There couldn't have possibly been any other outcome for the battle, under those circumstances, than a Birtish victory.
Even a retarded monkey in charge of the RN fleet at Trafalgar would have won the day.
But I suppose the English needed somenone to call a hero and they found that cocky insubordinate prick, Nelson, at the proper time and place. It's kinda equivalent as to give a heroes welcome to the English national football team after having beaten San Marino away in an official game. lulz
@Sky1green I agree, Nelson's tactics weren't all that great. In fact, if the Franco-Spanish fleets had been properly manned, it would have been suicide, charging into a battle line with no wind...The leads ships would have been smashed and the ships behind them would all have to slow down to move around them, all this in the kill zone. Nelson was just lucky the Franco-Spanish fleet was just crap at the time.
The ships were ok. Some of them had suffered by being docked for a long time, but the problem was the french naval officers were complete turds, the spanish ships had good officers but deficient gunners (army artillry gunners instead of naval in many cases) and undermanned, inexperienced gang-pressed crews. Besides, the 2 fleets never formed a true line of battle. That's hard to do when you get 2 different navies and ships of various naval specifications trying to act together and
and with the wind favouring the Brits and hampering the combined fleet efforts to come up with a truely line of battle formation. In contrast, the British crews and gunners were superb and very experienced thanks to almost constant deployment at sea for over a long period of time, whereas the franco-spanish had been left blockaded.
ahahahaha this is very funny.... more than 200 years and they haven't accepted their defeat... you must to accept it, British royal navy was always superior...They needn't have more men neither ships to win, because their discipline was the best.
Yes, Nelson was killed, but it was his greatest victory. He was hit by a sharpshooter. HMS Victory survived and is currently in Portsmouth harbour serving as a naval museum.
Does nobody know what ALTERNATE is? seriously...its not meant to be what ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Tired of people spouting the obvious history behind the battle and the outcome of what COULD have happened.
Actually a victory at sea by the Spanish-French fleet does not mean total defeat for the British, The Spanish & the French still has to invade England to defeat the British Empire or capture most of its colonies overseas.
A Franco-Spanish Pyrrhic victory? The victory went to the British fleet and was very far from being pyrrhic, the British lost no ships at all, and their casualties were minimal. I think the video, though well-designed, is an exercise on wishful thinking.
@ltflak Well, it's offensive to the great skill and courage of the British sailors and admirals for one thing. If you want to exercise wishful thinking, why not try it with something more of a close thing, like Waterloo? Now that really was a battle that could have been altered by a turn of luck. But in this battle, the french and spanish fleets were both massively inferior in their design and manning. It's just so unrealistic that it's painful to watch.
@TheSevenCamels You joking right? British ships sucked, built often out of rotting recycled wood. That's why they so often used captured French vessels instead, and the Spanish had some of the best ships ever built at the time. It was the poor condition of the crews that lead to the defeat of the Franco-Spanish fleet. So I'm sorry you were insulted at the idea that things could have gone differntly. Thankfully, you can make your own video and be absolutly devouted to history in every detail
@ltflak, ironically, the French had a better understanding of building ships than did their British arch rivals, but they have very terrible naval commanders, and their sailors aren't experienced seamen. They lacked excellent naval doctrine and discipline. I've read it from a book.
Jacques-Noël Sané is one of the most successful ship designers and builders in the Age of Sail.
@ltflak The French sea officers were useless, the state of maintenance of the Spanish ships was deplorable and manoeuvred very slowly, the gunners were from the Army and most of the time were seasick, and days before departure, many professional sailors at port had fled to avoid being press ganged. The two fleets were doomed from the very start. You could've made alternate battles with Hastings and Waterloo; there the losers had had the possibility of winning.
@odalrich Well, considering how the captain of the Redoubtable handled himself, if the captains of the Franco-Spanish fleet had been a bit more proactive, I think the battle would have been a wash, which is what I tried to show in my video.
Good Bye trinidad you will be in mi heard forever. Thas was the most terrible lose for mi country, Spain. Y like this video because it make an aletranitve final for the battle. ^^
Victory didn't brake the line, only Royal Sovereing, when Victory tried to cut it between Santísima Trinidad and Bucentaure, Santísima Trinidad stopped, so the hole between them was closed and Victory fired on Bucentaure, which repeled it, and when Santísima Trinidad fired on Victory, this last one lost it's mizzenmast and was Temeraire which had to assist Victory.
Or did Victory cut the line AFTER what I'm saying???
