Zela, Ruspina, & Thapsus (47 to 46 B.C.E.) 

Until the Ides of March

@@jurtra9090 They had to roll a 100 speech check just to get him to fall into their trap, and he still almost got out of it.

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art?

@@joebrown2661 art imitated life until the people who once lived so gloriously became enamoured with art, at which point life imitated art.

@@sobitasadullah4517 Very well put.

yeah,he was playing on hardcore difficulty all the time

@@TheSasudomi love this comment

@@TheSasudomi Caeser in Rome, legendary difficulty insane naval invasions montage.

Issac Arellano true. I’m wondering the same thing. It happens at least once per Cesar video

If this was a fictional movie/book series people would complain to the author that “Caesar makes dumb decisions to create tension” and that “Caesar shouldn’t get away with surviving this all the time”.

Lol

Eternal embarrassment

I don't know what you're talking about. He had hold of Africa, obviously.

Imagine following that up with a joke that still gets a chuckle 2000 years later.

Hahaha

He died as he lived; stubbornly.

Harsh. True, but harsh.

‘I came.’ - Cato’s dad, 96 BC.

@@Cybermat47 It's I saw I conquered I came.

F me this is to relatable ='d

Good ol' fan dance

Didn't Hope and Crosby use a similar strategy?

Said in the Maxwell Smart Agent 86 voice.

@CommandoDude everyone gangsta until numidian cavalry shows up to the party

Actually it translates to: gg 2ez noobs

@@TheGhostbuster1989 2ez 4 JulezCeezy

geti gudi n00bi

He essentially stuffed them in his metaphorical locker.

@@TheGhostbuster1989 julius not being a good sports confirmed :D

plot armor smh

The author of history is giving Ceasar plot armor and deus ex machina shit. Smh.

It's cause he wrote his own history

It was all to maximize the impact of his death

Audentes fortuna iuvat

True. That man was a 20th level bard!

@@maxtree2003 Epic-level bardic knowledge ftw

He's not Roman. Barbarian.

He got likely killed on the spot when they realized that he was a decoy. 🤔

F

That Legionnaire ? Pontius Pilate

*STAHP* - Gaius Julius Caesar, multiple times from 47 to 46 BC

nah... was Titus Pullo

Madden Humphrey love this comment

Or "historys luckiest bastard"

"You will always remember this as the day you almost killed Gaius Julius Caesar."

Seems unlikely. I bet that the battle was hard fought, so the Caesareans were overcome with lust for revenge.

If I were in that campaign and I had to deal with the Pompeyans' constant raids, camping, and taunting for months, I'd also want bloody revenge on them.

@@romanempire4495 lust for revenge and not wanting to come back to fight them kind of go hand and hand if you ask me.

And this I can sympathize with. The only reason Cesar kept pardoning these people was for his own self interest, he didn't see his comrades next to him die to these people.

Turns out it WASN’T the last time they had to fight these people considering Munda.

Julius Seizure. Im sorry

@@TheGhostbuster1989 Julius having Seizures.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

Citizen: Doctor I could barely breathe last night I thought I was having some sort of seizure Roman doctor: HAIL SEIZURE

I am sure he will take a stab at it!

Lol

@@austenbin4068 Too soon...

@ Andrew Edwards Will the Romans lend their ears to his final request?

"man everything seems to be going great for this caeser guy"

Then he massively underestimates them by landing behind enemy lines heavily outnumbered and with no supplies surviving through sheer luck.

GardEngebretsen Caesar has max luck points

"Alright guys, let's move 3,000 cavalry here, equip these guys with spears, these with swords, and move the veterans here-" From the distance: "CHAAAAAAAARGE!!!"

My HEMA teacher always said "The best swordman needn't fear the second best swordman. He fears the worst swordman, because he doesn't know what he'll do." I think this is the strategic version of that.

I think that guy had Klingons for generals.

Or was drunk

Or the bald

Caesar was just OP at war and politics.

@@hughg.gaines6027 Politics not so much. He was rather poor politician. Caesar was military genius, but the fact he decided to trust Brutus and the senate was foolish mistake. Octavian would not have spared Brutus in same situation.

