Total War： Battle of Adrianople 378
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Summary
The Battle of Adrianople is a battle between the Roman Empire and the invading Goths. After facing many hardships under dishonest Roman rule, the Goths felt that they had no choice but to revolt. Two years later, Emperor Valens marched towards Adrianople in an attempt to subdue them.
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Greetings proud men of the north and welcome back to the historical battle section of Attila
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and today we're gonna embrace our barbarian mode that's why I'm having my beard still
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and we're gonna go with the glorious battle of Adrianople and when I shave which I will do in
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maybe a week or two by god I will miss the beard though I will miss the beard indeed I am I like
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it but for the summer I need a close nice close shave but either way I thought to game a bit as
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our illustrious barbarian forefathers the Visigoths in this episode and then when I shaved I can be
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a Roman legionnaire again but then as I said like during the autumn the beard will be back
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with all that said let's get into the battle in AD 376 the Goths settled within the empire
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on the approval of the eastern emperor Valens after facing many hardships under dishonest Roman rule
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the Goths felt that they had no choice but revolt two years later Emperor Valens marched towards
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Adrianople in an attempt to subdue them okay a lot can be said about this very interesting story
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overall I'd say we're gonna go with hard difficulty which is my standard in in these battles
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um and as you can see they are outnumbering us uh initially at least
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and yeah as I said a lot can be said about this uh this story in particular that the Visigoths and
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the Goths are being pushed away by the Huns from their initial territories in the in the east and
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then also due to climate change let's not forget the climate change force them to migrate south to
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be able to sustain themselves the emperor Valens is personally leading a Roman army towards
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Adrianople in an effort to crush the Goths outnumbered the Goths are encamped on top of a hill despite
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marching all day the Romans have numerical superiority and move to attack yet unknown to the Romans the
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gothic cavalry is not far away our true friends are coming to the rescue in all actuality the Goths must
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hold out against the Roman attack until their mounted reinforcements arrive all right so the objective is
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quite clear raise a cheer soldiers raise a cheer himself comes to claim victory against us so
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prepare a welcome for him and his men what is going on right here right now is the Roman attack has
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been sent to our cavalry forces they will surely return to the battlefield soon we must hold out until then
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what the crack is in all actuality true friends is the following i'm gonna hold this hilltop until
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the Romans i mean until our gothic allies are coming our cavalry force are coming to the rescue
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so i'm just gonna play it very defensively try to hold on to our little a little camp here and
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the Romans are advancing slowly let's look at a general
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there you see that's what he is uh love it love it okay so we have um some pikemen here going to defend
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these little um skirmishes and i'm gonna put them in skirmish mode as well i mean um lose
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spacing mode of course is is what i'll do so that they are less vulnerable to to missiles
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and you see there is their general which is obviously our target i have um
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deadly missiles ready i am in no um no need to stress this battle they the longer i can hold out
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the better so i will just um keep it keep it cool i'm gonna hide this you see the little tree symbol
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there is that they're hidden so i'm gonna hide them there
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so um let us just try to hold this little hilltop we can have a look at the battlefield as we are also
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germanic pikeman highly glorious in right there and obviously as we saw our general
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and we have broken them so we can switch the the focus of the arrows slingshots to uh
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keeping my eye out for these scout equities so they don't um get around us in any
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mischievous way and i actually thought about making a let's play campaign with either the visigoths or
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the ostrogoths just um just get that initial episode where i can talk a bit about the the story of the
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gothic people gothic people etc and obviously it would be
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yes you know fun for me to play but i i suppose it's better that they do
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where i come on and are they actually going in there
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oh yes come on come on oh look at that sickening that's glorious
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oh fuck and i got distracted by by being killed that's why i am lost my focus there
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uh yeah because uh i realize that most people don't
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it's better if i stick to one campaign which obviously will be the
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which will be released soon enough but i want to wait until i shave
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then then i become a romanized barbarian i'm still a barbarian at heart though
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and i want to keep the general as far away from this huge horde of uh of enemies as possible
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i'm gonna try to run away with him and not run away as in as in flee but
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heavy unit indeed no question about that at all
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all right let's uh let's defeat those commit attempt this spears
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and this always hurts when you turn it back towards the enemy
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a blasphemous thing i'm gonna surround these guys and kill them
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that's that's exactly what i want to say to them
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all right where were we yes we were gonna admire the rear charge of our general
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divert the forces and then i want to get in the mix
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nobles where will you stand stand there perhaps
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bastards how dare they mistreat us like this
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oh god you were not supposed to be standing there
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and no i don't want to be captured here on the
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all right come on then last last attempt to victory in this blasphemous battle
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don't really want to say anything yet because they are uh still outnumbering us
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okay they still have a lot almost double our um
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i don't suppose that we will win either way because our general has fled the
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the bleeding coward but uh we'll we'll try to to win this either way to your friends
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because this is life or death for the gothic people
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and why aren't you running away oh no oh fuck what
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and you get in the mix get in the battle proud sons this uh
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it's one of the most uh one of the most tight battles i've ever fought actually
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which means that we'll have to be extra careful with what we do
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come on and crush them then for god's sake
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god what i would have given for another unit of anything really
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oh don't run then god we're almost winning this and they and they run
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get the job done i hope uh without losing too many of our own
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let's try to get a cool uh cool charger let's admire the enemy
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oh and battle okay if i wasn't that talkative during the end of the battle i just
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i really wanted to uh to win this so let's look a bit at the battle statistics at least
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uh 232 okay so it was our cavalry who did look at that 171 oh that 284
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uh okay cool so um don't know how much you learned about history in this particular episode
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the relation between the gothic people and the uh the romans i will probably talk a bit about this if
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i start a gothic campaign but if you look at the obviously the goths are from uh it's a germanic
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tribe from scandinavia hence the name gothic uh they wandered down from from my beloved sweden and
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scandinavia down here and you know raided the roman empire and settled them along the fertile coasts
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of the black sea but then the climate change came and the hunts came so they couldn't really stay
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here which is why they pushed on down to into the roman empire and obviously as with any
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you know when when two different peoples are in the same region conflict will arise as we saw here
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so yeah that's what's the little history lesson i hope you have enjoyed the video
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um and uh yeah it was really nice to win that battle because it was really a really tight one
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um so yeah and who am i i'm the proud son of the old father xx so