Annihilation - The Battle of Berezina - Napoleon Total War

[Ltpeppers05]

I think we can all agree that if Russia and France were in an epic showdown.... we'd cheer for the Russians

[ltflak]

@Ltpeppers05 Who's this "we"?

[seba3761]

@Ltpeppers05 I would cheer for France

[AverageJoeCinema]

I love the Last Samurai music ^^ straight to my favorites

[mateusmoni]

6:10 the last samurai music

[Kazak844]

Moscow not capital of Russia 1812. St.-Petersburg - capital. Napoleon hasn't broken, hasn't taken prisoner an army. It has come into an empty city. And ran in the autumn. Winter was afraid. But receding began to suffer defeats. Not from a cold. Napoleon clever. Napoleon receded in the autumn.

[Warpath555]

Napoleon had almost defeated Russia, he lost only because of the harsh winter which the Russians took advantage of. Damn those 10-foot pound Unicorns.

[Kazak844]

Napoleon didn't take captured, not one victory. Napoleon to Borodino has taken prisoner 2 persons - of the cook and the Cossack at which have killed a horse. Has given it the horse and has released. Borodino. Napoleon tells "Where the captured. Where a banner of regiments?". On capital to go боиться, writes letters on the world to Alexander. Quits till the winter. Loses again and runs. It is a pity Napoleon. He wanted to punish Alexander. Alexander has killed the father and Suvorov. But couldn't

[JoseTheKnight]

is this the same napolion that got beat up in mexico??

[parahthemad]

part 2 pls!!!!!!!!

[chaz1453]

great vid

[darksoulzzzz]

No1 can take russia!@!@#@!#

[KiwiForce123]

how do u get the guy with the teliscope?

[ltflak]

@KiwiForce123 Part of the mod...

[VinceA37]

Thanks for this video. from France

[AMFDevelopment]

This feels like it should be an epic war movie. Hell, it is an epic war movie, just made with an amazing video game.

[lookb3hindu1]

THAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME .... LIKE SO FUCKING GOOD

[ostio543]

so.... part two?

[ltflak]

@ostio543 I've got part 2 all planned out, for sakes alive I'm too lazy to film it cause it'd take forever like this video, and The Old Republic is eating up all my time.

[ostio543]

@ltflak i can accept that, dont rush. im expecting your usual level of perfection!

[SuperBigschlong]

@ostio543

No problem just replace the army with the old republic :)

[hirotarobg]

OMG, actual sound and music from The last samurai are in this video :D

[AmonRaUrusTaj]

Господа Европейцы, посчитайте... сколько раз, сборная европы на Россию ходила? Не поленитесь!!!

[AmonRaUrusTaj]

Жива Русь! От Калининграда до Чукотки! Жива! Да поможет нам Бог!

[maxten]

what was the casualties?

[ltflak]

@maxten

For the French:

13,000 - 25,000 combatants 10,000 - 20,000 stragglers 25 cannon

For the Russians:

8,000-20,000 combatants

[gonavygonavy]

O.O NTW artillery is ridiculous, it makes Empire artillery look useless

[ltflak]

@gonavygonavy Yeah, Empire's artillery ****ing sucked, your lucky if 8 cannons could make 20 kills in a battle...

[Grimmsaw]

@ltflak I always used artillery in defence at centre. The canister shots always murdered the enemys centre and I triumphed.

[ltflak]

@Grimmsaw Yes but the cannonballs were damn near useless against infantry.

[OtakuPraetorius]

Best Napoleon: total war movie I've ever seen! You would make a great director IRL!

[johnericsantiago28]

5:18 why mr bean is there?

[Vatson95]

молодец! даже использовал озвучку из фильма адмирал! отличное видео!

[73hd99w]

are these low end graphics or what?

[Dyflinn432]

That was the best total war video i have ever seen well done.

[ThePortrica]

You should make this into a movie and show it at cinemas, people would flock from all over the country to see it... bloody epic, Like, Sub and Favourite :D

[TheSmallfire66]

Where's the second part???

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

Wow...You know i usually don't subscribe to video game videos you know but DAMN this was well done. I hope to see more in the future.

