longer, he might interfere this war. It’s interesting to image what would he do and how would romans react.
Interesting, I was always checking on what the Romans were doing during Alexander’s war.
Options:
1. Let the romans go and forge an alliance
2.Destroy the Romans and end the war
Samnites: Humiliate the Romans and get conquered by them
Imagen what would have been, if he decided to do one of these options
@emille duque A serious butterfly effect that's for sure!
Same mistake Carthage made. Instead of supporting Hannibal when he was crushing Roman legions and the verge of capturing Rome, they refused support only to be conquered by Rome later.
no one predicted the army reforms though
@@AyaJuni Then Carthage would have a field day in Italy.
Honestly this self-sacrifice tradition is amazing.
When other Generals screw up in a battle they leave their troops to die and limb back home only to blame it on anything other then themselves. But my boy Decius not only takes full responsibility, but even turns the battle back in the Romans favor. What a man.
Ironically, mus-muris means "mouse" in latin. That badass' nickname (the cognomen was a sort of nickname) was "mouse".
Hasdrubal Barca also sacrificed himself when his army was routed during a battle in the second Punic war.
@@alialzuheiry8220 didn't he die in a river ?
@@davidegaribaldi1503 Hasdrubal Barca? He attempted to escape Italy after he was surrounded by two or three Roman armies. He got lost in the retreat until he came to a river crossing but the Romans were already closing in on him. There was a battle and when his army was routed he chose to charge his horse in the Roman infantry line rather than escape with his troops and perished.
@@alialzuheiry8220 Then the romans threw his head into Hannibal's camp, I know the perspective almost always is pro Roman, I myself confess to be of this bias, but I cannot help to admire Hannibal's many qualities among them the respect he gave to some of his fallen enemies like Marcellus which contrasts with the petty and humiliating treatment his brother's body got, maybe form of psychological warfare, somewhat better than just pure pettiness I guess.
Me: *Im bored*
Kings&Generals notification: *"No you are not!"*
Always more on the way :-)
@@KingsandGenerals - We always appreciate the hard work!
@@KingsandGenerals Thank you, K&G! Very cool!
"LEEEROY JENKINS!" - Publius Decius Mus, 295 BC
Pretty much!
@@KingsandGeneralsgreat vids pls do one on how aceint warriors trained etc martial arts ,exercises and what made them strong warriors ,also pls do one on the sikh afgan wars
It's only Leeroy Jenkins if your charge makes your friends lose.
LEEEROY JENKINS!!!
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins
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"At least I got chicken." - Publius Decimus Mus, right before a javelin killed him
"The Romans are a nation who know not how to remain quiet under defeat. Whatever disgrace this present extremity burns into their souls will rankle there forever, and will allow them no rest until they have made you pay for it many times over"
Wow Herennius was a man who possessed wisdom before his time.
barbiquearea that describes latin culture even till this day.
The way the Romans lost 70,000 citizens at Cannae and still resisted Hannibal is another example of Roman tenacity in the face of doom.
@@dannyudov6712 20,000 at Lake Trasimene and about 10,000 at river Tribea.
Or the whole quote is a Roman fabrication. Who knows?
Yea the Romans were something else. Throughout their empire`s history the continued to change their tactics to deal with their adversaries. This is why their empire lasted for so long.
Publius Decius Mus: "WITNESS ME!"
His men: "WITNESSED!!"
MEDIOCRE DECIUS MEDIOCREEE
WITNESS HIM!!
Decius' devotio alone warrants a movie about this period.
@@kvarnerinfoTVThe fact that there were only 300 spartan soldiers fighting in battle of Termopylae isn't a myth. However Sparta of course fielded a larger army of around 10000 but kept in Corinth cause they weren't really into this coalition in which Athenians had the most to say.
@@kvarnerinfoTV Ok then there were only 300 spartiats and more spartans. So they were just unwilling to send in their citizens xd.
@@kvarnerinfoTV Yea but helots were from Sparta.
That would require an author like Frank Miller, to do something similar to the seminal "300"...
1 guy:dies
A whole entire Army:Rush B
No stop
"The Romans are a nation who know not how to remain quiet under defeat."
