As the Otomo intro says when using Tanegashima: 'weapons that kill without honour, but bring victory. Victory, however, brings honour...'

@cobes11

3 жыл бұрын

As my grandfather said, “if you are in a fight, hit them in the groin first. There is no such thing as losing honorably.”

@avariciousandrew6921

3 жыл бұрын

@Fondil Mahbols *guns, anime, and Jesus

@MultiRainday

3 жыл бұрын

The remaining samurai said in a fight between life and death, theres no such thing as honour.

@abrarsetiawan5587

3 жыл бұрын

"wEaPOns tHaT kiLl wiTHout hONour" what a bullshit take on honor

@nutyyyy

3 жыл бұрын

Its no different than any other missile weapon. This idea that guns were somehow dishonorable is crazy. Knights and samurai both used firearms extensively.

Nobunaga: "so anyway I started blasting"

@Zpixiewanwan1249

3 жыл бұрын

*Laughs in matchlocks* Menacingly

@ghostkakashi6483

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@ghostkakashi6483

3 жыл бұрын

Le me with my Fall of the Samurai Gatling Guns : Pathetic 😶

@jacktheripper5112

3 жыл бұрын

that scene is burned into my brain from samurai warriors 2 since i was a kid XD

@seaghan6412

3 жыл бұрын

@Regnery Cruz the takeda IRL where famously essentially wiped out by Nobunaga and a matchlock volley.

Real samurai battles involve the mandatory screaming of the name of one's sword technique followed by the sudden appearance of Kanji characters in mid-air and accentuated by the copious squirting of pressurized blood.

@wukillah92

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I read this too somewhere. I also read samurai sprinting techniques extensively and one of the most famed running styles was to linger your arms back behind your waistline , this was often referred to as the "Naruto" run in the 15th century.

@GOMBE3

3 жыл бұрын

If you are talking about battles uptil 12 th century you are right. They introduced his name and family background before fighting. But everything changed after Mongols came in 13th C. They didn,t follow such Japanese rituals.

@-shikajin-4078

3 жыл бұрын

Their voice would also echo when they said the name of the technique.

@CB-py1xh

3 жыл бұрын

It was all about hyper attacks. The samurai had them, the old Chinese of the three kingdoms period didn't have them. But both had musou attacks!

@samuraijackoff5354

3 жыл бұрын

HACHIMAN’S FURY

“My lord, a glorious victory will soon be your’s!”

@darklibertario5001

3 жыл бұрын

_shamefur dispruei_

@gatoloco2549

3 жыл бұрын

Our men are running from thre battle field

@rekyks2220

2 ай бұрын

I see you there Shogun. I see you

I think one of the most brutal (and definitely not-honorable) aspects of samurai warfare was the follow-up of the battle when the defeated were hunted down and massacred for their heads or equipment, something that lasted for days and even weeks. That must been just a terrifying experience to go through.

@lock3265

3 жыл бұрын

@Paper Plane Sadly, warfare rarely follows such rules. The equipment was needed and the enemy's very survival was viewed dishonorably at times.

@richhartnell6233

3 жыл бұрын

He made a good point about making war movies a horror movie. Imagine a horror movie about a defeated samurai trying to escape from the field.

@koraegi

Жыл бұрын

*That one guy with the ugly head pretending to be dead* "Thank God they don't want my head"

@AdamOwenBrowning

Жыл бұрын

A similar thing absolutely happened when European armies got thoroughly routed. A good pair of boots are invaluable and stocking your armory with the enemy's weapons is a bright idea, especially when there is no "non-standard" ammunition involved. We even do this with firearms in contemporary history - Japanese Arisaka rifles were maintained and stored by the Russians after the first Russo-Japanese war and then filtered down through sale to many other nations. Even Britain maintained some Arisaka rifles and an inventory of 6.5mm semi-rimmed specifically for it. Free metal for a daimyo's army is very valuable! Of course, that's all well and good but everyone need be hunted down, beheaded and stripped first :/ The idea of a horror movie taking place in the shoes of a routed army's farthest stragglers would truly be terrifying.

