Oh well. Everyone losses a war or battle at least once. They are still kick butt warriors and not pushovers. I just hope their in Heaven. They probably are. GOD wouldn't send people to hell who never heard of HIM. BOUDICCA!
@MissRiki1987 Organised tactics, discipline, proper professional army > bloodcrazed hordes. There was a good reason Roman armies conquered the world. :)
This is missing an essential part of the Roman strategy. The Romans funnelled and crushed them into their main body where their short swords were used to stab at the Britons, who were being pushed forward and trapped by those coming up behind.
Maybe it's a stupid question but i'm throwing it out anyway.... why the hell did the Britons not envelop the romans by entering the woods? After all their troops were not in tight formations like ancient greeks and romans. Most of them were perfectly suited for battling in rought terrain.
Well, for a start, they don't know exactly where the battle was, so no idea of the landscape (here they show a likely place, with woodland behind the Romans). Even if this is accurate, I think it would look a bit suspicious if a thousand or so Britons started backing away from the main army to sneak around. The Britons were well known for guerrilla tactics, although here, I doubt it would've worked.
I read an account of the 14th legion which was the core of Suetonius Paulinius' force at the battle of watling street, and I was amazed that they were nearly totally destroyed on two occasions in the past, yet the overcame these defeats and defeated an enemy force significantly outnumbering them.
I do not want to insult women ( they are beautiful and give us males sense of life ) but that battle proves that female can't be field commander . Females use more "heart" and "feelings" when they make decision not the common sense
@garden2010city you may be right, an example would be sarah palin who would have been the commander in chief if John McCain was elected as president, and he died, was ill, or incapacitated. though there are some female commanders that are competent like Joan of Arc. and Cleopatra, though the only time she really commanded any military force independently was at the battle of Actium, when she was forced to flee.
She wasn't an army commander. She was a rallying standard. The Britons were a warrior culture, but they didn't have armies. Armies are for empires. It was just the southern tribes taking heaps of shit off the Romans until they snapped (here, by the Icenian royal family being humiliated and tortured), so they went on a rampage. I doubt Boudica would've had much say in how they behaved.
That Roman general was wise. Sun Tzu would surely support him!
"Throw your soldiers into possitions where there is no escape, and they will prefer death before flight."
- Master Sun Tzu. (I recommend his book to everyone)
The romans where in a possition where they had to fight, or else they would be slaughtered. It did not get any better when Boudica and the Britons where known for killing prisoners.
I think this was a major factor + the quality of my beloved Romans!
@VictumRoManius I know the army of boudicca did not accept prisoners as I read the account by Cassius Dio where he recorded that "The Britons hanged up captured Roman women, and Romanized British women naked. and had their breasts cut off and sewn to their mouths so that it would appear the women were eating them, and then impaled the women on sharp pole run through the body" - Cassius Dio.
@VictumRoManius all of this that Sun Tzu says is common military sense, I don't know why he is so special, but I guess he wrote it down first, and now he is remembered.
@elysium76 Oh he is special. Have you read the book?
The US military are using The art of War from Sun Tzu to educate their officers. "The art of War" has had huge influence on this world.
It is common military sense today, but for 2500 years ago when Sun Tzu wrote it, people where still praying to the gods for victory and doing nothing more to gain victory.
@VictumRoManius I have respect for Sun Tzu, and I read his book "The Art of War', I am only implying that applied military history and tactics in his book and thus got all the credit, that happens alot in human history.
@elysium76 yea i love how the romans won because they "fought in a field where they cannot retreat and fought like true warriors" just like in the art of war
@MrUndertaker316 What of the Macedonian armies of Alexander the Great? The armies of Julius Ceaser? The order of the army depends not on its size but the quality of its leader.
@swordo21 Great armies turn disorderly from time to time. It's true what you say, but I think that whoever said this quote (forgot his name) had meant on the "barbarian" nations, certainly not Roman or Macedonian armies, because they've been everything but disorderly.
I'm glad you're using the chain-mail legionaires and not the segementata legionaires (which were far less common, overused in movies, and generally overrated).
Lorica hamata chainmail was the standard issue armor and the most common armor for both legionairy and auxillary throughout the entire imperial period.
In a way this battle reminds me of Gaugamela, a small number of disciplined battle hardin vet (Romans/Macedonians) vs a mass of not as well equipped, loosely held together mob that was defeated cause their only plan was charge
@FaakedLillebror England is kinda like an overused pussy in terms of colonisation. Nowadays you have pakis, niggers, slavs and the whole fucking lot in england, also in wales and scotland to a lesser extant
@Pawnbroker00 they do... they do... the genetic code still exists... and many of you have been mixed with norman people... and frankly, its not that bad having cultural assimilation... really...
