"People don't like to die."-Shad. Well why do they keep doing it then?! Bunch of sillies.

There are several competing truisms at work in medieval battles. 1 - Disciplined blocks of infantry will always defeat a cavalry charge. 2 - A cavalry charge is almost impossible to resist. It mostly boiled down to the discipline of the infantry. If they broke (either to flee, or to pursue) then their formation was gone and the enemy cavalry could slaughter them. If they stood fast, then the cavalry basically couldn't hurt them. However, like any rule, there are notable exceptions. For instance, there was a kind of arms race in the eastern Mediterranean between the spearman and the cataphract. The medieval Romans employed large blocks of disciplined spearmen who could successfully receive a heavy cavalry charge, which was crucial in their battles against the Arabs and Turks. However, once those groups started to copy their tactics and techniques, they had to come up with something to beat their own methods. Enter the klibanophoros, a super-heavy cataphract variant. They had armor on their horses that was thick enough for them to charge directly into spears and come out alive. The spear shafts would break before the blades would penetrate the horses' armor. Naturally, once the Saracens began to copy this as well, the Romans had to come up with yet another solution. They marked out picked men of exceptional strength and gave them extremely heavy short spears made of whole saplings (IIRC the measure of a suitable tree was that you could barely fit your hand around it). These heavy spears were strong enough to beat the horses' armor, so that when the Saracen heavy cavalry charged the spear wall, the picked men would rush out in front and their spears would punch through the horses' armor, wiping out the charge. Over time this shifted from having them rush out ahead, to having them shift from the back of the line to the front, and finally to integrating them into the line itself, intermixing them with the regular spearmen. Of course, the medieval Romans had a rather decisive edge over most any other power at the time, in that they could afford to maintain and equip elite formations of disciplined, professional spearmen, heavy armored cataphracts, and even a few hundred klibanophoroi, backed by a millenium-long tradition of military science and generalship. And even their finances eventually suffered to the point where they were no longer able to support some of those formations.

*Macedonian spear phalanx revolutionizes warfare.* *Roman shield formations beat Macedonian phalanx* *Roman shield formations become Medieval shield formations, which get replaced by Medieval spear phalanx* history really does work in cycles.

Omg, you cracked me up, Shad. "That might surprise you, but this next fact might not. People don't like to die...." I don't know why I found that so hilarious, but your delivery was on point.

You must now analyse how well-defendable a pineapple under the sea would be against a siege.

War, war never changes.

This is a crossover I didn't know I needed.

I really like the fact that you were so realistic about ransom instead of just plain-old condemning it.

The first comment about not liking to lose/die, chimes very well with Sun Tzu quote: "One only seeks battle when victory is assured."

The death of 1 person is tragedy. The death of a 1000 is statistics.

Higland charges were a smart idea although only for a very limited time. They exploited the reloading pause after the first exchange of musket volleys to rush the enemy. Keep in mind that was in those dark days before bayonets and alternating volleys. Great vid my man.

So we got skirmishes, sieges and battles. But what about Dragons? You should make a video about dragons in medieval warfare, I would like to see a more historical point of view on this subject.

BEST CROSSOVER EVER. My pc exploded from the sheer awesomeness

You should look at the castles and fortified cities from the game Medieval 2: Total War!

When talking about the shield and spear wall, don't forget about the war wagon wall used by Hussits. Those guys repeled a crusade with farming tools ffs. They should really be more known

The video title in earlier versions of production: "Oddly Satisfying Video, that you never knew you needed to function" ;)

Maybe in the future you could make a video talking about the misconception surrounding the Middle Ages? I find it to be one of the most misunderstood periods of history and and can't even begin to count all the ridiculously false crap I've heard people claim about it.

"I'm not in favor of murder-" except in the case of Spongebob Squarepants, it would seem

I am travelling so I was without internet connection until this morning, when I got the notification of a new video and noticed that Shad had talked about exactly what I asked him for on his last video. Really, thank you Shad, it will help a LOT with my book.

"So You're invading me?" Nice video's, both of them.

Regarding ransoms of lower class people, during the Iberian Reconquista it's clear that all the Iberian states, Christian and Muslim alike ended up developing a rather lucrative ransom econmy against each other. ETA: Actually in many ways the practice continued in the late medieval and post medieval periods. Barbary corsairs still raided southern Europe, so places like Ceuta and Tunis had a booming ransom industry with the Ottoman Empire, France, the Knight Hospitallers, Portugal, the Italian States and Spain ransoming and trading prisioners well into the modern age.