@lelanderickson1045

10 ай бұрын

On the evidence the majority of fatalities in pre-industrial warfare battles ensued not during the height of the battle, but during the pursuit of the defeated army that inevitably followed.

Suicide by "Jumping from horse at full gallup with sword between your teeth" is about the craziest and most badass thing I can think of.

@jaywerner8415

3 жыл бұрын

I second that. But hay at least looked cool dying.

@seanstamper1459

3 жыл бұрын

I still don’t understand how that’d kill you

@jaywerner8415

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanstamper1459 I can only assume on impact the sword sliced though his mouth, more or less slicing his head off.

@olf7olf72

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaywerner8415 i d assume that the took so that it implaed his head whenn he crused into the ground

@klarkmartinez1124

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanstamper1459 i can actually imagine some scenarious of it. imagine if it missed your cervical spine. and felt the pain while you are slowly bleeding away.

War is everything but glorious and that "smell of victory" is shit from corpses

@TheChonaman

3 жыл бұрын

On the battlefield, the smell of victory is always the same as the smell of defeat. Especially if the weather was warm it would linger. At least the dead don't have to smell it for days after the battle.

@kapitan19969838

3 жыл бұрын

No offense guys but none You know shit about battlefield

@tylermartin7245

2 жыл бұрын

Humans have been waging wars ever since the dawn of civilization. There has been so much warfare in history that every single area of land has had human blood shed on it multiple times over, perhaps. These fearless warriors couldn't just put down their weapons in the middle of a battlefield, become pacifists and go home singing Kumbaya. Their reality was that they had to fight to the death with deadly weapons and any mistake could've meant death for themselves and (even worse) victory for the enemy. They had been training to fight their entire lives. To simply dismiss their valor, incredible fighting ability and the absolute disregard for death in a moronic and futile argument for "wArS aRe BaD!!!111" is one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard of.

We should remember that samurai commanders usually knew Sun Tzu´s Art of War very well. The Art of War also says that "All Warfare is based on deception". I think it could be an interesting idea to make an episode between Sun Tzu´s Art of War and Samurai warfare since educated Japanese people knew the Art of War since 7th century.

@jaywerner8415

3 жыл бұрын

That would be interesting.

@minamotonokuroyoshitsune3237

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see a video on that topic

@velveteensallet949

3 жыл бұрын

Takeda Shingen, one of the greatest daimyo of the Sengoku Era, supposedly had a battle standard made that had quotes straight out of the Art of War.

@silversurfer512

3 жыл бұрын

@@velveteensallet949 There're letters on the famous banner of Shingen army which were written as "Fuu Rin Ka Zan" means, Wind Forest Fire Mountain. Those words are from the Art of War. Means, "When you move, you have to be as fast as wind." "When you hide, you have to be as calm as forest." "When you attack, you have to be as fierce as fire." "When you stop, you have to be as firm as a mountain." BTW, Shingen was one of the most feared Daimyo lords of that era. Even Nobunaga was afraid of Shingen. But when Shingen finally started to go to Kyoto to become the ruler of Japan, he died en route by some sickness. After that Nobunaga defeated the son of Shingen at famous Nagashino battle used the most gun power in Japanese history before that time against famous Takeda Cavalry.

@amznamzn

3 жыл бұрын

I would say that yes , you can see the influence of Sun Tsu on samurai strategy in the writings of Musashi in his Book of 5 rings. Quit interesting to see the correlations between the two books.

"Treachery! The enemy army has meant to ambush us!"

@Z020852

3 жыл бұрын

"The enemy is running like a whipped dog! Shameful display!"

@parikshitabhgautam3416

3 жыл бұрын

@@Z020852 *shamfur dispray

@sowpmactavish

3 жыл бұрын

*hidden units my lord, treacherously meant to ambush us

There is a lot of reasons Oda Nobunaga can make a good antagonist in a semi-fictional story. He is a man ruthlessly crushing independent temples and rivals when he needs to.

