This Is A MESS! The Most Powerful Weapon Of Every Century

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@drexplained0 2 ай бұрын

I'm really sorry, guys. I deserve whatever you're saying. I did mention that the ranking was made with ChatGPT when I uploaded the video, but even so, that video shouldn’t have been uploaded in the first place. I’m really sorry, the video has been deleted

@metatronyt 2 ай бұрын

Hey there thanks for stopping by and no content creator can say they never make mistakes, me included of course. I appreciate your desire to improve and learn from the mistakes. I’ll check out your newer video and thanks for being a good sport. Of course no hate towards you I cover people who are MUCH worse and have an attitude too believe it or not. You are good man. 👍🏻

@odotawaissaku3755 2 ай бұрын

Learn and grow my man. 🙂

@clayndro 2 ай бұрын

It's all good, bro. We all make mistakes. I watched the video, and I can say you corrected everything.

@odotawaissaku3755 2 ай бұрын

@@MX-kw3tm And you're rude. Delete your social media.

@elliecount4876 2 ай бұрын

Just Try not to rely much in AI

@autoingrement 2 ай бұрын

These content farm channels are doing horrible damage for people's knowledge about history. Good thing Metatron is here to debunk!

@HeliodromusScorpio 2 ай бұрын

Rafael is doing the same thing with how the Romans looked liked. Either out of ignorance or intentional misinformation

@dantangelo 2 ай бұрын

I resent that 4th century hunnic composite bows were left off of this list. They also used battering rams in the 5th century.

@tylerwhaley4872 2 ай бұрын

@@HeliodromusScorpio what

@yosif8235 2 ай бұрын

Amen.

@premiumfruits3528 2 ай бұрын

The ones about historical politics are the worst. Straight up history revisionism. I would categorize them as propaganda before I categorize them as historical,

@tomray8765 2 ай бұрын

My favorite AI mess-up was one on Alexander the great, where they kept showing pics Phillip II of SPAIN when referring to Alexander's father.

@toomanymarys7355 2 ай бұрын

Like the Quran that thinks Mary the Mother of Jesus is the sister of Aaron and daughter of Imran.

@josephahner3031 2 ай бұрын

@@toomanymarys7355TFW Mohammad mistakes Chat GPT for the voice of God.

@arddel 2 ай бұрын

AI does pretty well for something that understands nothing and has no idea what it's doing. 😂

@JohnCoolRoblox5754 2 ай бұрын

@@toomanymarys7355 What does this have to do with anything?

@zegerman360 2 ай бұрын

@@toomanymarys7355but how is this wrong?

@KroiAlbanoiArbanon 2 ай бұрын

You deserve another million sub scribers for going through all of this without going insane.

@metatronyt 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@marbanivet 2 ай бұрын

How do you learn other languages?

@TheLeeBonner 2 ай бұрын

He unlocked them when he defeated the final boss. For real though? You’re asking how to learn something? Over time with study and focus like anything else 🤷‍♂️😂

@xancypillosi9497 2 ай бұрын

@@marbanivetI’d first learnt the alphabet.

@legolindirteso9430 2 ай бұрын

@@xancypillosi9497 If you want to be able to read the language, sure. If would want to speak first, i think it's not necessarily the best way, though it will depends on each person. Because each one of us have different capabilities of learning ;)

@GordonHouston-Smith 2 ай бұрын

Ahh the faersome trireme, used to break the ancient Gauls in the battle of Teutoberg Forest!

@napoleonfeanor 2 ай бұрын

And the Britons really owned those Persians

@marSLaZZ66 2 ай бұрын

Epic !! 🤣😂

@GordonHouston-Smith 2 ай бұрын

@@napoleonfeanor LMAO!

@benu_bird 2 ай бұрын

I saw what you did there 😂.

@rhetorical1488 2 ай бұрын

Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane

@Duke_of_Lorraine 2 ай бұрын

The best part about the Romans recovering a carthaginian quinquereme is they found out it was mass-produced, due to numbers on different parts. A very modern production method.

