Seleucids vs Parthia | Massive Cinematic Total War Battle

It's the year 139 BC and Mithridates I of Parthia faces off Demetrius II of the Seleucids in a massive cinematic Total War battle. The Seleucids empire battled vs the Parthians for the last decade and by 141 BC, the region of Mesopotamia and Babylonia were lost to the Parthian Empire. Mithridates was busy to deal with an invasion in the east when he got word that Demetrius, the Seleucid kings was planning an attack on Seleucia to retake the city. Demetrius II had success initially until Mithridates I arrived back from the east with his army of veteran cataphracts. The Parthians had a total of 22,000 men with a serious cavalry power. The Seleucid Empire brought a total of 17,000 men. Their silver shield veterans had seen a lot of fighting and were ready to face off the Parthians. In the end, Mithridates overwhelmed the Seleucid king and captured him, effectively ending the Seleucid claims to the regions beyond the Euphrates river.
This is based on the historical battle between the Seleucids and the Parthians in the year 139 BC. The exact details of the battle and numbers of the armies may differ.
This cinematic was created using Rome 2 Total War with the Divide et Impera mod.
#aditulaudis #cinematicbattle #rome2totalwar
Timecodes:
00:00 - Intro
03:09 - Skirmishing starts
03:54 - Cataphract charge
04:16 - Elephants and infantry assault
07:52 - Parthian infantry struggle
10:51 - Cavalry encirclement
13:13 - Victory
Music:
Farya Faraji - The Arsacids
• The Arsacids - Epic Ir...
Farya Faraji - Immortals
• Immortals - Epic Irani...
Farya Faraji - Apranik's Charge
• Apranik's Charge - Epi...

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

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[@VikingRik]

thank you for a great vid. It's always great to see my favourite Successor state in action. Keep up the great work.

[@baronghede2365]

Heavly armored soliders were well protected the only disadvantage it slowed them down, Blessed Be.

[@user-pz8ck7ix7u]

Really thank you for this clip. ❤ The Parthians are the pride of the Iranians ❤🇮🇷👑

[@he4620]

Parthians defeated and make the earth clear of Greeks and Spartans and took revenge for Achaemenid great empire👏

[@mhoadievdelapaz3703]

Yup,but the damage has already been done.I feel sorry for thousands of Achaemenid Persians lost during Alexander's conquest.

[@he4620]

@@mhoadievdelapaz3703 The damage you mean after fall of Greeks there were not any Greek civilization or empire through history? LOL

[@mhoadievdelapaz3703]

@@he4620 The damage I'm talking about is the casualties caused on the Persian side and the magnificent Achaemenid palaces lost in history forever as Alexander razed it.We all know that because of Alexander's conquest that Greek culture is transplanted in Asia.

[@he4620]

@@mhoadievdelapaz3703 Yes I think there was no difference between Mongols and Alexander who just invaded, distructed and then their empires become separated immediately

[@CyrusPersia-wv7zo]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@mhoadievdelapaz3703 the Hellenistic period itself was an exchanged period of Persian and Greek culture, as for the Persians, they took many influences from Greek architecture, art and philosophy, and for the Greeks, they took many influences from Persian culture, fashion, customs, and administrative system method.

[@mhoadievdelapaz3703]

Cataphracts played the decisive role in winning this battle vs Seleucids

[@ramtin5152]

FINALLY, i was waiting for this video 🤩😍 I thank you on behalf of every Iranian who loves his/her country's history 🙏 Also thank you for considering my suggestion 🙏❤️ You really made us all happy ❤️ The only flaws were some details about the looks of the Parthian armors and that the Parthians outnumbered the Greeks The Parthians were actually very outnumbered since they were semi nomads who revolted from a small province But overall, it was a great epic video and i absolutely LOVED it ❤️⚔️ A little piece of advice : Try to make the cavalry charges and arrow shots more powerful in your videos and make a different special look for generals of the armies Also, make the fights between the infantries more violent These really excite the viewers Take a look at Karzar Nameh videos for example They might have less subscribers but they make great videos Thanks for your hard work, great job 🙏 Subscribed 👍

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

Thank you friend and thanks for the support

[@pouya3730]

Vatan iran ❤️😍🇮🇷

[@yavhehe984]

İran Tarihi değil

[@ramtin5152]

@@yavhehe984 It IS Iranian history

[@gaiuscassiuslonginus4523]

our ancestors dahae parthians

[@VasilikiSiliaKapsis1921]

The Parthian Empire Streached from: Armenia, Media Atropatene Assyria, Babylonia, Persis, Parthia, Hyrcania, Bactria, Aria, Margiana, Sogdiana Sattagydia, Hindush, Gedrosia, In certain periods the Parthian empire Streached even westward to: to Cilicia, Syria, Phoenicia And Judea.

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

It was a big empire!

[@VasilikiSiliaKapsis1921]

@@AdituLaudisMMXXI true, the Parthian empire was big

[@centvriovii8355]

Armenia for a few period. Cilicia never,finished in Iraq.

[@romelnegut2005]

Once they lost the battle on the flanks, it was pretty much done.

[@aliferrari1680]

I really enjoyed the battle scenes awesome. Though I'd like to request more explanations to the changing battle scenes which shifts constantly as to units of each army explained.

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

thank you. I hope in the future, this can be more clear. I am working on it.

[@asitdey5716]

Great battle bro between selecuid and parthia. Keep it up. Pls make more historical battle videos. I am a fan of your videos. Good luck for next video. Well done buddy.

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

I appreciate it. This means a lot.

