Timestamps 0:00 Castle building 3:09 The Crossbow 5:55 Mail making 8:50 Falconry and Hawking 11:30 The Trebuchet 14:27 Medieval Painting 17:01 Chevauchee 19:50 Plate Armor 22:46 Warhorse 25:20 Arrowmaking 28:22 Campaign Life 30:50 Medieval Surgery 34:05 Medieval guns 37:16 Illuminated Manuscript 40:16 Wardrums and signal arrows 42:08 The Mongol Horse 44:53 Making the Mongol Bow 48:00 The Yam 50:17 Nomad Music 53:04 The multi crossbow 56:35 Mongol Heavy Cavalry 59:21 Horse Archers 1:02:04 Forts and Kremlins 1:05:23 Swords and Sabers 1:07:54 The Face of Battle 1:11:00 The Harvest 1:14:04 Streltsy
Imagine spending 25 years reenacting the construction of a castle only to have it demolished by another team of archeologists who built a trebuchet in just one month.
@@dragonscaleshields that was the saddest attempt at a compliment i have ever seen. Also I dont know how exactly you are supposed to project a positive view on something using sarcasm.
I'm surprised this has such a low amount of views. The information behind these videos are awesome! I had no idea there was a project where we attempted to build a castle in modern days using old technology. I can't imagine how slow and dangerous the work is without proper tools! That must have been an awesome experience to be a part of that team. And Firing crossbows while aiming down? We never fire these weapons at humans anymore much less in large scale combat, AND MUCH LESS from a castle! It was an interesting problem to see how the bolt would fall off! I can't wait to see if there were more videos than these!
Thank you for making this. I started playing this today and when I saw the videos I started looking up cheats or anything to unlock the videos, I didn't even care about the game anymore.
Yes, it is. Dou, in the campaign, some parts of the events played out a bit different from what the scriptures and real life evidences pointed to. Otherwise it's pretty close to the real things.
I don't buy for a second that Europeans somehow realized that round towers were better to ward off projectiles beacuse they saw them in the east. As if they were too dumb to pick up on that themselves. The more likely reason why things changed was because of the advent of more powerful seige weapons that posed a threat to castle towers like the trebuchet. Once the need popped up, people began changing their designs to adapt to the new threats.
certain buildings were also sometimes built with round shapes, like religious buildings. One of the reasons for this change is the fact that making a square tower is much quicker and simpler to build, a round tower requires almost constant checking of the dimensions, from the foundations to the frame, to have a perfectly round frame. In the same way as before the appearance of stone dungeons, dungeons were made of wood, not because of lack of knowledge because buildings like churches were sometimes made of stone, but because of the cost of stone it took longer to make the transition, and above all had more frequent invasions and wars to make it useful.
Europeans learned a lot from the whole world as the world learned a lot also from Europeans. The relevance of Europe is fading and so should your superiority complex.
You kind of answer your own question. It was on the First Crusade that the Normans (the video is part of their campaign) first encounter powerful siege weapons like the trebuchet. They were unknown to western Europe. On crusade, their Byzantine allies employed them as did their Saracen opponents. It wouldn't have taken long to figure out rounded towers deflected away more kinetic energy from impacts. The Romans had built round towers on their forts two millennia beforehand and the Byzantines had never stopped. The trouble was, the early medieval saw most stonemasonry techniques lost to western Europe and stone fortifications of any kind became rare and expensive. Or in other words, much had to be relearned. The Normans amassed vast wealth, and had lands that came under near constant attack, so fortification in stone became a priority and soon northern France of the 10th-11th century was filled with keeps of various sizes and designs. The Normans seldom assaulted besieged castles though. Preference was to starve defenders out. For reasons of cost and expediency, square keep designs were heavily preferred and that continued until the 12th century - by which time rock-throwing weaponry was a known threat. They weren't alone in that. The Moors of Andalusia also preferred square keeps and castles, unaccustomed to battles featuring heavy siege equipment.
@@borgri5871 Because I played 4 missions and suffered enough to not give it another chance. That's trash in my opinion. AI is dumb as fck. Whole campaign is a narration. Heroes and cinematics are dead and lifeless. Even AoEII had some life in it because heroes had voice lines and even when narration was done it was immensely better than what is in AoEIV. AoEIV is lifeless. It is like narration is being done by a robot.
