More like Rome total war

CK2 as well

Yup. Always nice to get some learning through a medium you enjoy.

No predicting my arrival. It is very rude

Not to mention AOEII players

No you have Lincoln Continental

Magomed Kartoev haha!

Glad up like it! :)

iran is a lost country decimated by arabs. It is very sad but they sort of did that to theirselves (by attacking and wasting their precious resources against Eastern Romans , which made them astronomically vulnerable to araps afterwards...)

HolyTea or Sörkl I wonder how high and mighty place middle-east would be without Islam.

Don't get me wrong, I am a huge Iranophile, I really enjoy reading about Islamic dynasties like Safavids etc. but there is just something about 'pure' Persia...

​@HolyTea or Sörkl The Arabs have won we fucked the Persian and Roman Empire We expelled them from North Africa, subjugated the Berber tribes, occupied Andalusia for more than 800 years, and our territory still extends from Iraq to the east to Morocco to the west We are the greatest civilization That's a fact Whether you like us or not,

@Ghufran dumb bitch your race and religion exists becauee of us turks. You woild be wiped off the planet had our ancestors ddidnt conquer lands neighboring your children fucking shit lands. Anyway our Tengri is enough for us

Thanks Salar! Glad you liked it!

Epimetheus i would love if you read my comment up there and i know your opinion.

@@EpimetheusHistory brooo

Well I will give you the reason. Iran is in conflict with the west which obviously acts as if everything that is old Iranian history is nonexistent. At the same time, Iran is ruled by an islamic government that is against everything before the birth of the prophet. The government would rally a lot of support if it just blended its policy with this strong iranian nationalist sentiment, but somehow they are blind. As a result of this, the culture and history of Iran is being wiped out from both outside and inside which is a shame, truly. What you can do as an Iranian is to support local nationalist and zoroastrian newspapers and organisations and most importantly read and educated your fellow compatriots about this history. With this movement, the government is slowly but surely realising that it must make this history an important part of its policy.

Indeed! The Military Manuals of the Eastern Romans say it clearly. Against Persians (who have equally well-armored troops) anti-armored weapons are preferred like the mace, the axe with a spike head and so on. Against the Persian Cataphracts a very heavy spear (log spear) was also introduced, the Menavlion (Menavleeon) and the troops that used it were called the Menavliatoi (Menavlion-bearers). The only thing in the manual about lets say Celts or Britons, is to avoid battles in swamps.

Glad you like it :)

That's a part of history that people often forget about, myself included. It's kind of shocking to think back on how illogical cavalry probably would seem from an ancient point of view, before horses had been bred for riding and combat.

@@jacoblinde7486 you watched lyndibeige

Well, ancient China and its northern neighbors also adopt Cataphracts but with smaller eastern breeds of horses. Probably less effective than their western counter-part in comparison, but still a very powerful force.

jason mcallister The video and literally a ton of others not the subject spell t out for you that the horses today have been bred to be larger and stronger, enough to carry men in full armor. The horses of the ancient past were not large/hardy enough to carry, or at least couldn’t practically accommodate them, especially if you factor that the stirrup wouldn’t be invented for centuries after their domestication. Hence why chariots were king, because wheels allowed man to still take advantage of a horse’s pulling power.

@jason mcallister Lmao there’s no need to yell or be rude. I’m just saying there’s literally thousands of years of evidence that run counter to your argument that because horses weigh 1000 pounds and above today, and can accommodate carrying people, that they’ve always been able to do that. It’s not about common sense, because yeah on a surface level I’m sure that a lot of people like yourself have always thought horses have been this big, but when you give a cursory look at the facts and history, you’ll see a clearly different picture. Horses used to be smaller, it’s just that simple.

Bronze is so shiny when clean it could reflect the heat greatly. But still hot.

Iran is a mountainous country

One of the reasons they lost to muslims

@@CirosKhan well yeah, but the borderlands with the Romans were pretty darn deserty.

That's why the lighter armored Arabs conquered them.

Roman horses also were alot smaller than those of medieval knights.

Yes

Alexander's dream made manifest

@Otis C-14 tf do you mean

@Otis C-14 edgelord lmfao

And a weakness to archers

And camels for some reason.

