I’ll be bingeing all of your videos. Awesome work, sir 🫡🙏

He has a fun and passionate way of explaining things.

I have a strong feeling you dear sir, enjoy Table top War Ganming? Well done dude.

Bro can you post more about khalid Ibn walid war. Pls pls

The level of slander you put on Agrippas name with this claim.

Caesar definitely republic, as 80% of his career successes were before he seized power

You have no idea how enjoyable this video was lol.

Incredibly good content. Earned a sub for sure

I *VERY* much enjoyed your use of actual, physical visual aids to demonstrate the concepts you were speaking of. It is *partially* the old grognard in me (I have been playing Napoleonics since the late 1970's) but I do often find the over-use of computer graphics means that the person teaching probably had to spend *more* time on constructing the visuals and may have had less time to concentrate on the teaching aspect. I am reminded of watching videos by test pilots and engineers who still primarily use their hands and small models on sticks to demonstrate flight maneuvers and formations. Oh and of *COURSE* I Liked That Smash Button and subbed. I had no idea another fine history channel had flown under my radar. Kudos and keep it up. Carthago Delenda Est! Peaceful Skies

Thank you for using BC and AD. That alone, at this point in time, is enough for me to subscribe. Oh, yea, and the content itself, of course.

I like your style. Since you are into graphics and design, perhaps you could print some tokens and glue them into card board, to represent generals. I'm assuming the figurines have nothing to do with Rome or Carthage 🙂

Ceasar deerves to be on both, you'll have to stick based on when the battle was fought

Those collection books are cool

Please dont stop making content

Great channel

2:33 - I like the vision glasses of Publius Cornelius Scipio / Scipio Africanus. Now I know that time travel is real !

It's a nice tactic but hardly "the most complex Roman tactic ever executed".

Republic side. It wasn't an Empire until Augustus. Also - loved the video!

Nice work man

The statue shown of Scipio Africanus is very similar to that of Sulla.

Wasn’t this the battle of new Carthage in Spain ?…..he knew at that time of year there was foggy mornings..and used this to offset the Carthaginian general ..

Great video!

I really enjoyed your videos. The phalanx drift has been explained by historians. Hoplites held their shields (the "Hoplon" from which their name derived from) with their left hand and the spear with their right. Each man's shield protected partially both the holder and the man to his left. So, men, tended to slightly move to their right, in order to take advantage of the protection the shield of their fellow soldier to their right provided. Regarding the Theban Sacred Band, the idea behind the 150 homosexual couples (300 men in total) was that they would fight twice as fiercely in order to protect their comrades who were also their lovers. A quite unique elite force, that was, sadly, destroyed at the battle of Chaeronea by Philip II and his son, Alexander.

that is a very good question ! I like it; but this is not an easy question, it's like splitting hairs; my opinion, Caesar was a pre-cursor (conquest of Gaul, the Triumvirate, accumulation offices), w/out Caesar there would not have been an Augustus (or not the same !)... Augustus was standing directly on Caesar's shoulders, w/out Caesar "Trail-Blazing" Augustus might not have amounted to a hill of beans ! If you're going to include Augustus (which duh, he's the first one, & is usually rated as Rome's greatest of all Roman Emperor's sometimes 2nd; you have to include Caesar... I remember something "The 12 Caesars" which of course Caesar was the First Caesar welding power.

I was just recommended this video. Love the format. Keep going brother!

I would put Caesar on the republic side, perhaps the last before their transition to an empire

You could look at the Battle of Yarmuk again, you saw Hannibal’s most impressive victory, the Romans were correct about the concentration of force theory, it did break the Hannibal’s center, but he was two step ahead, luring the Roman into a encirclement. I was thinking at the Battle of Yamurk that he could’ve strengthen his center with more troops, weaken his flanks, it would’ve broke the center. Vahan had 2 different ways of winning, but instead he just did absolutely nothing, and allowed the Muslims to gain the initiative. You could ‘truly’ at this point observe the collapse of the Byzantine Empire.

One of the hallmarks of a brilliant commander, someone like Napoleon who actually studied his previous battles. The decisive battle of the Yarmuk, you could obviously see this same situation being played out. One of the first rule any commander learn is morale, ideally you would want to break their morale, turns into a route, makes it easier killing the routing troops versus face-to-face, all personal. Secondly, you always would like to go on the offensive, versus the defensive, there’s only specific situation where it calls for the person to go on the defensive. Typically the person on the defensive always have to react to the person on the offensive, therefore the attacker always have a massive advantage (they’re controlling the battle field). The issue here: you could observe during the Battle of Yarmuk the same situation being played out. Had Vahan been a genius commander, he would’ve used the same Roman tactic used almost a thousand year ago, he would’ve gone the battle. He would’ve realized cavalry would’ve been the deciding battle here, and that by allowing the Muslims to go on the offensive, he deeply demoralized his entire army. I’m just going to say, if you ‘really’ want to test if someone is a genius, this person doesn’t care, this person has very strong logic. This person doesn’t need to validation of others, it’s very easy to be manipulated, and gaslighted; show not tell!