Yea video on ranks within the samurai/ashigaru classes,

On behalf of the Shokuho team and of course myself, we are extremely grateful for the shoutout you gave us on your video! The support we have received from your audience and the community in general has been outstanding and we are forever grateful. We shall strive to make a historically accurate, yet engaging Sengoku Jidai mod that will give the players a riveting gameplay experience, narrative storyline, and above everything else to provide the player with a deep exploration of feudal japan during one of its most tumultuous eras. Again, thank you for the amazing shoutout!

@SunZoo.

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaqalamtgt3ZdtY.html This video is what real samurai battles actually look like. People literally trying to kill each other and using judo/joint locks.

@goldensmurf8168

2 жыл бұрын

@@SunZoo. if you manage to get that implemented into Bannerlord, give us a dm

@JohnDoe-yq9rt

Жыл бұрын

Is it bannerlord or warband? Either way I'm gonna download it

@bearmanroar7117

Жыл бұрын

this mod really made me think how bad bannerlord solider types actually are. And no fan will admit it

@JohnDoe-yq9rt

Жыл бұрын

@@bearmanroar7117 I have over 5000 hours in Warband, only about 5 in bannerlord. Make of that what you will.

Living in Japan we visit battlefields and they continue to have a very eerie feeling! If I take photos at night with a flash ‘kodama’ spheres as they are sometimes known are everywhere moving to different positions if I shoot really rapidly! Great channel and info…Thanks…ありがとうございました！

15:00 not to mention that his irl inspiration was the head of an artillery school and only charged after they ran out of ammo lol

In The Revenge of the Sith , Obi wan had to resort to a gun to defeat General Griveous. That means that Jedi knights are willing to use weapons other than their light sabers to achieve their goals.

@enrique4459

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Good eye.

@HP_lovecrafts_cat67

3 жыл бұрын

But its frowned upon in jedi teachings to use a blaster but that doesn’t necessarily stop them from actually using blaster

@stevefrench7036

2 жыл бұрын

Also, for some reason the clones charge with their blaster into melee range towards Yoda when they go back to the temple at the end ?

@josephchaput7389

Жыл бұрын

@@stevefrench7036 i noticed this too, perhaps it's toi make the shots harder to block since multiple since they are all advancing. That combined with the fact that clones recognize they are pretty expendable.

@stevefrench7036

Жыл бұрын

@@josephchaput7389 Interesting, perhaps yeah, plus in Star Wars, blasters usually don't seem accurate (if you played Jedi Academy, you'll know hahaha). On another note, zeroing-in on a target to cut their escape might be some form of tactic as well, but it um... don't work on Yoda lol

What an incredible experience these battles must have been. The fearlessness of historical warriors never ceases to amaze me.

@Kuckooracha

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think fearlessness is the proper term, many must’ve been shitting their pants in terror

I think a ,,relatively" close depiction of warfare came in Battlefield 1. It's not _the most_ historically accurate WW1 game out there, but it does a very good job at showing what a battlefield might have looked like: destroyed homes and mud everywhere, fear you can feel from the computer yourself, sometimes rage as you charge forward, maybe even a pride and sense of mission as you heal your teammates or try to bravely take down a tank - and once you see an enemy, it's all just a massive hunger game for survival, but in fancy (but bloody and unwashed) suits - everyone killing everyone else, with everything and every trick they have up their sleeve (even as much as drowning an enemy soldier in a puddle - that last one is a scene from _All Quiet on Wesrern Front,_ actually. One thing this movie got right). I imagine Samurai warfare might have looked similarly - but with diffrent technology and weapons.

Basically every warrior across history outside beginning of record history were practical and not stupid and fought to win even knights and Samurai.

@todo9633

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no, there were definitely idiots on historical battlefields, who tried stupid things, but they usually died and no one bothered to remember them. There were also entire cultures whose idea of warfare was based on rituals and procedure and ideas of how things 'should be', but they usually only lasted until they came across someone who took advantage of it.

