What if Martians invaded Earth in 1913?
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Welcome to the second episode of my viewer scenario contest. In this episode we have two scenario's. The first is what if Martians invaded Earth in 1913, based on the War of the Worlds mocumentary. Aliens land in Bavaria and quickly spread to envelop the European continent. The German empire gets completely destroyed, as do Austria Hungary and much of Central Europe. After this the Martians go on one final conquest spree, conquering the Low Countries and pushing deep into Russia... How will humanity be able to stop these invaders?
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I am michael please let me back I was just joking around
I'LL COME BACK ONE DAY
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What if america went full manifest destiny.
Purchase of Greenland.
Purchase and state hood of English carribean and English Belize and English Guyana.
Purchase of western Canada.
Annexation of northern Canada.
Even the martians know to respect swiss neutrality
Swiss SMASH.
Martian W
Every alien Civilization knows don't mess with Switzerland 🇨🇭
We’re else would they launder their stolen gold?
Well, Mountain terrain isn't the ideal for the tripods, also other nations such as Greece would've been (relatively) safe.
Martians: "We are more advanced than you can ever imagine"
Humans: "Bitch, you can't even handle the sniffles."
What are sniffles
@@nganpham4519 a slang nickname of The Flu
Then again you should see my family in late November 🤒🤧🤒🤧😵
Poland: "Let's revive the hussars! They would surely destroy the aliens, right? RIGHT?!"
I was hoping it would end with almost all of Humanity being wiped out until Lettow von Vorbeck, armed with seven men & a stick, defeats the Martians in a 20-year guerrilla war.
Martians: Invade humanity
Humans: "how will this affect us geopolitically?"
This will surely affect the price of tools!
this will drastically affect fishing season
@@domish5 This will have a severe impact on the trout population
*the british
jesus comesback to start the apocalypse:
"but how will this effect the economy?"
We had Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Now we have
Theodore Roosevelt: Martian Slayer
Id Watch that in cinema. Teddy Roosevelt in a mech suit punching tripods
That's a common trope. There are like two or three sequels of war of the worlds with him on chargue. One of them have him riding atop a human reverse-engineered tripod, carrying a heavy machine gun and a human energy weapon, downing marties like is nobody's bussiness.
@@rapatacush3 War of the Worlds: Goliath for anyone wondering
I imagine that the reason that the Martians haven’t launched a second invasion is because when they launched some of their stuff back home, they carried a human pathogen back with them. Which may have infected martians and crippled their civilization.
Wow, that would be amazing.
Deffenders in a spacefaring war of conquest/invasion have the unsurmountable advantage of living there. Unless we have star wars levels of instant travel, and even if in some ways, The attackers bassicaly have what they came with and that's it, they have to succed alone and succed fast because reinforcements aint on the way. Even if reinforcements are on the way, if said reinforcements take centuries, even decades to come, they may aswell never come
A space conquering civilization may very well have settled for not reinforcing their troops, never. A succesfull conquering space force would likely send invasion forces everywhere in an atempt to engulf as much space as possible for to negate it to competitors, then it would likely only resuply those invasion forces that succeded as you do with an investment, and for those who werent fruitfull, well.. You cut your loses and forget about those
or it could have just been so resource intensive for there otherwise far less resource rich planet that its gonna take them another 100 to 200 years to rebuild a proper invansion fleet.
@@housewilma4904 Yea
There is a great comics called "War of the World War One" where the invaders land on the western front in 1916 and start attacking both sides, who need to pause and work together to understand what the hell is happening.
Thanks
@Mohamed Ahmed Somalia profile picture? 🇸🇴
I think that’s a far more interesting scenario than this video tbh.
@@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN Agreed, this scenario is kinda meh, the author was more concerned about having the results parallel our own timeline rather than presenting a compelling & comprehensive look into how the scenario would actually play out. Martians being stopped before reaching Paris or St. Petersburg? The Suez canal holding out where larger Egyptian cities didn't? Yeah, I like this other take better already.
