Battle of Nicopolis, 48 BC ⚔️ Pontus challenges Rome 

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I swear your voice has made for EPIC history reading! Thank you for making these awesome videos! ♥

Where Is Arabic Caption? Your Last Videos in only English

Something so funny about these serious youtubers promoting these garbage ass games.

it's like that undertaker meme

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

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

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

Fue Sila

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

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

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

I have the high ground

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

I'm watching a day before exam .

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

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

Yeah me too

Have no fear for the 36th is here ..

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

You guys need to get out more

@@stinknugget6446 Yeah... probably :)

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

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

@Tj battle "HARDENED"

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

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

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

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

Had the exact same thing!

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

@@LiveinReykjavik i loved this voice it epic

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

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

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

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

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

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

In which game

Rome total war (the first game) im guessing

Those effing scythes...

@@Croydondebruyne I thought rome total war part two

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

Thanks a lot 😊

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I have that battle too. Nicopolis 1396 AD Part 1 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aPOtNn8GcVY.html Part 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WsTKus_7DaE.html

Actually that battle was ottoman and Serbs vs the crusaders

I thought this video was going to be about that too. haha

Ursula wants it but she is in the Caspian Sea and Pontus blocks the way.

De bello Alexandrino, mainly.

@@hocestbellumchannel Nice.

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@@HistoryMarche Np and thanks for replying to me

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Thank you! 😄 Thanks for popping in on Patreon as well :)

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Glad to hear it! Great to see you here Dennis

Thank you! Cheers!

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

@@hocestbellumchannel Dont listen to him, i am not a native speaker but i understand you perfectly, i dont use subtitles. Good job on the narration.

@@mojewjewjew4420 your accent is just fine

Glad you liked it! Great to see you here.

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Caesar veterans what did you expect? :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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