@abaddou1 2 ай бұрын

I would love a long, detailed video about ancient war machines. It is a very interesting topic, and one that has a million urban legends and misconceptions attached to it.

@punsehr2909 2 ай бұрын

Yup a Metatron caliber video would be a godsend for people interested in ancient war machines.

@RoastCDuck 2 ай бұрын

What did rome total war had? Biremes, Triremes, Quintiremes and then had something called like curved quintiremes or some shit but that was like a special unit only given to scipii by the senate, it said something about being a quintireme with artillery on it's deck... no idea. Then they had scorpions, ballistae, repeating ballistae (painted blue), onagers and heavy onagers (painted light blue) but since this was rome total war all artillery was innacurate, Slow and useless.... my favorite was sending a whole army of war dogs and burning pigs... rest in peace old total war... I even modded the game so the armoured elephants of the seleucids would throw ballistas... well the men with bows mounted on top would shoot ballistas...

@Кивис-ч3й 2 ай бұрын

AI slop garbage is the downfall of critical thinking.

@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle 2 ай бұрын

AI is just making it easier to see the slop that has always existed online

@TechnoMinarchist 2 ай бұрын

AI can be very useful for rudimentary research but it can also frequently take you down pop culture misconception lane due to how LLMs generate text. Though this can more or less be mitigated by telling the AI to only use historical sources it can find online. But if you as a user have no pre-existing knowledge on the topic, you're not going to know what to question or accept. That is, it can help speed up research and finding sources, but it's not very useful if you lack the knowledge to curate the results.

@UnexpectedWonder 2 ай бұрын

Truly! 👊👊✊✊👏👏👌👌

@Kiilerich66 2 ай бұрын

@@TechnoMinarchist True, AI can be of help if one possesses the knowledge to tell when the result must be wrong. If one does not have enough knowledge or is starting from an anonymous state, it can be a disaster to use, as one doesn't know how to refine the questions. One doesn't go to a research database and pick primary science articles, when starting at a new field one doesn't any knowledge of, instead one start with tertiary literature, move on to secondary and then start picking out the relevant primary research papers/publications. Depending at knowledge level, the tertiary literature can be skipped.

@Steven9567 2 ай бұрын

@@Kiilerich66 honestly your better seenking old books

@alexdavidson4240 2 ай бұрын

You must really write a book... love history and ancient cultures but no one has ever gripped me like this channel does. Thank you for the hard work bro!

@metatronyt 2 ай бұрын

I appreciate that thanks

@TheLeeBonner 2 ай бұрын

Why must he write a book? About what specifically? The KZbin format suits metatron just fine and he’s killing it. I think you’re just trying to sensationalise that you really enjoy and respect his work just say that leave the books to others.

@Unpainted_Huffhines 2 ай бұрын

Seconded. I'd love to read a book written by Metatron.

@theBenStrothmann 2 ай бұрын

Such a minor detail, but the fact that this guy pronounced "pilum" two different ways within the first few seconds of the video already made me chuckle.

@TheLastMando08 2 ай бұрын

It's an AI bro

@erikmajestic8044 2 ай бұрын

i feel like metatron worships evil

@marbanivet 2 ай бұрын

Okay @@erikmajestic8044

@skepticalbadger 2 ай бұрын

@@erikmajestic8044 Huh?

@marbanivet 2 ай бұрын

@@erikmajestic8044 how

@dannygreenland4853 2 ай бұрын

Another good video I love listening to your knowledge of history, and love how you debunk so much, your video's are so informative.

@helikos1 2 ай бұрын

22:19Tod over at Tod's workshop actually has experimented with longbows vs armour. The results are very interesting and agree with what Metatron says.

@TheRezro 2 ай бұрын

Longbow is most overrated weapon in history! It literally was only cheaper then proper composite war bow, what help in training large quantities of archers. Shame that when this weapon show up, people already start using crossbows and hand-cannons. English only win because French ignored the Archers.