Whether Livy's account of this quote is completely true or not (it probably isn't), it's certainly a good one. Hannibal ought to have learned the lesson. :^)
Livy obviously had no pol. science background. Romans were not a nation. :-) Not until much later.
"People should know when they're conquered". Would you, Quintus? Would I....?
@@KingsandGenerals For future reference: In Italian and Latin: C- is pronounced like Ch- in English, like the word Choice. While Ch- is pronounced like K-. G- is pronounced like the english letter J- while GH- is pronounced like in the english word Gore.
@@thinkwithurdipstick You are NOT wrong. It depends if you use the Restituta pronunciation, which is mostly tought in northern europe it will be as you are saying. Instead if you are using the ecclesiastical one, tought in souther europe I will be correct.
But Romans did nothing after they were kicked out from Germany by Arminius. In the end it was mistake, cuz germans slowly replaced romans in the empire and lands
"...men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge." -Machiavelli
Well said!
One of the most true statements ever made. Applicable in many situations.
@@GawainSSB I agree, it's definitely something to ask contemplate when faced with difficult situations
Clearly at 3:06 the breaking of the alliance and not having a causus belli before declaring war caused Rome to suffer a 50% penalty hit to their stability which led to the rioting.
I dont think so, they allied the Campagnians and got a defensive call to arms, its a neat little trick that can get you out of and into war with Allies without the loss of stability. They most likely just suffered from early game OE, rebellions are always tougher early game imo..
@@a.s.7936 Nope, Civ
@@a.s.7936 Probably, but also sounds like civ. Games these days are all the same
Queen Elizabeth II wait, since when has civ had casus balis, over extension and stability, the first guy said 50 percent stability so it’s not eu4 and it is imperator Rome
Queen Elizabeth II however second guy says Over extension which isn’t in imperator so he’s talking about eu4
I come from Italy, in particular from a small town founded by The Pentri tribe. Despite my ancestors were conquered by the Roman republic, we are very proud of the victory in the Forche Caudine battle anyway. Nowadays our children still study it at school.
Everyone in Italy has Roman descent, and half of Rome's armies were Osco-Umbrian allies. Interesting thing about the Oscans is that they were genetically like modern Italians
i guess after 2300 years the wounds have healed :D
Petri is a Greek placename. Πετρί mean rocky
@@aokiaoki4238 Sorry. I intended Pentri of course
@@jl9211 Only people living in , and around Rome are to be considered ethnical Romans. Italy was always a mish/mash of cultures and ethnicities
I hope you talked with your hands when you mentioned the Italic Tribe names, OfficiallyDevin.
Liquidsback why am I laughing lol so fuxk childish meee😂😂
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"If words fail, hands will succeed"
Love the strategic and tactical detail. Fascinating!
Thanks for your support :-)
This is one conflict that general history textbooks in high school cover in one sentence. Even though this basically is the most important conflict in Roman history.
I would say this and the punic wars are on a similar level in terms of importance, defeating the samnites made the Republic great, defeating the carthaginians laid the ground works for Roman hegemony over the Mediterranean
My high school textbook MAYBE mentioned the Etruscans in a sentence or 2. I wish they had described stuff like this
Its amazing what boosting morale can do for a battle. The Romans seemed to be losing decisively and were under threat of being surrounded and one man suicides into the enemy saying my blood for theirs and the Romans believed it. The power of will when you truly believe something is more powerful then an army.
Roman superstition is both great for them and terrible in some cases. I find it fascinating how their thought processes worked with supernatural beliefs.
This is exactly why most successful forces in history have been extremely religious. The thought that even in death they’ll win is enough to keep an army moving.
@@highadmiraljt5853 This is true. If you think your death is meaningless then you won't be so willing to die.
@highadmiraljt5853 Not really. Just that for most of history people were very religious, so most of the successful armies being religous is a statistical certainty. Also, for every successful religous army is an unsuccessful religious one.
Also how much did religion really matter? The famously extremist Hashshashin Order were crushed by the religiously tolerant Mongols.
