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Ah yes. The thirty years war... When You were born in Finland so You fight in a Swedish army, under the Scottish commander, against the Austrians, under Spanish commander, somewhere in Bohemia, because some clever guy in Germany decided, that the bread is not the Body of Christ...

This is no longer a good morning. This, this is a great morning.

Ferdinand II: "..." Wallenstein: "You couldn't live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me."

I know you're not likely to get a lot of initial viewers on these videos, perhaps because the topic is considered a niche, but please know that real history lovers are deeply appreciative of the work and effort you put into this. I still recall searching for UKposts content on the Thirty Years War a couple of years ago, and coming up way short. It's an especially underappreciated period in European history, probably also due to the fact that it's one of the least depicted eras in cinema. I suppose most fringe history fans point of interest tend to halt before the beginning of the 17th century, most of the time even earlier still. I should know, I've been there for most of my life. Only in my later years did I begin to appreciate the "pike and shot" era, especially the advent of "modern" fortifications and the major integration of firearms in military engagements. Anyway, what I really mean to say is... even though your videos covering this era may not be among your most popular, the time and thought you put into them is still immensely appreciated, by those of us who do watch them. Thank you!

This series on the 30 year war was the final push I needed to join on Patreon. Excellent documentary quality that I have no quarms paying for.

"I was the king of Sweden." Badass to the end. Knows he's a goner, but also knows his worth and is never going to grovel. This is the kind of real-life stuff that novelists and script writers use to create epic moments.

I love the fact you guys cover this time period of European history. I don't feel like history before the Napoleonic wars is cover well enough.

German Mercenaries at this point in the war: I can just leave, holy shit did you know we can just leave?

Love from Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷Congratulations and support. Due to endless Greek history we have never been taught about that period of European history in school. Thus your efforts are very educating for me. Thank you 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

Fun fact: there is an expression used in belgium and germany, (i am not sure about other countries), called "knowing your pappenheimers", which roughly means knowing who you are dealing with/knowing what you can do with them. This reffering to the trustworthyness of Pappenheim and his soldiers.

The fighting at that time was cruel, brutal and often mind-blowing. Grimmelshausen described such a fighting (battle of Wittstock in 1636). In 2007 a mass grave was found at this battleground containing the remains of 125 soldiers. Most of them had suffered several mortal wounds at the same time. This showed Grimmelshausen was right when he described soldiers in a frenzy mode performing a kind of overkill. They shot with their pistols, punched with their muskets, stabbed with their knifes and hacked with their sabers nearly simultaneously. It must have been a horrifying carnage. If you want to get a feeling about that kind of figthing then watch the spanish film "A la Triste". Their the fighting at the battle of Rocroi in 1643 in shown in a nearly realistic way.

Mustn't write "first", must resist the temptation. This is no longer 2010, yet what once was ingrained is hard to remove...

The Battle of Lützen after the death of Gustavus is a good analogy for the state of the entire kingdom after his rule. The King was dead and there was ton of uncertainty and confusion but ultimately the reforms he had done to the military and the administration of the country outlasted him and there were people who could take over the fight.

Sweden's empire seems so short lived, but had a big impact on Europe.

One of my college German teachers was from the small town of Villingen. I guess one of its claims to fame was the fact that it was flooded by the Swedish during the Thirty Years War when they blew up a dam there. By the way, there is a form of rapier (a type of sword) called the Pappenheimer that's named after the Catholic general in this very battle! I actually like them, and I think they're one of the best looking rapier types!😁

Please continue this series

Foreigners having a skewed perception of our wealth is a time-honored tradition of Germany.

