Martian Immunity: A War of the Worlds Scenario

[@antilliachannel]

I’m pleasantly surprised that this one cracked 1k views.

[@swornindigo.]

Well it cracked 13x that it seems good sir

[@reefnap]

@@swornindigo. now 16K

[@Membraned_Helium]

17K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@israeldiaz2392]

War of the Wolds is like Roman Empire, some men thinks on it everyday.

[@ZWChan-vf8hz]

As of writing this, 22k views, and I'm one of them, this video is actually good.

[@pizzasharkguy3807]

The idea that the flying machine's black puff of smoke being a heavily over-stressed engine really is hilarious to me, like how german tanks often had a overstressed transmission.

[@vampsith]

I’m just imagining a squad or platoon full of infantry wearing those really creepy looking fire hoods, and carrying anti-material rifles… Like Steampunk Space Marines

[@pokemaster123ism]

Or NCR Veteran Rangers

[@JPGotrokkits]

We had those in the "All Quiet on the Martian Front" miniatures game by Alien Dungeon. Look it up!

[@AlbanAwan]

One thing I wish you’d factor in is anti-tank rifles, the Martian Invasion probably would speed up the development of more than just gas masks. Squads with rifles able to pierce fighting machines would chew the Martians up.

[@1KosovoJeSrbija1]

Anti tank guns were always pretty weak, and a difference of about 30mm of armour would either make them very useful, or completely useless. shaped charge launchers like PIAT though would be very effective after a few years of development

[@stevescholz9196]

I really enjoyed that. My friends and I explored a world after the Martian invasion in a series of live action role playing events held during the Adelaide Fringe festival. A tremendous hit with sold out shows and over 90 attendees bringing the story to a dramatic conclusion each evening with an unexpected twist or a direct impact with the surface of the Moon. I loved your details outlining potential British resistance, breaking down the conflict into sheer numbers. great stuff.

[@gnthbthnkahmgepyogshugg]

I like to think that the Martians saw our weapons and thought we were still relying on melee weapons. They weren't expecting our sticks to actually launch projectiles.

[@Sem.or.sumthin]

This is quite literally the premise of the world war series by turtledove

[@petshop5941]

*Thunder Child Floats towards them* "Wtf is this metal canoe, what is it supposed to-" *A tripod gets blown to bits* "OH SHIT."

[@christianmaurer6579]

@@petshop5941your comment is golden

[@rapatacush3]

Sumbitches learn quick tho. That's why they started gassing everything up before advancing.

[@dawsonkozel4171]

⁠@@Sem.or.sumthinnah i think it’s just they saw them 800 years ago and thought they wouldn’t advance fast

[@shem6844]

I once thought of my own "sequel" When the martians are known to world and what they've done, the entire world is in a massive shock because remember, the British empire was the no 1 world superpower at the time and how so easily they we're nearly devasted, and fear how the martians could just land literally anywhere and the humans would have no effective counter. Thus forming what is essentially NATO, countless nations especially in Europe in an defensive alliance, and increase the development of weapons. Tanks, planes, and other technologies from mostly ww1 but some from ww2 are invented much earlier but at the same time have DRASTICALLY different designs such as the first tanks having a 360° turret but still just as large or even larger as the mark one irl. And when the martians attempt another invasion on Britain months later, the alliance actually succeeds with their new technologies and tactics and with less as much casualties from the first. And the Martians would only return a third time years later with a true army, with the first and second invasions where merely *expedition forces*. With proper infantry, fighter craft, "tanks", and so on where the time they invade a 3rd time humanity practically has dieselpunk technology If you have discord, I'd love to talk about this more

[@andrewbeaton6754]

Have you seen War of the Worlds Goliath? Very similar scenario.

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

Read "The Scarlett Traces" comic series from 2000AD. Right now it's 3 TPBs with maybe at least a 4th coming, not sure. There the WotW happend, but the story goes beyond that, into a Cold War like era, with a NATO that includes other alien races on earth, which are refugees who were victims of the Martians as well. Later on there's another invasion, and at the end it goes full SW.

[@FrostByte_06]

​@@andrewbeaton6754what?

[@abulomania]

In one part of the book it is said that a Martian was born during the invasion. Based on this, theoretically, they have the ability to replace their losses.

[@antilliachannel]

If I recall correctly by the end of the invasion only one had been partially born, not fully budding off prior to the death of the parent. I don’t think that’s a high enough rate of replenishment to be of any real consideration

[@user-wn2fh7cr3x]

Both of you have a point

[@leanmaxine1555]

​@@antilliachannel However (and a little late to this topic) it does pose the question in this "what if?" Scenario, which is what if they work almost akin to adaptation in extreme environments. Now obviously they couldn't survive bacteria, however at the same time if this Martian were fully born, there is possibility that their young can adapt to the new world to build this new immunity. A stretch to say the least, but an alternative pose could be that, at the end of the war, this subject, as fresh as it could be, is possible at its youngest cycle, experimented on. And as humans do human things, and the advanced technology, and as far out there as science fiction could be at the time HG was at his pique, it's possible humanity could have cloned the invaders as workers, to build machines to better help progress humanity. However this makes an interesting idea, that in secrecy or direct council by mankind, Martians on Earth could be sent back to Mars to bring the war to the red planet. Although if left to their own devices, it's possible that the Earth Martians could be victorious, or fail. And if they fail, then the Mars born creatures could return with the new, immune DNA from their predecessors and make a full-on assault. Which could possible lead to Earth Martians and Mars natives scorching Earth, rather than protecting humanity, it is to protect the planet as mankind could possible die to their own hubris. The comedy in this scenario, is that there is no war between men and ants, and to give men a proper fight, the ants would be steamrolled in favour of an open battlefield. The undoing of man is their vengeance against the invaders, to become invaders, and stomped out like their enemies before. And the power of humanity? Inconsequential.

[@adambell9188]

This is fantastic. Your channel certainly deserves more views and subscribers.

[@antilliachannel]

I’m glad you liked it

[@BANHEAD1990]

This sublime example of delicious content has scratched a WoTW part of my brain that sorely needed it. Thank you good sir, you have yourself a subscriber here. 😁❤️

[@ThePersonInGrey]

The Martians look like octopuses after meth

[@mattthealien-nt8xk]

everywhere I go, I see his face.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

​@@mattthealien-nt8xkgir?