If I'm wrong excuse me and correct me, but that's what i've read.
Ugly win, but a win nonetheless. I prefer the East India Company game version of Trafalgar myself. And whatever you do never ever engage the British ships in melee unless you have a 2:1 advantage, else they'd just shoot you to pieces.
@thejoosty1 The failure of the Spanish fleet was the fault of Villeneuve, to leave in search of the English instead of waiting, partly under pressure from Napoleon.
"Fortune favours the bold". Bit of an ambiguous title since Villeneauve was extremely nervous, even frightened by Nelson and his fleet. The French fleet was caught running back to Cadiz, i really wouldn't call that bold
Lighten up guys. ltflak has given us an exciting, historical fiction video. It has great camera work, excellent pacing and an interesting story. What more do you want? He was merely entertaing an alternate take on the battle of Trafalgar, not trying to determine the course of an alternate world history. The amount of talent, ltflak has shown in this piece of work is extraordinary. As a novice (though improving) producer of NTW machinimas, I can truely say, that I am humbled by it. Salute
Why is it for some people SO hard to read the title of this video ? " 'Alternate' Battle of Trafalgar "
It takes more effort to write down about this video being historical incorrect, and even writing down pages of history most people know by now. While it takes even less effort to either read the description or the title.
weel done but it is a bullshit xD...no english ships sank and the santissima trinidad were dismasted before the beginning of the battle, then boarded for two times and then left to sink in a coming storm
The HMS Royal Sovereign, flagship of Admiral Lord Collingwood, decimated the the Santisima Trinidad with the opening broadside of the battle. She was not defeated before the battle, but she also took no part in the battle...
@ltflak Santisima Trinidad was not sunked before the battle,no sunked in the battle and yes sunked after the battle.During the battle he fights alone against 6 english ships (including HMS Victory) and finally was boarded by British. (they want t own the ship,it was the biggest in that age) British captured it and want to carry it to Gibraltar,but the ship was so damaged and finally was sunked in coasts of Cadiz.
What I do is maintain the line, and fire coordinated chain shot at incoming British ships, after I knock off enough sails, I have the French fleet withdraw a bit, and reform a line and become shooting at the disabled British fleet, which is already distracted by the Spanish. Ususally it ends in a close call, honestly, the game should have let us command the Spanish as well, as they don't act historic anyway.
Firepower is very important in naval battles and any player would know that he has a lack of it. As i said earlier, I've never won; my ships keep getting blasted to bits! My first strategy was to join in the fight directly. Kaboom! Blew up into smithereens. Second strategy: Let the Spanish take the beating first, then move fleet to edge of the map so I can only be attacked on 1 side. Epic failure. Flagship blew up. Set fire to ships behind and in front. Rout. How did YOU crush them?
@ORKSIZDABEST When, since there were heavy losses for the french fleet, and they will go to war with the Spanish, I can only assume a invasion of GB will only be possible if the French won Waterloo.
@ltflak if the French won waterloo they would still have too small an army, additionally the Russians would get involved with their fucking 600,000 men army of pissed of hardened veterans. The Russians would invade England and France, they would of fucked everyone, good thing the Russian emperor Alexander I drank a lot so he forgot about it, just joking but they left the idea, but the Russians wanted all of Europe but Austria and Prussia got involved.
Thats not the case. The battle of Trafalgar was key to the defense of Great Britain. Napoleons plan was to defeat the British fleet at Cape Trafalgar. This would leave the English channel undefended, therefore Napoleon could sail his invasion fleet over to the British isles unopposed. This however was not the case as the far outnumbered British fleet annihilated the Franco-Spanish fleets, and as a result, Fance did not control the channel. Therefore no invasion of Britain was possible.
@ORKSIZDABEST in fact yes Napoleon tried once to invade GB but the british did know to convince the austrians and russians to attack France so Napoloen whas obligated to stop the invasion plan and focust on the eastern front where he getted his biggest victorie of his carrier the batle of Austerlitz
ps: when he was making his invading plan the french commander (of the french fleet) refused to engage against the royal navy
also why is there provost marshal there in the end? on top of all ur bad info u think if nelson lived he wud be speaking to a lowly provost they were only the military police known as cowards for never fighting in battle
@MrAwesomal I'm assuming you mean the very end. It was because I couldn't recruit two generals in a custom battle, and thus had to pick a combat unit.
I'm a better general than admiral. I often win my land battles but I've always failed to win Trafalgar. They've more guns than I do and my ships are in bad positions. Congrats anyway to those who won.