@@teemuvesala9575 how you can seriously follow caesar from prior to his first consulship all the way to being assassinated and claim he was not an expert politician is nothing short of insane. He successfully navigated one of the most nasty political jungles in history. A political climate that many many people were chewed up and spit out by. His maneuvering through the first triumvirate, his ability to successfully stave off prosecution for so long, securing term extensions, forcing through significant legislation, and successfully insinuating himself as a populist leader etc etc. Cicero for example always stayed in his place as a senator and never took on the challenges that Caesar or Pompey took on as a possible usurpers of the republic itself. Pompey is maybe the only other person to show the sheer political gumption that Caesar seemed to posses. As you know, one of Caesar's major strategies was showing mercy to other Romans who were previously against him to ensure future compliance.This has proven a worthwhile tactic of his for his entire career, and although he eventually got burned by it, it does not take away from his obvious political genius. Perhaps Caesar felt they would not have the nerve to assassinate him and assure their own destruction as a result. A miscalculation of course, but Brutus et at displayed laughable incompetence after the assassination and were in fact destroyed- where they would go down in history as traitors and clowns while caesar would literally be deified.

To be fair, he must have had the most monstrous balls to do that against Caesar. Mad props as it almost worked.

It works sometimes, like the German Blitzkrieg or a hurry up offense in football. If they had been on flat land, it would have worked for sure.

@@caseyb1346 To be fair though if they were on flat land I bet Caesar would have expected it

@@jophielswings Absolutely. And word of Caesar's superhuman patience must have been well known at this stage so on paper it's actually a good idea. But in practice, it's still Caesar and his army. Those guys were the most experienced and disciplined soldiers in Europe at the time. Pompey outnumbered him 2:1 and still got soundly beaten. Pharnaces would need 3 soldiers for every 1 Caesar had to stand a chance..

It seemed to me the reason he lost was because of the quality of his troops. Caesar's army was known to be one of the best at that time so when it comes down to just a straight up brawl it would come to no surprise that he had won

Roman Carthage was not build yet. The new settelement was Caesar’s plan (to give land for his veterans as reward) that was finished by Augustus. Gracci (I am not sure which, I think Tiberius) was planning it earlier but it didn’t succeed.

I meant it more in the sense that it was the Roman land over which Carthage used to sit. I do thank you, though, as I am not very familiar with the region after it’s conquest in the Third Punic War.

Seeing how Cato the Elder and Africanus couldn't stand each other, it's certainly kinda funny, one has to admit ;).

Didn’t even occur to me. Funny how history works like that sometimes.

Hahaha! That was hillarious!

One of the luckiest generals in History. But also one of the best to capitalise on that luck.

He survived where all other generals might die but died where no one would die lol

@@MrTokesu Certainly. In addition to admiring Alexander the Great, he seems to have inherited his luck as well.

@@satyamstranger idk bro i think getting stabbed 46 times would kill just about every general

@@lollllfol where, not how.

More like drink their own urine and eat dead animal carcass bear grylls style.

*nervous mule sounds intensify*

To be fair, premodern armies didn't have many logistical options. Everything that can carry food overland eats it, so they had to "forage" food from local communities. Which were sometimes on fire by the time the army left.

Honestly when playing fighting games I don't care about trying to do combos or weird highly technical moves, I just push whatever buttons I feel like pushing until I win or lose and it's fun either way.

DBT57 And I’ll say “Nailed it” when you do.

In that case, I'd be saying "Stairs, I have hold of you now!"

And in mine: "rock ledge 100 feet off the ground, I have hold of you now!", when I fall trying to reach a cliff-forming unit for my research or "derrick, I have hold of you now!" when I'm making money to pay for my research XD

Shoelaces, I have hold of you now!

After watching this I watched another video where apparently William the Conqueror did the exact same thing when falling of the boat after landing in England lol.

now this is what I call Poetry

His legions were incredibly experienced. It's a level unseen since Hannibal. These guys were the kind to fight until job is done. They were so used to perspective of wining or being killed, leaving the battlefield in their mind wasn't an option.

It's probably like a veteran unit breaking the veteran's limit in a video game.

Globals vs Silvers

Jesse Jordache definitely the latter and a good joke for the situation.

They probably had no idea of the history behind it. The manuscript for Caesar's commentaries on the civil war was quite rare in the medieval period, and William the Conqueror was illiterate. The overall high medieval grasp of Roman history was quite weak.

I think Henry Tudor also did so when he landed in Wales before Bosworth Field

@@willkp50 I think that's right actually - the Edward III line I wasn't sure of.

Ive read in a book that Scipio Africanus started this tradition, is this true or did the author fuck up?