@KieraQ0323 2 ай бұрын

The poundage don't lie

@datadeleted3245 2 ай бұрын

@@TheRezrohand cannons and artillery at that time were more of a psychological weapon (14-15 century)

@TheRezro 2 ай бұрын

@@datadeleted3245 Which is why we diod see rapid increase of the investments. Crossbows weren't really that good either.

@datadeleted3245 2 ай бұрын

@@TheRezro gunpowder had much more potential, but up to 16 century hand cannons weren't much better than longbows. You didn't have to train for years, and they had a bit more penetrative power, but very low accuracy, one minute reload, chance of gunpowder explosion etc.

@brycedyck8450 2 ай бұрын

C'mon, everyone knows the most powerful weapon always has been Love!😂

@metatronyt 2 ай бұрын

What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more. Ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta

@sameerthakur720 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely true. With love you can have a much larger army (in around 20 years).

@unholycrusader69 2 ай бұрын

@@sameerthakur720 The Genghis Khan strategy

@Fofnful 2 ай бұрын

It is funny how fast the progress went. Sharp stick, sharp stick, sharp stick... arrow, bullet, many bullets, NUKE.

@JM-mh1pp 2 ай бұрын

Strongest weapon? Roads bruh... roads

@ungenbunyon5548 2 ай бұрын

How did you come to the conclusion that's a weapon?

@soulknife20 2 ай бұрын

@@ungenbunyon5548Can't win a war without good logistics. Roads make that a lot easier.

@skepticalbadger 2 ай бұрын

@@soulknife20 Not a weapon though. Not in any sense. You can't win a war without rations either. Or people. Or, or, or. Words mean things.

@necromancer6405 2 ай бұрын

@@skepticalbadger You haven't seen the roads in my town xD.

@ungenbunyon5548 2 ай бұрын

@@soulknife20 yea but you have to build that road and if you can build a road into where youre attacking then you must have already won

@shidderalpha2293 2 ай бұрын

A vid on early war machines/seige engines in general would be really cool. Also, I've noticed a sort of trend in the history of weapon's development of prioritizing speed over nearly everything else (within reason obviously) for example the reason for the longbow's continued prevelence throughout the medieval period despite the existence of the crossbow was in part due to time to fire (among others), 100 longbowmen can put more arrows down range faster than 200 crosbowmen. The musket VS rifle debate during the revolutionary period of a similar logic, as was the 7.62x51 VS 5.56x45 debate of the cold war.

@thekaxmax 2 ай бұрын

cost of the weapon and time of training are big considerations. Training time is the crossbow's only advantage, for example.

@shidderalpha2293 2 ай бұрын

@@thekaxmax that's definitely a consideration, complexity and speed usually have an inverse relationship, but as of the invention of the machine gun or even as early as the gatling gun complexity has become less of a factor, the advantages of somthing like an effective machine gunner are simply too numerous due to, once again, the substantial volume of fire.

@annekeener4119 2 ай бұрын

In warfare, the rate of fire is extremely important and decides wars. Accuracy is great, but if you have enough armed men and a fast enough rate of fire, accuracy doesn't matter. If your enemy can get off shots faster than you can and saturate the area, they win. So the speed of fire matters a lot. Accuracy is great, but if a military is given a choice between speed and accuracy, speed usually wins.

@georgepatton93 2 ай бұрын

The moment people talk about history the same way as they talk aboit metas and builds in video games, you know those folks are lost in the sauce

@samhobbs9116 2 ай бұрын

Except Tierzoo. That shit is funny.

@josesosa3337 2 ай бұрын

@@samhobbs9116Very funny indeed.

@player1_fanatic 2 ай бұрын

AI just arbitrary assigned centuries to almost all weapons in this video.

@carloshenriquezimmer7543 2 ай бұрын

Not to coment that most, if not all, of those weapons were used for multiple centuries...

@chugachuga9242 2 ай бұрын

@@carloshenriquezimmer7543as well as simultaneously with each other

@ctrlaltdebug 2 ай бұрын

It was getting it's info from Age of Empires lol.