Here in Italy we still use the battle of the Caudine forks to simbolise a tremendous defeat/humiliation
Dies in the same way as father to secure family honour:
*Eats himself to death*
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I find the pre-roman times fascinating. So many of thoses group had such different traditions and ways of thinking, I really wonder how history would have changed if any other rose to proeminence instead of the Romans
I am so in love with roman history for things like that, I today we can't unite with a neiberhood country even if we speak the same languague, but somehow. The romans manage to do It 2500 years ago, with many different city/tribes speaking different langauges, all across the medirraneo. that's incredible
Look up the Social War, it was the last time all these nations rose up and tried to oppose Roman hegemony.
@@Hugh_Morris You havent read up anything about Social war at all, did you?
"all these nations" didnt rose up, most tribes actually stayed loyal to the republic.
Also the uprising was never about separatism, it was about emancipation.
@@OkurkaBinLadin I've read up plenty about it actually, you condescending fuck. I just didn't think I'd have to go into detail without being patronised. I thought the people I replied to could look it up for themselves and see the full details.
All these nations - does not mean every single able bodied person of a tribe does it. It means a large enough group of them that have recognition and so can cause change. It means that when the anti-Roman government was formed in Italica, there were representatives from most nations in Italy, regardless of how many people from each tribe were actually fighting.
As for the goal of the war, like I said it was about Roman hegemony. Emancipation means Roman hegemony has ended as all other Italians then have an equal say. The city of Rome was still where all legislation was finalised, but after the war all Italians on the peninsula got a vote.
The idea was to declare an independent Republic, based on the Roman model but separated from Rome, where all the people's got a say. If the Socii didn't achieve their goals they'd have carried on seeking full independence.
@@Hugh_Morris LMAO... I know right however I don't think Michal Polacek was being condescending.... but I understand how you feel because you clearly know your history I just think you are misunderstanding his reply and adding to your comment some people are just bored like I am right now lots of loves Hugh
“The gates of Janus remained open” sends chills down my spine every time 🤘
One the motives that I think Rome is so unique between other empires is because they lost or even were humiliated many times but never gaveup. They learned from the mistakes and aways incorpored what go right and discard what go wrong
Damn, you guys PUMPIN' out high quality documentaries for us plebians! Thanks man. Really appreciated.
You guys are not plebeians. :-) Thanks for watching!
Time to adapt to mountain warfare. Lesson #1: Its always an ambush
Better would be "always expect an ambush", most often there wasn't an ambush when crossing mountains, we just only talk about those times there was one.
@@MDP1702 They cant talk about the ambush if they dont survive
To be honest is the same for forest warfare
Can you do a video about the various populations and cultures of Italian peninsula during this period?
Its a shame that history essentially throws away the cultures of Italia because the Romans dominated every one of them, but even centuries after they were conquered, many were not considered Roman and essentially treated as second class citizens. The interactions of the Greeks and Phonecians with the Etrustcans and the many smaller tribes of Itallic and Gaulic peoples is a point of history that is very underrepresented. The Romans of the Middle to Late Republic controlled a huge population who weren't Roman but were expected to do the grunt work without any sort of representation. Only after the Social War do all newborns in Italia become Romans by birth.
This was a very good clear explanation of Romes earlier military wars that led to Rome becoming one if not the most important civilization of all time!
I could watch videos on ancient Rome all day and all night. But a video on the rise of the Borgia and Cesare or Somerled and the Kingdom of the Isles would be a welcome addition to the library...
Hear ya!
@@KingsandGenerals Anything about the Italian Wars in the pipeline?
@@yijielu3272 a couple of ideas in the works. Probably 2020
Rome never gets old.
This channel truly excels. Better than most TV shows about history. Even readily answering comments on TH-cam. Kudos!
18:44 Most Underrated Epic Bad-ass speech in antiquity
Ironically, mus - muris means "mouse" in latin. That badass' nickname (the cognomen was a sort of nickname) was "mouse".
