Ceasars life is literally the definition of plot armor

@jurtra9090

3 жыл бұрын

Until the Ides of March

@JamesJJSMilton

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@joebrown2661

3 жыл бұрын

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art?

@sobitasadullah4517

3 жыл бұрын

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

@bergonath8851

3 жыл бұрын

@@sobitasadullah4517 Very well put.

10:07 imagine tripping over in public and it still being talked about 2000 years later.

@diegoprobaly4990

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@irarelyupload6930

5 жыл бұрын

Eternal embarrassment

@as7river

4 жыл бұрын

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

@momon969

4 жыл бұрын

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

@pushparadhakrishnan7343

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

"I came, I lost, I died." -Cato 46 B.C.E.

@randomcenturion7264

2 жыл бұрын

He died as he lived; stubbornly.

@gmat5046

2 жыл бұрын

Harsh. True, but harsh.

@Cybermat47

2 жыл бұрын

‘I came.’ - Cato’s dad, 96 BC.

@gmat5046

2 жыл бұрын

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

@vinnieg6161

2 жыл бұрын

F me this is to relatable ='d

Man this Caesar guy has more Ex Machina moments than most fiction protagonists.

@klotzinatorinho

4 жыл бұрын

plot armor smh

@killercheemstar3088

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Cross-xm2fr

4 жыл бұрын

It's cause he wrote his own history

@Sykale

4 жыл бұрын

It was all to maximize the impact of his death

@jorgefigueroa1219

3 жыл бұрын

Audentes fortuna iuvat

Caeser really liked going into hostile territory without food and a small amount of soldiers

@TheSasudomi

5 жыл бұрын

yeah,he was playing on hardcore difficulty all the time

@mikedoll456

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheSasudomi love this comment

@theemperorschosen7607

5 жыл бұрын

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

@jameskirk1161

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Fezboyz

5 жыл бұрын

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”.

I love following these stories of Caeser's life. I hope he has a long lasting career afterwards as payoff for all his hard work

@austenbin4068

5 жыл бұрын

I am sure he will take a stab at it!

@rdf4315

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@briankelley4568

5 жыл бұрын

@@austenbin4068 Too soon...

@cartercopeland1956

5 жыл бұрын

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

@bennolee348

5 жыл бұрын

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

"Veni Vidi Vici" can roughly be translated to: "Get on my level, nerds."

@TheGhostbuster1989

3 жыл бұрын

Actually it translates to: gg 2ez noobs

@spaznorcrest

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGhostbuster1989 2ez 4 JulezCeezy

@buckplug2423

3 жыл бұрын

geti gudi n00bi

@mspoints4fre123

3 жыл бұрын

He essentially stuffed them in his metaphorical locker.

@udozocklein6023

3 жыл бұрын

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

The amount of times Ceasar got himself into deep shit and miraculously escaped makes me think Fortuna does indeed favor the bold.

@UltmateKngofNothngthest

3 жыл бұрын

Or was drunk

@hauserreich4388

3 жыл бұрын

Or the bald

@hughg.gaines6027

3 жыл бұрын

Caesar was just OP at war and politics.

@teemuvesala9575

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@hughg.gaines6027

3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

[Video title]; or How Caesar Narrowly Escapes Death This Time Vol. 139

@aurelian5234

5 жыл бұрын

Madden Humphrey love this comment

@richardsanchez9190

4 жыл бұрын

Or "historys luckiest bastard"

@FEARSWTOR

4 жыл бұрын

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

I like how there was a Scipio AND a Cato defending Roman Carthage against an attack launched from Italy.

@sarasamaletdin4574

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@matthewlebo1841

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@ramjb

5 жыл бұрын

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

@matthewlebo1841

5 жыл бұрын

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

@MetalHeadViking

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! That was hillarious!

Pharmaces: "Alright, there's no way I'm going to be able to out-plan Caesar. He's too good at the slow, carefully-calculated kind of warfare. So how do I counter that? ...I know! I'll force battle immediately, before he has time to plan or prepare, by doing the last thing he'd expect!" _Pharmaces soon learned why Caesar hadn't expected that_

@jophielswings

5 жыл бұрын

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

@caseyb1346

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@jamesliu3295

4 жыл бұрын

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

@GerryBolger

4 жыл бұрын

@@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..