Shad, I bought a few days ago one of those nifty little shirts that had all the bits of the castles on it. I forgot when it would come in, but I am excited to confuse everyone at school with it!

Presumably, when describing the knights with couched lances, you are largely talking about moments like the early victory at Damascus in the 1st Crusade, where a knight charge into the Muslim camp won the battle before it ever engaged. But, largely, the couched lance charge wasn't used. It's distinctive enough to get mentioned whenever it was used, but that visible is a mark of rarity. After all, that's a very committed action that really is only going to work against a tall force that you can charge directly into, like say, more cavalry. However, the loss of horses is going to be severe (it kind of depended on the moment whether human death would be severe, but animals were not in good shape). Horses are expensive, and knights didn't like throwing away they're animal compatriots' lives. So, I'd argue the most distinctive feature of medieval combat was the development of the stirrup, and with it, the feigned charge. This was a particularly Norman thing at first, where they'd all run, get up alongside their target, then turn all at the same time and run parallel to it, abusing the length of the lance to chip away at the shield wall. This is clearly indicated at descriptions of Hastings, and continued to be used into at least the 13th century. (Cavalry fights then would look kind of silly, where one side chases the other, turns, and is chased back across the field until someone got chipped enough to force a retreat).

I knew you guys were doing a crossover it was inevitable.

Blue sent me here lol.

One thing to note, Chinese Christians who visited Europe remarked the fact that non-combatants weren't harmed during combat which to the Chinese was very strange, as they were used to seeing the massacre of innocents at all times during combat.

I just came from OSP!!

The hype is real!

5:20 I lol'd hard at this. So refreshing, "Unless they're just a monster type of person then we can just be glad they're gone." - HARD CUT - I want to see the uncut version of this, like, you said something after this, but later decided "Nope, this is the final cut, don't need to keep this other stuff about my mother-in-law." lol

spongebob called and he said "ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahHHHHHHHHHHHHahahahahahahahahahahahah!"

Such great chemistry. We need more of these

YES! I wanted this to happen. This needed to happen. I've been looking for videos describing Medieval Warfare. I've seen a lot of videos on the battles for Greeks, Romans, and a few Asian naval battles. Thanks for the clear and well thought out analysis.

Time for a new shirt: Knights are awesome!

Shad this was great I learn a lot from your videos that interests me and it's just really fun to listen and learn from you

Shad I have to thank you you showed me the oversarcastic duo and now there are 2 collabs and I love it !

Both this and the classical warfare video are going to help me with my novel. I'm glad this crossover happened.

Shad, your videos are the best! Regards from Uruguay.

When you've played Mount and Blade for 5 hours Me: *The Expert*

i was hoping for animated Shad xD

You are trying to get rid of Spongebob Squarepants? But what about DRAGONS?!?

At 2:00 I believe that artwork is depicting Crecy not Agincourt

You should play total war and as you do it correct I the inaccuracies. Like so he sees this.! Edit: he should play it with other historical UKpostsrs. That would be heaven.

Love yours and Blues Dialogue. Been watching him a while as well as Red, but, this was meta y'all looping the videos. Good stuff. Keep up the authentic and great videos

Can’t believe it’s been 4 or so years since I started watching your videos, time flys. I’m rewatching this video because I was going through OSP (Blue’s) videos on the classical period and then saw the classical warfare video and subsequently the collab. Love your vids have a good one.

"People don't like to die" Well, you'll learn to like it if you've played dark souls. Kinda have to.

That humour was great XD *and I wanna kill Spongebob Squarepants too >:)*

This was great! I do admit to watching more of Red's videos about tropes, etc, but Blue is awesomesauce as well.

Thanks for the knowledge Shad, love these videos.

I came here to learn how to utilize kite shields in communication with offworldy species. This will be sufficient for the time being. edit: can't write

"People don't like to die." "Murder is bad." - Shad

I enjoyed this thoroughly. An excellent video, and a new-to-me YT channel to devour. Woot!

you forgot to say that the use of heavy full plated cavalry is not only uniqe to the period but its also very much awsome

I love that the first painting in the background is of the Blackfyre rebellion from GoT history.

A new video from Shad. Yay! And my shirts from TeeSpring arrived today! YAAAYYY! It's like Christmas being today! :D Now I must choose, which one I'll put on to watch this new video ^_^ Got the LONGSWORD shirt and the DRAGONS shirt and they are totally awesome! I love them both

Great video as always Shad!