@noelwym123 I always fall at Trafalgar, despite that i win most of my naval battles, with worse odds. However, my land battles are mostly a carnage. Well, i'm better admiral myself, but this battle is my nemesis.
@zyzor, read a few history books or do a little online research before you say bullshit. In real life, the French won more wars than any other country in history. Fact.
man this is so cool, if i get a new computer I'll definitely get this game. I also like how in Napoleon total war unlike empire total war , the marines for the brits actually have the correct uniforms and the ships look more realistic.
A Great General, he's tactics, millitary knowhow and battlefeild intelligence was trully magnificent. But he met his match in Admiral Horatio Nelson and Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley...
This was awesome, I especially loved the sinking at the end. Honestly it was a bit jarring though, without the sub-captions I wouldn't have really know what was happening. The constant close ups makes it intense, but at the expense of orientation.
I have a question: How do you record this? Is there a cinematic editor or do you just simply use fraps ( and have the camera unlocked? ) while playing the replays? If the latter is true then how do you hide the UI.
@CostinMoroianu I accually just record during the battle, that gives me access to unique camera angle ablities not possible during replays. And yes I just use fraps. I hide the UI by simply enlarging the video so it's off screen.
Extremely well cinematographed (I especially like shaking camera) and very well sounded (voices are good idea), however as non-historian I had no idea what was going on in the movie. Some map or aerial shots of tactics would make this a masterpiece.
Awsome how you make such grand battles and you make them with your own ending scenario Waterloo and Trafalgar I always found those battles very intresting. I wanted to make my own militarybattle for NTW but just when I had everything ready my account was disabled from steam that sucked now I cannotplay NTW.
Horatio Nelson dind´t survive in that battle, he dead by one spanish shooter shoot. and Villenueve, dind´t fight much cause he left the battle.
And the most important person in spanish band who has dead was admiralChurruca.
Sorry for my english.
Horatio Nelson murió en la batalla de trafalgar, alcanzado por la bala de un tirador español. Villenueve huyó de la batalla, y posteriormente en francia fué tachado de cobarde y traidor. También murió Churruca.
There couldn't have possibly been any other outcome for the battle, under those circumstances, than a Birtish victory.
Even a retarded monkey in charge of the RN fleet at Trafalgar would have won the day.
But I suppose the English needed somenone to call a hero and they found that cocky insubordinate prick, Nelson, at the proper time and place. It's kinda equivalent as to give a heroes welcome to the English national football team after having beaten San Marino away in an official game. lulz
Sky1green 3 days ago
@Sky1green I agree, Nelson's tactics weren't all that great. In fact, if the Franco-Spanish fleets had been properly manned, it would have been suicide, charging into a battle line with no wind...The leads ships would have been smashed and the ships behind them would all have to slow down to move around them, all this in the kill zone. Nelson was just lucky the Franco-Spanish fleet was just crap at the time.
ltflak 2 days ago
@ltflak
The ships were ok. Some of them had suffered by being docked for a long time, but the problem was the french naval officers were complete turds, the spanish ships had good officers but deficient gunners (army artillry gunners instead of naval in many cases) and undermanned, inexperienced gang-pressed crews. Besides, the 2 fleets never formed a true line of battle. That's hard to do when you get 2 different navies and ships of various naval specifications trying to act together and
Sky1green 1 day ago
@ltflak
and with the wind favouring the Brits and hampering the combined fleet efforts to come up with a truely line of battle formation. In contrast, the British crews and gunners were superb and very experienced thanks to almost constant deployment at sea for over a long period of time, whereas the franco-spanish had been left blockaded.
Sky1green 1 day ago
ahahahaha this is very funny.... more than 200 years and they haven't accepted their defeat... you must to accept it, British royal navy was always superior...They needn't have more men neither ships to win, because their discipline was the best.
BENJACHEMIST 2 weeks ago
@BENJACHEMIST I Agree The British Always Had Naval Superiority. Just Naval.
javi009z 1 week ago
@javi009z
hmmm... did you forget the redcoats? the best infantry ever...
BENJACHEMIST 6 days ago
R.I.P Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad (1769-1805 )
Vampirewolfking 1 month ago
2:58, does the guy look like russell crowe? by the way great vid Itflak
mike28156 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Beautiful !!
Dyflinn432 1 month ago
I guess why this video hasn't got more visits, I visit almost once a day, it is fantastic!!!
97anonymus 1 month ago
how do I go down lower than you can go and not with N like you are doing?