@FaakedLillebror I'm not english anyway, and i have bloodline and name and homeland to prove it. Cultural assimilation is bad when its not done correctly, e.g wales scotland and ireland.
@Pawnbroker00 ya... but there is far to many good ecamples of good culture assimilation in contrast to the bad: The roman/latin influence in western europe
80,000 British KIA isn't hard to believe considering other battles like Cannae, Trebia, Lake Trasimene, and Metaurus river, each with staggering losses. The Romans kept good records even when they were the ones routed. Most casualties in ancient battles occurred when one side routed and the resulting disorganization made them easy prey for cavalry troops. In this case, the wagon trains prevented escape which allowed the legionaires formed in a Roman wedge to easily catch up and slaughter them.
The Roman commander picked his ground very well. His flanks were covered by dense wooded areas and he held the high ground. This meant he couldn't be outflanked and the high ground added momentum when they counter attacked in wedge. The Roman Wedge was a devastating formation when facing an army that is disorganized and can't escape. It's not shown in this video. The wedge is a very dense formation resembling saw teeth with each legionaire thrusting his Gladius. In essence, a meat grinder.
Euripides. On this time they had no radios and such. Even Napoleon did shine leading small armies in battle but did find it hard to command large ones...
Are they the same Romans that got their arses kicked by the Goths and sent the Italy to be into the 3rd rate European country it is today? Or is that because your country embraces Roman Catholicism to the detriment of real progression?
No that Rome ended but Nova Roma began and Ended with the Greatest Emperor Constantine The Great a Catholic Emperor who kicked the barbarians asses and brought the empire to its true greatest height.
who was catholic you stupid dick, he was pagan his whole life where the fuck did you get that he was catholic from. also catholicism wasnt even around then it was christianity.
He was baptised in his death bed, so yes he died a Christian. Also Catholic is Christian, it is the continuation of the traditional Christian church over the progressive splinter churches like the Protestants. Please do some research.
the catholic church wasnt around at constantines life you fucking asshole. and who the fuck says progressive splinter, just say sectarian or something like that. and fuck off he was not baptised at his death that is just a story the christians made up because he legalised to be christian in the roman empire, he was pagan his whole life. please you do some research and dont use wikipedia. okay, TheMedievalMan.
LOL, your answer would be even funnier if it wasnt so pathetic. I can tell by the way you answer people that you are indeed an angry person who hates anyone who proves you wrong. I can use progressive if I want to, since that is what the word means. If you work for change vs tradition, then you are a progressive simpleton. If you read what I said I told you, "... Catholic is Christian, it is the continuation of the traditional Christian Church..."
wtf i never said that catholics arent christian. however i did point out at constantines time there was no 'catholic' christians. it was just everyone was christian. so thanks alot TheMedievalMan for turing this arguement into a im smarter then you are. plus your other comment, what do u want me to write you a fuckin essay or like link you to online source material to validate my points? clearly your 'evidence' is just opinion.
I would rather believe the accepted historical account than your idiotic "education". You are so simple minded that you think in terms of "what existed then" rather than understanding than its not that simple as your mind clearly is. Send me your address so I can print out a wiki diploma for you.
im noe genral but, the bits should have set all that forest of fire and try to create as much choas as possible. They should have spead the battle out. Or waited out the romans. sleep in shidts etc they brought the women and children.
i don't think they should have set the forest on fire but i agree with them waiting out the romans as the brits could easily have stopped their food supplies while we got all of them but then we were barbarians then we wern't exactly smart
i doubt 100,000 men for britons. something about 40,000 men vs 10,000 romans seems more accurate. after all romans learned exageration from the greeks.
The Germanic tribes used the woods for their advantage against Romans, why didn't the Britons do the same & try to outflank them from it? maybe they were so confident in victory.
my brother and i were on the same topic...atleast 10,000 through the trees would've helped. instead, they CRAMMED themselves into the killbox. that's like fighting with your arms tied, or using your face as a shield. lol
@Suppressingfire because they thought they already won,, thats why their families were there to watch them win the battle (wich they didnt as you saw),, they underestimated the romans.
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and again and again like in all history chanel videos - units from game rome total war - totally unrealistic and not historical ... I can help for history chanel change units on historical right and realistic....
I notice that the documentary makers dont mention that the romans very nearly did pull out of briton even after the battle becuase the roman losses at the time were much more significant than recorded history. The roman spin and the media at the time would have made the defeat out to have been crushing to the brits but I doubt Boudica was defeated all that easily.
I watched this, and the Time Commander ep of this battle.