[@Trollge398]

The martian wanted opium but the British govt put tax on it.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

@@Trollge398 oi bruv u got a loicense fo dat opium

[@Trollge398]

@@Mae_Dastardly *says something in martian language*

[@smooglemac6089]

This reminded me of My favourite fact with the 1953 film (though I heard it from another commenter and haven’t investigated further) The story goes that the director of the 1953 film asked scientific movie advisors if H.G Wells original Martian concept would pose a threat to what was their modern day military, every reply agreed that they’d get absolutely smashed by our firepower at the time (especially as it takes place in a post WW2 america)… the directors reaction was to give them an impenetrable shield to compensate, but I feel that with the design of the war machines in that film they could’ve shown an exponential difference between possible alien metals and our comparatively flimsy bombardments, seeing at least two of the machines be destroyed during the assault would’ve been cool to see but it does still stand as my favourite FILM rendition of the story (Jeff Wayne’s is obviously the ultimate visual translation)

[@ChupacabraRex]

Another thing which I think they could have done was a Kind of Point-Defense system. They already have lasers in the book that are described as tearing through a Millitary Battleship with volumptuous ease.Being capable of striking and burnign shells fired at them from a distance and therefore forcing the men to use close ambushes which are vulnerable to their chemical or biological Black Smoke which they use(which they can make inmune to gas masks like Welles work). Upping their number from a few dozen to a few hundred, focus them on a single city or region like was done in the book, give them thicker amor, and several hundred armored war machines that can strike indirect artillery or planes beforw reaching them which fire Poison gas would be pretty imposing, but I think for a 1950's film that would've been FAR too difficult to make. IMO, I think the main thing that film or series adaptations captured is just how cunning the Martians were. In there, they just charged head on without trouble defended via giant lasers. In the book, the aliens adapted to everything the humans threw at them. Artillery shells? Poison gas from the distance.Battleship? we're just not going to the coast anymore.They even began targeting Gunpowder stores when they ransacked London, ransacking aerial fields or nuke stores would have been somethign they could've done.

[@TheGTeam2]

Fantastic video, absolutely love the use of Jeff Wayne's musical score used in the background. A very enjoyable watch!

[@Water90435]

God this vid reminds me of 5 years ago when I was 14 and was obsessed with wotw. I remember listening to that amazing musical over and over again during summer break and in class when school started. Great video brother

[@sazan115]

I have my own sequel of the War of the Worlds, and here is how I planned it out It starts off with a simple catch up that astronomers all over the world, especially Britain watch the skies, looking out for any Martian counter invasion. Meanwhile back on Mars, the Martian king wants to have a second try at destroying the British Empire, and he upgrades the Tripods. (This takes place in 1913 by the way.) In September 4, the Martians launch their invasion, and the first cylinder lands dangerously close to Liverpool, the army mobilizes and goes there. 16-pounder guns thud across Liverpool, as a furious battle takes place, but with a Martian victory and 2 Martian losses. The second cylinder lands in Dorking, with that being the last one. Eight Martian tripods close in upon London, with our narrator there to visit Mrs. Elphinestone. The Army sets up cannons around London, and opens fire upon the Martian war machines. One is taken out, and 3 are down for, the others destroy the London infrastructure and a gun battery is taken out. Some Biplanes come in, and take down a single Martian. In the end, the British take out the Martians. But at sea, a HMS Thunder Child 2 is patrolling with some smaller cruisers, when 2 Martians arrive. The Thunder Child and the cruisers fire upon them, destroying one, and the other releases Black Smoke, but a cruiser destroys it. The End.

[@jacobmoss6830]

As I've mentioned above, there actually is an official sequel book 'The Massacre Of Mankind'.

[@sazan115]

@@jacobmoss6830I know about it.

[@ChupacabraRex]

@@jacobmoss6830 Yes, but The War of the Worlds is Public domain. Anyone can write anything about it.

[@rapatacush3]

​@@jacobmoss6830and it suck ass hard. America in flames and goliath are way better sequels.

[@mikaelangehagen7251]

The tripods would just find hg wells and force him to continue the story with the martians winning

[@mlgodzilla4206]

Omg James the Red Engine theme at the end. Based Also “Send Ol’ Slimy back into space” made me giggle Ngl

[@hanami077]

So if we want to go into a realistic scenario here's one thing that I think you're not taking into account. The Martians probably only stopped when they did because the sickness that would eventually kill them had probably already started displaying symptoms. The one thing that is sort of clear yeah there's the red weed spreading but the Martians themselves become less and less. It would make sense for something that killed them so quickly.

[@antilliachannel]

Perhaps, but they stopped on the fourth day yet were observed as healthy enough on the 7th and 14th days of the invasion, then were still carrying out operations and construction with the same dedication until at least the 19th day as attested by the artilleryman. The Martians seemed to mostly die on the 21st day so between then and the 19th I can imagine the symptoms starting to cripple them. Before then though I’m inclined to disagree

[@hanami077]

@@antilliachannel if they're completely devoid of an immune system you can basically start getting immediate symptoms from the initial infection depending on what it is anything from within a day to three or four so it even makes sense that they stopped they might have been carrying out operations which is true it's just you really do see less and less of them.

[@spinosaurusstriker]

​@@hanami077aren't many symtoms actually the inmune system trying to defend the body ? Wpuld the martian's bpdy jsut not react until watever organ suffers massive failure?

[@hanami077]

@@spinosaurusstriker Yes it's the immune system fighting off whatever it is and it doesn't say that they don't have one it just says that they removed disease and disease killing microorganisms. It would honestly require a much deeper look into their biology that's book doesn't really provide. To see just exactly how their internal systems are working.

[@kadenhunt1462]

2005 slander will not be tolerated it was my introduction to wotw its why I love it so much. good video though :)

[@GDPepiman]

No thunderchild? Forcefield? Takes place in america? Aliens aren't from mars? That's not war of the world's buddy

[@HybridB0i]

​@GDPepiman 1. Tripods were buried on Earth thousands of years ago, meaning they were planning for a long time. 2. An iteration doesn't need to be 100% accurate to the books or the originals (examples being Transformers, Godzilla ect).

[@spinosaurusstriker]

Ok but outside the tripods and the bacteria that movie has nothing to do with WOTW , and godzilla had always a different title to just godzilla to the point that gpdzilla became more of the character than the priginal movie , can't say the sa,e fpr war of the worlds . ​@@HybridB0i

[@HybridB0i]

@@spinosaurusstriker but there were still fighting machines, killing people and harvesting them and their blood to terraform earth. That's the MAIN premise of war of the worlds anyways. So as it's own iteration, it's still WOTW

[@JustAnAstronautPerson]

​@@GDPepimansurprisingly, there's a lot more similarities to the book in the 2005 film that many doesn't notice.

