What was medieval warfare like? (feat. Overly Sarcastic Productions)
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"People don't like to die."-Shad.
Well why do they keep doing it then?! Bunch of sillies.
Varsocona people die when they are killed
you can't find the way to not-die in combat if you don't combat, even if you die in the process.
concept!
rubble madness you realize that the American military is made up of volunteers, right?
if dying is so great why isnt there a dying 2?
They put their lives at risk to possibly get land, money, and power over the people who they raided.
There are several competing truisms at work in medieval battles.
1 - Disciplined blocks of infantry will always defeat a cavalry charge.
2 - A cavalry charge is almost impossible to resist.
It mostly boiled down to the discipline of the infantry. If they broke (either to flee, or to pursue) then their formation was gone and the enemy cavalry could slaughter them. If they stood fast, then the cavalry basically couldn't hurt them.
However, like any rule, there are notable exceptions. For instance, there was a kind of arms race in the eastern Mediterranean between the spearman and the cataphract. The medieval Romans employed large blocks of disciplined spearmen who could successfully receive a heavy cavalry charge, which was crucial in their battles against the Arabs and Turks. However, once those groups started to copy their tactics and techniques, they had to come up with something to beat their own methods. Enter the klibanophoros, a super-heavy cataphract variant. They had armor on their horses that was thick enough for them to charge directly into spears and come out alive. The spear shafts would break before the blades would penetrate the horses' armor. Naturally, once the Saracens began to copy this as well, the Romans had to come up with yet another solution. They marked out picked men of exceptional strength and gave them extremely heavy short spears made of whole saplings (IIRC the measure of a suitable tree was that you could barely fit your hand around it). These heavy spears were strong enough to beat the horses' armor, so that when the Saracen heavy cavalry charged the spear wall, the picked men would rush out in front and their spears would punch through the horses' armor, wiping out the charge. Over time this shifted from having them rush out ahead, to having them shift from the back of the line to the front, and finally to integrating them into the line itself, intermixing them with the regular spearmen.
Of course, the medieval Romans had a rather decisive edge over most any other power at the time, in that they could afford to maintain and equip elite formations of disciplined, professional spearmen, heavy armored cataphracts, and even a few hundred klibanophoroi, backed by a millenium-long tradition of military science and generalship. And even their finances eventually suffered to the point where they were no longer able to support some of those formations.
Very informative comment! But something to me doesn't feel right about calling them medieval romans, i prefer Byzantines.
There's also the issue with the fact that horses will not charge spears. Not even Napoleonic era cavalry, some of the largest and best trained cavalry in history, would charge a unit with fixed bayonets. The only way you can convince a horse to charge a densely packed block of infantry with any level of gusto required to rush through it is for that group of infantry to break formation and create gaps. If they do not, your horse will either stop very quickly or it will slow down enough to remove almost all of the impact from your charge. It's for this reason that even in the medieval period cavalry did not dominate the battlefield, they simply played a vital role. Just like how infantry, archers, cannon, and crossbowmen did not dominate the battlefield either.
Blabesh Well they called themselves romans. And the term Byzantine was never used in "Byzantium". Also classical culture had been preserved, while most of it was lost in the west.
You can put blinders on a horse and run it into a wall, but the horse will never trust you to ride it again so it's a very stupid long term plan. Horses are assholes, and they hold grudges.
Calvary charge... Impossible to resist?
Did someone say... Halberds?
*Macedonian spear phalanx revolutionizes warfare.*
*Roman shield formations beat Macedonian phalanx*
*Roman shield formations become Medieval shield formations, which get replaced by Medieval spear phalanx*
history really does work in cycles.
Carlos Smith then gunpowder
Bayonet wall!
@@martinzaksauskas4739 Then trenches and tanks.
History is in an endless waltz, repeating the three beats of Revolution, War, and Peace.
The spear (sarisa) phalanx is actually superior to Roman shield formations, atleast in the front. The only problem is it's lack of flexibility, getting outflanked or enemies getting too close means doom. That's why the macedonians employ skirmisher and archer supports, a role that was replaced by unreliable mercenaries during the roman conquests. It became viable again because of better armor against arrows and the invention of poleaxe and various types of polearms that are more versatile than a long pointy stick.
