The battle which ended the Boudican Rebellion took place in Roman Britain in AD 60 or 61, and pitted an alliance of British peoples led by Boudica against a Roman army led by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus. Although heavily outnumbered, the Romans decisively defeated the allied tribes and inflicted heavy losses. Thank you for all the feedback guys, unfortunately as stated previously the games engine is very limited to what you can and cannot do, so we tried to make the video as entertaining but as accurate as possible... the battle itself is not completely historically accurate but again we tried to get as close to it as we could. Timestamps: 00:00 - Roman army Strategic Positioning 01:21 - Tribes of Britannia March and Boudicca's War Speech 02:51 - Chariots advance, skirmish begins 04:03 - Britannic, Iceni Tribes march on the Roman's 06:00 - Brutal Hand to Hand combat ensues 11:45 - The mass retreat begins 12:05 - Battle report according to the Roman Historian Tacitus 12:54 - End Credits Music by Farya Farji = czcams.com/channels/2_JOhJf-VAQm5VRqjY40Rw.html Battle of Alesia 52BC =czcams.com/video/pB-f08WrR3c/video.html
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You forgot that the Roman legions were equipped with scorpiones and ballista. The Romans would have decimated the advancing British charioteers or at least minimized their effectiveness from a distance. Additionally, the first or even 2nd wave of British infantry would have suffered the same fate as the Romans would have pummeled them relentlessly with their artillery.
You know the bloodshed was so brutal that it shook Nero. Not only were the Celtic tribes poorly armed and trained, they brought their families in large wagon trains to watch what they thought was going to be an easy victory. Instead, after the Romans routed them, many Celts got pinned against the same wagons and got slaughtered along side their families. The Romans spared no one.
@@trentbacker9562 previously. City of camulodonum was besieged and burnt to the ground. Most of the inhabitant are retired legionnare with most of its male population killed. Also Legio IX hispania that attempted to relieve the city got ambushed and slaughtered to a man. Except for its commander and cavalrymen. My guess the romans just exacting revenge on the celts.
The Roman gladius was a stabbing weapon, and very lethal. The longswords carried by the British necessitated each tribesman needing a lot of room around him to swing. The stabbing legionnaires needed less room, which means 2 or 3 could gang up on one guy, protecting each other and killing the guy who was outnumbered. Coupled with the rotation system letting fresh legionnaires to the front and allowing troops to rest before their turn came about, the superior armor and tactics of the Romans allowed them to beat the larger force.
Actually the battle did not begin like that way it's portrayed in this video. As the Celts began their charge towards the Roman lines, the Romans threw their pilums at the Celts. Most of the Celts carried shields, were so weighted down by the broken and bent pilums, they were rendered useless. Thus they had to discard their shields and fight without them. This left the Celts severely less protected and nothing to defend against the Romans gladius thrusts. The Celts up piled up in their tracks. This halted the Celts momentum, while the vast numbers behind them try to move forward from the weight of the Celtic onslaught. They had nowhere to go with the Romans in front and baggage carts behind them. More pilums thrown into the mass of Celts just made it worst. The Roman war machine also fought in a lines and rows, alternating their men every few minutes from the front row. The fighting soldier stops, returns to the rear of the line, allowing the next Roman behind him in the line, to advance and replace the front row to continue fighting. This kept the men from exhaustion, treat any wounds, while allowing the fresh men to maintain a steady fight and advancing the army forward. The Celts had no chance, and were wiped out entirely. I know this is a video game, but just thought if you have the option to display the battle more accurately, that's how it happened. The Romans set themselves up in a perfect location to fight with their smaller numbers, forcing the Celts to funnel into the Roman lines. Anyway, Cheers!
great video but not historically accurate. The Romans did not fight in open order, hand to hand, they fought close order, tightly packed thrusting around their shields with their short swords. they simply wouldn't have broken formation to 'charge'!!! fun video but if you'd set up the Romans halted and British in open order, you'd have got a more accurate representation.
Wanting to deepen even more, it must be said that the governor Pauline used an even more excellent technique. Since the Celts pushed the Roman line like madmen, he arranged for the line of legionaries not straight horizontally to the Celts but in the shape of a "saw". In this way the Celts who were pressing towards the Roman line with their fellow soldiers who were pressing behind them, found themselves trapped without even having the possibility to move and fight while they were mangled by the gladius of the legionaries.
@@antoniomartellini3443 I was going to say what you said. That "saw" description is exactly how I've heard it described. I can only assume that the video graphics engine used couldn't reproduce that.
@@panderson9561 I think you are right in this case, but I assure you that I have seen it reproduced in other animations. However, the important thing, as I have already had the opportunity to write, is that these videos are not suited to making people understand the fighting techniques of the Romans. The Legionaries when they fought were always lined up and covered as if they were a single man, it was impossible to enter the formation, they did not jump and yell as you can see from the video, they were silent and motionless like statues and while still they beat the gladius on the edge of the shield (still today Police all over the world use this deployment for public order). Woe to them if they broke the formation, they were killed on the spot by the centurion. I keep pointing out these things because if people don't see exactly how the Romans fought they will never understand the reason for the greatness of the civilization that invented and shaped Western civilization.
This was awesome. I think the only thing missing was the Roman tactical disposition - their line consisted of triangles that would break up the mass charge of the Britains and basically have them hacked and stabbed from two sides. It was pretty ingenious.
Thank you for pointing this out. I been looking into many of these videos on Roman, Greek and WWII battles and you are right, the legions were in triangles, wedges, which forced the massive Celtics' mass into killing zones. I am getting very tired seeing people put things out without proper studying.
Nothing pretty about war at any time,but in the ancient world, it was literally mano o mano - the brutality in this video probably only scratches the surface on just how bloody it was.
@@pzatotalwar I know, the Picts played unconventional night time hit and run warfare, and the prideful, dishonest Romans wrote false history claiming their soldiers were needed elsewhere in central Europe to fight Germanic peoples...
Boudicca: Slighted Queen with no tactical experience, driven purely by revenge, who sent thousands of Britons to their deaths in a scenario that could have been avoided *Revered by the Elizabethans, Victorians and female supremacists because she’s female* Caratacus: Skilled British commander who annoyed and harassed the Romans for 9 years and was only stopped by the betrayal of an ‘ally’ *Is forgotten because he’s a bloke*
Except Boudicca isn’t remembered for just this battle is she? You missed the part where her army sacked Colchester and Londinium, and if it had one at Watling Street probably would have driven the Romans out of Britain. Your cringy incel framing unsurprisingly doesn’t hold up.
Nice video. I love Rome 2, really any Roman Empire game. Was a truly fascinating time in my opinion. Plus I just got back from visiting Rome for the first time. Was amazing to see the remnants from the old Empire still standing.
I love how TW and other historical map games have allowed amateur documentarians to flourish. My favorite current niche. This was amazing work in a unique medium.
"Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever." - Michael Scott - Boudica
Imagine trying your hardest and knowing everyone on your side is dying around you . And all the one on one's that we're at first start becoming two or maybe three on one. Knowing you were gunna get stabbed up bad! Pretty brutal
Tribes in those days typically took herbs and hallucinogens, so aside from adrenaline, and the rouse of warfare, they were probably amped up on some mind altering mushrooms
@@borninjordan7448 Ma la Britannia ha imparato tutto dalla dominazione Romana, il più grandioso e glorioso Impero della storia; Roma ha conquistato, dominato, costruito e CIVILIZZATO; ROMA AETERNA ET LUX MUNDI 🦅💪
Most history is often told by the victor. In this case, the loss of 400 Romans seems sus but Roman War machine is the reason why they were so successful.
@@weedwizard7906 Population of roman occupied Britain is estimated for around 4 million at the time (for comparison, England pop soon after the Norman conquest in XI century was merely 2 million), but it is notoriously hard to muster many warriors in those times, among the various tribes, not to mention for the uprising. Not to mention Roman and all ancient historians always overestimated the numbers, sometimes to a ridiculous extent. So Boudicca forces estimation was 100.000 to 230.000 with those first number being either closer to the truth or also exaggerated, with unknown but much lower part of them to be actually warriors - the presence of large amounts of spectators was mentioned by both sources - this is what Paulinus meant when he speaks about more women than men and about not looting just victory. Needless to say the number of death is also hugely exaggerated, something that Roman historians also did every single time.
@@weedwizard7906 I read from a history book that it was about 100,000 Iceni, which in those days, was a very large army. The question is, how many within this 100,000 were actually members of family of the fighting men such as women and children coming along to support the men.
@@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167 Googled it, although it might be the figure at the end of Roman period, or completely asspulled, you know how those articles are sometimes. Wiki says 2,8-3 million at the end of II century. Anyways, the lesser the population was, the more it reinforces my point that the numbers were crazily inflated.