I feal it is my duty as a gamer to subscribe to such genious :)

[1Historygenius]

You keep making such terrific alternate scenarios!

[Strategos300]

the BEST i have ever seen from Napoleon.

[Strategos300]

This is so incredibly well done I dont know where to start. MAN! Reeally good! I wonder how you managed to make this. What editing program did you use?

[ltflak]

@Strategos300 Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.

[pearcema4]

Lol, the life-giving cross. More like the life-taking one in this video

[TheCelestialAce]

Very Well Done. I look forward to seeing more videos from you. I wish my computer could run ultra high graphics without lag... :(

[HistorianUndertaker1]

LOL Historically Tchichagov was fooled by Napoleon and concentrated his army on an other front; the south-western side of the berezina river, where nobody was there. Tchichagov should have stayed commanding the russian fleet in the black sea. LOL

[18sharkkiller]

nice video. they should really make a rome total war 2

[agovics1]

Sounds from Admiral ( 2008 ) <3

[flemairemdy]

2 problems met by Napo(called the Little Gengis Khan by the Russians) and his army were:they didn't know how to protect themself against the cold conditions they met in Russia.Russians know since they are born which clothes,shoes they need.They also know what to eat to have energy.Another problem was there are swamps along the Berezina.This river goes outside her "bed"(like we say in French) and becomes 5 times larger than in summer.So it was VERY difficult to move quickly inside the mud.

[Kazak844]

@flemairemdy Why he hasn't won Borodino in the summer? 130 000 against 120 000 and a drawn game at equal losses. Footwear summer weren't?

[Freez57fr]

@Kazak844

Borodino was a French victory.

Napoleon didn't lost the Russian campaign on the battlefield.

[Kazak844]

@Freez57fr Napoleon has come into Russia 650 000 persons. Has quitted 30 000.

Has won? :)))

[JPmercykiller123]

@Kazak844  Russia

[LeHappiste]

@Kazak844

Actually he came with 449,000 men and quitted with 120,000.

The funny thing is that out of the 380,000 men France lost in Russia, more than half died of disease while most of the 210,000 men Russia lost were killed in action.

[Kazak844]

@LeHappiste :) Napoleon wrote to the wife that Borodino at it 110 000 at Russian 120 000. Napoleon then said that at it was 100 000 at Russian 150 000. Before death he spoke 80 000 at Russian 300 000. You too are ill? You too suffer? You are angry? You are praised before the woman? Why?

[sugkukenminhore]

@Kazak844

This post makes no sense at all. Im not talking about the numbers, but your english. The two last questions lead me to think that you are quite uneducated. Please prove me wrong.

[zzanek]

@LeHappiste you need to look deeper. Why they lost so many people because of the deseases, cold and hunger? because their supply lines were overstreched, constantly harassed by cossacks and partisans and because russian used scortched earth tactics. BTW by the time Nap reached Moscow he lost 200k (napoleon-series). You cannot fight stronger enemy in the field (Nap no doubt possed the strongest army) but you can outplay him in long term, that is what the Russians did.

[expertstrategy]

@zzanek, Napoleon was foolish to think the Russians would surrender if he occupied Moscow for a short while. The Spanish didnt surrender when Madrid was taken, and neither did the Austrians when Napoleon entered Vienna in 1805. Prussians didn't give up when the French captured Berlin.

[zzanek]

@Freez57fr well it was a pyrric victory for Napoleon. By taking Moscow he planned to spend winter there and force russian to surrender, but failed. Russians did not surrender, recruited more troops, burnt everything that could have been eaten around Moscow and forced him to retreat. War is not only a battlefield but also the smart use of terrain, environment and resources

[flemairemdy]

For the information of everybody,take note there are NO hills along the Berezina.This river is in the actual Belarus and I go through this country and on the Berezina river bridge 4 times a year(wy wife was born in Belarus).What I may also say,it's that I can imagine how the french soldiers were feeling during these terrible days of end november 1812.The winters are SO cold in Belarus and due to the fact the country is flat,the wind is often hard.Poor guies!!!!