@g3523jaen 2 ай бұрын

AI is great... But you still need to use your brain and know something about the topic.

@dantangelo 2 ай бұрын

Composite bows and bombards were conspicuously absent

@Predator20357 2 ай бұрын

You know, the two things that have essentially contributed to a fall of a certain city, the retaking of France, the fall of multiple different nations, plus the after effects resulting in groups navigating the seas to find new trade routes. But I guess they aren’t important enough to even mention.

@Shifty69569 2 ай бұрын

Mr Terry brought me to your channel. I really enjoy your perspective in breaking this down

@stanislavkolacny609 2 ай бұрын

That Chinesse repeating crossbow is even in the Age of Empires 2 game since forever.

@TheRezro 2 ай бұрын

And it was total trash.

@juncheok8579 2 ай бұрын

It's not, just use it correctly@@TheRezro

@TheRezro 2 ай бұрын

@@juncheok8579 It has almost zero accuracy and power. It was sort of useful as terror weapon. But nothing else.

@juncheok8579 2 ай бұрын

@TheRezro bro I thought you were talking about AoE2, yeah in real life it couldn't penetrate much and had below average accuracy. Terror weapon is one way to put it, it's function was to use a constant barrage to disorient and demoralise enemies

@TheRezro 2 ай бұрын

@@juncheok8579 Oh, ok. Good that misunderstanding was clarified.

@warrioroflight4577 2 ай бұрын

judging by the background music i really thought this was a troll video lol XD

@exantiuse497 2 ай бұрын

The line between trolling "fake incompetence" and actual incompetence is blurry

@chugachuga9242 2 ай бұрын

Going from the freaking pizza time meme thing, too Erika just lines up perfectly with types of memes whoever edited this video chose.

@LordDaveTheKind 2 ай бұрын

@@chugachuga9242 just for everyone understanding, what is commonly named "Spiderman Pizza theme song" is actually a modern song from Naples composed at the beginning of XX century, for the advertisement of the recently inaugurated cable railway over Mt. Vesuvius. The railway shut down later in 1944 after an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius (which is an active volcano). I won't call it cultural appropriation, but I don't know if we can call it cultural demeaning. The choice is up to any of us.

@eriksvens763 2 ай бұрын

Your pronunciation is correct. Love your content (from an educated swedish archaeologist).

@zephsmith3499 2 ай бұрын

YES! to the video on ancient war machines

@lorewalkermaohao4602 2 ай бұрын

Remember Age of Empires 2 (Age of Kings/Conquest)? Before and after each campaign mission there was a short narration. I'd love to see you rate their historical accuracy. I vaguely remember them being mostly generally correct, but also changed things to fit the game's feel (like the Aztecs winning).

@teetbeezoon 2 ай бұрын

The Romans greatest weapon has always been the rocket launching Shelby Cobra Classic, as accurately depicted in the Age of Empires franchise!

@Max-ju6be 2 ай бұрын

I love how it just says "The Catapult" above mike ehrmantraut holding a fantasy axe.

@WwarpfirewW 2 ай бұрын

I would say, that nuclear weapons actually changed from more power to less but the vehicle for them improved, so now one intercontinental rocket carries a number of smaller warheads to cover more area and have greater success against anti-air rather than dropping few extremely powerful bombs. Also the nature of storing them plays a role.

@therubicon 2 ай бұрын

24:10 why is the background music Erika, the former Wehrmacht marching song?

@Joshua-s2p1g 2 ай бұрын

I love listening to your videos while falling asleep. Something about your voice is just chilling

@calgon5689 2 ай бұрын

Would love a Siege/Tormenta video... Sure you could do a whole video just on Alexander's sieges and equipment!

@seymourfields3613 2 ай бұрын

Catapult is a broad class of machines that throw projectiles.. Ballista, onager, trebuchet are all catapults.

