LMAO! Best comment yet.

Yes, the Zulu were well on their way to developing their own indigenous Apollo Program - as I learned in Civilization 5.

@@ArmyJames Called 'me fall from roof"?

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I'm an American and even I know this. I find the history of the boers to be very interesting and also very sad.

@@jemerage8885 keep your eyes on the boers my friend before the end of this year my people the boers are gonna make new history...new heroes are in the making and we will shape the future of the world......

This is rubbish, the boers were not interested in trade. They did not ride in columns but as kommando.

This is just a game mod, so the guns used here compared to what's actually used at the time is inaccurate

Circling the wagons was a Hungarian thing, used by the Magyars many hundreds of years ago.

@@rkarnes6304 , well it helped the Boers there I think.

@@rkarnes6304 It actually started in Czech by the Hussites. They were literally called the Hussite Wagon Forts.

@@JohnSmith-bs9ym Thank you. I knew it was somewhere in there, thought the Hussites were another name for Magyars.

@@rkarnes6304 Hussites were followers of a religious reformer called Jan Hus.

Should do the same with Indians they did it as well.

If you look back at these conflicts people are quick to demonise the British, they were not right for invading Zululand but then again, the Zulus have done similar things to local tribes, it is never as clear as good and bad

What was worse though is the Boers had to disarm before entering the meeting area, so they were utterly defenseless, could only fight with bare hands. UNLIKE this video as it shows them armed -- they weren't. As for the "noble" Zulus (as some people still think of them -- just "innocent victims"), look up what they did to a number of Boer (Trekker) wagon trains -- no mercy: Killed every man, woman and child. Repeatedly. Until Blood River. And they caused grief for other African tribes aroudn them as well -- as American Indians did to each other, and the Mexican Aztecs did to neighboring tribes. "Tribalism" at it's best. The myth of the "Noble Savage." Right... -- BR

@@cinematicbattles559 All military societies are colonisers of one sort or another.

Look up Weenen.

They were then captured and lead away to a place of execution where they were clubbed to death. Retief was the last to die, having witnessed the deaths of his son and men - around a hundred people were killed.

The zulus had been there for ages, you’re confusing the Zulu tribes with the Zulus kingdom founded by Shaka, plus the Dutch had settled in very different areas

@@High_rise12 South Africa was the Native land of the Sani as the Bantus and Zulus couldn't traverse the Sambezi river as they weren't opposite to claims not people able to build real ships even when Afro Centrists lunch this utopian claims same as they had no iron before the Whites and Arabs brought them this materials which usually weere paid for with slaves.

The whites never should have settled in South Africa!!!...

Bullshit. black Africans were her before your ancestors arrived hell even the Portuguese were here before the Dutch

U know you're talking bullshit, black people were her long time before Dutch people came hell even Portuguese came before your ancestors. And san people were a small population in the western part of Southern Africa and there were no borders until your ancestors came

Really? Please.

They got out of there faster than a runaway slave.

Remind me who started it by luring guests into trap?

@@nenaddelic1593 Good point. Liberal historians always like to portray the white man as the bad guy.

It's a video game, being used to help educate and spread awareness of historical events? Have you created content similiar and or better? It's easy to be a quick judge when you have put 0 % effort in. How about lighten up? Find something better to do with your time than just sh*t on other people because your life is sad.

@@Canadianvoice Steady on there, I was merely making a light hearted joke about the software used, and JJ's use of lense flare. I think the videos are good. Otherwise I wouldn't be watching them. And I am a really chilled guy, I don't need to lighten up. I don't even insult people online if I disagree with a comment. I just scroll on!

@@GnrMilligan sorry. Just saw a bunch of sad people insulting this guy simply making a video game machina video

Fwiw I kinda like the glint.

Thanks for the comment, unfortunately using these guns was the only option with the game I am using

Each man had 2-3 (at least) muskets, so they were reloaded by others while the men were on the front line firing. This allowed them to keep up a regular rate of fire even with muskets, reducing the time between shots were only using/reloading 1 rifle. THAT may have made a huge difference in winning the battle as well. -- BR

I believe the boer got hold of Lee Enfields and Mausers.