@zeccy337

4 жыл бұрын

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

24:35 A theory I heard about this slaughter is that Caesar's men were annoyed at Caesar because he had pardoned so many of his enemies who then betrayed him and resumed fighting him (and by extension Caesar's soldiers). So in order to prevent yet another such a pardoning followed by yet another campaign, the soldiers decided to simply execute all the prisoners and ignore Caesar's orders to be sure that this was the last time they'd have to deal with these people ever again.

@romanempire4495

2 жыл бұрын

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

@nicholasszymonik5269

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@noneofyourdamnbusinessstill

2 жыл бұрын

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

@LetsGoGetThem

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@laughsatchungus1461

Жыл бұрын

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

Its kinda funny to see caesar overestimating his opponent so much that he thought of a big month long game plan only to have the enemy do a full frontal charge

@GardEngebretsen

5 жыл бұрын

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

@bobsemple3951

5 жыл бұрын

GardEngebretsen Caesar has max luck points

@M_Chen333

5 жыл бұрын

"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!!!"

@bificommander

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@e1123581321345589144

5 жыл бұрын

I think that guy had Klingons for generals.

Nailed it - Random Legionnaire

@Baamthe25th

5 жыл бұрын

That Legionnaire ? Pontius Pilate

@plutarchvonpluto6439

5 жыл бұрын

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

@jvcardoso1997

Жыл бұрын

nah... was Titus Pullo

That flute man should have got a triumph.

@maxtree2003

5 жыл бұрын

True. That man was a 20th level bard!

@budakbaongsiah

4 жыл бұрын

@@maxtree2003 Epic-level bardic knowledge ftw

@PersimmonHurmo

4 жыл бұрын

He's not Roman. Barbarian.

@ilkkarautio2449

4 жыл бұрын

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

@megadwarf4714

4 жыл бұрын

F

22:55 "Caesar suffered from seizures his entire life" Name checks out.

@TheGhostbuster1989

3 жыл бұрын

Julius Seizure. Im sorry

@BatCostumeGuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGhostbuster1989 Julius having Seizures.

@nick5422

2 жыл бұрын

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

@avaerui

2 жыл бұрын

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

The old flute as a distraction technique, classic

@bradmapson6243

5 жыл бұрын

Good ol' fan dance

@WaterShowsProd

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't Hope and Crosby use a similar strategy?

@PeterGregoryKelly

5 жыл бұрын

Said in the Maxwell Smart Agent 86 voice.

@jonesaffrou6014

5 жыл бұрын

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

Seriously, I don't know how this guy survived the last 6 years of his military career.

@MrTokesu

5 жыл бұрын

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

@satyamstranger

5 жыл бұрын

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

@18mitndi

5 жыл бұрын

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

@lollllfol

5 жыл бұрын

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

@AlexanderDiviFilius

5 жыл бұрын

@@lollllfol where, not how.

Ceasar: Goes into enemy territory with like zero food. XIII legion: I guess we eat grass and caligae soup then.

@Free_Palestine_419

4 жыл бұрын

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

@J-IFWBR

3 жыл бұрын

*nervous mule sounds intensify*

@timothymclean

3 ай бұрын

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.

That "trips on the way out of the boat, and says '____, I hold you in my hands'" thing happened twice afterward - William the Conqueror did a faceplant when landing in England and recovered with the same line, and about 250 years later Edward III did it sailing in the opposite direction. Both were either quick thinkers or knew their history. Probably both.

@TheIbney00

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Darkout412

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@willkp50

3 жыл бұрын

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

@jessejordache1869

3 жыл бұрын

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

@loserpooper

3 жыл бұрын

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

Today is a good day

@TheGringuish12

5 жыл бұрын

Best january close ever

@HistoryMarche

5 жыл бұрын

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

@TSL73

5 жыл бұрын

And I didn’t have to use my Ak

@irongeneral7861

5 жыл бұрын

...TO DIIIIIE

@bugzyhardrada3168

5 жыл бұрын

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

Took under 60 elephants to break an army of thousands. Elephants are no joke.

@merrittanimation7721

5 жыл бұрын

Hannibal agrees.

