Nice work setting the stage and overall context for Cannae. That's just as important as the actual battle itself for understanding how it played out and why.
This is an amazing documentary, i really like it, you are really knowledgeable and it's great, keep it up and try and shed light on Parthia, India, Baktria etc... You make such a good documentary out of such a bad game, good job :D
Ah man... I was so stoked to find such great documentaries! Then I opened your videos up and was blown away at the sheer number of vids, but quickly realized that only a relative few are documentary, but rather gameplay footage (I guess?) oh well... great docs man! watched an all yesterday, they're damn near works class, only minor flaws in narration and obvious limitations of the game engine you're using yo create these... If you had a budget, and a team to help create these with you, they would be some if the absolute best docs around anywhere! as they are they're great in my eyes! No doubt they take alot of work, and I'm sure it requires far less to publish the content that make a up the majority of your channel. Thanks for the hard work, I subbed right away and I'll remain a sub in hopes of future documentaries like this!
i am surprised..someone makes this stunning video with wonderful historic informations and it has only 44 267 views and 988 likes (great job man).....but when someone without brain vomits in front of camera he has 20 milions views....
Your description of the state that the two forces were in is the best explanation I've heard about how such a large army of Rome could be destroyed by inferior numbers...training, vetrancy, and morale.
Top Notch. This is better than anything I've seen. You have made the right choices when selecting which facts are interesting and which are not. This video is a breath of fresh air considering all the crappy videos I've had to watch lately!
AWESOME VIDEO!!! much better than crappily acted documentaries. Just a question, since I also play TW:R2, how did you get the so close up shots of the cities?
I hate all those re enactments in history documentaries nowadays. like that one about a scottish and english war (there are so many I don't know something around the time the british had guns) where they had actors sharing their supposed experiences in the battle with the scottish it was fucking hilarious lol
The only thing I would like more than these awesome videos is if more people knew about your content and liked and subscribed in order to support you. There are hours long, billion dollar movies that are less entertaining than these 15 minute episodes.
the scutum is of iberian origin, called after its users, the Scutarii, which tribal fighters provide the entire panoply and methodology of the early Hastatii the three layers of wood IS the plywood .. three layers of plywood would be nine layers total its not ringmail, thats rings sewn to cloth or leather its mail, or maille, often wrongly called chainmail, (which term i think originated with dungeons and dragons or something?), its a celt invention from that time widely adopted by everyone as soon as they saw it
I know this is an old video, but I'd love to give out my hardware to increase the fidelity of this series and new series like it. I know Rome 2 has its limits but with mods we should be able to get multiplayer battles with 80,000 men on each side
The amount of view surprise me if you show these videos to random people on street and tell them to guess the number of view they'll all say million if not millions of views
I am a dolphin if the Roman side had 80 000 of warriors! Do you know that at rise Roman Empire around all the world what they had were just 28 legions?
+Владислав Демьянчук 28 legions, but that because the Roman Empire used professional soldiers. The pre Marian Roman Republic didn't use an army of professional, but an army of citizens.
I think he uses DEI (Divida et Impera). Its availabke for free on the steam workshop, but keep in mind you need a very good comp if you want to run it properly with all its features
+Ryan Ewald Easy, if Hannibal had siege experts and a clear cut strategy to win the war. Hannibal action, sadly, was more akin to a knee jerk reaction. He won every battle, but he lost the war, because it didn't strike at snake's head when the opportunity presented itself.
+Linus Linuthorax He lost Zama, but there was nothing he could have done. Hannibal developed for that battle a masterpiece of a tactic, but that was a really strange case where morale > tactic. In the battle of Zama he faced the survivors of Cannae. They were angry, they were ferocious and they wanted to fuck Hannibal.
so he needed to develop a tactic that didnt involve his elepahnts going virst he needed those elephants to come from the back not the front and sure they were survivors from cannae but another trap that was better then Canae was needed then whipe them out. altho he should never have gone to zama. he should of gone for rome while carthage was under attack. just encircle her and burn anything in the vesinity have scouts head out and get food. hire people to raid food from the romans and try to sneak people into rome if he got his army in there it was all over he didnt need the city. he just needed to destroy it and move on. and then find other cities and repeat. unless they surrender. port cities might of been easyer cause they don't have walls all the way around could sneak troops by the port. and then once inside burn it to the ground. battles were not just the key. showing rome that even tho they don't have siege equipment. the romans wernt safe neither were there allies. show the romans that even if the carthagenian senate capitulated hannibal didnt he was fighting the war with out them anyways. and winning. so all he needed to do was stay and finish the war. its a bold gamble but might of been the tipping point in the war. as long as he was in italy he had a chance. and rome was closer to falling.