Amazing video, together with the one you did before about the sieges, in this one you also manage to give a sensation of total war, something that helps to understand how complicated and expensive this conflict was in just one year. What I liked was being able to observe several battles (being most of the ones you mention little known), which explain how disputed everything was in 1632, with victories and defeats equally on both sides, which ended up doing that the conflict would end up dragging on for many more years (something that after Breitenfeld seemed unlikely). The only thing similar to the year 1632 in the 30 Years War would be the Crisis of the year 1640, which was also a total madness full of uprisings and battles everywhere, which almost destroyed the Hispanic Monarchy. I want to correct you something, I don't know how outdated the Tercios system used by the Holy Roman Empire in Breitenfeld was so that the mutation to the Swedish system was so different (20:42), because in the Spanish case around the 1600s, later to adapt to Dutch tactics, the number of firearms increased considerably, being for the year 1632 a 60% of the 1000 men that a Tercio had for that time of the 30 Years War (All these data given by the historian Eduardo de Mesa Gallego according to the historical archives); If in such a case the Germans followed the updates of the Spanish, it should not have been very difficult to copy the Swedes, since they were almost equal in troop components, only differing in the way of fighting. This means that while a Swedish Brigade had approximately 864 pikemen and 636 or 654 musketeers (all divided in 3 or 4 batallions of 408 men, composed by 192 musketeers and 216 pikemen), a "Tercio" of these years had to have 350 pikemen, 450 arquebusiers and 200 musketeers (all divided in 5 companies of 200 men, composed by 70 pikemen, 90 arquebusiers and 40 musketeers). In any case, as proof of what I am saying, one only has to see how well the Spanish faced the Swedes in Nördlingen (1634), something only made possible by having a similar amount of firepower, only differentiated by the regimental guns that the Swedes still had the upper hand. Taking that into account, it seems to me that the reality of the formation of the 17th century Tercios, is very different from the squad that you show in the video (20:45), since it should have larger musketeer sleeves, unless the German imperialists used a composition of troops corresponding to military Ordinances of Tercios prior to those adopted in 1600. So, as I mentioned above according to the Spanish historians who have reviewed the sources of the historical archives, the formation in those times used by Spain had changed to something similar to what I put below (a) and that I seem to remember that they called "front of a thousand men", with 3 corps of arquebusiers divided into 200 behind (A²) and 75 on each side (A¹), while in the middle there were 350 pikemen forming a square (P) and 200 musketeers in front of the vanguard of pikemen (M); On the other hand, when wanting to shoot, the sleeves of the arquebusiers were advanced, forming two horns, since having a shorter distance than the muskets, they had to be advanced, leaving what is shown in (b): (a) A²A²A²A² A¹ P P P P P A¹ A¹ P P P P P A¹ A¹ P P P P P A¹ MMMMM (b) A²A²A²A² P P P P P P P P P P P P P P P A¹ MMMMM A¹ A¹ A¹ A¹ A¹

This series about the thirty year war is the best i've seen on youtube, they deserve more views than they are getting.

Hello, I wanted to thank you for the push you have on the channel, having a spectacular historical precision and, combined with the historical content, your animations are a real icing on the cake. I wanted to suggest that the battle of Aljubarrota was brought to the channel, when approximately 7500 Portuguese defeated 30,000 Spanish; could also bring up the battle of diu, where 16 portuguese ships defeated 217 muslim war galleys. Big hug from Portugal 🇵🇹

Damn. Pumping out great video recently. i just watched "7 great sieges", now I can continue with this one! Perfect thanks!

dam bro I got goosebumps by hearing that last quote from King Gustavus Adolphus, shit that hit hard lol

Please a video of the siege of castelnouvo and the janisaries.

Amazing information. Great video showing the back and fro of territory and houses.

Lutzen is almost poetic. Even after theyre kings death the army would use eveything he taught to achieve victory.

Great video as always

lol, i could locate (more or less) my house in bamberg, bc its on one of the major roads

Is there a continuation to this series? I cannot find the next parts

The king's warhorse Streiff can be seen at a museum in Stockholm's royal palace.

Another fantastic video!

Amazing work as always, I've been looking forward for this timeline of the 30 years war!

Thank you for this video and all of your other videos!

Thank you both for the new video!

I love Your channel. I'm really glad someone covers my favorite war with such quality.

Awesome channel, thanks for great videos

Incredible quality as usual. Thank you. This channel never disappoints. Much appreciated.

It is really interesting to watch. Many things became clear due to your visual presentation

Watching this at like 540 am before work thank ya'll for these fantastic and interesting videos

Another great video!

thank you for giving me a plethora of videos to binge watch at work

Will the next episode be about the death of Wallenstein and the Battle of Nordlingen, and then the remaining episodes will be the French phase?

Great video! Please more

I’m a massive fan of German history, and loving the series so far, and I’m left wondering whether there will be more episodes in the future. Are there new episodes in the works or has the project been abandoned?

this was great i love history stuff like this to listen to in the backround.

The sweets 😭 the sweet retreated 😭, the sweets attacked😭

Another banger video. RIP to the lion in the north

good video man

The best video, because here is mainly a video animated map, not pictures and excerpts with animated pictures.

Great f-king work, man!

This is a really greatb channel

I really love your videos

love this video

@SandRhomanHistory Is there an official name for those blocks that mappers use to represent units? I'd love to research them more and see the various systems for denoting information from them.

Thanks for including Kladsko (Glatz) in the Kingdom of Bohemia on the map.

Subscribed immediately

Incredible.

I recently watched two videos about what will happened if one side won the Thirty Years' War decisively. And I dared to say that it is for the best that neither side won in the original timeline and the war ended with the Peace of Westphalia seemed to be the best option.

Where do you get those hats?

Never enough of this stuff I have. For quality of bread is important for body and mind alike.

will you post the other parts ?

What do you use to make the top down Siege map

Very cool 😎

I thought this was a video about the book series for a moment

Well? Aren't you going to continue this series?

32:42 can’t imagine the pain guilt and disbelief all the men felt.

Shame about Gustavus Adolphus. Things would've been so much different had he not been killed in that last battle.

