Total War Rome 2 and Destiny. Also, at the start, this channel was something of an off-shoot of the older The Halo Forge Epidemic (from where the abreviation THFE - the original name of the channel - came from). Oakley was part of 4 or five guys who played Halo and created Forge maps in Forge Mode in Halor Reach.
That about sums it up the peasant forces were often conscripts with only minimal training and gear while the aristocratic warriors have been training since boyhood and had access to the finest weapons and gear around!
@Trịnh Vinh pointless Sometimes the peasants fought really good, like in Hastings ( on the side of the ango-saxon defenders. Sure, they were uphill but the fyrd held like champs. They almost won! )
@Trịnh Vinh pointless Those same peasants destroyed the Danish army, Wich was probably the better of the 3 armies in terms of skill and equipment. We also have lots of battles where peasants did massive damage to knights and won. Most of them on revolts. I just used the one who is really the better. Now, it's not the quality of the troops I'd the quality of the leader. The Danish had the better army and lost. Harold had all the chances to win and lost. And William who decided to charge knights uphill and fuck themselves on a shield wall won. In agincourt we see the use of terrain and good notary decision making to bait knights, who fought themselves like unbeatable cream of the cake to mow themselves into bad terrain. And that happened all too often because heck, the infantry has no quality right? They will melt away when we charge... Only that didn't always happened and when it didn't, they almost always lost.
I think mock battles or battles for entertainment are really under appreciated by most historical channels, there is a reason why most countries have (from italy to england) have a form of calceo storico, a game played by commoners.
Those sports are always started by the military, the soldiers themselves in the case of cuju or kok-boru, but sometimes by the elite military aristocracy like calcio storico
The art in this episode was particularly stunning considering the workload and time frame. As a viewer, I'd like to see more of this artist in future episodes!
Hit them with a wooden staff for some time in the training grounds until they're ready to be upgraded. Throw like 10-40 coins at them and watch them Sailor Moon Transform from a Peasant boy into a fully armored footman.
@@uhoh1733The idea behind M&B recruiting is that you’re just asking people who wants to join you and then paying for their equipment, the only money they get is their salary.
Also another thing pointing out at technology got better Europeans we're getting better and better armored this is including for the very poor. What are the biggest physical evidence in top of my head that I can think about is the excavation of the battle of Gotland, it shows that even the poorest peasants had metal armor and helmets. Anyways, I know you can't cover everything in all in one video but this is a very good video I have to say. Keep it up.
I mran: even a spoiled lord knows that his victory chances are higher if the peasants gear get better. Also after the war he needs them to keep the economy going. So he can not afford great loses.
The battle of Visby on Gotland was one of mercenaries against free townsmen with unfortunate if predictable results. I read a thing about how as the mercs advanced they slashed at the ankles of the less experienced townsmen and didn't bother finishing them off until after they had won. There are lots of incredible artifacts from that battle.
Visby was a damned slaughter... The most curious aspect of that battle is how badly the corpses must have smelled that the mercenaries didn't bother to sack armor and money from them lmao
Imagine the Aztecs having "flower wars", battles to capture human sacrifices just to make sure the sun would still rise tomorrow, and the next day. And the next...
Great video! I really like content lately that brings historical war/life concepts that are a "given" into more detailed context. I.e. Instead of assuming that armies have infantry, calvary, archers... explaining the difference between men at arms, freemen, mercs, etc. I'd love to see content about the logistics of siege engines. The folks that built and maintained them, where the ammunition came from, and how they differed in different regions
In fact, most of fencing teatrises in late medieval were more like an advertising for aristocrats to say "I know all this things, hire me and I will teach you that"
He got so intense, over-the-top and hyped-up when he did the sponsor's game advertisement, like he was a totally different person ... then gets back the documentary part and is so soft-spoken, subdued and calm ... 😂
shooting competitions are still a huge part of local culture here in lower saxony germany (also common in other parts but especially here). part of it is shooting at a wooden eagle with a crossbow with medals for shooting of different parts and a king being crowned for bringing the whole thing down. there is also regular target shooting of course especially with air rifles. such competitions are organized by the local marksmen clubs often there is even a small parade.
