The Golden One - Total War： Battle of Adrianople 378

00:00:00.000 Greetings proud men of the north and welcome back to the historical battle section of Attila

00:00:16.740 and today we're gonna embrace our barbarian mode that's why I'm having my beard still

00:00:22.680 and we're gonna go with the glorious battle of Adrianople and when I shave which I will do in 0.92

00:00:33.040 maybe a week or two by god I will miss the beard though I will miss the beard indeed I am I like

00:00:38.560 it but for the summer I need a close nice close shave but either way I thought to game a bit as

00:00:48.660 our illustrious barbarian forefathers the Visigoths in this episode and then when I shaved I can be

00:00:55.900 a Roman legionnaire again but then as I said like during the autumn the beard will be back

00:01:02.060 with all that said let's get into the battle in AD 376 the Goths settled within the empire

00:01:11.520 on the approval of the eastern emperor Valens after facing many hardships under dishonest Roman rule

00:01:17.820 the Goths felt that they had no choice but revolt two years later Emperor Valens marched towards

00:01:24.600 Adrianople in an attempt to subdue them okay a lot can be said about this very interesting story

00:01:33.580 overall I'd say we're gonna go with hard difficulty which is my standard in in these battles

00:01:41.820 um and as you can see they are outnumbering us uh initially at least

00:01:53.200 and yeah as I said a lot can be said about this uh this story in particular that the Visigoths and

00:02:02.880 the Goths are being pushed away by the Huns from their initial territories in the in the east and

00:02:11.660 then also due to climate change let's not forget the climate change force them to migrate south to

00:02:20.160 be able to sustain themselves the emperor Valens is personally leading a Roman army towards

00:02:26.160 Adrianople in an effort to crush the Goths outnumbered the Goths are encamped on top of a hill despite

00:02:34.320 marching all day the Romans have numerical superiority and move to attack yet unknown to the Romans the

00:02:42.480 gothic cavalry is not far away our true friends are coming to the rescue in all actuality the Goths must

00:02:49.600 hold out against the Roman attack until their mounted reinforcements arrive all right so the objective is 0.56

00:02:56.080 quite clear raise a cheer soldiers raise a cheer himself comes to claim victory against us so

00:03:04.400 prepare a welcome for him and his men what is going on right here right now is the Roman attack has

00:03:11.520 been sent to our cavalry forces they will surely return to the battlefield soon we must hold out until then

00:03:21.840 what the crack is in all actuality true friends is the following i'm gonna hold this hilltop until

00:03:29.440 the Romans i mean until our gothic allies are coming our cavalry force are coming to the rescue 0.99

00:03:40.480 so i'm just gonna play it very defensively try to hold on to our little a little camp here and

00:03:49.440 the Romans are advancing slowly let's look at a general

00:03:52.960 there you see that's what he is uh love it love it okay so we have um some pikemen here going to defend 1.00

00:04:12.240 these little um skirmishes and i'm gonna put them in skirmish mode as well i mean um lose

00:04:22.880 spacing mode of course is is what i'll do so that they are less vulnerable to to missiles

00:04:38.800 and you see there is their general which is obviously our target i have um

00:04:43.360 deadly missiles ready i am in no um no need to stress this battle they the longer i can hold out

00:04:52.080 the better so i will just um keep it keep it cool i'm gonna hide this you see the little tree symbol

00:05:00.000 there is that they're hidden so i'm gonna hide them there

00:05:09.920 so um let us just try to hold this little hilltop we can have a look at the battlefield as we are also

00:05:20.240 and the skirmishing has begun

00:05:22.640 germanic pikeman highly glorious in right there and obviously as we saw our general

00:05:41.360 and we have broken them so we can switch the the focus of the arrows slingshots to uh

00:06:02.640 okay i'm not i'm not gonna advance very much

00:06:06.080 keeping my eye out for these scout equities so they don't um get around us in any

00:06:17.120 mischievous way and i actually thought about making a let's play campaign with either the visigoths or

00:06:25.520 the ostrogoths just um just get that initial episode where i can talk a bit about the the story of the

00:06:33.120 gothic people gothic people etc and obviously it would be

00:06:39.200 yes you know fun for me to play but i i suppose it's better that they do

00:06:43.840 this um this one-off videos instead and

00:06:50.240 our hidden units have been discovered

00:06:56.240 where i come on and are they actually going in there

00:06:59.280 oh yes come on come on oh look at that sickening that's glorious 0.99

