Roman Republic Vs Carthage: Battle of the Trebia River 218 BC | Cinematic 

The year is 218 BC the place is tje River Trebia in Nothern Italy On one side an Army of The Roman Republic On the other side an Army of the African Empire of Carthage which dominates the western Medditerrainian 40 Years prior Rome clashed with Carthage in the First Punic War after 23 years of Fighting Carthage suffered a crushing defreat. But then a 27 year old Carthiginian General rose to power and plotted his revenge against rome his name was Hannibal Hannibal's first move against Rome was to sack the Roman held city of Saguntum not far from modern day Valencia. Rome was enraged the Second Punic War had begun Hannibals first move was to take the war to the ennemy in Spring 218 BC his Army including 37 War Elephants set out on a epic march across the Alps to invade Italy. During the treacherous 500 mile march Hannibal lost Men,Supplies and Elephants. By the time his Army entered Italy it had been reduced to just 26'000 men however in Hannibals first brief encounter with the Romans he used his agile Numidian Cavalry to ambush and outmenuver a small Roman force Rome was alarmed by Hannibals bold invasion and sent two legions to deal with him once and for all the leader of this force was the Roman Consul Sempronius Longus A Roman legion consisted of 5000 men including light and heavy infantry with cavalry in support a common Roman battle tactic was to march the almost unstoppable legions forward in an attempt to overthrow the enemy in brute force but Longus's army contained many new recruits inexperienced in battle In the winter of 218 BC longus and his reinforcements joined 2 more leigions on a wide plain in Northern Italy the River Trebia that cut through the plain is freezing cold but fordable. The Roman commander Longus is an aggressive and arrogant leader he values quick confrontations and he's desperate to fight knowing Victory at Trebia will bring him personel glory and wealth and Longus has good reason for optimisim he has 40'000 infantry 10'000 more than Hannibal. But the Roman Cavalry is weak tired and reluctent to make detail scouting experditions persuming a ambush on the open plain is impossible. Hannibal is camped just a few miles away across the River Trebia Hannibals Infantry the survivors from the long Alpine crossing are the best tougthest and most loyal of all his troops and his large elite cavalry is unparrelleled. If the Roman Army is victorious Hannibal's dream of conqouring Italy could be gone forever but if he wins he will be able to strike at the Roman heartland and even Rome itself the stakes are high battle is imminent

The best use this game has had is for portraying historical battles and doccumentaries in youtube.

Historical battles are by far the best on this channel

I love your use of the original Rome Total War soundtrack + the general speech. That was awesome!

Hannibla was a brilliant commander, he trusted his troops. Especially his Heavy Libyan Fighters who have again and again proved themselves as excellent fighters and didn't let him down. They served him well and were a key unit in his army.

Very good video :D Really like the detail provided and the information provided of what happened during the battle :)

This doesn't include the significant fact that Hannibal induced the Romans to cross the freezing cold Trebia River, which many of the troops having to wade through water chest deep. The Romans were thus fighting hypothermia, as well as the Carthaginians. Hannibal had kept his army in camp longer than the Romans, made sure they had a warm meal before the battle, and had them rub oil on their skin to ward of some of the effects of the cold and freezing rain.

Hannibal was a gigachad

Great way to really tell of these battles. Nice job! Subscribed.

Hannibal set those Gauls up for failure.

Cool, thank you and thumbs-up for the video.

Very nice reconstruction of this battle. I think the Romans of this period fought in their three line formation of Hasti, Princeps, and Triari. You cannot really model this with a total war engine though.

Una inesattezza, ad Annibale dopo l'attraversamento delle Alpi erano rimasti una decina di elefanti.

Really brutal looking. I think the older the wars were, the more painful and slow the instruments of death.

The lead sling shot of the Baeleric slingers was almost as deadly as modern bullets.

Interesting the Roman centre made it out of that.