And I cried as the idiotic Time Commander left the alley and attempt to "split the Britain into small section", "use the testudo to breakthrough the enemy", and finally "use cavalry to kill chariots".
1: I was brought up to take umbridge towards Ancient Rome.
2: It might not have made much difference; modern English who can trace their ancestry back to the 18th century in the same region are more likely to possess Celtic and/or German blood than Roman blood, with perhaps a splash of Frankish.
Some english Family claim Norman - and not actually "BRITISH" since Britons or that who area were once Roman slaves with a history of being used in Roman Games
you should see the other vid where it says Brits all had Chariots on lol on unpaved ground - Englih have lied so much they pay no real tribute to English Heritage- they pay more tribute to ROMAN history than Italians do, trying to claim that Rome "slighty" occupied the Area- the "real" people who survived during that time and who Emglish should pay tribute to also would be the IRISH
but English nobles claim to come from who different blood line lol go figure
Scarcely. They're using the game Rome: Total War to do it, and because the troops would be moving on a script they could render the finished video slowly but surely.
They didn't forget about the wedge formation, guess whos telling the video- of course they won't tell it correctly, in reality, the very first time an English Brit army met a Roman army not a town , THEY GOT WOOPED
I agree that it's funny, but the Britons were to overconfident. Sure, they had Pwned every single thing that was Roman, but you have to think twice before being so confident in your plans.
This episode of Desicive battles was awesome!! Man ... imagine being a briton, fleeing, only to find that the escape route is blocked by ones own wagons
Some Irish have fought for 800 years from the result of this battle in the vid. British British Historians wrote British as the makers of the world, when in fact nothing if anything was invented - a copy of copy - regular baths weren't even taken until the 1900s which cause cholera epidemics the black death -
Oh well. Everyone losses a war or battle at least once. They are still kick butt warriors and not pushovers. I just hope their in Heaven. They probably are. GOD wouldn't send people to hell who never heard of HIM. BOUDICCA!
MissRiki1987 1 month ago
@MissRiki1987 Organised tactics, discipline, proper professional army > bloodcrazed hordes. There was a good reason Roman armies conquered the world. :)
Dawnlighter 1 month ago
@Dawnlighter A lot of the "barbarians" that the Romans conquered were not stable, politically speaking.
HeirOfWallachia 1 week ago
romans were veteran killers. I love that Boudica battled against them. shame about the huge loss. amen.
SilviaEffe007 1 month ago
The long British swords were hacking weapons requiring room to swing them.
Swing a sword in that crowd and you would take out several of your own.
Radrook 2 months ago
This is missing an essential part of the Roman strategy. The Romans funnelled and crushed them into their main body where their short swords were used to stab at the Britons, who were being pushed forward and trapped by those coming up behind.
CrankCase08 2 months ago
lol at the dead 3d women
imfromtambunan 3 months ago
romans should kept her in the kitchen!!
1950torcidasolin 3 months ago
Interesting
JanMelet 4 months ago
Slaughter the Romans. There is still time.
Davidthehappyfellow 5 months ago
@Davidthehappyfellow Sorry but disorganised rubbles cant defeat a diciplined army
mike28156 5 months ago
Christ - it was like England v Italy at the World Cup!!
bigrobnz 5 months ago
@bigrobnz may i ask how can you compare a soccer match to an historical battle ?
TheLunaticSoldiers 2 months ago
Interesting.
abramhb 5 months ago
just showed my 11 bravo friend thsi episode and he said.. "stupid woman what was she doing out of the kitchen?!" lmao!!!
SpainBlood001 7 months ago in playlist Decisive Battles
Please tell me no one missed that this battle is done in Rome: total war (Its a game and I know its from this by the models.)
britishglorytomarrow 7 months ago
Maybe it's a stupid question but i'm throwing it out anyway.... why the hell did the Britons not envelop the romans by entering the woods? After all their troops were not in tight formations like ancient greeks and romans. Most of them were perfectly suited for battling in rought terrain.
arleken0 7 months ago
@arleken0
Well, for a start, they don't know exactly where the battle was, so no idea of the landscape (here they show a likely place, with woodland behind the Romans). Even if this is accurate, I think it would look a bit suspicious if a thousand or so Britons started backing away from the main army to sneak around. The Britons were well known for guerrilla tactics, although here, I doubt it would've worked.
rhiannon14982 7 months ago
Who cares if they were brutal? Everyone was brutal back then you had to, if you wanted to survive.
Graham6762 7 months ago
Boudicca=Epic FAIL!!!