This is what i never understood he should have held Rome under-siege regardless. i think the mere threat of surrounding their capitol would have devastating effects and affects to the whole of roman civilization and beyond. i realize that they weren't outfitted for siege warfare, but consider that his army crossed the alps with an army, weapons, armor, supplies& elephants....who knows to the exact lengths Hannibal and his cohorts were capable of...
haha the Consul name is LUCIUS AEMILIUS PAULLUS like the name of the German PAULUS who was also surrounded by the RUSSIAN IN STALINGRAD HISTORY REPEATS HAHA
IRun iix There was also an Aemilius Paulus who rose to the dignity of a consulship and won a significant victory over the Macedonians at the Battle of Pydna
Wooooooaaaaaaah there was more than one Paulinus in Rome? Next thing I'll hear is there was more than one Scipio! And more than one Cicero! What madness! r/sarcasm
Really well done!! It's a crappy ratings system that only allows me to give one thumbs up for this, as I would have given a thumbs up to a series done half as well as this one. Anyways, you have set the bar fairly high for videos of this type. I enjoyed it immensely, thanks!!
Between your superb narration skill and proficiency in conveying interesting information, let alone using Total War as your Ken Burns styled visuals, you should definitely be a documentarist via ancient history/battlefield history. Keep up the good work and don't let that talent go to waste please.
It's really interesting that Rome was able to destroy a sea power despite not having the sea advantage, and then Hannibal beat the Romans on land despite similarly also not having the land advantage. Interesting reversal of roles, what an interesting and fucking intense war.
11:47 Moors? Great video I find this battle super interesting but the term "moor" is a christian european name of the muslims that lived in the Iberian peninsula in the 8th-15th centuries. This was long before that
Carthage is my favorite ancient time power, and i like how Carthage was not racist and had all type of troops from different places, ironic how later on people were even more racist than before..
really? another varro? Is it a family tradition to lose thousands of men in that family. Cannae and the teutoberg forest. "Varro give me back my legions" :P
Anton Damm You're right on the name, my bad. But Arnimius (Herman) betrayed Rome for his lands. Not varus. Varus was the Roman general and govenor who died in the toutoberg forest, after Arnimius betrayed him, by falling on his own sword.
I hope that the next documentary that you do is the battle of Zama. While i love watching documentary's like this i must admit im rarther baised towards rome since im so fond of the roman army so documentarys like this that seem to show roman army in a bad light always make me feel bad. Regardless of my bias however its a great documentary. Keep up the good work.
When did the Roman troops get the equipment the stereotypical Roman Soldier features (plate armor, gladius, etc)? I have been trying to find this online and would really appreciate an answer. Love your videos and subbed btw:)
+FlightSimmer948 Around the time of Augustus the Legionaries got the Lorica Segmentata but the Gladius,Scutum,Pilum, and Lorica hamata existed around the start of the Republic
+Harry H The "other" equipment was probably put in use around 300 BC, so the Romans would have been using the Gladius, Scutum and Pila for a century before the second Punic War. On the contrary, the time of Augustus was around 30 BC. The Romans most likely gained their Gladius and Scutum by the time of the Second Samnite War, wherein the Hoplite Phalanx was rendered ineffective in the hilly terrain in central Italy. They adopted the scutum from their Samnite foes, but I don't really know anything else.
Phenomenal job. I've been reading books and watching videos about the 2nd Punic War for 25 years. This is the best video on Cannae I have ever seen.
I hope you do more documentary videos like this one with other important battles of the ancient history.
Really entertaining.
Yeah its very entertaining but he missed a lot of important stuff like the prominence of the Numidians throught the war not just Cannae
Love sitting back with a bowl of ice cream and watching these videos. Enjoying them a lot.
Lol. Do you play total war?
Lol do u play total war?
Diadrag lol. Do you play total war
Diadrag lol. Do you play total war?
@Eitan Prigan Lol. Do you play total war
total war history best idea ever
My god this is good, cant stop replaying it. Can't believe you did this in Rome 2 as well of all things!
Fantastic! Definitely going to recommend these videos to my Latin teacher! Can't wait to watch the next three tomorrow!