@killerkraut9179 2 ай бұрын

Or That thing what helps fighter jets to start from airplane carriers

@unskilled822 2 ай бұрын

there's many siege weapons and some of them are not very well known, i think a video about them and their usual strategy would be very interesting

@seymourfields3613 2 ай бұрын

@@killerkraut9179 yep.. It's still within the broad category of a machine that throws a projectile. The projectile just so happens to be a multi million dollar dart with jet engines and a pilot 🤣 Okay, "dart" isn't fair as it produces lift. I'm leaving the joke as is.

@christopherparker7588 2 ай бұрын

I would love to see your reaction to Roel Konijnendijk. He's a historian that has done videos for Insider on movies and history, and he's known as the "ditch guy" given his obsession for defenive ditches.

@odinnatlason5873 2 ай бұрын

I’m not sure if Drekr/Drekr was used as the name for longships, but as an Icelander (closest language to Old Norse), I can tell you that dreki (plural - drekar) means dragon. So, I think it’s definitely possible considering the figurehead!

@SimonBelmont-d9z 2 ай бұрын

Erika at 23:50 mark.. HAHA!!! Had me laughing.

@metatronyt 2 ай бұрын

Yep

@ThatLameGuyIsHere 2 ай бұрын

NO MERCY!!! SHOW THAT AI WHAT HUMANS CAN DO! GO METATRON!

@jamesball9623 2 ай бұрын

Normal people in chat: yeah bows are cool The Germans in chat: “EEEERIKA” 22:05

@brycehowell2560 2 ай бұрын

I just noticed haha

@maryellencook9528 2 ай бұрын

I love that for the narrative of weapons from 14th century through 21st century that there's a German beer drinking song on the background. It's rather fitting for an October video. Eine Prosit Der Gemütlichkeit, y'all! 🥨🍺🍻 I am impressed that you recognized it as ERIKA, Raffaelo.

@stuartspencer2161 2 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that for the 13th Century, the Mongol bow wasn't considered. It probably had the biggest impact on the world at that time. And the man who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki was Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who died at the age of 93.

@snoopy1alpha 2 ай бұрын

I think you are right. They should have differentiated more. Define categories and give a weapon for each category ... maybe even produce one video per category.

@Kinotaurus 2 ай бұрын

What I find mind-boggling is that a man of your erudition had never heard of the Maxim gun!!! A motto of Britain's colonialial warfare in the 19th century: "Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not"

@Heylon1313 2 ай бұрын

The choice of music in that video is peculiar to say the least. Ignoring the italian meme music, they used "Erika" (21:20), look that one up yourself if you don't know it. Thank you Metatron for rightfully criticizing this video, enjoyable content. Edit: Ah, he noticed it later too. Very odd choice indeed.

@jadilzoca4971 2 ай бұрын

these "explained in 10 minutes" channels are almost all AI slop and there is so much of them

@exantiuse497 2 ай бұрын

The proliferation of AI garbage honestly makes me very sad. Almost everything is AI generated nowadays, everything feels just... fake. If I read a social media post or listen to someone speak I imagine it to be the thoughts of a real human, but more and more it's just a machine pretending to be one. Even videos are being AI generated. Everything's fake

@RedMenace446 2 ай бұрын

i would love to see a dedicated video on the various siege engines, to be specific on CITY siege engines, from the ancient Greeks up to just before cannons

@PP-th4ft 2 ай бұрын

For context: The song playing in the background is an 11th century German folk song called "Olé, wir fahr'n in Puff nach Barcelona", which loosely translates to "Huzzah, we're riding forth to visit a brothel in Barcelona".

@straingedays 2 ай бұрын

AI confuses years vs kills vs damage vs intimidation weakness vs strength vs historical myth vs the facts Those who use AI for content NEED to FACT check!!! I love how Metatron can teach us by reviewing these

@alchobum 2 ай бұрын

Those who use AI don't care about fact checking. Their focus is SEO and algorithms that get their stuff in your feed, and cranking out as much as possible. Quality is a mere nice to have but whatever. Views and clicks are the currency and machine generated mass produced content is seen as the ticket to that currency.