MartyMcfly4890 2 months ago
Best Video on tube
austriadave 2 months ago
Yes, Nelson was killed, but it was his greatest victory. He was hit by a sharpshooter. HMS Victory survived and is currently in Portsmouth harbour serving as a naval museum.
theodore671 2 months ago
@theodore671
not much of the old part, i heard that it was burned some years ago, and as the low part has to be repaired and changed often...
really not much of old Victory
97anonymus 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
How did you get such great camera angles.
barry8472 2 months ago
Good video btw :)
coolm3productionsXD 2 months ago
Does nobody know what ALTERNATE is? seriously...its not meant to be what ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Tired of people spouting the obvious history behind the battle and the outcome of what COULD have happened.
coolm3productionsXD 2 months ago
you used my song from inception
SuperPackerBOY 2 months ago in playlist More videos from ltflak
Actually a victory at sea by the Spanish-French fleet does not mean total defeat for the British, The Spanish & the French still has to invade England to defeat the British Empire or capture most of its colonies overseas.
Wolfen443 2 months ago
I thought the British completely crushed the Spain and France?
jiexue123 2 months ago
@jiexue123 They indeed did
ltflak 2 months ago 8
@ltflak so in real life what were the casualties for both sides?
Brotherhoodbikechief 1 month ago
A Franco-Spanish Pyrrhic victory? The victory went to the British fleet and was very far from being pyrrhic, the British lost no ships at all, and their casualties were minimal. I think the video, though well-designed, is an exercise on wishful thinking.
odalrich 2 months ago
@odalrich And what's wrong with that?
ltflak 2 months ago 2
@ltflak Well, it's offensive to the great skill and courage of the British sailors and admirals for one thing. If you want to exercise wishful thinking, why not try it with something more of a close thing, like Waterloo? Now that really was a battle that could have been altered by a turn of luck. But in this battle, the french and spanish fleets were both massively inferior in their design and manning. It's just so unrealistic that it's painful to watch.
TheSevenCamels 2 months ago
@TheSevenCamels You joking right? British ships sucked, built often out of rotting recycled wood. That's why they so often used captured French vessels instead, and the Spanish had some of the best ships ever built at the time. It was the poor condition of the crews that lead to the defeat of the Franco-Spanish fleet. So I'm sorry you were insulted at the idea that things could have gone differntly. Thankfully, you can make your own video and be absolutly devouted to history in every detail
ltflak 1 month ago
@ltflak ʜᴇʜᴇʜᴇʜᴇʜ ʜᴇʜᴇʜᴇʜ!
TheSevenCamels 1 month ago
@ltflak, ironically, the French had a better understanding of building ships than did their British arch rivals, but they have very terrible naval commanders, and their sailors aren't experienced seamen. They lacked excellent naval doctrine and discipline. I've read it from a book.
Jacques-Noël Sané is one of the most successful ship designers and builders in the Age of Sail.
expertstrategy 1 month ago
@ltflak The French sea officers were useless, the state of maintenance of the Spanish ships was deplorable and manoeuvred very slowly, the gunners were from the Army and most of the time were seasick, and days before departure, many professional sailors at port had fled to avoid being press ganged. The two fleets were doomed from the very start. You could've made alternate battles with Hastings and Waterloo; there the losers had had the possibility of winning.
odalrich 1 month ago
@odalrich Well, considering how the captain of the Redoubtable handled himself, if the captains of the Franco-Spanish fleet had been a bit more proactive, I think the battle would have been a wash, which is what I tried to show in my video.
ltflak 1 month ago
@odalrich it does say alternate battle......
SuperPackerBOY 2 months ago in playlist More videos from ltflak
@odalrich
Anyway, it says ALTERNATE BATTLE
97anonymus 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
lol master and commander quotes
adamlikestoshank 2 months ago
if what all your Alternate comes true, napoleon will win, and that will be awesome!
werlops 2 months ago
how can you put the camera inside the ship, like inside on the cannon deck?
werlops 2 months ago
@werlops You have to unlock the camera, you can look up the process on google.
ltflak 2 months ago
you sir have one of the best vid ever make on youtube.
werlops 2 months ago
pretty damn epic
snowboarderdude96 2 months ago
dude coooooool
TheKuriboh30 2 months ago
0:31 Mind your french!
Invicta1298 3 months ago
Luckily history played better :)
TheIcelandicPatriot 3 months ago in playlist Fleiri vídeó frá ltflak
@TheIcelandicPatriot
luckily for YOU, for us is just the oposite ;)
97anonymus 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
@97anonymus Well someone had to win and someone had to lose.