@@bustavonnutz it is said the aliens aren’t trying to achieve victory and the invasion is more of a resource thing from a dying empire trying to survive. But I do agree that the Suez not falling is unrealistic as the aliens are implied to have done some research on earth before invading and yet they didn’t take the most important piece to global trade
I liked this scenario, nice touch with leaving the origin of the martians ambiguous. They were only spotted near Mars
I wonder what would the effects of the Martian landing in United States instead would be. Would the United States be able to hold against the Martians? Or would the United States be destroyed instead?
@@1mol831 It’d probably be a Germany situation. American nationalism hits hard.
@@averyjdzick but how many Americans would perish in the face of Martians?
@@1mol831 at least like 2
@@1mol831 1913 USA? It would be completely destroyed, they only had less than 1/10th of the strength of the French or German armies, and they got destroyed by the Martians.
Kinda funny how we're much more eager to fight against a common enemy, rather than cooperate towards not starting unnecessary conflicts.
Co-operation with different groups isnt built into us and requires us to be socially emgineered naturally or artificially and/or heavily policed for that to occur.
This helps reduce the amount of "fat" that accumulates in every species, so that a new and "better" humanity is constantly being forged. (better in this context meaning more likely to survive)
I mean when both of your existence is doomed if another one is still existing your way more likely to work together then if neither of your existences are doomed but working together might lead to the betterment of both.
Human nature is selfish but we’re not stupid.
Fighting united against a common enemy does seem pretty cooperative to me.
@@dead2memes2oof85 yeah they do be making it look like its that terrible when these people are faced with ultimate extinction but like had they arrived about 30 or 100 years theyd be dead by the sheer power that we hold in compare to these 1913 guys who had little and was inexperienced.
True
American Isolationists: "Yeah but the Martians have NO way of crossing the Atlantic"
Teddy Roosevelt: "So you're saying that space-faring invaders have no way of crossing an ocean?"
AI: "Yes."
TR: "..."
AI: "..."
TR: "....."
AI: "Ooooooooooooooh."
Suddenly macarthur "NUKE 'EM"
@@averagecustodes2562 nuke'em
No
Nuke'em
No
Ah cmon
You're fired
That was actually the plot point in the Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2.
I guess I should read this comment before I added my own.😂😂
Yet again apparently they haven't figured out what air travel is... initially
I'm trying to imagine Teddy Rosevelt screaming at Woodrow Wilson in a telegram letter stating "WILSON YOU IDIOT, THEY'RE AILENS THEY AREN'T GONNA STOP IN BRITAIN AND JUST GO HOME!
YOU CANT REASON WITH ALIENS WILSON! THINK WILSON! THINK!!!
The timeline of the war scenario is kinda hard to follow as we don't have any temporal mark to know how fast the events are happening.
"The german designed Fucker" that hot me rollin💀💀💀
It’s unlikely that the martians would come back after such a defeat, unlikely, but not impossible
They'd only come back after creating far more capable tech
@@lmul1441 But humanity would be ready this time
But maybe other aliens would come?
@@1mol831 possibly….
@@Voidmaster999 maybe mecha-aliens. They could be immune to human disease due to being fully automated.
There is actually a mockumentary about a martian invasion, called "The Great Martian War 1913-1917"
That’s the basis for this video.
I also really want a 1940 amd modern version. If these men from a hundred years ago proved to be a threat to the martians then no way theyll be able to go against a major nation from ww2 much less modern. Tech really is kinda amazing.
@moedictatornoriega8475 that's just the hoi4 war of the worlds mod where the radio broadcast in 1938 was actually real
When H. G. Wells wrote the novel "War of the Worlds" he wrote it specifically as a social commentary on British colonialism doctrines to begin with, with the deliberate criticism of his own countrymen by comparing them to the Martians who invaded England in the novel.
I've read a soviet "spinoff" where a British officer starts to collude with Martians, of course it was 90% propaganda but rather funny. Like, there's a part where they keep him in a tripod net with other prisoners, and he starts signaling martians to eat that other guy after learning he's in a workers union xd
@@sanyaskillpro Sounds hilarious.