Spider58x 8 months ago
I read an account of the 14th legion which was the core of Suetonius Paulinius' force at the battle of watling street, and I was amazed that they were nearly totally destroyed on two occasions in the past, yet the overcame these defeats and defeated an enemy force significantly outnumbering them.
imperatorcaesar100 8 months ago
lol since when do beserkers run from a battle? and in rtw, i didnt know the british even had beserkers. i gotta check. must be a mod.
hankock1015 9 months ago
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one quote.
" A Large army is always a disorderly army"
Homer
RTWdude 10 months ago
one quote.
" A Large army is always a disorderly army"
Homer
RTWdude 10 months ago
I do not want to insult women ( they are beautiful and give us males sense of life ) but that battle proves that female can't be field commander . Females use more "heart" and "feelings" when they make decision not the common sense
garden2010city 11 months ago 2
@garden2010city dude im a men and even i am ofended she should sourround the roman and waithed until they run our of suplies and died of hunger
IWANAROCKYEEEAAAA 11 months ago
@garden2010city you may be right, an example would be sarah palin who would have been the commander in chief if John McCain was elected as president, and he died, was ill, or incapacitated. though there are some female commanders that are competent like Joan of Arc. and Cleopatra, though the only time she really commanded any military force independently was at the battle of Actium, when she was forced to flee.
imperatorcaesar100 8 months ago
@garden2010city
She wasn't an army commander. She was a rallying standard. The Britons were a warrior culture, but they didn't have armies. Armies are for empires. It was just the southern tribes taking heaps of shit off the Romans until they snapped (here, by the Icenian royal family being humiliated and tortured), so they went on a rampage. I doubt Boudica would've had much say in how they behaved.
rhiannon14982 7 months ago
I thought that that guy was going to say that Boudicca was buried under platforms 9 3/4 in Kings cross lol
lilmusiclover369 1 year ago
That Roman general was wise. Sun Tzu would surely support him!
"Throw your soldiers into possitions where there is no escape, and they will prefer death before flight."
- Master Sun Tzu. (I recommend his book to everyone)
The romans where in a possition where they had to fight, or else they would be slaughtered. It did not get any better when Boudica and the Britons where known for killing prisoners.
I think this was a major factor + the quality of my beloved Romans!
VictumRoManius 1 year ago
@VictumRoManius I know the army of boudicca did not accept prisoners as I read the account by Cassius Dio where he recorded that "The Britons hanged up captured Roman women, and Romanized British women naked. and had their breasts cut off and sewn to their mouths so that it would appear the women were eating them, and then impaled the women on sharp pole run through the body" - Cassius Dio.
imperatorcaesar100 8 months ago
@VictumRoManius all of this that Sun Tzu says is common military sense, I don't know why he is so special, but I guess he wrote it down first, and now he is remembered.
elysium76 5 months ago
@elysium76 Oh he is special. Have you read the book?
The US military are using The art of War from Sun Tzu to educate their officers. "The art of War" has had huge influence on this world.
It is common military sense today, but for 2500 years ago when Sun Tzu wrote it, people where still praying to the gods for victory and doing nothing more to gain victory.
VictumRoManius 5 months ago
@VictumRoManius I have respect for Sun Tzu, and I read his book "The Art of War', I am only implying that applied military history and tactics in his book and thus got all the credit, that happens alot in human history.
elysium76 5 months ago
@elysium76 yea i love how the romans won because they "fought in a field where they cannot retreat and fought like true warriors" just like in the art of war
Bajedu 3 months ago
@Bajedu War is not fair, has never been fair. A smart general will always try to fight in his own terms.
elysium76 3 months ago
Everyone prays to their god for victory, it is the generals that make it happen :)
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hiddenandlostcrowns 1 year ago
Wheres the head hurlers when u need them... :P
TheSamurai777 1 year ago 2
heheh good that they slayed everyone, pathetic barbarians
TheN0rdic 1 year ago
@TheN0rdic The nordic people were barbarians as well...
Eregost2 11 months ago
OH YEAH
ITS BOOTY TIME
just joking
sicilia313 1 year ago
"Great armies are always disorderly."
MrUndertaker316 1 year ago
@MrUndertaker316
Sure
sicilia313 1 year ago
@MrUndertaker316 What of the Macedonian armies of Alexander the Great? The armies of Julius Ceaser? The order of the army depends not on its size but the quality of its leader.
swordo21 1 year ago
@swordo21 Great armies turn disorderly from time to time. It's true what you say, but I think that whoever said this quote (forgot his name) had meant on the "barbarian" nations, certainly not Roman or Macedonian armies, because they've been everything but disorderly.
MrUndertaker316 1 year ago
Legorepublicise:
300,000? no it was 120,000 against 4000 Romans...As much as I heard anyway.
