THE BATTLE OF CRECY 1346 l ENGLAND vs FRANCE +20.000 UNIT Medieval Kingdoms Mod l 4K l 

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When will you reupload Varna?

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I like the narration. A solid gruff voice. Also good job on not letting the background music be louder than the narration.

The blind king, who had to be led into battle.

@@BradBrassman There is brave and there is stupid, some would argue it was a stupid idea.

It was kind of suicide by English weapons...

Another Chadness of the Czech

@@BradBrassman did he really really blind or it's just a name?

What could the do ? The were knights. Yes the were super professional soldiers especially as a one unit and with his individual skills but if we talking about they are soldier they were bad as the soldiers. They didn't even know who they even fought with and yes imagine how u can control this amount of people on the battlefield

@@vaderksy4730 Actually, knights were formation fighters. They fought in tight packed ranks and eyewitnesses praised them, and considered it their most important quality.

@@vaderksy4730 idk maybe nit send there army to die

@@projectilequestion Knights of not. You're not beating a drunken English rampage.

@@hmq9052 it wasn't a drunken English rampage, it was technically defensive masterpiece whilst outnumbered 3 to 1.

The Black Prince didnt command the right flank alone, but was aided by Thomas Beauchamp, the Earl of Warwick

He was a total badass too. I just wish he had lived to be king.

@@MasterJediDude but he will never be king

@@victorvary2873 huh? 🤔

There were no teenagers in the old days, there were young men and young women.

As I came to your comment ,he said that line.

Yeah, probably not the same horse twice, still funny tho

The horse respawned. That's how it works, right? Right?

@@Epifairos Yep!

He changed horses.........Doh

The peak of killing technology before Gunpowder & the Gatling gun.

I suppose the rain hampered the composite crossbows (it weakens the glue that holds the layers together) more than the solid wood longbows.

@Manuel Castanon To be fair, I don't know that the English archers were protected by shields either, so they were on equal terms there.

Let’s not disrespect the battle…let’s have a moment of silence for the og m60🥺🥺

@@sergarlantyrell7847 To be even fairer - the English longbow men were out of range and shields were unnecessary .

It's so great someone noticed that scene! Thanks a lot! :)

@@NedimCanIncebay No my friend, thank your hard work! I enjoy how the drawing edits and narrations add to the historical detail of the battle.

Empire total war by chance.

I loved this part too, esp looking at that horse and whats it been through. Standing just as proud as the men.

@@Ewen6177 it sure is. Plays on pre battle load screens

Except the hard core soldier with bare hands trying to outbox a knight with helmet. His hands would have been useless the first og second time he hit the armour :)

yeah not sure about dudes jumping like 10 feet with a full fucking suit of plate mail on lol... not that the armour seemed to have much effect

@@wimderoos5407 its possible if trained enough

@@AllanMogensen its cause the footage is for a mod of a game set during attilas invasion of europe

Not to mention that plate armour cost about $2B in modern terms. and every soldier was wearing it in this scenario.

English bowmen taunting the French by holding up their firing fingers was the original source of sticking up the ‘Vs’ at people.

English longbowmen were among the most hardcore soldiers in European history. Archaeologists can tell which skeletal remains today belong to that of a longbowman because there is a noticeable difference in the development of the arm bones. This battle was the result of the English learning from previous battles with both the Welsh and the Scots. King Edward knew there was no way he could match the French knights on horseback, but battles with the Scots taught the English some very hard and humbling lessons regarding the use of cavalry; like making a wall of pointy death for the mounted knights to ride themselves into before any survivors get bludgeoned and hacked.

@@hardcharging Yeah, they were very well trained, by that age's standards. Still Crecy must have been one for the books even for them. Perhaps Agincourt even more so.

@@yanikem6655 Wow I never knew this ! Amazing to think. Thanks for that info.

There is no truth to the story that archers taken prisoner would have their fingers chopped off. Very labored & silly “pluck yew” joke.