You know... Considering Harry Turtledove wrote a book series in which Reptilian aliens invade earth during WW2 im willing to bet there's a market for other alien invasion alternate histories
Alien secret invasion during the cold war, aliens infiltrate government's secretly, but it's eventually found out forcing the US and USSR to begrudgingly work together, but both the US and USSR are also spying and trying to one up each other at the same time hindering their ability to find the aliens spies.
You know it’s sad that as soon as the aliens were defeated humans immediately went back to killing each other
Aahh humans
Humans will perhaps always remain societally inferior to an intelligent alien species if we remain divided into nation-states. By comparison, most sci-fi aliens have ascended beyond such a state.
There's only one way to get good at killing aliens: practice
@@Tex-ly1zv People from the Balkans when they hear their neighbor say something funny: 💀💀☠☠
Will you make the second part? Like maybe a second invasion, or the geopolitics of the Earth after we manage to create a rocket to the moon?
I might create a scenario where the Martians try invading again some time in the 1980s, but don't hold your breath.
@@firelordmarklin6166 Martians attack in 1980s and get nuked off the face of the earth.
Due to martian attacks earth is mostly more unified and all focus is on space warfare.
In the 2020s the first earth attack on mars would happen with Grand General Elon Musk leading the fleet.
Mars would fight off the attack and a perpetual war and space arms race would go on for hundreds of years until we beat the martians and make them go extinct then make mars a human colony.
When the humans on mars become a different subspecies a new war will start, but thats in another episode.
@@firelordmarklin6166 ngl itd be interesting if the humans built rockets and found the martians spying on them, just an idea
@@firelordmarklin6166 and then die to bacteria again
@@firelordmarklin6166 holding
Switzerland: We're neutral
Martians: Understandable, have a nice day
Teddy Roosevelt was not inexperienced. He led the rough riders
he said the soldiers were inexpirience and directly stated how theodore roosevelt was very experienced doe
It is likely that Adolf Dies in the destruction of Germany aside the many other disasters, so no WW2.
Even if hitler lived, EVEN if he became the leader of germany and started a WWII in a sucked to the core world and that’s a big if
Hitler’s army would have a total manpower of
6 germans and a sausage factory in Tanganika
@@Jerry-tg7zx Heh, true that, the writer almost wiped out Germany In this timeline.
If they don't get colonized by their neighbours, they are going to be in recovery mode for centuries.
@@buzter8135 Amen 🙏
True
Even if he lived the would probably be a much different person. Targeting his hate towards the martians.
Scary thing is, with a death toll of 20m, his Martian war would not eclipse the death toll of WW2
90% of Germany and Austria dead, the neatherlands and poles lost a similar amount, Russia alone probable lost 20-30 million. I’m guessing 100-150 million dead, then another 100 million from the plague. Or 7.4 percent of 1914 population. 250 million dead is low end, not fully taking into count the Middle East, Africa and India. All of Persia gone too.
@@Bobbyjimmytimthey said only 20 million died in this scenario
This was a really cool scenario! I like how you started with a sort-of expanded, contextualized version of War of the Worlds and then went the extra mile by going all the way through to the modern day.
11:05 "thought highly unexperienced, the charisma and experience" lol
7:40 Seeing where the wind was blowing, the Italians bravely took a stand and... joined their Martian overlords.
"The martians simply went around the migono line" 😂 man that line got me
The logic is evident on a galactic scale 😂
migono?
Would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the martians landed on an island (in the UK for example) instead. Being on an Island would have been an interesting scenario!
They'd have been lamb-blasted, I don't think there'd be much of a diaspora post-war, if you think the Germans had it bad in this scenario, what your proposing would blow it out of the water.
@@buzter8135 Given that the Martians have demonstrated a persistent inability to cross large bodies of water, I thought this would be an interesting scenario for both. Because the British fleet would have been (most likely) destroyed and no other power at the time had a fleet anywhere near as powerful (and necessary) to cross the channel.
@@RealCodreX It sound's pretty bleak for the humans in this scenario with the Royal Navy crippled the martians would have the chance to attain naval superiority.