This isn’t really difficult if you take a moment to ‘think.’ Obviously the higher quality troops would always win against the weaker units. I can tell when he reached this conclusion, after the first or second initial clash he realize the battle wasn’t going anywhere, it’s a stale mate. Any commander with remote intelligence would’ve realize he needed to figure out a ‘new’ solution to beat the Carthaginians. From battle experience (through observation), he likely came to the realization that higher quality troops, better equipped, and slightly more ‘intelligent’ would always win against weaker troops who are worst equipped, less motivated, therefore he switches it. Then, he also knows that this applies to Carthaginian by switching his center with weaker quality troops almost guarantee a collapse. So what’s the logic here? In order to win, the solution obvious asked for a way to ‘delay’ his weaker troops before engaging with the Carthaginian higher quality troops, he’s obviously going to stall for as long as possible. That’s how this strategy came to fruition. I think that he would’ve came to this conclusion had the battle not stall. I realize people typically come to new idea when presented with a problem. You could look at 9/11, a genius would’ve foresaw that a terrorist could hijack the plane, but most ‘average humans’ couldn’t entertain this idea, it was ‘ONLY’ after 9/11 did the government take active measures against this. Let me tell you this, this is like majority of humans, idiots.

What do the three books have in common? They have a chapter listing...

Great vidoe my nygga

15:00 no Regulus or Cinncinatus? Cmon man

I am amazed how a big empire that manage to hold for 800 years crushed by a Corsican boy in just half an hour. What a great explanation.

I don't know where you're from, but you have the exact same accent as "Bullwinkle" the moose.

I think ceasar belongs to the ruplican eara, because he never said or implied that he wanted the republic to stop.

this video is brilliant, thank you! this is the only way history should be taught at all! Can I suggest that, before you reveal how the carthagenian army reacted in real life, you explore a bit more why they were mesmerized and what options they really had when faced with Scipio's move. Because, and again this is a testament to how brilliantly you were "conducting the battle", i really felt in these generals' shoes and wondered... what now??

Subbed! I love the presentation, it reminds me of when I used to do mock battle lines using legos and Lincoln logs when I was little. Do you do this for the love of battle history and/or is it something to do with university

Great, thanks. This channel deserves more subs and views.

Why does people move so much faster in a line? Doesnt make sense to me

This was a very good video on how Rome pushed back Carthage from Iberia

If you think drones are worrying let’s talk orbital mechanics and how a 2 ton rod of iron is a coastline annihilator.

Quite frustrating that you have two audio narrations going on at the same time in places. Editing process is a bit clumsy here. If you don't believe me: - try listening with headphones - alone in a quiet room - listen from 3:30 to 4:30 and you can hear the background voice also saying the colours of the map (green and red) Its actually quite distracting in places and detracts from the content.

He basically sent the 2 bruiser lanes into splitpushing, but making so that the whole enemy team cannot commit to a skirmish in midlane without losing their side lanes. Since the bruisers that were sent were stronger than the weaker landers defending, they can push them under tower and eventually taking those down, exposing the inhibitors. At the same time the roman midlaners are constantly pushing mid without committing to a skirmish making it so that the enemy team cannot assist the side lanes without exposing midlane which is the most important. If the midlane is taken by the Romans, they can just take baron and win the game. This is a clear FF. Roman T1 wins.

New viewer here. I really like your analog style and the stickers are really fun. Thank you for making this cool educational video.

@Battlefield Genius - With the eruption of Mount Vesuvius happening in 79 AD there is a possibly that in some as yet excavated corner of the city of Herculaneum, lies a dense charred roll of carbon awaiting decipher - The Autobiography of Publius Cornelius Scipio😁 New viewer - impressed by your knowledge & passion for the subject. Subbed👍 I quite like the low-tech approach too.

What they all have in common; They're books.

Great video! Thank you!

People, people, PEOPLE! When using initials, either put a period after EACH letter, or don’t include any periods! So, please STOP leaving out the final peiod after the last letter. Because that means that the last word is not initialized, but that the final letter is the ENTIRE last word!

Rome became an empire after conquering Greece, while still maintaining the republic. Caesar is a titan of the republic because his greatest achievement in the name of Rome was conquest of Gaul