History channel - Decisive battle (Battle of Gaugamela) 2/3

[MultiTrackyBoyz]

"A large army is always disorderly"

[shoppittsburghnow]

very interesting thanks

[thegreathistorian7]

Levy Pikemen are shite



[prdude1234]

2:40 LOL really Alex, Levy Pikemen?

[KillaTemplar]

I only came here because I heard Decisive battles used RomeTW's engine.

[joesdayable]

Rome total war music lol

[RalphyGreene]

Darius shouldve hire some more people from central asia to win this battle. lol

[player3172]

@RalphyGreene well they already had half a million turbins running a muck ,. . shit!! ther suppose 2 b immortal

[panosfye]

history chanel that the truth is a history !!!

[Tyrannophobia89]

rome total war!best game ever!

[CrankEmpire]

Anyone know how to get massive armies like that?

[Jakem050594]

@CrankEmpire

In rome total war? Impossible they are just using special effects.

[jaagup117]

@CrankEmpire play total war games :D

[StrathendrickPiper]

darius was a noob

[SonOfOsiris3]

4:49--"light years beyond" Yeah..this guy is definitely not a science guy. Light year is a unit to distance not time

[Mojomaster5]

@SonOfOsiris3 You must be quite the sophomoric 'science person' then. The man's 'light years beyond' description hold's up logically and grammatically. You assume that he's talking about time and not distance because you want to feel smarter than him. He's indicated no improper usage of the phrase.

[SonOfOsiris3]

@Mojomaster5 I mean no disrespect to him. I was just pointing it out. And his description does not hold up logically because logically, its a unit of time and not distance. He knows more than me about history because he is a historian whereas I get my history from games and books

[Mojomaster5]

@SonOfOsiris3 It does make sense logically. 'Beyond' is a term that can be applied to distance. His description illustrates that the Greek technology was beyond other technology by a span of distance were someone to compare their technological progress, progress also being a term applied to distance.

[johnkerry7]

@Mojomaster5 omfg both you guys are missing the bigger picture, he is using a term used by people for years to descibe the difference between one thing to another. I.E. the car is light years beyond the mounted horse.

[trumsu915]

RTW soundtrack. Sweet

[immortal4942]

Rufus was not a historian of that time but later.

[WolfytheWolf5667]

Pfft. My army's bigger.

[arten800]

Wait i think desecisive battles uses spqr mod for rtw

[Im12AndWhatIsDis]

Wow 400 general's guard.....that's alot

[spiekerbox12]

Why are they using Rome Total War?

[migkillerphantom]

@skittlesareyum48 No, you fucking retard. It was 47k macedonians vs about 53k imperial troops.

[rkhale02]

back then, they prolly had a REALLY expensive computer to run all of this on high...

[makedoniaPower]

greece did not exist as a state at the time of aleksandar and Macedonia and Filip 2

[aceofclubs1998]

1:09 i wish i could also go inside rome total war hahaha

[Yorboxl]

@aceofclubs1998

trippy

[TheNapoleon1805]

The charge of Alexander wasn't dorectly to the enemy cav, he used javelin men to fight with the Persian cav while he attack the open right Persian flang!

[johninopatin]

wooooooh rome total war game!

[SethLoganatbgg]

Perhaps in the future they will use the Europa Barbarorum Skins, far nicer and more accurate!

[migkillerphantom]

Lol what are lybian spearmen doing in the battle of Gaugamela

[BurningFiresofIce]

@migkillerphantom

The Persian used alot of mercenaries. And the Persian at the battlefield was drafted from all over the empire. They were many diffrent nations,cultures and which spoke difrfent languages in the Persian army

[migkillerphantom]

@BurningFiresofIce I meant the RTW unit. 

[theitalianscotdan]

@migkillerphantom in reality every nation had access to all the troops in rome except maybe elephants

[danbagheri]

O why O why OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo why are the Immortals in western history depicted as Arab desert peasantry. The immortals were megnifisent in their armor and dress whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy are the Persians depicted so inaccurately.

[xKingofIrelandx]

@Cainus44 wrong. A good modern tank costs less than 8 million dollars

[ThePunisher308]

omg the rome total war engine! yeeas!!!!!