Men didn't just stand still with their shields down when javelins and/or arrows were coming at them. They lifted their shields up to protect their face and torso. The men in the front would kneel so the projectiles couldn't hit their legs. The men behind them could stand because the angle the projectiles came in was high enough that their legs were reasonably protected by the men in front of them. The Roman shields were extra large, so they lost fewer men to projectile attacks. The hand to hand fighting scenes shows men piercing plate armor with swords. Plate armor was made to withstand piercing thrusts from swords.
"At night I can hear the screams Haunted by everything they took from me The nighmare in my blood Vow vegence when the day will come When they hear ny battle cry! Fire and wrath burning in my eye Kicked a queen to the floor And raised a warrior This is the rise of Boudicca!" - Karliene
@@rimshot2270 My welsh fore-bearers would likely differ, my germanic ancestors who arrived in Britain a few centuries later would probably agree with you.
@@TaliesinapCerridwen I have no problem with that. I'm sure you're right in both cases. I'm just tired of Romans being portrayed as bad guys in British and Commonwealth films.
To be fair, Boudica has been blamed all these centuries for the failure. When in reality, she did her best to join several loosely, affiliated bands of people together into a fighting force. There was so much arguing among those different groups. It was very difficult for Boudica to get everybody together on that day, so yeah, she did her best, but of course she got blamed.
I read somewhere the Icini army tried to flee but ran into a mass of wagons brought to the battlefield. They were trapped and the slaughter was horrific.
The Emperor was so disturbed by the slaughter of tens of thousands he weighed abandoning Brittania entirely... that's fucking wild. Human history is so interesting. I wonder what would have happened if Rome had left Brittania so early in the Roman Imperial dominion, and if they ever would have gone back.
I`m a Briton and we truly got our Arses Kicked this day.I`ve read our Warriors were pushed hard up against the Roman lines,were unable to swing their weapons,whilst the Romans could use their razor sharp Gladius to stab and slash.Definitely shows that numbers cannot always defeat a well trained Army.
@@kevinyaucheekin1319 No,I`m Anglo-Saxon and live on the South Coast of UK.Just over 1 hour drive from London and 2 hour drive from Colchester where our Queen Boudica defeated the Romans.
If the Romans’ discipline and training was effective in warfare, then why did it fail against the Huns, Saxons, Franks, Lombards, Visigoths, and Vandals?
@@malgusvitiate7002 The Romans battle tactics were superb on the open field but no good in Forests etc as they were unable to make their formations.The Romans suffered their biggest defeats in Forests and when "hit and run" tactics were used.
It's far more likely the Celts numbers were gradually reduced by javelins, which were being thrown in massive numbers from behind the wall of shields. Eventually their numbers were reduced so significantly that the Romans could then engage them in direct fighting.
She made the terrible mistake of fighting them in a pitched battle and at a place of the Romans choosing if she had just carried on with hit and run attacks and a scorched earth strategy she'd have won
@@angeloargentieri5605 … just remember, my Germanic ancestors dispatched an entire 3 legions (15,000 bully-boy Romans) at Teutoberg Forest in 9 AD !!! … Tioc Faidh Ar La !!!
@@rjwintl Non so perché parli solo di quello che ti fa più comodo della disfatta romana del 9 d.c a Teutoburgo, per mano di un vile traditore Arminio, invece non parli anche della vendetta di Idistaviso del 16 d c. da parte del grande condottiero Germanico , con la sconfitta dei germani e sottomissione definitiva del popolo germanico. Roma rimane sempre il più grande e glorioso impero della storia. Sai che se oggi puoi parlare questa lingua, scrivere con questo alfabeto, camminare su queste strade, vivere in queste città, affidarsi a norme giuridiche, avere acqua e riscaldamento in casa, è solo grazie ALLA GRANDE E DIVINA DEA ROMA . Sono state create oltre 200 città e il doppio dell'equatore in strade; è stato esportata filosofia, lingua, scritture, leggi e sono state create opere grandiose e monumenti maestosi, che oggi sono patrimonio dell'umanità UNESCO. Sono stati creati i diritti dell'uomo ed esportata ricchezza e commerci.....questa è CIVILIZZAZIONE, RINGRAZIA. In Germania sono state fondate tante città come: Augusta Treverorum, Mogontiacum, Colonia Agrippina , Augusta, Bonna ed altre, dove oggi puoi ammirare ancora le grandiose opere costruttive: strade, ponti, acquedotti ,anfiteatri, teatri, terme, templi , fori, opere d'arte straordinarie, sculture, statue, che si possono ammirare nei musei o anche all'aperto (come Porta Nigra, ponte Romano, Basilica (in Trier) e altri grandiosi monumenti in altre città). IL Limes Romano in Germania, che era il confine tra l'occidente civilizzata dai Romani e il mondo barbaro dall'altro lato , dove vivevano i selvaggi, anche parte dei tuoi antenati germanici; questo penso ti ricorda qualcosa, perciò studia bene la storia. La grandezza, la potenza, la magnificenza e la gloria di ROMA SEMPER AETERNA EST, ROMA INVICTA ET CAPUT MUNDI !!!
@@rjwintl ....just remember your germanic ancestors, (prima che arrivassero i Romani, i tuoi antenati vivevano in capanne di paglia ed erano barbari) !!!
I think people living in modern England can’t claim to be the successors of this tribe. There were mixes and invasions along the centuries by romans, germanic tribes, normans etc. Modern italians are a mix of those remaining romans and germanic tribes that mixed etc. So it doesn’t make much sense to say that Boudica had much to do with the people living in the British islands nowadays.
Not true. Modern DNA research has shown the opposite to be true. Just like in Spain, the DNA of North Africans can hardly be found, even though they were in Spain for hundreds of years. Caves in Germany where 10,000 year old bones were found, the descendants of the 10,000 year old people were found in the closest modern town.
The tragic thing about this was that the Iceni tribe were allies to Rome and helped them out. It was only when the King died that Boudicca his wife, assumed the Throne. The Roman Emperor wanted the King's possessions but only received half. It then went a bit pear-shaped! But it was utterly cruel and barbaric by the Roman generals to have raped Bourdicca and her two daughters. And because of their heinous acts, the peaceful Roman town of St Albans, made up of retired wealthy Romans, and undefended, was attacked and all were killed. She then marched onto London, but of course was stopped.
The Romans were wrong to behave in that way with Boudicca and her daughters. All the fault, however, was that coward of the procurator of the Emperor Nero who instead of waiting for the Pauline Governor to settle the matter, went directly to Boudicca to bully her. Suffice it to say that to the detriment of him he immediately fled to Rome to hide, abandoning his office. Of course he did not end well in Rome.
The order to despoil Boudicca & her daughters may not have come from on high but been maverick acts by lower local officials...& we all know about what politicians get up up to.
Incredible and amazing graphics. Men in these battles were tough warriors. To think some armies marched miles and miles for days then fought a battle. To fight just one man in a battle is very tiring, so imagine fighting man after man, so exhausting. Warriors who survived battle after battle must have been tough as stone.
Красавчик, брат! Ты очень атмосферно передал битву римлян с кельтами. Прекрасно и реалистично, как мне нравится. За огромное творчество большое тебе уважение и спасибо. Это уже работа специалиста. Никакой художественный фильм не сможет так передать массовость и кровавость тех битв. Только наше воображение со сценами из книг и Rome 2: Total war.
Very good video! Though you could further improve it by getting rid of the TTS voice, it takes you out of the feel that this is an actual documentary, which the music and production hint towards.
I love Rome history and Rome wars, and this was very important war for Rome. Thank you for your videos man and please keep it up good work. You have definitely my support. P.S. please more and more historic wars.
日本語の翻訳ありがとうございます。いつも観てます。とても面白いですね^ ^(You can understand the contents because it is translated into Japanese. Thank you. I'm always watching. Please continue to post interesting videos.)
Contrary to the Japanese way of fighting battles, individual Roman soldiers stayed together to help one another finishing off adversaries. Another trick was that frontline soldiers were relieved with fresh troops continually. About the first three lines would retreats and be replaced with the fourth, fifth and sixth line. And so on. Such tactics made up the secrets of legionary strength. This meant that they would always do well against individualistic cultures like Gallic and German tribes and against undisciplined melees of fighters.
@@HGL-iq4qg The Greek phalanx was too rigid to activate "mutation". It is a purely Roman invention possible only in accordance with the modalities of deployment of the legions.
Roman front lines look a bit broken up in that melee and there are far too many shots of people being skewered right through the body by a gladius, or that reverse-grip-through-the-clavicle finishing move. There should be a nearly impenetrable shield wall and the gladii stabbing about a hand-width deep into the vitals, which was the Roman-trained way to inflict a lethal wound without risking losing the sword -- and the whole formation creeping slowly forward in a united mass. Also the subtitles should have had the bejabers edited out of them! Mind you, I have spent many, many hours playing M:TW and M2:TW and I'm more than happy to express my gratitude :)
Need to do one on all the battles Boudicca won against the Romans, this final war she was too confident and allowed herself to be pulled into a battle on Roman terms with little strategy...