Thanks a lot mate! :) I'm so grateful for that! Also I liked how the Siege of Carthage is your first choice, this is also one of my favourites! :)

I think your mom did an amazing job too, mate

@@NedimCanIncebay That will be very interesting and hard work for sure.

Hey, I'm so grateful for your comment, it really makes me believe that I made it right! I hope J Stephen will be narrating the other historical battles I plan to make, he really nailed it in this one ! :) For the next one, I'm planning to work on the Orleans, Castillion, Poitiers or Agincourt. I'll let you know! Again, many thanks for the comment! :)

@@NedimCanIncebay Nice! Do let me know if you could use a hand with any of your research. Like I said, the HYW is my jam (wrote my entire MA thesis on the English archers and I write about the HYW for Medievalists.net quite often) and can help with source materials and whatnot. Feel free to DM me if interested!

@stridetex, am glad that you mention the other conflicts of the HYW, as all too often there is a concentration upon this and Agincourt. There were many others, equally entertaining and informative. I take no offence at watching the defeats of us English, as we all learn just what went wrong and why.

@striderex Ok so I gotta ask....did the French really see thus situation and just yeet themselves into oblivion?? Surely chivalry allows an army to maneuver

@@ceberskie119 It did and was often successful. Crecy was ultimately the outcome of a whole host of factors that led to disaster - first, any army in pre-modern warfare was notoriously hard to keep tight command and control over. The great commanders of their times (which Philip VI was not) literally spent every last ounce of energy just keeping control over their own forces. Second, you'd be amazed at how quickly a mass of people moving in one direction simply takes on a life of its own. If you've ever been in a large crowd, you may have seen this in action - now add the additional stress of actual combat into the mix. Much of the French advance was simply "well, I guess we're all going this way, now. YOLO" and there was nothing anyone could really do to stop it. Lastly, there were cultural elements at play - the French had just come off an almost 2 century long streak of being the unquestioned masters of the medieval battlefield. What few defeats they did have in that time were seen as complete aberrations. The intense pride that French chivalric classes had in their capabilities was borderline fanatical. Crecy was the battle that turned their entire world on its head - to use an American sports analogy, it would be like the Cleveland Browns not only getting to the Super Bowl, but then annihilating the Patriots in a blowout. All of Europe was rocked to their cores by Crecy and the old feudal way of war - though it would absolutely hobble on for another century or so - would never really recover.

I think i read that Archers jerkins were not symmetrical as one side was always bigger due the extraordinary muscle created in the back and shoulder.

Did read some many years ago that there is or was only one guy in the uk that could draw a similar long bow as the ones used in the battle

@@dutydruid9375Similar to blacksmiths, who were recognized by their giant local muscles in their hands and arms.

Noticed this aswell all the little details are brilliant!

One of the best mods in Total War.

Much better than the regular skins, to be sure, but the pigface bascinets (named after the existing model at Churburg Castle) worn by many of the knights are more appropriate to Azincourt than Crecy. Even at Poitiers they would have been too early, in my opinion.

@@mihaiionita5648 Yeah it's not perfect. I doubt the english would have worn their Pembridges on foot, more likely just the bascinet with a visor for example, but it's better than most depictions. Centainly better than The Last Duel.

Although the archers would probably fire a flatter trajectory as up in the air and down again and the arrows would lose all their energy.

I'm so grateful for that, thanks a lot mate! I was worried about the narration part because for the first time I tried to use narration like that but your comments are mostly positive! I'll continue to do so.

@@NedimCanIncebay who did the narration?

@@NedimCanIncebay really good narration just the right tone in the voice for this

Don't forget those cavalry charges, the rumble and thunder of horses....

Yep get the bastard on the ground an gut him

We had special arrows for taking down horses ...and the dagger axe or short sword did the rest

Welsh archers also.