WolfytheWolf5667 1 year ago
@WolfytheWolf5667
yeah ok
sicilia313 1 year ago
"This is a heroic victory worthy of roman arms!"
8494kyle 1 year ago
I remember a quotes
" I always outgun but never outmanned "
xmaple1x 1 year ago
The Romans used exactly the same ground as the British did against the french at Agincourt.
An uphill slope with woods at the sides funnelling any attack in.
That was a famous slaughter too.
The british won that one
Whats interesting for me about this battle is nobody is sure where it took place.
It was somewhere near watling st ,now the A5.
Somewhere near Mancetter seems as good a place as any.
The roman overnight camps may be be spottable from the air as they marched north.
zenoist2 1 year ago
@zenoist2 dont u mean england mate, it was the kingdom of england that fought the french :)
3101jimbo 1 year ago
i think this would make good battle in rtw's historic battles, then we could see if boudicca could have won
spacelink101 1 year ago
Romans use the ground very well as they frought a desparate ground to win against 300,000 Brits.
Sun Tzu wisdom will favor the Romans in that battle which it was a vetern army of 10,000 men against large, but unorganized brit army.
LegoRepublicese 1 year ago
as sun tzu said "create disorder with an indirect attack" roman equivalent= pilum volleys
toot65 1 year ago
I'm glad you're using the chain-mail legionaires and not the segementata legionaires (which were far less common, overused in movies, and generally overrated).
Lorica hamata chainmail was the standard issue armor and the most common armor for both legionairy and auxillary throughout the entire imperial period.
Intranetusa 1 year ago
In a way this battle reminds me of Gaugamela, a small number of disciplined battle hardin vet (Romans/Macedonians) vs a mass of not as well equipped, loosely held together mob that was defeated cause their only plan was charge
Amarksyhk 1 year ago
I still feel bad that Boudica and her daughters were flogged and raped... D: But Boudica HAD become cocky.
Runawaybreaks 1 year ago
I think 30% of the british were trampled to death...
FaakedLillebror 1 year ago
thnx man for uploading!
rolle16 1 year ago
At 1:38 There is a britton running behind the roman line! lol..
Dynimate 1 year ago
400 to 80 thousand, a 200 to 1 kill ratio. Good work boys...
Mistermax30 1 year ago
Couldn't Boudicca just send part of her force through the woods? What was stopping her?
JimmySteller 1 year ago
These were CELTS not British lool fucking shameful defeat.
AvengefulAngel 1 year ago
@AvengefulAngel What's the difference they lived in the same place
Kamikazebutterfly 1 year ago
@AvengefulAngel Also, Wikipedia cites her as the Brittonic Queen of the Iceni tribe.
Kamikazebutterfly 1 year ago
@AvengefulAngel Mate.. Celts are a culture... England is a country...
see... The english is a very very mixed culture... youve got Celts, Vikings, Saxons
, Anglo Saxons, Normans... i think your thinking of the Gallic tribes...
FaakedLillebror 1 year ago
@FaakedLillebror England is kinda like an overused pussy in terms of colonisation. Nowadays you have pakis, niggers, slavs and the whole fucking lot in england, also in wales and scotland to a lesser extant
Pawnbroker00 1 year ago
@Pawnbroker00 You failed.... im talking about the Anglo people... the British...
FaakedLillebror 1 year ago
@FaakedLillebror I know. I'm talking about the fact that anglo saxons dont exist anymore
Pawnbroker00 1 year ago
@Pawnbroker00 they do... they do... the genetic code still exists... and many of you have been mixed with norman people... and frankly, its not that bad having cultural assimilation... really...
FaakedLillebror 1 year ago
@FaakedLillebror I'm not english anyway, and i have bloodline and name and homeland to prove it. Cultural assimilation is bad when its not done correctly, e.g wales scotland and ireland.
Pawnbroker00 1 year ago
@Pawnbroker00 ya... but there is far to many good ecamples of good culture assimilation in contrast to the bad: The roman/latin influence in western europe
FaakedLillebror 1 year ago
@FaakedLillebror LMAO at use of word "frankly."
initvesa 1 year ago
rome always wins
bulldogrj502 1 year ago
My favorite battle!
nekwa2 2 years ago
We got rolled :P
tb4911 2 years ago
80,000 British KIA isn't hard to believe considering other battles like Cannae, Trebia, Lake Trasimene, and Metaurus river, each with staggering losses. The Romans kept good records even when they were the ones routed. Most casualties in ancient battles occurred when one side routed and the resulting disorganization made them easy prey for cavalry troops. In this case, the wagon trains prevented escape which allowed the legionaires formed in a Roman wedge to easily catch up and slaughter them.