[@docxx4499]

This battle was lost in the moment which as been fought and then, Seleucia is lost forever... Until the roman of course 🤣

[@user-dd8kz1gp2m]

Persian are great warriors, im from persia U like the history about persian?

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

indeed

[@gaiuscassiuslonginus4523]

non-Persian Dahae (Scythian) Arshakid dynasty northeast of Iran ancient Parthia

[@mhoadievdelapaz3703]

Yes

[@ShahanshahShahin]

​@@gaiuscassiuslonginus4523Parthians weren't Scythians 😂

[@liongang2588]

tnx admin The video was great The music was completely Iranian Thanks for the Persian subtitle from iran

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

All the best.

[@aria5774]

انوشه باد اریایی و پارت یان🤚

[@nasher_alhaq]

I always like the masks of the immortals. Really scary

[@A.a.b.b.A.s.96]

Very good ; what's the name of the song at the first ; I guess it's a persian song music; do you know the name?!

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

I always add the music in my video description. Check it out.

[@aria5774]

Ariai Parti Parsi Madi 🤚🇮🇷

[@herewegoagain1140]

Again great video ⚔😎

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed!

[@uttkarshchauhan7112]

So awesome the scale of this battle is epic 😍😍👍👍

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

thank you, really appreciate your comment. And welcome to the channel.

[@hamidrezarezagholi390]

آفرین. کار قشنگی کردی . موفق باشی .

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

thank you!

[@nibidatreya3504]

Those silver shields look awesome 🤩

[@uttkarshchauhan7112]

Excellent graphics

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

Thanks for the visit

[@MiguelPerez-zx2wg]

You forgot that the Seleucid Kings was captured by the Parthians but instead executed the Seleucid King was treated with respect, even married the Parthian princess.

[@Shane6756]

Should do more videos on conflicts that are less unknown

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

thanks! I will take suggestions if you have.

[@Shane6756]

@@AdituLaudisMMXXI a battle between the Gaulic tribes and the Greeks an Celtic invasion of Ancient Greece did actually happen

[@mehyranagai7193]

عالی بود اگه مشکلی نداره جنگ حران رو هم بزار جنگ اشکانیان و روم

[@peterroberts7684]

This is a Civil War by two Dynasties of Greco/ Persia

[@ramtin5152]

No this was Arsacid Parthians (Iranian people like Persians) conquest of the Seleucid Macedonian empire

[@wilkinstokarev5705]

If alexander the great fought this kind of parthian army he would have lost that's for sure.

[@mhoadievdelapaz3703]

I disagree,the Parthians managed to beat the Seleucids because Alexander's empire and army is already fragmented.Against a unified Greco-Macedonian forces like Alexander had, not...

[@wilkinstokarev5705]

​@@mhoadievdelapaz3703typical excuses well I don't think Alexander would understand how Parthians fight rain of horse archers would surely bog Alexander's army then a cataphract charge would sure obliterate his weakened army that's for sure

[@sinanemati5521]

Please make video about Battle of Carrhae

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

Thanks

[@sinanemati5521]

Awesome

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

I appreciate it.

[@gaiuscassiuslonginus4523]

our ancestors dahae (scyphians)

[@erfanx7832]

This is Iranians power 💪💪💙

[@pouya3730]

Nice 👍🌹

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@TaokaenoiGani]

Please do video battle of atlakh kazakh vs china

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

thanks for the suggestion.

[@ale.23719]

hey do the pelucio battle

[@TotalWarFights]

⚔️New Video! :D Nice !!⚔️

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

Thanks! 😁

[@BontoBontoa]

Can you make three kingdoms or Warhammer cinematic?

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

Hey, I did a three kingdoms video check out my channel

[@BontoBontoa]

@@AdituLaudisMMXXI ok i check it

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

@@BontoBontoa thanks mate. I will make more in the future for sure. I am not sure about Warhammer yet.

[@BontoBontoa]

@@AdituLaudisMMXXI Can wait for you next video 😁😁👍👍

[@paulvmarks]

The Parthians invaded from the north - they did not have lots of camels.

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

true, only a unit of camels in this battle.

[@jannusetan8306]

The Seleucid is in a civil war and other war with amenia,jew, Egypt

[@Mohamad_Zandi]

عالی بود

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

Thank you

[@user-on1cd7ln5v]

What is mod name?

[@user-ys8gw8fm2d]

φοβερή μάχη⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

thank you, as always!

[@tylerwhaley4872]

@@AdituLaudisMMXXI /s?

[@gaiuscassiuslonginus4523]

we Dahae Parthians are still alive

[@persiangangbusinesses9838]

‏‪1:23‬‏ واقعا از موسیقی پس زمینه که به زبان پارسی باستان میخواند لذت بردم❤❤

[@uttkarshchauhan7112]

Please also make video on timurids ghurids or ghaznavids plzzz

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

thank you for the suggestions!

[@pa5287]

cool

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

thank you!

[@user-xo5pg6uf8k]

Супер.

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

thank you friend!

[@liongang2588]

catapracts😎

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

Oh yes!

[@crosbonit]

Change your videos to show more of what happening at a bird's eye view.

[@neoxxx6694]

Battle of yassıçemen 1230 Seljuks and Ayyubids vs Khwarezmians

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

will take your suggestion. thank you.

[@shahangkhalilzade1692]

Persian. Parti😍❤️

[@ramtin5152]

Long live free Iran and Iranians ✊⚔️

[@ajithsidhu7183]

Bronze age battles please

[@AdituLaudisMMXXI]

I did one already. check it out. I might do more in the future, depending on how many are interested

[@kaushlendrasinghghurayya8145]

Hindi

[@darth278]

Long live iranian