[@jakerooke174]

This is why I like the great Martian war because the Martians also used automated tripods to supplement their low number of Hurons and also having the Hurons being too high and shielded to any attack until humanity made plasma tanks

[@edwardwilliams3216]

Every Tasmanian when they hear someone mention Tasmania. :o

[@captainramius5047]

So glad I saved this to watch later, as it was easily 49 minutes and 35 seconds well spent! A most intriguing counterfactual, and one of the more realistic ones I've heard on this topic, much better than the usual "Britain gets martian tech, becomes dystopia to rival George Orwells nightmares for reasons." trope. The idea of the Royal Marine carrying out commando raids through an alien-held London is particularly badass, as is the whole counterfactual! I've been trying to come up with my own WOTW counterfactual for a game I'm drafting, if you perhaps like to hear? In addition, I'm not sure if you know of it, but have you perhaps seen or heard of the War Of The Worlds 1934 channel on this platform? Absolutely banging adaptation that I believe would be right up you alley, Mr. Antilla

[@antilliachannel]

Glad you enjoyed the video! I’ve heard about WotW 1934 before but haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. Feel free to share your ideas

[@captainramius5047]

@@antilliachannel Ah I see, please do watch it, admittedly it does do the force fields thing, but when we have air superiority I suppose sacrifices must be made. Anyways, my counterfactual is much like how the 53 film imagines the Solar System, with a dying lowellian Mars, a hellish Jupiter etc. The primary difference being that the 3 superpowers at the time (UK, U.S.S.R., and the USA) all have space programs running from the 40s and 50s, to the present day in December 1958. All three achieved Manned Moon landings (see Von Brauns lunar lander and ferry rocket, and the British Interplanetary Society’s technical projects to see what was used) and Britain now has a moon colony of some 150 souls, Point Prospero, at mons Piton. During December of ‘58, contact is unexpectedly lost during Lunar night, so the MC is sent up to investigate. There he finds a full blown invasion of the moon by Wellsian Martians, who seek to use the moon as a stepping stone towards earth, however the Martians hadn’t counted on a lunar colony (as they can only see the moons dark side from Mars), so had to crush the human presence there.

[@antlionworkerfan2007]

Shame that this video doesn’t have more views, it is very well done!

[@ryanreyes4622]

I love the work you did here, especially how you pointed out how the Marsians are cut off.

[@pickle7465]

Screw the birth of my son this is fire.

[@antilliachannel]

Name him “Red Weed”, that would be funny I think

[@brandonteflon1232]

Okay. You earned my sub for the music alone. Had a whole damn flashback one i heard thise notes. Otherwise, i have to admit this is about the most realistic view of this ive seen (not that ive seen many). Like it treats the Martian's like the threat they are but humanity doesn't fold like an omelet. Great video. Great voice. Keep going.

[@adammac-ec8qt]

I believe the part with the eyes is just Alvim Correa’s misinterpretation of the sentence “the windows in the White Houses were like the sockets of skulls” so he drew eyes but the book just ment that the town look ominous and dead 12:25

[@scprwbysportal7202]

05 film is what got me into WotW...seems I have a weird history of growing up on "the garbage" version... cause I grew up on 98 goji and 05 war of the worlds...eh, don't care I like the 05 design the best, despite the other versions being cool aswell.

[@lumberedjack]

this video is super good oh my god the fact you don’t have more subscribers astonishes me, nor more views. can’t wait for h.g wells to come back from the dead and then write a sequel where humanity colonized mars

[@chrispduckable]

Genuinely loved this and theory around what would happen if they had survived. Lover of Wotw since been a child, but this is amazing love it 🥰

[@BonanzaGY]

How does this channel not have more subscribers. That was delightful

[@antilliachannel]

Glad you enjoyed. I probably don’t upload frequently enough, that’s my best guess.

[@BonanzaGY]

@@antilliachannel Well do keep up the good work!

[@cthulhusmop]

1:52 I've not read the blog you make reference to, but clues in Chapter One of the story indicates that the Invasion took place in either June 1901 or June 1902 - The Martians started building their Launch Site during the Opposition of 1894, and it is said that "perculiar markings" are noted in the same area over the next two Oppositions, with the Martians sending their first Cylinder during the *Fourth Opposition* - which was around January/Februrary 1901, on/ at midnight of the 12th of one of those months (Opposition occurs roughly every 26 months - give or take a week due to the differences between the orbits of Earth and Mars). While we don't know exactly how fast the Cylinders are speeding through Space, we know that, at least at the speed the Mariner probes that were sent to Mars during the 60's - 70's were travelling at, it took them about 8 months to traverse that distance - but, in Chapter 17, we are told that the 'Exodus of London' occurs in June, so either the Martian Cylinders are faster than the Mariners (taking 5-6 months from Jan/Feb to June 1901) or they travel slower (meaning that they took 17-18 months in transit, and arrived in June 1902). Granted, H.G. Wells was writing well before the Rocket Age, and probably wasn't trying to be accurate with the length of travel time involved, but given how advanced the Martians are, I would personally favoured the earlier date of June 1901. The line about "The storm burst upon us six years ago now" was the Narrator indicating that he was writing *his* version of events 6 years later - in the 1907 of *their* timeline. So that was when the novel was being written/published "In Universe"; the actual invasion occured much earlier. Edit: All that Chronological Minutiae aside, 'tis a very good and well-reasoned vid you've presented here - great work! 👍

[@Qwerty2_6649]

This is fantastic, I applaud you sir 👏

[@mrhoodie6810]

I’m just so happy that Somone has made something about war of the worlds

[@84thrando]

I cannot wait to see how you do in the future!

[@williamlydon2554]

Quite an interesting premise. You certainly bring up some valid points about the lack of logistics on the Martians part, and the advantages humanity would have. The bit of the rapid deployment of gasmasks to fight the black smoke is especially interesting to realize.

[@Random_stuff_E]

The only garbage part of the 2005 movie is that US army scene where all the civilians are trying to help fight the 15 story tall tripods that can vaporize anything

[@antilliachannel]

I struggle to think of anything good about it other than “the tripods are cool and make cool sounds but aren’t very wotw tbh”

[@Random_stuff_E]

I understand also I subscribed to you

[@ChupacabraRex]

@@antilliachannel I think it captured well the feeling of dispair as everyone ran around, it reminded me of how the world fell into chaos in the book. It was the most intersting part of the Movie. But I felt the Martians weren't very...Martian. The War of the Worlds matians were cunning, extremely so, and managed to legitimately outsmart the Humans and force them out of London. The only thing Martian about them was their screeching noises and their Red Weed, but aside from that, nothing.