The point when the bloody meat grinder starts is when the honor duels happen. After the initial clash people are tired and trying to recover wounded and get back in formation and as it starts to get dark honor duels between individuals are much more practical and likely.

@JohnSmith-jp5bj

3 жыл бұрын

Especially in the second round of honour duels, I would expect them to mostly be revenge for the loss of friends in the preceding meat grinder.

@runakovacs4759

3 жыл бұрын

In Eastern Europe, it was more the other way around. Two armies would send forth light cavalry skirmishers who would duel amongst each other, then bring back prisoners/"trophies" to their own army to boost morale. It was usually done by young nobility trying to prove themselves to their commander. This skirmish happened to also allow for armies to mobilise and get into proper formation. Allowing for the actual engagement later to occur more "cleanly." At least, the Polish and Kazaks did so.

@SusCalvin

2 жыл бұрын

@@runakovacs4759 The concept of skirmish troops comes up through history. The early modern period has the "small war" that covers the constant smaller clashes between sentries, raiders, scouts, foragers etc of the field armies. "Small" in comparison to the relatively few large-scale battles by having only a few hundred people. Someone has to get up over the hill and see what's on the other side or fetch water, and then they run into enemy lads doing the same. Or they get picked off by angry peasants if they show up understrength.

@cpp3221

Жыл бұрын

@@runakovacs4759 in fact, during european antiquity and middle age, it was a common practice to send light troops to exchanges missiles beforr engaging a battle. But about duels specifically. The duels before the meat grinders (sometimes between maybe) were a practice known to the celts, the romans, the arabs, the sassanids, etc.

Duels probably happened during the skirmishing part of the battle, which can last quite a while before either army commits to a fight.

I completely agree with you, the fact that guns, bows, pole arms, clubs and swords were all used on the same battlefield at the same time is extremely freaking cool. I never really thought about the fact that they had guns, that just makes it so much more insanely epic.

@koukidenhikaitu4990

2 күн бұрын

There's also more primitive stone throwing.

The ancient Greeks learned that shoving up close together, shoulder to shoulder, several ranks deep with long spears (later pikes) meant you could push over and through the enemies line of battle won you the battle more often than not. So I suspect, even allowing cultural differences, the modern image we have of swirling multiple ‘one on one’ combats are highly inaccurate. In the later period, after cannons were introduced, then deep ranks of troops wouldn’t have been feasible of course but that was the beginning of the end for the samurai anyway.

@lock3265

3 жыл бұрын

Battle tactics heavily differed geographically. The heavily diverse cultures of Europe with foreign enemies and invaders led to a much different war culture than the highly isolated, culturally homogeneous Japan, where more ideals of honor can be kept up. However, I agree that any major "battle" wouldnt be comprised of any weird 1v1 dueling lol.

@dusk6159

3 жыл бұрын

Let alone with damn swords lol into a battlefield lol

@jaywerner8415

3 жыл бұрын

@@lock3265 I think shogun 2s intro video probably says it best (or at least reasonable depiction), any duels where probably done before or maybe after battle, then after that the battle would start and everything descends into chaos.

@jaywerner8415

3 жыл бұрын

@@dusk6159 Ya from everything i hear, if they did have swords strapped to their sides it was probably a back up weapon, cus you always hear they only carried katanas in town.

@tomgjgj

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaywerner8415 Honestly, makes sense to use a sword in town. Bows and spears are large, cumbersome and situational. Bows are better in open field and spears are better in ranks. Plus, well made ornate swords are a status symbol in basically every culture.

It has always been that writers and artists tended to focus on individuals or small units in order to portray the humanity of the participants. This led to the idolized creation of codes of honorable combat that happened, but were actually a minor part in the overall combat on battlefields. The participants goal was always to prevail and defeat their opponents, gaining the objectives that they were after, and to survive. The chaos of the actual battlefield is always clarified and codified, by the artists and writers who portray or describe the encounters, usually at some point well after the encounters actually occurred. Propaganda, myth making, and popularity always played a part in the images and stories that framed how conflicts were ultimately remembered.