Non ils ont été vaincu par les anglo-saxons car ils s'en sont servis comme mercenaires pour se battre entre bretons et que les angles, saxons et jutes en ont profités pour se tailler des territoires.
Heading to Britannia was a one way trip for the Saxons. If the locals thought otherwise, sucks to be then. Saxons were part of the movement of peoples migrating away from the likes of the Huns.
Latest archaeological evidence strongly suggests there was little conflict between the Celts and incoming Saxons. When the Romans left the east of Britain was pretty much empty. They have found very few skeletons of both Celts and Saxons bearing the hall marks of battle wounds. The majority of skeletons show no signs of battle. There is however evidence that trading took place between them.
The Romans fought in a series of phalanxes in this battle which meant the Celts did not hit a flat shield wall but were funneled into a series of kill zones. Brutal.
There is only one known stone with reference to Boudicca or Buddug ( Victory) in Welsh and that is on Baiden Mountain above Tondu and Llangynwyd, the real stone being in the Margam stones museum, Bodvoc in Latin supposedly 6th Century but is on a Major Celtic Bronze and Iron Age Burial site. where there are a number of Roman five and at least Six Celtic Hillforts and many entrenchments, the writings were done many years after the actual Battle, many people in Wales over the Centuries have questioned the correctness of Watling street, noting that the Road from Colchester to West Wales was one of the first built, it is now the A48 with numerous Roman Forts and Towns along its length, also the Iceni were in what is now Eastern England ans were certainly knowing of so called Silurians of South and East Wales and know Gloucestershire in to Oxfordshire. These Celtic Tribes were known before Julius Caesar, Etruscan Greek and Egyptian Traders had visited the Island for Centuries before, Macedonians had used many of these Tribes with Alexander and many settled the area of Turkey now Anatolia but then Galatea with Ankara which is a Celtic name meaning Fortress its Capital, in Cymric Yn Caerau is a Fortress and there are many of them in Britain, also Gaer was another City and to this day is still known for its Celtic Burial Mounds, For Myself being a Celt I am always astonished how the History of what were Cymric people is twisted, Paulinus had lost a Legion in South Wales around the area between Margam and Bont Faen( Cowbridge ) , I have an opinion that Paulinus was given a makeover by Tacitus and there are also two other writers, one is not a Roman but an Iberian, they all make observations some Century or more later about a Battle but are widly different in the amounts of Dead, the Iberian Justinian wrote Six Centuries Later of the Iberian Roman Army that was Destroyed in the Cambriensis, which may well have been the 9th Legion but he mentions Camdulonum, Isca Silures and the Land of the Grey Rock on Ancient roads of Kings, my Ancestor was Sir Arthur Evans he wrote of this many times in Letters , even his time in Crete at Knossos he was still enthused by the Grey Rock of Justinian as he wrote, this book I believe is in the Vatican. He was a Monk who had travelled widly and visited Llancarfan and Llaniltyd Fawr amongst other places and knew the Cymric Language which he Called Brittania , the Term Welsh was not even thought about this time because it was a Germanic word, Gallois in France was the same Modern Wales is Galles Gales in Spain and Italy and Gallegas in Portugal, Galic in Croatia and Macedonia and the Danube Valley was also similar. The Cymric word for Ireland is Iwerddon, which it was known for Millenia before the Romans came and the people were Iweryn ( Old Welsh) 5th Century, Scotland was Alban and Caled Alban was a Pictish name and Caled Brythonic, but both spoke the same Brythonic Celtic, Picts were the same as the Pictones of Western France and Welcomed the Bretons when they arrived from Wales and Cornwall in the 4th 5th and 6th Centuries, Bretons spoke Cymric. ( Brythonic Celtic ). The Vatican hold many ancient manuscripts and writing from Greek and Roman Times, which they definitely should release and let the World see the Truth about those Tumultous times.
Well. They won and whooped the Romans, that you have to really dig to find because history is written by the victors. The Romans were saved by the traitors of the Germanic allemanic Templar tribes. Hard to find cuz those groups are still in charge today. It’s not a coincidence that hitler came out of germany
Paulinus arranged his army in a crescent formation to provide enfilading fire from archers. Also, with chariots, shoot one horse and the chariot ceases to exist as effective. Another account estimates Roman numbers as 20,000, (the Roman in charge in SW England refused to march his army North to support Paulinus and was subsequently recalled to Rome in disgrace) and British as 120,000.
The battle was fort near leicester where the fosse way from exeter and watling street cross.you are correct the roman govenor of sw britain stayed in exeter.The rest of the roman army were somewhere in north wales.
Be interesting to find the site and do an archaeological survey/dig. I was brought up in Suffolk, 50s, and told that Boudicca may have been buried between the villages of Garboldisham and Hopton, west of Diss.@@damionkeeling3103
Amazing graphics and a good description of the battle-Boudicca's name repeatedly changed during the narrative-and the historian was Tacitus, not Takatus
...if I remember my high school Latin, which I took way way back in the last century, the Latin letter "c" is indeed pronounced as a "hard" letter, thus the pronounciation as "Takitus" would be correct...the same with the name "Caesar" which we were taught would be correctly pronouned as "KAI-sar" not "SEE-zar" as is most commonly heard today......jus' sayin' ....
Taciturn,said couse Boudicca,a great warrior woman,a Queen,fall down în batlle field with honour and blood.Was killed but not chainned back of waggon by romans to the Roman chariot,în slavery.hep,hep,hep huraaay for Boudicca the brave Queen.!Was not like Cleopatra of Aegipet,who kills by herselfs.,was a brave one and fight till to die. She prefers to fight with invaders,and has to chance a win,but they dont believe their Fortune.😮😮😮😮
Everyone was probably lagging irl during the real battle lol Edit: did anyone else see 2 heads on a standard bearers thing? Kinda brutal tbh but they're tribespeople what can I expect?🤷♂️
Would love to have helped my Welsh forebears dispatch as many bully-boy ancient Romans as I could as an archer leading an archery contingent attacking the Roman flank !!!
They'd had a thorough ass-kicking from that very same Suetonius Paulinus already -- and what did the Welsh care about the fate of a bunch of Belgic tribesmen from about as far to the East as it was possible to be?
@@CaptainPedant … true … best thing about the ancient Romans battle tactics is that those same tactics were then learned , practiced and refined by the losing “barbarians” so that eventually the losers got better and began winning !!!
@@CaptainPedant What are you even talking about? Some bs that tribes in the east were not Celts? 😂 Bet you didn't know that the Celtic monarchy and tribal leaders internarried with many other tribes across all southern Britain. One of Cunabalin's (King of the Trinivante in Colchester) sons mother was a Queen of a northern Welsh tribe, the Ordevice. His name was Curradoc and its well documented by the Romans that after this battle he and his men spent the next ten years inflicting heavy losses on Romans, via ambush and run tactics. So there was far more cooperation and mutual respect among the British Celtic tribes than you believe. There was definitely no division between tribes that happen to live in modern Wales and the rest of Britain. That division came after the Romans left and Saxons arrived.
This is spectacular and atmospheric but it has lots of contentious points. 1. Roman soldiers had to buy their own equipment and most would not be able to afford iron armour and they were likely wearing protection made from boiled leather. 2. The Romans probably took the impact of the first onslaught in their sawtooth formation. This gave them a huge advantage because the press of Britons from behind would so compress those in the front lines that they could not use their weapons. 3. Romans fought from behind their shields, intending to stab with the point only. This would be particularly effective given point 2 above. 3. As someone else has observed, the Romans would have used their javelins to thin out the front lines of Britons and force them to fight without their shields. 4. Again, as others have observed, the real slaughter happened when the fleeing Britons were blocked by their own wagons. 5. The total population of Britons would only be around 1M. How would Boadicea assemble such a huge army? The Romans tended to greatly exaggerate the numbers of their enemies.
What did you do to make the roman units look like that? The rounded shields in particular. I checked the mods you listed in the description but none of them seems to do that I think. Or am I wrong? Otherwise great video! :)
can only imagine the blood and guts everywhere the smell the sounds the sweet and blood mixed into a aweful scene that a simulation cant come close to producing thank God
Nope. They won. Whooped the legions. The traitor Germanic allemanic tribes saved the day. History is written by the victors. You have to dig unfortunately to find the TRUTH
There's a detailed description of this battle along with its leadup and causes in George Shipway's Imperial Governor. Great read if you can still get it.
But that's not the way the Legions fought. Where was the regular shifting of the front line, sidestepping to the rear, and the next Legionnaire stepping up? That kept an entirely fresh front line fighting.