00:07:16.400 oh fuck and i got distracted by by being killed that's why i am lost my focus there 0.99

00:07:29.280 uh yeah because uh i realize that most people don't 0.99

00:07:37.280 it's better if i stick to one campaign which obviously will be the

00:07:41.920 the western roman empire

00:07:46.480 which will be released soon enough but i want to wait until i shave

00:07:52.720 then then i become a romanized barbarian i'm still a barbarian at heart though

00:08:11.200 okay

00:08:18.800 get out of them boys

00:08:27.360 and i want to keep the general as far away from this huge horde of uh of enemies as possible

00:08:35.360 and i'm gonna retreat with you

00:08:43.120 and

00:08:46.560 okay so our general is out on

00:08:50.400 and why aren't they breaking though 0.99

00:08:54.240 fuck 0.99

00:08:56.720 i'll try to get them to break here 1.00

00:08:58.160 and you see the enemy is going for our general

00:09:08.160 i'm gonna try to run away with him and not run away as in as in flee but

00:09:14.320 tactical withdrawal

00:09:21.280 i'm gonna hide you up there

00:09:22.880 here

00:09:27.920 berserk mode

00:09:29.840 come on get out of boys 0.87

00:09:33.040 and here we have the the story of the day

00:09:35.760 clothing barbarians against 0.91

00:09:38.960 romans

00:09:39.520 warband

00:09:48.800 okay there is the general

00:09:51.680 cavalry guard okay they

00:09:54.160 that is a heavy

00:09:56.640 heavy unit indeed no question about that at all

00:10:03.280 i'm gonna engage you

00:10:05.920 and advance with you and now

00:10:09.520 and where is our cavalry

00:10:17.520 god

00:10:20.000 all right let's uh let's defeat those commit attempt this spears

00:10:25.600 and here we are

00:10:28.240 boom it's a bloody battle indeed true friends

00:10:30.960 don't really see much but

00:10:39.760 due to the little forest

00:10:44.000 all right then

00:10:45.120 all right cool they've uh broken these guys

00:10:57.440 and this always hurts when you turn it back towards the enemy

00:11:01.440 always 1.00

00:11:03.840 a blasphemous thing i'm gonna surround these guys and kill them 1.00

00:11:07.840 for their insolent 1.00

00:11:11.920 they are but dogs and i am the master

00:11:14.880 that's that's exactly what i want to say to them

00:11:22.320 okay

00:11:25.360 no father oh look at that yes

00:11:37.360 all right where were we yes we were gonna admire the rear charge of our general

00:11:44.880 uh

00:11:46.480 ah great they are um

00:11:49.120 they are breaking off right there

00:11:53.200 and now let's engage these guys

00:11:55.520 and this warband is not

00:12:07.840 okay where

00:12:10.560 good they are quite close

00:12:12.720 already see if we can

00:12:17.680 utilize some of them to at least

00:12:19.440 divert the forces and then i want to get in the mix

00:12:24.160 right there in all actuality

00:12:27.440 is what i want to do

00:12:30.640 tration warriors

00:12:34.480 and now

00:12:39.760 nobles where will you stand stand there perhaps

00:12:49.760 i don't want to engage this force

00:12:53.600 at all

00:12:55.360 actually

00:12:58.480 i just want to get behind in the main battle

00:13:01.600 now then

00:13:03.680 come on get out of 1.00

00:13:04.640 bastards how dare they mistreat us like this 1.00

00:13:07.680 co-horse 1.00

00:13:13.280 oh okay

00:13:21.280 already then quickly now

00:13:24.560 don't have the time to not

00:13:27.520 advance quickly

00:13:28.400 i need to get around

00:13:35.200 oh god you were not supposed to be standing there 0.99

00:13:38.480 how silly of them how silly indeed 0.99

00:13:51.040 try to break those guys okay cool 0.99

00:13:54.080 now then

00:14:01.280 and there is the general

00:14:03.680 hello general how are we today

00:14:09.200 he's the only medium

00:14:11.200 cavalry how uh 0.99

00:14:13.360 how silly of him to be so so weak 0.94

00:14:17.040 and no i don't want to be captured here on the 0.97

00:14:20.960 i'm just going to try to run away with you

00:14:24.080 okay i i must try to get their general

00:14:52.640 i think that's the only hope we have

00:14:56.000 right now at least

00:15:03.120 all right come on then last last attempt to victory in this blasphemous battle