This collab....I love it.

I already know this is gonna be a good watch! 👍

I like that painting of Daemon The Black Dragon leading the charge at the Redgrassfield you have put in the beginning! :D

Great video! Very informative and you helped me find a topic I'm very interested in!

"I know, I've been trying to kill Spongebob Squarepants for years." lmao

Shad= Awesome. Overly Sarcastic Productions= Awesome. Shad+ OSP =The BEST THING EVER!!!!

All this educational content about Medieval and Classical warfare. Fantastic.

really have to appreciate the way shad carefully words some things to step around undesirable interpretation or just for the sake of being polite when I get to touchy or controversial subjects I'm usually rather unapologetic

Very insteresting. I've never realized that actual battles where very rare in Medieval times. Could it be said that sieges took their place in a certain sense?

Cavalry - the medieval drive-by.

This was great! Really painted a picture. K vid idea..10 things to take back to that time. Time Travel. Nerd out matey. :) Or even ten items you would bring back to our time to keep.

Love this video. You should do more battle related videos!

great video shad

A colab for the ages

This topic reminded me of a book series I read in middle school, the Farsala Trilogy. One of the primary things in the first book was a large scale battle between two opposing nations, and the after effects of it. It's fantasy and has some magic, but when I read it I thought it approached things in a highly realistic manner. Shad, I personally think you might enjoy the books, so if you ever have any spare time, you might want to look into them.

Shad is so passionate on what he is talking about. It's a great joy to listen to him speak.

Me today "Hum, let's see if there's something interesting in UKposts, like a Shadiversity video, or a Overly Sarcastic video". Nice

HELLO? IF YOU CAN SEE THIS, I'M STUCK IN AN INFINITE TIME LOOP BETWIXT TWO VIDEOS! SEND HELP!

I quite like your cross overs with other UKposts people. I feel they way you do them is tastefully done.

Been a long time fan. now that im writing my own book, its been refreshing coming back through all these videos.

Isn't the loss of 5-20 a win only if your loss of 5 is a smaller % of your total force in relation to the 20 is of the opposing force? I mean if you lose 5 of your 15 men vs the enemy losing 20 of their 100 statistically you lost.

I just yesterday found your channel and I want to just say I love it! And I have a question (for anyone who knows really). If I'm not confusing things, this channel is mostly focused on the later medieval, or true medieval, the one after year 1000, right? So I'm personally very interested in learning about early medieval or whatever name you prefer for the times about years 500-800. Do you know any good place on the internet (or a book) that I could learn about it from? I'm interested in the general view, things like everyday live, cieties, how did people fight and rule and all that in general. Anyone, anything?

This was an unlikely crossover, two of my favorite youtubers came together. My mind was blown seeing the thumbnail

Great collab, Shad!

Those of us who watch Lindybeige already knew that battles were rare. :D

that was so cool.

About Medieval charges by mounted knights, there was a battle called Battle of the Golden Spurs. This battle was fought in 1301 and a bunch of militia men armed with mainly jutendas, repelled against a French mounted charges. Many French Knights who chaged were pulled off their horses and beaten to death, including the general Artouis, forcing the rest of the army to route.

I love OSP and I look forward to more collaborations between your channels!

love the vid btw as a youngling trying to learn history for a future career this helps allot

Can you make a video about the how fantasy races would conduct sieges like Dwarves with heavy artillery and tunneling Elves with magical weapons of mass destruction.

I love how you used the painting of The Red Grass Field from the Blackfyre rebellion in the beginning ☺

This is the collaboration I've always wanted

Sorry shad, they beat you by 4 minutes....

Hey great video by the way it since you've covered Age of Empires 2 before I wonder if you could do a video comparing the four ages of Age of Empires 2 to the periods of medieval history.

So happy to see you and osp working together ^.^

Love your vids man and also o.s.p as well ...can you do somthing like weapon and armour combinations from different times and cultures

Total War anyone?

Shad hath summoned me.

I love these collaborations!

Late to the party but I love the shot of Bodium Castle you have there. ( By far my favourite castle )

*People don't like to die, in conjunction, they don't like to wait for the respawn* ~Mordhau Player.

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Not Spongebob, Shad killed him.

A poster with your castle architecture breakdown would be cool too.

1:00 Its insights like these that i watch your Videos for.

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