What I understood from various sources is that the Romans rotated the troops in order to keep up sustained fighting. Furthermore they were trained to stab with the Gladius from behind their shields instead of slashing/swinging. The gladius is designed as a stabbing weapon and a sneaky stab from behind the shield does not expose body parts of the soldier behind it and it is also more difficult to judge where the next thrust comes from. You can stab much quicker than you can swing so you can kill more people more quickly. Furthermore Romans would employ tactics such as sawtooth to entice the enemy to close and enhance the killing further. Continuous stabbing is however very tiring and after some time they need to be rotated by fresh troops and get some rest while being rotated back in again later. I guess no Roman soldier would prefer to take on enemy troops by himself as it would expose him from attacks on the sides. He would trust his comrades to back him up on the side while his arm is aching from the thrusting at the enemy. I would compare it to shield wall tactics… Sadly Total War does not model this in more detail. Only the front ranks are fighting and the ranks behind those are just standing idle. Furthermore the troops are swinging/slashing with their Gladiae and engaging in solo fights….. 😖 Furthermore, and you could have modelled that better, is you would expect the Romans to take the initiative, expert troops as they are, and close the distance to the enemy fast so they can throw a few Pila and then switch to their Gladiae. For them those barbarians are not worth their respect and they would trust their discipline, trust in their centurions and comrades, and in their training should get them victory. Even the speech of their general hints at this. At this battle the Romans would advance remorselessly until they reach the baggage train and continue their bloody work until ordered to stand down.
Yes, that's right, the Roman phalanx would rotate and rows at the back would gradually move forward until they were first in line to the action. It was communicated by the sounds of the horns as to when to rotate. I'm thinking that those behind are secretly hoping the enemy would have dispersed by the time it's their turn. And those at the front who got their worth of action and winning are just so pumped up, it's almost a disappointment they are rotated back!
Excellent summation of the battle. Amazing how these supposed history sites have Romans fighting like they were in the Coliseum. Does anyone read the account of this battle, truly. Apparently you did, and I commend you for your accurate description of the battle.
Do you feel bad also for Native Americans, Australian Aborigens, Indians and Africans enslaved, exterminated and exploited by the British centuries later?
@@zaqwsx23 Yes I do. What happened was criminal. I don't agree with any of it. I don't think colonialism was right but that was at a time there was no international rules and no UN. Regardless, I'll always feel for the Aboriginals and Native Americans (Native American wars were not entirely the fault of British immigrant, look up the Jamestown massacre) As far as Indians and Africans go I'm horrified at some of the things we did but we also did some good there too. Like getting rid of women burning themselves alive at husband's funerals, building railways, schools, developing the Indian army, etc. Bottom line is I believe everyone has the right to their own land and country and I'm against almost all invasions (unless its necessary like Normandy) and forms of exploitation.
Yep. And tanks. Powered by horses, fed on magic mushrooms. Firing hard potato 🥔 shells which stunned the Britons/celts/ladies, so they could be slaughtered by hand. It was tough times. Made WW1 look like a tea party. I know, cos my great great great (x64) grandad was there. He wrote a book about it. “Potatoes at dawn”. Which was a poor choice of title because the battle actually started at 4.30pm but we let him off because he spent a lot of time off his noodle on ‘shrooms. Anyhoo, the book is in my attic somewhere along with his collection of brooches. He got 3 in the end which is not bad for the time, as I say, times were tough
It's a pity Boudican didn't learn from the Parthian defeat of Crassus Roman army with a sea of arrows fired with the composite bow which could punch through shields at the Battle of Carrhae 53 bc.
The Iceni were not a Large Tribe the Largest Celtic British Tribes were in what is now Wales and Gloucestershire, Tacitus was rather Romantic with his writings.
A forest on its own would not prevent the Britons attacking from the rear - the Romans would have had to build defences at the rear (and possibly on the flanks as well) - you should show this.
5:49 - excellent angle! I ised to make Rome 1 videos amd I knoe how long this must have taken. All the people here saying what you did wrong have no idea. I really like the skins you used for authenticity. If you haven't checked out the battle of Watling Street from "Battlefield Britain" with Peter and Dan Snow, you will love it. That's what most people are referring to in the comments here when they talk about the Roman "saw formation". It's an older documentary, but it's pretty cool. But great job. Did you apply a filter or are you using a shading preset?
Years ago I remember hearing something that suggested the famous speech Boadicea is alleged to have given, was actually written by a Roman long after the battle actually occurred
Accounts of this battle are scarce and mostly written by Roman historians many years later by people who definitely weren't there (which means we only really know the biased pro-Roman version of events). There would be no way to know what Boudicca's speech consisted of - or whether she even gave a speech - due to the fact that her people didn't keep written records.
The battle which ended the Boudican Rebellion took place in Roman Britain in AD 60 or 61, and pitted an alliance of British peoples led by Boudica against a Roman army led by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus. Although heavily outnumbered, the Romans decisively defeated the allied tribes and inflicted heavy losses.
Thank you for all the feedback guys, unfortunately as stated previously the games engine is very limited to what you can and cannot do, so we tried to make the video as entertaining but as accurate as possible... the battle itself is not completely historically accurate but again we tried to get as close to it as we could.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Roman army Strategic Positioning
01:21 - Tribes of Britannia March and Boudicca's War Speech
02:51 - Chariots advance, skirmish begins
04:03 - Britannic, Iceni Tribes march on the Roman's
06:00 - Brutal Hand to Hand combat ensues
11:45 - The mass retreat begins
12:05 - Battle report according to the Roman Historian Tacitus
12:54 - End Credits
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You forgot that the Roman legions were equipped with scorpiones and ballista. The Romans would have decimated the advancing British charioteers or at least minimized their effectiveness from a distance. Additionally, the first or even 2nd wave of British infantry would have suffered the same fate as the Romans would have pummeled them relentlessly with their artillery.
You know the bloodshed was so brutal that it shook Nero. Not only were the Celtic tribes poorly armed and trained, they brought their families in large wagon trains to watch what they thought was going to be an easy victory. Instead, after the Romans routed them, many Celts got pinned against the same wagons and got slaughtered along side their families. The Romans spared no one.
I guess those wagon trains were common in tribal armies, like when Fritigern rampaged through the Roman empire along side the very young Alaric
Chad Romans committing warcrime upon warcrime
The Romans also slaughtered the cattle, horses and other animals as well. They must have been blood drunk!
@@trentbacker9562 previously. City of camulodonum was besieged and burnt to the ground. Most of the inhabitant are retired legionnare with most of its male population killed. Also Legio IX hispania that attempted to relieve the city got ambushed and slaughtered to a man. Except for its commander and cavalrymen. My guess the romans just exacting revenge on the celts.
Nero was paranoid the governor would take too much retribution on the tribes and start another rebellion.
The Roman gladius was a stabbing weapon, and very lethal. The longswords carried by the British necessitated each tribesman needing a lot of room around him to swing. The stabbing legionnaires needed less room, which means 2 or 3 could gang up on one guy, protecting each other and killing the guy who was outnumbered.
Coupled with the rotation system letting fresh legionnaires to the front and allowing troops to rest before their turn came about, the superior armor and tactics of the Romans allowed them to beat the larger force.
I live just off Watling Street... Its like this on any Saturday night now!
Actually the battle did not begin like that way it's portrayed in this video. As the Celts began their charge towards the Roman lines, the Romans threw their pilums at the Celts. Most of the Celts carried shields, were so weighted down by the broken and bent pilums, they were rendered useless. Thus they had to discard their shields and fight without them. This left the Celts severely less protected and nothing to defend against the Romans gladius thrusts. The Celts up piled up in their tracks. This halted the Celts momentum, while the vast numbers behind them try to move forward from the weight of the Celtic onslaught. They had nowhere to go with the Romans in front and baggage carts behind them. More pilums thrown into the mass of Celts just made it worst. The Roman war machine also fought in a lines and rows, alternating their men every few minutes from the front row. The fighting soldier stops, returns to the rear of the line, allowing the next Roman behind him in the line, to advance and replace the front row to continue fighting. This kept the men from exhaustion, treat any wounds, while allowing the fresh men to maintain a steady fight and advancing the army forward. The Celts had no chance, and were wiped out entirely. I know this is a video game, but just thought if you have the option to display the battle more accurately, that's how it happened. The Romans set themselves up in a perfect location to fight with their smaller numbers, forcing the Celts to funnel into the Roman lines. Anyway, Cheers!
great video but not historically accurate. The Romans did not fight in open order, hand to hand, they fought close order, tightly packed thrusting around their shields with their short swords. they simply wouldn't have broken formation to 'charge'!!! fun video but if you'd set up the Romans halted and British in open order, you'd have got a more accurate representation.
Wanting to deepen even more, it must be said that the governor Pauline used an even more excellent technique. Since the Celts pushed the Roman line like madmen, he arranged for the line of legionaries not straight horizontally to the Celts but in the shape of a "saw". In this way the Celts who were pressing towards the Roman line with their fellow soldiers who were pressing behind them, found themselves trapped without even having the possibility to move and fight while they were mangled by the gladius of the legionaries.
@@antoniomartellini3443 I was going to say what you said. That "saw" description is exactly how I've heard it described. I can only assume that the video graphics engine used couldn't reproduce that.
