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  • That is so CRAP man you did not do the battle what a waste of time

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  • lolol...within two seconds I recognized the Rome Total War music. Nice vid

  • rome total war music is just epic - best music of the total war entire series.

  • @kombatzero Music on the Europa Barbarorum mod is even better. Much better game than vanilla RTW as well.

  • dude Do you make more of these. I would love to see some shogun 2 ones. this is very entertaining.

  • Awsum knowledge u have its kinda like having a computer talk to u

  • Top bloke who made this!

  • My hamster legion decimated many guini pigs in the gtreat war but the mighty army of sheep overwhelms me damn those lion generalls

  • Some modern historians have reevaluated Hannibal in that maybe his success had less to do with his own skill as a commander and more to do with the incompetence of the Roman commanders he faced. The first time he faced a competent Roman commander he lost. Scipio for example, defeated him using virtually the same tactics Hannibal had used at Cannae. Fighting for Arche Seleukeia, Hannibal also proved less than able. His father Hamilcar may have been a far more able commander.

  • @gurumagoo

    Once again I am forced to agree. This is a similar situation to the one the Romans had during the Third Servile War led by Spartacus . It wasn't that Sparticus was particularly good. I would say he was competent and well motivated. On the other hand Crassus proved himself to be plodding and incompetent and his brand new legions proved to be a reflection of their general. Only an incompetent would have had to resort to decimation as Crassus did to instill discipline.

  • @1138thz An army of sheep led by lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

  • @gurumagoo An army of lions led by a liger is much better than both :P

  • @DestroyerOfSense000 An army of Guinea Pigs led by a Hamster would be even more formidable.

  • @gurumagoo I used to have guinea pigs and let me assure you they'd rout before the enemy was a mile away

  • @gurumagoo I see what you did there.

  • @gurumagoo maybe but what if the sheep was sick of being a sheep

  • Bergen Catholic FTW

  • I was bummed when my history teacher said we wouldn't be getting into battles and tactics, stuff like this is just so cool.

  • @BuddhaMyFaceisStupid Go to military school.

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  • @1138thz The Romans only lost at Carrhae because Marcus Licinius Crassus was an imbecile. He spread his forces out and parked them under the desert sun while horse archers and heavy cavalry picked them apart.

  • @gurumagoo

    "The Romans only lost at Carrhae because Marcus Licinius Crassus was an imbecile."

    I agree! Crassus was an incompetent fool.

    The Roman response was a more powerful Auxilia- more slingers, archers and cavalry and heavier shields (one more layer of boiled leather.) and more pack animals to carry more water and projectile ammo. The Result...the total slaughter of the Parthians at Cyrrhestica by the Roman forces commanded by Publius Ventidius Bassus.

  • The reason some people say that chengis khan or Alexander the Great is because they done more,but here is what people dont look at,they both were kings,they could have all the resources they wanted,other wise Hannibal was only a general and could not have all the resources he needed if he was a warrior king maybe things would have turned out differently but thats only my belief.

  • Someone read livy.

  • What game is that ? Is it Rome total war ?... Or a different game ?

  • @susie1201 rtw

  • A bit biased and contradictory. He says most of Hannibal's troops were inexperienced, but at 7:02 he mentions that Hannibal's front lines were composed of 12,000 Ligurians and Gauls from Hannibal's campaigns in Italy. The 2nd line contained troops from Macedonia; and Philip would hardly have sent raw recruits. But I will agree that the rest of the 2nd line may have been green troops. And the 3rd line of course Hannibal's 24,000 elite troops. All in all, hardly an inexperienced army.

  • these where black men fighting on both sides

  • That's nice, but what kind of "provocation" from Roman side was there with Sagantum?

    The whole story looks pretty much like the beginning of the WWII. Maybe Romans also looked forward to another war with Carthago, but Hannibal was interested in it much more. So, it was he who provoked Rome by sieging Sagantum which had a treaty with Rome (just like Poland with England). Thus the Romans were forced to declare war on Carthagenian aggressors, otherwise Rome would have lost all her allies.

  • Well put together sir.

    *****

  • Great video who need flashy shows to learn.

  • That goes to show that using exotic and unexpected weapons (i.e. the war elephants) doesn't always work out well.