[@GabelLIVE]

Have you considered the possibility of an actual organised attempt to move down into the sewers? I've always loved that idea

[@antilliachannel]

If the Martians kept up their momentum and took Britain I can imagine remnant military formations and civilian resistance groups making the move underground. Probably nothing so grandiose as the artilleryman described unless somehow the whole world fell, but still an effort nonetheless

[@lemons4869]

Every inaccuracy in some famous adaptation Jeff wayne: Stiff legs, say ULLA instead of ALOO, handling machiens have 6 legs 1953: Invisible legs, don't say ALOO, martians are weird E.T people, martians fall into a coma, no thunderchild (I think), have a invisible shield 2005: Tripods go BRUUUUHHHMMOOOOOUUU instead of ALOO, martians have 5 limbs (3 legs 2 arms), tripods have 2 "heat rays" that are basically heavy lasers, 3 lights instead of a "face", no handling machine, no flying machine, no horsell common, no thunderchild, Ogilvy is the artilleryman and Curate combined, no artilleryman, no Curate, copies Jeff Waynes intro, they arrive by lighting bolts becuase the "come to earth" trope was too overused even though wotw popularised it, no green gas, no green gas from mars, no shooting star, Herbert George Wells is replaced with Ray Rachel and Robbie, no wife thst leaves on a ferry, tripods aren't defeated (They did defeat ONE but never showed it), tripods don't walk like an alive creature, tripods take place as handling machine, no black smoke, no goofy dialogue with the curate (When I fell in with the curate, that chapter), Ogilvy doesn't die in the beginning, no men waving peace flags, no paddling in a hot summer (Also chapter 12 I think), martians can hear, martians can move quickly, martians don't have V-shaped mouth, martians look like tripods, the tripods rise from the ground, invisible shield, and Main character has kids 2019: The cylinder doesn't unscrew, the cylinder looks like a Malteser, martians don't come from the cylinder (and fall), martians aren't seen coming from tripods, the tripods are probably meant to rise from the ground, the tripods don't have tendrils to bash people against trees, legit takes 2 shots to die, no tendril to carry heat ray, no green smoke from the common, protagonist has maids, the martiand have 3 legs, martians have no mouth at all, martians have no face, no thunderchild cylinder can be destroyed, the cylinders heat ray is the cylinder itself, say BROOOUUUH HUUUOOONNNN RUHOOOUUU instead of ALOO, George lives in London, he somehow just joins the army without any training and is put in the front. I don't know because I gave up watching it at the beginning of part 2

[@lemons4869]

And yes, I don't like the 2005 + 2019 adaptations

[@lemons4869]

They're either too strong or too weak

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

2019 had a poor version of Thunder child/ navy scene, but the action was off camera, which was instead focused on the boring Human characters swimming. Missed a great chance to have the battle on screen in full glory.

[@lemons4869]

@@RomanHistoryFan476AD ok

[@Mae_Dastardly]

Okay but counterpoint: BROOOOOUUUUUHOOOOOOUGH

[@ChupacabraRex]

Excellent Video, I have for myself also wondered about this after just now finishing the Book. I do somewhat disagree with your final ending but you bring up some good points. First off, the Martian invasion of Humanity is actually somwhat similar to the invasion of Cortez, at least in that they where small forced going on to conquer a group. Due to the small amounts of War Machines centered in a small region, I am led to assume that the Martians have at least a comparable industrial capacity as ourselve, even if it being written by someone who is pretty much a random plebian attempting to grasp what he sees limits our capacity to say anything for certain. They struggled to sent, let me be generous, a few dozen tripods over a voyage of an unknown period of time, months perhaps. They came with Livestock, crops, farming equipment, and their Giantic Mech's. Personally, I do not think the Martians even WERE planning an invasion. They, as you stated, do not appear to have very many advanced sensory technology depending on sight and sound as their fasted and longest distance methods of sensory information, preferring their own biological systems of senses than any other thing(also perhaps being hampered via it being a 1898 book). They explicitly brought humanoid livestock who quickly perished, leading them to use the Humans for sustenance. Their lack of usage of Black Smoke at the begging of the book indicates to me that they seem to have simply come to clear land, plant crops, and rear livestock. The note at the begging of the book leads me ot think this was what they were expecting but they instead found that the world war populated by vast amounts of hostile Beasts, the Aliens do not seem to think us to be people, which is the main difference between them and Cortez that I think limit their ability. They came as settlers and ended up using a form of Pesticide(which is what I think the black smoke was, especially since they grew Red Weed following their deployment of it) to slaughter Humans, to great effect. Of course, following the Thunderchild attack and their destruction of gunpowder stores in england, building what we would call prisioner camps and what they would consider corrals for livestock, they hunkered down for preparations. This, I think, is were I disagree with what your final conclusion, of how the Poison Gas would be made useless and how they could not re-make their forces. It's true, I do not think the Aliens could make enough warriors to conquer the entire world, it's a big, big place and they are both more limited and less stupid than The Race from the Worldwar series, but they are capable of breeding at quick speeds, with a Martian nearly being born quite quickly prior to the parent dying of Plague.They also make more, simple machines while the Narrator is hiding in his whole with the Priest, not a lot, but some. While the Humans could most likely make poison Gas masks, I think the martins would have been much more experienced in Chemical warfare and likely taken the time to make more tirpods, more martians to man those tripos and make them, and more deadly gasses that could pierce throug the Gas masks. The Black Smoke is a nifty pesticide, used as a weapon, that disolves with water. It's usefull at killing things you don't like without harming the enviroment but not yourself, and I am convinced the Martians would've made a more deadly kind of Gas. In the Real World War one, a sort of Posion Gas arms race happened, but with the Martians being far, far more advanced than the Humans they would have likely won the arms race with other more deadly chemical poisons. I should also note they might be capable of utilizing the digging machine to at least try to defend themselves from artillery fire. I do not think that the Martians, had they been capable of surviving the plague, would have been capable of further advancing on other Nations prior to reinforcements, but I do think they could have resisted attacks of the Brittish. I am doubtfull both of other Nations outside of Europe bring millitry aid to pre-ww1 brittain, and I should also mention the Martians may begin attacking ships. Their Heat Rays are described as tearing through the ThunderChilld with astounding ease, the thunderchild only wreaking havoc because of the Martians being curious about what in the name of God that thing was. If troops begin cooming on vessels, I find it likely some flying machines armed with heat rays could've at least made it somewhat difficult for them to reach London proper. For the previously outline reasons, I think the Martians, if they played their cards right which for once I can say they most definately would, would be capable of ressisting the brittish for a year or two at the very least until the reinforcements arrive, at which point they can further build a sizable colony, eventualy if extrmeley slowly winning, more like the Brittish beat the Native Americans than how the Spanish did, but eventually beating them. But plese, do not think I did not greatly enjoy your video. it was excellent, and I adored it.

[@mylifewasalwaysalie]

I really like the War of the worlds, and I really thank you for doing this, its always interested me, the idea of humanity trying to resist alien invaders despite being technologically outclassed.