I mean, the guy had probably killed more men and participated in more skirmishes than he could count. Its just that open battles were a rarity compared to later eras. I can imagine a soldier in WWI fighting in 3 large scale battles in their 4 years, while in the Middle Ages they'd have to wait through several wars
@@fdumbass I'm just saying one large scale battle with people getting hacked to death is kind of a big deal. Let alone three! What do you need to do to impress Invicta??? We can't all be Ceaser!
Field of Glory is literally the first game I have seen advertised on UA-cam that I have wanted to play. Usually I just swear at the screen like an angry drunk about the awful freemium wank that is heavily promoted.
Really enjoyed this. You've been very helpful to me. I'm wanting to write a medieval fantasy series and I want it to have a sense of realism. Therefore, I will be using a lot of historical information to help me write certain parts of the story like battles and how soldiers would train for battle.
Please do more medieval videos!!! Maybe something like how an army would feed and all (unless that has already been mentioned in your how to raise an army video)
I can imagine that a fine line was present in the training of the "peasantry". A lord would need a body of troops for war or defense but the possibility that you could equip and train those that may rise up in revolt against you could not be ignored.
Not really needed: the peasants had to work so they couldn't train to much while the nobility lived to fight and trained everyday since they were children, also they had much better armor
You do realize that most of the armed freemen were peasants right? In medieval times the peasantry came in both serfs who worked the land and are tied to it, and freemen who were able to leave snd did other work and roles.
It is said at one point Lord Humongous had the best army in the wasteland. Composed of soldiers and police officers turned bandits. Skills borne from the crucible of actual experience. But his was essentially a roving band. Nomads. Their size would dwindle overtime. Even after his death, the rest of the band continued on until they dissolved. Aunty Entity had a military institution more familiar to us. Bartertown was manned by a citizen militia. Being urban enough to have resources to equip some select wastelanders/bartertowners. With a small retinue of bodyguards payed for and equipped by aunty, literally Housejarls/Huscarls. Immortan was different. Being able to secure a practically unlimited source of water he would have the resources to gather a slave army. War pups were pretty much just wastelander children or sons of war dogs that had nothing else to do but spar and practice mechanics. Due to indoctrination in the cult of V8. Pay wasn't really that necessary and all he needed to do was to feed them. This allowed Immortan to have a comparative large and well trained army, and although not really payed, would have been considered professionals in standards. Earlier on in his life Immortan started out just like Lord Humongous. Leading a band of veteran bandits. But those elite few dwindled, and whats left became his vassal lords: the Bullet Farmer and the Human Calculator. According to Corpus Callosum, his father was prepared to arm the dregs of society if he would encounter a larger threat. Akin to having a fyrd or militia. The Citadel will provide the bodies, while the the Bullet farm will provide the arms. But due to the Raggedy-Man, we will never know if that is really possible. -The First History Man (On the Fangs of the Wastes)
Is it just me or the narrator here in Invicta sounds like a younger and more enthusiastic brother of the narrator in Kings and Generals? Two awesome dudes with different styles but same amount of awesomeness!
Hi Invicta, You should make a Units of History video on the Thespian Hoplites. They are a very unique unit in Ancient Greece. It would be quite interesting to learn some information about them, and their city, that not many people know.
@@carloreytansiongco8741 well compared to mercenaries the templars and hospitallers were actual standing armies with specializations and a long history that they can make a video of, tuetons were mercenaries so they are indeed covered for the most part, hell they made alot of the head ornaments popular again because they're such show-offs
I mean, compared to other men-at-arms, Militant Religious Orders are the only forces out there comparable to mercenaries in that they are in constant belligerence, and constant training. All thanks to the fact that some other entity is financing them. No other large body of troops are like that except mercenary companies.