Chaldean442 2 years ago
The Roman commander picked his ground very well. His flanks were covered by dense wooded areas and he held the high ground. This meant he couldn't be outflanked and the high ground added momentum when they counter attacked in wedge. The Roman Wedge was a devastating formation when facing an army that is disorganized and can't escape. It's not shown in this video. The wedge is a very dense formation resembling saw teeth with each legionaire thrusting his Gladius. In essence, a meat grinder.
Chaldean442 2 years ago
they used the game rome total war to demonstrate yay!
135792183 2 years ago
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Wow! The Romans were military genius' But w/ a LadyComander how else would it have ended
HHimmler33 2 years ago
Ramns always kicked ass. Damn, I love their tactics and courage.
ERMITHEUS 2 years ago
Im no Brit! I am a Celt!
wolfofthewhitemt 2 years ago
British? Celtic? I thought she led Celts, NOT brits?
wolfofthewhitemt 2 years ago
Celtic people were the british at the time
jamesax96 2 years ago
that is not true you idiot Constantine fought the briton uprising he fought the sarmartions and the parthians
sicilia313 2 years ago
lol 1:38 a briton got through the first line, then he got owned heheheh go romans!
spacelink101 2 years ago
that is a lesson for a stupid british barbarian woman not to mess up with disciplined romans!
N1DE0N 2 years ago
Didn't barbarians sack rome? Maybe one of them is you forbearer :)
IridescentEye 2 years ago
that was Huns you noob and that was Attila the Hun who sacked Rome, not some stupid barbarian woman
N1DE0N 2 years ago
He didnt get to Rome
Oldcartoons571 2 years ago
LOL! Silly barbarian woman... victory is for civilized men!
TheMedievalMan 2 years ago
"A large army is always disorderly" ....forgot who said that
Beatlesfan87 2 years ago
maybe a Sun Tzu or i dont remember
N1DE0N 2 years ago 2
Euripides. On this time they had no radios and such. Even Napoleon did shine leading small armies in battle but did find it hard to command large ones...
aure232 2 years ago
there not britons there British get it right
GWRtom 2 years ago
in the ancient time they were called the Britons,so get It right
killerclown789 2 years ago
Rome 10000 vs the 333000 britons
sicilia313 2 years ago
i love the way the briton soldiers rolled backwards after they were hit by the roman javelins.
THEMAGICEYETV 2 years ago 12
The Romans kicked their ass
These are true Romans
sicilia313 2 years ago
Are they the same Romans that got their arses kicked by the Goths and sent the Italy to be into the 3rd rate European country it is today? Or is that because your country embraces Roman Catholicism to the detriment of real progression?
IridescentEye 2 years ago
No that Rome ended but Nova Roma began and Ended with the Greatest Emperor Constantine The Great a Catholic Emperor who kicked the barbarians asses and brought the empire to its true greatest height.
sicilia313 2 years ago
The greatest height of the Roman Empire is the EU and it will be defeated ......again!
IridescentEye 2 years ago
who was catholic you stupid dick, he was pagan his whole life where the fuck did you get that he was catholic from. also catholicism wasnt even around then it was christianity.
ryankassulke 2 years ago
He was baptised in his death bed, so yes he died a Christian. Also Catholic is Christian, it is the continuation of the traditional Christian church over the progressive splinter churches like the Protestants. Please do some research.
TheMedievalMan 2 years ago
the catholic church wasnt around at constantines life you fucking asshole. and who the fuck says progressive splinter, just say sectarian or something like that. and fuck off he was not baptised at his death that is just a story the christians made up because he legalised to be christian in the roman empire, he was pagan his whole life. please you do some research and dont use wikipedia. okay, TheMedievalMan.
ryankassulke 2 years ago
LOL, your answer would be even funnier if it wasnt so pathetic. I can tell by the way you answer people that you are indeed an angry person who hates anyone who proves you wrong. I can use progressive if I want to, since that is what the word means. If you work for change vs tradition, then you are a progressive simpleton. If you read what I said I told you, "... Catholic is Christian, it is the continuation of the traditional Christian Church..."
TheMedievalMan 2 years ago
wtf i never said that catholics arent christian. however i did point out at constantines time there was no 'catholic' christians. it was just everyone was christian. so thanks alot TheMedievalMan for turing this arguement into a im smarter then you are. plus your other comment, what do u want me to write you a fuckin essay or like link you to online source material to validate my points? clearly your 'evidence' is just opinion.
ryankassulke 2 years ago
I would rather believe the accepted historical account than your idiotic "education". You are so simple minded that you think in terms of "what existed then" rather than understanding than its not that simple as your mind clearly is. Send me your address so I can print out a wiki diploma for you.
