Administrative results gave you a shout-out on one of his channels the other day. Think it's was the helms deep video.

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The Zulus often just kept charging much to their own disadvantage when their foes were prepared. The Boers, untrained and unprofessional men and teenagers armed and well positioned were able to cause huge losses against the Zulu - as were the small force of Brits at Rouke's Drift. Classical or medieval European armies, well trained and experienced for close quarter fighting would have clearly made short work of unarmoued Zulus if they were prepared. I think a fairer match would have been the Aztecs at their height vs the Zulu. No serious European army in the last 2 millennia, well prepared would have much trouble against the Zulu.

this is a flaw in almost all medieval fantasy. Once you get into having magic users and some of the large creatures in battle , it gets more like modern warfare. Castles should look more like WW2 German Bunker complexes like Watten or La Coupole. Also the random design of old school D&D maps make more sense when you consider that someone may be trying to teleport a spy or saboteurs into the area.

holy smokes, the 2 castles of Manderscheid at 04:00 minutes! ☝️☺️ no need to travel there though, other than the ruins there aint much to see 🏞️

Still love the films. I can forgive the mistakes in the fortifications. However, I cannot forgive the shield surfing. 🤦‍♂

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Test it. There are battle simulators. Personally, I think one legion would have been sufficient. The Romans massacred many times their numbers, many times.

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I didn't know Kermit had a KZbin channel.

There is nothing behind the walls guys! Damn. And here I was thinking there was this network of caves that was large enough to house nearly the entire Westfold.. Well clearly my mistake.

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I do not think he would have sacrificed his light archers. He would have had them behind the shield wall.

I mean it is pretty much the reason why WW1 became so trench warfare-heavy - Machine Guns favor the defense

Get real you cannot compare a Martini Henry rifle to a pilum.

Thank you for making this, I’m a huge John Wayne fan and loved your input on it! Well done! Also, he did so many Navy movies because he wanted to join the Navy, but was medically unable.

I can say it would be a slaughter

It’s defending the GAP OF ROHAN!

You can't figure out why this film was crap? Really??? Start with the music - compare with Tiomkin's score for the classic film. Accurate - really? This, from someone who thinks Crockett was a senator??? Built the set? - No, they used Wayne's set (and didn't bother to change the incorrectly positioned columns beside the chapel door.

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4:41 If they walled of the valley they would have increased the length of the wall they would have to defend and would leave themselves open to be flanked from the hills on the sides like the Rohirrim charged into the flank of the Uruk-hai army to win the battle

Zulus had rifles. Now the riflemanship was not up to the level of the British Regulars, but they still had rifles, and with the Romans not having rifles of their own, the Zulu riflemen could have gotten in much closer and laid down a much more effective fire.

There are caves behind that wall. Caves full of women and children

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I recommend reading madden for a knowledge on the crusades. He strays from a lot of the myths that are portrayed in many modern illustrations of the crusades.

Everyone could beat the British army

Wasn’t about half of Hannibal‘s army made up of tribal people from Africa, who probably thought was similar weapons and style as Zulu?

ZULUS ARE OVERRATED, JUST BECAUSE THE BRITS HAVE DIFFICULTY DEFEATING THEM DOESNT MEAN THEY ARE SUPERPOWER

Jim Bowie was one of the biggest slave traders in what was then the Southwestern United States.

Discipline is a powerful asset. In my opinion, Rome would prevail.