@@panderson9561 I think you are right in this case, but I assure you that I have seen it reproduced in other animations. However, the important thing, as I have already had the opportunity to write, is that these videos are not suited to making people understand the fighting techniques of the Romans. The Legionaries when they fought were always lined up and covered as if they were a single man, it was impossible to enter the formation, they did not jump and yell as you can see from the video, they were silent and motionless like statues and while still they beat the gladius on the edge of the shield (still today Police all over the world use this deployment for public order). Woe to them if they broke the formation, they were killed on the spot by the centurion. I keep pointing out these things because if people don't see exactly how the Romans fought they will never understand the reason for the greatness of the civilization that invented and shaped Western civilization.
were you there bro?
The historian Josephus once said of the legions, “their drills were bloodless battles and their battles bloody drills”
Latin translation to that please
@@marcelthobois7251 Civus Romanus Sum odi profamum vulgus
@@marcelthobois7251 Incruenta Proeliis Terebrae et Proelia Cruenta Terebrae
This was awesome. I think the only thing missing was the Roman tactical disposition - their line consisted of triangles that would break up the mass charge of the Britains and basically have them hacked and stabbed from two sides. It was pretty ingenious.
The History Channels says that the Roman Army employed this formation.
I noticed that too. The saw tooth front line formation was missing.
Thank you for pointing this out. I been looking into many of these videos on Roman, Greek and WWII battles and you are right, the legions were in triangles, wedges, which forced the massive Celtics' mass into killing zones. I am getting very tired seeing people put things out without proper studying.
Love how you included Farya Faryaji's masterpiece in the beginning
He’s very talented
What a brutal battle, amazing job brother. Also the story-telling is amazing, keep up the great work 🤟🏻
Nothing pretty about war at any time,but in the ancient world, it was literally mano o mano - the brutality in this video probably only scratches the surface on just how bloody it was.
I wish I could go back in time with 20 modern soldiers and watched the Romans butchered and driven back into the sea and out of Britain.
@@whiteprivilegedenier7459 well tbh it happened to them without the use of guns anyways 😁
@@pzatotalwar I know, the Picts played unconventional night time hit and run warfare, and the prideful, dishonest Romans wrote false history claiming their soldiers were needed elsewhere in central Europe to fight Germanic peoples...
Boudicca: Slighted Queen with no tactical experience, driven purely by revenge, who sent thousands of Britons to their deaths in a scenario that could have been avoided
*Revered by the Elizabethans, Victorians and female supremacists because she’s female*
Caratacus: Skilled British commander who annoyed and harassed the Romans for 9 years and was only stopped by the betrayal of an ‘ally’
*Is forgotten because he’s a bloke*
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Except Boudicca isn’t remembered for just this battle is she? You missed the part where her army sacked Colchester and Londinium, and if it had one at Watling Street probably would have driven the Romans out of Britain. Your cringy incel framing unsurprisingly doesn’t hold up.
Can’t trust nobody these days. Betrayal by supposed allies and friends is as old as time. Even spouses betray for a better deal.
and lived he's days out in Rome after he's speech impressed the senate!
@@ryan4640 He gave his side, which was valid.
I love how any historical Total War game can be used for simulating actual historical battles.
Nice video. I love Rome 2, really any Roman Empire game. Was a truly fascinating time in my opinion. Plus I just got back from visiting Rome for the first time. Was amazing to see the remnants from the old Empire still standing.
Absolutely gorgeous ,you could feel the power of the Roman line when they rushed forward...
Whatever mods you use it has greatly improved your battles they’re getting better and better
Thanks shane
@@WarAndHistory. 😢 CAN YOU SHARE THE PARTICULAR MOODS YOU USED
I love how TW and other historical map games have allowed amateur documentarians to flourish. My favorite current niche. This was amazing work in a unique medium.
The roman ruins in Lincoln (Lindum), still have scorching on the walls ♨️🧱!
Boudica - How NOT to command an army.
She thought a heartfelt speech would be enough for her undisciplined barbaric horde 🤣🤣
To quote "I've been doing this for a couple of years already, and I NEVER, NOT EVEN ONCE, I thought that was a good idea."
@@DV-xu7ps a litte speech against the legions of Rome, even a million would lose
"Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever." - Michael Scott - Boudica
She was an amateur at war. Romans were professional soldiers. At least they tried.
"forget about plunder and you'll have everything" literally is what most armies in history ignored and suffered because of
Makes real an important historical event in British history. Superb animations. Could only but subscribe.
Outstanding! I learned a little about a historical event I never knew existed. I hope to enjoy your content for years to come.
you think that's good, you should watch how the blacks fight over a bucket of fried chicken in an Aldi parking lot!
Imagine trying your hardest and knowing everyone on your side is dying around you . And all the one on one's that we're at first start becoming two or maybe three on one. Knowing you were gunna get stabbed up bad! Pretty brutal
Tribes in those days typically took herbs and hallucinogens, so aside from adrenaline, and the rouse of warfare, they were probably amped up on some mind altering mushrooms
@@Native_Creation kind of like a rave then?
Nero was very upset with the way Paulinus treated Budica and the British. "Which was not the Roman way."
Excellent choice of soundtracks from Farya; a great composer of music honoring ancient civilizations.
Rome Returns, Nice!! Roma victrix 💪
you got some very good graphics.
By then, the BBC says that Britain was already at least 75% Muslim and black.
dont forget 69% lgbtqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm123+×$@## too
Back then in history, black men was no strange in Roman society, but for that Britannic Celt, maybe they're surprised
stunning and brave
Please learn your history, Islam did not exist for another 500 years
Bro Muhammad born in the 7th century Ad .
How can they be muslim
Roman helmets and armor are incredible. The Roman empire the greatest of all time...
The British Empire was the largest ever.
@@borninjordan7448 Ma la Britannia ha imparato tutto dalla dominazione Romana, il più grandioso e glorioso Impero della storia; Roma ha conquistato, dominato, costruito e CIVILIZZATO; ROMA AETERNA ET LUX MUNDI 🦅💪
@@borninjordan7448 PER Kmq....L'IMPERO ROMANO HA DATO LA CIVILTA' AL MONDO...TE COMPRESO. Non fare paragoni!!!
Most history is often told by the victor. In this case, the loss of 400 Romans seems sus but Roman War machine is the reason why they were so successful.
Yeah it is sus. Respect to the Roman’s but 200,000 Iceni?? I bet there was barely 200,000 people on Britain at the time.
@@weedwizard7906 Population of roman occupied Britain is estimated for around 4 million at the time (for comparison, England pop soon after the Norman conquest in XI century was merely 2 million), but it is notoriously hard to muster many warriors in those times, among the various tribes, not to mention for the uprising. Not to mention Roman and all ancient historians always overestimated the numbers, sometimes to a ridiculous extent. So Boudicca forces estimation was 100.000 to 230.000 with those first number being either closer to the truth or also exaggerated, with unknown but much lower part of them to be actually warriors - the presence of large amounts of spectators was mentioned by both sources - this is what Paulinus meant when he speaks about more women than men and about not looting just victory. Needless to say the number of death is also hugely exaggerated, something that Roman historians also did every single time.
@@weedwizard7906 I read from a history book that it was about 100,000 Iceni, which in those days, was a very large army. The question is, how many within this 100,000 were actually members of family of the fighting men such as women and children coming along to support the men.
@@Vanhal11 absolutely no chance 4 million. No chance, where’d you get that figure?
@@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167 Googled it, although it might be the figure at the end of Roman period, or completely asspulled, you know how those articles are sometimes. Wiki says 2,8-3 million at the end of II century. Anyways, the lesser the population was, the more it reinforces my point that the numbers were crazily inflated.
There was supposed to be another surviving legion joining the Romans here, but its commander was too frightened to join them.
Indeed, we just wanted to focus on the battle itself here
They didn’t need it
Yes -- the ironically-named commander of the II Augusta, Poenius Postumus (sic), ran on his sword when the news of the victory reached him.
@@CaptainPedant It was the least he could do.
Men didn't just stand still with their shields down when javelins and/or arrows were coming at them. They lifted their shields up to protect their face and torso. The men in the front would kneel so the projectiles couldn't hit their legs. The men behind them could stand because the angle the projectiles came in was high enough that their legs were reasonably protected by the men in front of them. The Roman shields were extra large, so they lost fewer men to projectile attacks.
The hand to hand fighting scenes shows men piercing plate armor with swords. Plate armor was made to withstand piercing thrusts from swords.
"At night I can hear the screams
Haunted by everything they took from me
The nighmare in my blood
Vow vegence when the day will come
When they hear ny battle cry!
Fire and wrath burning in my eye
Kicked a queen to the floor
And raised a warrior
This is the rise of Boudicca!"
- Karliene
But she lost.
@@rimshot2270 presumably, we can assume her “vow of vengeance” mentioned in the lyrics was at the start. It was a vow she was unable to fulfil.
@@TaliesinapCerridwen Happily so. I'm of Italian descent so I'm glad the witch lost.