@ilhampramastya6829

5 жыл бұрын

Took only an Alps to break dozens of elephants.

@sarasamaletdin4574

5 жыл бұрын

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

@QemeH

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@beefstew6512

5 жыл бұрын

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

Caesar had a strong tactical mind to win battles, and an incredible amount of charisma to earn loyalty. but it's becoming clear that his strongest trait by far is his ability to spin things, he could manipulate EVERYTHING to his benefit, even his own failures.

@ATJ253

4 жыл бұрын

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

@ugoeze7360

4 жыл бұрын

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

@hoponpop3330

4 жыл бұрын

He was absolutely a logistical genius.

@zettic6783

4 жыл бұрын

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

@MALITH666

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Man, that first battle felt like my experience playing fighting games. Have a big game plan, know my moves pretty well, plan how to win the matchup and space correctly, but then my opponent just goes full unga bunga and charges me down with reckless abandon.

@AlphaCarinae

3 жыл бұрын

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.

"Africa, I have hold of you now!" I'm gonna use this every time I trip and fall to the ground.

@russianbear7832

5 жыл бұрын

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

@justinnnnnn5676

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Albukhshi

4 жыл бұрын

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

@lordfatcock

4 жыл бұрын

Shoelaces, I have hold of you now!

@pandaman2234

4 жыл бұрын

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.

8:25 Caesar: “One last campaign and then we can retire.” Dutch: “One last big score Arthur and then we disappear.”

@rapax2149

5 жыл бұрын

That legion is gonna run off to Tahiti and grow mangos

5 жыл бұрын

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

@yungtoolshed251

5 жыл бұрын

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

@stefanodegioia1598

5 жыл бұрын

@@yungtoolshed251 "HAVE SOME FAITH MY LEGIONARIES!"

@elgodfatherchristian

5 жыл бұрын

this shity made me ugly laugh lol

People in Rome: You cant win cuz of a prophecy! Caesar: Prophecy cancelled out lets go!

Flute man: **ILLUSION 100**

“There we have a Scipio now it’s cancelled out”

@skeletonrowdie1768

5 жыл бұрын

balance is restored

@Buford-kz7ky

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Free_Palestine_419

4 жыл бұрын

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

Legends say the bull is still running for freedom

@arandomlanguagenerd1869

4 жыл бұрын

@Ibrahim Abid no its Zeus chasing Europa

@arandomlanguagenerd1869

4 жыл бұрын

@Ibrahim Abid she escaped and is successfully running away

@gmat5046

2 жыл бұрын

Ghost riders in the sky. That bull leads.

Pharnaces's plan actually makes a huge amount of sense. You almost certainly know of Caesar's strengths in battle, you know he's good at the pre-battle planning and posturing. You know that your army is mostly fresh, while Caesar's has rushed up from Egypt to meet you and is probably tired. You know that the Romans will build a fortified camp whenever they plan to stay somewhere for a length of time. Put like this, taking Caesar's assumptions on how the battle will be fought and turning them on their head? This is probably the best chance Pharnaces had. Bait the Romans into a position where they'll feel secure to make their camp, taking legions off the line to build it. Take advantage of the fact that you've got a plan and they don't. It even nearly worked; if the Romans were less disciplined or slightly slower, they might've been routed from the field before the soldiers on construction duty could reach the battle as reinforcements. If Pharnaces's soldiers had broken through one of Caesar's flanks, instead of calling Pharnaces "reckless" we might be calling him a genius.

@cinnamoncobra5031

2 жыл бұрын

Facts honestly

@alex_zetsu

Жыл бұрын

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.

@madmantheepic7278

Жыл бұрын

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!

@IrishAndy16

Жыл бұрын

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.

@ryantoth676

8 ай бұрын

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.

3:30 damn Pharnaces is such a genius, he's totally playing the meta game 5:20 wait what

Who needs sleep when Historia Civilis uploads

@KittycatKye

5 жыл бұрын

Sleep is for the weak.