Tiny Roman Republic fielding an army equal to that of Medieval France in the 13th century be like
Anytime I watch these videos it makes me want to play Total War
Ahahha same dude i just reinstalled rome 2 after seeing this video
@@IinferusS Rome 1 is my favorite but Rome 2 isn't bad. It just seems like you can become over powered way to easily
@@IinferusS Completely agree, it's decently fun at first with a smaller nation cause you need to gain a foothold. But after you do you become OP and then just make the same cookie cutter cities/regions.
I know it's not a popular opinion but I really like Empire. I will admit that the AI is really stupid and sometimes annoying but at no point do I ever feel OP. And with the AI being dumb and unpredictable it can throw some surprises your way that you 100% weren't expecting. The real time battles are boring cause everyone just stands there shooting but I can easily get an enjoyable campaign out of it.
@@honde1u1 Try the Divide et Impera mod. Overhauls quite a few things and makes the game more challenging and a bit more realistic.
@@Red-jl7jj mercenaries ?? i only controle 4 whole provinces but i have 5 and a half legions in the field... maybe you should reconsider some decicions you ahve made :p
Imagine waking up and seeing a kurzgesagt video, finishing it, and then immediately seeing a kings and generals video, it is a good sunday today
Same with me.
Future KaG conquest.
I've never known of Decius' prophetic sacrifice in this battle, it is truly inspiring. I cannot thank you enough for this great content!
I always hire Samnite mercenaries in my Rome Total War game, thanks Kings 👍
@@archenema6792 Why Not Both?
Yeah playing as a non-roman faction, you're pretty much guaranteed to end up hiring some invading italy. And they're good at guarding your flanks from cavalry.
Yep they are good
This video basically ends on the start of Rome 2 total war/rome total war.
7:06 The Samnites won because they had the high ground.
This was a brilliant video. After having read the book SPQR -which I highly recommend to anyone interested in Roman history- and the great contextualization of the birth of the Roman empire, the narrative, music and animations were outstanding. A truly remarkable work, good job Kings and Generals.
My boys! Always refuse to accept the defeat and defend themselves with iron, not gold. Like true Romans should!
this channel is seriously a gift to humanity
Appreciate the kind words!
Finally Roman Samnite Wars. Thank you kings and generals, ❤️❤️
I love the Samnites. they were strong and had balls
That was a Leeroy Jenkins moment in the last battle with the Samnites, a great sacrifice of the Roman general in leading his men to victory.
Man, Decius sounds like one hell of a badass.
That sounds like Roman rhetoric: The young and rash council shall fall where the older and cautious will save the day.
5chr4pn3ll it would be cool if they could show you the passage from Livy or Dionysus while they animate it, I’d like to know how much detail we’re assuming beyond the source.
I love the Early Roman Republic series! Keep em coming brother!
I play at the moment Total War Rome 2 Rise of the Republic, the Samnite Faction, this is awsome
Gallic warriors: haha I killed your commander now you should route
Romans: you underestimate my power
You guys have the best and most consistent sponsor-to-content appropriateness I have ever seen.
And you guys have **great** content too.
Imagine how the world would have turned out had one of Latin's Italic sister language state prevailed. How would the Oscan or Umbrian speaking nations dictate history with their tribal based politics?
Well, the Romans, being Latin, conducted a tribal based policy as well, during their first centuries, and they didn't formally abolish the "gens" system even well after it was already outdated by expansion and social evolution into a more complex State structure.
@@lucadelaurentiis6907 I wonder if the same would have been done if another Italic people rose to power, as they didn't have a strong center of gravity like the city of Rome to anchor to.
Probably would be the same as with the Romans and Latins did at least hopefully being they were of the same Italic stock....Just wish that they (ROMANS) DIDN'T RECRUIT SO MANY NON ITALIC PEOPLES INTO THE LEGIONS OR RELIANCE ON THE SO CALLED FOEDARATI ....FOR THE WESTERN HALF NEVER WOULD OF FELL TO THE GERMANIC PEOPLES
@@michaelaiello148
You have to blame the Battle of the Frigidus and the Eastern Roman Empire for that.
That battle is the single most important reason why the west ended up relying on the Foederati.
Your julius caesar in gual and Britannia video is 1 of the 3 videos that got me into history over a year now and now I'm addicted to history thank you I love your channel keep it up.👍👍👍
Feudal Japan: Samurai banzai charges. Decius 1600 years earlier: Am I a joke to you?