@@rimshot2270 My welsh fore-bearers would likely differ, my germanic ancestors who arrived in Britain a few centuries later would probably agree with you.
@@TaliesinapCerridwen I have no problem with that. I'm sure you're right in both cases. I'm just tired of Romans being portrayed as bad guys in British and Commonwealth films.
To be fair, Boudica has been blamed all these centuries for the failure.
When in reality, she did her best to join several loosely, affiliated bands of people together into a fighting force.
There was so much arguing among those different groups. It was very difficult for Boudica to get everybody together on that day,
so yeah, she did her best, but of course she got blamed.
You are doing an excellent job !
I read somewhere the Icini army tried to flee but ran into a mass of wagons brought to the battlefield. They were trapped and the slaughter was horrific.
Dude this is a masterpiece 🙌
The animation is really good. To the point that it kind of hurts to watch it. War is hell. But these type battles were so brutal and personal.
The Emperor was so disturbed by the slaughter of tens of thousands he weighed abandoning Brittania entirely... that's fucking wild. Human history is so interesting. I wonder what would have happened if Rome had left Brittania so early in the Roman Imperial dominion, and if they ever would have gone back.
Brexit would have happened earlier.
I`m a Briton and we truly got our Arses Kicked this day.I`ve read our Warriors were pushed hard up against the Roman lines,were unable to swing their weapons,whilst the Romans could use their razor sharp Gladius to stab and slash.Definitely shows that numbers cannot always defeat a well trained Army.
Not Anglo Saxon I presume but Welsh?
@@kevinyaucheekin1319 No,I`m Anglo-Saxon and live on the South Coast of UK.Just over 1 hour drive from London and 2 hour drive from Colchester where our Queen Boudica defeated the Romans.
If the Romans’ discipline and training was effective in warfare, then why did it fail against the Huns, Saxons, Franks, Lombards, Visigoths, and Vandals?
@@malgusvitiate7002 The Romans battle tactics were superb on the open field but no good in Forests etc as they were unable to make their formations.The Romans suffered their biggest defeats in Forests and when "hit and run" tactics were used.
It's far more likely the Celts numbers were gradually reduced by javelins, which were being thrown in massive numbers from behind the wall of shields. Eventually their numbers were reduced so significantly that the Romans could then engage them in direct fighting.
I love these historic events..it must have been terrifying
She made the terrible mistake of fighting them in a pitched battle and at a place of the Romans choosing if she had just carried on with hit and run attacks and a scorched earth strategy she'd have won
Amazing work! Was a real joy to watch this battle! Roma Invicta!
Roma ha conquistato, dominato, costruito e civilizzato; la grandezza, la potenza e la gloria di Roma è aeterna, Roma invicta et lux mundi 💪💪
@@angeloargentieri5605 … just remember, my Germanic ancestors dispatched an entire 3 legions (15,000 bully-boy Romans) at Teutoberg Forest in 9 AD !!! … Tioc Faidh Ar La !!!
@@rjwintl Non so perché parli solo di quello che ti fa più comodo della disfatta romana del 9 d.c a Teutoburgo, per mano di un vile traditore Arminio, invece non parli anche della vendetta di Idistaviso del 16 d c. da parte del grande condottiero Germanico , con la sconfitta dei germani e sottomissione definitiva del popolo germanico. Roma rimane sempre il più grande e glorioso impero della storia. Sai che se oggi puoi parlare questa lingua, scrivere con questo alfabeto, camminare su queste strade, vivere in queste città, affidarsi a norme giuridiche, avere acqua e riscaldamento in casa, è solo grazie ALLA GRANDE E DIVINA DEA ROMA . Sono state create oltre 200 città e il doppio dell'equatore in strade; è stato esportata filosofia, lingua, scritture, leggi e sono state create opere grandiose e monumenti maestosi, che oggi sono patrimonio dell'umanità UNESCO. Sono stati creati i diritti dell'uomo ed esportata ricchezza e commerci.....questa è CIVILIZZAZIONE, RINGRAZIA.
In Germania sono state fondate tante città come: Augusta Treverorum, Mogontiacum, Colonia Agrippina , Augusta, Bonna ed altre, dove oggi puoi ammirare ancora le grandiose opere costruttive: strade, ponti, acquedotti ,anfiteatri, teatri, terme, templi , fori, opere d'arte straordinarie, sculture, statue, che si possono ammirare nei musei o anche all'aperto (come Porta Nigra, ponte Romano, Basilica (in Trier) e altri grandiosi monumenti in altre città). IL Limes Romano in Germania, che era il confine tra l'occidente civilizzata dai Romani e il mondo barbaro dall'altro lato , dove vivevano i selvaggi, anche parte dei tuoi antenati germanici; questo penso ti ricorda qualcosa, perciò studia bene la storia.
La grandezza, la potenza, la magnificenza e la gloria di ROMA SEMPER AETERNA EST, ROMA INVICTA ET CAPUT MUNDI !!!
@@rjwintl ....just remember your germanic ancestors,
(prima che arrivassero i Romani, i tuoi antenati vivevano in capanne di paglia ed erano barbari) !!!
Boudican needs to be a modern movie made in 2023-24
I think people living in modern England can’t claim to be the successors of this tribe. There were mixes and invasions along the centuries by romans, germanic tribes, normans etc. Modern italians are a mix of those remaining romans and germanic tribes that mixed etc. So it doesn’t make much sense to say that Boudica had much to do with the people living in the British islands nowadays.
Of course we have I'm half icenni
Not true. Modern DNA research has shown the opposite to be true. Just like in Spain, the DNA of North Africans can hardly be found, even though they were in Spain for hundreds of years. Caves in Germany where 10,000 year old bones were found, the descendants of the 10,000 year old people were found in the closest modern town.
She does if you're Welsh 🏴✊
It goes to show that no matter how overwhelming the odds are against you, you fight on YOUR terms, occupying the ground of YOUR choosing.
The tragic thing about this was that the Iceni tribe were allies to Rome and helped them out. It was only when the King died that Boudicca his wife, assumed the Throne. The Roman Emperor wanted the King's possessions but only received half. It then went a bit pear-shaped! But it was utterly cruel and barbaric by the Roman generals to have raped Bourdicca and her two daughters. And because of their heinous acts, the peaceful Roman town of St Albans, made up of retired wealthy Romans, and undefended, was attacked and all were killed. She then marched onto London, but of course was stopped.
They had a deal to split 50/50 which Rome reneged on because she was a woman.
The Romans were wrong to behave in that way with Boudicca and her daughters. All the fault, however, was that coward of the procurator of the Emperor Nero who instead of waiting for the Pauline Governor to settle the matter, went directly to Boudicca to bully her. Suffice it to say that to the detriment of him he immediately fled to Rome to hide, abandoning his office. Of course he did not end well in Rome.
. She should have faced her torture like a real woman
@@thesnoopmeistersnoops5167 I did not know that. Thanks.
The order to despoil Boudicca & her daughters may not have come from on high but been maverick acts by lower local officials...& we all know about what politicians get up up to.
This is great stuff! Awesome one on one battles.
Hollering and screaming is no substitute for training and smart tactics!
Incredible and amazing graphics. Men in these battles were tough warriors. To think some armies marched miles and miles for days then fought a battle. To fight just one man in a battle is very tiring, so imagine fighting man after man, so exhausting. Warriors who survived battle after battle must have been tough as stone.
Definitely.
Красавчик, брат! Ты очень атмосферно передал битву римлян с кельтами. Прекрасно и реалистично, как мне нравится. За огромное творчество большое тебе уважение и спасибо. Это уже работа специалиста. Никакой художественный фильм не сможет так передать массовость и кровавость тех битв. Только наше воображение со сценами из книг и Rome 2: Total war.
Bro. The music in the background is fire. I have never heard of this band, I will have to check him out.
The soundtrack found is Legio XIV Gemina
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Very good video! Though you could further improve it by getting rid of the TTS voice, it takes you out of the feel that this is an actual documentary, which the music and production hint towards.
I love Rome history and Rome wars, and this was very important war for Rome. Thank you for your videos man and please keep it up good work. You have definitely my support.
P.S. please more and more historic wars.
Screw Rome. Evil bastards. They killed free people
Brilliant, love these videos ty 😊
This is embarrassing. They should have tried to repeat what Arminius did. Fighting the Romans then in open field battle is suicide.
日本語の翻訳ありがとうございます。いつも観てます。とても面白いですね^ ^(You can understand the contents because it is translated into Japanese. Thank you. I'm always watching. Please continue to post interesting videos.)
Contrary to the Japanese way of fighting battles, individual Roman soldiers stayed together to help one another finishing off adversaries. Another trick was that frontline soldiers were relieved with fresh troops continually. About the first three lines would retreats and be replaced with the fourth, fifth and sixth line. And so on. Such tactics made up the secrets of legionary strength. This meant that they would always do well against individualistic cultures like Gallic and German tribes and against undisciplined melees of fighters.
What has the Japanese to do with this?
