From Civilian to Soldier: Recruitment, Logistics & Home Sickness | Soldiers‘ Lives 

Pike and shot naval life? Sailors and such.

@@gabrielvanhauten4169 I'm interested in that too! For an example, how were the crews of ships like the _Vasa_ put together?

This was a very fun and informative video. I would love to see more like this.

please Can you make the next video a battle about the battle of Tours

I really love your videos. why don't you make a video talking about how a general commanded an army on the battlefield, I searched about this topic and the results were unsatisfactory

It's not.

@@samuelwurster2899 In comparison to medieval knights there are.

@@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 dig deeper. The reason it's "underrated ' because from the transition to napoleonic Era something happend called mudflood and tartaria. They delete that part of history

@@samuelwurster2899 it really is. everybody just look at knights and ww1, nobody is interested in the 17th century. But it was one of the most interesting periods ever, both in terms of military but also cultural change like globalism, capitalism and so on.

@@clintmoor422 medieval era was cool because people fight with swords not guns. the musket era feels weird, even stupid for people in the machine gun era.

Lol! As a Swede born in 1984, I just recived a written order in the mail to show up at a specified date and time at a local regiment for service evaluation tests. After a day of physical, medical and cognitive tests, there was two interviews, one with a psychologist and one with an evaluation and duty assignment officer who issued me the written orders of where and when to report to start my 300days long conscript training to become a fire control comms specialist in a heavy mortar platoon. In February, the following year, my unit had done it's last training day on our nearest training field before the final exercise in a different part of the country, our CO decided we deserved to celebrate the occation... By having us unload our day packs from the trucks, have the trucks drive ahead to the base and an NCO return the drivers and have us all march the 20km back to base on foot through up to a foot of old snow at -2°C, and of course, we comms specialists has to carry the two 12kg field radios in addition to our day packs and full combat gear... When we all made it back, the two mortar platoons were given two magnum bottles ~2×1.2L of champaigne-style soda to share... between roughly 45 soldiers to a platoon... X/ Edit: the order papers also informed me that disobeying those orders is a felony and carries jail time... At the time, the conscription was compulsory for men, but open for women to volounteer. The year after I served, a girl who had volounteered interest changed her mind and failed to grasp that once you are listed, the only legal way out is to get rejected at the evaluation. She was sentenced to one week in prison. After a hiatus and reactivation in 2014 as a reaction to Russian agression in Europe, it's nowdays compulsory for all genders.

@@SonsOfLorgar - Do you still have conscription in Sweden? It was abolished in most of Europe largely because we Basques (and to lesser extent Catalans) didn't want to serve that stupid Cold War (or any other war that was not revolutionary). Also some argued that recruit armies were way too obsolete and inefficient, what was arguably demonstrated by the Iraqi wars (Iraq had arguably the largest army on Earth or second largest after China's maybe ... it was totally worthless). There's no Russian aggression anywhere. You guys are being brainwashed. We won't fight your silly wars.

@@LuisAldamiz you might want to talk with people from Poland or The Baltic States about why you did not want Communist occupation before you write "stupid cold war". Afterwards you can talk to them and Ukrainians about whether there is Russian aggression or not. Also comparing Iraqi conscripts fighting for a dictator and not being warriors, to Scandinavians fighting for their freedom, shows how little you know BTW, the Wehrmacht was a conscript army; were they soft, ineffective and surrendered easily?

@@PalleRasmussen - Fundamentalist anti-communist Talibans from Poland and the Maidan SS? No, thanks. I'm all for breaking all ties with Poland and possibly Lithuania as well. Sweden is next in line (how could the Olof Palme nation fall so low?) but the pandemic strategy saves face... so far. Mind you that Sweden was neutral in the Cold War and Poland was the enemy (part of it anyhow). Be a bit less arrogant, I was growing up in NATO back in those days and we have it very clear: no to NATO, no to the Warsaw Pact: the Olof Palme or Yugoslavia (or even Albania for some) way was the way to go.

What the fk is this about

Visit any reenactment camp.

Half the video will be about the different kinds of STDs, what they were called back then, percieved causes and perceived cures.

Hahaha

Me too, I need it for a novel I plan on writing

@@ianbatres2044 Army encampments were muddy places. Unlike reenactment camps.

Interesting!

Rome is a cesspool even for italians, those who live there do not have the greatest reputation

@Hernando Malinche because the EU will never allow one of the major European economies to experience nation-breaking, simple as it

Rome, like other Western cities, probably doesn't have all that many actual locals in it any more. And certainly not in the tourist areas where you can get four "souvenir peddlers" for every person.

@Hernando Malinche Is there a conflict between south and north in Italy? Can you elaborate, please?