TheMedievalMan 2 years ago
Same thing man
Oldcartoons571 2 years ago
also all constantine did was fight other romans. your on crack son.
ryankassulke 2 years ago
No he didnt! Both sides of the Empire were being attacked by barberians and for the east "Persians"
The West was falling apart and in debt. The East was much better off but still...
Oldcartoons571 2 years ago
err. structure your sentences properly. if you want to sound smart, learn grammar.
ryankassulke 2 years ago
Hahaha, fucking wow.
Irony is hilarious.
AnonAnonyAnon 2 years ago
its the same rome that got beaten by the Goths but i dont know about the rest
louispigott4 2 years ago
I remembered two quotes:
"Generally management of the many is the same as management of the few. It is a matter of organization." Sun Tzu
"A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house" Socrates
rafaelhsouza 2 years ago 26
lol go rtw quotes xDD
also
"Quae caret ora cruore nostro? (What coast knows not our blood?)"
Pyromaniac1230 2 years ago
im noe genral but, the bits should have set all that forest of fire and try to create as much choas as possible. They should have spead the battle out. Or waited out the romans. sleep in shidts etc they brought the women and children.
41htdex 2 years ago
i don't think they should have set the forest on fire but i agree with them waiting out the romans as the brits could easily have stopped their food supplies while we got all of them but then we were barbarians then we wern't exactly smart
Steven0935 2 years ago 2
unless it was in the middle of summer,you wouldn't be able to set a foerest on fire.
ccclllsport 1 year ago
@rafaelhsouza lol bet you got that from rome total war
Memogin 1 year ago
@Memogin Yep! :-D
rafaelhsouza 1 year ago
Latin ass-kicking!
Organization is much more important than numbers.
rafaelhsouza 2 years ago 5
huge armys are always desorganizated...
renneabad03 2 years ago
i doubt 100,000 men for britons. something about 40,000 men vs 10,000 romans seems more accurate. after all romans learned exageration from the greeks.
immortal4942 2 years ago
WOW, you should check your history. that or make sure to atleast google the topic BEFORE you add a comment.
apparitionSHELL 2 years ago
Maybe you should... most modern historians agree that Tacitus and Dio overexagerated the numbers of the Britons.
australianfastbowler 2 years ago
a 80000 army lose to a 10000 army, stupid woman and she represent a woman stupid sheesh
purelandguanyin 2 years ago
OMGGGG come the fuck on look how fuckign tiny theyve made Britain look here
5:54!!!!! bastards
DannyJamesRead 2 years ago
@dannyJamesRead, so? it is small, but great!
Foozlethegreat 2 years ago
hahahahahahhaha
19thepyrochilibean 2 years ago
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DannyJamesRead 2 years ago
The Germanic tribes used the woods for their advantage against Romans, why didn't the Britons do the same & try to outflank them from it? maybe they were so confident in victory.
Suppressingfire 2 years ago 12
Overconfidence tends to be the downfall of commanders.
elacruisay11 2 years ago
Damn right, & U should never underestimate ur enemy.
Suppressingfire 2 years ago
Pure anger and hatred for the Romans was the cause
DannyJamesRead 2 years ago
my brother and i were on the same topic...atleast 10,000 through the trees would've helped. instead, they CRAMMED themselves into the killbox. that's like fighting with your arms tied, or using your face as a shield. lol
apparitionSHELL 2 years ago
hey rocky made using his face as a shield work
joeratti 2 years ago
@Suppressingfire because they thought they already won,, thats why their families were there to watch them win the battle (wich they didnt as you saw),, they underestimated the romans.
ElReyRemy 1 year ago
did you see that one british warrior went through the romen 1st line
puchy110 2 years ago
yeah he got jacked up by a roman
Smushexperience 2 years ago
but, how did he get through
puchy110 2 years ago
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and again and again like in all history chanel videos - units from game rome total war - totally unrealistic and not historical ... I can help for history chanel change units on historical right and realistic....
vlad9vt 2 years ago
I notice that the documentary makers dont mention that the romans very nearly did pull out of briton even after the battle becuase the roman losses at the time were much more significant than recorded history. The roman spin and the media at the time would have made the defeat out to have been crushing to the brits but I doubt Boudica was defeated all that easily.
FoxFan100 2 years ago
Bloody amasing documentary! Wish they could show theese on History Channel!
OtakuPraetorius 2 years ago
Boudicca is the Germanian "Screeching Woman" model from the game. ha
TheycallmeSkywalker 2 years ago
rome sucks britons forever!
FoxFan100 2 years ago
go absolutely fantastic courage, yeah!
