Hello and welcome to our channel. We are two friends who decided to take the plunge and turn their endless historical based discussions and debates into short animated videos covering different events and periods throughout history, from ancient times up to WW2. The main idea behind the videos is to create visual representations of an event as depicted in primary ancient sources, or at least as close as possible. All videos are made using animation software, with no games or game engines involved.
In the future please narrate as a lot of people watch on phones. We don't come here to read a video. Thanks though this would have been a great video if there had been narration
Syntagma its been while since your last uploads,i keep checking your channel to see if you've drop anything!! I hope your coming back soon i love your channel...your fan from Kurdistan Peace.
Very high quality reenactment of this siege. Both the Intel and animation are superior to other RU-vid channels documenting Julius Caesar's Civil War. ⚔️
Welp, if anybody else is reading the webnovel "herald of steel", I think I know where the inspiration for the "battle of sissilpond ridge" comes from... pretty cool that the author very closely mirrored the events of this battle, given that both are battles of a legion vs a phalanx.
By far, the best combination of storytelling and animation depicting a battle in Caesar's Civil War. You have outshined even Kings & Generals and HistoryMarche. ⚔️
I forget what the larger version is called, but it’s likely a caltrop or Tribulus as the Romans called it. It’s an area denial weapon to use against cavalry. It was most effective against camels, as they have much softer hooves than horses. Since these camps sometimes didn’t have gates, they needed a way of channeling enemies into a smaller area as a force multiplier. This would later evolve into the Frisian Horse and eventually the Czech Hedgehog you refer to.
Those are called "sudis"; they were wooden stakes roughly in the shape of elongated spiked wedges that could be arranged in a variety of shapes, ranging from stakes fixed into the ground, to improvised palisades, to chevals de frise, to giant caltrops like the ones you saw in the video. Each legionary carried 2-3 of them with him on the march and more could be easily made on the spot if needed- and it's easy to see why, they are cheap and versatile