Pappenheim goes hard af fr fr

Many swedes were peasants from richly forested places, often retaining myths with roots in the distant pagan passed. In some places north like Dalarna and Hälsingland, people still used runes for short messages, or to put their owner mark on houses or objects. The children could hear the adults talk about Thor, who´s hammer could be heard in the storm´s thunder, or in skies of windy rainclouds you sometimes could see Odin and hi´s army of dead warriors galloping in the air.. So ackording a source, the Smålandic soldiers saw somebody that was probably a scout from the imperial side at Lutzen with a patch over one eye and a wide hat. The exited soldier who was convinced that Odin or Wotan had followed them from hi´s homecounty, and immediately spread the good news that they couldn´t loose, not only God, but also Odin was on their side..! Many were flogged for telling ungodly stories, but the news were hard to stop....

The war is so devastating, yet it even didnt reach half-time yet! Lutzen was definitely a terrible, but unconcluysive battle, but it could have swung decisive win for either side If Pappenheim didnt receive the orders to ride with utmost haste to help Imperials, Gustavus would probably rolled over the flank and won decisive victory. All it would take would be one lost horseshoe, horse and messenger. Had the Imperials manage to break Swedish flank with Pappenheims fresh troops, it would be end of Swedish army. In the end, one thing that showed was Imperials were learning from Swedes and were no longer easily outmatched tactically with unvieldy lumbering tercios.

Whene kings were kings 🦁🇸🇪

The Battle of Lützen is infamous in Sweden. Which is ironic since our goverment actually is considerably shit at teaching history. Most don't even know about the 30 years war and what impact it had on Europe Let alone, what wars were fought or why they were fought. Never the less, the Battle of Lützen is still one of the few battles that are mentioned in history classes for it's heroics. Yet no one knows why the King was in Germany to begin with lmao.

didnt the old blue brigade also suffered a lot from the imperial cavalry fire ?

3:29 Even into the mid 20th century my mothers village in the Steigerwald in Franconia hated the Swedes for what they did long ago in 1631. It had been passed on along the generations to the descendants. Possibly taught in the local schools in the Steigerwald for centuries. This area historically fas been a Catholic enclave for centuries. Over 300+ years of disdain the regional motto was: Swedes were bad. Just a local tale of the small skirmishes that probably occurred many times. The Steigerwald had a scar, from a fleeting memory of what Lennart Torstensson, Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad did by destroying the main castle complex and neighboring towns near Zettmannsdorf. Actually fog obscured the larger village Zettmannsdorf (then known as Scitemulesdorf) and the Swedish army marched to the next two smaller towns i the valley at Luibrichsdorf and Lindach, destroying them so bad that the fields in the area were known as a desert. Possibly the fields were salted or ruined by some form of sabotage.

And war would continue over and over again

I believe Wallenstein would have probably won if he hadn't been erroneouly told more Protestant infantry was on it's way, and instead of leaving for Leipzig launched a counterattack against the exhausted Swedish lines with the fresh Pappenheim infantry reinforcements that had just begun to arrive.

God bless

A Pyrrhic Swedish victory.

😊

Gustavus Amogus! Libera im postera!

Imagine if any of these armies figured out sanitation and logistics. The would have helped. 😐 Crazy to think the Romans were ahead of them over 1500 years earlier.

Prity sure its Bernhard not Bernard.

How much did Peter Wilson pay you?

I am no expert, but i think the guy in the thumbnail uses the gun wrong

I have my doubts about the title picture with the Swede using his heavy musket as a club at Lützen. That should have happened at the end of the day. What soldier would do that? Anyway, they mobilized the very last forces for the last attack. I mean even a World War I rifle was impractical as a slashing weapon for close quarters combat as it would tire you out quicker. Then what about an even heavier musket. Soldiers think practically, so it must have been pure combat with pikes and edged weapons.

AND the Sweds was there to fight for The right to religious FREEDOM.

By the virgin mary! Tercios are not battle formations and were certainly not used by germans. They were organized in regiments. Only the Spanish, the Lombards and the Neapolitans had the honour to be organized in tercios. Which were administrative units. The combat unit was the company and if neccessary joining several to form an ad hoc unit. And they did not fight in great pike blocks. Spanish in particular were famous to include more firearms per pike than any others. So much so that it threatened their hability to counter cav. Read: Black, J. (2011) Beyond Military Revolution. War in the seventeenth century world. Maffi, D (2006): 'Il potere delle armi. La monarchia spagnola e i suoi eserciti (1635-1700): una rivisitazione della decadenza'. Revista Storica Italiana You perpetuate protestant propaganda that makes no sense

Iam a Swedish historian, and his comment that we had mostly german mercs IS WRONG. Our land was near empty of men cos of the 30 year war. (Yes we did have german soldiers, but we controlled german lands, and some parts STILL celebrate our 200 year of control=)....

Rip Tilly

The Swedes came won a few battles and then were wiped out at Nordlingen LOL.

When Swedish were men and Swedish!

Amazing video as always!

Another great video!