Dunno man. Ogre Battle clearly taught me that you just slip a Benjamin to your local dragon tamer and hawkman squad, then you spar to the death, and hopefully get some XP out of it.
It will be cool, if possible, to cover more in depth the topic of Furusiyya. How were levantines and easterners training and how their methods differed from those of their european counterpart?
Great content as always :) Were you doing recordings for any EFL coursebooks or resource books? I'm asking as your voice sounds like the one I've heard in a resource book with lessons on different aspects of the English-speaking world culture :)
I love your exposés, Invicta, and your amount of time and effort that you put into making them for us. ☝🏻With that said, 10:13 the painting here is not medieval. The people are dressed in garb from the late 1500’s, the Late Renaissance. Tsk tsk, Sir. History and French teacher here. 🙋🏻♂️👨🏻🏫
Concerning the structual Training, there are quiet a few manuals to be honest. Talhoffer for example wrote some books around the 15.th century where He describes how to train. Get up early, pray, take a Full grain bread and put it into cold water and eat it later. Then exercices like: jump, run, wrestle, throw Stones, lift stones, practice Fencing and so on. Go to bed early and repeat. And there are more such example for gymnastics and whole Workouts. So maybe you missed something.
What was the name of the 66 year old man-at-arms from the Hundred Years' War? The pronunciation doesn't make it clear and it is not stated in any text.
We tend to forget the more impressive militaries organization-wise from the fertile crescent: the Achaemenids, the Assyrians, and even Egypt. But I suppose they are easier to explain to a modern audience being familiar with professional armies. While Medieval Europe is a case study on how an Elitist and stratified society organized a force.
@@czukarpathian6621 Look, i fully understand why this is a thing. It's the same case with History and Geography being eurocentric. It's only logical. I just vented a little bit, that's all. P.s I disagree. It's not only England. The whole Western European hemesphere is included - Spain, FRANCE, Germany, Italy and so on. It only logical. Amongst other reasons these are/were the most powerful countries/nations in the world and their influence is felt till this day.
@@starhawck that said, does anyone here know of any content creators focusing on middle east or far eastern militaries? Either english or local but with english subtitles? I do believe I came across one focusing on the ancient chinese militaries. Would love to see the Byzantines or Indian systems.
One important error: in late medieval times, the sword & buckler fencing were of the common men, the aristocratic usually didn't use bucklers because they considered the sword & buckler fencers a kind of "low class swashbuckler breed". In fact, the teatrises of the use of sword and buckler of late medieval times are a kind of feouilleton made for selling to university students who usually liked to learn fencing to take quarrels on the streets. If you read teatrises of fencing for aristocrats, you will see no bucklers at all, at least until XVI century, when came to be a fashionable weapon for young nobles.
My family crest has a dog with a silver/arget collar over a wall….If my research is correct it means my ancestor was awarded this for being the first over the wall during an attack.
Actually the difference is a bit smaller than you think while they still maintain a large pool of Professional Soldiers mostly for the Emperor's personal army they still practice a form of this training and recruitment method as they were decentralizing themselves. Epimithius made a video about it a while back.
In Field of Battle I Recreated the Battle of Shipka pass One to One but my defenders just rout the enemy and chase them down the fields abandoning their defensible positions to get flanked from all sides. How do I make them stop routing.
In Medieval Finland the soldiers didn't have much to fight against. Save for a rare fight with Novgorod/Russians every 30 or so years they were showing force rather than using force. Drinking 4-6 litres beer between plentiful and salty meals was the way to train. If and when the Knights in Savonlinna Fortress were mobilised, the problem was if the local small horses could carry both the overweight knights and their gear. Only the Swedish Noblemen in charge had proper horses by default. The bulk of the knights were from Finland, and they ride local horses.
I find it really interesting that this channel has gone from Total War content to stuff like this. It's great.