More importantly , the heavily armored knights couldn't get to their feet to fight or defend themselves in the slippery mud . Easier pickings for the lightly armored English .

@@jimwilliamson49 its was the close quarter fighting between the English /Welsh knights and the cream of fance a Welshman named Davy gam sustained fatal injuries saving the king

Zombie horses are unstoppable...

got it back on respawn

Best to be sure!

No swearing please sir and stop, this is haram.

All things create by Allah, Allah created me and you and animal and universe, and Heaven and hell and food grow up from clay with Allah kindness. So you can't swear at horse or other animal because this is sin. Believe Allah is only one god and convert to Islam. The life is short and dead is close to us.

Thanks to u hehehehe

@@NedimCanIncebay No it is you and your art skills mwah

Ahhhahahahah

yeah.. watching atw cinematic at 5 in morning. totaly understandable

@alper augustus Ahahaha yes but I was watching him doing it at home that's what I meant there ✍🏻

Oh, really?? I'm so grateful for that mate, thank you!!! :)))

I gotta say I was welling up as well.

Many thanks mate! :) Hahah, also thanks for the Blind King of Bohemia comment. It was a heroic charge..

Read "world without end" by Ken Folett. He also has a chapter a about the battle of crecy, also mentioning some more Details. (Also with king Jan)

He was a true warrior, went blind during a crusade and died on a battlefield.

16 year old Edward of Woodstock, Prince of wales or “the black prince” who was on the opposite end of his charge was so impressed he adopted his ostrich feather “Ich dien” or german for “I serve” crest as his own and it has been used by the prince of wales and a symbol of wales ever since, most well known use today is by the welsh rugby team.

Nobody forget Heroes

Thanks for that! Hahah yes, that remarkable voice o.o

yo i knew it thought i was tripping for a minute

Get books & learn properly. 14min 22secs - what does a World War get - 30mins!

What slaughter. Why do men fight like this.

This wasn’t the crusades🤦🏼‍♂️🤯

I wish the newer historical titles kept with the themes of Medieval/Shogun where they gave you little info cards of specific dates announcing historical events of that time that would change the playing field. Things like the discovery of gunpowder unlocking rudimentary cannon and gun units.

@@azeon562 it’s not cost effective to do that, CA is focused on churning out the next warhammer reskin instead of a quality game.

Similar eerie effect when I visited Towton, with a massive hangover (come to think of it I've done a few battlefield tours with blinding hangovers, I think it adds to the ambience). Stood looking up the slope imagining a rain of arrows coming out of the snow, turned to look at the treacherous slope into the beck where the Lancastrians routed.

Almost you did hear them- probably on energetic and karmic level they are still fighting.

You can learn basically everything from video games. I learned how to type playing a game called Mario teaches typing. Don't tell Mario, but I still frequently peak at the keys

Hey brick dictator!!! When will you make another video?

Your stuff is awesome

Dude I miss you, Your medieval vids are amazing

Hello Brick Dictator~! Next time, please make a video of Joan of Arc! 🙏

Oh, many thanks! I'm m so grateful for that! :)

...it did depict massed volleys of arrows...

More like 150 lbs. The French thought we were all hunchbacks due to shoulders being so developed.

The rain wettened and weakened the strings, the English unstrung their bows and put the strings under their hats, also better waxed.

Not just that. The average English subject wasn't allowed to personally own a bow meant for war use. Their personal bows could only have so much pull to them in order to be legal to retain and use.

And it’s where we get the modern game of darts, once gunpowder appeared, armour was redundant, long bows lost their merit…..but practice after church was replaced by throwing arrows instead of shooting them from a bow, oh and a couple of pints of course……

its just done with a game lol total war Britannia...

Thanks a lot mate! :) I'm working on the new ones and soon I'll upload them! :)

@@NedimCanIncebay u should make a movie bout this I’d b curious 🧐 how that goes.