  • even his a good general,Hannibal is more on the 3rd place,Alexander the Great is on first and Ghinghis Khan on the 2nd,because Alexander didn't lose any battle(and he fought against 300.000 persians) and Ghinghis had the biggest empire ever created,and he was a barbarian by roman standards.Hannibal lose at battle of Zama against a smaller force and at the battle of canae the romans wasn't twice as much,they were like 70000 and Hannibal's forces was 50000

  • @HerasBoss

    He lost to a smaller force - one that outnumbered him in cavalry and were pretty much a veteran army - Hannibal had a strong core of his italian veterans (up to 20,000) but the rest were quickly raised levies, or unreliable mercenaries - Scipio had the better army, and even then, it was a close call thing.

  • @kivati Scipio's army was made up of volunteers and the disgraced survivors of the Battle of Cannae. Men forced to stay in exile in Sicily. Hannibal had not only his veterans, but a strong contingent of Gaelic warriors and yes some hastily raised Carthaginian troops. Scipio's army had the better general (namely Scipio himself), in the end that's what made the difference

  • @gaiusscipio

    No - those disgraced survivors had been turned into a veteran force much better than what Hannibal had at Zama. They also included the survivors from the two battles of Herdonia - esssentially these men had campainged together for years. Scipio's army was a more homogenous army than Hannibal's at Zama with an officer corp used to working together. Hannibal's third line was his veterans, and we are told they numbered 12,000.

  • Hannibal's army was made up of very low morale soldiers and disparate armies which had yet to gel, hence why he used them as separate bodies with their own officers. They were also made up of many national elements which would have been harder to work with that the Roman force. At Zama you had two superb commanders, but Scipio had an excellent army, whereas Hannibal, and only thanks to his veterans, had an average one.

  • @kivati Yeah and the Carthiginians lost the Numidians to Scipios army. Bummer.

  • Hannibal had an army about 40,000 strong, outnumbered Scipio by about 5000 men, but Scipio had the better disciplined and organized infantry, and also superiority in cavalry.

  • @kivati Ah the ultimate question should be, why did he have a superiority in Cavalry? Why were his troops better trained and more disciplined? And what were Hannibal's 80 elephants, chopped liver? That's 80 more elephants than Scipio had

  • if you are interested to see some battles reconstitution watch my channel i have the battle of marathon from the history channels series Battles BC and i will post more soon

  • Great Job!

  • In my book, Hannibal was the greatest general that has ever lived, even beyond greats like Alexander The Great, Napoleon, Pyrrhus, Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan. The forementioned may have obtained more land and conquering and have gathered more prestige, but none had the out of this world tactical brilliance that Hannibal had. His unlikely victory at Cannae alone is still dumbfounding to me...

  • @VikingTerror

    can't agree that he was a better general than Alexander or Khan. They never lost?

  • @wami659 Alexander and Genghis Khan were the rulers of their country AND generals. In terms of Generalship alone Hannibal was a lot smarter, more resourceful a better leader. Also Hannibal had to deal with both an empire in decline and against an empire that was a rising star- not to mention being politically undermined at the Carthaginian court. On the battlefield Hannibal was more successful against tougher opponents.

  • @VikingTerror I've asked this question before before to people who seem to insist that Hannibal was the greatest thing since slice bread. Tell me four great generals Hannibal fought?

  • nice

  • nicely done!

  • scipte the young was rome first ever gernal that was 20 his dad lost and was kill in north italy years before young scipte lost at carthae that made him stonger

  • scipte the young tuck spain cz his dad was kill by habial

  • It wasn't that Hannibal's army was inexperienced par say. The Catheginians didn't have a standing army really. for the most part they used mercenaries. and thats the truth. But good enough for me. great documentry

  • At first I thought "ahh another random guy making his own lame documentary" but hey, its actually pretty good.

  • So, the battle took place in N. Africa?

  • dude how did you do the maps?They look awesome, could you please tell me?

  • music is from Jeff von Dyck =D

  • wtf rtw music lol

  • nice stuff. I assume this is RTW realism?

  • nice work, cheers

  • what rome total war mod is this? i have the normal total war and barbarian invasion and no one have that kind of soldiers

  • i think he used the mod RTR rome total realism

  • ty, ui download it now but how can i uppgrade my rome total war goldedition so i can play the mod?

  • he made a documentary, that means he need to tell wath hapened, and not wath YOU want to see Shroshoe.