TheIcelandicPatriot 2 months ago
@97anonymus Well someone had to win and someone had to lose.
TheIcelandicPatriot 2 months ago
@TheIcelandicPatriot yeah, I know :)
97anonymus 2 months ago
Nearly knocked me out of my chair when i hear. Straight at them mister Moet! Straight at them sir!
Love that line :)
TheIcelandicPatriot 3 months ago in playlist Fleiri vídeó frá ltflak
you should have put the Spanish voices in the Spanish version
97anonymus 3 months ago in playlist Liked videos
@97anonymus Where would I have found Spanish voices?
ltflak 3 months ago
@ltflak download the spanish voices in cinetube in the case of pirates of caribbean, which are the more notable ones
97anonymus 3 months ago
one thing, how can I evacuate another ship or rescue the sailors that fell to the water???
97anonymus 3 months ago in playlist Liked videos
Good Bye trinidad you will be in mi heard forever. Thas was the most terrible lose for mi country, Spain. Y like this video because it make an aletranitve final for the battle. ^^
Metaladict97 3 months ago
@Metaladict97 +1 el santisima esta con nosotros xD
97anonymus 3 months ago in playlist Liked videos
how can you see the ship from inside from so many different angles???, i only can see the right part from inside
97anonymus 3 months ago
Tsk Tsk. Sharpe would never have allowed this to happen.
AtlantaFalcons89 4 months ago
Very well done.
PanzerFrog 4 months ago
Oh sry, i didn't see it was an alternate battle
97anonymus 4 months ago
And Nelson died in Victory
97anonymus 4 months ago
Victory didn't brake the line, only Royal Sovereing, when Victory tried to cut it between Santísima Trinidad and Bucentaure, Santísima Trinidad stopped, so the hole between them was closed and Victory fired on Bucentaure, which repeled it, and when Santísima Trinidad fired on Victory, this last one lost it's mizzenmast and was Temeraire which had to assist Victory.
Or did Victory cut the line AFTER what I'm saying???
If I'm wrong excuse me and correct me, but that's what i've read.
97anonymus 4 months ago
@97anonymus Yes, Victory did cut the line after Sovereign, between Redoutable and Bucntaure.
ltflak 4 months ago
@ltflak
ok, thanks
97anonymus 4 months ago
Why is it almost the same a Pirates of the Carribean? Anyway, good job on the video, I can't even get the camera to go places where yours has.
TheSmallfire66 4 months ago
The video is very good, the only failure using a mexican accent when they speak the Spanish.
I am not mexican, I'm Spanish!!!!
gordzaur 4 months ago
@gordzaur Yeah, I realize that now, but still, I don't think I'd be able to get Pirates of the Carribean with Spanish accent dubs
ltflak 4 months ago
@ltflak
download it in cinetube.es
97anonymus 3 months ago
@gordzaur It's close enough. Y'know
zaccc 4 months ago
We're about to be plunged in what would be.... *puts on sun glasses* Total War. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!
wigster600 5 months ago
these are epicly filmed, you should go into the movie industry! :D
wigster600 5 months ago
you used lines of "Pirates of the Caribbean" in spanish right?
Vaitor666 5 months ago
Ugly win, but a win nonetheless. I prefer the East India Company game version of Trafalgar myself. And whatever you do never ever engage the British ships in melee unless you have a 2:1 advantage, else they'd just shoot you to pieces.
Nelsonwmj 5 months ago
hehehe, excelent "what if"
Skynetmza 5 months ago
I'm french and I hate Lord Nelson ^^ But I must admit that he was most brave and more intelligent than all the french admiral
thejoosty1 5 months ago
@thejoosty1 The failure of the Spanish fleet was the fault of Villeneuve, to leave in search of the English instead of waiting, partly under pressure from Napoleon.
A bad day to be there.
Greetings from Andalucía
gordzaur 5 months ago
@gordzaur haha thank you for your knowledge ;)
thejoosty1 5 months ago
"Fortune favours the bold". Bit of an ambiguous title since Villeneauve was extremely nervous, even frightened by Nelson and his fleet. The French fleet was caught running back to Cadiz, i really wouldn't call that bold
TalonMercenary 5 months ago
everyone who complain about the information please : READ THE TITLE BEFORE COMPLAINING!
kasor345 6 months ago
Lighten up guys. ltflak has given us an exciting, historical fiction video. It has great camera work, excellent pacing and an interesting story. What more do you want? He was merely entertaing an alternate take on the battle of Trafalgar, not trying to determine the course of an alternate world history. The amount of talent, ltflak has shown in this piece of work is extraordinary. As a novice (though improving) producer of NTW machinimas, I can truely say, that I am humbled by it. Salute
peterblood50 6 months ago 17
I like it.
