@@user-tm8jt2py3d swedish fishermen usually went on viking raids in the summer. almost no vikings had it as a full time profession, most of them were farmers, fishermen and smiths etc. its almost impossible to be scandinavian without having several vikings ancestors
@@Mumintrollet8921 if you don't live anywhere near there and you have .1% Scandi dna, you are not a Swedish fisherman who went raiding. You are a generic result of their romantic assaults. Besides, only about 1% of the Scandinavians were Vikings, most of you were just poor farmers, slaves, something else.
@@aquila4460 the Gauls, the celts and all the conquered tribes merged with Roman culture and society very well, so not really terrorized🫤more likely civilized
sorry man but this depicted shieldwall is not accurate at all plus the idea of staying closer together with shield on shield (u created a shieldwall!!) was something that most armies used until the late middle ages so its not really something just for the vikings and Romans (viking enemies used the exactly same tactic on the battlefield)
@@perineo2231 Tell that to the million gauls slain, and the million more sold into slavery. I am sure they were loving their advanced copy of roman civilisation. Just because the romans were pretty good at committing ethnic cleansing and forcing their subjects to adapt to roman ideals does not mean they didn't terrorize the surrounding country side.
Just imagine you are walking on the garden and suddenly YOU saw a horde of viking shield wall getting readdy to charge STRAIGHT at your position, i would be dead on the inside ngl.
Whilst the Saxons advanced towards the Viking host, Ubba, the Viking leader quietly switched on Spotify to play some Korn. 'Get's me in the mood for some casual blood-letting' he once told a Chronicler named Oswald.
This is based on holywood and not on historical facts. Real shield walls were just one line on people standing with their shields next to each other, not a roman testudo line.
@@nemipiu but a soldier without Formation will always be much faster. Now come from 2 sides and then they have to break the Formation or get flanked and killed.
It is a shame you do not have the audio from this as it lessens the impact sorry to say. Iron rims clinking and hitting wood etc. Very cool though still.
Shooting the muskets will punch a few tiny holes in the wall and that might cause a few bigger holes that'll be quickly covered... The bayonet basically works as a small spear for stabbing, not slashing, and it might get stuck in a shield... With casualties, maybe heavy casualties, I think the viking shield wall would survive a squad of musketeers with bayonets!
This doesn't look so practical. Spears will manage without difficulties to enter the gaps, the guys behind the shields can't see and thus can't react. This creeping forward while crouched will tire you out within 20 meters. Plus, the second and third row guys have to stretch out their arms. How long can you manage that with a heavy shield?
@@nemipiu How long are you gonna wait for your opponent in that stance? Are you gonna endure the enemy skirmishing for multiple hours with your arm stretched like htat?
@machielvanmierlo7761 Back in those days, a frontal clash of suads was the common attack tactic... not much waiting if you can quickly put up the shield wall! Look at this: ua-cam.com/video/TTYz439cA5w/v-deo.htmlsi=ka9q6vjitWACu2yA
@@nemipiu You're linking me a scene from a TV show made in the 2000's. Back then, battles involved many hours of skirmishing before an actual clash. Almost never in that period in time would you see an actual full-on clash like you see on TV
@@machielvanmierlo7761 Fair point... but that video answers some of the questions you've raised earlier! More importantly: if the enemy is not upon you, you DON'T assume a defensive position! You simply wait.
The unholy urge to grab the boys, a viking uniform and re-enact this scene
Might want to revise your comment, you want to get plenty of likes after all. 😎
Hello there Justin definitely not the first time seeing your comments scattered across UA-cam 👋
blud's still active after more than a decade
Nice to see you are still around
One set viking garment for... how many boys? I'm a bit confused here as to how you want to reenact this scene.
Wherever this is that this many people reenact shield walls, I need to move there.
Douglas Fulmer, this was for a TV show (The Last Kingdom) but they probably do this kind of thing in Sweden and some parts of England
Douglas Fulmer I know they have a lot of hardcore Viking re-enactments in Poland
Filming is not far from Budapest, Hungary.
@@nemipiumore in Texas i believe
Who needs CGI?!
- I promise I won't get drunk and form a 256 man viking shield wall.
- a few drinks later.
why 256? because computer nunber oder becaus th
happens every time. :(
@@beafraidofinsectattackdei Rome 2 that’s why
@@ekang9612 Ah makes sense lmao
Funny how on ‘Vikings’ they knew how to do this technique in the first few episodes and then inexplicably forgot for the remainder of the shows run.
You're talking about a viking show where they wore motorcycle jackets.
99% of movies/TV series seem to forget that almost every battle before the 20th century involved rather rigid formations.
exactly.
First two shieldwall where perfect. Seems like they fired the shieldwall guys after.