The Romans would have built fortifications around their camp

I think another good battle that's forgotten about is at the end of kingdom of heaven

Even without all those points the logic behind Hornburgs defensive architecture is ridiculous. The logistics alone around it made my brain melt. 1. If they had the manpower and resources to build a useless wall, protecting a ridiculously small and useless piece of land, why didn't they built it just some 10m further outside, connected it to the ramp and built and extra gatehouse (shouldn't even be a big one) in front of the keeps gatehouse? That way you literally have one FULL extra layer of defenses INFRONT of your keep for a fraction of the materials added. 2. If the stone was mined from the mountain, you could have mined a flat area out and build another small keep there, with only a tiny path going towards it. So even if Hornburg was taken, sitting in the middle of the mountain at the back of the keep you have a whole "watchtower" like structure, where even a dozen man with supplies could hold for weeks if not months, harassing the enemy from above inside the fortress itself. 3. The fortress is crap and totally irrational because of Rohan not having enough time building it? But then it had enough time to mine, transport and build such huge stone architecture? how about mining a narrow path through the mountain to some hidden and isolated area? I mean you still need the stone for the buildings so you could have just carved your way through the rock to somewhere nicely hidden place and maybe with more paths to flee to other lands like e.g. Edoras to the east or Gondor to the South? 4. And since you carve through rock why not build stuff inside the mountain anyway?

A couple of points. The entire fortress is called The Hornburg not Helm's Deep - that's a movie-ism. Helm's Deep is the name of the gorge/valley leading up to the fortress. As others have pointed out the deepening wall is protecting the glittering caves and should be much higher, stronger and imposing than what we got in the movie. The fortress was build along with Isengard to protect Calenardhon pass way before Rohan was a thing. That said I agree with you that the fortress as shown in the movie was a bad design but it didn't really didn't match the description from the books either.

Bro, I’ve always thought that they should have just abandoned the “deeping wall” and defended the keep instead of spreading their forces so thin….but you’re so right, Saurumon should have just sieged them out….and a draw bridge!!! It drives me nuts that there’s no draw bridge…and no metal gate???

What is with the weird-ass closed captions?

4:26 Offa's Dyke was built by the Saxon invaders when fighting the Welsh. The Dyke was made "from sea to sea" to lock the Welsh inside modern day Wales and keep them from attacking.

Horrible. Talking way too fast. Makes me nervous.

I was very tempted to skip your video after your first few sentences. Because, the battle of Helms Deep is not, by a very long shot, "perfect" in terms of cinematography, storytelling or pacing. I just say "nobody tosses a dwarf" one of the stupies moments I ever saw in movie - the one soldier with an axe and and no shield sucessfully defending a gate against hundreds attackers with pikes. I dont know if you eer fought with medieval weapons - i do at least once a week - that is stupid as f... even in fantasy. There is the ultra stupid horse charge of the Rohirrim at the end (watch experts on historical warfare about it - they all agree with me: not a single horse would have survived), the women that do not support their men and so many more things that are ridiculous in this battle. Yet, the points you make are mostly points I make myself when people want to tell me, how good this battle is. he battle is bad because the castle in itself is stupid. If you look into the book, the whole position is different. For instance: there the wall at the opening of the valley exists and is still defended when the King arrives. Pretty much all mistakes you are listening here are *movie mistakes* and therefore cinematographical mistakes.

What the F#@ck! is a TEX___EE_AN? Stupid computer narration? His knife was rumored to be made of meteorite!

Most points are good, but I disagree strongly with the last one. Building a giant horn tower is its own reward. Also - the technology to build that horn (is it supposed to be cast as giant pieces!?) seems beyond Rohan's capabilities. Maybe the fort exists to defend the big horn?

I think you were spot on. My only question is how the heat would have affected the heavily armored legionaries?

One piece of criticism I believe is missing. There are frickin stair coming from the deeping walls up to the hornburg. Which means that you don’t have to storm the hornburg, you need only to storm the deeping walls and then you walk into the keep without any obstacles. That infuriated me because not only these walls are not helping, they are the flaw in the construction that defeats the purpose. You can see it in the movie when Theoden calls Aragorn back to the keep.

The sand bar story is brutal.

Well done mate. You made me enjoy learning again.

Always love learning more about American History. So many interesting stories that rarely get told.

Could you do Patton’s Third Army at San Juan Hill?

US Army Marines vs Mongol Horde Or US Military vs Roman Empire

I've heard the name so many times but I've never really known much. Thanks for making this.

Cool work. Now do the Frankish shield wall under Charles Martel.