@@IronMan-fi3xz Yes there is. The conflict began when south italy refused to pee pee poo poo

Ahh yes, the ol' heart slippin out your asshole...

Crazy how more men died from their butts betraying them then from bullet or stab wounds in many wars

Bosses never change.

@Belagerungsmörser the Sheep ROFLMAO XD

@Belagerungsmörser the Sheep bwahaha

I'm a spaniard who has spent some spring days at Copenhagen... and god damn it. I really wished you had some mountains here and there or slightly less straight and wide avenues to at least partially stop that chilling wind xD I can't comprehend how can you comfortably ride your vast army of bycicles under that constant gale.

@@rotciv1492 You just hope that the wind is in your back and if it isn't you complain about it the entire time in your own mind and drink another cup of coffee at work/school to get over it.

Northern Spain is considerably colder than Denmark, I lived in both places and even though Denmark is farther north it is at sea level while some towns in Spain are close to 1000m

construction life is similar lol

@@Radbot776 Funnily enough carpenters or Zimmermänner in Germany are more likely to die on the job than cops or soldiers.

@@G-Mastah-Fash like in the USA, you're more likely to die as a truck driver than as a fireman/firefighter.

But what if you come from a family of five sons an don't get to inherit (indivisible farmstead can only be inherited by one) nor feel like becoming priest/monk or sailor nor be your brother's manservant for life and never marry? Well, son, then why not pursue a career in the army?, there's a lot to loot out there...

@@LuisAldamiz Most peasants in this time though wouldn't have owned their land or really any real property, they worked for a lord and usually the entire village would tend to the fields together. Staying at home didn't mean you'd never get to marry or anything because having the entire family in one house was the norm. Unless the family had so many adult sons that there were too many for the work being done you wouldn't really lose anything by being the last son. However that doesn't mean that being a soldier didn't have benefits, peasants rarely had access to money at all so any kind of pay at all would be amazing and could possibly let you climb the ranks in society.

I keep saying that logistics determine wars long before enemy contact...

@@edi9892 I kEeP sAyInG

@@edi9892 "Amateurs talk about strategy and tactics. Professionals talk about logistics and sustainability in warfare" H. Barrow, US General XD

@@Kyoptic Nay, it should be professional talks about strategy, tactics, logistics and sustainability in warfare.

@@rajenderchhetri2051 Talk to Gen. Barrow, I didn't make up the saying X) (Though I expect neither did he)

Yeah, and Alatriste has a big name star like Viggo Mortensen. Those battle scenes were an eye opener to me in how pike and shots were fought. Formations slowly crashing into each other like two massive ships, then you have battles happening within the battles of pikes itself with infiltrators going through the forests of pikes and gunfire on both ends.

@@dingliedangliedoodle9261 He really pull it out as spaniard because he grew up in Argentina but specially because he met his special lady in that movie ;)

There is also The Last Valley.

@@PalleRasmussen Thank you gentleman, something else to wtach ;)

@@dingliedangliedoodle9261 I really enjoyed that film. But some pike and shot scholars doubt that the infiltration of the opposing pike squares by guys with short swords or daggers was a big part of the clash of pikes. Chances are that if it had been, the infiltrators would have been met with "counter infiltrators" armed with short blades just like themselves

"They say in the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king, well in the land of the skunk the man with half a nose is king." - Chris Farley, *Dirty Work* (1998)

A book written by A white cis male? Eww no thanks

@@G1ennbeckismyher0 Spanish people are POC

@@RodrrdoR no

@@G1ennbeckismyher0 most likely the majority of books you have ever read in your life were written by white cis men.

@@jackcooksey3224 nope. I only read books by strong POC trans

@@Avatrass so, just an early modern system? Why would it be considered medieval?

Reminds me of French Compagne D'Ordonnance.

@@Avatrass It kinda was. The (mostly) noble volunteers known as companions (towarzysze) were equipping themselves and several retainers called pocztowi at their own cost. However, the soldiers and their equipment were expected to met certain standards and requirements, were signing contracts, receiving pay and so on. At the same time the actual feudal levy/noble's militia, known as "pospolite ruszenie" still lingered on, being called upon from time to time, although its value and effectiveness was declining, as you can imagine

@@Artur_M. Pospolite Ruszenie was Usefull if they have Charismatic leader who limit them Alcohol😉 beouse they have two modes first mode :we deafeat anyone and 2mode :We all gonna die!.In Swedish Deluge they at first they Get Humilated under Ujśćie but later prove wery usefull in partisant war.

*Flandes (according to google translate :D ) greetings from "Flandia".

@@DeFraans I would wager that regular pronunciation wasn't as well heeded by the Spaniards in the construction of these rhymes. It certainly is called "Flandes" *now*, and by the same token "natura" does not exist as a word. However- with how Spanish functioned as a language, it is not hard to believe that they would have fudged the words to get a more catchy rhyme.