The Chinese empires had this much earlier, even had a version of a poleaxe almost as long as a sarisa. Lamelar is good enough against arrows, so shields became smaller (or got rid of). This is because of their traditional enemies, the stepped nomads, who mainly uses cavalry. And that's where the crossbows come into picture, arming large number of peasants with this easy to use weapon means they had a decent supporting force.
Omg, you cracked me up, Shad.
"That might surprise you, but this next fact might not. People don't like to die...."
I don't know why I found that so hilarious, but your delivery was on point.
Jonathan Watson, except Hollywood actors and video games
@@jarogniewtheconqueror2804 Or thracian chariot drivers.
I really like the fact that you were so realistic about ransom instead of just plain-old condemning it.
I mean at the time it would have even been seen as merciful considering Slavery and Mass murder were very common, not today of course but back then.
War, war never changes.
Depends Warfare has changed very much over the last centuries.
But i know what you mean and i agree, of course.
If you seriously look at it you'll see, that war and killing is among the most stupidest and horrifying things humans can do.
Sadly, even today some people get so brainwashed, they would gladly kill others for basically any BS they are told.
Thraazon 1976
It was world war 1 when wars where now fought in ways without honest honor, oh wait, war has never changed....
True
no one wins
every one loses
some fucker decides to try invading Russia in winter
For people who dont understand this Fallout quote, the way we fight war may change but the reason we do it never changes
War has changed
You must now analyse how well-defendable a pineapple under the sea would be against a siege.
Lol
-Underwater, so you couldn’t stay there long enough to get anywhere.
-Deep underwater, so it would be impossible to reach it before running out of air, and siege weapons would be useless.
-It has tall leaves on top, giving rooftop archers near perfect protection against incoming fire.
-Doorway is small, reducing the total amount of enemies that can rush in if breached.
Who lives in a pineapple under a siege?
We need pineapple machiculations.
@@TheTeutonicPlague SpongeBob steelpants
This is a crossover I didn't know I needed.
I knew i needed it, and i'm _very happy._
KaedeLanyo in what way? ;)
Vilotarian when Blue mentioned he'd been watching shad I did a little dance.
Shad should try and design a modern castle. just for fun.
What about DRAGONS though?
Higland charges were a smart idea although only for a very limited time. They exploited the reloading pause after the first exchange of musket volleys to rush the enemy. Keep in mind that was in those dark days before bayonets and alternating volleys. Great vid my man.
The first comment about not liking to lose/die, chimes very well with Sun Tzu quote: "One only seeks battle when victory is assured."
The death of 1 person is tragedy. The death of a 1000 is statistics.
Wasn´t he who made that one tho.
"Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are God."
That's from Jean Rostand.
DAMN, YOU BEAT ME TO IT
Djorgal Yea, but Stalin is A. more famous and B. his quote actually has a different meaning: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic."
Stalins quote challenges the morals of the people and the emotional reaction they show when hearing about different situation, a nation is shattered after heard of the death of one - special - person, so shouldn't they face the same shattering reaction a million times after hearing of the death of millions? This shows us that human lives are not equal, we want to believe that they are, because it raises our own simple existence to the same importance, in the eyes of morality, as someone actually important.
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The other quote is also questioning human morality, but not about the actual value of a human life, rather how those who take them are viewed.
Everyone can murder someone, doing this however is seen as giving in to ones primitive primal spirit, we superior advanced humans would never do this, only scum would!
Someone with the ability to murder so unbelievably many people must be someone special, someone with a higher cause, and we can only mourne so much, in fact, we can only mourne for our own family because we're no longer inside the group.
And something which is able to murder millions must be a god, bearing death of millions on your shoulder, as you have ability to murder cultures you can't be simple, you can't be a primitive animal! and as there are only animals, humans and gods, you must therefore be a god; and your cause must be truly rigtous, otherwise you couldn't have succeded!
Isnt the quote 1 million?
So we got skirmishes, sieges and battles. But what about Dragons? You should make a video about dragons in medieval warfare, I would like to see a more historical point of view on this subject.
