I find it really interesting that this channel has gone from Total War content to stuff like this. It's great.

Damn these soldiers needed to have some serious grinding to stand a chance in pvp, it's unfortunate that the medieval ages were severely pay to win

How strong was the grind in 1015 fellas

Dad Answer: Like their lives depended on it.

His voice sounds very "documentary-ish"

Attempt #14: You know what Roman legionaries might have been training for? Julius Caesar’s hypothetical invasion of Parthia.

The art of this series is amazing

Hit them with a wooden staff for some time in the training grounds until they're ready to be upgraded. Throw like 10-40 coins at them and watch them Sailor Moon Transform from a Peasant boy into a fully armored footman.

I think mock battles or battles for entertainment are really under appreciated by most historical channels, there is a reason why most countries have (from italy to england) have a form of calceo storico, a game played by commoners.

@11:50 imagine been so bored your whole city goes to an mock war

"I'll make a man out of you!."

Also another thing pointing out at technology got better Europeans we're getting better and better armored this is including for the very poor. What are the biggest physical evidence in top of my head that I can think about is the excavation of the battle of Gotland, it shows that even the poorest peasants had metal armor and helmets. Anyways, I know you can't cover everything in all in one video but this is a very good video I have to say. Keep it up.

You just click on that icon in barrack and wait 10 seconds or 7 if you upgraded it to rapid mobilization.

The battle of Visby on Gotland was one of mercenaries against free townsmen with unfortunate if predictable results. I read a thing about how as the mercs advanced they slashed at the ankles of the less experienced townsmen and didn't bother finishing them off until after they had won. There are lots of incredible artifacts from that battle.

The art in this episode was particularly stunning considering the workload and time frame. As a viewer, I'd like to see more of this artist in future episodes!

Great video! I really like content lately that brings historical war/life concepts that are a "given" into more detailed context. I.e. Instead of assuming that armies have infantry, calvary, archers... explaining the difference between men at arms, freemen, mercs, etc. I'd love to see content about the logistics of siege engines. The folks that built and maintained them, where the ammunition came from, and how they differed in different regions

"He had only participated in 3 large scale pitch battles." According to Invicta that's not a big deal?

In fact, most of fencing teatrises in late medieval were more like an advertising for aristocrats to say "I know all this things, hire me and I will teach you that"

He got so intense, over-the-top and hyped-up when he did the sponsor's game advertisement, like he was a totally different person ... then gets back the documentary part and is so soft-spoken, subdued and calm ... 😂

Last time I was this early, the og voice was in use.

Next: How medieval warriors used their skill points.

shooting competitions are still a huge part of local culture here in lower saxony germany (also common in other parts but especially here). part of it is shooting at a wooden eagle with a crossbow with medals for shooting of different parts and a king being crowned for bringing the whole thing down. there is also regular target shooting of course especially with air rifles. such competitions are organized by the local marksmen clubs often there is even a small parade.

Of all these UKposts documentaries, yours have the best illustration. Good work, whoever makes these.

Last times I was this early Invicta announced that he still worked in what if Caesar Lived Part 3.

The last time I was this early, people still couldn’t use flint.

Your art style is impossibly awesome with a medieval theme

Holy heck for the first time ever in a UKposts video I am absolutely in love with the sponsor

Really enjoyed this. You've been very helpful to me. I'm wanting to write a medieval fantasy series and I want it to have a sense of realism. Therefore, I will be using a lot of historical information to help me write certain parts of the story like battles and how soldiers would train for battle.

Please do more medieval videos!!! Maybe something like how an army would feed and all (unless that has already been mentioned in your how to raise an army video)

Field of Glory is literally the first game I have seen advertised on UKposts that I have wanted to play. Usually I just swear at the screen like an angry drunk about the awful freemium wank that is heavily promoted.

Hi Invicta, You should make a Units of History video on the Thespian Hoplites. They are a very unique unit in Ancient Greece. It would be quite interesting to learn some information about them, and their city, that not many people know.