A Genuine Battle Of a Superpower[Carthage],LED by the Military genius Hannibal Barca,and the Rising Power Of The Roman Republic...Rome Certainly Earned the Right to Rule by Overcoming an adversary Such as The Punics/Carthage...Excellent imagery🤘👍👍👍👍❤️

Developing good cavalry is one of the reasons the eastern romans survived so long while the west collapsed. The eastern romans had to develop great cavalry because they had to deal with the sassanids who were their equals in infantry and superiors in cavalry. The sassanids pushed the romans to adapt as they always had leading to the romans developing some of the finest cavalry in the world. Unfortunately for the byzantines and sassanids though, no matte how much armor you wear you can't beat those who were practically forced to be good riders or risk death. Thats why the arabs and turks annihilated both empires eventually.

watching this in 2x speed is possibly the best watch of my life

How did you get these fighting animations and mod??

Very well done.

Excellent graphics - if i recall correctly Hannibal forced the battle before the Romans had breakfast thus fighting on an empty stomach. Also the Romans forded the freezing river then had to wait a long stretch before actual fighting - it must have been miserable hungry and cold...

Não demora para lançar o vídeo da batalha do lago trasimene se tu puder faz uma história alternativa em que nível ganha a batalha contra Cipião africano e ataca Roma de pois

This is an amazing video!

Hannibal was a great general. He won many battles. But lost thew war.

Well done, It's beautiful, what mod is it? Is it available on steam?

Impresive, very impresive.💯❤️

Where did Hannibal get the war elephants?......

I think Hannibal had control on his side for this battle. Consul Longus was so hot-headed and his army was cold, hungry and tired, while Hannibal's army was well-rested, well-fed and covered in a type of oil that insulated Hannibal's army from the cold. Said oil also smelled like lavender.

Un vero piacere di notte.

Numidian Cavalry (Algeria).

Very good. I enjoyed this. 😉

Are you really sure that so many of Hannibal's elephants had survived, after the crossing of the Alpes? 😳

It might have turned out differently if they'd had cavalry instead of "calvalry" :)

I wish you 200,000 subscribers

I thought that Hannibal lost most of his War ELEPHANTS crossing the Alps.

Great battle

Love it!!

Wait a minute. With the Romans, you mixed up right and left. What is the right flank is to the right hand of the general who is behind his troops. A right flank clashes with the left flank of the opponent. Got it?

Why were battles in this time period so big in comparison to, say, Medieval battles? Am I correct in thinking European warfare did not again reach this sort of scale until the 1600/1700s? Or was it earlier?

This battle is also known like " battle of Cannes ". The trap was heavy infantry at both flancs. Light infantry in the middle. Finally it was the hammer and the anvil

Hannibal always had an answer to the Roman's strengths.

Hannibal, eternal hero, was about to give FREEDOM to the World, we will never know why he did not devastate and destroy Rome forever, it must have been poetic how this great hero trampled the imperial eagle in Cannae, but Hannibal takes all the laurels, a leader of FREEDOM, HAIL Hannibal !! ⚔🔥

This is my favorite because it had war 🐘 and Carthage victory go Carthage your channel is great

Love it, the Dublin Lad living in the States Narrating 👍💙 Know & have watched others talk about ancient battles. You kept me watching…..Sure we used go to Eng & kick their arse before McMorrow fecked it all up 💚

Awesome!

Roma victor!…oh wait….

Hannibal is absolute chad for crossing the Alps

ESPECTACULAR, FELICITACIONES

1:00 one grip i have with that, is that i wouldn't call ANY armies at this time professional. There were no professional soldiers either in rome or carthage during the punic wars. Otherwise, nice video.

Nicely done

Hannibal's cause was doomed from the start. Rome's philosophy was that they didn't need to win every battle ,they just had to win the LAST battle. How many legions did Hannibal destroy? And they came right back with twice as many. Almost like they were ants.

The greatest strategist the world has ever seen Not Alexander. ..... Not ceasar....... Not napoleon Hannibal fought the might of Rome For tens of years... His masterpiece collapsing bag Strategy at cannae And his superb battles before and after will never be equalled.