@JohnWalterGates

5 жыл бұрын

You, sleep please

@willbuck7952

4 жыл бұрын

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

@zacharythorpe8764

5 ай бұрын

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

Makes me wonder how scary it must have been to stand opposite to Caesars unruly veteran legions. These old grizzled bastards, covered in scars and hungry for their final victory, come at you like a pack of starving wolves. One of them looks right at you.He's got more battles under his belt than teeth in his mouth, and his single remaining eye prophetically pierces you with a gaze of bloody murder, as though every breath you draw is a personal insult to him. For a moment, you wish you were back on board your father's leaky fishing boat, pulling in another disappointing catch, before you raise your shield and steel yourself for the inevitable impact. Takes some guts to hold the line.

@lamegliogioventu

4 жыл бұрын

now this is what I call Poetry

@wisp6826

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@madwolf0966

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Artix902

4 жыл бұрын

Globals vs Silvers

you're conquering youtube like Caesar conquered Gual

@JonatasAdoM

3 жыл бұрын

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

@lavalampooning

3 жыл бұрын

With mass genocide ?

@EdbertWeisly

3 жыл бұрын

Gaul

@EdbertWeisly

3 жыл бұрын

@@lavalampooning i think a betrayal

@Jinisinsane

3 жыл бұрын

For the glory of Remo!!

0:26 While Caesar was "busy" in Egypt *wink* *wink*

@graysonguinn1943

4 жыл бұрын

>be me >have no Egyptian gf > why live

@PersimmonHurmo

4 жыл бұрын

@@graysonguinn1943 royal greek*

@josephzanes7334

4 жыл бұрын

I think that was the whole reason for the siege

@australianword3812

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephzanes7334 Caesar just protecting dat ass

@killercheemstar3088

4 жыл бұрын

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

HC please never stop using that intro music it always fits the mode of your videos

@jacobhamselv

5 жыл бұрын

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

@bottomtext

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhamselv where can I find it?

@flaviusaetius5701

5 жыл бұрын

@@bottomtext yea where qq

@computo2000

5 жыл бұрын

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

@James33498

5 жыл бұрын

And outro.

Not his year Cato 46 b.c.

@merrittanimation7721

5 жыл бұрын

Oof.

@gard86

5 жыл бұрын

Ouch

@sachyriel

5 жыл бұрын

My entrails

@eldorados_lost_searcher

5 жыл бұрын

A double burn.

@M_Chen333

5 жыл бұрын

Cato: His Last Year 46 BC

"One imagines the smile fading from Caesar's face." Thank you, Historia Civilis, for your cinematic but factual recounting of these stories that otherwise would be lost to history.

“I came, I saw, I came, I saw I praise the Lord, then break the law I take what's mine, then take some more It rains, it pours, it rains, it pours.” - Cæsar when asked about the battle of Zela

@user-mh9zu6vt1x

5 жыл бұрын

I cant laugh no more popo dont do this to me

@kevray

5 жыл бұрын

Except he praised the gods not the lord

@imnotchilla9482

5 жыл бұрын

kinda like in spain, it rains it pours

"We now both have Scipios... Prophecy cancelled out!" XD

@russianbear7832

5 жыл бұрын

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.”

I truly hope you keep making these works of art and carry on well into the age of Hadrian and Trajan !

@DeFrostkill

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps all the way to 1453!

@Navak_

5 жыл бұрын

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

@emperorbartu2414

5 жыл бұрын

That would be so great if he did that

@emperorbartu2414

5 жыл бұрын

@@DeFrostkill hahahah i hope so

@arthurrebello919

5 жыл бұрын

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

Labinus, taunting while winning the battle: "When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the master!"

@eldorados_lost_searcher

2 жыл бұрын

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

@elmascapo6588

2 жыл бұрын

* gets his army killed like paper, twice

You should make a video on the Numidian cavalry. These dudes show up everywhere for a long stretch of history.

@rchirexnero8226

3 жыл бұрын

It's done now friends

*_"STAHP!"_* - Gaivs Ivlivs Cæsar, 47 B.C.

What happened to the international sign for war elephant?

@Wallyworld30

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Macieks300

5 жыл бұрын

what does it look like?

@Wallyworld30

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Macieks300

5 жыл бұрын

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

@ramjb

5 жыл бұрын

@@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 ;).