Yeah, its my favorite channel
Total War Rome 2 and Destiny. Also, at the start, this channel was something of an off-shoot of the older The Halo Forge Epidemic (from where the abreviation THFE - the original name of the channel - came from). Oakley was part of 4 or five guys who played Halo and created Forge maps in Forge Mode in Halor Reach.
Ngl I miss classics like the Siege of Athens
Centurion has entered the chat room 🙌
I miss some total war stuff too ,like the Roman army series ,which now is more abandoned than the Balkans during 5th century AD
The art of this series is amazing
It’s like arts in crusader king
@@Spider-Too-Too that's exactly where is it from
Damn these soldiers needed to have some serious grinding to stand a chance in pvp, it's unfortunate that the medieval ages were severely pay to win
Pretty funny how these chads were occasionally beaten by Virgin lords that started paying for their whole clan to level up.
That about sums it up the peasant forces were often conscripts with only minimal training and gear while the aristocratic warriors have been training since boyhood and had access to the finest weapons and gear around!
@Trịnh Vinh pointless Sometimes the peasants fought really good, like in Hastings ( on the side of the ango-saxon defenders. Sure, they were uphill but the fyrd held like champs. They almost won! )
@Trịnh Vinh pointless Those same peasants destroyed the Danish army, Wich was probably the better of the 3 armies in terms of skill and equipment. We also have lots of battles where peasants did massive damage to knights and won. Most of them on revolts. I just used the one who is really the better. Now, it's not the quality of the troops I'd the quality of the leader. The Danish had the better army and lost. Harold had all the chances to win and lost. And William who decided to charge knights uphill and fuck themselves on a shield wall won. In agincourt we see the use of terrain and good notary decision making to bait knights, who fought themselves like unbeatable cream of the cake to mow themselves into bad terrain. And that happened all too often because heck, the infantry has no quality right? They will melt away when we charge... Only that didn't always happened and when it didn't, they almost always lost.
And it has been pay to win ever since
Dad Answer: Like their lives depended on it.
Omg such a dad answer that I actually rolled my eyes 🤣
When I have kids I’m totally using that LOL
This answer can be applied to every question and I love it.
"Why is your dick small?"
"Because my life depended on it"
@@adude8424 I think you disproved your own claim just then.
Using this now, cheers mate
How strong was the grind in 1015 fellas
It was S T R O N K
p2w as fuck wouldn't recommend
@@rgm96x49 True bro. Nobles are such a hack.
Attempt #14: You know what Roman legionaries might have been training for? Julius Caesar’s hypothetical invasion of Parthia.
Well said!
Recover the Legions from Teutoburg?
As they say, practice makes perfect.
You're getting better and better at asking what happened to that series.
@@alansalas1880 hmmmm....That's strange.
Varro hasn't come back from Germania yet...
@@sisyphus4468 Perfect practice makes perfect. Any faults that become habitual become imperfect performance.
I think mock battles or battles for entertainment are really under appreciated by most historical channels, there is a reason why most countries have (from italy to england) have a form of calceo storico, a game played by commoners.
England/ Europe = Burhurt, blunt swords and mail.
USa = larp foam weapons under variant names.
@@krispalermo8133 both exists in several countrys around the world. you eltist much m8?
@@inquisitorhedgehog3730 Please clarify about being .. elitist much, and was " m8 ".. also a typo ?
Those sports are always started by the military, the soldiers themselves in the case of cuju or kok-boru, but sometimes by the elite military aristocracy like calcio storico
His voice sounds very "documentary-ish"
Cuz it’s a sound actor
He got aggressive all of sudden for the ad haha
That's called having a London accent.
Probably because it’s a documentary.
@@prestonjones1653 American logic lol.
"I'll make a man out of you!."
"Tranquil as a forest"
We must be swift as the coursing river
Be a man
@@miliba Mysterious as the dark side of the MOOONNNN..............I'll shut up now ;)
The art in this episode was particularly stunning considering the workload and time frame. As a viewer, I'd like to see more of this artist in future episodes!