Vincent Franke dragons would effectively be WMDs, it is an absolute game changer and any force with dragons would be essentially unstoppable. Read up on aegons conquest of the seven kingdoms and the expansion of the valayrian free hold.
I am curious though about the historical Dragon. In my research, while they were regarded as fearsome, they were often of a size and fire capacity (as in the fire they could produce was pretty limited) that even one man with a horse, lance, and shield could handle it. I think an army could handle a single Dragon, archers could poke holes in its wings if nothing else, and the footmen could mob it rather quickly... obviously the Valeria dragons were significantly larger.
Use giants with slings
Actually dragons were overrated like war elephants. Firstly they eat a lot, very expensive. Most of the time when unleashed they simply flew off to the nearest mountain and dragoneers would have to track them down by following a trail of ash droppings.
@@Modelstl063 this is why I love this community , its already coming up with answers.
BEST CROSSOVER EVER. My pc exploded from the sheer awesomeness
Juan Martín I agree
When talking about the shield and spear wall, don't forget about the war wagon wall used by Hussits. Those guys repeled a crusade with farming tools ffs. They should really be more known
Real Druid oh yeah. That was basically a primitive tank, wasn’t it?
@@mexa_t6534 I think this is rather inaccurate, because Hussit war wagons were stationed and didn't really move on battlefield.
Don't forget the guns and cannons
One thing to note, Chinese Christians who visited Europe remarked the fact that non-combatants weren't harmed during combat which to the Chinese was very strange, as they were used to seeing the massacre of innocents at all times during combat.
do you have a source on that?
They clearly didn't see what happened to the people in the baggage train then.
@Cenk Tüneygök Same reason why Istanbul/Byzanz is still full of Christians today?
@@MrOlivertwist19 Istanbul has lots of Christians dude. Its the center of Greek Orthodoxy to this day and was even under Ottoman rule.
You should look at the castles and fortified cities from the game Medieval 2: Total War!
Especially the cranels. Archers are damn useless if you're attacking
@Clay I don't think he would have much to complain about. If you want him to complain about total war castle designs let him talk about total warhammer with their single lined wall that is perfectly straight.
Then again, that's fantasy and isn't really pretending to be accurate, so there's always that to be considered. Plus magic.
Hahaa! I could wipe out attackers using a catapult in the mainsquare. Now that you mentioned it: NO MOATS in M2TW.
Clay is it a game on the PlayStation 1.
I am travelling so I was without internet connection until this morning, when I got the notification of a new video and noticed that Shad had talked about exactly what I asked him for on his last video. Really, thank you Shad, it will help a LOT with my book.
Maybe in the future you could make a video talking about the misconception surrounding the Middle Ages? I find it to be one of the most misunderstood periods of history and and can't even begin to count all the ridiculously false crap I've heard people claim about it.
Its been two years but can anyone give me a example?
@@deadaccount9220 Heavy armour actually doesn't make you slower if you are trained knight, Vikings didn't raid all the time, castle wall is usually crushed with just a few (2-5) trebuchet shots, the list goes on...
@@deadaccount9220 I believe the middle age(s) is from the fall of rome, so around 400 AD, until the beginning of the enlightenment, around 1500 AD. That is an AGE, whereas the medieval era was an ERA, from about 1050 AD until about 1450 AD or so, if that make sense
@@ondras5241 Most Trebuches couldn't knock down castle walls. The average trebuches wasn't huge like in video games and movies. The most common trebuches could destroy the battlements but not knock down castle walls. Castle walls were very thick and were designed to withstand a siege. If they crumbled every time a trebuches or catapult hit them there wouldn't be so many medieval Castles around today. Vikings raided very often for hundreds of years. Raiding was a very big part of their life.
@@chadhumphries1445 Well, you can notice that most of these castles are from late mediaeval period. That's because engineering evolved and improved. But for most time it took but a few hits. When trebuchets were first introduced it took single shot to decimate wall. (education.abc.net.au/home?sf103409428=1#!/media/1608281/trebuchets-and-sieges, here you have one of my sources of you don't trust me)
Regarding ransoms of lower class people, during the Iberian Reconquista it's clear that all the Iberian states, Christian and Muslim alike ended up developing a rather lucrative ransom econmy against each other.