Higoodnight 6 months ago
I guess some people don't bother reading the description about this being an alternate reality battle. Nice work.
EVNE3 6 months ago
Wrong....
EpicJustin97 6 months ago
en votre reves
and12xt 6 months ago
@hikarisalterio, I know that. Did you read the comments I was replying to?
MrDeano324 7 months ago
Why is it for some people SO hard to read the title of this video ? " 'Alternate' Battle of Trafalgar "
It takes more effort to write down about this video being historical incorrect, and even writing down pages of history most people know by now. While it takes even less effort to either read the description or the title.
TheSleeper33 7 months ago
I dun believed that the admiral is still standing while his ship was sinking... XD
hikarisalterio 7 months ago
I Came (=P
Nice work bro.
NightDog4 7 months ago
Anyone else like Russell Crowe's little speech?
fuzzinear100 7 months ago
weel done but it is a bullshit xD...no english ships sank and the santissima trinidad were dismasted before the beginning of the battle, then boarded for two times and then left to sink in a coming storm
slateer55 7 months ago
@slateer55 Wait, the Santissima Trinidad was demasted BEFORE the battle? By what?
ltflak 7 months ago 15
@ltflak by english ships...she was sent ahead...i dont remember if voluntarily or involuntarily and cannonaded by britain first class ships
slateer55 7 months ago
@ltflak
The HMS Royal Sovereign, flagship of Admiral Lord Collingwood, decimated the the Santisima Trinidad with the opening broadside of the battle. She was not defeated before the battle, but she also took no part in the battle...
MrDeano324 7 months ago
@ltflak Santisima Trinidad was not sunked before the battle,no sunked in the battle and yes sunked after the battle.During the battle he fights alone against 6 english ships (including HMS Victory) and finally was boarded by British. (they want t own the ship,it was the biggest in that age) British captured it and want to carry it to Gibraltar,but the ship was so damaged and finally was sunked in coasts of Cadiz.
RTO41 7 months ago
@slateer55 well this is the "The Alternate Battle of Trafalgar"
ww2feak 6 months ago
@slateer55 you cant begin an battle with an dismasted mast
TheVODkafreak 6 months ago
awesome video man where did u get those blood effects?
TheVODkafreak 6 months ago
@slateer55
santisima trinidad lost his masts at the battle , against Temeraire, I think
97anonymus 3 months ago in playlist Liked
the music and the voice are by Pirati dei Caraibi! "i'm sorry for my english"
Giovanni00831 7 months ago
yo keep up your videos i like them alot the production quality is great
ColombianxXxNB 7 months ago
Exceptional work!
S0M3One357 7 months ago
What I do is maintain the line, and fire coordinated chain shot at incoming British ships, after I knock off enough sails, I have the French fleet withdraw a bit, and reform a line and become shooting at the disabled British fleet, which is already distracted by the Spanish. Ususally it ends in a close call, honestly, the game should have let us command the Spanish as well, as they don't act historic anyway.
ltflak 7 months ago 6
@ltflak Yup! That Santissima Trinidad stupidly went into the midst of all the Brits' ships and was captured by Victory which has less men.
noelwym123 7 months ago
@ltflak non of the Historical missions in the Total war series is 100% accuret
doughboy7501 7 months ago
And they say superior numbers guarantee victory when boarding. Is that true?
noelwym123 7 months ago
Firepower is very important in naval battles and any player would know that he has a lack of it. As i said earlier, I've never won; my ships keep getting blasted to bits! My first strategy was to join in the fight directly. Kaboom! Blew up into smithereens. Second strategy: Let the Spanish take the beating first, then move fleet to edge of the map so I can only be attacked on 1 side. Epic failure. Flagship blew up. Set fire to ships behind and in front. Rout. How did YOU crush them?
noelwym123 7 months ago
En Lepanto la victoria y la muerte en Trafalgar.
RTO41 8 months ago
lol love the Masters and Commanders speech at 1:49 well done
jackbrentner 8 months ago
Had Nelson lost at Trafalgar and lost the Victory, he would have been relieved of command.