Hit them with a wooden staff for some time in the training grounds until they're ready to be upgraded.
Throw like 10-40 coins at them and watch them Sailor Moon Transform from a Peasant boy into a fully armored footman.
So Pokémon that evolve after a couple of hits from a stick, and a sack of dosh
Ah yes, the Calradian method of martial training.
@@kaptenlemper swadian tested, swadian guaranteed!
bizarre m&b economy. how an trained man ready to die for a complete random such as the player is cheaper than the equipment said man is wearing
@@uhoh1733The idea behind M&B recruiting is that you’re just asking people who wants to join you and then paying for their equipment, the only money they get is their salary.
Also another thing pointing out at technology got better Europeans we're getting better and better armored this is including for the very poor. What are the biggest physical evidence in top of my head that I can think about is the excavation of the battle of Gotland, it shows that even the poorest peasants had metal armor and helmets.
Anyways, I know you can't cover everything in all in one video but this is a very good video I have to say. Keep it up.
Lords often paid for armor and weapons for their peasants.
I mran: even a spoiled lord knows that his victory chances are higher if the peasants gear get better.
Also after the war he needs them to keep the economy going.
So he can not afford great loses.
The battle of Visby on Gotland was one of mercenaries against free townsmen with unfortunate if predictable results. I read a thing about how as the mercs advanced they slashed at the ankles of the less experienced townsmen and didn't bother finishing them off until after they had won. There are lots of incredible artifacts from that battle.
Visby was a damned slaughter... The most curious aspect of that battle is how badly the corpses must have smelled that the mercenaries didn't bother to sack armor and money from them lmao
@@riograndedosulball248 yeah that's a really funny image.
@11:50 imagine been so bored your whole city goes to an mock war
Italians also had ''calcio Fiorentino'': it's a mix of football, rugby, and fistfights :)
Imagine the Aztecs having "flower wars", battles to capture human sacrifices just to make sure the sun would still rise tomorrow, and the next day. And the next...
@@jameswoodard4304 Thanks for the correction! I'll edit it.
Great video! I really like content lately that brings historical war/life concepts that are a "given" into more detailed context.
I.e. Instead of assuming that armies have infantry, calvary, archers... explaining the difference between men at arms, freemen, mercs, etc.
I'd love to see content about the logistics of siege engines. The folks that built and maintained them, where the ammunition came from, and how they differed in different regions
In fact, most of fencing teatrises in late medieval were more like an advertising for aristocrats to say "I know all this things, hire me and I will teach you that"
You just click on that icon in barrack and wait 10 seconds or 7 if you upgraded it to rapid mobilization.
Upgraded*
Not trying to be an ass, just putting it out there.
What game?
@@killerjack3737 No specific game. That's just your average base building strategy game.
The last time I was this early, people still couldn’t use flint.
He got so intense, over-the-top and hyped-up when he did the sponsor's game advertisement, like he was a totally different person ... then gets back the documentary part and is so soft-spoken, subdued and calm ... 😂
shooting competitions are still a huge part of local culture here in lower saxony germany (also common in other parts but especially here).
part of it is shooting at a wooden eagle with a crossbow with medals for shooting of different parts and a king being crowned for bringing the whole thing down. there is also regular target shooting of course especially with air rifles. such competitions are organized by the local marksmen clubs often there is even a small parade.
Your art style is impossibly awesome with a medieval theme
Holy heck for the first time ever in a UA-cam video I am absolutely in love with the sponsor
"He had only participated in 3 large scale pitch battles." According to Invicta that's not a big deal?
Well considering he had been fighting in the hundred years war for almost 50 years I think it is telling
Socrates also fought in 3 battles in his lifetime. Compare that to more modern philosophers in their lounge chairs, ha!