Hannibal agrees.

Took only an Alps to break dozens of elephants.

Expect here they did more harm than good in the end to their own side like they often did in battles.

@@sarasamaletdin4574 That's exactly the problem. Elephants aren't brave. They can be trained and follow orders well enough, but they break way easier than war horses or camels.

i dont think its that elephants arent brave, unlike with horses that die after a few stabs or arrows elephants can take a large amount more punishment and during that time the probably just dont want to get stabbed anymore

@Ibrahim Abid no its Zeus chasing Europa

@Ibrahim Abid she escaped and is successfully running away

Ghost riders in the sky. That bull leads.

Who do you think Augustus learned from, he undoubtedly did less in terms of combat (didn’t fight on the front line/was less involved) but had a slightly keener insight on humans and politics

Soooo... what you’re saying is that he’s a politician? 🤔

He was absolutely a logistical genius.

@mPky1 The battle of alesia? The battle of pharsalus?

Yes he had charisma. But not charisma alone. He followed up with his words. The soldiers were fiercely loyal to him. Because he at all possible times gave them proper rest. His tactics most of the time and gave victories. And further more he always took care of his soldiers and came to their aid. In the video series you will find Caesar always sneaking out from a tough encirclement only to return with reinforcements to save his soldiers. When Caesar gave up Britain he waited till the last ship set sailed and boarded to that after seeing his soldiers safely off. He would go to battle with them. So it was not just the talk, but walking the talk.

Best january close ever

@@TheGringuish12 Indeed. Literally stopped what I was doing to start watching this.

And I didn’t have to use my Ak

...TO DIIIIIE

@@TheGringuish12 you just might be on to something right there mate

Facts honestly

Pharnaces clearly didn't hear the words of wisdom from Obi Wan. Heck, even Ceasar didn't fancy his odds of attacking uphill against a tight formation. At Pharsalus he tried to bait Pompey to leave the hill and trust his numbers and the battle-hardened Syrian Legions to beat Ceasar.

In war you must take chances, Pharnaces took his, as did Caesar for most of his campaigns. He probably thought he could push up the hill whilst the Roman were building the camp, and it almost worked!

Pharnaces had time on his side though. It was Caesar who needed the battle to occur as soon as possible so that he could deal with the other situations.

Absolutely not. Do you know why Caesar thought this was a stupid move, that Pharnaces mist think they're idiots? Because charging then attacking uphill like that was an extremely bad move. As we saw, the army was obliterated. It was a massive tactical blunder, such a massive one that Caesar thought it was an obvious decoy So no. He wasn't some secret genius. He was an impulsive dipshit.

balance is restored

S.S Bathtub “Perfectly balanced, as all things should be”

Pompeins: fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!! What do we do now that prophecy was our one true advantage!!!

Sleep is for the weak.

You, sleep please

Not me. It's 3:12am. I'm binging on Historia Civilis since 11:00pm.

For real. If this guy knew how many hours I've spent rewatching his videos 😂

>be me >have no Egyptian gf > why live

@@graysonguinn1943 royal greek*

I think that was the whole reason for the siege

@@josephzanes7334 Caesar just protecting dat ass

@@josephzanes7334 What, is Ceasar a simp? A nice guy?

That legion is gonna run off to Tahiti and grow mangos

Like playing civilization or total war late st night. Just one more turn...

JC: “ I Have a damn PLAN, I just need some legionaries”

@@yungtoolshed251 "HAVE SOME FAITH MY LEGIONARIES!"

this shity made me ugly laugh lol

Oof.

Ouch

My entrails

A double burn.

Cato: His Last Year 46 BC

Random Centurion of the Tenth: "Master this, you knob!" Throws a javelin, kills Labienus' horse.

* gets his army killed like paper, twice

It's done now friends

DMC12Gauge “Oh, so you’re saying that anybody from this family is can't be defeated? I'll just take some random cousin from that same family and put it in my team.”

You should see the vids of the music used by HC. Comments is nothing but tributes and quotes

@@jacobhamselv where can I find it?

@@bottomtext yea where qq

The one that only lasts 5 seconds? It's more than fine anyway.

And outro.