I'm so grateful for that, thank you mate! It was a bit hard to find the exact music in that marching scene but I'm glad you liked it! :)

hey! would love to hear those podcasts you’re listening to if you’re willing to share!

@@atchafalya3168 I just got into History of Europe Key Battles on Apple pod. Caryl Rylet. And for real, anything Dan Carlin. He has some killer Mongols stuff

It’s not an animation by the way, it’s a total war game :D

@@aaroneasow865 always a good day when I can learn something 👍🏻

@@vr112 total war is a really good game

Which one?

@@gfilmer7150 Edward III

@@Conorp77 Got it

@m n Who put them in the front!?

Which is an interesting Ebonics way of putting it xD these were the OG gangstas.

Actually, that came from one of the Genoes Crossbowmen (but ya know, they're all spoken by English voice actors lol)

Gods of men they were back then.

I'm so glad you liked the cinematography! I'll continue to use the narration! :)

Oh, thanks a lot for the comment! It's an honour for me!

Do people even know what honour means in these times

I love it also, but this is 19th century romantic invention, in fact no one knows what he really said. But, Emanuel Vlček, a famed Czech anthropologist examined his skelleton and found out, that a mortal wound to his body was a probably Spear to his back and dagger to the eye, which means that he really got that far to get passed the archers and got involved in the mellee fight. So there got to be something to this legend.

@Arnold Squirrel makes no difference. He did not hide in his castle or behind his blindness

@Arnold Squirrel I'm not saying he was a saint or a good guy, but even up to my war generation grandparents, honour and duty were normal

​@Arnold Squirrel I understand your skepticism, however, John the Blind as the king of Bohemia being allied with the Kingdom of France came to aid the French after Philip VI of France called upon his allies for help. This was a common thing back then in order to maintain stable diplomatic relations. As for the intentions of his final charge there are a few versions. Some historians say that he was among the first knights to charge the English lines while others prefer a version where he charged at the end of the battle when the outcome was already obvious. This doesn't change the fact however that charging the enemy lines was his own decision, he could have lingered at the back of the French lines if he wanted yet he decided to ride against the English lines. Some historians even say that this was an act of suicide hence the life of a blind man lost its meaning for him, but perhaps he sought death worthy of his chivalrous reputation. No one can no for sure how it went down that day, what we do know however is that John the Blind could have died a coward, dying of old age after fleeing the battlefield along with the rest of the French army but instead he decided to die a chivalrous honorable death.

Be honest you didnt tell anybody anything of substance in your class

And medieval battles were pretty small scale in comparison to battles of the ancient world. It’s truly staggering

More like a flintlock vs a revolver.

I'm so grateful!! Thanks a lot mate! :) Ah, yes, 15 times... o.o

@@NedimCanIncebay 😂Nah but seriously man amazing work, keep it up. can i ask what total war game you were playing?

@@reposter6434 The video used total war Attila with the medieval kingdoms 1212 ad mod

@@davidbregman1622 XD lol i havee been waiting 3 months, thank you for telling me :)

@@reposter6434 np

This practicing was compulsory. "Soccer" was banned for a while because archery practice was being neglected. Several English villages/ancient towns have a street called The Butts which was where the archery practice used to take place. Even Wellington had made enquiries about long bowmen (due to their accuracy) but was informed insufficient men still knew how to fire them.

@@Insperato62 There was no 'soccer' back in thosa days!

Thanks a lot! It's been a long time since I made a video about Romans, I'll work on one of them soon! :)

ORRRR the great spartacus rebellion/final stand

@@dik56 it would be sick man i cant wait

@@NedimCanIncebay do one about thermopylae! But more historically accurate or plataea !