ETA: Actually in many ways the practice continued in the late medieval and post medieval periods. Barbary corsairs still raided southern Europe, so places like Ceuta and Tunis had a booming ransom industry with the Ottoman Empire, France, the Knight Hospitallers, Portugal, the Italian States and Spain ransoming and trading prisioners well into the modern age.
We need to do that today! Or not.
Peter Smythe we have prisoners of war, and exchanges, so it's kind of like ransom except of soldiers.
Well, it's more akin to the kidnappings that go on in some South/Central American countries or Somalian pirates. The only difference is that nowadays it's not really being made in an organized way by State actors, but by drug cartels, kidnapping rings and guerrillas seeking funding...
David Ribeiro
North African "pirates" very often did take prisoners, Europeans like to call them slaves butthey were just hostages
They were hostages sometimes, "if" they were ransomed, "if" the other side com,plied with the condition that caused the imprisonement (one example of an actual hostage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_the_Holy_Prince)
. Not all of them were ransomed and quite a few of those captured from Spain to Ireland did end up as slaves. Of course conversion could also mean freedom due to the Quranic prohibition against enslaving muslims and the Catholic church usually also tried to pay mass ransoms, but there was no garantee that someone captured in a raid wouldn't end their lives in slavery.
"I'm not in favor of murder-" except in the case of Spongebob Squarepants, it would seem
That's not murder. That's a righteous kill.
@@jacobstaten2366 this is such an underrated comment!
Shad, I bought a few days ago one of those nifty little shirts that had all the bits of the castles on it. I forgot when it would come in, but I am excited to confuse everyone at school with it!
The video title in earlier versions of production: "Oddly Satisfying Video, that you never knew you needed to function" ;)
Lol, du? Hier? Kam unerwartet.
@@mycrofthirschecke5271 is that German? Or am I stupid
Probably the lader
"So You're invading me?"
Nice video's, both of them.
So you're invading me then? *cuts to defensive structure videos and tactics sources*
Presumably, when describing the knights with couched lances, you are largely talking about moments like the early victory at Damascus in the 1st Crusade, where a knight charge into the Muslim camp won the battle before it ever engaged.
But, largely, the couched lance charge wasn't used. It's distinctive enough to get mentioned whenever it was used, but that visible is a mark of rarity. After all, that's a very committed action that really is only going to work against a tall force that you can charge directly into, like say, more cavalry. However, the loss of horses is going to be severe (it kind of depended on the moment whether human death would be severe, but animals were not in good shape). Horses are expensive, and knights didn't like throwing away they're animal compatriots' lives.
So, I'd argue the most distinctive feature of medieval combat was the development of the stirrup, and with it, the feigned charge. This was a particularly Norman thing at first, where they'd all run, get up alongside their target, then turn all at the same time and run parallel to it, abusing the length of the lance to chip away at the shield wall. This is clearly indicated at descriptions of Hastings, and continued to be used into at least the 13th century.
(Cavalry fights then would look kind of silly, where one side chases the other, turns, and is chased back across the field until someone got chipped enough to force a retreat).
I knew you guys were doing a crossover it was inevitable.
Well its in the title
The hype is real!
Blue sent me here lol.
Blue senpai, i love you!!!!
I'll go wherever you need me to. @w@
Me:Look!! I replied to a reply!! Are you happy mom!! Mom: whats a reply?
Shad this was great I learn a lot from your videos that interests me and it's just really fun to listen and learn from you
I just came from OSP!!
Such great chemistry. We need more of these
5:20 I lol'd hard at this. So refreshing, "Unless they're just a monster type of person then we can just be glad they're gone." - HARD CUT - I want to see the uncut version of this, like, you said something after this, but later decided "Nope, this is the final cut, don't need to keep this other stuff about my mother-in-law." lol
Time for a new shirt: Knights are awesome!
spongebob called and he said "ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahHHHHHHHHHHHHahahahahahahahahahahahah!"
Both this and the classical warfare video are going to help me with my novel. I'm glad this crossover happened.