I always like to consider Negoro monks and Saika villagers as the first masters of musketry in Japan, being able to fire 3 times faster compared to Nobunaga’s men while being more accurate, these folks dwarfed any proper army at the time and are an asset to any lord who hire them.

@djangojia5427

Жыл бұрын

这些僧侣和农民是古流传承的铁炮术，就跟剑术和枪术流派差不多，专门习练铁炮，自然比征召的足轻强。

@blackpowderkun

Жыл бұрын

Guessing they already mastered the handcanon before upgrading to arquebuses.

Your channel is seriously underrated, you have the most realistic and accurate information about samurai history and overall feudal Japanese society. Be it the combat of different eras, the different classes and types of warriors its all amazing!. I also love how the whole channel breaks up different aspects of feudal Japanese history because it varied so much. You do an excellent job and you have earned a loyal subscriber.

Man your stuff is so high quality and interesting. Thank you

15:55: I strongly I agree with you, the Shogunate, The tactics and equipment used during the Sengoku Jidai, from the Onin war, to the battle of Nagashino, to the battle of Shizugatake, to the Korean campaign (Imjin war) to the battle of Sekigahara are extremely fascinating and interesting.

On the note of accurate depictions of the American Civil War, I actually have to say that Gettysburg does a pretty decent job at it. While it doesn't have the "rivers of blood" or exploding limbs, it shows how tactics were used, the men in command and the soldiers on the ground, how men died in the hundreds in just a matter of minutes (especially Pickett's Charge) and even insights into why the war was being fought on both sides. History Buffs does a really good job of analyzing this, so I do recommend checking it out.

@brendanfrost9775

Жыл бұрын

One of my all time favorites to watch, yet still a huge far cry from the reality of battle. Besides probably the most common failure of battle scenes, which is that men are shown to be either straight up dead or alive (not wounded, which was actually the vast majority, bloody and terrified, most knowing they were on their way out), like almost any film I've seen, they also omit the constant screaming and howling that a battlefield would have had. One of the only films I can think of that does this is The Forgotten Battle--unrealistic in some ways, but the absolutely constant scream of those already wounded is, as it would have been in reality, simply the constant way of every single battle.

@als3022

11 ай бұрын

@@brendanfrost9775 There were plenty of wounded trying to retreat back in the Pickett-Pettigrew Assault. You see them moving back while the main line is fighting in front. And to be fair to Gettysburg, they had a TV miniseries budget (Back then that wasn't too big). What is not known is that the thousands of soldiers (I believe 8,000 in the end) who were extras, all of them were reenactors who brought their own stuff to fight. Every one of them volunteers. A good chunk of the cannons, muskets, and bayonets, the extras owned. Its style is also set as a battle epic like the 1950's-60's movies.

Japan in 1400 to 1500: *exists* The west: “Oh no, so anyway this is god and here is gun.”

@TheSpectralFX

3 жыл бұрын

Japan in 1400 to 1500: *exists and does not want to trade with outsiders* Here, fixed it for you.

@Okuni_

3 жыл бұрын

Japan: I'll just take the gun thank you

@zerothehero123

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSpectralFX except the dutch, we gave them western science!

@satch5471

3 жыл бұрын

@@zerothehero123 and we did it without trying to make them believe in our guy in the sky. Which they preffered over the portuguese.

@user-pj1ec5om5g

3 жыл бұрын

@@satch5471 thanks for that guys, we liked the guns and armor you guys had

I think something that alot of war movies get wrong is sound, battles even before gun powder would still be loud with screaming commands, metal clashing and the yells and shouts of the dying

The Shogunate references Atun-Shei? This is a great day!

"Jin, we must fight with honor! Or not at all!" "...Uncle, are you even aware of how we *actually* fight?"

@kapitan19969838

3 жыл бұрын

What do You mean

@snowtail1951

3 жыл бұрын

@@kapitan19969838 Ghost of Tsushima joke

10:07 such a beautiful rendition

Would you ever consider doing a video on samurai heraldry? I feel like in popular culture, all the soldiers of a clan will bear a single banner and color on the battlefield, like the Takeda always wearing red. However, I know this is not how it was and would love to see a video on some rules of heraldry and how battlefields and armies would look.