Very good illustration and awesome graphics but it would be even betta if the talking would be in latin language and english ( subtitles) sounds very odd.

Alexander's phalanx, calvary and peltasts would have dished Hannibal

What happened to all the dead bodies?

Can you imagine crossing a freezing cold river in the dead middle of a freezing winter???? I don't think I could've done it in full armor no less

The Namibian cavalry rode without saddle nor reins.

what is ur gpu

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did roman calvary ever have bow and arrow strictly calvary?

I always wondered how they gave there orders out in battle specially if they hid ppl how do they know when to attack if they can not see what’s going on in the battle

Looking at this, I wonder how many American men could fight this way? How many could actually survive living as they had to live.

What are your pc specs?

Great battle 🙏

Isso é incrível

Roman's officer's are a bunch of cowards. Fleeing the battlefield, without telling the other heavy infantry.

There didnt seem to be much strategy/tactics to the Romans.

Fun Fact: Hannibal's elephants were scared of squealing pigs once Rome set them on fire and they started squealing the elephants got scared and ran, Blessed Be.

Its cavalry, not Calvary.

You didn't show the crossing of the frozen river before the battle begins which created a strategic advantage for hannibal, Also there was a forest and hannibal hid half of his troops there, where are they

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Wait, didnt just a couple of elephants actually make the alpine crossing? And wasn't it spring-time?

Any day to kick Roman asses... Michigan ass... and Notre Dames ass... Is a Great Day Indeed.

what mods did u use?

Funny how after thousands of years later men are still dying for stupid wars .

Hannibal was willing to sacrifice his precious valuable Elephants for this Battle to reign hell on Rome that is a true admiral quality or General losses don't matter only the gains

1:37 Iberian ( Iberian Peninsula: Portugal and Spain) not Liberian ( Liberia: black Africa).

By the Battle of the Trebia it's unlikely Hannibal had the 30 to 40 war elephants claimed in this video with only a handful surviving crossing the Alps. Also, I don't know that Hannibal had that many Libyan mercenaries that early in the campaign. They only arrived in significant numbers in time for the Battle of Cannae two years later

Small point… mounted soldiers are CAVALRY…. not Calvary , that was the mount where Jesus was crucified.

Aníbal bem que tentou , mais Roma! já tinha um bom planejamento de estratégias para combaterem mesmos com as adversidades.

Hannibal Genius second to none

thos ancient empires mod?

Again, great summation and dramatization of this battle.

Only a few elephants came down from the mountains.

Glad I wasn’t there

Yep, it happened. But Rone eventually kicked all their butts.

Liked it! Just one thing though... CAV ... CAV... CAVALRY!!! Calvary is the hill they say Jesus died on. You keep saying cal instead of cav. Hard to pay attention and hear Calvary over and over again. Ugh sorry had to say

Cav -al- ry, now repeat after me...... CAVALRY

Is this really Med2? It looks like it’s definitely Rome2

I guess the Roman generals wouldn't have appreciated them breaking out in Christmas carols, praising the soon to be King of Kings

Yani savaşı hanibalmi kazandi

I don't understand why the Roman army in history was more concentrated in its infantry than cavalry.

Cannibal VS Comans.

I always wonder why all films/documentaries/ on Roman, show Roman defeated, losers, destroyed by enemies, when actually they built the largest western empire that lasted over 1000 years!!!

It's CAVALRY - cav al ry - NOT calvary. Please learn the difference and pronounce CAV AL RY correctly.

Британцы и германцы на чьей стороне сражались?! А американцы, как всегда выжидали, кто победит!😅😂

It could possibly do with some more blood.🤣

بربر شمال افريقيا .من نوميد وقرطاج لبين ومورتانين لا يتحدون لو اتحدو .لحتلو العالم في دللك الزمان .كانو لديهم افضل فرسان دللك العصر النوميدين ..