"People don't like to die"
Well, you'll learn to like it if you've played dark souls. Kinda have to.
aaa it’s nice to meat another who’s died 5 million times
Meet not meat unless your talking food.... random grammar police moment.
@@urticantspoon9960 Bah, its fine, Sir Connor, leave it be.
Bet he was hungry at the time anyway.
I came here to learn how to utilize kite shields in communication with offworldy species. This will be sufficient for the time being.
edit: can't write
Border Bread Lol what?
YES! I wanted this to happen. This needed to happen.
I've been looking for videos describing Medieval Warfare. I've seen a lot of videos on the battles for Greeks, Romans, and a few Asian naval battles.
Thanks for the clear and well thought out analysis.
You should play total war and as you do it correct I the inaccuracies.
Like so he sees this.!
Edit: he should play it with other historical CZcamsrs.
That would be heaven.
I dont think a game can be 100% accurate
They should do eu4 with me too
Lorenzo Lodge all the sword units😂
Lorenzo Lodge and of course fire arrows!
When you've played Mount and Blade for 5 hours
Me: *The Expert*
I already know this is gonna be a good watch! 👍
Shad is so passionate on what he is talking about. It's a great joy to listen to him speak.
HELLO? IF YOU CAN SEE THIS, I'M STUCK IN AN INFINITE TIME LOOP BETWIXT TWO VIDEOS! SEND HELP!
Garret LeBuis Are you stuck in a mobile app or browser?
I WILL
Not help. I shall observe you as you lose your sanity, reaching out to me for help, knowing deep, deep in your mind that I will not.
mr ez the poop I understood that reference
Fucking RIP
Were sorry, we've missed your call. Unfortunately our mailbox is full. Goodbye.
You are trying to get rid of Spongebob Squarepants? But what about DRAGONS?!?
I wonder why he hates spongebob squarepants.
Shad= Awesome. Overly Sarcastic Productions= Awesome. Shad+ OSP =The BEST THING EVER!!!!
Shad I have to thank you you showed me the oversarcastic duo and now there are 2 collabs and I love it !
"People don't like to die."
"Murder is bad."
- Shad
Hot takes
That humour was great XD
*and I wanna kill Spongebob Squarepants too >:)*
KILL SPONGBOB!
Telsion why
@@MaladyKayjo aversion therapy
thumbs up to Shad for killing Spongebob. That alone made this an epic video
You fucking monster.
You're going to let the other characters live!?
Shad, your videos are the best!
Regards from Uruguay.
really have to appreciate the way shad carefully words some things to step around undesirable interpretation or just for the sake of being polite
when I get to touchy or controversial subjects I'm usually rather unapologetic
I love that the first painting in the background is of the Blackfyre rebellion from GoT history.
In book 6 the weather plays a key role
Can’t believe it’s been 4 or so years since I started watching your videos, time flys.
I’m rewatching this video because I was going through OSP (Blue’s) videos on the classical period and then saw the classical warfare video and subsequently the collab.
Love your vids have a good one.
Was time decided by both the parties
i was hoping for animated Shad xD
This was great! I do admit to watching more of Red's videos about tropes, etc, but Blue is awesomesauce as well.
Me today "Hum, let's see if there's something interesting in CZcams, like a Shadiversity video, or a Overly Sarcastic video". Nice
About Medieval charges by mounted knights, there was a battle called Battle of the Golden Spurs. This battle was fought in 1301 and a bunch of militia men armed with mainly jutendas, repelled against a French mounted charges. Many French Knights who chaged were pulled off their horses and beaten to death, including the general Artouis, forcing the rest of the army to route.
you forgot to say that the use of heavy full plated cavalry is not only uniqe to the period but its also very much awsome
This was great! Really painted a picture. K vid idea..10 things to take back to that time. Time Travel. Nerd out matey. :) Or even ten items you would bring back to our time to keep.
At 2:00 I believe that artwork is depicting Crecy not Agincourt
Weren't the stakes just used at Agincourt? Though I agree, there isn't enough mud.