@@theveryproudmoroccan2834 Historically accurate?? Wasn't the movie, 300, close enough for you? Before that I wanted to be a Legionary, as a Roman Road runs through my Mums garden to Hadrian's Wall. When I went to Greece, I walked up the road, to where the Gates once stood, read that inscription that states; Ω, ξένος, πες στους Λακεδαιμόνιους ότι εδώ ψέμαμε, υπάκουοι στους νόμους τους. (Oh stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their laws.) Spartans are honoured by the Lambda symbol upon British military vehicles when fighting the sand, or in it. Consider this; were it not for those few, what language would you speak now? We Britons stood behind a few, once over and it was our Thermopylae.

Mercenaries are only loyal to money: once things get tough, they bail.

@@giants2k8 My guess is the King of France always intended to run down his own mercenaries. If they had stuck the english full of bolts then you can pretty damn sure the king of france would have ridden through anyway.

Used them as fodder, in the hope most will be killed. Not sure he wanted to pay them either.

@@giants2k8 they did not have their Pavises and the rain made using their crossbows much more unfavorable, idiotic move by the French

They get paid first, and to their company managers not them directly. Same as any other business. The business owners were the ones who saved all that money they all died

The French needed to find a way to neutralise the longbow men. A highly effective weapon for the time

That's when you've been the hegemonic Force for a long time. Once at the top, we stagnate and an unexpected event makes you fall back on your feet.

@@spen9747 Should have used Turkish bow, lol, oh well, c'est la vie!

They need to improve the armor. Can't believe swords can pierce through metal armor that easily.

Except for you were beat by the Romans, Americans, Indians, Germans, French multiple times

@@dmac2899 Really :)) Left and a civil war ' Lost some battles but won the wars

"when is Edward III's reign and life going to get the TV treatment it deserves?!" When they can get Brad Pitt to work for peanuts !

Don't forget his coup against Mortimer when he was only 17

I'm so glad you liked it! :)

Armour isn’t heave that probably only weighed 20-25 kg

loll thank you! :)

The answer to your question Bob lies in the Russian steppes and Chinese coast.

Terrible lost track of who was who, long periods of no narration

Why should it be talked about? This was only one battle in a very long drawn out conflict, lasting 116 years, killing lots of people, who would probably have preferred to have stayed alive, (or at least their families probably did) and largely before the emergence of national identities. The war was about a move by the King of France to exert his rights to seize lands in France controlled by the King of England, because the King of England refused to acknowledge the over lordship of the King of France as the feudal system would require of the King of England, because the King of England's lineage was Norman from France which is why he owned lands there. In a nutshell, the Kings of England won lots of battles over the 116 years, but the Kings of France won the war, as the two kingdoms separated, and beyond control of a few of the ports such as Calais for a few hundred years, the Kings of England essentially lost all of their lands which was almost a third of that which was to become the modern day France.

@@Paul-te8mz It should be more talked about because it was one of the earliest demonstrations of the power of massed longbows and thus one of the first signs that the dominance of the medieval battlefield by heavily armoured aristocrats was doomed in the long term. It should be more talked about because of its significance in the evolution of warfare and the social evolution which started to emerge from those changes. You are wrong that the King of England should have had to acknowledge the overlordship of the King of France overall. In his capacity as Duke of Normandy he would indeed have to acknowledge this overlordship, but William the Bastard won the title of King of England in battle and was eventually acknowledged by the Saxon Witan and the Church as King (both being necessary under the English custom). That title and the Kingdom of England was never subservient to the King of France under feudal terms. Without William's rather lucky victory (the English had to fight two other large battles against the Norwegians in the weeks before Hastings), the Kings of England would have had no interest in lands in France and the dynastic dispute which drove the Hundred Years War would not have existed. England and France might have had a relationship based on friendship rather than conflict and all those unnecessary deaths might have been avoided. However it was that long conflict which helped define the identity of both nations, albeit one based on hostility. I had rather hoped that after a century of Entente Cordiale and the sacrifice of millions of British lives in two world wars for French freedom, might have ended the emnity; but even now with British forces assisting the French forces in Mali, President Macron can't stop himself from constantly insulting and denigrating the UK even to the extent of claiming Northern Ireland is not part of our sovereign territory. All just to whip up ancient nationalistic hatreds to make himself look good against Le Pen.Thankfully the French people themselves are wise enough to see right through his childish antics. Plus ca change...

