Battle of Nicopolis, 48 BC ⚔️ Pontus challenges Rome

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[@resileaf9501]

Pharnaces: "I have defeated Rome! I am invincible!" Ceasar: "Allow me to introduce myself."

[@OCinneide]

it's like that undertaker meme

[@TheRomanRuler]

Should have learned from Hannibal that one needs to defeat multiple Roman armies and then loose. (though tbf that did change after army became professional)

[@gunesefendiyeva8523]

Caesar: "You have defeated only 2 legions and you.....Next!"

[@LoboDibujante]

@@men8212 Calling good or bad guys to either side in History is childish. They were men with political interest, some more honourable, some more ruthless. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Fue Sila

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Pontus: You underestimate my power! Rome: Don’t try it.

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lol Pontus: You underestimate my power! Rome: No. We don't.

[@MasterChiefSamus]

Pontus: I gave Caesar a fatal blow by denying him his reinforcements! Caesar: *after winning in Alexandria* The rumors of my death have been extremely... exaggerated.

[@babulburel547]

Pontus: You undersestimate my power, Rome. Caesar: I am not those men. I am Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar

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I have the high ground

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This is the first comment to make me laugh out loud in a while.

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I’m glad I have something nice to watch after getting screwed on an exam!

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I'm watching a day before exam .

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@Zilectツ I wish! Even for being a technical major I still have a huge soft spot for history and global politics.

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@@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900 well play to your strengths, go to night school, college or uni and study what you like you would be surprised where life could take you

[@cortesjose209]

Damn, that’s one way to get an A I guess

[@Shenp-ef3yg]

Omg my heart dropped when I thought the 36th was going to be wiped out. Amazing

[@vengeance1741]

Yeah me too

[@all_the_bad_news5614]

Have no fear for the 36th is here ..

[@TheDeadbone1961]

Agreed! A testament to how well the video is produced.

[@stinknugget6446]

You guys need to get out more

[@TheDeadbone1961]

@@stinknugget6446 Yeah... probably :)

[@SousouCell]

Ceasar : goes chasing pompey Pharnaces : its free real estates Ceasar : allright a***hole 😤 ........veni vidi vici....

[@mfundonkosi6927]

The 36th Legion is admirable for retreating in such an organised fashion under that kind of assault.

[@joelrebollar7055]

Lmao yeah, I thought the legion was doomed, but when I saw them organize themselves into a circle and fucking dash off I was really impressed

[@Hopeforhumans]

The Late Republican Legions were f*cking war machines, it is they who cemented the republic into an Empire, led by Pompey and Ceasar and Augustus and their officers alike.

[@Hopeforhumans]

@Tj battle "HARDENED"

[@MrJacobkoh]

From what i read, it's very likely that the 36th legion were at half strength. Most veteran legions pre-Augustus(pre-empire), were at half strength, unlike the imperial era legions which were manned at full strength when possible. This is cus pre-imperial legions would disband when they reached old age, sometimes colonies are formed in conquered/unstable regions. And, during caesar's time, there was no restriction in the number of legions being raised. Whereas in imperial rome, agustus capped it at around 22 legions.

[@PalleRasmussen]

@@MrJacobkoh 28 till Varian disaster, then 25. It was later raised again to lower thirties.

[@smokyblackeyes3615]

dam, camps are more detailed. but not camps but the whole battle is detailed. Nice work.

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Used to not like the overly-dramatic voice, but have come to love and expect it now. Great vids.

[@LiveinReykjavik]

It's awesome but I wonder what happened to the previous narrator? I loved his narrative and tone, he didn't acknowledge the existence of full stop.

[@blokdijkblues]

Had the exact same thing!

[@zeriyx]

@@LiveinReykjavik i preferred the previous narrator as well. in fact, he was probably my favorite narrator for anything i've watched on youtube. the current narrator is perfectly fine though. i imagine he is no longer featured in videos on this channel for something related to money. that is generally the square root of nearly everything in this world.

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@@LiveinReykjavik i loved this voice it epic

[@xergiok2322]

I still don't like this one. He puts equal dramatic emphasis on everything. He clearly doesn't know what he's reading.

[@flynnstone3133]

I’m so used to seeing Roman legions of this period being virtually unstoppable in the open field that I was almost shocked to see that Pontus won the day.