I think William The conqueror did the same when he slipped and fell on the ground and stand up grasp a handful of soil and shouted ''England is ours!'' I think this is a coincidence

@jameskirk1161

5 жыл бұрын

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

@willkp50

3 жыл бұрын

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

@J-IFWBR

3 жыл бұрын

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.

@gmat5046

2 жыл бұрын

Or the grand Daddy of all memes.

@gmat5046

2 жыл бұрын

Invoked trope. Or meme.

I must admit, I had never heard that Ceasar suffered from seizures, my degree isn't specific to this era but my fascination is and I had never read that until stated in this video, and I was diagnosed with epilepsy a couple years ago when I began having seizures, hearing that Ceasar suffered from them too and became so accomplished actually cheered me up from depression (by a lot more than I'll admit to)

Supporting this guy on Patreon was definitely a great decision

@MrSupergingerman

5 жыл бұрын

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 KZread!

I'm gonna play this at quarter speed so I can savor it

"...Before the Roman Camp could respond, the Numidian Cavalry slipped away" Roman Legion: *Angerly Spinning*

These battles are often overlooked in Roman history. We usually just hear, in great detail, about Caesar's conquests in Gaul (battle of Alesia FTW), the Pompaian civil war and then his death. I never knew of the origin of his famous "veni vidi vici". This channel is by far my favourite channel regarding Roman history. Please keep up the amazing work. Also, just want to say that without the defection of Labienus, Caesar would have cleaned up.

When a bull outsmarts the people who conquered most of the known world...

@austenbin4068

5 жыл бұрын

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

@rdf4315

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@incendiarybullet3516

5 жыл бұрын

IQ: 1,000,000+

Between the taunting, and the hunger, I can see how they'd go into a killing frenzy.

@johndominicamabile

5 жыл бұрын

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

@cristianvillanueva8782

5 жыл бұрын

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

Seasoned Veteran: ok one last campaign Elephant Foot: I'm about to end this man's whole career

@adrien5814

3 жыл бұрын

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

@johnythepvpgod1470

2 жыл бұрын

@@adrien5814 I'm fed up with those jokes

I swear, every time a big battle with elephants happens they end up panicking and destroying their own line

It was a difficult choice between Kings and Generals and Historia Civilis, but....... who am I kidding there was no doubt in mind!!

@tyrannicfool2503

5 жыл бұрын

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

@fuadsamedzade386

5 жыл бұрын

DerekGuerrero hahah spinning squares

@Braila2000

5 жыл бұрын

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

@gard86

5 жыл бұрын

@@Braila2000 Hehe, you're funny :)

@nemlas85

5 жыл бұрын

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

I came I watched I liked

@M_Chen333

5 жыл бұрын

I subscribed

@zed6319

5 жыл бұрын

venny veedee veechy

@physical_insanity

5 жыл бұрын

I came I watched I came ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@pizzaface117

5 жыл бұрын

Veni Vidi Amavi*

@Malef1centxDaZe

5 жыл бұрын

This comment also works in reverse :D

That battle that Caesar “lost” in itself is one of Caesar and his legion’s greatest feats. Sure what got them in that position wasn’t good but any other general loses that’s

Watching the dynamic between Labienus and Caesar play out is one of the most interesting parts of this whole time period. I find both characters very fascinating, it's like the perfect rivalry. Gonna be a real sad day when I finally see who plots first :(

Always wonder why youre gone that long, then you come out with an awesome 30 min long video and I remember why :)

Seems like everytime elephants are involved it led to chaos and the owners losing.

@shorewall

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@toxicpanda36

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@craigbyrom6646

5 жыл бұрын

@@shorewall the battle of ipsus

@danny90099

5 жыл бұрын

Even Sauron cant win with elephant

@michaelhutson6758

5 жыл бұрын

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.

17:40 lol he says Caesar's reputation was tarnished while I'm in awe at how he survived what should've been an overwhelmingly deadly situation. This is the most impressive skirmish survival on this channel that Caesar achieved. With Caesar, the only loss could be from his death, as long as he lived then victory was just slightly delayed.

@elvisfifo

2 ай бұрын

His legions charging in both directions was genius

_Scipio's Line exists..._ Caesar Vets: "Weakness detected, Attack!"

welp there goes my morning, in a good way. Ave

@marsoz_

5 жыл бұрын

ditto for my night true to Caesar

@sarahheikel

5 жыл бұрын

Elephants in foxhole when?