@jakobschoning7355 2 ай бұрын

The third century is also probably one of the centuries with the least naval warfare in the Mediterranean (together with the first and second) which makes the choice of a warship even more ridiculous

@skyshorrchannel3474 2 ай бұрын

Once upon a time I wrote that you - Metatron - could educate A.I.. This is good - luv it.

@VAZZ8876 2 ай бұрын

metatronnnn big fan! Quick request for a video based around Roman noble families from early republic and how/why/when they died out or stopped being mentioned in sources.

@sevenproxies4255 2 ай бұрын

I do believe that some viking axes were shaped to be somewhere in betweenna woodcutting axe and a war axe though. Of course it always depended on the maker and customer, but from examples I've see, war axes from the middle ages and some from ancient times look much thinner than examples of viking axes. I think it also make sense due to the fact that space aboard a viking longboat was limited, and vikings needed tree logs to move their longboats over land, so having their axes double as weapons and felling axes would make a lot of sense, as opposed of bringing different axes for different tasks.

@stevenbacon-cheddar9914 2 ай бұрын

Weapons and history brought me here, good to see this return to form👍

@sevenproxies4255 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact about early nukes: out of the total mass of the fissile material in the nuke, only a few grams of it actually reached critical mass and cause the nuclear explosion. It really is quite fascinating how much energy is contained in just a few grains of sand of weapons grade plutonium. For a comparison, it's like throwing a single grain of sand and have it explode like a hand grenade.

@taylorwiseman8078 2 ай бұрын

27:17 Not that this is an important thought, but my first one was "Well, yeah, everybody loves pirate guns, dude" 🤣

@randelbrooks 2 ай бұрын

The guy used some really nice World War II German music for the background I think Erica is the one we're hearing. Good choice adds to the Marshall spirit of the thing.

@KingAmazon 2 ай бұрын

Yes please to the dedicated video on war machines!!! Especially if you get into the mechanics and theory, fascinating stuff!

@SpinningShadowsFiberArts 2 ай бұрын

20:09 I don’t know if anyone commented on this point, but the bow and crossbow look like sprites from the game Terraria 😂 Thanks for another great video Metatron!

@IHTACast 2 ай бұрын

18:34 try ending your prompts in “, and don’t lie.” And you’ll see many of the errors disappear.

@QwertyBoredom122 2 ай бұрын

I don't know why but the most amusing part of all that was Metatron knowing all sorts of classical and medieval weapons where but not what a maxim gun was.

@adifferentangle7064 2 ай бұрын

There's an account from the last battle of the Wars of the Roses (sorry i forgot the name of the battle), where a whole bunch of landschneckts got roped into fighting for Richard. They took up defensive positions on top of a hill, expecting their enemy to be forced up the hill to meet them, giving them the high ground. What happened in reality was that the English archers typed "infinite ammo" in the AoE cheat command, and proceded to constantly rain arrows down on the high position for hours. It got so bad that eventually they were forced down off the hill, forcing them to charge the front line of their enemy. As they came down the archers moved around their flanks. The reports said that as they came into contact with the Lancastrians they looked like porcupines. This makes sense given what we've seen in experimentation by people like Todd of Todd's Workshop. At length (up the hill) the arrows would have been annoying in the sense that nobody could have raised their visor for hours, and occasionally someone might have been wounded if one slipped in a shoulder plate (or taken out of the picture if one managed to damage a shoulder/arm plate significantly enough to make it hard to move). Going down the hill the archers were able to get right up close meaning many arrowd could have actually penetrated the weaker parts of the armour, but would not really have gone all the way through, leaving them sticking out.

@CrazyIdiot1000 2 ай бұрын

5:30 where can i find more on this siege?

@olincekongo 2 ай бұрын

0:05 0:10 His like please kill me already!😂

@olincekongo 2 ай бұрын

2:00 4:30

@weiSane 2 ай бұрын

Metatron I challenge you to eat only ancient Roman food for a week.