Indeed they did Charles.... the games engine does not showcase that too well unfortunately
This is a Greek Phalanx tactic that Romans copied but they improved the formation's flexibility
All the Romans were doing is getting rid of free people. Skins like today??? Same bloodlines are still in control
@@HGL-iq4qg The Greek phalanx was too rigid to activate "mutation". It is a purely Roman invention possible only in accordance with the modalities of deployment of the legions.
Roman front lines look a bit broken up in that melee and there are far too many shots of people being skewered right through the body by a gladius, or that reverse-grip-through-the-clavicle finishing move. There should be a nearly impenetrable shield wall and the gladii stabbing about a hand-width deep into the vitals, which was the Roman-trained way to inflict a lethal wound without risking losing the sword -- and the whole formation creeping slowly forward in a united mass.
Also the subtitles should have had the bejabers edited out of them!
Mind you, I have spent many, many hours playing M:TW and M2:TW and I'm more than happy to express my gratitude :)
well since you played those games you know the games engine doesn't cater to everything we want unfortunately
@@WarAndHistory. No, indeed, and to be fair with the enjoyment I've had out of the games it's probably cost me about £0.01 per hour :D
Need to do one on all the battles Boudicca won against the Romans, this final war she was too confident and allowed herself to be pulled into a battle on Roman terms with little strategy...
Yes very good idea
This is one of my favorite Total War CZcams series
Celts got served because of a lack of tactics, Exactly why they got steamrolled by the Anglo Saxons as well
Non ils ont été vaincu par les anglo-saxons car ils s'en sont servis comme mercenaires pour se battre entre bretons et que les angles, saxons et jutes en ont profités pour se tailler des territoires.
Heading to Britannia was a one way trip for the Saxons. If the locals thought otherwise, sucks to be then.
Saxons were part of the movement of peoples migrating away from the likes of the Huns.
How very wrong you are!
Latest archaeological evidence strongly suggests there was little conflict between the Celts and incoming Saxons. When the Romans left the east of Britain was pretty much empty. They have found very few skeletons of both Celts and Saxons bearing the hall marks of battle wounds. The majority of skeletons show no signs of battle. There is however evidence that trading took place between them.
The Caledonians didn’t do too badly. Unconquered by Rome.
The Romans fought in a series of phalanxes in this battle which meant the Celts did not hit a flat shield wall but were funneled into a series of kill zones. Brutal.
I saw too many Romans slashing with their swords, which soldiers were trained not to do, except to break the points of enemy spears.
Farya's music in the wild, very nice to see it being used in a video game.
There is only one known stone with reference to Boudicca or Buddug ( Victory) in Welsh and that is on Baiden Mountain above Tondu and Llangynwyd, the real stone being in the Margam stones museum, Bodvoc in Latin supposedly 6th Century but is on a Major Celtic Bronze and Iron Age Burial site. where there are a number of Roman five and at least Six Celtic Hillforts and many entrenchments, the writings were done many years after the actual Battle, many people in Wales over the Centuries have questioned the correctness of Watling street, noting that the Road from Colchester to West Wales was one of the first built, it is now the A48 with numerous Roman Forts and Towns along its length, also the Iceni were in what is now Eastern England ans were certainly knowing of so called Silurians of South and East Wales and know Gloucestershire in to Oxfordshire.
These Celtic Tribes were known before Julius Caesar, Etruscan Greek and Egyptian Traders had visited the Island for Centuries before, Macedonians had used many of these Tribes with Alexander and many settled the area of Turkey now Anatolia but then Galatea with Ankara which is a Celtic name meaning Fortress its Capital, in Cymric Yn Caerau is a Fortress and there are many of them in Britain, also Gaer was another City and to this day is still known for its Celtic Burial Mounds, For Myself being a Celt I am always astonished how the History of what were Cymric people is twisted, Paulinus had lost a Legion in South Wales around the area between Margam and Bont Faen( Cowbridge ) , I have an opinion that Paulinus was given a makeover by Tacitus and there are also two other writers, one is not a Roman but an Iberian, they all make observations some Century or more later about a Battle but are widly different in the amounts of Dead, the Iberian Justinian wrote Six Centuries Later of the Iberian Roman Army that was Destroyed in the Cambriensis, which may well have been the 9th Legion but he mentions Camdulonum, Isca Silures and the Land of the Grey Rock on Ancient roads of Kings, my Ancestor was Sir Arthur Evans he wrote of this many times in Letters , even his time in Crete at Knossos he was still enthused by the Grey Rock of Justinian as he wrote, this book I believe is in the Vatican. He was a Monk who had travelled widly and visited Llancarfan and Llaniltyd Fawr amongst other places and knew the Cymric Language which he Called Brittania , the Term Welsh was not even thought about this time because it was a Germanic word, Gallois in France was the same Modern Wales is Galles Gales in Spain and Italy and Gallegas in Portugal, Galic in Croatia and Macedonia and the Danube Valley was also similar. The Cymric word for Ireland is Iwerddon, which it was known for Millenia before the Romans came and the people were Iweryn ( Old Welsh) 5th Century, Scotland was Alban and Caled Alban was a Pictish name and Caled Brythonic, but both spoke the same Brythonic Celtic, Picts were the same as the Pictones of Western France and Welcomed the Bretons when they arrived from Wales and Cornwall in the 4th 5th and 6th Centuries, Bretons spoke Cymric. ( Brythonic Celtic ).
The Vatican hold many ancient manuscripts and writing from Greek and Roman Times, which they definitely should release and let the World see the Truth about those Tumultous times.
Well. They won and whooped the Romans, that you have to really dig to find because history is written by the victors. The Romans were saved by the traitors of the Germanic allemanic Templar tribes. Hard to find cuz those groups are still in charge today. It’s not a coincidence that hitler came out of germany
Why? Was anyone that virtuous back then.
@@Outlier999 because it would be bloody interesting and probably very insightful if not to some degree.
@@mrwhat5094 I have to agree with that, but again I would not consider either side without fault.
Great video guys! I loved the narration
Paulinus arranged his army in a crescent formation to provide enfilading fire from archers. Also, with chariots, shoot one horse and the chariot ceases to exist as effective. Another account estimates Roman numbers as 20,000, (the Roman in charge in SW England refused to march his army North to support Paulinus and was subsequently recalled to Rome in disgrace) and British as 120,000.
The battle was fort near leicester where the fosse way from exeter and watling street cross.you are correct the roman govenor of sw britain stayed in exeter.The rest of the roman army were somewhere in north wales.
@@alanwoodcock3284 Supposedly near Mancetter but I don't know what evidence there is for that.
Be interesting to find the site and do an archaeological survey/dig. I was brought up in Suffolk, 50s, and told that Boudicca may have been buried between the villages of Garboldisham and Hopton, west of Diss.@@damionkeeling3103
A fantastic account of the day many thanks
Amazing graphics and a good description of the battle-Boudicca's name repeatedly changed during the narrative-and the historian was Tacitus, not Takatus
...if I remember my high school Latin, which I took way way back in the last century, the Latin letter "c" is indeed pronounced as a "hard" letter, thus the pronounciation as "Takitus" would be correct...the same with the name "Caesar" which we were taught would be correctly pronouned as "KAI-sar" not "SEE-zar" as is most commonly heard today......jus' sayin' ....
Taciturn,said couse Boudicca,a great warrior woman,a Queen,fall down în batlle field with honour and blood.Was killed but not chainned back of waggon by romans to the Roman chariot,în slavery.hep,hep,hep huraaay for Boudicca the brave Queen.!Was not like Cleopatra of Aegipet,who kills by herselfs.,was a brave one and fight till to die. She prefers to fight with invaders,and has to chance a win,but they dont believe their Fortune.😮😮😮😮
The Romans would never have given up their Battle Lines. Here it is shown, as if every men fights for himselves. Romans new the value of tactics.
Everyone was probably lagging irl during the real battle lol
Edit: did anyone else see 2 heads on a standard bearers thing? Kinda brutal tbh but they're tribespeople what can I expect?🤷♂️
Yes. Like a rabbit's foot lucky charm. Nice.
That was awesome! Pls make more Roman battles!
Would love to have helped my Welsh forebears dispatch as many bully-boy ancient Romans as I could as an archer leading an archery contingent attacking the Roman flank !!!
They'd had a thorough ass-kicking from that very same Suetonius Paulinus already -- and what did the Welsh care about the fate of a bunch of Belgic tribesmen from about as far to the East as it was possible to be?
@@CaptainPedant … true … best thing about the ancient Romans battle tactics is that those same tactics were then learned , practiced and refined by the losing “barbarians” so that eventually the losers got better and began winning !!!
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What are you even talking about? Some bs that tribes in the east were not Celts? 😂 Bet you didn't know that the Celtic monarchy and tribal leaders internarried with many other tribes across all southern Britain. One of Cunabalin's (King of the Trinivante in Colchester) sons mother was a Queen of a northern Welsh tribe, the Ordevice. His name was Curradoc and its well documented by the Romans that after this battle he and his men spent the next ten years inflicting heavy losses on Romans, via ambush and run tactics. So there was far more cooperation and mutual respect among the British Celtic tribes than you believe. There was definitely no division between tribes that happen to live in modern Wales and the rest of Britain. That division came after the Romans left and Saxons arrived.