Love your videos man, i find myself staying up long night hours watching them. Keep up the good work!!
glad I could entertain and educate
+THFE Productions are you going to ever do any more history playlist
Nice work setting the stage and overall context for Cannae. That's just as important as the actual battle itself for understanding how it played out and why.
This is an amazing documentary, i really like it, you are really knowledgeable and it's great, keep it up and try and shed light on Parthia, India, Baktria etc...
You make such a good documentary out of such a bad game, good job :D
Ah man... I was so stoked to find such great documentaries!
Then I opened your videos up and was blown away at the sheer number of vids, but quickly realized that only a relative few are documentary, but rather gameplay footage (I guess?)
oh well... great docs man!
watched an all yesterday, they're damn near works class, only minor flaws in narration and obvious limitations of the game engine you're using yo create these...
If you had a budget, and a team to help create these with you, they would be some if the absolute best docs around anywhere!
as they are they're great in my eyes!
No doubt they take alot of work, and I'm sure it requires far less to publish the content that make a up the majority of your channel.
Thanks for the hard work, I subbed right away and I'll remain a sub in hopes of future documentaries like this!
i am surprised..someone makes this stunning video with wonderful historic informations and it has only 44 267 views and 988 likes (great job man).....but when someone without brain vomits in front of camera he has 20 milions views....
This is great, love the detail
Your description of the state that the two forces were in is the best explanation I've heard about how such a large army of Rome could be destroyed by inferior numbers...training, vetrancy, and morale.
These videos are amazing. Please do this for as many other battles as possible. You have a gift sir. Plataea, Marathon, Gaugamela, more!
Top Notch. This is better than anything I've seen. You have made the right choices when selecting which facts are interesting and which are not. This video is a breath of fresh air considering all the crappy videos I've had to watch lately!
8 years later, and still an excellent piece.
Wow really great. And with a better flow then the punic war doc. Keep it up.
Absolutely amazing.
very impressive. pls do more videos like this
love how they made this video with a hole diffrent version of the game than what is out there. blobbing to mention something
although the DEI mod and newer patches do really make it a different beast than the launch title
AWESOME VIDEO!!! much better than crappily acted documentaries. Just a question, since I also play TW:R2, how did you get the so close up shots of the cities?
I hate all those re enactments in history documentaries nowadays. like that one about a scottish and english war (there are so many I don't know something around the time the british had guns) where they had actors sharing their supposed experiences in the battle with the scottish it was fucking hilarious lol
Loved the music at 12:58! :P
morale always a big issue not only in antiquity :)
Im sad, I can only like this video once, these are soo good
This is more enjoyable then watching British and French soldiers tebagging at school.
What is that supposed to mean
@@gladiox7637 cause 19th century fighting was legit fire hide reload get up fire and so on
@@gamingbossdude ahh thank you! Can’t believe you replied so fast after six years.
@@gladiox7637 oh lol no problem! I saw an email for it
waited years for this documentary on total war! :D
The only thing I would like more than these awesome videos is if more people knew about your content and liked and subscribed in order to support you. There are hours long, billion dollar movies that are less entertaining than these 15 minute episodes.
Good work! Keep it up!
Great stuff, loving this
Well done good sir.
Superb video with fantastic graphics.....a great way to learn about history.
Wow, nice !! How many times can I like it ?? ... Probably one of the best historical videos !
Have to say this better than most history docs keep it up please!
These videos so far are spectacular
Love the use of Rome 1's sound track. Far superior in my opinion!
Appreciate the effort you put into your videos. Very entertaining/Educational.
It's sad not more people watch this I love it
yeah he deserves more views
It's weird that he has 24,000 subs but only 200 or so views
The soldiers wore stylish mini-skirts and colorful pajamas to battle!
best thing ive seen on youtube for weeks
thanks for the support. I am very very pleased with how this came out
If the two Roman armies were camped either side of the river wouldn't this have been an ideal time for Hannibal to attack?
Great video I learned a lot more than I thought there was too it thanks!
very nice, we need more of course.
Good work, just a thing: the latin diphthong "AE" sounds like the "E" in italian ( similar at the English "A")...