@@user-ze2yp8jt4e Yes, but that was way later (late 1800s), and they mainly had 7mm Mausers so the British were outgunned as they only had Enfields. Enfields used by Boers were probably captured ones, as the Boers were constantly short of military supplies and struggled with that issue the entire time of the Boer Wars. -- BR

could you explain just a few?

Because the Zulu as a people didn't rely on hunting as they had cattle and they basically just lost the need to use them

@@cinematicbattles559 They fought the Brits and Boers for decades and in that entire time they never thought of using a standoff weapon like the bow ? They were Ignorant and backward people still living in the stone age , they were bound to lose. Out of the 20,000 that attacked that day had 5000 been bow men the Boers would have never had a chance.

@@paulharrold Bows existed but weren't fighting weapons - call it a mental block of sorts. The Celts of ancient Europe did the same, had bows but didn't use them for battle, preferring javelins, and slings were used during sieges. A huge force of archers was gathered for the final major battle against the Romans at Alesia but they didn't have much effect, they had no idea how to coordinate an arrow barrage and likely were shorter range bows for shooting small animals like hares and birds. Archery as a war art seems to have been largely absent from much of Europe at the time, not just the Celts. Archery had more acceptance in eastern Europe where the Sarmatians used bows and Cretan archers were famous for the era. Bows were more common in North Africa.

Zulu would have had captured rifles.

took the Russians only 20 minutes to defeat the Ottoman fleet..Catharina the Great had settled Swiss Wine-growers from both the German and the French part and also German farmers on Crimea which were very prosperous and only when Stalin deported them ceded to exist.

My apologies the game has limitations and you can only place them on their side

​@@cinematicbattles559 "No one told you to stop working." JK. I thought I would help you laugh. Some of the comments here are from haters. Your videos are not stupid. Thanks for the hard work.

It's a game mod sir

The Zulus transition away from throwing spears to the short stabbing spear (ingwe) was what allowed the Zulus to dominate their neighbours and form the Zulu nation. Up until then, they had never really faced disciplined musket fire. The short stabbing assegaai is extremely deadly in close combat and muskets do take time to reload. After th initial volley fire of muskets, the Zulus would have had time to close with the Boers (and later British). The Zulus were also extremely fit and excellent at sustained running. Zulus could move faster through heavy brush while on foot compared to even horse riders. You also need to remember that the wagon laager did have dead ground around it due to dongas and heavy bush. The river was high so it was difficult to approach en masse from there. Lastly, the Zulus also carried knopkerries, which is effectively a club which was also deadly in their hands.

Indeed it was

Vultures? Plenty in Africa.

There weren't 3,000 dead. Vast exaggeration that has no parallels in larger battles in South Africa with far more guns and firepower.

My apologies some things are hard to get right due to physical limitations in the game I’m using

​@@cinematicbattles559 baie dankie

Then you make a video smart guy

@@cinematicbattles559 Thanks for taking time to explain the situation wrt the software. I'm very interested in the history of the development of southern Africa and have read a few of the original accounts of the battle and have visited the site.

There's always one isn't there 😂😂😂

Fantasy numbers.

jys verkeerd....dit was 4000 kaffers

​@@lyndoncmp5751cry more

That's a you problem

My apologies the game has limitations and you can only place them on their side

Lighten up edbeau

Yep. They’re using Martini Henry’s in 1838.

@@IronDave100 Thanks for the comment, unfortunately using these guns was the only option with the game I am using

Don't watch problem solved

I don't think the Zulus were actually native to that part of Africa, I believed they moved in overthrowing the indigenous people.

The Zulus slaughtered an estimated 2 million natives from other tribes. Shaka was a mad man. When his mother died he killed around 7000 people of his own tribe so she wouldn't die alone. All pregnant women and their husbands were killed, many cattle also and they could not plant or harvest anything for a year. The Bushmen who are the real natives and mostly peaceful had to flee into the desert to escape them. You know nothing about real history and you live in woke lala land.

Depends on how you spin the mfecane and the weenen incident.