@ISawABear

5 жыл бұрын

@@sarahheikel my reputation proceeds me i see.

@KittycatKye

5 жыл бұрын

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

@the_rare_pape558

5 жыл бұрын

Hey ! I bought foxhole because your videos

I think at this point, Caesar is definitely using cheat codes

@soimminionaaa9244

5 жыл бұрын

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

@AlphaSections

5 жыл бұрын

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

@soimminionaaa9244

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Navak_

5 жыл бұрын

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

@Saeronor

5 жыл бұрын

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.

"....Guys?" - Ceasar Love the low key comedy under the facts man, keep it up

Surviving the Labienus attack shows genius of Caesar ,any other general and they would have been destroyed there .The follow up major battle ,when Caesar lost control shows how lucky he was as well !

Why did you not keep your wonderful war elephant symbol?? =(

@derhundchen

5 жыл бұрын

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

@aeiou75

5 жыл бұрын

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

@dragonforks93

5 жыл бұрын

@@aeiou75 I for one, would sign that petition

@pez4

5 жыл бұрын

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

@yochaiwyss3843

5 жыл бұрын

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

Bull IQ of 1 million? Believable.

@BruceStephensonspycer

5 жыл бұрын

Bull-ievable.

@romaliop

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Nate-dv5dp

5 жыл бұрын

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

@felizramirez7788

5 жыл бұрын

It got all "turnt up" lmao

@simplefolk8991

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

5:59 - Thank you. Nice to see Mr. Historia Kiwilis pronounce things correctly. Now I have to watch your videos I have queued up about that Kikero guy...

He doesn't get enough credit for the humor he adds to these brilliant videos, the subtle "Nailed it" speech bubble after the trip is pure gold! 🤣🤣

"Caesar its time to stop playing Civ and do your duties" "No! Just one more campaign..PLEASEE?" "Well okay then..."

It seems like almost every time war elephants are used they end up killing more of their own army than their enemies

@ramanujbaruah2200

5 жыл бұрын

Unless they're being used in India.

@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214

4 жыл бұрын

Aidan Belanger only in Africa

Excellent work as always, been wonderful following this all the way through. Already dying for the next!

Caesar to the Mutineers: “ONE MORE SCORE!”

Rip old elephant symbol. :(

@edvard8449

5 жыл бұрын

I think NATO would have enjoyed it

"STAHP!" -Caius Julius Caesar, 47 B.C.

@joshuadasilva4425

5 жыл бұрын

This killed me 😂😂😂 *Gaius, btw

Geez I find myself rewatching your videos over and over, its like watching the history channel 20 years ago when it was good. Thank you so much for your hard work.

I always pump myself up when the outro music is about to begin, I just start preparing for amazingness

me: Wow new Historia Civilis vid, time to grab pizza vid: Cato disemboweled himself with his bare hands me: .................

@teegamew766

5 жыл бұрын

Spaghetti!

@georgeptolemy7260

4 жыл бұрын

3 meat

@PersimmonHurmo

4 жыл бұрын

@@teegamew766 sausage!

@josephzanes7334

4 жыл бұрын

Pizza falls to the floor right after your jaw 😆

@fuzzydunlop7928

4 жыл бұрын

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

I found the soldiers growing disregard for Caesars orders fascinating. Their loyalty and discipline seemed to slowly break down towards the end.

@eldorados_lost_searcher

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@tajrasti

5 жыл бұрын

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

@shorewall

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@fidgetwidget9116

5 жыл бұрын

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

There are few channels whose new uploads I will watch at my first opportunity. This is the only one I set new videos aside from, until they can be given my full attention. The expertise and energy brought to each of these videos is an absolute joy to witness. Thank you for doing what you do. Please keep up the amazing work!

These videos are so great and detailed. I've listened to Duncan's history of Rome and read plenty. It's so neat hearing Mike Duncan mention something and sort of moving past it, only to see how close a thing it really was to just unraveling completely. If HC made up random anecdotes for 5 minutes, I would really have no recourse. I have mad trust for this creator/storyteller/historian.