They didn't land on an island on purpose, their entire strategy relied on material gathering so they had to land on a continent with a lot of it and they HAD to land in one of the strongest nations so that they could wipe it out quick and then take their time plucking up resources. They could have gone after America but we weren't densely populated so it didn't seem like we were anywhere near as much of a threat, on top of that they needed a place where it was easy to travel to grab more resources without having to go far, and most of the resources in the US are pretty far apart
@@RealCodreX That isn't true at all, German Navy was just as massive and arguably even more powerful
gotta love a more indepth standalone version of such a complex fictional scenario
I've seen Independence Day and that crop duster in the cut scene that brought those aliens down wasn't all that different from the bi-planes available at the time so those Martians were lucky the germs got them first.
From what I remember of the War of the Worlds, I’m pretty sure it was stated that the Martian civilisation was on its last legs and nearing total collapse due to their planets ecosystem and what not degrading over time.
As such, the invasion was a last ditch effort to save their species as they planned to migrate to Earth. This probably explains why considerations such as disease etc where not taken into account, and it also makes sense as to why no reinforcements where sent after disease set in, as in the book it’s assumed that most of the Martian military capability is already in Earth after the fall of humanity. Therefore, when the Martians are defeated, that’s practically the end for them which is why no other invasion happens.
They also do a landing on Venus.
@@Fridaey13txhOktoberthe hell they gonna do there sunbathe? Itd be better to land on the sun than venus lmfao
@@halfpace1462bro what if we gonna see a Martian tripod attacking the sun
It's kinda terrifying to think that Humanity only barely prevailed against the Martians, considering that the post-war commentary implies the Martians were just a disorganized force trying to gather resources due to a crisis at home. If their goal when invading was to actually conquer the planet, we would've been screwed.
I mean the reason why the martians did invade in the original book in 1898 ( If I recall properly) , was that mankind go too evolved. Consindering that heavy artillery could damage the tripods and that thunderchild was able to destroy some ( An mere Ironclad)) the martians would have a rude awakening when invading earth in the 1910s or later having Dreadnoughts which are a multiple as powerful as such an described Torpedo Ram and fast firing artillery around. The first man made object in space was an arillery projectile of the paris gun. Also the understanding of a lot of the things that do happen in the original novel are better understood, the black smoke , well gas the red weed, and see what happens.
Also that just more people and and maschinery is available to produce for a war economy and that there are massive stockpiles of new toys for the military to play around at this point in time.
1898 Tech was not too different from 1913
@pootis how is that funny
@@submarine6410 Dont underestimate that the first 10 years of the 20th century were a huge jump in tech and distribution. For example in those ten years about 60% of major cities in Germany were got electricity for the first time.
@@vHindenburg , in terms of military, nothing major changed, similar guns, im mean sure dreadnought were invented, but they are just bigger versions of existing warships. I suspose gas was invented but other than that, tech was relatively similar
@@submarine6410 Dreadnought, Submarines, Technically Aircraft carriers. The upgrade from 12" Blackpowder guns to 14-15" which use a far more potent propellant, more modern Railways, 1914 portable radios were already available and 1916 already in use in aircraft. That is a similar jump in tech like from 1998-2013 think on what happened in that time frame. The changes at the beginning of the 20th century were massive, look on how a car looked in 1898 and one in 1906 (Namely Renault). There are a lot of examples. And a lot will just stay under the radar, because a lot of changes happened in medicine and chemistry, which are not imedeatly apparent.
What if Atlantis invaded the Roman empire
Atlantis probably did exist but wasnt an advanced utopia or some shit like that
It was probably some west iberian or west north african town or island which got flooded and destroyed during the end of the last ice and younger dryas.
Kinda suspicious how all cultures have a flood myth and theres evidence of a major flood, everywhere around the end of the last ice age.
I do think atlantis was much more advanced then any civilization to come in the next 13000 years though.
IMO we prob technologically surpass the atlantians around the invention of gundpowder and guns.
It wouldnt matter though because atlantis if it existed around the time of the romans it'd just get overrun by roman legionarries even with more advanced technologies.
Then the romans would reverse engineer the technology but the guys who reverse engineered it would be killed by the emperor unless the emperor was one of the good emperors.