This is spectacular and atmospheric but it has lots of contentious points. 1. Roman soldiers had to buy their own equipment and most would not be able to afford iron armour and they were likely wearing protection made from boiled leather. 2. The Romans probably took the impact of the first onslaught in their sawtooth formation. This gave them a huge advantage because the press of Britons from behind would so compress those in the front lines that they could not use their weapons. 3. Romans fought from behind their shields, intending to stab with the point only. This would be particularly effective given point 2 above. 3. As someone else has observed, the Romans would have used their javelins to thin out the front lines of Britons and force them to fight without their shields. 4. Again, as others have observed, the real slaughter happened when the fleeing Britons were blocked by their own wagons. 5. The total population of Britons would only be around 1M. How would Boadicea assemble such a huge army? The Romans tended to greatly exaggerate the numbers of their enemies.
thank god its just a game
@@WarAndHistory. Absolutely!
What did you do to make the roman units look like that? The rounded shields in particular. I checked the mods you listed in the description but none of them seems to do that I think. Or am I wrong? Otherwise great video! :)
Hi, thanks Tobey... Which parts in particular?
@@WarAndHistory. Hi, nevermind, I think I found it already. I think the mod is called Imperial Legions of Rome. Amazing mod in my opinion. :)
Great video 😊
I wish Boudica would’ve won.
Had won
Cope barbarus
😂
can only imagine the blood and guts everywhere the smell the sounds the sweet and blood mixed into a aweful scene that a simulation cant come close to producing thank God
Watching Iceni in combat is feels like playing against AI on easy lvl
Nope. They won. Whooped the legions. The traitor Germanic allemanic tribes saved the day. History is written by the victors. You have to dig unfortunately to find the TRUTH
Truly incredible event and retelling. Nicely done.
There's a detailed description of this battle along with its leadup and causes in George Shipway's Imperial Governor. Great read if you can still get it.
But that's not the way the Legions fought. Where was the regular shifting of the front line, sidestepping to the rear, and the next Legionnaire stepping up? That kept an entirely fresh front line fighting.
Yep I AGREE, BUT READ THE TOP COMMENT
I love the Roman Civilization from the bottom of my heart! Kudos to the Roman army.
You're obviously some kind of fascist
Excellently done my guy
Nice 👍
No criticism…this is superb
The most tragic day in Britains history.
1066
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2nd most tragic day
Great as always 👌
What I understood from various sources is that the Romans rotated the troops in order to keep up sustained fighting.
Furthermore they were trained to stab with the Gladius from behind their shields instead of slashing/swinging. The gladius is designed as a stabbing weapon and a sneaky stab from behind the shield does not expose body parts of the soldier behind it and it is also more difficult to judge where the next thrust comes from. You can stab much quicker than you can swing so you can kill more people more quickly. Furthermore Romans would employ tactics such as sawtooth to entice the enemy to close and enhance the killing further.
Continuous stabbing is however very tiring and after some time they need to be rotated by fresh troops and get some rest while being rotated back in again later. I guess no Roman soldier would prefer to take on enemy troops by himself as it would expose him from attacks on the sides. He would trust his comrades to back him up on the side while his arm is aching from the thrusting at the enemy. I would compare it to shield wall tactics…
Sadly Total War does not model this in more detail. Only the front ranks are fighting and the ranks behind those are just standing idle. Furthermore the troops are swinging/slashing with their Gladiae and engaging in solo fights….. 😖
Furthermore, and you could have modelled that better, is you would expect the Romans to take the initiative, expert troops as they are, and close the distance to the enemy fast so they can throw a few Pila and then switch to their Gladiae. For them those barbarians are not worth their respect and they would trust their discipline, trust in their centurions and comrades, and in their training should get them victory. Even the speech of their general hints at this. At this battle the Romans would advance remorselessly until they reach the baggage train and continue their bloody work until ordered to stand down.
Yes, that's right, the Roman phalanx would rotate and rows at the back would gradually move forward until they were first in line to the action. It was communicated by the sounds of the horns as to when to rotate. I'm thinking that those behind are secretly hoping the enemy would have dispersed by the time it's their turn. And those at the front who got their worth of action and winning are just so pumped up, it's almost a disappointment they are rotated back!
Excellent summation of the battle. Amazing how these supposed history sites have Romans fighting like they were in the Coliseum. Does anyone read the account of this battle, truly. Apparently you did, and I commend you for your accurate description of the battle.
you are totally right. this stupid video shows the Romans in a gigantic bar fight engaged in sword fights. all bullshit
Those weapons and tactics were highly effective at beating barbarians, until the Huns, Saxons, Franks, Lombards, Visigoths, and Vandals came around.
@@malgusvitiate7002 True. That might be one of the reasons the Gladius was abandoned at some point in favor of the Spatha.
There's an omision that won the war for the Romans: they advanced in a multiple wedge formation (like WWWWWW)) against the disconcerted Celts!
I feel bad for the British people at the time the Romans invaded them. Brutality and bloodshed, I can't imagine the horror.
Do you feel bad also for Native Americans, Australian Aborigens, Indians and Africans enslaved, exterminated and exploited by the British centuries later?
@@zaqwsx23 Yes I do. What happened was criminal. I don't agree with any of it. I don't think colonialism was right but that was at a time there was no international rules and no UN. Regardless, I'll always feel for the Aboriginals and Native Americans (Native American wars were not entirely the fault of British immigrant, look up the Jamestown massacre) As far as Indians and Africans go I'm horrified at some of the things we did but we also did some good there too. Like getting rid of women burning themselves alive at husband's funerals, building railways, schools, developing the Indian army, etc. Bottom line is I believe everyone has the right to their own land and country and I'm against almost all invasions (unless its necessary like Normandy) and forms of exploitation.
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Where do you think the colonial Brits got the ideas from in the first place? I give you a clue, it was not from Celtuc culture.
Well executed!
Loss romans 400, loss boudica's army 80.000? what? Did they have machine guns?
Yep. And tanks. Powered by horses, fed on magic mushrooms. Firing hard potato 🥔 shells which stunned the Britons/celts/ladies, so they could be slaughtered by hand. It was tough times. Made WW1 look like a tea party. I know, cos my great great great (x64) grandad was there. He wrote a book about it. “Potatoes at dawn”. Which was a poor choice of title because the battle actually started at 4.30pm but we let him off because he spent a lot of time off his noodle on ‘shrooms. Anyhoo, the book is in my attic somewhere along with his collection of brooches. He got 3 in the end which is not bad for the time, as I say, times were tough
Fantastic animation
It's a pity Boudican didn't learn from the Parthian defeat of Crassus Roman army with a sea of arrows fired with the composite bow which could punch through shields at the Battle of Carrhae 53 bc.
Don't think they had phones or internet back then 😂
@@WarAndHistory. They had historians.
@@paulfaber6227 I doubt she ever heard of it. Rome and Parthia fought for decades, but neither ever decisively won total victory.
@@Outlier999 Only if she had a staunch interest in history. Probably not.
@@paulfaber6227 Agreed.
Awesome video again, guys! Good camera and cuts! And again very good choice of music. By the way... who is that chorus during the first few minutes?
The Iceni were not a Large Tribe the Largest Celtic British Tribes were in what is now Wales and Gloucestershire, Tacitus was rather Romantic with his writings.
This video is amazing, it takes out the romanticism around the Roman war and shows some of the cruelty of it!
A forest on its own would not prevent the Britons attacking from the rear - the Romans would have had to build defences at the rear (and possibly on the flanks as well) - you should show this.
unfortunately its not in the game engines capacity to do what your asking
@@WarAndHistory. Thank you for your polite reply. Too often enterprises are very rude when people raise doubts.
5:49 - excellent angle!
I ised to make Rome 1 videos amd I knoe how long this must have taken. All the people here saying what you did wrong have no idea. I really like the skins you used for authenticity. If you haven't checked out the battle of Watling Street from "Battlefield Britain" with Peter and Dan Snow, you will love it. That's what most people are referring to in the comments here when they talk about the Roman "saw formation". It's an older documentary, but it's pretty cool.
But great job. Did you apply a filter or are you using a shading preset?
Reshade
Anytime you fought the legions head on, you were fighting a losing battle. Hannibal knew this, and always fought them on his own terms.
as did armenius
Years ago I remember hearing something that suggested the famous speech Boadicea is alleged to have given, was actually written by a Roman long after the battle actually occurred
Accounts of this battle are scarce and mostly written by Roman historians many years later by people who definitely weren't there (which means we only really know the biased pro-Roman version of events). There would be no way to know what Boudicca's speech consisted of - or whether she even gave a speech - due to the fact that her people didn't keep written records.