@@bobsmith3838 Actually, cataphracts are resistant to camels and heavy camels

@@ciranopunalesvigliarolo3788 That's what I meant, resistance to camels.

Thanks man!

Your name isn't Iranian.

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Today dialects of Turkish is spoken as native language in Europe, in China, in most north Russia and in Iran. Can you imagine how and when this language spread to this territories? You cant find a bit of history of Eurasia withought Turks mentioned. Name a second language spread so much in geography in time. Just modern history langages may compete like English and they are not native mostly.

I'm pretty sure for the longest time Turks were pretty much ruled most of persia for almost a thousand years

@@maddogbasil No at most 300 years Then Persians in the time of Safavids kicked them out of their country and make another native Persian empire after Sassanids

@@maddogbasilThis is one of those pan Turkic claims. A huge area up there was always populated by various Iranic tribes. Turks kept trying to push from east without success until arabs weaponized Islam to destroy Persia as severe as possible, after which Turks gained more access to that area.

@@hayalamca6185How about Persian? Even Ottomans spoke Persian in their court.

I am glad you like it :) Thanks EngineGal

Sounds like a cool comic book What's the name ?

@@ramtinfazeli5106 theophano: a byzantine tale

Thanks Devon! Reading this comment was a great way to wake up while drinking my coffee :)

Paladins are better 🤭🙃

@@AnshulPresents cataphract deal area damage

@@AnshulPresents paladin dies to halberdiers easily

Ha

Sassanid and in future Byzantine

@@kingdomofbird8174 *roman

Can you let this garbage meme die already? Jeez.

Winged hussars 😉

Great verse

For whom that may be interested: This literary technique is called "laff o nashre morattab" (ordered grouping and dispatching) Note the order: Sword -> cut -> heads Dagger -> tore -> chests Mace -> smashed -> legs Lasso -> tied -> hands And the pronunciation of the verses is: Bé ruzé nabard ān yalé arjmand Bé shamshir o khanjar bé gorz o kamand Borid o darid o shekast o bebast Yalān rā sar o siné o pā o dast

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Probably because of their defeats in greece, people just assume they're bad at warfare overall; they are in fact of course one of the finest and most well-disciplined armies of the age.

nah is just logical things to do, given the bias greek and roman bias in western historian deeply rooted, and how they view culture other than their own as not that important at all.

@Vitruvius Antarchius What about a mace pommel?

@@dale6947 Gasp! To dare put the pommel at the front! You've blasphemed the holy pommel!

@Vitruvius Antarchius - It's not. Pommel is auxiliary and somewhat hard to use.

@Vitruvius Antarchius - I watch Skallagrim and it is from that kind of channels where I learned that pommel is hard to use in combat, rather used for the death blow instead. I prefer Schola Gladatoria anyhow.

You mess with best, you mace in face

also Crusader Kings

Thank you! It definitely was a fascinating epoch

@@EpimetheusHistory will we get a video on how you draw them?

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They were great and all, but when people brought gunpowder and arcabuzes, they were kinda a glass canon. Would face the same fate as the knights.

@@miguelmontenegro3520 Byzantine Kataphracts haven't seen the advent of gunpowder as they were dramatically reduced to special roles in Constantinople until the 4th crusade. Like the skoutatoi that disappeared by the early 11th century AD or before that. They were ultimately replaced by Koursores, Pronoiars, Athanatoi and even the Varangian Guard. Sadly their last major battle was with against the Bulgars.

@@3452te Did they rout the bulgars? I Hope they did. Greek Rome is awesome.

@@miguelmontenegro3520 they won the battle of Kliedion during Basil II reign then yes. They routed them.

Don’t forget that cataphracts were also master of horse archery, which is a skill not practiced by knights.

Thanks Joshua! :D

Glad you enjoyed it!

That's awesome! Also Suppiluliuma is one of the funnest names to say :)

They also smashed combined Byzantine-Sassanian armies. The Arab commanders had been very cunning and with the religious fervor of the 7th century with the death of Mohammad they would reach western China to the Balkans and Iberia. At first viewed as merely raiders they would become a serious threat to both empires.