Japanese samurai during the civil war quickly changed their lords in search of higher rewards. At that time, it was normal to change the lord many times in his life. The samurai always negotiated with the lord about the reward. When the peaceful era began and the relationship between the samurai and the lord was fixed, the samurai's "honor" and "morality" began to be touted.

@djangojia5427

Жыл бұрын

也不一定是战争时代，即使战国结束后的江户时代，也有下级武士数次跳槽效忠不同的主公，一切都是为了薪水。

I very much appreciate your insightfulness. In as much as understanding the circumstance of battle, our ignorance to any moment beyond that which we live. In a turn of phrase, you see enough to know what you don't. Thanks for a cool video!

Beautiful pictures and interesting video. Thank you!

an old friend of mine from Japan. One said either you’re married into a samurai clan or you’re born into one If not born into or married into you’re just a plain old swordsman

The sengoku Jidai arc is amazing

7:27 PS4 video game Ghost of Tsushima. This game shows the beginning of the war between Mongol Emperor and Japan at Tsushima island

Not realising what I had learned playing through Samurai warriors series, incredible

12:00 Nagashino is actually a battle that should be viewed as a colossal tactical blunder by an incompetent general, rather than one of Nobunaga's great triumphs. Shingen understood the value of the teppo in defensive formation. He even used the tactic himself in one of the Battles of Kawanakajima. If he had been alive, it is highly unlikely that he would have tried to assault a defended position with cavalry. Unfortunately, Katsuyori had none of his father's strategic vision, and though he was clearly a brave cavalry commander (one of his father's best), he made a stupid and self-sacrificial charge, in an effort to prove that he was worthy of following Shingen as the clan leader. I dont see this as some change in the basic structure of Japanese warfare. Remember, "good" Japanese archers supposedly could pierce single-layer steel armor at 30.303 meters. The teppo was a bit more deadly (albeit slower), but its use in battle was restricted by weather. It did have an impact on the battles of the Sengoku Jidai, but it did not really do anything to alter "What did a Samurai Battlefield Look Like" Apart from that quibble - Good video !

@cucklepuffyao5842

Жыл бұрын

Bro facts. My friend likes to stroke off Nobunaga due to that battle, but unfortunately, the Tiger of Kai wasn’t there to stop that blunder 😔

Love your narration. Pleasant voice

Thank you for this video. It always irks me when seeing the romanticized "honorable, code abiding" depiction of Samurai created in the Edo Jidai. Warfare based in tradition and limited to the warrior caste implemented into total war seems such an oversight and inaccurate. On another note: I saw your Q and A video where you say you went to UWM, where I assume you are from Wisconsin. As a half-Japanese American and fellow Wisconsinite I was pleasantly surprised to find someone in my area creating such detailed quality content on the Sengoku Jidai.

@richhartnell6233

3 жыл бұрын

He’s from Wisconsin too? Looks like the new home for samurai is in the wastelands of Wisconsin. Lol

Also artists and writers reflect the perceived image after the actual battle. It's more a reflection of ideals than reality. Also the winners write history. You can see the same principle with Richard III. or Cao Cao, who were branded as the villains by their enemies/succesors

Thanks for the update😊

Well done. Very well studied. Accurate. Very precise to real Japanese history. A big appraisal from Japan.

Great vid as always. Thanks

THX FOR EXPLAINING. I HAD THAT QUESTION FOR A LONG TIME.

Great video!!! With awesome art work to go with awesome history 👍👍 you ser have a new subscriber 😁

tarantino needs to watch this; a civil war film w "rivers of blood" is exactly what the world needs in 2021

Keep god work man loved this vid

Lol I love at the beginning it has all the ashigaru running in formation, but at the end of the segment and combat is joined, all sense of formation immediately breaks down like it does in every bloody medieval combat sim

Awsome video man

I remember renting and watching "Heaven and Earth" several times when I was in college. I really enjoyed it each time, even if I DID have to read the subtitles.