[@LawlTwins]

I was shouting at the screen with my armchair tactics when the left made a feeble push lol. Although I bet like me, you were impressed with the 36th's retreat. I though they were done.

[@Thraim.]

As the video mentions this shows the difference between experienced and new legions, despite having the same equipment. The Romans were pretty much constantly expanding their empire and had lots of veteran legions, which gave them a huge advantage against the armies of smaller countries that would mainly field inexperienced troops.

[@tylerdurden3722]

@@Thraim. yeah, experience is a massive factor. And even only decent Roman generals usually carefully cultivated experience in their armies. The Silvershields made a similar tactical retreat after their side broke and fled...in one of the Diadochi Wars. A unit made up of veterans all over the age of 60. These were individuals who received a Silvershield for performing in battle, under Alexander having been in about 50 battles with Alexander, and then some more in the more than 30 years of constant warfare that followed Alexander's death. They weren't just veterans. They were elite individuals who became hardcore veterans and put into a single unit. These guys were the very definition of hardened veterans. Unstoppable on a battlefield and feared by even those they fought for. These old geezers calmly formed a sqaure, cut their way out of envelopment and professionally marched off the battlefield like they owned it. Untouchable. Antigonus feared them and had their commanders, Antigenes and Teutamus, killed...after having took hostage their baggage train, that contained their families and more than 40 years worth of loot. And then sent them in small groups on suicide missions to kill them off. Probably the most hardcore group of men to ever set foot on any battlefield.

[@Pentazimyn28]

@@LawlTwins The unbelieveable cohesion and discipline it must have taken for those men to retreat in the manner they did.... probably the single most impressive unit action I’ve ever seen

[@geostarters1182]

@@tylerdurden3722 Great. Tell us more about achievements of greek armies in a Roman related video.

[@jothegreek]

Ιnfantry charging cavarly oh boy Parthians would be like ohh brother

[@Cowslippoetry]

I remember Pontus. Dark blue faction on the Anatolia. Spammed scythe chariots and slaughtered my infantry. Nightmare fuel, they were.

[@jaynishnakar3115]

In which game

[@Croydondebruyne]

Rome total war (the first game) im guessing

[@HomemdaFaina]

Those effing scythes...

[@jaynishnakar3115]

@@Croydondebruyne I thought rome total war part two

[@PalleRasmussen]

Ahistoric factions, and Pontus was easily beaten. Try Europa Barbarorum 2.

[@alexconti7932]

For some reason I always loved playing Pontus in RTW.

[@nick19greek]

hi great video! ! im pontic ! my ancestors were living in pontus till 1920 when the turkey genocided and killed the most of us! my grandfathers were refuges in ussr till 1960-80 when greece accepted them to greece as greeks due to their history! long live pontus ! we dont forget our history ! we are the last of the east ! the last eastern greek kingdom and the last suporters of vyzantioum in east! we will rise once more and we will pray in AGIA SOFIA !

[@richardirvine1997]

@*Angelscor* Learn some history. The Armenian genocide was separate from the genocide of the Greeks mentioned by nick19greek. The Turks were the great teachers of genocide at the beginning of the 20th century, committing these two major genocides and a number of smaller ones. A decade or so later, Hitler and Stalin, their pupils, began their own attempts at genocides and mass killings.

[@Hgulix62]

Pontus, my favorite faction in Rome Total War

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[@IronWarrior86]

Holy crap i thought the Romans would win. The Pontic cavalry was poorly utilized and put in a very disadvantageous position, as soon as they routed and when the Elite Legionaries came upon the Pontic troops from the rear i thought the battle was sealed. 😮 Respect to the Pontics for withstanding the onslaught. Though Pharnaces II's brilliance of digging ditches was perhaps the key factor overall.

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I have that battle too. Nicopolis 1396 AD Part 1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4GypYGkbayWjLs Part 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaS3fKiplJx3l6c

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Pharnaces:We did it we made Pontus great again! Caesar:Veni, Vidi, Vici

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[@JC-mx9su]

HistoryMarche make more videos about Caesar's civil war. Battle of Ilerda. SIege of Massilia Siege of Alexandria Battle of the Nile Battle of Zela Battle of Utica Battle of the Bagradas All these battles you haven't posted it.