I mean, the guy had probably killed more men and participated in more skirmishes than he could count. Its just that open battles were a rarity compared to later eras. I can imagine a soldier in WWI fighting in 3 large scale battles in their 4 years, while in the Middle Ages they'd have to wait through several wars
@@fdumbass I'm just saying one large scale battle with people getting hacked to death is kind of a big deal. Let alone three! What do you need to do to impress Invicta??? We can't all be Ceaser!
In 47 years of military service, yes.
Last times I was this early Invicta announced that he still worked in what if Caesar Lived Part 3.
Next: How medieval warriors used their skill points.
Last time I was this early, the og voice was in use.
Lmao he's still there for the Roman content haha
Of all these UA-cam documentaries, yours have the best illustration. Good work, whoever makes these.
Field of Glory is literally the first game I have seen advertised on UA-cam that I have wanted to play.
Usually I just swear at the screen like an angry drunk about the awful freemium wank that is heavily promoted.
It is genuinely a great game with challenging AI. If you enjoy strategy, definitely pick it up.
I thought the same thing.
@@RIPDixie1865 you are fake people
@@axmoylotl I am a far right, anti-semite, white supremacist. Do I sound fake now?
How lucky am I, to watch nothing but back to back awesome videos today
@5:52 I love how this illustration looks like something straight out of MS I.33.
Really enjoyed this. You've been very helpful to me. I'm wanting to write a medieval fantasy series and I want it to have a sense of realism. Therefore, I will be using a lot of historical information to help me write certain parts of the story like battles and how soldiers would train for battle.
Please do more medieval videos!!!
Maybe something like how an army would feed and all (unless that has already been mentioned in your how to raise an army video)
Invicta when are you going to release the Zack Snyder Cut of What if Caesar Lived Part 3???
I can imagine that a fine line was present in the training of the "peasantry". A lord would need a body of troops for war or defense but the possibility that you could equip and train those that may rise up in revolt against you could not be ignored.
Not really needed: the peasants had to work so they couldn't train to much while the nobility lived to fight and trained everyday since they were children, also they had much better armor
You do realize that most of the armed freemen were peasants right? In medieval times the peasantry came in both serfs who worked the land and are tied to it, and freemen who were able to leave snd did other work and roles.
Shout out to the Invicta artists. Consistently beautiful images.
Everyone seeing this have a good day and be kind to everyone!
Thank you. You have a good day as well and may life be nothing but kind to you.
You also have a great day
@@schmucktheduck7253 Pay it forward :)
It is said at one point Lord Humongous had the best army in the wasteland. Composed of soldiers and police officers turned bandits. Skills borne from the crucible of actual experience. But his was essentially a roving band. Nomads. Their size would dwindle overtime. Even after his death, the rest of the band continued on until they dissolved.
Aunty Entity had a military institution more familiar to us. Bartertown was manned by a citizen militia. Being urban enough to have resources to equip some select wastelanders/bartertowners. With a small retinue of bodyguards payed for and equipped by aunty, literally Housejarls/Huscarls.
Immortan was different. Being able to secure a practically unlimited source of water he would have the resources to gather a slave army. War pups were pretty much just wastelander children or sons of war dogs that had nothing else to do but spar and practice mechanics. Due to indoctrination in the cult of V8. Pay wasn't really that necessary and all he needed to do was to feed them. This allowed Immortan to have a comparative large and well trained army, and although not really payed, would have been considered professionals in standards. Earlier on in his life Immortan started out just like Lord Humongous. Leading a band of veteran bandits. But those elite few dwindled, and whats left became his vassal lords: the Bullet Farmer and the Human Calculator.
According to Corpus Callosum, his father was prepared to arm the dregs of society if he would encounter a larger threat. Akin to having a fyrd or militia. The Citadel will provide the bodies, while the the Bullet farm will provide the arms.
But due to the Raggedy-Man, we will never know if that is really possible.