Amazing, Amazing, amazing stuff! Love everything you are doing - the animation and maps/battle CG really bring the history to life. Thank you so much. Of course I now want one of your videos for every event (especially the Ancient World [Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Egypt and all the other little known civilizations like Amorites, Gutians, etc) in history but to stay on topic for Rome 1) can you order the Roman History Playlist so that it is in chronological order so easier to move through the history systematically (can you also do this for all your playlists?) 2) you must be crazy busy but can you start to fill in some of the Roman History gaps - I do no think I saw the Punic Wars, pre-Caesar wars with the Gauls, Jugurthine War etc. 3) can you eventually do a video for each Roman emperor detailing their reign? Keep up the good fight!
One of your best videos yet, this was excellent, thanks for posting!
You guys provide some of the best content on TH-cam. Keep up the work!
Honestly only here because of a video game called Expeditions: Rome, but man has it gotten me enthralled in Roman history! Watched all of Historia Civillis' videos on Rome and now I found a channel that may be even better. Cheers to history! May our ancestors and ancient human predecessors live on in our stories!
Just in time. Thank you guys for the top notch quality and hard work, you’re really awesome!
Your maps and animations are always a pleasure to watch...and Roman/Samnite wars is a fascinating subject!👍
Loved the video as always.
Personally, I would love to see more videos on the age of Charlemagne (a criminally unexplored time period) and things relating to the earlier French revolutionary wars, such as the battle of Valmy.
9:00 to be honest the Samnites were actually very modern for sparing the romans can’t amazing many other situations in which ancient armies would just let their enemy surrender with the army intact.
Gee this videos are like movies! Thank you man, I really appreciate them. Very very nice job.
I love your guys channel! Full of good historical info and entertaining visuals to go along with the info.
Im addicted to this channel.... Keep it going.... Excellent job!!!
Fun fact 10 km south of my city there is a small town called SAN MARTINO SULLA MARRUCCINA, so called for the Marruccina state road that passes nearby which takes its name from the ancient people of the Marruccini who lived in those lands, as is see on the map.
Furthermore, in the 3rd Macedonian war between Rome and the Macedonian king Perseus, the final batlle battle of Caterini began thanks to a cohort of Marrucini who had been sent to fetch water from the river and had met with the Macedonians, yes the marrucini of the cohort, they came from the lands of my ancestors.
This episode is reported in the book: THE GREAT BATTLES OF ANCIENT ROME written by Andrea Frediani, page 171.
P.S. great video.
Kings and generals and Cold war have made my trendmill workout! Thanks!
its just great when you see the ad and the free-to-play ends in 3 minutes, great deal this is.
i cannot get over how good these videos are
This video is probably the most motivating content so far driving me to start Imperator. Lol
Pretty sure I am not the only one, Paradox owe u one 😜
Well put together as always, love the artworks
Interesting to see the relative huge timeline of these events, where so "little" happend. Meanwhile at the same time in greece and asia Alexander the Great was born, conquered Asia, died and the fourth diadoch war concluded. Just food for thought.
what an awesome episode. always enjoy these high quality videos. well done.
Thanks for watching!
9:16 when you pick Quality and offensive ideas at the same time
I think they took innovate as well for that sweet +20% infantry combat ability bonus
@@adriancaine5278 oh yeah how did i forget dis my bad my good sir
Please more of samnite series!!
This just goes to show how long a history the Romans had.
290BC, and they stand the masters of Italy, ready to expand abroad. But they have STILL not left Italy's borders.
From the founding of the Republic, to that year is approximately 220 years.
From the perspective of the United States, that's the year 1996.
A slow, patient, and methodical advancement. No wonder their neighbors were terrified.
They just know it was beyond the horizon. At some point, Rome was coming.
"Soon."
Real nice video. I'm currently reading Theodor Mommsen's ''History of Rome'' and this documentary is an extremely useful in order to visualize easier what happened. Keep it up with the series.
We will, thank you!