I like the parallel to our history, that Martians were simply just following orders
it isnt a parallel to our history it's basic common sense, soldiers generally do not know what they are fighting for and their superiors usually dont tell them because it isn't their job to care
Earth: being invaded by Martians
The diplomatic core: unites to save the human race.
The irish: YIPPEE FREEDOM TIME!
The martians better not park their vehicles in ulster unless they want to get a good dose of *a little bit of trolling*
I would love this scenario to continue!!
Go and watch The Great Martian War 1913 - 1917
One of, if not my favorite war of the worlds videos! The author did a great job creating it and you did a great job narrating it. If it comes out a sequel would be awesome, maybe a human counterattack on a potential Martian/Wendigo Homeworld? Ironically very little sci fi scenarios have humans invade other planets that are inferior/at such a heavy disadvantage like disease
H.G Wells would have been impressed by this. Great job. I'm not one for "historical fiction" but this was well done and now a favorite!
can you do a "what if Lenin let the social revolutionaries take power in the 1917 election" I think that would be very cool and seeing what will happen to the SU with democracy and if there could win against the Germans in 1941 sounds fun.
That sounds cool
They probably would as Stalin only just bearly won due to the absolute destruction of the civil war, if that was avoided Russia would’ve industrialized much quicker
@@EndoClaw maybe
This was one AMAZING video!! Good job.
I’d love to see a part two!
I wonder what would happen if the Martians landed in the United States? Would the United States be able to hold or would it destroy USA industry? Would Europeans help USA?
@@1mol831 I would think they would just by proxy of Canada being the next door neighbor of the US and Canada still being firmly in the British Empire at that point
@@clarkstrange2142 Aliens though.
@@1mol831 if the US was bold enough to send troops and supplies in this timeline where the conflict was an ocean away, it makes sense that Britain and her allies in Europe would send aid and soldiers if the Martians landed so close to its territory
My favorite video of yours… Constantly rewatching this.
If there's a non-canon Battlefield video game that features a Martian Invasion during World War I, that would've been awesome!
I loved the ending. Having that random meteor appear is such a full circle ending! (I'm a big fan of circular endings)
I also love how the viewer created this idea that newer generations become more and more disinterested in fighting the Martians as a parallel to how people have been treating the Cold War and communism as a joke. Of course, the best part is how certain parts of the world used the Martians to inform their ideologies in their own way.
Man this needs to be so much more popular this is such a good video
Oh my goodness, the narration... ♡ I love that this is basically a history lessob from an alt reality. Makes you wonder how CZcams history channels in other realities cover their topics... and what mistakes and misinformation is told in this alt history's reality (as, even in this alternate world, there will be mistakes and intentional obscurements).
"he who sleeps"on an oceanic planet could be a version of sorts of cthulhu. lovecraft and conan-doyle could have been brought in as communicators
Europe: *gets freaking destroyed*
Wilson: i believe it is time for you to know about my points...
This is the plot of the great Martian war documentary that was made lol
This needs more attention, its such a good over view of the scenario.
love how humans in all the modern alien invasion movies never think to use their literal city-destroying bombs. GIVE THE MARTIANS A NICE, NEW SUN, MAN!
There's a few settings were is stated that if there's one understanding beetwen the humans and the aliens is that nukes and mass destruction weappons are out of the question. The aliens dont glass the planet from orbit because they want it and if they were to use mass destruction devices they know humans have a kill switch in the form of nuclear self anihilation wich would waste al of the martians work and hoppes for the planet. So if humans just were to be nuking the aliens clean off or knocking ships in space with nukes they would be forcing the alines hand to use their own mass destruction means and everyone looses
Civilian casualties & fallout to other areas without Martian’s:
Such an amazing scenario, id love a part 2
I see a lot of parallels between this and world war 1. Great video!
Genuinely the coolest alt history vid I've seen in a while thanks
please make a part 2, it was actually really good
I like this, it's a more realistic and well thought out idea of the great Martian war. It takes into account things the show definintly missed and options the martians definintly would have taken but couldn't owing to the shows limited budget.
This video is so cool. I can’t imagine how long it took to research and script this video. And I hope this story may have a continuation in the future, with that ending alluding to something greater.
Good stuff. That was pretty interesting.