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[@ComboMuster]

The only Roman legion in Domitius army was the veteran 36th (with numbers depleted due to battles and toils and consisting less than 3000 soldiers) the rest were 2 legions of Deiotarus made from local recruits and trained in Roman fashion and one newly recruited one. However the 2 ditches in the video were not across the battlefield but parallel with each other and stretching from the city to the battlefield. Pharnaces placed his cavalry outside the ditches on his wings and his infantry between the ditches. The 36th repulsed and routed the enemy on the right wing and crossed the ditch to attack the infantry and started to rout them. All this as per Caesar's 'Civil War' a truly outstanding and captivating reading. Edit: after Caesar subdued Egypt and made it a vassal state he turned against Pharnaces and defeated him. Why not make another video?

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[@paultyson4389]

Thanks for the details of a battle I knew next to nothing about. Caesar also had to pull together a mishmash of forces to confront Pharnaces at the battle of Zela. Pretty well all of his veteran legions had been sent back to Rome because they had essentially refused to fight on. If my memory serves me right, he just had one veteran legion, the 3rd, and it was seriously depleted. But that was all he needed when Pharnaces launched an uphill attack while his troops were building a camp. It just required that the rest of his army hold their ground and let the veteran 3rd Legion go to work and send the Pontic army packing. Caesar wrote "veni vidi vici" in a letter to a friend Amantius, in Rome and I believe it was intended to convey the message that victories against armies in the East, like those achieved earlier by Pompey, did not amount to much. Thanks again for your great presentations.

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[@hocestbellumchannel]

Thank you very much for your encouragement, i really appreciate it! Yes, i was hoping that my accent wasn't that thick and i also thought, "well what the heck, Arnold made huge Hollywood hits with a thick Austrian accent.." haha! But indeed, the narration part is as tricky as the rest of the video making procedure and probably more difficult to improve upon.

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Respect for 46th legion.Brave and disciplined soldiers.👏

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@HistoryMarche what happened to Hannibal,,, please complete his series..We are waiting for him...

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Will do

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They formed a square and just walked out of there? I've never seen that in all my life! :D

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Caesar veterans what did you expect? :)

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

@@mojewjewjew4420 Usually they just get surrounded and get killed 😁

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When your cavalry gets charged by angry Italians with short swords...

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The 36th was very competent

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[@somewhere6]

The Pontic cavalry habitually under-performed against the Romans during the important battles.

[@stefanosgrimp8990]

Well there in not much that cavalry can do against heavy infantry in such a close space

[@somewhere6]

@@stefanosgrimp8990 Sure, but then why deploy them like that? They had other options. I can imagine those poor guys as the Roman pila started coming down on them. The Pontic forces repeatedly had superior cavalry vis-a-vis the Romans but it never seems to deliver unless the odds were overwhelmingly in their favcour.

[@mr.c.3760]

I wonder why tho? Their neighbors, the Cappadocians were renowned in the ancient world for their impressive cavalrymen and horses

[@somewhere6]

@@mr.c.3760 Not only the Cappadocians, there was plenty of good cavalry in the region and in Pontic service. It is a bit of mystery to me. Similar cavalry at the Battle of Magnesia under Antiochus smashed the Roman left wing.

[@tylerdurden3722]

Their cavalry were usually denied an opportunity to perform against Rome. Which was usually deliberate on the part of the Romans.

[@rdg665]

Funny thing is , if the pontic cavarly that routed in the beginning came back , they would have an open charge into the rear of the 36th legionnaires and wipe them out 😅

[@zwierzzwierz8106]

Yesterday ive started a Pontus campaign in Rome Total War 2. Hoplites are anvil, and chariots are hammer ;)

[@joewinreyrelox2198]

Part 2 please 😅

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Great job guys .... My love for history only grows

[@beachboy0505]

Wow 👏

[@Ardaagafilimada]

Me:sees the title in the notification Me also: didn't they upload this already (Just looks to date of the battle and finally realizes it is another one at the same location)

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

These are actually two different locations. There were several cities that have been named Nikopolis (after Nike, Greek goddess of victory). The original was in Greece, the one from the other video is in Bulgaria, and this one is in Turkey.

[@Ardaagafilimada]

@@GrndAdmiralThrawn thanks now I know after watching the battle. I just left the comment before watching but after I looked at the map of this battle you are right it is in present day turkey and the other battle between the ottomans and the crusaders was in present day bulgaria. Thanks again for enlightening me

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