Colfax11000 8 months ago
So how this could inflict the history, are the frenches going to invade GB?
ORKSIZDABEST 8 months ago
@ORKSIZDABEST When, since there were heavy losses for the french fleet, and they will go to war with the Spanish, I can only assume a invasion of GB will only be possible if the French won Waterloo.
ltflak 8 months ago 2
@ltflak if the French won waterloo they would still have too small an army, additionally the Russians would get involved with their fucking 600,000 men army of pissed of hardened veterans. The Russians would invade England and France, they would of fucked everyone, good thing the Russian emperor Alexander I drank a lot so he forgot about it, just joking but they left the idea, but the Russians wanted all of Europe but Austria and Prussia got involved.
nounever 7 months ago
@ltflak
Thats not the case. The battle of Trafalgar was key to the defense of Great Britain. Napoleons plan was to defeat the British fleet at Cape Trafalgar. This would leave the English channel undefended, therefore Napoleon could sail his invasion fleet over to the British isles unopposed. This however was not the case as the far outnumbered British fleet annihilated the Franco-Spanish fleets, and as a result, Fance did not control the channel. Therefore no invasion of Britain was possible.
MrDeano324 7 months ago
@MrDeano324 But in this video. It's another way.
hikarisalterio 7 months ago
@ORKSIZDABEST in fact yes Napoleon tried once to invade GB but the british did know to convince the austrians and russians to attack France so Napoloen whas obligated to stop the invasion plan and focust on the eastern front where he getted his biggest victorie of his carrier the batle of Austerlitz
ps: when he was making his invading plan the french commander (of the french fleet) refused to engage against the royal navy
turner2123 8 months ago
this was epic man!
kasor345 8 months ago
amazing isn't it .....till the bitter end. thats some hard core shit going down with your ship takes courage and pride, honor and bravery
darthraven178 8 months ago
Press 0 for epic Benjamin Sisko intro!
CydonianCavalier 9 months ago
Only one word can describe this machinima.
Awesome...no...Fantastic...no...Stupendous...no...Colossal...no...
Salute
peterblood50 9 months ago
also why is there provost marshal there in the end? on top of all ur bad info u think if nelson lived he wud be speaking to a lowly provost they were only the military police known as cowards for never fighting in battle
MrAwesomal 9 months ago
@MrAwesomal I'm assuming you mean the very end. It was because I couldn't recruit two generals in a custom battle, and thus had to pick a combat unit.
ltflak 9 months ago
OMG ! BEAUTIFUL ! UNBELIEVABLE !
Congratulations !
MaryseSwaggerReyRey 9 months ago
6:11 ninja jump!!:)
PIEISGOOD37 9 months ago
Epicccccccccccccccc
MisterBoogie157 9 months ago
Why Spanish talk with Mexican accent? xD
beneitez87 9 months ago
@beneitez87 Oh...opps.
ltflak 9 months ago
@beneitez87 Mexicans speak Spanish!
noelwym123 8 months ago
@noelwym123 jajaja I know, I am from Spain, but in the video the spanish armada, use mexican accent ^^
beneitez87 8 months ago
I'm a better general than admiral. I often win my land battles but I've always failed to win Trafalgar. They've more guns than I do and my ships are in bad positions. Congrats anyway to those who won.
noelwym123 8 months ago
@noelwym123 I always fall at Trafalgar, despite that i win most of my naval battles, with worse odds. However, my land battles are mostly a carnage. Well, i'm better admiral myself, but this battle is my nemesis.
BadBoy1986PL 8 months ago
what's wrong with the captions?
IAmTheAce5 9 months ago
@IAmTheAce5 Works fine for me.
ltflak 9 months ago
The video is awesome
coonquistadoreddie 10 months ago
7:48 smooth criminal
zzzzJAGJEETzzzz 10 months ago
I love this video but I hate seeing the victory taken by the French of all people! in real life the french would turn tail and run!
zyzor 10 months ago
@zyzor Racist
ltflak 10 months ago 2
@zyzor, read a few history books or do a little online research before you say bullshit. In real life, the French won more wars than any other country in history. Fact.
expertstrategy 10 months ago
man this is so cool, if i get a new computer I'll definitely get this game. I also like how in Napoleon total war unlike empire total war , the marines for the brits actually have the correct uniforms and the ships look more realistic.
zyzor 10 months ago
Excellent video! well done :)
Hardrada88 10 months ago
At 3:09 he look pretty calm when he screams Fire
apinoyguy 11 months ago
el "santisima trinida" de napoleon total war es completamente distinto al verdadero...
parece un rebajado de 3 puentes.... y en el juego, al disparar al santisima trinidad este pierde más cañones al estar todos expuestos...
ex377 11 months ago
This was like a movie!