  • lol,srry that was my cousin

  • good video 5/5

  • very good work with the video, but why did you chose such a weird name: gtg869x. it doesn't make any sence.

  • Lol,at one point,atleast make a video where the good guys DONT LOOSE or the better army actually WINS.

  • This is what really happened and good guys wow!

  • I got to get me rome total realism

  • You have done good research

  • wait, thats not the same flag of Crthage in RTW

  • cartaginesi suck

  • so does your spelling

  • Have you ever considered taking a university course in media studies? You have real potential.

  • did you make this yourself?

  • Good job. 5 stars.

  • is this someone reading from a book?

  • A book, no. A script, yes.

  • @crawhip2

    This is King Philip V (238 BC - 179 BC)

    100 years after Alexanders father,

    Philip II (382336 BC)

  • say you seem to know something about this, just wanted to know if the King Phillip of Macedon mentioned in the clip, is the same Philip who was Alexander's father?(who fought Darius twice etc and crushed his army...)

  • crawhip2,the philip in this video is not the same as Alexander father, this was after alexander died.(it was Alexander who fought Darius twice)

  • thanks for pointing that out to me.

  • According to Hannibal, Italy and Spain should be part of Morocco. And soon it will be...

  • because they sure speake french...

  • I thought they speak Arabic in Morocco though... Never mind, we will all be speaking Chinese soon.

  • Retard

  • That's what you said to yourself while looking in the mirror, didn't you, beautiful Israeli donna? As someone who has family in Israel, I can tell you that you all will speak arabic for sure and very soon. Unless you have more babies.

  • China has no interest in war you fool, the west fuels its economy, declaring war would probably destroy it.

    And btw I DO speak Arabic, as well as Hebrew.

  • Did I ever say that China is interested in war, my now-Israeli and soon-to-be Palestinian friend? I never said that. They certainly appear more peaceful than Bibi or your neighbors in a little town on the coast of Mediterranean that you bombed recently.

  • You said we all be speaking chinese soon, why the fuck would we do that unless we are conquered, fucking retard.

    Where I live has nothing to do with this, do I mention what your country does to Iraq, no.

  • First of all, we are really generous people, as we liberated Iraq at the expence of our own bankrupcy. Talk about sacrifice!

    Second, you can speak Chinese simply because of economic opportunities, because all the money will be in China in the next century. Of course, you can also speak Arabic because all the soldiers of the future will be muslim, as all others are SquareHeads and Slackers and do not have babies while rotting in their socialist welfare states.

    Salam

  • LOL you talk crap, why would all the money be in china? there are other rising economies like india and germany, not to mention the powerhouse that is the US, and arabs will never take israel, they have tried many times and always fail.

    Fucking idiots like you should be shot.

  • Thank you SquareHead, I appreciate your passionate views. The other best economies are in my opinion Vietnam and Malasia.

    As for Arabs never taking Israel, I wish you were right. But demographics is destiny, and with the demise of US the writing is on the wall. Hopefully, there will be no blood in the transition.

    And thanks for wishing to have me shot. Perhaps, I can move to Gaza. Then if Hamas will not whack me, I might be blown up by one of your bombs.

    Happy Pesach.

  • אני שונא אותך

  • Thank you for hating me, my square-headed friend. Sometimes, I do not like myself either.

    Unfortunately, we have hard realities to face: bankrupcy for my country and some very hard times ahead for yours.

    Lehitraot.

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  • From what I hear from other chinese people, China's government isn't nice lol

  • being a libertarian-minded individual, I tend to agree with you. No powerful government is good.

  • Well all great nations tend to go on the dark side. What started as something noble gets twisted as the years go by.

  • dude im totally libertarian thats amazing hell yea a power government sucks i love guns i love freedom i love....to be able to get real money and work hard :) i wish there were more of us i think pen from pen teller is like us :)

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  • at first, i didn't realy like your narrating voice. but as i continued to listen, i thought you were one hell of a talented narrator!

  • after all this previous nonesense this is a refreshingly well done, well informed video.

    Excellent work!

  • well finally someone realy knows something about the Punic wars, great vid,

  • Well researched and presented. Great work. Hannibal taught Scipio everythinh he knew. It is ironic that Scipio used Hannibal's own tactics against him. Hannibal by 218bc may have been passed his best as Napoleon was at Waterloo in 1815.

  • nice job

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