Great video guys, keep it up! I would love to see more about how and when the Greeks made colonies in Italy. Cheers!
Never seen the early stages of the republic examined in such detail and subsequent domination of Italy. Iv always been curious about how the Italian tribes were dealt with. Thanks for the lesson. See you on the next one
I hope there will be more videos about world history and Vietnam. Thank you team, every video is good 👏🏻
Just started to focus on learning about the Roman republic years. And damn it does not disappoint! The samnite wars made the Roman legions. That's amazing...
Great video, a powerhouse was born! thanks K&G's
Thanks for watching!
Very nice documentary!
Thank you for this great work
I been waiting for this for so long 🙏🏼🙌🏼🙏🏼
Unsurprisingly, another amazing video
Thank you very much!
Superb video presentation and content. I love this channel! Keep it up.
Thanks for watching!
I’ve been waiting a long time for this! 🥳
This battle was such a grind!
13:17 36,000 troups in 295 BC, yet armies hardly reached 10,000 in the middle ages. Always mind blowing to me.
It came down to different emphases.
Medieval armies were concerned with specialization and maximizing the quality of individual units.
Roman levies were concerned with emergent cohesion, where the whole is greater than the sum of all parts. Rapid and efficient training to fit a module. The ancient world generally raised armies to accommodate conditions of persistent warfare, with a need to always fill in the gaps of the death and recycle the survivors, whereas the medieval world favored decisive battles that would lead to long periods of feudal stability and minimal expansion
Pontius was one of those who knows how to win a battle but not a war
Good content very nice
I'd really like to get a sense of Roman soldier's collective and personal discipline during battle. One does gets a strong impression that even under command of the very best tactical general/tyrant/Caesar/Emperor - whatever Julius Caesar's actual title at any given time period was, Roman soldiers could be, and were prone to outright disobeying direct orders, and not only in the midst of a vicious hard fought battle stretching out over multiple hours often times in smoldering heat where one side breaks and just cannot sustain it and they rout!
Rather, there's more than a couple of examples when Caesar's own precious 10th disobey direct orders such as the battle of Pharsalus where Caesar finally coaxed Pompey out to form up , or, rather, Pompey's underling senators and young gun generals relentlessly "coaxed" insulted and mocked ( I suspect ) Pompey out in a head to head winner takes all battle he knew the army he had was not prepared for which is underscored by the actual scene across the battlefield and into Pompey's camp as the 10th witnessed confusion among ranks, seeing large groups of men, and war animals milling around between the camp and the rear guard.
Caesar also, obviously saw what was happening, and yet he was seen to be taking a cautious approach, as this was for all the scalps, and Pompey was not to be taken lightly, and Caesar very nearly became trapped within the boundaries of his own trap after uncharacteristically bit into hook, line, and stinker believing rumors of certain legions who were ready to switch sides from Pompey's Legions into hos own.
Caesar barely made it out with his skull still firmly attached to his body! That must have made some of his Legions a wee bit weary, "could the rumors be true? Could Caesar be human after all"!!??
The 10th were horny AKA "randy" to get in and start slicing and a dicing!! Caesar wanted a measured steady approach, he wanted to read the battle field and get a sense of Pompey's strategy, then the horns began blasting without Caesar's signal!! It was a general from the 10th and they were off like a Jewish foreskin!
Another general would have been enraged, or would have lost sense of the field and mass confusion would have assured sound defeat!
But Caesar was even able to use this spur of the moment, unpredictable turn of events to his advantage and he dug in the spurs, raised his Gladius Heavenward and charged into Pompey's terrified green ranks!!
Pompey found his way back to his camp and a messenger came in with disturbing news of Caesar's men inside the camp!! Pompey "in the very camp"!!? Then Pompey bravely ran away al la "Sir Robin"
Caesar's forces were outnumbered as USUAL! Caesar was being, in my humble, pleb level opinion, uncharacteristically cautious and I believe the facts Caesar was out numbered had very little to do with his main concern, which was A) Knowing Pompey was every bit the tactical general he himself was, and B) Caesar came a hair's width away from being outdueled by Pompey at Dyrrachium after history's witness (us) viewed this historical battle via written eye witness accounts.