Ragnar used the shield wall dozens of times wdym lol
@@TCS266но последние сезоны сериала были не про Рагнара
I can hear the "Ho", everytime they advance
Pov: you're a Anglo Saxon farmer who's been called up for war (you have never had a fight in your life)
Girlfriend: He's probably out there cheating on me!
Me and the boys:
Sexist much?
What makes it even better is that they are wearing casual track pants and sneakers lmao
Let's bring pikemen against that.
Even Biggus Dickus cannot break through this barrier
"Its over bro... There's nothing we can do." -Saxons probably
spoiler alert, they did :D and from that moment, cavalry was born, shields redesigned, tactics changed and Normans fled the England
Now thats a shild wall!!
“wtf is that”
“Idk”
“WHY IS IT COMING TOWARDS US”
-Famous last words-
FREM...FREM....FREM....FREM...FREM!
excellent choice in music. KORN!
Viking: how are you gonna go through that
English: through? 😂 *flanks them*
That would work if the vikings hold the formation and don't see what's happening
Для многих людей это было последним, что они видели
pretty good camra quality for the 13th centurey
*Unemployed friends on a Monday:*
When you find out you are 0,0001% Scandinavian
honestly, if you have just a tiny percent of that then chances are the ancestor really was a viking and not just some Swedish fisherman.
@@user-tm8jt2py3d swedish fishermen usually went on viking raids in the summer. almost no vikings had it as a full time profession, most of them were farmers, fishermen and smiths etc. its almost impossible to be scandinavian without having several vikings ancestors
@@Mumintrollet8921 if you don't live anywhere near there and you have .1% Scandi dna, you are not a Swedish fisherman who went raiding. You are a generic result of their romantic assaults. Besides, only about 1% of the Scandinavians were Vikings, most of you were just poor farmers, slaves, something else.
I live in Denmark so i'm not 0,0001% scandinavian.
The Fact that the Creator is seeing comments even after 6 years is just Incredible 🎉
I'm the first one that's amazed!
holy shit
thats fucking cool as hell
It's falling away from me... 🎶 🎵
falling away from ME!
We all wanted to do this once in life
This was beautiful
Everybody gangsta untill the enemy just walks around and backstabs everyone
Form a shield wall! This was really cool. Really do need to get a battle going (With weapons that won't kill somebody no clue how'd they do that..)
At least today, you can go with foam swords, shields and arrows!
There is some irony in the fact that the Vikings terrorized all of Europe using the same tactics that Rome used.
Either the Romans just had superior combat tactics or the whole of medieval Europe was unable to counter the tactics, either way it makes you think
To be fair, most of Europe would agree that the Romans terrorized them too.
@@aquila4460 the Gauls, the celts and all the conquered tribes merged with Roman culture and society very well, so not really terrorized🫤more likely civilized
sorry man but this depicted shieldwall is not accurate at all plus the idea of staying closer together with shield on shield (u created a shieldwall!!) was something that most armies used until the late middle ages so its not really something just for the vikings and Romans (viking enemies used the exactly same tactic on the battlefield)
@@perineo2231 Tell that to the million gauls slain, and the million more sold into slavery. I am sure they were loving their advanced copy of roman civilisation.
Just because the romans were pretty good at committing ethnic cleansing and forcing their subjects to adapt to roman ideals does not mean they didn't terrorize the surrounding country side.
I can feel my primal male instincts kicking in. Quick hand me a sword and shield, I'm about to hit the road
Don’t hit the road bro it can’t fight back
Men now: Take me with you, pllllleeeeease .....
Just imagine you are walking on the garden and suddenly YOU saw a horde of viking shield wall getting readdy to charge STRAIGHT at your position, i would be dead on the inside ngl.
I imagine they were all chanting “Ooooo, oooooo, oooooo”
Just beautiful
Whilst the Saxons advanced towards the Viking host, Ubba, the Viking leader quietly switched on Spotify to play some Korn.
'Get's me in the mood for some casual blood-letting' he once told a Chronicler named Oswald.
POV: it’s 1066 and you’re fighting William the Bastards army
As soon the wall is broken, these guys wished they had helmets...
This is giving me relaxing but at the same time getting me intimadated
the urge to even just attempt climbing up the wall and flanking the enemy
holy fuck that DP brings back so many memories
this here (slaps shield wall) can parry many waves of attackers (gets killed by some Viking 2 seconds later)
Pov: Mount & Blade
The last kingdom?
Wen Qualto Yes!
Uthred son of Uthred
Alfred the great
why do I suddenly have an overwhelming urge to assemble an onager...🤣
It is all fun and game until cavalry or infantry attack from side or back.
Me: pulls out a belt fed machine gun.