[ltflak]

@flemairemdy Well, considering this battle took place in November, it was just Autum, and the problem in this situation was that it was too warm, as the river wasn't frozen over, but just cold enough to kill anyone who waded in it to work on those bridges. Lot of irony in that retreat. Also, while I would have loved to have filmed the battle that resembled the acual battle, there is only one map with ground snow and a river in it, so I had to work with what I had.

[flemairemdy]

@ltflak

I am from Belgium(a little town along the german frontier).One of my ancestors,called Jean-Gilles Lemaire was enlisted inside the Napoleon's army in 1804 till the Battle of Waterloo.I was not a fighting soldier but a "sapeur-mineur".He took part at the Russian Campaign but had the chance to survive.He was not in direct contact with ennemies and also knew what cold was because living into a village from Belgium with an altitude of nearly 700 meters and cold weather.

[GreybirdX]

How can I see the bullet of a cannon like you at 4:07 ??

[ltflak]

@GreybirdX If you press the "insert" or "delete" key (I can't remember which), it lets you take the perspective of a soldier or cannon, you can use the mouse wheel to select who you take the view of in that unit. If your taking the perspective of a cannon, you follow the cannonball when it's fired.

[GreybirdX]

@ltflak thx :D

[tenirpaslager]

@ltflak how did you see through the telescope

[oOIYvYIOo]

NTW3

LORDZ COMUNITY

[JonerdRox]

Amazing job

[zaccc]

These are so well made...

Thank you for these, thank you very much.

[Hfgm10]

1:08 - That's a motherfuckin' HUGE ARMY !

[AUG351]

Guessing you used the epic battles mod and the mod that gives you the multiplayer maps in custom battle and the smoke mod ;)

[ltflak]

@AUG351 The mods I used are listed in the video info.

[78glaurung]

fantastic

[crusellweber]

Magistral!

[libindi1989]

very good！

[DuPuieproductions]

Amazing.

[MrGhostseafight]

how do you see your troops to move in real time?

[ltflak]

@MrGhostseafight Eh?

[Sinderking]

@MrGhostseafight i beg your pardon?

[Prinsed27]

4:29 lol even though the shell exploded infront of him it was looking like asiff the man fired the cannon while still reloading xD

[TomHartill]

really very nice vid indeed



[SparklingMilk]

3:51 to 3:53 lol the guy on the left goes flying

[decimated550]

@SparklingMilk - after 4:17 two guys fall into the water with "plunk" sounds, awesome.

It looks like the physics of this game were borrowed from Operation Flashpoint, what with the low gravity and all LOL

[TheMike91096]

That fucking cannonball hit the guy inn the stomach! Do you think hes OK! EPIC VIDIO!

[LightStijn]

This is the most epic video I've ever seen on YouTube. And that's saying alot.

[wigster600]

THIS IS MOTHER FUCKING EPIC!!!!!!

[noobydude1]

HOW DO YOU GET EXPLOSIVE SHELLS FROM CANNONS?

[ltflak]

@noobydude1 You don't.

[noobydude1]

but the russian cannons that were firing werent unicorns or howitzers, but there are explosions!

[ltflak]

@noobydude1 It's a fairly simple trick, you can figure it out given enough thought.

[noobydude1]

show cannons shooting, actually have howiters fire explosive shells, now im all depressed.

[sbauwelinck]

@ltflak

what graphics card do you have?

[TheSimionidis]

super

[TalonMercenary]

Good job Marshal Victor

[boniek11101988]

This was the victory of humans will to live...

[boniek11101988]

Army of Warsaw Duchy lost 30% of troops engaged in this battle. So I simply ask where is polish infantry fighting in the forest with Chichagov soldiers???

[boniek11101988]

Polish cavalry and sappers saved the Grandee Armee from complete dissaster

[pavka9999]

inception ftw

[AdivitMusic]

very nicely done. gj :) prodoljai i udachi :)

[Belgarion234]

lol..... samurai music in a euro setting

[abraham0295]

wow there needs to be a lot of videos like this. Its better than TV!!!

[CostinMoroianu]

Will you do Leipzig? Your videos are just incredible.