"Never stray from the way." - Miyamoto Musashi

The whole reason shinobi houses were designed with revolving walls and escape hatches, false walls, false floor boards etc was to protect against enemy incursion and foremost to keep the recipe for gunpowder a secret! They even had wooden cannons!

nice video! i enjoyed watching!

Big fan of your content and been subscribed months ago! Question - I'm an Iaido practitioner of several years, and was wondering if you would ever consider doing a segment on the history of Iaido? I'd love to see your historical take on the way of the sword!

I can describe battles of that time period with only one word...horrific Men screaming at the top of their lungs, thunder and dark skies, axes getting driven into the faces of their foes...I can't even imagine the horror of those battles

@tylermartin7245

2 жыл бұрын

To you it's horror, to them it was the most incredible thing in the world. The successful warriors longed to experience it again.

@arthelliasgaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@tylermartin7245 Very true

Awesome video like always! I have always wondered whether the samurai used pike and shot tactics though

Nowadays: brother compete on who got the bigger card collection. Back than: "hey bro, how many heads do you have?"

Great video!

So it was basically very similar to the 30 years war in Europe.

Nice content 👍 cheers JB

Total War: Shogun 2 The greatest real strategy samurai warfare game ever.

@scottishwanker6202

3 жыл бұрын

Yeea bout that Fuck hojo metsukes

@ishidamitsunari3808

3 жыл бұрын

yeah okay, have fun with messy ai, not 100% historically accurate scenarios.

@ishidamitsunari3808

3 жыл бұрын

I kinda prefer Nobunaga No Yabou Souzou (Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence) a bit more in history

good god this channel is awesome

How has it taken me this long to discover your channel? Insta-subscribed.

At least 1 of those pics used was from the L5R setting. Cool video!

Shout out for giving Atun Shei a shout out!

Also I have came across some statement on Japanese Middle Ages warfare, specifically stating the Takeda model, they claimed that ashigaru are more playing a defensive role, a single row of ashigaru spearman will try to bog down the enemy by slashing spears while a line of ji-samurai behind using short spears will do the killing, it was also mentioned that the relative unimportance of ashigaru was shown by the marching column as these spearman was marching on the rear, way behind skirmishes and samurai columns, which means that upon contact the first to engage would be more reliable samurai troops rather than the supposed backbone of the army. Another thing mentioned by the statement is the record of merit, which by the late Sengoku Jidai head count is still dominating factor of merit, thus its usually the samurai who does the killing receive the merit, while ashigaru would almost never be promoted due to the limited chance to actually take enemy heads.

Good and informative and entertaining👍

More samurai content yay! Is there any chance you could cover the Genpei War after you finish the Sengoku Jidai series? 🙂 It has colorful characters such as Minamoto Yoshitsune and Benkei, betrayals, and a Minamoto-Taira rivalry just like that of the Takeda-Uesugi.

@OneWingedAngelsBand

3 жыл бұрын

Or maybe a video of the four notable assassins of the Edo Period? I heard Kawakami Gensai is the inspiration behind Rurouni Kenshin's Battousai.

Are you ever gonna cover the imjin war? or does that not count as a sengoku jidai related event. Keep up the amazing work always looking forward to a new video

I love your videos. Could you please make a video about the relation between japan and the Netherlands?

Samurai battlefield during Sengoku Jidai representing the height of martial prowess. It's full of skilfully use of various weapons like swords, spear, bow and arrow, and even firearms. The warrior during this time practically need to mastered the use of these weapons to emerge victorious and eventually this all ended when the modern firearms begin to take over the whole battlefield.

The samurai's primary weapon was the Yuri Spear - Mass ranks tightly packed . Also Firearms became the primary used ranged weapon in later centuries

@SCH292

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. Talk about Spear, Pike and firearms. Your comment totally reminded of that one bullshit myth that Weebs repeat for decades. Those weebs like to say that Oda invented the Spear wall with Gunners and later that tactic got adopted by European countries. Bruh. European been using that mass pike-men with gunners tactic since the..fucking..1200s or the 1300s.