This was an unlikely crossover, two of my favorite youtubers came together. My mind was blown seeing the thumbnail
A colab for the ages
I got sent to this video by Overly Sarcastic Productions... but then YOU had to send me back to the EXACT SAME OSP video that made me come here in the first place! Madness, I say! MADNESS!
Cavalry - the medieval drive-by.
You are correct. War is terrible. But it is coming again, friend Shad, as much as we try to hold on to our civility and reason; prepare yourself, stay safe.
"I know, I've been trying to kill Spongebob Squarepants for years." lmao
Been a long time fan. now that im writing my own book, its been refreshing coming back through all these videos.
Those of us who watch Lindybeige already knew that battles were rare. :D
I enjoyed this thoroughly. An excellent video, and a new-to-me YT channel to devour. Woot!
Isn't the loss of 5-20 a win only if your loss of 5 is a smaller % of your total force in relation to the 20 is of the opposing force? I mean if you lose 5 of your 15 men vs the enemy losing 20 of their 100 statistically you lost.
No you didn't... Unless those 15 were all you have during the whole "war"... Or if they were your elite cavalry and the enemy just lost peasants with farming tools...
Well yes but if you fight a war outnumbered 5:1 you probably already lost
No because a raid would not be such a high percentage of you force. You would only send 2 or 3 if that was your entire force. You only send out who you can afford to lose. Then if you cannot make headway. Wait it out or surrender.
War is not about glory, or playing the hero. War is about killing, it will never determine who was right, just who is left. It will never change, just the tools for it.
love the vid btw as a youngling trying to learn history for a future career this helps allot
Just make sure you don't invade Russia this time.
no ill just get some winter clothes before hand cause you cant not invade Russia HAVE YOU SEEN STALINS STACHE
kilrelevant 1314 make sure they aren't made of cardboard [Austrians aren't the best allys to rely on [indifferent of your beliefs into shared tribal ancestory [or County of birth]]
fiona fiona ok then appreciate the advice
This topic reminded me of a book series I read in middle school, the Farsala Trilogy. One of the primary things in the first book was a large scale battle between two opposing nations, and the after effects of it. It's fantasy and has some magic, but when I read it I thought it approached things in a highly realistic manner. Shad, I personally think you might enjoy the books, so if you ever have any spare time, you might want to look into them.
This collab....I love it.
I love how you used the painting of The Red Grass Field from the Blackfyre rebellion in the beginning ☺
Kay Lew The Black Dragon in his full glory.
*People don't like to die, in conjunction, they don't like to wait for the respawn*
~Mordhau Player.
All this educational content about Medieval and Classical warfare. Fantastic.
that was so cool.
I like that painting of Daemon The Black Dragon leading the charge at the Redgrassfield you have put in the beginning! :D
Sorry shad, they beat you by 4 minutes....
Love that Battle of the Redgrass Field art you got going there. Damn those Blackfyre pretenders!
Very insteresting. I've never realized that actual battles where very rare in Medieval times.
Could it be said that sieges took their place in a certain sense?
The commercial in the middle of the video was so good that I forgot I was watching this video and clicked off of it after the commercial was over lol I came back after looking over my search history and realizing what happened to watch the rest of the video and finally hit that like button after watching it 😂 gonna watch that new movie coming out though 😜 and Shad's gonna get a nice bonus for me not hitting the skip button on the commercial 😉
Total War anyone?
kai lapreziosa
Shad should play it.
Lorenzo Lodge considering his fantasy stuff right now, I'd like to see him talk a little about Warhammer Total War
Shad should try and design a castle for modern warfare
Well, I don't imagine any castle would be very effective. The garrison though would be marvelously effective.
Blackrabbit Down Well, kind of. Modern castles are usually called bunkers.
I have just discovered this channel and I am blown away by it, my son is severely autistic and the way you explain things next to an image is exactly how he can understand these kind of videos with his condition and he hasn’t stopped watching, he has an extremely short attention span and has never sat more than 10 seconds on a video. The emotion after losing his dog when we lost our house last year has broken him mentally and physically and it’s exhausting but we will not give up on him. Thankyou so much, I am crying.