@metatronyt 2 ай бұрын

Believe it or not it's a video in the making my friend

@killerkraut9179 2 ай бұрын

@@metatronyt Maybe Max Miller could be Helpfull! The Guy from Tasting History!

@markye8057 2 ай бұрын

17:00 What minis does metatron have and like? He later mentioned wh fantasy but what does he collect and like? and at 21:30, is he (the other video) using an instrumental version of 'Erika' Lol? oh, metratron noticed at 27:00, yeah, it seemed a bit weird to me too XD

@VGModelling3D 11 күн бұрын

8:40 Isn't there a debate if there are five levels of oars on the quinquereme? I mean it will make the ship deck very high and unstable and not very maneuverable. Like there were three rows of oars-one rower on the first level and two on the second and third. Or two levels of oars with two and three rowers respectively. Because the length of the upper level oar will be larger and more heavier, so you will need two or three rowers to move it, compared to the lower level which will be shorter. Just thinking, Happy new year :)

@AttilaTheOneOriginal 2 ай бұрын

I'm feeling that a full on small series of videos of Roman war machines could be fantastic content!

@bcn1gh7h4wk 2 ай бұрын

6:00 parenthesis there: anything _construct_ that is put in between oneself and an enemy, that is not _portable_ or meant to be _used_ with martial techniques, is, by definition _a fortification_ from the flimsiest plank and closed door, to the _thiccest_ wall running along a mountain range. if _a_ ballista could have been used to pierce _a_ fortification within the reach of it's capabilities, then it would have been used.... the deciding factor being, *what kind* of fortification are we talking about. same as the barrels of modern tanks _can_ be used to shoot drones, mines and cameras out of..... it's not their _primary_ purpose, but they _can_ do it!

@chaosgyro 2 ай бұрын

I'd love a video, or multiple, about ancient, medieval, and early modern war machines. I'm the kind of nerd who still watches stuff like the military channel just to hear someone talk about artillery pieces and tank specs.

@NoahStavish 2 ай бұрын

As a note about the 10th century, the drakkar was highly maneuverable, but was not commonly used for naval combat. In fact, during the 9th century, Aelfred the Great had built a new Navy of Anglecynn to help repell future viking invasions, which was successful at destroying reinforcements during the failed 2nd Great Heathen Invasion. This is also in stark contrast to the earliest formation of knights in France and the Holy Roman Empire and the beginnings of effective medieval European cavalry.

@TheRezro 2 ай бұрын

This video is total nonsense.

@Lee-vk1xy 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like he's modeled it after Dr. Science (an NPR comedy spot)

@the-real-Lovefist 2 ай бұрын

He knows more than you do

@MirekMarecki 2 ай бұрын

very good video i 100% watched it

@rifleman2c997 2 ай бұрын

You should make a diorama of something like Bretonnian knights Charging against Orks to display in your office.

@golf7078 2 ай бұрын

If you haven't already, it might be a good video where you show and/or describe a bunch of good books for the avid history enjoyer.

@peterbereczki4147 2 ай бұрын

17:07 - WAM03 Siege Tower from Gripping Beast for those who might be interested...

@WhiteNucklin 2 ай бұрын

10:50 Greek fire has no “End”

@jensphiliphohmann1876 2 ай бұрын

About 28:00 f The much more destructive bombs actually are also from the 20th century, they just weren't used in war. Built and tested they were shortly after WW2. America's first thermonuke, Ivy Mike, exploded in 1952 and had 10 MT TNT equivalent which is 500 times Fat Man.

@haraldisdead 2 ай бұрын

Why does everyone feel the need to ascribe some magical, clever attribute to the pilum? It's a spear. You throw it.

@theldraspneumonoultramicro405 2 ай бұрын

Tod's Workshop has some great videos with practical testing of longbow against plate armor.

@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer 2 ай бұрын

I was half-expecting the AI to mention the magic potion created by Getafix the Gaulish druid.