This was awesome and amazing thank you
I find it odd that the aliens would stick to the german border and not invade either switzerland, austria or france. If they originally landed in the Schwarzwald, the road to france would be shorter than the road to Berlin.
The Alps - not too friendly as a terrain type to these behemoths.
Do YOU want to be the one that violates Swiss neutrality?
Good point on Austria and France though
As for humans in this scenario: life under any human government is far preferrable to life under Martian rule, where humans are classified as either slaves, slave-soldiers "Lobatans" for short being their classification of the humans they force to fight in their ranks, or mere livestock to be "dinner" to these aliens, which feed on human *blood*, by injecting it, live, into their own veins.
What if Sweden won the great northern war by the way great work on the channel.
Well they were already in the ascendancy so my guess is more of the status quo.
You should definitely do a part two. A modern war has so much potential for dope stories
Very good writing and reading!
I realy hope That a second part Comes out if there is a new contest
Please make a part 2 of this
Please do a part 2 at some point please 🙏
I'll be honest
I didn't come here for the video
I just came here to say that
the Italians are going to side with the aliens
stupid reasoning. also, the joke doesn’t even make sense. italy never switched sides, it merely suffered a civil war.
@@levthemapperxd 🤓
Didn't you make a martians video few months ago. Also thank you for making great content!
This was really cool, you should do science fiction alt hist more often
16:38 made me fire beer out my nostrils
Really interesting and entertaining video
great scenario!
The world: on the brink of collapse
Britain: tries to save humanity
Ireland: feck you I'm leaving
This was amazing
Yeah, homeworld command in the eyes of the Martian soldiers really messed-up big time with administrating the invasion: their own troops couldn't even figure out what the mission was! That one alone explains a lot of their messed-up tactics and behaviors: they had no idea what their assignments were! Put yourself in their shoes: you're going to make a lot of blunders too in that case... your orders, as Sun Tzu would say, were not clear; so your boss, whoever he is, failed badly in his assigned tasks of clearly conveying your work task assignment list!
A fun and great video to listen to while painting.
This was a realy interesting scenario
Cool scenario!
Good god, I feel like a sequel would be awesome, it’s already better than todays block busters.
I loved it!
Those Martians sure are good sports, giving humanity a fighting chance on the ground. If it were me, I'd just glass major cities from orbit then demand unconditional surrender.
Ay, the only space technology we know of them is the falling star. We don't know if they can even make a stable space station, much less an orbital supercannon
@@jsw973Not to mention that one of their best weapons, being the Heron, despite having cool antimatter shields, sucks at aiming its plasma cannons.
You could just do tactical landings and assign each unit to a type of terrain to quickly adapt, that’s basically how the combine took over earth in 7 hours
Let's look at the bright side: at least there was no WWII
The cultural and political developments in early post-war are confusing and disconnected but otherwise a truly special scenario
Needs a part 2
Awesome!
Did he mention Harry Turtledove? He wrote a series of books about this exact thing. I believe they came out in the late 1980s or early 1990s? He also wrote alternate history of the American civil war. All good reads and I definitely recommend them.
Outstanding! Good to see a quality 1 hour video. Subbed.
I liked the comparison to the original novel's last chapter which talks of failed attempts at even reanimating Martian technology. The "terrible disasters at the Ealing and Kensington laboratories" when the heat ray generators were attempted to be powered up and many other nice geopolitical touches.
Nice!
Please make more of these expanding into SciFi series like star trek!
Hi ph I love your videos
51:55, there never was a “party switch” that’s a simplistic understanding. The parties just changed, they didn’t switch
Definitely need a part 2 but a modern one, perhaps humanity going into space?
Please do a sequel!
This all sounds like the plot of a Wolfenstein-like videogame series
We need a part 2
I kind of want the senario to continue
"So how cursed do you want this senario to be?"
*YES*
16:40 I thought he said “the German designed fucker”
If it hasn't already been stated, I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the video The Great Martian War-1913 to 1917? Just look it up on YT..... I've become obsessed with the story/video....one of the most original things I've seen on YT. So I'm just curious, is this a verbal description of the video or an unbelievable coincidence?