On the point of ransom, I can't remember the name of the battle, but there was one battle in belgium where the knights were fighting the peasantry, and they lost because of the mud, and it was described like "unlike the knights, the peasants didn't care about chivalry and ransoming someone, so they just killed them all."
great video shad
Medieval warfare changed over time with the technology. As the armor advanced, the weapons were changed to do more damage through it. It was an arms race. It also happened over a very long period in history, since the middle ages took place over the course of around 1 thousand years.
I think personally, a video series about this very topic could be very interesting to see. Maybe like 5 parts series. talking about the military capacity and tactics of a certain era, and more specifically why and how those tactics were changed.
Shad hath summoned me.
As always.
A lot of people also don’t know that trench warfare actually happened a bit throughout the middle ages, because you could fortify your position and it was faster than building a castle
No need to battle. Just cause political infighting.
I think what really makes medieval warfare interesting is the extent to which it was dominated by defense. There really wasn't an analog before or after to the sheer survivability of armored troops and fortifications, although mid-WW2 tank warfare comes close. Warfare today is almost entirely about offense and avoidance - even modern tanks are effectively glass cannons, able to attack with shocking rapidity and crushing power, but still vulnerable to attack from other vehicles and infantry.
I just yesterday found your channel and I want to just say I love it! And I have a question (for anyone who knows really). If I'm not confusing things, this channel is mostly focused on the later medieval, or true medieval, the one after year 1000, right? So I'm personally very interested in learning about early medieval or whatever name you prefer for the times about years 500-800. Do you know any good place on the internet (or a book) that I could learn about it from? I'm interested in the general view, things like everyday live, cieties, how did people fight and rule and all that in general. Anyone, anything?
here and lindybiege Lind does a more a bit of everything
Akbar and Shaa Thank you, I will check it out later!
Adam Bierstedt I'm sure it will help, sounds like a good list of sources to start with. Thank you ever so much!
Where did the sources dude go?
Love yours and Blues Dialogue. Been watching him a while as well as Red, but, this was meta y'all looping the videos. Good stuff. Keep up the authentic and great videos
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Not Spongebob, Shad killed him.
The most integral and least understood aspect of pre gunpowder warfare is the actual reason behind formations. If you were like me and wondered "whats the big deal with getting flanked? Cant those on the edges just fucking turm a quarter turn?" Well the issue lies in the reality that a person can only actively fight for a few minutes at a time before losing almost all of their effectiveness. So there was a whole lot of shifting places being done as men in the front would be cycled back of a 5-10 man dep line to rest. Being flanked means losing at system. The men on the flank would become increasingly stressed and wounded until they said "screw this" and fled. 2nd most important detail is a rout is decisive. Even if just the flank retreats, those next them arent keen on becoming a new and even more vulnerable flank, so they will run too and so on and so on. Ive heard that an army might only suffer 5% casualties but if they are overtaken they will still run and could loss half their men by the end of the day, as in 90% of casualties are only after they run
Can you make a video about the how fantasy races would conduct sieges like Dwarves with heavy artillery and tunneling Elves with magical weapons of mass destruction.
Hiden Iny tunneling elf? Know only bullshit smug elf
Dwarves, Skaven, and Gobbos use tunnelling. Elves tend to rely more on magic and arrogance.
I quite like your cross overs with other CZcams people. I feel they way you do them is tastefully done.
Hey great video by the way it since you've covered Age of Empires 2 before I wonder if you could do a video comparing the four ages of Age of Empires 2 to the periods of medieval history.
A new video from Shad. Yay!
And my shirts from TeeSpring arrived today! YAAAYYY! It's like Christmas being today! :D
Now I must choose, which one I'll put on to watch this new video ^_^
Got the LONGSWORD shirt and the DRAGONS shirt and they are totally awesome! I love them both
I too have been trying to kill SpongeBob SquarePants. But bullets and water don't mix, maybe a crossbow?
It’s ironic: the Greek Phalanx of the Classical period was eventually replaced by the Macedonian Phalanx, which was a similar concept, but instead of using a shield wall with shorter (still long) Spears, they took away the shield and replaced them with massive six foot pikes. Then the medieval period comes along and eventually replaced the shield wall with pike lines. Damn.