[@HanzGoober]

My theory is that the longer the invasion would last the more advanced the British army would be come possibly inventing the plane or gas mask earlier of perhaps the tank to halt the metal behemoth.

[@jornoosting6041]

Really enjoyed this video, i found it a good and alternative take I still really need to read the book but i have been watching a ton of video's on the book/story but non the less good and enjoyable take

[@Arab_Rayman_and_TF2_Enjoyer]

32:50 correct me if I’m wrong here but during the Martian occupation of London, the narrator and a priest were in a house and a Martian cylinder crashed in it. Was it a part of the first 10 cylinders launched from Mars or additional ones? But at this point in the novel I don’t think that it may carry much reinforcement but probably idk, more handling machines or flying machines with idk, maybe more fighting ones, or tools to make production facilities. Because like you said, 50 tripods were created and they were only concentrated in taking the UK only and nowhere else. Maybe their plan was to create a base for world domination. Because in WW2, even with the Germans bombing London and other main areas in Britain, they were untouchable from any kind of land invasion with their navy. So maybe the Martians thought that Britain would make a nice hold out since they’re on an island that they can dedicate for a base of operations. The first wave of cylinders would carry the fighting force, then the second wave would have some form of construction materials for a base of operations. Which is likely why they held out on London before chasing down the last remains of the British army. Idk, maybe their flying machine might be AI, or remote controlled. I mean the Martian’s are an advanced alien race, so maybe. They used manual force to take over Britain, then they’d have AI flying machines to take the rest of Europe and spread from there. Maybe the flying machines are like drones. But hey I’m just spitting ideas.

[@antilliachannel]

I think that was cylinder number 5 of the 10 launched

[@georgestefanou4250]

Please do a part 2 to this where humans invade mars at some point

[@sorcererberoll4641]

The development of mobile artillery or even decent anti air like in ww1 would probably affect the Martian legs

[@Marylandbrony]

I actually think the opposite would happen, and it would be the end of Great Britain as a superpower (probably an anachronistic term) with the destruction of London, the Empires' most overwhelming city. It would probably take at least a generation to rebuild akin to the German, Japanese, and Soviet cities that were leveled in WW2. With possibility, hundreds of thousands killed to up to a million killed. Along with the economic damage from losing London as an industrial and financial hub. For the UK, it would probably still be important but probably kicked to a 2nd tier power. With Germany, France and Russia becoming the leading nations in the world. Eventually, the dommions would probably become their own countries in their own right, and might he be slightly boosted from refugees from Great Britain. While most of the very big colonies like India might seek some kind of independence or be conquered by whatever European power was closet to them. Think of French Nigeria or a German Kenya becoming things. Heck, the Carribean islands or Hong Kong could end up being bought by the Americans for the former or conquered by China or Japan for the latter. I'm not sure what happens after, a world war of some kind is delayed, and the people in the colonies when they do start seeking more independence probably seek independence, Will likey try to do it on friendlier terms with their colonial masters mainly to protect from future "invasions". My guess would be that today, it would be a world of Federations with many areas in Africa, Asia/Pacfic, and the Carribean being still quasi-colonial. With my guesses for the superpowers being the US, Germany, Russia, and probably China or Japan, one ends up being the leading "Non-White" power. With a lot more space infrastructure to possibly take it to the Martians eventually.

[@elgeneralissimo6322]

Should do more like this, its wonderful, I would watch more like this

[@antilliachannel]

@@elgeneralissimo6322 I did a couple of other WotW videos, though I think I’ve mostly run out of unique ideas on that front

[@shadowcatboy7852]

Subbed. The way you narrate is awesome and I love getting into speculation and small details too! Awesome video

[@franklinchung2094]

My personal theory is that the flying machine is just a giant mirror for the martians to put in the sky and use to reflect the heat rays to use them as artillery

[@smooglemac6089]

Love this video! Something I’ve been planning for a long while now is to make this idea come true!… in Lego… a war of the worlds series where mankind bounces back because of the Martian frontier being halted by the germs, evening out the playing field (it would have a mix of futuristic and ancient weaponry akin to the kaled and thal war of dr who)… the result of which is a sort of arms race as the dominant martians try to keep at the top of the food chain while underground government bases prepared for major combat use their newfound time to arm themselves as best as possible till the two armies are so greatly armed in their own ways they’re practically equal, a literal war of the worlds

[@austinblack7991]

Actually in 2005 there was a film that is actually set in 1898 Victorian Britain but it was released direct to DVD

[@ROBERTANDERSON-f2f]

Great presentation. 👍

[@theiathegondia7349]

Imagine if they tried to attack this way in the 21st century, the Martians would be fucked

[@peterkneller1972]

I think you have given this a lot of thought. Well done do more

[@Acreanoonipresente]

"they probaly still using swords.." "What is that tiny tube with 2 wheels and some human-"- a martian fighting machine before being blown up by a cannon

[@niotikk]

Loved the "everyone knows that" reference :D Amazing Video!

[@illumencouk]

This initially may sound off topic but I think it works? Perfume's specific molecular properties allows it to bond with ease. Beginning in the bedroom the scent will quickly spread throughout all adjacent rooms and even the rest of the house in next to no-time. The scent is the same strength throughout. Equally impressive is its stamina and staying power. The arrival of the Martian flasks that fell upon the Common, these were sent to assimilate into our atmosphere and biological food chain, water table etc.

[@sawney_bean]

Maybe the martians lack the knowledge in warfare due to their society being mostly peaceful for who knows how many years ,unlike humanity going ape shit on each other on a daily basis or it was just absolute hubris coming from the martians seeing us as angry animals that would just run away in awe and fear at the sight of their war machines and technology Something similar to the first stages of combat betwen the aztecs,incas and the spaniards using cavalry chargues to great effect Or it was just an scouting force to see if something can be achieved in the closest resource rich planet before trying their luck in other planet

[@antilliachannel]

I reckon the Martians either haven’t fought an actual war in a very long time or only do so in highly ritualised bouts to minimise damage. Resource conservation must be a primary concern given the state of Mars so they likely wouldn’t be fighting proper wars in the human style. That does explain quite a bit about why the fighting machines are so poorly designed for real warfare, they aren’t war machines at all. They’re probably meant for terrorising/harvesting bipedal martians and staging what amount to jousts against each other.

[@sawney_bean]

@@antilliachannel what? Slimy martians having a culture and even worst... honor? thats too much to ask for such godless creatures By the way on the topic of the martian cattle , where they sentient i mean in a way similar to chimps or dolphins or crows or primitive humans or they are just martian cows ? Im not saying cows are mindless creatures but i mean it in a way to say that they are not capable to realize the true nature of their reality ?

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

The Jeff Wayne PC game goes with this theory in the Martian intro, even seen it on KZbin?