As a english bowmen in the battle of hastings i just wasted my arrows to shoot this impenetrable shield like wtf did the duchy of normandy is thinking
Last kingdom vibes. This is how the show Vikings should of done shield walls. Even though it's probably not accurate it still looks cool asf
Everytime I play Bannerlord 2.
It's mount and blade 2 bannerlord for the love of God
When You meet Raiders in warband*
This needs to be redone with Shield Wall by Amon Amarth
That is making me uncomfortable and I don't know why.
needs the chanting!!!
I tried wiping your prophile pic off my screen
CHHAAARRRGGGEEEE!!!!
The good old times ^^
Hell yeah!
Defensive!🤘⚔️
*korn - falling away from me*
This shit is amazing
Cavalry goes brrrrrrrrrrr
Its like a caterpillar moving sideways
Wow!
i need this with original audio
This is based on holywood and not on historical facts. Real shield walls were just one line on people standing with their shields next to each other, not a roman testudo line.
You’re mostly
Right, although such a formation was used as the siege of Paris
Shield + Wall = CHARGE!!
Oh well… there’s nothing we can do.
- enemy of vikings
yeah, just go around it.
You go left, I go right!
@@nemipiu but a soldier without Formation will always be much faster. Now come from 2 sides and then they have to break the Formation or get flanked and killed.
That's the idea; you and your men go one way, we go the other!
Beautiful
this is most likely just a modern interpretation.
guys will look at this and say hell yeah
HELL, YEAH!!!
Hell yeah
All good till they pull a pincer attack
Now bring the oil 🛢️
Its still crazy to me that we essentially fought like this for almost all of human history till recently.
it worked. don't know what's crazy about that.
Actually no this kind of shieldwall is mostly bullhit
so cool
nope. thats a Holiwood shield wall.
an actual wall
Three saxons and three Normans disliked this video
Odin likes your comment very much!
Normans were vikings you absolute i-di-o-t and saxons used the same "tactics" as the vikings.
I doupt that this is historical accurate. Looks more like holliwood Troy reanactment.
Yep. It's all big bull-s-h-it
"Where did you learn this?"
(Thousand yard stare, deep ancestral memories of strange, short foreigners from the south)
It is a shame you do not have the audio from this as it lessens the impact sorry to say. Iron rims clinking and hitting wood etc. Very cool though still.
The original sound is NOT as you imagine it is. Those sounds you mentioned are added in post-production or editing...
I’m curious to know is spartan/Viking shield wall against a bayonet line
Shooting the muskets will punch a few tiny holes in the wall and that might cause a few bigger holes that'll be quickly covered...
The bayonet basically works as a small spear for stabbing, not slashing, and it might get stuck in a shield...
With casualties, maybe heavy casualties, I think the viking shield wall would survive a squad of musketeers with bayonets!
Yes.
Roman box formations were better change my mind
They still going to cameraman
This doesn't look so practical.
Spears will manage without difficulties to enter the gaps, the guys behind the shields can't see and thus can't react. This creeping forward while crouched will tire you out within 20 meters. Plus, the second and third row guys have to stretch out their arms. How long can you manage that with a heavy shield?
The shield wall is not an offensive move, it's more of a stand your ground / impenetrable defense tactic. Did you see them do it in Vikings?
@@nemipiu
How long are you gonna wait for your opponent in that stance? Are you gonna endure the enemy skirmishing for multiple hours with your arm stretched like htat?
@machielvanmierlo7761 Back in those days, a frontal clash of suads was the common attack tactic... not much waiting if you can quickly put up the shield wall!
Look at this: ua-cam.com/video/TTYz439cA5w/v-deo.htmlsi=ka9q6vjitWACu2yA
@@nemipiu You're linking me a scene from a TV show made in the 2000's.
Back then, battles involved many hours of skirmishing before an actual clash. Almost never in that period in time would you see an actual full-on clash like you see on TV
@@machielvanmierlo7761 Fair point... but that video answers some of the questions you've raised earlier!
More importantly: if the enemy is not upon you, you DON'T assume a defensive position! You simply wait.
add pikemen to support them..
And a few archers too!
-Combine- Viking Smart Barrier
Yeah no arrow going through that one
real viking stuff
me and the boys keeping the modern women at bay:
I saw that in real life i got scared because it almost hit me with a spear and almost got ram😅
total war irl
Wow do you guys still do this by any chance
SONS OF ODEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
Rashidun Caliphate shield wall
They were not disciplined , so they couldn't hold this for long
Maybe they weren't disciplined... but they, somehow, managed to conquer and terrorize the main British isle!
I did that at school
My school did that for me
Can I stand with you please?
Where ias my horse archer
jo