MrZizhen 11 months ago
Viva la France y Viva our mong Eperador Napoleon
glo726 1 year ago
@glo726
A Great General, he's tactics, millitary knowhow and battlefeild intelligence was trully magnificent. But he met his match in Admiral Horatio Nelson and Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley...
MrDeano324 10 months ago
I watched this like I was watching a movie ! Good job dude.
Tunechi241 1 year ago
3:40 to 4:35 it's like a real movie.
LouisSuchet 1 year ago
This sir is a masterpiece! I enjoyed every second! I'm surprised there isn't more views.
MarshalofFrance 1 year ago
I have to ask, how did you lock the camera in place at 7:57?
happycompy 1 year ago
@happycompy If your locked on to the unit when it "sinks", you stay locked on, but if cancel it, you wont be able to lock on to that unit again.
ltflak 1 year ago
@ltflak Thank you
happycompy 1 year ago
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happycompy 1 year ago
This was awesome, I especially loved the sinking at the end. Honestly it was a bit jarring though, without the sub-captions I wouldn't have really know what was happening. The constant close ups makes it intense, but at the expense of orientation.
happycompy 1 year ago
¿Hoy es un gran dia para morir'??
Dudo mucho que dijeran eso jeje, pero el video esta muy bien.
From where did you get the spanish voices? I think i heard something from Master and Commader.
Really nice video.
FishBrothersReturns 1 year ago
@FishBrothersReturns That and PotC At World's End
ltflak 1 year ago
that was awesome
csvictory12 1 year ago
Best ever!
Nice work!
Rafalema 1 year ago
Epic.
BFOEsteves 1 year ago
It is a beautifull movie. But I have a question: How do you view into a ship that you van
see the cannons?
romijn23 1 year ago
Haha you got them all in the Pirates of the Caribbean, the soundtrack and even the words or sentences
amaychowder 1 year ago
Damm man. That is one excellent production!
MaximumAfterburner 1 year ago
how do you zoom in that close?
weslanator45 1 year ago
@weslanator45 Pressing "n" allows you to zoom in-game.
ltflak 1 year ago
@ltflak Thanks i've had this game for months and never knew that
weslanator45 1 year ago
Excellent ! I didn't even expected that such a masterpiece was possible with a video game. Well done !
Killerjsa 1 year ago
I have a question: How do you record this? Is there a cinematic editor or do you just simply use fraps ( and have the camera unlocked? ) while playing the replays? If the latter is true then how do you hide the UI.
CostinMoroianu 1 year ago
@CostinMoroianu I accually just record during the battle, that gives me access to unique camera angle ablities not possible during replays. And yes I just use fraps. I hide the UI by simply enlarging the video so it's off screen.
ltflak 1 year ago
@ltflak I see, thanks.
CostinMoroianu 1 year ago
Extremely well cinematographed (I especially like shaking camera) and very well sounded (voices are good idea), however as non-historian I had no idea what was going on in the movie. Some map or aerial shots of tactics would make this a masterpiece.
SGWG 1 year ago
@SGWG Course that would have ruined it, the AI is just messy, and can't even come close to looking historical like. Had to use close-ups only.
ltflak 1 year ago
i am REALY impressed. this is AWESOME! +rep
megalitho 1 year ago
Awsome how you make such grand battles and you make them with your own ending scenario Waterloo and Trafalgar I always found those battles very intresting. I wanted to make my own militarybattle for NTW but just when I had everything ready my account was disabled from steam that sucked now I cannotplay NTW.
1Historygenius 1 year ago
how do you get the navy uniforsm for the british?
englandfootball8 1 year ago
@englandfootball8 Mod, listed in the video info
ltflak 1 year ago
The information of the description is bad:
Horatio Nelson dind´t survive in that battle, he dead by one spanish shooter shoot. and Villenueve, dind´t fight much cause he left the battle.
And the most important person in spanish band who has dead was admiralChurruca.
Sorry for my english.
Horatio Nelson murió en la batalla de trafalgar, alcanzado por la bala de un tirador español. Villenueve huyó de la batalla, y posteriormente en francia fué tachado de cobarde y traidor. También murió Churruca.
alrroga27 1 year ago
@alrroga27 duh
ltflak 1 year ago