OMG!!! This is quality content. Amazing

Great content as always :) Were you doing recordings for any EFL coursebooks or resource books? I'm asking as your voice sounds like the one I've heard in a resource book with lessons on different aspects of the English-speaking world culture :)

That was a good watch, especially about free companies. Love the content!

Liked the artwork and whole video,nicely done.

I can imagine that a fine line was present in the training of the "peasantry". A lord would need a body of troops for war or defense but the possibility that you could equip and train those that may rise up in revolt against you could not be ignored.

This videos was great, super interesting. I'm subbing rn

Invicta when are you going to release the Zack Snyder Cut of What if Caesar Lived Part 3???

Congrats on 900k subs!

This is always so interesting. Thank you

How lucky am I, to watch nothing but back to back awesome videos today

Bless this channel

Another great presentation 😍

@5:52 I love how this illustration looks like something straight out of MS I.33.

good stuff look forward to seeing more, specially the Swiss cantons military development

love these videos! you guys are awesome!

It is said at one point Lord Humongous had the best army in the wasteland. Composed of soldiers and police officers turned bandits. Skills borne from the crucible of actual experience. But his was essentially a roving band. Nomads. Their size would dwindle overtime. Even after his death, the rest of the band continued on until they dissolved. Aunty Entity had a military institution more familiar to us. Bartertown was manned by a citizen militia. Being urban enough to have resources to equip some select wastelanders/bartertowners. With a small retinue of bodyguards payed for and equipped by aunty, literally Housejarls/Huscarls. Immortan was different. Being able to secure a practically unlimited source of water he would have the resources to gather a slave army. War pups were pretty much just wastelander children or sons of war dogs that had nothing else to do but spar and practice mechanics. Due to indoctrination in the cult of V8. Pay wasn't really that necessary and all he needed to do was to feed them. This allowed Immortan to have a comparative large and well trained army, and although not really payed, would have been considered professionals in standards. Earlier on in his life Immortan started out just like Lord Humongous. Leading a band of veteran bandits. But those elite few dwindled, and whats left became his vassal lords: the Bullet Farmer and the Human Calculator. According to Corpus Callosum, his father was prepared to arm the dregs of society if he would encounter a larger threat. Akin to having a fyrd or militia. The Citadel will provide the bodies, while the the Bullet farm will provide the arms. But due to the Raggedy-Man, we will never know if that is really possible. -The First History Man (On the Fangs of the Wastes)

omg the voiceover in this vid, fkn amazing!

love these videos! thank you!

Commenting for the algorithm. Great video and channel.

How about religious/military orders? Templars, Hospitalars, Teoutonics, Livonians, etc??

Shout out to the Invicta artists. Consistently beautiful images.

Another Great Video!

Everyone seeing this have a good day and be kind to everyone!

Fantastic stuff! Thanks.

Enlightening and entertaining indeed 👌🏻

Fascinating! Thank you!

Love the medieval videos!

The caption had me waiting for Eastern Roman soldiers too. But anyway, I learned quite a lot!

Great video. Am I right in thinking that an English fyrd would have just been the 'freemen' unit that you described or is it slightly different?

This was soooo soooo much interesting!

I love the paintings in this video.

Is it just me or the narrator here in Invicta sounds like a younger and more enthusiastic brother of the narrator in Kings and Generals? Two awesome dudes with different styles but same amount of awesomeness!

It will be cool, if possible, to cover more in depth the topic of Furusiyya. How were levantines and easterners training and how their methods differed from those of their european counterpart?

Amazing!!

Concerning the structual Training, there are quiet a few manuals to be honest. Talhoffer for example wrote some books around the 15.th century where He describes how to train. Get up early, pray, take a Full grain bread and put it into cold water and eat it later. Then exercices like: jump, run, wrestle, throw Stones, lift stones, practice Fencing and so on. Go to bed early and repeat. And there are more such example for gymnastics and whole Workouts. So maybe you missed something.

