I Used Julius Caesar's Tactics To DOMINATE The Battlefield!

Man as a historian this video makes me angry beyond believe. Like I don’t wanna be rude, but nothing in this video you said about the Triplex Axis is accurate. It’s inaccurate beyond being acceptable. This is misinformation hell for me. Lemme start at the first few seconds. The TLA was known to be stupid inflexible even tho some historians attribute some level of flexibility to the triplex axis, it’s probably not true, cause we have a lot of „generals“ that just didn’t use it in harsh terrain. The Titel it self is inaccurate as fuck cause Caesar, how fought with legions after the Marian reforms, didn’t even use this tactics, cause there wasn’t the unit types described in the video. After the Marian Reform, only Velites and Equites stayed in existence. After the reform every soldier was the same called legionaries. Units from the back didn’t close the gaps this pisses me off beyond believe cause it would ruin the reason for this tactic. There are only two options of how they „plugged“ the gaps one being they absolutely didn’t plug the gaps and the velites and principes would pick them of with javlins and the mighty pilum. Other possible option is that the line stretched out to plug the gaps (which I believe to be true). After the hastati where exhausted they would do a fighting retreat and the principes would take over. How exactly they did this, is not 100% certain. And we will probably never know. The romans in their entire history never fought in „testudo“ formation this was just for pitched battles and approaching battlements.

It's been really cool to see real tactics applied to Bannerlord. Especially with RBM

The idea of the manipular legion was that each centurion is a mini-commander, they control the maniple. No need for you to micro manage .. yeah, ok, the game doesn't allow that. The Consul only needed to order battle lines to attack / withdraw etc. BL would need a mod to allow Triplex Acies to work properly.

These tactics are more clean and clear than my whole educational writings

Sometimes the roman leaders made the triarii sit in the ground during battle to avoid them charging into battle, so eager they were to fight those veterans. There was a figure speech, something close "when things come to the triarii" meaning things were in a dire state

The tactics translated well to the game considering the amount of troops you have to control.

the worst part is that you don't have anyone to help you command the army. in real life, you would be commanding a section of the army while sergeants who respond to you would take care of the rest, and messengers would go back and forth with reports and orders between you and them. unfortunately, we don't have an AI which is smart enough to do that. the closest thing we have to that is F6 (assign command to sergeants), but they don't listen to you as the actual commander of the army, they do their own thing independently

When good old Iulius came around, he was already using legionares, the 3 types of heavy troops was already went away at that point. However, he still used multiple lines of battle. Romans were interesting, because most armies at the time were used to commit everybody and win the fight that way. Romans held 1/3rd of their army in reserve, which was unheard of at the time. Also, sources say Hastatii and Principes were fought alternately, which could mean they were in an alternating pattern or in turns. As far as I know it is still up for debate what did they actually do. Also-also, Triarii were so rarely used in the manipule era, sources say they sometimes begged to get a piece of the action. Btw. Caesar's tactic was mainly play with the enemy's mind so much, they just commit to a fight they cannot win. He was pretty good at giving dilemmas to the enemy instead of problems. Anyway, great video as usual :)

Foot troops couldn’t chase because if the enemy rallied and ended the retreat the infantry could get cut off from the main army whereas cavalry could avoid being surrounded

Great video! One minor point to consider though: I think you should list all the relevant mods you use in the video (either in the video itself or in the description), for clarity purposes. For example, RBM battles are quite different to vanilla so people new to Bannerlord might get some wrong impressions about how battles work (especially things like AI quality and combat duration)

Great job explaining a couple extra tidbits the veterans were in back to mop up yes but also just strategic use of wearing down enemy troops giving them no chance once veterans hit while also letting less experienced troops claim some valor and battle experience on the front. Also cavalry back for Julius was actually in much shorter supply as far as actual Roman cavalry so they were almost always flank shock troops or draw troops. Love that you said maniple and no phalanx and specified the difference which was more usable joints

That is why there were junior officers and centurions, so the legate would not get overwhelmed. There is already much difficulty micromanaging such a small force "in person", imagine commanding a couple legions.

Nobody can teach historical battle tactics better than you! Your content is GOLDEN.

Coincidentally, I use a very similar strategy in the Rome Total War games. It's a lot simpler to control when you can freeze your whole army's formation and just drag them around like that.

I love these types of videos. Especially because when I play I only use 4 formations for different troop types.

how this all worked so well back in the day was due to the sergeants. you could give general orders and have the units follow them, flexing to fit the situation and ensure that the whole operation came together without a huge amount of micromanagement. BL lacks this ability which is why it is so difficult, and even in total war when they got formations down pretty good you still had to micro the units to get them to do what they should be doing.

That's unexpected. I spent some significant time in Warband in the, but abandoned it at some point. Youtude recommended this video to me because i was watching Total War games videos and i was shocked when i saw HOW advanced looks battle field from Bannerlord comparing to Warband. Now it looks like real RTS game, not like action game, like in was Warband. Thanks for video!

HBO's 'Rome' PTSD was kicking in there for a second. Great video and tactics! Missed an opportunity to show a short montage and cut to black tho!

These are some of my favorite of your videos!

It’s great to see you posting more videos :) definitely missed these