[@walterkoons9899]

Holy smokes. They stopped in the book because they were starting to get sick. If they hadn't been sick they would have kept going.

[@SeraTheSeraph]

This would go so differently if this was the 2005 tripods. But a very interesting video.

[@treavy1]

I’m subbing this guy is like me hungry for answers

[@SelopianProductions]

Amazing, cool, and that first statement about food really set my mind off into wondering Item Earned! 1 sub

[@henreth2566]

Bro ur videos are epic, keep up tha great work :D

[@madcat789]

What a strange new video to crop across my algorith. I think I'll stick with you, you've got a good head about you.

[@guerilla_gorilla6267]

Only 6 minutes in, and this video is already amazing

[@sporeham1674]

This is also how I have fun, and War of The Worlds is also one of my favourite pieces of fiction. Are you just, more proper sounding me?

[@antilliachannel]

I have heard there are at least 3 of us

[@Anti-NPC]

This video is gold, can you make a scenario where the first cylinder fails to eliminate the batteries? Well, you can look up the human intro in the jeff wayne war of world game

[@KorbynTaylor]

If the war of the worlds was real, and the martians had immunity, we'd be screwed.

[@antilliachannel]

I disagree

[@KorbynTaylor]

​@@antilliachannel... Why'd you say that?

[@antilliachannel]

@@KorbynTaylor I honestly can’t tell if you’re joking or not lol

[@KorbynTaylor]

@@antilliachannel ohhh.. understandable, but I was being serious.

[@antilliachannel]

@@KorbynTaylor The 49 minute video you are commenting under explains my position in detail.

[@roboticintelligenceunit1a652]

I wanna see British empire/ commonwealth of mankind invade mars but with a Martian perspective, Maybe even where the humans and Martians are in a agreement that one side cannot kill the other, we can’t invade them, they can’t invade us, eventually wiping us out in a Cold War with interplanetary atomic weapons or coming to become the Sol federation

[@unclecrusty5476]

Silly little idea, but the digging machine, being driverless and set up quickly might well allow for the immune martians to either undermine British forces (though this is the same British army that had underground supremacy during the great war) and allow possible for artillery to be bypassed or altleast the same game to be played through the use of massive explosives (not unreasoble assumption they possess explosives atleast equivalent to our own back then). The possibility of a gurrial war after the great offensive, where surviving Martians make use of the tunneling machine to persistently harrass human forces whilst reproducing in sealed off areas of saftey is also possible, based on knowledge then on the thin martian atmosphere and the idea that only lichen could survive on its surface the Martians are very probably adapted to underground life so might well end up doing so. Furthermore it is possible, assuming supposed HG wells shared universe (implied in when the sleeper wakes ) that some of the Cylinders where aimed at the moon (it being inhabitied by selenites).

[@sonofeyeabovealleffoff5462]

It's called "War of the Worlds: Goliath". But stellar video my man!

[@BBBHuey]

In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic, the Martians (called "Molluscs" and whom conquered Mars before going to Earth) are killed by hybrid bacteria created by Dr. Moreau (from the Island of Dr. Moreau) under the employ of the British Secret Service.

[@kelvinkelly6404]

Not sure if I'm missing something, but the fightings machines have a huge advantage and that is their flexibility. human transportation/weaponry (at the time) is clunky, heavy and not very "flexible" or versatile in where they could be placed. That and given the gap of time between reloading and actually firing the damn things would live a gap for the martians to swiftly come in and wipe them out. The fighting machines are fast and flexible and are able to move across a variety of terrains. Rivers, hills, forests, cities etc with little trouble. They also have really good range for their heat rays with them being able to reach the mcs house from horsell common (which is roughly two miles). Speaking of the heat ray, its is mounted on a tentacle, giving it more flexibility where it can be fired (plus, its position can be changed with ease). The fighting machines are definitely glass cannons, but what they lack in durability, they make up for in speed, elegance, flexibility and overall destructive power (plus their height and range) Edit: not to mention, the martians are capable of sophisticated automation/ai. the embankment Machine was said to lack a martian pilot, but was capable of thoughtful, discriminate actions. Whose to say the martians couldn't do the same to the fighting machines or the flying machines (assuming that it was an assault unit)?

[@antilliachannel]

Human weaponry powerful enough to destroy a tripod in this period can go pretty much anywhere a tripod can, there are few places in the English landscape a horse-drawn field gun can’t go and the speeds as shown in the video are pretty good too (not Martian express train speeds but still faster than being lugged around by hand). Depending on the gun rate of fire was better then I think you’re giving credit for too, with older guns getting off up to 8 rounds per minute and newer ones up to 20 at the maximum, though in WW1 it was decided that sustained fire of 4 per minute was better in the long run for bombardment. When we see heat ray only tripods going up against gun crews they achieve a casualty ratio of three to one before resorting to the Black Smoke, that’s three guns destroyed in exchange for one tripod felled (salvaged later but this was a small scale engagement). Considering the extent by which the Martians are outnumbered that isn’t a sustainable rate for them

[@kelvinkelly6404]

@@antilliachannel I see your point. I suppose I wasn't giving humans enough credit. I was more or less talking about their flexibility giving them an advantage over areas where it could be difficult for carriages to reach and station themselves upon (the more awkward landscapes you could say) not saying humans didn't have ways to fix those issues, but its an easier avenue for the martians. that combined with speed and agility could still prove difficult for them.

[@ThieflyChap]

Shock and awe, once that is lost, they're buggered. 50 against millions. Yeah, that's a war you're not going to win. I've always imagined this was a scouting force of sorts, with the main attack to come later once the initial base of operations was set up, but then they started dying of unknown causes (to them) and likely cancelled the whole thing.

[@mochiidabrochii]

i thought of some martian technological hurdles they might face. 1. the atmosphere since the mars’s atmopshere is 0.00628ths of earth, the tripods (assuming they have an internal martian-like atmosphere) may be more fragile or even get crushed by the relatively extremly higher earth’s atmosphere. not to even mention highly reactive oxygen, (which the martians probably low little of) probably causing their machines to rust, or maybe even explode if they use hydrogen or any other chemicals (that we consider flammable) in their machines. you remember the ruddy-brown fluid? probably crushed martian bodies from the higher atmospheric pressure. 2. gravity since the mars’s gravity is ~1/3 of earth’s, the martians would probably use tripods in previous inter-martian wars, due to the longer striking range ( i presume) on earth though, the tripods would be working much harder to move and keep upright. (im surprised the tripod that got disabled by the artillery cannon when i read the book didn’t get destroyed, after the “head” crashed down from a significant hight.) i’m not a native english speaker, sorry for any misunderstandings ‘^^

[@ecidaho]

Great analysis!! I agree that the flying machine is the wildcard over all, but with the influx of additional artillery and possibly even troops from other powers to help repel the Martians, they would fall eventually! But what about two years later? Where do the land next and were they able to communicate what they learned back to Mars so they could prepare for it? My guess is if they could they would wait for another one or two close approaches of Mars and then land in a far more remote area for the second invasion. Allowlist them to set up a defendable base of operations. Of course this plays into human hands as well, as with anything we are clever little bastards and with all the wreckage of from the first invasion back engineering their power supplies and how the large flying machine works would be a huge priority, not to mention their weapons. The second invasion would play out on an even more even playing field, most likely, than the first, which is of course bad for the Martians. Great work! I love the book and really wish someone would make it, set in 1900, into a proper movie or limited run series. So many stunning visuals given by Wells, are just ignored but movie makers thus far! Take care and all the best! Cheers!

