Roman Empire Vs British Tribes: Battle of Watling street 61 AD | Cinematic 

The battle which ended the Boudican Rebellion took place in Roman Britain in AD 60 or 61, and pitted an alliance of British peoples led by Boudica against a Roman army led by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus. Although heavily outnumbered, the Romans decisively defeated the allied tribes and inflicted heavy losses. Thank you for all the feedback guys, unfortunately as stated previously the games engine is very limited to what you can and cannot do, so we tried to make the video as entertaining but as accurate as possible... the battle itself is not completely historically accurate but again we tried to get as close to it as we could. Timestamps: 00:00 - Roman army Strategic Positioning 01:21 - Tribes of Britannia March and Boudicca's War Speech 02:51 - Chariots advance, skirmish begins 04:03 - Britannic, Iceni Tribes march on the Roman's 06:00 - Brutal Hand to Hand combat ensues 11:45 - The mass retreat begins 12:05 - Battle report according to the Roman Historian Tacitus 12:54 - End Credits Music by Farya Farji = ru-vid.com/show-UC2_JOhJf-VAQm5VRqjY40Rw Battle of Alesia 52BC =ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pB-f08WrR3c.html

You know the bloodshed was so brutal that it shook Nero. Not only were the Celtic tribes poorly armed and trained, they brought their families in large wagon trains to watch what they thought was going to be an easy victory. Instead, after the Romans routed them, many Celts got pinned against the same wagons and got slaughtered along side their families. The Romans spared no one.

The Roman gladius was a stabbing weapon, and very lethal. The longswords carried by the British necessitated each tribesman needing a lot of room around him to swing. The stabbing legionnaires needed less room, which means 2 or 3 could gang up on one guy, protecting each other and killing the guy who was outnumbered. Coupled with the rotation system letting fresh legionnaires to the front and allowing troops to rest before their turn came about, the superior armor and tactics of the Romans allowed them to beat the larger force.

Actually the battle did not begin like that way it's portrayed in this video. As the Celts began their charge towards the Roman lines, the Romans threw their pilums at the Celts. Most of the Celts carried shields, were so weighted down by the broken and bent pilums, they were rendered useless. Thus they had to discard their shields and fight without them. This left the Celts severely less protected and nothing to defend against the Romans gladius thrusts. The Celts up piled up in their tracks. This halted the Celts momentum, while the vast numbers behind them try to move forward from the weight of the Celtic onslaught. They had nowhere to go with the Romans in front and baggage carts behind them. More pilums thrown into the mass of Celts just made it worst. The Roman war machine also fought in a lines and rows, alternating their men every few minutes from the front row. The fighting soldier stops, returns to the rear of the line, allowing the next Roman behind him in the line, to advance and replace the front row to continue fighting. This kept the men from exhaustion, treat any wounds, while allowing the fresh men to maintain a steady fight and advancing the army forward. The Celts had no chance, and were wiped out entirely. I know this is a video game, but just thought if you have the option to display the battle more accurately, that's how it happened. The Romans set themselves up in a perfect location to fight with their smaller numbers, forcing the Celts to funnel into the Roman lines. Anyway, Cheers!

The historian Josephus once said of the legions, “their drills were bloodless battles and their battles bloody drills”

Boudicca: Slighted Queen with no tactical experience, driven purely by revenge, who sent thousands of Britons to their deaths in a scenario that could have been avoided *Revered by the Elizabethans, Victorians and female supremacists because she’s female* Caratacus: Skilled British commander who annoyed and harassed the Romans for 9 years and was only stopped by the betrayal of an ‘ally’ *Is forgotten because he’s a bloke*

I live just off Watling Street... Its like this on any Saturday night now!

I love how any historical Total War game can be used for simulating actual historical battles.

This was awesome. I think the only thing missing was the Roman tactical disposition - their line consisted of triangles that would break up the mass charge of the Britains and basically have them hacked and stabbed from two sides. It was pretty ingenious.

Boudica - How NOT to command an army.

"forget about plunder and you'll have everything" literally is what most armies in history ignored and suffered because of

Love how you included Farya Faryaji's masterpiece in the beginning

What a brutal battle, amazing job brother. Also the story-telling is amazing, keep up the great work 🤟🏻

Absolutely gorgeous ,you could feel the power of the Roman line when they rushed forward...