@WildWhiteNorth 2 ай бұрын

I am thinking of a new drinking game: whenever Metatron says "I will create a dedicated video"... bottoms up! ;)

@metatronyt 2 ай бұрын

Lol

@piotr7805 2 ай бұрын

I genuinely think video about early war-machines would be a very nice idea.

@черепахаестклубничку 2 ай бұрын

9:42 also he talks about ballista and showing some form of siege crossbow with steel shoulders, wich im not sure even existed in this period. Ballista is a torsion machine Also for the first 4 centuries we can easily say, that the most powerful weapon wich allowed romans to overcome everybody was shovel

@rockzalt 2 ай бұрын

Sometimes finding new content is like that day a substitute teacher shows up and the thought crosses your mind, what kind of mess is this?

@eliwahuhi 2 ай бұрын

It was my birthday. Thanks!

@Duke_of_Lorraine 2 ай бұрын

The first documented use of the counterweight trebuchet was by the Romans during the First Crusade, so in the late 11th century (while traction trebuchets had existed for centuries). So for the 11th century ram and the 12th century catapult, it should be overridden by the trebuchet.

@TheRezro 2 ай бұрын

Also Longbow is overrated and guns existed as far as 14'th century.

@jdurthu4304 2 ай бұрын

The dedicated ancient artilery video is wjat we all want to se dont we?! Also... you play miniatire table top? Would be amazing to see your collections haha

@lorenzmaut3708 2 ай бұрын

It happens all the time when i am studying for really complex tests about pathogens, the AI sometimes finds great sources and it just says the same as those sources, and sometimes it gets confused and mixes up proteins, gives out random descriptions that are wrong, and then i am forced to look at a good source for that information.

@marcel-ec6qe 2 ай бұрын

Please make dedicated video about ancient warmachines! How were their made and worked with some awesome citations of use!

@sward0483 2 ай бұрын

The battle in lord of rings two towers or whatever, they draw their bows and hold like that... i loved how they showed the old guy couldn't hold it and fired his arrow early lol

@killerkraut9179 2 ай бұрын

That was a Bad idea from the beginning!

@ainikih9532 2 ай бұрын

In regards to how he judges "most powerful," in this video. I would suggest that it might be good to way would be to kind of use all the measurements you've listed as examples to estimate some kind of average. This wouldn't perfectly take situational value into consideration, but it could at least be used as a factoring category, to be measured for extra points. And whatever weapon scores the highest would be deemed the best weapon. If nothing else, I think it sounds like a project that might be kind of fun ✌️☺️

@NathanCassidy721 2 ай бұрын

6:15 Actually I think the AI drew that assumption from Age of Empires 2 videos. Mangonels in that game are pretty good at destroying buildings, despite being an anti-unit machine. Addendum: I think my theory is correct because a lot of these choices the AI made are used in AoE2. For example, Rams can attack units in the game, notably other siege weapons, and they are often used as arrow meat shields.

@cernunnos8344 2 ай бұрын

"Weapons" This guy: Ships and Siege engines

@ChaseddiHondo 2 ай бұрын

I would actually like to see your version of what weapons you find most powerful per century (I don't know how to measure it though). My impression of powerful weapons across the centuries is just: Spears + Bows, then gunpowder weapons are invented. I didn't predict siege tools like a battering ram would be included as weaponry but such is the colorful wonders of AI which cause us to wonder even further

@exantiuse497 2 ай бұрын

The battering ram being the weapon of the 11th century cracked me up hard, I must say

@v4facade 2 ай бұрын

I'd love to watch Metatron making Eastern Roman Empire history video.

@jeffslote9671 2 ай бұрын

A strong economy and great logistics have always been the best weapon for a nation going to war

@marducms 2 ай бұрын

Agree, but I would include the belief that your cause is just, and your people have the will to fight.

@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 2 ай бұрын

I would love to see a vid on Mediterranean siege weapons, and also I gather the Chinese had quite an arsenal of siege engines available too, which would be super interesting to hear about.