@@DeFraans - It is indeed Flandes but Flandria (rather than Flandia) does exist too I believe. After all it's about how you transliterate "Vlaanderen" to Romance, usually via neighboring French "Flandre", which also produces English "Flanders").

@@Santiago_Nyczka - As I said before Flandes and Flandria both exist but Flandes is much more common, for example in the expression "poner una pica en Flandes" ("to put a pike in Flanders", meaning to accomplish something maybe worth epic praise but also of dubious utility).

PS - Checked in the Wikipedia (various languages) and "Flandria" seems to be the Basque form. Maybe that's why I thought it was valid, as my Spanish is oddly spiced with plenty Basque words and expressions. However all Spanish is (to a lesser degree than Basque Spanish variants of course), so it may have been used widely. I still think "Flandria" makes better sense than "Flandia" but pronunciation may be confused or just smoothened to get rid of that inconvenient extra "r", a bit hard to pronounce. "Flandia" sounds to me like the "country of flans" (custards).

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actually it was called La Maladie des Suisses in France on French court , because the Royal Swiss Guards missed their Alpine valleys, the word disease should be replaced with Sickness in your text=Swiss Sickness and not disease, also when using Heim-Weh its not pain its suffering its always used with "I am suffiering from Home Sickness", exactly as in German ich leide under Heimweh or in French je souffre de la maladie du pays....

One of the guys I worked with years ago did that. Not always when he was angry, but when he was making a point. But, the more emotional he was, you could tell by how white his fingertips were. At work, we always wore leather faced gloves. One day I took my right glove and screwed the fingertips together so they made a point. He had made a minor mistake, and I went over to him and said "Tony, what the hell is going on?" all the while holding out my gloved hand with the screwed up to a point finger tips. We laughed until we cried.

As far as I know you had to bring the equipment yourself and your pay was based on the equipment you brought along.

He has another video on training already. IIRC it was really very quick - a process of about a week to 10 days for pikemen, and 2 weeks for musketeers during this period!

@@Kyoptic Also you would be training on the march as much as you could I believe.

A bit of both I think. Militia troops and mercenaries probably had to bring their own, but like the aforementioned artillery companies, many standing troops and probably royal guards had equipment provided.

@@righteousviking but what if people had neither guns, swords nor armor? I bet most that needed the money more than their lives were short on these things...

@@edi9892 They usually flattened scythes into spears. Axes, pitchforks etc. If all else fails i think they could borrow equipment as well for a fee.

That makes sense, similar to how my company will provide tools to those who don't have any but you can pay for them with weekly paycheck deductions.

@@VojislavMoranic The Poles have a long and proud history of murdering people with scythes, to the point it became a symbol of peasant revolt. There's an expression that goes along the lines of of "straightening their scythes," to describe unrest.

money, money, money... even if put all medieval european countries together under one budget, they were poorer than Ottoman Empire

Why was that?

@@Paveway-chan becouse the ottomans controled the most lucrative trade routes. this gave them a lot of central income, and the fact that they concouqerd the highly urbanized byzintine empire

Ottomans ruled much larger lands and controlled valuable trade, plus they had vassals

Money. There is a reason why European armies went from small scale from between the post Roman age all the way up to the 16th to 17th century, to massive in scale in the 18th and 19th centruries: Because a soldiers equipment became cheaper and more standardised and the states became richer and richer with their global expansion of trade

Thats why cities like Berne, Zurich and Basle were so NOT feared because their milices were so ineffetective and that why German knight armies fled the battle fields when the ineffective Swiss milices from Berne, Zurich and Basle arrived onto the battlefield, worse even the Swiss peasant and cow-herders which had massacred Charles the Bolds 3 Knight Armies in battles Grandson, Morat and Nancy, were also totally ineffective lol

I'm not an expert on firing mechanisms (there are many types of flintlocks and the model showing is taken from an illustration that depicts a soldier around 1700, so you're criticism is certainly valid), but some flintlock mechanisms were for sure used at the same time as matchlocks (some early variants arguably as early as ~1550s). There are contemporary paintings that show this as well. More importantly, what most people call "true flintlock" (so not snap hance etc.) was developed in the early 17th century in France. Many name Marin le Bourgeoys as inventor, although this is controversial as far as I know. Common widsom usually states that by 1704 the flintlock had largly replaced the matchlock which implies that at some point it must have been used at the same time, otherwise I'm misunderstanding some of the terminology I think; if so please elaborate!

Hmm, hard to say, I'm doing a lot of it myself (composition, not drawing the characters) in photoshop; so I don't actually know how much we spend per video.

Hey man, that's viking by Aakash Gandhi. should be available via youtube audio library.

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