Whatever mods you use it has greatly improved your battles they’re getting better and better

I love how TW and other historical map games have allowed amateur documentarians to flourish. My favorite current niche. This was amazing work in a unique medium.

Outstanding! I learned a little about a historical event I never knew existed. I hope to enjoy your content for years to come.

Makes real an important historical event in British history. Superb animations. Could only but subscribe.

Nice video. I love Rome 2, really any Roman Empire game. Was a truly fascinating time in my opinion. Plus I just got back from visiting Rome for the first time. Was amazing to see the remnants from the old Empire still standing.

Nero was very upset with the way Paulinus treated Budica and the British. "Which was not the Roman way."

Imagine trying your hardest and knowing everyone on your side is dying around you . And all the one on one's that we're at first start becoming two or maybe three on one. Knowing you were gunna get stabbed up bad! Pretty brutal

There was supposed to be another surviving legion joining the Romans here, but its commander was too frightened to join them.

Hollering and screaming is no substitute for training and smart tactics!

Excellent choice of soundtracks from Farya; a great composer of music honoring ancient civilizations.

You are doing an excellent job !

Dude this is a masterpiece 🙌

This is great stuff! Awesome one on one battles.

I love these historic events..it must have been terrifying

Most history is often told by the victor. In this case, the loss of 400 Romans seems sus but Roman War machine is the reason why they were so successful.

Rome Returns, Nice!! Roma victrix 💪 you got some very good graphics.

Brilliant, love these videos ty 😊

This is one of my favorite Total War RU-vid series

The animation is really good. To the point that it kind of hurts to watch it. War is hell. But these type battles were so brutal and personal.

Roman helmets and armor are incredible. The Roman empire the greatest of all time...

I read somewhere the Icini army tried to flee but ran into a mass of wagons brought to the battlefield. They were trapped and the slaughter was horrific.

Men didn't just stand still with their shields down when javelins and/or arrows were coming at them. They lifted their shields up to protect their face and torso. The men in the front would kneel so the projectiles couldn't hit their legs. The men behind them could stand because the angle the projectiles came in was high enough that their legs were reasonably protected by the men in front of them. The Roman shields were extra large, so they lost fewer men to projectile attacks. The hand to hand fighting scenes shows men piercing plate armor with swords. Plate armor was made to withstand piercing thrusts from swords.

She made the terrible mistake of fighting them in a pitched battle and at a place of the Romans choosing if she had just carried on with hit and run attacks and a scorched earth strategy she'd have won

"At night I can hear the screams Haunted by everything they took from me The nighmare in my blood Vow vegence when the day will come When they hear ny battle cry! Fire and wrath burning in my eye Kicked a queen to the floor And raised a warrior This is the rise of Boudicca!" - Karliene

Great video guys! I loved the narration

That was awesome! Pls make more Roman battles!

The soundtrack found is Legio XIV Gemina

Красавчик, брат! Ты очень атмосферно передал битву римлян с кельтами. Прекрасно и реалистично, как мне нравится. За огромное творчество большое тебе уважение и спасибо. Это уже работа специалиста. Никакой художественный фильм не сможет так передать массовость и кровавость тех битв. Только наше воображение со сценами из книг и Rome 2: Total war.

Truly incredible event and retelling. Nicely done.

Excellently done my guy

The Emperor was so disturbed by the slaughter of tens of thousands he weighed abandoning Brittania entirely... that's fucking wild. Human history is so interesting. I wonder what would have happened if Rome had left Brittania so early in the Roman Imperial dominion, and if they ever would have gone back.

I wish Boudica would’ve won.

Incredible and amazing graphics. Men in these battles were tough warriors. To think some armies marched miles and miles for days then fought a battle. To fight just one man in a battle is very tiring, so imagine fighting man after man, so exhausting. Warriors who survived battle after battle must have been tough as stone.

Great as always 👌

What did you do to make the roman units look like that? The rounded shields in particular. I checked the mods you listed in the description but none of them seems to do that I think. Or am I wrong? Otherwise great video! :)

Amazing work! Was a real joy to watch this battle! Roma Invicta!