This is objectively the best channel on KZread

Caesar is like that one main character who always screws up but comes out on top...with a little military skill.

@franzluggin398

5 жыл бұрын

Caesar OP, plz nerf!

@fatihsaidduran

5 жыл бұрын

His legions are OP

@lkcdarzadix6216

5 жыл бұрын

Caesar has a huge administrative skill than

@Wallyworld30

5 жыл бұрын

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

@redacted3557

5 жыл бұрын

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

I get so excited every time a new video of yours is uploaded. I have to rewatch your entire channel at least once a year.

I know it probably didn’t happen, but there is a series that describes how labienus got hurt, while he was talking down to the legionnaires, a man from the 10th walked out and demanded to be shown respect as he was not a new recruit, when labienus mocked him, the legionnaire threw his spear at him, killing his horse, and knocking him out of the battle

Man what a life. After surviving all these crazy situations, to die like that, trully ironic

@VoidLantadd

4 жыл бұрын

Eventually, his luck ran out.

This has to be the best series

I was kind of impressed by Scipios ability to match Caesar's manoeuvers on and around the battlefield for so long. Must have been a talented family, those Scipio's.

I have watched pretty much all of these videos. Seeing each new video’s animations, narration, and music makes it feel like visiting an old friend.

10:08 William the Conqueror, the first meme stealer

@floriank.4200

5 жыл бұрын

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

@rethla

5 жыл бұрын

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

@gustavosanabio473

5 жыл бұрын

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

Are we going to get a video dedicated to how Marc Antony always screwed things up?

@merrittanimation7721

5 жыл бұрын

Or several.

@tyrannicfool2503

5 жыл бұрын

@@merrittanimation7721 Hopefully

@Badosureinhardt

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, he did great on Alesia.

@tyrannicfool2503

5 жыл бұрын

@@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,

@sarasamaletdin4574

5 жыл бұрын

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.

Another great video my dude, just want to let you know how much I love your videos, I studied history at university but failed because I was heavily disillusioned with my teachers and the historical community in general, but when I received an eye injury just over a year ago, I couldn't really do much and stumbled on your videos and fell in love with history again, all because of an ancient doggo called Stronkboi. Thank you for making easy to understand, informative and relaxing videos and narrations that helped me through a pretty bad injury both to my eye and to my love of history and the historical community. Much love from the UK and keep up the great work :)

I love following these stories; I'm watching for the first time the HBO series "Rome", at the same time as I go through these videos. Makes for a very cool collaboration and way better insight into the drama of the show. (For example, S01E08 opens with a dead elephant and the end of the aftermath of the Thapsus campaign; we skipped from Caesar holding a son high in Alexandria at the end of the last episode, to that. Your videos fill in the timeline between these events, explaining how we get to this point - exposition not covered by the TV show.) Awesome work; thanks!

So basically a Cato flees to North Africa, raises armies, enlists a Scipio as his general, brings Numidian cavalry as reinforcements and faces of against Roman legions? Am I the only one seeing the whole Punic wars and Cato the Elder "Carthage should be destroyed" thing here? :P

@toxicpanda36

5 жыл бұрын

The irony.

@savvageorge

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Sealdeam

5 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@PeterJavi

5 жыл бұрын

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

@PeterJavi

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

personally, I don't mind turning into a skeleton as long as I get the juicy details of Roman politics.

@mondaysinsanity8193

5 жыл бұрын

I mean really the skeleton army has great benefits anyways. Lots of free milk and cheese 4 Halloweens etc.

>pronounced Latin in patrician Classical rather than pleb Ecclesiastical Aveeeee lmaooo

@comicsans1689

4 жыл бұрын

But he keeps calling Caesar "Seezar" instead of "Kaiser".

@redreboot483

4 жыл бұрын

@@comicsans1689 and cicero as well

@DankstaTV

4 жыл бұрын

@@redreboot483 that's because "kickero" sounds dumb

@deniosgmbh7759

3 жыл бұрын

@@comicsans1689 HEIL DEN KAISER!

@estebson

Күн бұрын

​@@comicsans1689 Yeah 'cause he's saying it in English otherwise he would also be saying "Marcus Antonius"