TheColombiano89 Both empires were weak at that time perfect time for the Arabs to strike this is known arab tactic stab someone in the back when he is not looking.

They ruled said camel riders for centuries. Both empires had been weakened and LACKED properly trained men. Don’t meme history

Both empires suffered from Bubonic Plague, Political and Social Instability, the Persian Empire was already in Civil War between the Parsig and the Parthian Clans in the north and east of the country. The Political Instability was so profound that 13 emperors were crowned between 628-631.

The Plague of Sheroe (627-628) or Sheroe's Plague was an epidemic that devastated the western provinces of the Sasanian Empire, mainly Mesopotamia (Asorestan), killing half of its population,including the reigning Sasanian king (shah) which the plague is named after, Kavad II Sheroe (r. 628). (Text from Wikipedia) Could you think how destructive is to loss half of the population from your political base and the most rich province of the Empire?

My pleasure!

As a persian who knows the military history of this land: NO.

@@user-jv3mm6vt6e fuck off

When a gamer tries (and fails) to learn history

@@AryaOghuz I am sorry sir, but I did not articulate the meaning of what I meant in the most formal manner. The point I meant to get across is that having to be in a war with these people would be more annoying then fighting other people as their very effective tactics allowed them to shoot at you, ride off, and ward off your cavalries counter attacks. The reason I worded my prior message the way I did is because I am a young boy who plays video games, watches videos about history (especially when it pretains to battles), and I was commenting in a youtube comment section and therefore did not feel the need to use formal language.

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Fighting the sasanids is like having cancer but always have a seizure every 20 minutes

700yrs of war > 60yrs :D

Rome vs Iran? Da faq is that? The real rivalry is Iranian plateau vs Anatolia (Persians vs Greeks,Rome-Byzantinve vs Sassanid-Parthia, Ottoman vs Safavid,Afshar,Qajar and etc)

@@dogeofgreatness2222 the first conflicts of Rome against Iran was western Rome (Italy) against the Parthians with Crassus from Italy invading, so Rome vs Iran is more correct. the conflict of Eastern Rome based in Anatolia against Iran began much later.

I would have imagined a more southern accent fitting better. 🤷

:) Food and KZfaq is a perfect combination

Chicken wings? Damn you Amadeus, now I have to go out.

@@EpimetheusHistory Yes but the specifics of you and Chicken Wings...

@@james_baker Try the Cajun when you listen to him lol

Arthur is a myth he's not real

The figure of Arthur is a myth but he is embedded in a conglomerate of real events. Conflicts between Saxons and Britons happened and it is true that Sarmatian auxiliary heavy cavalrymen were stationed in Britain. Mix in a medieval author adding some knightly flavour into the story (like we nowadays see Shakespeare's characters in suits doing business) and we have the weird mix that are Arthurian legends. Still, it is not unlikely that the source for Arthurian knights were Sarmatian Cataphracts. German authors have done similar things with the Nibelungen story, which is also based off of events during the migration period (conflicts between Ostrogoths, Burgundians and Huns) that were turned into medieval stories with added fictional characters.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dun_Nechtain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Badon Nationalism didn't exist back then. And most sources we have are Anglo Saxon. I wonder where you got the idea that it was anti saxon. That would be the same as saying Teutoburg Forest didn't happen as the accounts we have are from Germanic nationalists. This is ridiculous.

@Paulo Ramos There were several historically attested Arthurs in Britain in the late 6th century, one was a son of a king of Dal Riada (the Scots). This, at the very least, suggests that the name was current in Celtic-speaking Britain in the period. Gildas also says that a British king was originally the charioteer of 'The Bear'. There is a possible connection between the name Arthur and 'art-', which can mean 'bear' in Celtic languages (paralleled by 'arctos' in Greek).

@Paulo Ramos The Romans used praenomen, cognomen and nomen, but in Dark Age Britain people, even kings usually had a single name, though some had nicknames, such as Maelgwn Hir (Hir = tall) or Caradoc Vreichvras (Vreichvras = 'strong-arm'). Arthur is not only found in High and Late Medieval romances, but is mentioned in early Welsh poems, such as 'Llongborth', and in the 'Mabinogion'.