Good work
You are awesome. You put in so much work and what not and you don't even ask for likes!
the scutum is of iberian origin, called after its users, the Scutarii, which tribal fighters provide the entire panoply and methodology of the early Hastatii
the three layers of wood IS the plywood .. three layers of plywood would be nine layers total
its not ringmail, thats rings sewn to cloth or leather
its mail, or maille, often wrongly called chainmail, (which term i think originated with dungeons and dragons or something?), its a celt invention from that time widely adopted by everyone as soon as they saw it
So amazing !
unbelievable fantastic!! :D shit this is some good shit, fantastic job!
Hahahaha... really enjoy comments like this lol
Why did the Romans allow Hannibal to enter so deep in their territory, instead of engaging earlier, near Galia Cisalpina or even Etruria?
Inlove the graphic glitches
I know this is an old video, but I'd love to give out my hardware to increase the fidelity of this series and new series like it. I know Rome 2 has its limits but with mods we should be able to get multiplayer battles with 80,000 men on each side
Your hardware doesn't matter, battles with that amount of troops are gonna be a stutter fest, even if the framerate remains high.
I thought about using total war for documentary purposes my self but this is better than I ever expectet it to be
The libyans are from the same ethnic group than the numidians, moors, getules, garamantes and much more... They are amazigh tribes (berber).
The amount of view surprise me if you show these videos to random people on street and tell them to guess the number of view they'll all say million if not millions of views
do the battle of trebia pleeease !
Hand picked by the natural selection of the Alps.
damn
imagine if you got a blister on your toe marching through the alps.
Very beautiful.
fantastic
what programs do you use to make these videos?
You should try taking breaks in between reading and making multiple takes if you slip up. It'll make the end product all the more professional.
You are the best !!!
Logic: the wealthiest fight the best, said no one ever.
I am a dolphin if the Roman side had 80 000 of warriors!
Do you know that at rise Roman Empire around all the world what they had were just 28 legions?
+Владислав Демьянчук 28 legions, but that because the Roman Empire used professional soldiers. The pre Marian Roman Republic didn't use an army of professional, but an army of citizens.
this... is...so... awsome :DDDD
what are the mods that you use tell me please :)
I think he uses DEI (Divida et Impera). Its availabke for free on the steam workshop, but keep in mind you need a very good comp if you want to run it properly with all its features
Joe Athens
thx
I have the list of mods and everything in the description
THFE Productions
thx and by the way nice videos keep it up
you should make a video of how carthage could of won that war
+Ryan Ewald Easy, if Hannibal had siege experts and a clear cut strategy to win the war. Hannibal action, sadly, was more akin to a knee jerk reaction. He won every battle, but he lost the war, because it didn't strike at snake's head when the opportunity presented itself.
These videos are about history not about what could have happened.
+Zamolxes77 He lost Zama tho.
+Linus Linuthorax He lost Zama, but there was nothing he could have done. Hannibal developed for that battle a masterpiece of a tactic, but that was a really strange case where morale > tactic. In the battle of Zama he faced the survivors of Cannae. They were angry, they were ferocious and they wanted to fuck Hannibal.
so he needed to develop a tactic that didnt involve his elepahnts going virst he needed those elephants to come from the back not the front and sure they were survivors from cannae but another trap that was better then Canae was needed then whipe them out. altho he should never have gone to zama. he should of gone for rome while carthage was under attack. just encircle her and burn anything in the vesinity have scouts head out and get food. hire people to raid food from the romans and try to sneak people into rome if he got his army in there it was all over he didnt need the city. he just needed to destroy it and move on. and then find other cities and repeat. unless they surrender. port cities might of been easyer cause they don't have walls all the way around could sneak troops by the port. and then once inside burn it to the ground. battles were not just the key. showing rome that even tho they don't have siege equipment. the romans wernt safe neither were there allies. show the romans that even if the carthagenian senate capitulated hannibal didnt he was fighting the war with out them anyways. and winning. so all he needed to do was stay and finish the war. its a bold gamble but might of been the tipping point in the war. as long as he was in italy he had a chance. and rome was closer to falling.
This is what i never understood he should have held Rome under-siege regardless. i think the mere threat of surrounding their capitol would have devastating effects and affects to the whole of roman civilization and beyond. i realize that they weren't outfitted for siege warfare, but consider that his army crossed the alps with an army, weapons, armor, supplies& elephants....who knows to the exact lengths Hannibal and his cohorts were capable of...
Bro make even from world war series
10:05 The battle of what?