A fantastic account of the day many thanks

Farya's music in the wild, very nice to see it being used in a video game.

I love Rome history and Rome wars, and this was very important war for Rome. Thank you for your videos man and please keep it up good work. You have definitely my support. P.S. please more and more historic wars.

I saw too many Romans slashing with their swords, which soldiers were trained not to do, except to break the points of enemy spears.

The best cinematic video to my mind about the Roman period.

Can’t even focus on the information with that music…. It’s activating my primal instincts

The most tragic day in Britains history.

There's a detailed description of this battle along with its leadup and causes in George Shipway's Imperial Governor. Great read if you can still get it.

Thanks for the history 👌🏾

Well executed!

Amazing graphics and a good description of the battle-Boudicca's name repeatedly changed during the narrative-and the historian was Tacitus, not Takatus

日本語の翻訳ありがとうございます。いつも観てます。とても面白いですね^ ^(You can understand the contents because it is translated into Japanese. Thank you. I'm always watching. Please continue to post interesting videos.)

No criticism…this is superb

Great video 😊

Nice 👍

I think people living in modern England can’t claim to be the successors of this tribe. There were mixes and invasions along the centuries by romans, germanic tribes, normans etc. Modern italians are a mix of those remaining romans and germanic tribes that mixed etc. So it doesn’t make much sense to say that Boudica had much to do with the people living in the British islands nowadays.

Very good video! Though you could further improve it by getting rid of the TTS voice, it takes you out of the feel that this is an actual documentary, which the music and production hint towards.

Enjoyed!

Everyone was probably lagging irl during the real battle lol Edit: did anyone else see 2 heads on a standard bearers thing? Kinda brutal tbh but they're tribespeople what can I expect?🤷‍♂️

Celts got served because of a lack of tactics, Exactly why they got steamrolled by the Anglo Saxons as well

This is how total war or games like it should look and sound great job

Excellent production, almost like a glimpse through a, time warp....

There is only one known stone with reference to Boudicca or Buddug ( Victory) in Welsh and that is on Baiden Mountain above Tondu and Llangynwyd, the real stone being in the Margam stones museum, Bodvoc in Latin supposedly 6th Century but is on a Major Celtic Bronze and Iron Age Burial site. where there are a number of Roman five and at least Six Celtic Hillforts and many entrenchments, the writings were done many years after the actual Battle, many people in Wales over the Centuries have questioned the correctness of Watling street, noting that the Road from Colchester to West Wales was one of the first built, it is now the A48 with numerous Roman Forts and Towns along its length, also the Iceni were in what is now Eastern England ans were certainly knowing of so called Silurians of South and East Wales and know Gloucestershire in to Oxfordshire. These Celtic Tribes were known before Julius Caesar, Etruscan Greek and Egyptian Traders had visited the Island for Centuries before, Macedonians had used many of these Tribes with Alexander and many settled the area of Turkey now Anatolia but then Galatea with Ankara which is a Celtic name meaning Fortress its Capital, in Cymric Yn Caerau is a Fortress and there are many of them in Britain, also Gaer was another City and to this day is still known for its Celtic Burial Mounds, For Myself being a Celt I am always astonished how the History of what were Cymric people is twisted, Paulinus had lost a Legion in South Wales around the area between Margam and Bont Faen( Cowbridge ) , I have an opinion that Paulinus was given a makeover by Tacitus and there are also two other writers, one is not a Roman but an Iberian, they all make observations some Century or more later about a Battle but are widly different in the amounts of Dead, the Iberian Justinian wrote Six Centuries Later of the Iberian Roman Army that was Destroyed in the Cambriensis, which may well have been the 9th Legion but he mentions Camdulonum, Isca Silures and the Land of the Grey Rock on Ancient roads of Kings, my Ancestor was Sir Arthur Evans he wrote of this many times in Letters , even his time in Crete at Knossos he was still enthused by the Grey Rock of Justinian as he wrote, this book I believe is in the Vatican. He was a Monk who had travelled widly and visited Llancarfan and Llaniltyd Fawr amongst other places and knew the Cymric Language which he Called Brittania , the Term Welsh was not even thought about this time because it was a Germanic word, Gallois in France was the same Modern Wales is Galles Gales in Spain and Italy and Gallegas in Portugal, Galic in Croatia and Macedonia and the Danube Valley was also similar. The Cymric word for Ireland is Iwerddon, which it was known for Millenia before the Romans came and the people were Iweryn ( Old Welsh) 5th Century, Scotland was Alban and Caled Alban was a Pictish name and Caled Brythonic, but both spoke the same Brythonic Celtic, Picts were the same as the Pictones of Western France and Welcomed the Bretons when they arrived from Wales and Cornwall in the 4th 5th and 6th Centuries, Bretons spoke Cymric. ( Brythonic Celtic ). The Vatican hold many ancient manuscripts and writing from Greek and Roman Times, which they definitely should release and let the World see the Truth about those Tumultous times.