@Samuraiedge2

3 жыл бұрын

@@SCH292 Pike and Shot didn't become a thing until the 16th century. Little off by 200 years.

@alinalexandru2466

3 жыл бұрын

@@Samuraiedge2 bit wrong there. Pike and shot formations appeared in the 15th century during the Italian wars.

Never thought i'd hear Atun-shei and AOE 1 music in a Shogunate video

Man he used the bf1 theme to great effect, it really sets the effect.

16:06 well yeah, Star Wars is a WW2 Samurai Space Opera 😁😋 Great video, thank you!!

Hey this is the first I’ve heard of the Bannerlord 2 mod. I’m excited, I never played the first one.

The Tale of the Heike. My favourite part to that story is Tomoe Gozen. Pivot. A 2017 movie simply named: Sekigahara Is a revisionist story told from the perspective of Mitsunari Ishida. The commander of the losing side. I feel it depicts the chaos well. Namely the difficulty in coordinating attacks, fear of committing, loyalties, betrayal, professionalism, and just how personal it is to decapitate an armored samurai that wants your head too. Think jiu jitsu (judo) and using sword at the same time. No for time kata bullshit. Judo is symbolic of that era. Once an armored samurai is on their back, they're doomed. Good content Shogun-sama!!! I forgot to add. Legend has it Musashi Miyamoto was there too. On the losing side.

I feel like your description of the Sengoku period as a time of both traditional melee implemets like swords. As well as a time when firearms came in to widespread use, can be applied to the european Pike and Shot period as well.

Samurai: * use bows Portuguese merchants: Let us introduce ourself

@michaelbandada9887

3 жыл бұрын

Oda Nobunaga: Yes Takeda Katsuyori and company: Oh crap, we're gonna die

15:50 an interesting point and comparison

Here's an idea: Sengoku Jedi

A great video. To paraphrase Terry Pratchett... he had been brought up on paintings of great charges and victories, when he became a soldier the one thing he noticed was that the artist had missed out entrails. He supposed they just weren’t very good at painting them.... it would seem the Japanese artists weren’t so squeamish.

Excellent!

Personally I dont think Oda Nobunaga was demonized during Kagemusha (unlike in the other instances) but more like that the whole movie is told through the Takeda POV. Aside from that great video man

Victory will always bring honor No matter how you achieve it

Samurai were also known to conduct raids on towns and in so doing would kill defenseless people, even infants, without even hesitating.

If you think about it, the battlefields of Japan in the end of the Shegoku period where very similar to the ones of the XVI and XVII in Occidental Europe. The mix of spears/pikes, swords and fire arms is called "Pike and shoot warfare", and in bouth parts of the wolrd was use.

oh papi that mods gunna be awesome

12:46 "victory wipes all dishonor"... goes off to start a game of shogun 2

i have often wanted to depict an actual battle with the rivers of blood to remind people of the cost of their decisions.. it wouldnt be a movie.. it would be a glimpse into the war at the battle and would show everything..

3:00 be fair, for most soldiers, during most of war, it’s all marching and camping. Battle is usually a very small part in terms of amount of time at least.

Great video! Just want to point it out that the Ashigaru is a rank of the samurai class (at least from the sengoku jidai), they had the duty of the peasants too when they are not serving in the military, but the most significant difference between them and the normal peasants is that they have the right to wear the swords. The samurai class covers a whole lot of differrent ranks, all from the daimyo(warlods) to the ashigaru(the lowerst rank). But of course, there is a lot of peasants that participated in the wars too, their function is more of the supplying the army and the logistics, but not to be confused with the ashigaru and the mercenaries (youhei). But of course during the time of war, the peasants could easily be "promoted" to ashigaru.

I found this video most informative

What's the round item haning from the samurai's sash at 4:23 I see it all around japanese paintings and am struggling to find an aswer on google.

I am loving the videos but could you also present the sources? I would love to read further and use them for my researches if possible.