[alanfecu]

que buena animacion !! se vivio la lucha

[juankmilo07]

Wao

[0jrhindo]

"Audio from Movies:

The Admiral

Napoleon Miniseries

Gettysburg

The Last Samurai

Letters from Iwo Jima"

Err? Inception music intro??

[0jrhindo]

@0jrhindo oh fukin me did not read correctly. dont reply plz

[Marshal94Armand]

How can you film without the replay bar?

[ltflak]

@Marshal94Armand

1: I don't use replay

2: I zoom the video in so I can get a better composition, and have the units cards out of the picture.

[tenirpaslager]

@ltflak in the french campaign do you actually get to fight on the berezina

[ltflak]

@tenirpaslager Unfortunatly no, the winter campagin isn't a part of Napoleon Total War.

[zenoist2]

They managed to cross thanks to the rearguard troops fighting like lions.

The swiss and italian troops did really well here even if they were decimated and more.

the engineers bridge builders were dutch and had to wade into the river with ice floes flowing past to build 2 bridges 1 for troops civiilians and another for heavy stuff like cannons.

The french were noticeably lacking in their heroic performances in this heroic deed.

[ltflak]

@zenoist2 The Cuirassiers were pretty damn heroic. Their charge let them beat back Admiral Chichagov's attack from the west bank. Despite that charge being conducted in less then "ideal" conditions, it probably saved the entire army. So I'd say the French did their part...just not with the bridge.

[bradypus55]

The best Napoleon total war videos i have ever seen! I've learn so much just watching it, and i'm french! And its' true, "C'est une Bérézina" is a saying! ("This is going wrong/ a defeat", ex: this cooking is a Bérézina!) Now how about a machinima based on the Egyptian campaign? :D

[101poorly]

thats one of the best napolean total war videos ive seen :)

[RomeCenturion]

cool vid man :D

[gugagagagreprpr]

the music and the apperens of the text at 2:02 is epic mate =) cant wait for part 2!!!,

[ENIGMA10293]

А причём тут речь Колчака и фильмишки Адмирал то?

[PeterTheChinesePanda]

my suggestion is to rotate the telescope.

[Almin192]

very pro. i subbed :)

[thanoylas]

can yoi please tell me what are your graphic settings in the game?

[PeterTheChinesePanda]

i dont like how you do the telescope view, other than that its perfect

[ltflak]

@PeterTheChinesePanda What part of the telescope effect did you not like?

[PeterTheChinesePanda]

@ltflak when you do the telescope view, theres no angle, its like your character is moving at a very fast pace

[fignja100591]

Do you like movei - Admiral?

[ltflak]

@fignja100591 Yes, I thought it was epic, considering that they had such a low budget.

[ENIGMA10293]

@fignja100591 Фигня фильм) Фигня...

[expertstrategy]

Awesome video

[expertstrategy]

For some reason I can't use closed caption, it won't allow me to.

[Empereur1789]

Good production!

Congratulations!

[MrSandokan87]

one of the best total war movie i ever seen

[Crysagon]

perfect......but....in one szcene you have close up used the prussian infantry, look at the iron cross at the hat.

[ltflak]

@Crysagon Nah, that's Russian militia, the Opelchenie. The Russians used the iron cross too.

[slipkmanolo]

what mod you used?

[DeltaKLMPilot]

Your videos are always great!

[poodlemeister22314]

I love these Gettysburg foreign language voiceovers :D You can easily catch them if you know what to look for

[KingOIdiots]

Your videos are always so epic and well done.

[disablingsquid]

very very good i love your videos

[kukuruku20]

nice good work

[islambek1992]

Nice one, good Itfak! u earned my subscription

[forcacastro]

sweet

[skittlesareyum48]

Wow, that was absolutely fantastic. A commendable work, itflak. Like, and added to favorites. Doesn't the Great Coat mod make it seem that much more epic? heh

[Medieval1991]

I must say this is pretty impressive.

[naxzul666]

nice movie.

[megalithosTotalWar]

Bravo!

[aznhalopwner]

good. very good

[whoa92341]

also fukin good video :D

[whoa92341]

JESUS SO MANY MEN! HOW THE HELL!?