8 Romans disliked this video
Spanish invent the gladius before they exist ......fantastic
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Good videos. But the narrators pronounciation of the latin is awful.
haha the Consul name is LUCIUS AEMILIUS PAULLUS like the name of the German PAULUS who was also surrounded by the RUSSIAN IN STALINGRAD HISTORY REPEATS HAHA
i notced that too, it would have been even better if the spelling was the same
classicMaxReviews yes man
IRun iix There was also an Aemilius Paulus who rose to the dignity of a consulship and won a significant victory over the Macedonians at the Battle of Pydna
Not exactly the same, but remember Paulinus who defeated Boudica.
Wooooooaaaaaaah there was more than one Paulinus in Rome? Next thing I'll hear is there was more than one Scipio! And more than one Cicero! What madness!
r/sarcasm
Really well done!! It's a crappy ratings system that only allows me to give one thumbs up for this, as I would have given a thumbs up to a series done half as well as this one. Anyways, you have set the bar fairly high for videos of this type. I enjoyed it immensely, thanks!!
More please
If you'd make one of these for the war against pyrrhus of epirus I'd be most grateful..
Thanks. Your video re always so informative and interesting
You just earned a sub. +1 :D
Between your superb narration skill and proficiency in conveying interesting information, let alone using Total War as your Ken Burns styled visuals, you should definitely be a documentarist via ancient history/battlefield history. Keep up the good work and don't let that talent go to waste please.
It's really interesting that Rome was able to destroy a sea power despite not having the sea advantage, and then Hannibal beat the Romans on land despite similarly also not having the land advantage. Interesting reversal of roles, what an interesting and fucking intense war.
Great video..like always
awesome!
make a vid about thermopylae or carhae sometime in the future :P
Good choice of opening music! =]
11:47 Moors?
Great video I find this battle super interesting but the term "moor" is a christian european name of the muslims that lived in the Iberian peninsula in the 8th-15th centuries. This was long before that
Very nice video. Just one thing: in latin " ae" sounds "e" . It' s "ale", not "alae" for instance. Kepp your god work. Thanks.
Carthage is my favorite ancient time power, and i like how Carthage was not racist and had all type of troops from different places, ironic how later on people were even more racist than before..
These are amazing! They must have taken so long to make:D
This is the way Total War should be used. Outstanding!
Triarii had a bonus vs cav should've been used smarted smh what a waste so many turns wasted
Hand picked by the natural selection of the alps 👌
they should bring back the old main menu theme to the rome 2 total war
LaVar Ball's ancestor at 11:44, lol
Best documentary by far!!
really? another varro? Is it a family tradition to lose thousands of men in that family. Cannae and the teutoberg forest.
"Varro give me back my legions" :P
In Teutoburg the germanic roman who betrayed rome was Varus not varro :p
Anton Damm
You're right on the name, my bad. But Arnimius (Herman) betrayed Rome for his lands. Not varus. Varus was the Roman general and govenor who died in the toutoberg forest, after Arnimius betrayed him, by falling on his own sword.
Hahah sorry wrote wrong name
Never trust a german :P
I hope that the next documentary that you do is the battle of Zama. While i love watching documentary's like this i must admit im rarther baised towards rome since im so fond of the roman army so documentarys like this that seem to show roman army in a bad light always make me feel bad.
Regardless of my bias however its a great documentary. Keep up the good work.
I am thinking of doing Zama and Carhae in the future. Besides that perhaps Pharsalus and Phillipi
When did the Roman troops get the equipment the stereotypical Roman Soldier features (plate armor, gladius, etc)? I have been trying to find this online and would really appreciate an answer. Love your videos and subbed btw:)
+FlightSimmer948 Around the time of Augustus the Legionaries got the Lorica Segmentata but the Gladius,Scutum,Pilum, and Lorica hamata existed around the start of the Republic
+MrSuperchacho77 What year was this? Before the 2nd Punic War?
+Harry H
The "other" equipment was probably put in use around 300 BC, so the Romans would have been using the Gladius, Scutum and Pila for a century before the second Punic War. On the contrary, the time of Augustus was around 30 BC.
The Romans most likely gained their Gladius and Scutum by the time of the Second Samnite War, wherein the Hoplite Phalanx was rendered ineffective in the hilly terrain in central Italy. They adopted the scutum from their Samnite foes, but I don't really know anything else.
Thanks for the answer really interesting. :)
When the rome 1 music came i got this feeling again... Like I'm 8 years old and playing the rome total war demo 😍 So damn epic
How can I film battle ?
I would love it if you could tackle the Battle of Trebia!