-The First History Man (On the Fangs of the Wastes)
OMG!!! This is quality content. Amazing
"let's get down to business!"
Is it just me or the narrator here in Invicta sounds like a younger and more enthusiastic brother of the narrator in Kings and Generals? Two awesome dudes with different styles but same amount of awesomeness!
Hi Invicta,
You should make a Units of History video on the Thespian Hoplites. They are a very unique unit in Ancient Greece. It would be quite interesting to learn some information about them, and their city, that not many people know.
That was a good watch, especially about free companies. Love the content!
Farmer Freemen be like “wow that ‘war’ thing sucks thoughts and prayers guys”
How about religious/military orders? Templars, Hospitalars, Teoutonics, Livonians, etc??
Probably couldn't do it because there's not a lot of info about that topic.
They're pretty much a mercenary force financed by the church. So still covered by this video XD
@@carloreytansiongco8741 well compared to mercenaries the templars and hospitallers were actual standing armies with specializations and a long history that they can make a video of, tuetons were mercenaries so they are indeed covered for the most part, hell they made alot of the head ornaments popular again because they're such show-offs
I mean, compared to other men-at-arms, Militant Religious Orders are the only forces out there comparable to mercenaries in that they are in constant belligerence, and constant training. All thanks to the fact that some other entity is financing them. No other large body of troops are like that except mercenary companies.
The caption had me waiting for Eastern Roman soldiers too. But anyway, I learned quite a lot!
13:54 hey I know them! We still study their Fechtbuchs today in HEMA.
10:13 This picture is from Earlymodern era. note that there's a musketeer here with gunpowder bandolier and his musket.
EVOLUTION OF ROME PART TWO ITS BEEN 5 YEARS
Love the medieval videos!
Dunno man. Ogre Battle clearly taught me that you just slip a Benjamin to your local dragon tamer and hawkman squad, then you spar to the death, and hopefully get some XP out of it.
I am surprised you barely mentioned medieval martial arts manuscripts .. We actually know a lot about fighter training in medieval times..
This videos was great, super interesting. I'm subbing rn
I love the paintings in this video.
I love history vs fiction vids
Liked the artwork and whole video,nicely done.
Another great presentation 😍
The narrator sounds excellent!!
It will be cool, if possible, to cover more in depth the topic of Furusiyya. How were levantines and easterners training and how their methods differed from those of their european counterpart?
omg the voiceover in this vid, fkn amazing!
This is always so interesting. Thank you
Great content as always :)
Were you doing recordings for any EFL coursebooks or resource books? I'm asking as your voice sounds like the one I've heard in a resource book with lessons on different aspects of the English-speaking world culture :)
Bless this channel
I love your exposés, Invicta, and your amount of time and effort that you put into making them for us. ☝🏻With that said, 10:13 the painting here is not medieval. The people are dressed in garb from the late 1500’s, the Late Renaissance. Tsk tsk, Sir. History and French teacher here. 🙋🏻♂️👨🏻🏫
Commenting for the algorithm. Great video and channel.
4:06 what weapon is the guy on the left holding?
love these videos! you guys are awesome!
Congrats on 900k subs!
Oo love the shout out to Masters whose work are a cornerstone to modern HEMA!
Another Great Video!
Concerning the structual Training, there are quiet a few manuals to be honest.
Talhoffer for example wrote some books around the 15.th century where He describes how to train.
Get up early, pray, take a Full grain bread and put it into cold water and eat it later. Then exercices like: jump, run, wrestle, throw Stones, lift stones, practice Fencing and so on.
Go to bed early and repeat.
And there are more such example for gymnastics and whole Workouts. So maybe you missed something.
I find so cool how roman literature was the base for many things in medieval world
Could you do one of these for just like every culture ever?
K Thank!
good stuff look forward to seeing more, specially the Swiss cantons military development
Fantastic stuff! Thanks.