Luke Ferrer, Patton did it too when he crosses the Rhine River but he didn’t fall on accident he just got on his knees

@@jameskirk1161 it happens pretty frequently. Edward III did so when he landed in France, as did Henry Tudor when he landed in Wales

i am not to sure but i can definately immagine William the conquerer beein well educated on roman history. Or maybe just the chronist who later on wrote the story of Williams conquest. Sure it could be pure coincidence but i tend to think we often underestimate the education medival rulers and scribes had.

Or the grand Daddy of all memes.

Invoked trope. Or meme.

Looks like he picked the war elephant graphic from Roman City ceremonies over his International symbol. He probably did this as a stylistic choice since it looks cooler to see an actual elephant instead of another square with a symbol.

what does it look like?

@@Macieks300 It was just something HC made up for a battle. It was a square with elephant tusks.

@@Wallyworld30 what does the international symbol look like though because I can't find it

@@Macieks300 it's not international. That was a joke. In the Battle of Zama video there were elephants and let's say the video did a very creative thing to represent them with a symbol ;). Watch that clip, you'll understand immediately ;).

Yeah he's the first and only channel I've supported in patreon so far and it's so extremely worth it. Unquestionably my favorite channel on RU-vid!

I cant laugh no more popo dont do this to me

Except he praised the gods not the lord

kinda like in spain, it rains it pours

Many of the people Caeser had pardoned from earlier battles, who were told to not fight him again, fought him again at Thapsus.

What is this? Here i thought i was the only one.

@Alex Gully If anything we better hope he doesn't end like Caesar.

With mass genocide ?

Gaul

@@lavalampooning i think a betrayal

For the glory of Remo!!

We the people of Historia Civilis would like to know...

Good question. Petition to bring the war elephant symbol back??

@@aeiou75 I for one, would sign that petition

It's the will of the people to bring the war elephant symbol back!!!

@@pez4 Gather a Quorum, the Senate and People of Historia Civils shall vote on the matter!

Good thing it wasn't an Emu or they might have lost the entire Empire!

@@austenbin4068 ikr the emu are overpowered as fuck not even modern weapons could beat them, if they ever decided to take over, humanity maybe force to use nukes just to stop them.

IQ: 1,000,000+

Bull-ievable.

Here's a little secret about IQ tests: you can get whatever value for whatever creature you want by just choosing the right parameters for the distribution.

Also known as the FREE-EST bull who ever lived! 😁

It got all "turnt up" lmao

@@romaliop Yeah man, the parameters have the sample population to be the bull and its 4 captors. Clearly the bull has an IQ of 1 million relative to those 4 human captors.

His legions charging in both directions was genius

I subscribed

venny veedee veechy

I came I watched I came ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Veni Vidi Amavi*

This comment also works in reverse :D

I think NATO would have enjoyed it

When will people understand that written memes such as this one are just not funny...

@@adrien5814 I'm fed up with those jokes

Unless they're being used in India.

Aidan Belanger only in Africa

Perhaps all the way to 1453!

@@DeFrostkill Nah the story gets too depressing after Marcus Aurelius, I don't even want to hear it.

That would be so great if he did that

@@DeFrostkill hahahah i hope so

@@Navak_ He can end in Marco Aurelius. In my opnion there is no Rome afterwards, only abominations using its corpse.

@Scuba26Steve Yeah they are good but nothing can beat the spinning squares!!

DerekGuerrero hahah spinning squares

K&G videos on Caesar campaign are better described. For someone who read many books about the big guy, i can say that HistoriaCivilis videos have errors. Plus, K&G have better graphics wich helps alot in better understanding of the tactics and strategy

@@Braila2000 Hehe, you're funny :)

@@Braila2000 I wouldn't talk about errors so lightheartedly, usually there are conflicting sources, or some are just conflicting with common sense.

I heard that the best use of elephants was as anti-cavalry. There was a battle where one cavalry won and chased off the other side's, but when they came back to help, the enemy elephants were lined up in the way to block them, and the horses wouldn't go near. So the other side managed to win. Also, putting the elephants on the flanks to keep them away from your own troops, as well as protecting the flanks.

Hannibal used them to great effect during the Punic wars. It was mostly the novelty of them that made them so dangerous at first, though the Romans learned how to effectively counter elephants, leading to them becoming more of a liability like we see here.

@@shorewall the battle of ipsus

Even Sauron cant win with elephant

The thing about elephants is that they're used to being able to trash anything they come across; if something does hurt them (such as that wave of javelins), they don't bear injuries very stoically and will panic and run. Elephants are formidable enemies but they can be dealt with: retain enough flexibility in your formation that you can get out of their way, then hamstring them from behind with axes or swords, inflicting a "mobility kill" that neutralizes them.