Jimbovang 2 years ago
they forgot the roman formation. the lines formed teeth like a saw, which kicked the brits in the nuts
rnelly08 2 years ago
Rome total war...Awesome game. I fought againest the britians and had a hard time because of thier war chariots, I gotta get that game again.
blr4ever07 2 years ago
idiot cavalry wud b massacred by charriots as chariots hav sharpnd blades on their weels wich wud hav cut the horses legs down with ease !
kingofbmallard 2 years ago
It's weird though cause in the actual Rome: Total War game cavalry completely massacre chariots in combat, or at least from my experience
TheycallmeSkywalker 2 years ago
Not the heavy chariots. Heavy chariots from Egypt etc. etc. totally eat up any cav you throw at it.
WeGotTehPie 2 years ago 3
the pillum was the roman javelin, their sword was the gladious
JimbobHarrigan 2 years ago
I watched this, and the Time Commander ep of this battle.
And I cried as the idiotic Time Commander left the alley and attempt to "split the Britain into small section", "use the testudo to breakthrough the enemy", and finally "use cavalry to kill chariots".
Deadman1709 2 years ago
Roman heroes! Whack the dark satanic armies of Gordon Brown.
sinitskyd 3 years ago 6
LOL!
JamesTCA 2 years ago
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Nasty, rotten old Romans. Absolutely no respect for human life. Romani ite domum!!!
Naylte 3 years ago
somehow we all are related and so you can't say that.
Romans were spread out in many places and you can be a descendant, how knows?^^
lovelydreams139 3 years ago
1: I was brought up to take umbridge towards Ancient Rome.
2: It might not have made much difference; modern English who can trace their ancestry back to the 18th century in the same region are more likely to possess Celtic and/or German blood than Roman blood, with perhaps a splash of Frankish.
Naylte 3 years ago
well if it wasnt for rome you would still be sitting out in the woods wiping your ass with leaves haha jk :)
420alldayy 3 years ago 6
we all are people and erverybody is able to do such cruel things, it only depends on a person, his education and situation.
lovelydreams139 3 years ago
All is fair in love and war, heh? I don't think the British were better.
HaNsWiDjAjA 3 years ago 7
Oh you're silly.
monkaboy 2 years ago
Damn limey; wax my boots you!
JamesTCA 2 years ago
Some english Family claim Norman - and not actually "BRITISH" since Britons or that who area were once Roman slaves with a history of being used in Roman Games
Britanglish13 3 years ago
you should see the other vid where it says Brits all had Chariots on lol on unpaved ground - Englih have lied so much they pay no real tribute to English Heritage- they pay more tribute to ROMAN history than Italians do, trying to claim that Rome "slighty" occupied the Area- the "real" people who survived during that time and who Emglish should pay tribute to also would be the IRISH
but English nobles claim to come from who different blood line lol go figure
Britanglish13 3 years ago
They must've used supercomputers to render these battles.
Asianpersuasion3 3 years ago
Scarcely. They're using the game Rome: Total War to do it, and because the troops would be moving on a script they could render the finished video slowly but surely.
CKtheFat 3 years ago 5
Where is the Roman wedge formation? This video omitted it.
tacotony24 3 years ago
I don't know. Maybe they forgot about it or they weren't able to do it with the technology on their hands.
MasterClayVM 3 years ago
They didn't forget about the wedge formation, guess whos telling the video- of course they won't tell it correctly, in reality, the very first time an English Brit army met a Roman army not a town , THEY GOT WOOPED
Britanglish13 3 years ago
one absolutely vital and decisive tactic has been omitted in this depiction of the battle.
The Romans halted the british charge THEN their front ranks formed into wedge formations (like the teeth of a saw) and then the real slaughter began.
McBinary 3 years ago 4
they should do some battle recreations like this of the medieval era using the medieval 2 engine of course
tlatoani3 3 years ago 2
I found this quite hilarious. All those men being blocked by their own baggage trains and being cut down by the Romans.
Silly Barbarians.
MuzeecX 3 years ago 4
I agree that it's funny, but the Britons were to overconfident. Sure, they had Pwned every single thing that was Roman, but you have to think twice before being so confident in your plans.
DonkeyKongX 3 years ago
This episode of Desicive battles was awesome!! Man ... imagine being a briton, fleeing, only to find that the escape route is blocked by ones own wagons
OtakuPraetorius 3 years ago 3
The british pay no respect to actual Brit Heritage, as if it wasn't good enough
Britanglish13 3 years ago 3
Some Irish have fought for 800 years from the result of this battle in the vid. British British Historians wrote British as the makers of the world, when in fact nothing if anything was invented - a copy of copy - regular baths weren't even taken until the 1900s which cause cholera epidemics the black death -