00:15:09.680 and there is the general come on then 38

00:15:14.560 oh the general is broken

00:15:22.640 come on then hurry up

00:15:29.040 hurry up you proud sons of the old father

00:15:33.680 need to get in the battle

00:15:37.360 and have their

00:15:38.000 the enemy general

00:15:40.080 yes

00:15:43.360 wonderful absolutely brilliant now

00:15:47.040 we might stand the chance i don't

00:15:51.760 don't really want to say anything yet because they are uh still outnumbering us

00:15:56.960 if we look at the statistics

00:15:58.400 okay they still have a lot almost double our um

00:16:06.160 our forces so um

00:16:12.720 i don't

00:16:15.360 i don't suppose that we will win either way because our general has fled the

00:16:20.800 the bleeding coward but uh we'll we'll try to to win this either way to your friends

00:16:28.320 because this is life or death for the gothic people 1.00

00:16:33.440 and why aren't you running away oh no oh fuck what 1.00

00:16:46.400 oh i'm so fucking stupid what did i do 1.00

00:16:50.640 toggle mount no on them 0.99

00:16:52.880 but i am

00:16:57.280 i messed up there

00:17:11.840 and you get in the mix get in the battle proud sons this uh

00:17:19.280 it's one of the most uh one of the most tight battles i've ever fought actually

00:17:40.720 which means that we'll have to be extra careful with what we do

00:17:49.280 and if i'm not that talkative it's because i'm

00:17:58.560 trying to

00:18:00.640 desperately trying to win this battle

00:18:11.040 now glory to the old father 0.98

00:18:19.600 come on and crush them then for god's sake 0.99

00:18:22.800 and we have 0.99

00:18:24.240 ah protector out this domestic left so um

00:18:29.520 we don't really have anything to

00:18:36.480 this is all we got

00:18:38.720 god what i would have given for another unit of anything really

00:18:49.280 but we have the

00:18:50.880 oh don't run then god we're almost winning this and they and they run

00:19:08.080 and look at this battle

00:19:19.200 look at this battle true friends this is

00:19:28.800 this is one bloody battle right there

00:19:32.880 and coming in the rear there should do the

00:19:40.000 get the job done i hope uh without losing too many of our own

00:19:44.880 but uh

00:19:49.120 these guys will probably

00:19:52.880 be too much to um

00:19:54.800 um

00:19:56.800 to deal with in all actuality

00:20:01.520 because we have medium melee cavalry

00:20:08.320 and they are

00:20:10.240 very light

00:20:12.240 very light okay

00:20:13.760 um

00:20:28.960 let's uh

00:20:30.800 let's try to get a cool uh cool charger let's admire the enemy

00:20:36.240 they are not to be trifled with

00:20:37.680 that diamond

00:20:49.760 all right then true friends

00:20:56.560 hope they don't

00:21:00.400 okay they uh they managed to turn around

00:21:07.680 yes come on

00:21:13.200 oh

00:21:15.520 this uh

00:21:16.800 oh god no

00:21:28.400 wonderful

00:21:30.080 absolutely wonderful

00:21:32.640 thank you for that based cavalry

00:21:34.160 victory will soon be yours

00:21:36.480 oh and battle okay if i wasn't that talkative during the end of the battle i just

00:21:41.280 i really wanted to uh to win this so let's look a bit at the battle statistics at least

00:21:48.640 did we have 177

00:21:51.760 uh 232 okay so it was our cavalry who did look at that 171 oh that 284

00:22:00.160 uh okay cool so um don't know how much you learned about history in this particular episode

00:22:07.040 but you can talk a bit about um

00:22:11.840 about the um

00:22:15.040 the relation between the gothic people and the uh the romans i will probably talk a bit about this if

00:22:22.720 i start a gothic campaign but if you look at the obviously the goths are from uh it's a germanic

00:22:29.120 tribe from scandinavia hence the name gothic uh they wandered down from from my beloved sweden and

00:22:35.760 scandinavia down here and you know raided the roman empire and settled them along the fertile coasts

00:22:45.200 of the black sea but then the climate change came and the hunts came so they couldn't really stay

00:22:51.680 here which is why they pushed on down to into the roman empire and obviously as with any

00:22:59.680 you know when when two different peoples are in the same region conflict will arise as we saw here

00:23:05.520 so yeah that's what's the little history lesson i hope you have enjoyed the video

00:23:09.440 um and uh yeah it was really nice to win that battle because it was really a really tight one

00:23:17.600 um so yeah and who am i i'm the proud son of the old father xx so

The Golden One - May 29, 2015

Total War： Battle of Adrianople 378

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