Or Poitiers 1356.

I'm so grateful for your comment, thank you mate! :) I hope to reach 100k with this video!

I agree

John, my 22nd Great Grandfather. We've always had terrible eyesight in my family!!

Thank you! :)

Thanks a lot!! :)) I want to use more narration but I don't want it to be a documentary. I always focused on the visual side of the battles, I hope you understand what I mean! :)

@Arnold Squirrel even if it was nonsense, it is accepted as what he said and is part of history.

@Arnold Squirrel it is not, its taken as part of history, its written that way in The chronicle of Prague, it is what he said.

@Arnold Squirrel thats your point? you are ridiculous

@Arnold Squirrel tell me WHY do you think its made up nonsence, iam very interested in your logic

@Arnold Squirrel iam just takeing information from historical books tho its from chronicle so it wasnt propably said word by world exacly but there are still records of it so he propably said something like this.

The best part is that this actually happened

Oh, really? It's great to hear that from someone from France! Yes, I'd like to do the Siege of Orléans! I need to search more about it.

The lord of the rings used a version of total war to help create the large battle scenes (which animators then painted over).

What game is this

That's wonderful to hear that! The cinematography is the most important thing for me! Seeing your comments about it makes me very happy! :)

@@NedimCanIncebay Absolutely :) Please keep up the fantastic work!! It is always a pleasure to behold such excellent videos from you, sir!

Thank you! I will work on the new one soon! :)

The visuals are from a video game. It is a mod for the game Attila Total War.

Thanks a lot! :)

Your comments about cinematography and the artsy side of my videos makes me very happy! I'm so glad for your comment! Thank you! :)

Don’t be so cheap and buy or build a good one...

F1 + F3

@@tcw_6609 taktik 1000

And in the end the English were in England and the French were in France. But know this the French lost their whole country in WW2 and lost at Dien Bien Phu against lesser foes and lost at Moscow and fought for the nazis in Berlin the truth is a bitch aint it!

@@mercian7 And yes ! and the Americans would not have had (perhaps) their independence if the French of Lafayette were not there, and the ships of Admiral Rochambeau to retreat the English fleet, right? Without the partisans, the landing in Normandy would never have taken place, or else a disaster foretold ...

@John J As in many countries, there are traitors everywhere (the Burgundians allied to the English). The English were terribly afraid of Jeanne, who called her a witch. This young woman showed with great courage and determination that it was enough to open the way to freedom; for them, his soldiers were ready to go to hell if necessary. Do not forget that after Orleans, it was enough that she sent a letter in a city of its arrival, so that the terrified English fled; the cities were liberated one after the other without fighting. God was with her, and she was a martyr (canonized by the Vatican)

@John J It is enough to read the letters of Jeanne to be assured of it, one cannot contradict her historical letters signed and dated. So the joke, dear English friend, is that you don't know the story of Joan of Arc.

@@dahut6417Une humiliation pour les anglais, il fallait l'éliminer à tout prix.

Same thing eventually happened at Castillon but with cannons and the French taking the trophy :)

@@leonrothier6638 No the French and English army were more or less the same size at Castillon

@@deadking8224 “more or less”

I don't think two to one is a fair fight, f*** off back to Paris and bring another 15,000 🤣🤣🤣

and then French win the Hundred Years' War.

@@arik5119 They make a party about the won battles and forget to mention the lost battles and the lost war.

@david woods The English kings always had allies on the continent, the Gascons or Burgundy for a starter. The English also omit their blunders in their narratives.

@david woods When your princes and kings are acting like Einsatzgruppen on the continent ("chevauchée"), it's also our history. No admiration though.