What was the name of the 66 year old man-at-arms from the Hundred Years' War? The pronunciation doesn't make it clear and it is not stated in any text.
love these videos! thank you!
It's infuriating how much the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries around it's cultural influence, get ignored, when the subject is war.
Same for Spain
We tend to forget the more impressive militaries organization-wise from the fertile crescent: the Achaemenids, the Assyrians, and even Egypt.
But I suppose they are easier to explain to a modern audience being familiar with professional armies.
While Medieval Europe is a case study on how an Elitist and stratified society organized a force.
True the Byzantine empire was a superpower for the most part of the middle ages . Futhermore the had professional armies
@@czukarpathian6621 Look, i fully understand why this is a thing. It's the same case with History and Geography being eurocentric. It's only logical. I just vented a little bit, that's all.
P.s I disagree. It's not only England. The whole Western European hemesphere is included - Spain, FRANCE, Germany, Italy and so on. It only logical. Amongst other reasons these are/were the most powerful countries/nations in the world and their influence is felt till this day.
@@starhawck that said, does anyone here know of any content creators focusing on middle east or far eastern militaries? Either english or local but with english subtitles?
I do believe I came across one focusing on the ancient chinese militaries.
Would love to see the Byzantines or Indian systems.
Have you guys given up on the Stormlight archive vids?
I love the background pictures because it's from Crusader Kings 3.
Nice game - it kicks you in the balls and give you a glas of honey afterwards.
In regards to mercenaries. Niccolo Machiavelli really liked then. He even wrote about them in a week known as "the prince".
One important error: in late medieval times, the sword & buckler fencing were of the common men, the aristocratic usually didn't use bucklers because they considered the sword & buckler fencers a kind of "low class swashbuckler breed". In fact, the teatrises of the use of sword and buckler of late medieval times are a kind of feouilleton made for selling to university students who usually liked to learn fencing to take quarrels on the streets. If you read teatrises of fencing for aristocrats, you will see no bucklers at all, at least until XVI century, when came to be a fashionable weapon for young nobles.
You guys could speak about how middle eastern armies worked
I appreciate the new voice actor.
I keep thinking of Admiral Yi and all his drilling.
Ye gods I love this channel
This was soooo soooo much interesting!
I’d like to see a video on how to “raze” and medieval castle
Enlightening and entertaining indeed 👌🏻
Amazing video
would you please make a video on napoleonic era "boot camp"?
Anyone else just imagine medieval soldiers doing cqb and room clearing drills?
My family crest has a dog with a silver/arget collar over a wall….If my research is correct it means my ancestor was awarded this for being the first over the wall during an attack.
Fascinating! Thank you!
What a documentary !
Great video. Am I right in thinking that an English fyrd would have just been the 'freemen' unit that you described or is it slightly different?
They were trained in barracks, archery range and stables
Elite units were created from castles
The Byzantine army is so different from this that they may need their own videos.
Actually the difference is a bit smaller than you think while they still maintain a large pool of Professional Soldiers mostly for the Emperor's personal army they still practice a form of this training and recruitment method as they were decentralizing themselves.
Epimithius made a video about it a while back.
Tagmata are the Emperors Personal Army
@@forickgrimaldus8301 Tagmata in modern Greek translates to "Divisions"
In Field of Battle I Recreated the Battle of Shipka pass One to One but my defenders just rout the enemy and chase them down the fields abandoning their defensible positions to get flanked from all sides. How do I make them stop routing.
In Medieval Finland the soldiers didn't have much to fight against. Save for a rare fight with Novgorod/Russians every 30 or so years they were showing force rather than using force. Drinking 4-6 litres beer between plentiful and salty meals was the way to train. If and when the Knights in Savonlinna Fortress were mobilised, the problem was if the local small horses could carry both the overweight knights and their gear. Only the Swedish Noblemen in charge had proper horses by default. The bulk of the knights were from Finland, and they ride local horses.
What information do u have about how regular farmers would deal with bandits or raiders .