[@antilliachannel]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Honestly I reckon the Martians wouldn’t even bother with a follow up. It seems that they just went to Venus instead after the first invasion failed/proved to be more hassle than it was worth, so I figure the same would apply regardless of whether germs or guns wiped out the first wave. I do have to wonder what it is about this story that has proven so difficult to adapt properly, or at least well enough. My suspicion is that it’s because WotW doesn’t really have characters in the traditional sense, just a glorified cameraman observing the world around him. Even the good adaptations like the 53 film try to work around that instead of embracing it.

[@ecidaho]

@@antilliachannel You may be correct about the lack of main character, but I will just drop Tora Tora Tora out as examples of that can be done well.

[@antilliachannel]

@@ecidaho Oh it definitely can be done, it’s just more difficult than cramming in a generic character drama so most adaptors don’t seem to bother. One day though lol

[@PeterKennedy-b1h]

I agree with you almost conpletely exxept in one regard... the confluence time window. Surely they would send more, maybe not four or five fighting machines and maybe a digging device per cylinder. Perhaps one or two tripops or just flying machines and enough bipedal snacks and air to just send any reinforcments during the window. Given that they could crashland the ten and disgorge the majority of their forces and break the London cordon in just over a week, means reinforcements are not out of the question. I'm not saying hundreds of martians charge, immolate and suffocate the Midlands line, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester burns and glorius Britainia is reduced to another goverbment in exile in Ireland and refugees in the scotish moumtains. I'm simply saying a force of no more than a ≈30 more tripods not even that could be sent to earth, they could probably absorb losses while maintaing approximately ≈50 tripods or less and may gain one or two more flying machines for atleast a month or two. Perhaps it would make a difference maybe not, maybe they would land in place they would percieve as less habitated like the Siberia tundra, the Ukraine, the Mongolian steppe, the Amazon basin, the Great Plains, the Canadian artic or the Sandiest Sahara in hopes of serring up shop in a less contested area provoking the Ire of the great powers.

[@PeterKennedy-b1h]

@antilliachannel Perhaps i was little generous giving the Martians and scathing in saying that maintainence of 50 strong force tripods for months? It would be more likely that it would take mere weeks to a month for the Martians to loose these hypothetical reinforcements.

[@ianbeale2527]

10 cylinders landed. 5 tripods and Martians per cylinder,along with 2 handling machines and other materials. Plus the creatures they brought with them as food.(Their description is akin to what we call "Grey Aliens" today - or at least that's how I interpret it ).However, I believe that one cylinder contained the "flying machine" as it's main cargo, rather than any tripods. The Martians vastly under-estimated the resistance of the humans, probably seeing them as nothing more than how we see wild animals. Dangerous, but not formidable and easily overcome with their weapons - the heat ray probably being the Martian equivalent of a hunting rifle. The Martians probably never anticipated any act of real resistance,thinking that humans never possessed the intelligence to work together nor the weapons to fight back. Thus a small expeditionary force would crush any isolated resistance swiftly and easily, then pick off humans for food until reinforcement and Martian colonisation could begin 2 years later. Only occasionally having to use the heat ray just to instil the notion that any attack would be futile. However, no sooner had they opened that first cylinder and brought their heat ray to bare on the crowd, did they understand that man would stand shoulder to shoulder and wouldn't go silently in to the night. I reckon, had they not succumbed to the bacteria, they would have been defeated anyway. A 20 mile cordon could've been made around the great camp they set up in London. At it's perimeter , mines and pitfalls to insure they couldn't break out, then eventually, huge railway guns could be brought by land by trains and fired directly in to the camp insuring total annihilation. No need for warships to risk going up the Thames. Great video. Well worth 50 minutes of my time.

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

If you wanna know about something WotW, read "The Scarlett Traces" comic series from 2000AD. It goes beyond the classic invasion, leading into a Cold War / Space NATO scenario, including other alien races, and at the end it goes full SW, kinda. 3 TPBs with maybe a 4th one coming. About the Spielberg movie, I realy like it, though it's pretty flawed. Spielberg made a good intense horror-movie, which isn't often the case if you think about alien-invasion usualy being primarily action. The BEST WotW might be "The Great Martian War" documentary, it's awesome, and a shame nothing more came after it, like a sequel.

[@space_kiwi1105]

I imagined the first flight being a kind of rocket like a missile

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

Hello! I like that book too! And your profile picture!

[@millerdiamond708]

martians: human battleships are so annoying to deal with there always in the water shooting at bases we set up ruining are blood farms and power plants

[@jacobmoss6830]

I like the idea that these machines are the last gasp of an ancient race. Using technology even they don't quite understand mixed with what they do understand to create these machines. Spoiler's for the second book below: The later sequel book written in the 21st Century and approved by the H.G Wells estate(The Massacre Of Mankind) grants the Martians some additional tools in their playbook. One, the Martian's Heat Rays can be used to shoot down incoming artillery rounds and aerial bombs with pinpoint accuracy akin to laser CIWS that are just being created today. So you have to catch them at point blank range to kill them. The flying machine is finally revealed as a flying wing propelled by a jet engine, used near exclusively to drop black smoke and to attempt to gas mankind to oblivion. It's also revealed that Martian fighting machine legs operate on electromagnetic principles, held together by them, moved by them. Early American EMP bombs outright topple but not destroy a pair of fighting machines in new York in the third invasion. Human flying machines prove no use, the Martians swat them from the sky with their heat rays. If they can shoot shells in flight, zeppelins and bi-planes prove no problem for them and we see this proven with deadly effect. And in this second conflict their is no disease miracle, the war must be won conventionally by humanity. I encourage you to give the book a read and perhaps make a sequel video to this one. I can't detail everything the second book reveals here as I don't have the space or time.