That battle had all the classic mega engineering porn I've come to expect and love about Caesar!! He may not have invented circumvallation, but he made it part and parcel of his war strategies and tactics!! I don't thin k I'm off the chart when I say Caesar's soldiers across the status board would have been the most physically powerful, and supremely knowledgeable as far as weapons, tactics, and battlefield, as well as social engineering skills.
What I mean but that last bit is any one of Caesar's trained soldiers understood the importance of having, maintaining and guarding fresh water supplies from the land for military and civilian use. They would be equally educated in the fine art of screwing with your advocate's/enemy's water supplies. There are multiple historical accounts where Caesar's men would divert fair sized rivers away from "undesirables" !!
Caesar's men were very well capable of marching for prolonged stretches very quickly and surprising the literal life out of the "bad guys"!! When I read accounts, for example, let's take Gaul.
We read about The Helvetii taking numerous days to cross the Arar River using numerous rafts and boats, when Caesar arrived he was able to take out a large group of stranded Helvetii while their brothers at arms watched helplessly across the river.
Where it took the Helvetii 20 days to cross the river, Caesar's men built a bridge and were able to cross in one day!! This is an element of Caesar's tactical, and logistical genius which although not unheard of at the time, Caesar's armies/Legions always seemed to be able to address obstacles which appeared insurmountable, even "impossible" and to overcome where other armies just weren't up to the challenge which meant certain, unpleasant death in that board game!
Well, I guess I circumvallated my original thought!!
I'd really like to see an explanation as to the discipline of soldiers of the era, and specifically within Caesar's own Legions.
So, before I went off on a wild weasel tangent, I started to describe an example of Caesars own pet 10th at the final showdown battle between himself and Pompey when a horn blast came forward from the ranks of the 10th and it was on!!
How often did these sort of breaches of command happen back in the day? What kind of picture can you provide of the command structures in relation to chain of command and following orders?
Was this act by Caesar's pet 10th the exception? Had it been from the 4th would heads have rolled, would there be decimation? Apologies for the lengthy comment, I get rather long in the pie hole where Caesar is concerned, I just love history in general, and I greatly admire Caesar.
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Thx for the video as always.
Thanks for watching!
What a fun video to watch. I wouldn't mind seeing more video's on Roman's attempts to conquer Italy. My thanks to those who made this video a reality.
8:00 and how right he was, the samnites wounded a beast that they couldn't kill
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Awesome video!!
At the end the consul did exactly as I thought they should do: send half of their cavalry to occupy the opposing cavalry, while quickly ordering the other half to attack the infantry's flank and try routing them.
Heard this from Mike Duncan twice now, so cool to see it in graphics!
Always after listening on any of the documentaries I get urge to play a game in this time period, most likely will I play Rome 2 total war rise of the republic or I will play imperator Rome with the new good update.
@@kraanz Wait until the DLCs roll out
kraanz the lastest update “Livy” made the game feel much better up to standard among Paradox games. I believe it’s free at the moment try it and see how much it have changed for the better.
@@kraanz Day 1 Imperator was still miles better than HoI4 and Stellaris at their launches.
1.3 Imperator is better than HoI4 after 3 years of work, but still does not meassure up to their best works like CK2 and EU4. Then again, I'm biased because I'm still salty as fuck after they turned the most complex Paradox game line (HoI1-3) into the most dumbed down and shallow series to date (HoI4).
Regardless of any comparispon to their other games, 1.3 undeniably made Imperator into a game that can stand on its own, and even if you eventaully grow bored, the game still has content that gives you "hours of fun per $" that completely demolishes most other games.
HoI4 can be fun in multiplayer. Imperator isn't.
You are only salty about HoI3 being dumbed down to a more broad audience, just like me.
I just wanna say that I think every man should listen to Livys the history of Rome it is unbelievable. I can’t imagine what it would be like putting my nation above all else. The honor these man possessed is truly unbelievable and completely unknown to modern mankind
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I love your content all the time really accurate and with a high level of details. So why did you upload the video on the 8th if the free play of the game was available 3rd-8th of December? Killing me