Need to do one on all the battles Boudicca won against the Romans, this final war she was too confident and allowed herself to be pulled into a battle on Roman terms with little strategy...

Fantastic animation

Awesome video again, guys! Good camera and cuts! And again very good choice of music. By the way... who is that chorus during the first few minutes?

The tragic thing about this was that the Iceni tribe were allies to Rome and helped them out. It was only when the King died that Boudicca his wife, assumed the Throne. The Roman Emperor wanted the King's possessions but only received half. It then went a bit pear-shaped! But it was utterly cruel and barbaric by the Roman generals to have raped Bourdicca and her two daughters. And because of their heinous acts, the peaceful Roman town of St Albans, made up of retired wealthy Romans, and undefended, was attacked and all were killed. She then marched onto London, but of course was stopped.

Watching Iceni in combat is feels like playing against AI on easy lvl

Very well done, from a Total War gamer!

5:49 - excellent angle! I ised to make Rome 1 videos amd I knoe how long this must have taken. All the people here saying what you did wrong have no idea. I really like the skins you used for authenticity. If you haven't checked out the battle of Watling Street from "Battlefield Britain" with Peter and Dan Snow, you will love it. That's what most people are referring to in the comments here when they talk about the Roman "saw formation". It's an older documentary, but it's pretty cool. But great job. Did you apply a filter or are you using a shading preset?

Contrary to the Japanese way of fighting battles, individual Roman soldiers stayed together to help one another finishing off adversaries. Another trick was that frontline soldiers were relieved with fresh troops continually. About the first three lines would retreats and be replaced with the fourth, fifth and sixth line. And so on. Such tactics made up the secrets of legionary strength. This meant that they would always do well against individualistic cultures like Gallic and German tribes and against undisciplined melees of fighters.

Paulinus arranged his army in a crescent formation to provide enfilading fire from archers. Also, with chariots, shoot one horse and the chariot ceases to exist as effective. Another account estimates Roman numbers as 20,000, (the Roman in charge in SW England refused to march his army North to support Paulinus and was subsequently recalled to Rome in disgrace) and British as 120,000.

Amazing 👍🏻

OUTSTANDING VIDEO

I love the Roman Civilization from the bottom of my heart! Kudos to the Roman army.

I`m a Briton and we truly got our Arses Kicked this day.I`ve read our Warriors were pushed hard up against the Roman lines,were unable to swing their weapons,whilst the Romans could use their razor sharp Gladius to stab and slash.Definitely shows that numbers cannot always defeat a well trained Army.

EXCELLENT!!

Great content

Historical is my favorite

Would love to have helped my Welsh forebears dispatch as many bully-boy ancient Romans as I could as an archer leading an archery contingent attacking the Roman flank !!!

It goes to show that no matter how overwhelming the odds are against you, you fight on YOUR terms, occupying the ground of YOUR choosing.

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Loss romans 400, loss boudica's army 80.000? what? Did they have machine guns?

I feel bad for the British people at the time the Romans invaded them. Brutality and bloodshed, I can't imagine the horror.

Just found the channel thxs

Wow , how did you do animations? Superb

Anytime you fought the legions head on, you were fighting a losing battle. Hannibal knew this, and always fought them on his own terms.

It seems on the British side lack of military tactics compare with Romans

I remember watching Decisive Battles do this on the History Channel.

The Iceni were not a Large Tribe the Largest Celtic British Tribes were in what is now Wales and Gloucestershire, Tacitus was rather Romantic with his writings.