[@matthewfergusons4318]

Forget and one thing I surprised nobody ever mentioned in the war of the worlds is that what invention as British might know as one in British perky inventor about one mysterious eviction called starlight starlight

[@sullyway51]

In the story MARS ATTACKS, the original bubblegum card story has the Martians attack the whole world. They attack in many horrible ways but we manage to turn things around, reverse engineer their tech, build our own new tech, build our own massive space fleet, launch an invasion and we kick their asses. i have the complete card collection.

[@Mae_Dastardly]

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[@hanspotterman]

48:26 *starts playing Thomas the tank engine music out of nowhere*

[@tophatdalekthetophatteddal7402]

Honestly its an interesting assessment. The only admendments id personally make are questioning the lack of forces. Whilst in the book only a handful of landings have been described, Iwould argue that likely the Martians would have fired several other groupings, centred around major areas of industrial concentration. I also would argue that there is a chance that (granted this is only alluded too in adaptations) due to their analytical nature they would by the time of the 15 days halt be preparing for a possible attempt at diplomacy. Granted that attempt would be a failure, the geopolitical situation by 1907 would significantly favour the martians as Germany would likely use the battle against the martians as a chance to act against the empire. Similarly whilst I can see many colonies rallying to the call if we account for the fall of London and possible other martian clusters, whilst the isles wouldnt fall to the martian advance, the empire would certainly start to fracture. I would argue a likely result is that counter offensives would falter as the moral breaking effects the martians have would ultimately destroy most resolve and the black smoke likely would affect weaponry due to its choking nature when removed from its gas state. My own view is that the outcome would likely become a status quo, Britain being forced after failed efforts to liberate london and its other crises ultimately having to accept Martian colonisation in parts of Britain. As for why it seems that affairs go back to normal so soon, I would argue the martians didnt target civilians as heavily as they did resistance, this is because it makes logical sense to create as much of a humanitarian crisis as possible whilst also spreading as much panic as possible. Finally food wise, martian livestock would likely be an effective supply with farming likely beginning. Another aspect is cylinder size, id argue its likely the martians holding back during the initial offensive. This is because it is clear they underestimated mankind and with the earlier engagements its clear that they re-enforce rapidly. Id adjust it by maybe 2-3 tripods in each cylinder, making the number not hugely increased by adding needed firepower to any defensive effort.

[@antilliachannel]

I cannot attribute to the Martians capabilities they don’t demonstrate or else this video would never end

[@tophatdalekthetophatteddal7402]

​@@antilliachannel oh entirely, im merely providing my own musings on the topic. It was quite the good video, and well researched.

[@ptonpc]

I like this, it makes sense within the logic of the universe.

[@aaronlaughter6471]

It makes what the 1953 movie did to the Martians and war machines make more sense after watching this, if the armies of early 1900s Britain could put up a legit fight, imagine what the US of the 1950s could do, ffs imagine any first world country in modern times. Be a nightmare for the Martians.

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

I'm not even sure the Martians will deploy the Flying Machine to a combat frontline where it could be endanger of being taken out. It could end up like the situation Britain and Germany had in WW1 where neither where willing to risk their pride and joys and very expensive Dreadnoughts in battle minus one major battle, or with the Japanese with the Yamato in WW2. I think costal ports and cities would be the best guarded for the British due to being able to rely on Royal navy Ship batteries to support any Land forces covering the evacuation zones. I agree with you, Britain might get a tech boost from the Martian tech but would not turn into some techno dictatorship, if anything a British victory over such a mighty alien foe would be proof in Britain's eyes it's system of governance works and is strong enough to stand against even the mightiest of enemies. I would also add that each firing of the Gun on Mars to send a Pod seemed to have done major damage to their Atmosphere and living quality of a already perishing Mars, so there is a chance they could not send anymore pods, without endangering their Planet and selves even more. If I remember right this was theorised in the book by the Main Character. HG Wells was a great story writer be he did seem to have a short sightedness for warfare though, be it I think he did a great job for what he knew. In the end sheer volume of Humanity and their industrial might would overwhelm the Martians. I do wonder if Posy losing the war, the Martians might try their Venus plan instead or try to come to some peace deal with mankind? After all the Martians are desperate to escape a dying Mars, even a colder place on Earth abandoned by humanity would be ideal for them in exchange for tech or knowledge. Doubt Britain would accept the offer, but some other Nation might though. Great Video, as a big WOTW fans it's lovely to see in depth videos like this, great work.

[@suddenlythatenderman5800]

i think all quiet on the martian front works great as a like continuation tbh

[@loudelk99]

I would bet that German and French ships would be joining the Royal navy in blocking the Martians in the Channel. And in time you might see troops and artillery from the continental powers and even the US join the fight on British soil.

[@oberonpanopticon]

The final question would really be how much of Mars’s might the initial force was? Was it the best they could do, or was it as minimal as they thought would be enough?

[@Cake9Cakey]

I feel that the martians would be smarter than that, I think that if they’re going to invade a whole other planet they would consider things like a gravity differential, but we don’t know how long they had been actually planning the invasion so who knows. Maybe the martians really did just suddenly discover Earth and stuffed all the supplies they needed in their capsules and went off.

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

A perfectly valid scenario. But it does presume the Martians have nothing else up their (tentacled) sleeves. We don't even know if their flying machines require pilots or how many they could build. More, the black smoke could be massively deployed against civilians and infrastructure. I would not be so sure no re-enforcements are coming. Perhaps this first wave was intended to establish a beachhead before the next wave arrived, carrying more and different weapons.

[@offbrandmario9840]

Finally someone else who thinks the 2005 film is poopy

[@offbrandmario9840]

9:45 I knew that ball thing could be a flying machine

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

It's okay, would take 2005 any day over The BBC 2019 EastEnders's version of it.

[@levthemapperxd]

@@RomanHistoryFan476ADthe BBC Miniseries was good and I will die on this hill!

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

@@levthemapperxd I can't see how you can like it? But everyone has their own tastes.

[@levthemapperxd]

@@RomanHistoryFan476AD It is the closest series or movie that will ever be accurate to the book, excluding very niche and unknown ones. Its CGI, cinematography, editing, acting, and the score are all fantastic. I feel like the only thing that’s holding it down is the final episode.

[@darylkemp1257]

Unless they could invent forcefields a second invasion would fail the cylinders would be just surrounded and destroyed in their pits by heavy guns or dynamite before they could cool and open

[@Assman45ACP69]

The Martians, while smart, don't seem to have fought a war in quite a long time. At least to me.

[@jamesatherton5710]

Probable, and one likely outcome, war is hell and I would imagine they have some kind of reserve weapon but that is speculative. Also I believe you underestimate the potential of air superiority What if they have 10 or 50 airships? However a United Earth going on to conquering Mars, the romantic in me loves that idea.