@Alexis Hazel DeSilva Jesus isn't god. God was there before jesus

@@FSBMateus This cheat codes are hilarious, but seriously Varus gimme mah legions.

@Alexis Hazel DeSilva I know, but you said that god wasn't there because Jesus wasn't born yet...

Pretty funny how the ancient equivalent of hackusations was to attribute divine interference. And it was a good thing.

He actually overused them and definitely screwed something up. Imagine typing lerooooyjulius into a console or accidentally setting Ferocity stat of his legions to 10.

ditto for my night true to Caesar

Elephants in foxhole when?

@@sarahheikel my reputation proceeds me i see.

@@ISawABear I love you're videos by the way -A colonial.

Hey ! I bought foxhole because your videos

This killed me 😂😂😂 *Gaius, btw

They were tired, anxious to get the campaign over with so they could get on with retirement, and in no mood to have to fight the same opponents all over again. Not saying that they were right, just pointing out their reasons for letting their bloodlust overtake their discipline.

That's the difference between volunteering and duty. They weren't obligated to join the campaign.

Even Alexander the Great's troops rebelled when he wanted to keep going into India. Eventually soldiers get tired and want to go home.

One thing that didn’t beak down was their skill.

Shorewall then he punished his army by marching into the Dessert and Plenty men died.

True!

Eventually, his luck ran out.

don't you dare George lucas us

Caesar OP, plz nerf!

His legions are OP

Caesar has a huge administrative skill than

Nah, what your suggesting is he was a lucky buffoon when in reality he was lucky and brilliant.

Marty Moose Caesar was brilliant, I was cracking a joke. Chill.

Spaghetti!

3 meat

@@teegamew766 sausage!

Pizza falls to the floor right after your jaw 😆

It sounds improbable, but if you start at the belly-button I think you might be able to make some decent headway.

Or several.

@@merrittanimation7721 Hopefully

To be fair, he did great on Alesia.

@@Badosureinhardt That is actually the main reason I want a video dedicated for him, we know he was very competent at times so I am curious what is Historia Civilis talking about,

DerekGuerrero, when Caesar was in Egypt and elsewhere in this video’s time period Antonius was in charge of Italy and doing a bad job of it, many people were very unhappy with him (the legion rebelling was just tip of the iceberg) it ruined Caesar’s relationship with him. Many historians think prior to this Antonius was Caesar’s heir but even though they made up later Caesar has changed his will. And Antonius did very poorly in Parthia. And while Philippi was a victory it wasn’t very well executed (even if he was best general of the four in the battle) and his politics in Italy (his wife and brother unsuccessfully rebelled against Octavian and he most likely was agreeing with this) and in general how he handeled his publicity in Egypt and the battle of Aticum look bad. Antonius never really was that good by himself on top even though he could work well with under Caesar if it was a battlefield.

Haha true! I wonder whether he knew that the same thing had happened to Caesar before him.

@Ivan RicañaI assume he could understand spoken language so the legend of Caesar was most likely known to him.

Man I got really sad when I heard this because that maybe means the William story or the Caesar story is bullshit

The irony.

People in Carthage must have liked Cato for him to have been able to seek refuge there. It could be propaganda but their are a lot of stories that say Carthage was doing regular human sacrifices and baby killings before Romans arrived.

@@savvageorge After Carthage was destroyed it stayed as a deserted ruin for a while but the roman themselves refounded it and brought settlers from other parts, if Carthage was already again an inhabited settlement at this moment (I do not remember the date of its reconstruction), most of those people would had not direct conection with the semitic population that once was the mortal enemy of Rome; the human sacrifice thing seems to be mostly propaganda but the Carthaginians were harsh masters, pretty much in the vein of older eastern civilizations (of which they were descedants of) so I would asume that most of their subjects were not exactly sad to see their overlord destroyed so the people of Utica probably would had not had much resentment against Cato even if his ancestor was one of the most vocal proponents of the utter destruction of Carthage.

@@savvageorge There have been excavations done near Carthage which strongly suggest there have been regular child sacrifices in that time period.

@@Sealdeam Surprisingly, it was Caesar himself who rebuilt the city in 49 BC (which means he probably told a few architects to go wild), but Rome had settled the area before in 122 BC