[dancthegr]

$3 billion dollars- that could buy you nothing in war perhaps about 100 tanks

[Cainus44]

@dancthegr That won't even get you two modern tanks. Three billion dollars would have bought an incredible army in ancient times, though.

[rocker13yrs]

@dancthegr Yeah but tanks can do extremely long ranged long term damage and ddeath dumbass

[band2eto]

Nice, the Rome Total War engine!

Imagine... when Rome Total War 2 comes out, and the History Channel uses it! *drools*

[ballyballz]

is this really on history channel?cool

[222parker]

Alexander the great - phalanx

[Redoni]

Did they use Rome: Total War? lol

[skittlesareyum48]

wasnt it like alexander vs 1 million persians?

[212commandercody]

Empires by size:

1. Mongol empire (Genghis Khan)

2. Macedonian Empire (Alexander)

3. Roman Empire (Reign of Marcus Trajanus)

[devilhunterred]

It's actually:

1. British

2. Mongol

3. Qing China

[212commandercody]

corrected

[refuckulate420]

@devilhunterred

Nahh both the the Mongols, Alexander and the Romans achieved far more militarily. When did the British ever conquer any siginificant parts of Europe? They conquered already weak nations.

Sorry but fuck the British.

[devilhunterred]

@refuckulate420 China actually had the greatest and most powerful army in the world until the 14th century.

[DKY780]

@refuckulate420 But the america's was not discovered at the time.The British had a massive and the largest ever empire.The rest of europe and USA envyed the empire and during the late 18th and early 19th tryed to acheive this, but failed

[refuckulate420]

@DKY780

Wrong

[DKY780]

@refuckulate420 Wrong my arse

[refuckulate420]

It's wrong because militarily you achieved nothing compared to what Mongolia did. Even what France in Europe from 1775-1815 can't compare. Yes you Britain had a large empire but some of those colonies were taken at the cost of almost nothing. We are talking about tribals and small faction states with limited military. I mean come on dude...Africa, Australia??? You had no strong competition like France did in Europe during Napoleons reign.

[refuckulate420]

@DKY780

Now don't get me wrong. Britain had a good command structure and excellent training. However that doesn't change the fact that they didn't achieve on a military level what France, Alexander or Mongolia did.

Because the UK itself was a fortress in the sea, they didn't require as large a ground force of infantry and cavalry. Simple facts. Well trained, well armed and well commanded troops was the result of having a smaller force.

[refuckulate420]

@DKY780

But simply put..Britain just did not compare to the achievements of Frederick the Great, Napoleon, the Kahns of Mongolia and even Germany during WW2.

[DKY780]

@refuckulate420 Although we defeated smaller nations, we controlled larger land mass.We won 2 wws but we couldn't afford the empire after the wars because the empire took too much money to keep and travel to.

[refuckulate420]

Lol those WWs were an allied effort, you didn't win them alone. Not even close!

[DKY780]

@refuckulate420 We made the biggest effort!

[refuckulate420]

@DKY780

No you didn't dickhead. That's fucking disrespectful to countries like Russia, U.S and other countries who made huge sacrifices. Hell you guys couldn't even afford WW2 which is why the U.S.had to lend you a massive amount of supplies and tanks.

[DKY780]

@refuckulate420 we paid for the thomsons and tanks your brillant in history class!

[refuckulate420]

@DKY780

Hell Russia lost 8-10 million you guys lost around 380,000 U.S. lost over 400,000 so no you did NOT make the biggest effort by a long shot sorry. Disrespectful prick, get back to the history books. You are clueless.

[WsobelBosHerz]

@DKY780 buying things isnt effort lol go to the store buy some gum biggest contribution to ww2 would have to be from the CCCP and even the U.S. who i dislike ever so much manufactured and fought much more altho the Brits did do a bit more in africa ill give you that still CCCP contributed more

[refuckulate420]

@DKY780

Those wars could not have been one without the allied effort of all countries.....so please shut your ignorant mouth.

[sonofmanchu]

the size of persian empire was nothing when it compares to the Mongol empire and the manchu dynasty of China.