13:54 hey I know them! We still study their Fechtbuchs today in HEMA.

Amazing video

Great video

"let's get down to business!"

I am surprised you barely mentioned medieval martial arts manuscripts .. We actually know a lot about fighter training in medieval times..

Could you do one of these for just like every culture ever? K Thank!

Is there any way to download or find the source of the beautiful medieval artwork featured during this video essay? I'd be super interested in using that artwork as wallpapers on my phone

Good clip :)

10:13 This picture is from Earlymodern era. note that there's a musketeer here with gunpowder bandolier and his musket.

I'm a recent subscriber and I really love the details and information you provide on here. One series I really enjoyed was your Law and Order series of Rome. I was wondering if you could do a Medieval Law and Order series as well.

For one to effectively fight in armor one must live in armor and this because a person must be adapted to the restriction and the weight of the armor that can even result in a physically stronger person depending on the weight of the armor. Strength and speed that can be result in making mistakes in a fight when heavy armor is removed effecting the speed and the amount of force needed to move, defend and attack and spending some small amount of time of training without armor may helps in the cases of being attacked undressed or in bed.

In Poland between 15 and 18 century noble children, often at age 8 started they martial training with so called palcaty (term depending on context may mean: wooden, heavy training sword/sabre or game - duel - in which they are used. )

Fascinating

I keep thinking of Admiral Yi and all his drilling.

Dunno man. Ogre Battle clearly taught me that you just slip a Benjamin to your local dragon tamer and hawkman squad, then you spar to the death, and hopefully get some XP out of it.

I’d like to see a video on how to “raze” and medieval castle

I love your exposés, Invicta, and your amount of time and effort that you put into making them for us. ☝🏻With that said, 10:13 the painting here is not medieval. The people are dressed in garb from the late 1500’s, the Late Renaissance. Tsk tsk, Sir. History and French teacher here. 🙋🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍🏫

Farmer Freemen be like “wow that ‘war’ thing sucks thoughts and prayers guys”

EVOLUTION OF ROME PART TWO ITS BEEN 5 YEARS

Hawkwood was part of the inspiration for the Dorsai series of books

In regards to mercenaries. Niccolo Machiavelli really liked then. He even wrote about them in a week known as "the prince".

I love history vs fiction vids

What a documentary !

would you please make a video on napoleonic era "boot camp"?

I appreciate the new voice actor.

I always wondered where they learned to dig tunnels. Like, am I just expected to know how to dig tunnels that don't collapse? I don't know if I trust myself with that. Or was it mainly people who mined as a trade who did that?

In Field of Battle I Recreated the Battle of Shipka pass One to One but my defenders just rout the enemy and chase them down the fields abandoning their defensible positions to get flanked from all sides. How do I make them stop routing.

Liechtenauer, if he existed, would have been a personal instructor for the nobility only. Joachim Meyer actually died from pneumonia on his way to a job as personal instructor for a high noble man (for whom he wrote his printed book as preparation until he would have arived inperson). Fencing schools were relativley common in Meyers time. But the 15 hundreds are actually Early Modern Age and not Medieval times.

Really looking forward to the follow up video you hinted at about training these individuals to form medieval units. (I can't find ANYONE covering that important topic). Any hints on when to expect that?

Could you please make a video about training and equipment in the Byzantine Army until 1204?

In Medieval Finland the soldiers didn't have much to fight against. Save for a rare fight with Novgorod/Russians every 30 or so years they were showing force rather than using force. Drinking 4-6 litres beer between plentiful and salty meals was the way to train. If and when the Knights in Savonlinna Fortress were mobilised, the problem was if the local small horses could carry both the overweight knights and their gear. Only the Swedish Noblemen in charge had proper horses by default. The bulk of the knights were from Finland, and they ride local horses.

This is pretty interesting. In some countries modern soldiers lift weights, stones and do high intensity workout. I wonder what the diet of soldier like? 🤔

Have you guys given up on the Stormlight archive vids?

I love the background pictures because it's from Crusader Kings 3.