Alatriste ~Battle of Rocroi (English Subtitles)

Maybe the Golden Palm at the Caen Film Festival.

At this point I'm convinced that Oscars aren't for good movies, but are just a mark for bad movies that check the right boxes of diversity and emotional blackmailing, or the usual ass kissing.

@@milkhoney1631 Also true. I still think he deserves some sort of award though. One for good film making.

​@@milkhoney1631Too fuckin right

I know the cannons had recoil 😄

The had an especial march for that you can still see it in the modern spanish legion that was tge way they approached to the enemy when they were in combat, some called a gay marching style when it was the most terrifying thing you could see if you were an infantery soldier marching at a slower speed

horrible. It's so important not to lose cohesion, but at the same time, this makes you a very easy target for cannons. They will rip through your formation as a sword ripps through paper.

Renaissance Europe: Why not both?!

The Disney woke have made mincemeat of the canons, and they are nothing more than hooligan pansies, so I would think the pikes would be more of a threat.

I'd rather just get misted by a cannon instantly instead of bleeding out to a pike wound.

Check out the Samurai flick "Heaven and Earth". It has big battle formations of horse and pikemen.

We need a movie about the Ultra Badass Swiss Pikemen

Nonsense. This is full of mistakes.

Useless BS.

Disgusting.

And the sound, all that rattling of metal and wood, footsteps, you can even hear the dust.

This are also as well very expensive though

It's the second most expensive Spanish film ever made

Excellent points. If I may add something. In real life, there are all sorts of accidents or oddities to physical objects. Things fall apart or need repair at the weirdest of times. The result is naturalistic.

That's why more movies should use the approach that Lord of the Rings and Troy(2004) used. Namely, have live action fighting in the foreground and cgi models fighting in the background to make the battle look bigger. It's the best of both worlds in my opinion.

European history? 😛 The five continents have an spanish grave. With a sword inside.

By this point in the history of the Tercio, there were significantly more musketeers than swordmen or pikemen

@Александр This is the "last hours" of the Tercio of Cartagena in Rocroi, so is accurate. The germans and italians fled, with the cavalry and the cannon were lost, but the veterans of the tercio(spaniards) refuse to surrender.

Not as much so that the Tercios were brutal savages who brutalized germany.

He's truly found himself a home.

These guys have always been better than marvel hero’s. They had so much more to lose and still went to war. They were always my hero’s.

man being in the front rank of a pike formation vs pike formation fight would suck!

puppy fresh yeah but you'd usually get double pay or you would've a fresh recruit. So your life could either be better or worse

This battle gives me a historyboner. That fucking pike square... That skirmish phase... That Push of Pike... Damn, that brutally glorious hand to hand... Mmm... she thicc tho... Dat plumage... Dat armor... Yeah, she thicc...

Agnarr Salventius dude wtf is wrong with you. You can like it but don't glorify it, people would massacre each other in the push of pikes that's not poetic that's loss of human life

Actually, no. Pikemen were never considered doppelsoldner in any Renaissance army. The privilege was afforded to veterans with actual combat skills. These were usually skirmishers such as arquebusiers and crossbowmen in the two wings or four "sleeves" (mangas) of the square (which were in front of the pikemen when they turned to face outward). Or they were the shock troops, such as halberdiers, swashbucklers, and great-swordsmen, who remained in the center of the square to respond to attacks on any side. These guys did the most actual fighting and thus, suffered the brunt of the casualties. (Alatriste and his ward are both arquebusiers.) As for pikemen, whether or not you end up "in front" is a roll of the dice. This is because the fighting could happen on any side of the square. Their job was really to serve as a human wall to stop a cavalry charge from breaking the square or pin an infantry push of pike in place for their own cavalry or shock troops to engage them.

That's what happened in the Battle of Pavia

Except the charging into each and fighting individual dules during a battle rarely (if it ever did) happened. Even during the Middle Ages soldiers still fought in formations, just at a closer range than the pikemen here. Also knights would usually charge the enemy lines then retreat to get new lances, not stay and fight with swords as you see in movies.

i just want to see authentic movies.

The knight and men at arms with the individual duelling is kind of a fantasy that a lot of medieval and ancient Hollywood films have done a lot of. In real life, the armies were more organised and actually used tactics

actually breastplates were quite strong against the bullets, breastplates were used up until the 1880s when the smokeless powder was introduced

glorious words, poetry

Even the rebellions against the Spanish crown was also glorious in a way . But yeah Only Spain did that.

Yes. Cervantes told us all about how "glorious" it was.

@@NEY-uu3lx Spain's decline was accelerated by the Napoleonic wars. It had been in decline since at least the Thirty Years' War.

​@@NEY-uu3lx Spain decline was when the last Austria died

yeah but they don't understand that cannon don't issue splash damage lol

@@anguswilson1619 You can think they are hurt by wood splinters from pikes getting destroyed by the shots. Or even bone. Who knows.

@@anguswilson1619 I mean, if the soil is rocky, the rocks might might them

There were explosive shells 300 years before the battle. This guys is an idiot ignore him.

jondonwayne wayne This was 140 years before Napoleon

Wish more people would take into account what you wrote. There is vastly more to this film than battles like this. Everything has style and flourishes. Great characters in the court and in the streets.

This is based on a series of novels by Arturo Perez Reverte. They could have made an adventures franchise, but choose to fit everything in just one film. I do not conect with the story in terms of script, there's not an objective, it's like looking at someone's life throug a hole in random moments. Doesn't make sense. Photography is beautiful yeah, and costume design, production design, props, art, but all that doesn't connect the viewer with the film, it needs something else. For history suckers, me included is watchable, but as a cinema sucker, it's boring asf.

@@IVANGARCIA-ks4vp A for effort, C for execution, as they say

​@@IVANGARCIA-ks4vpyou're an idiot

Found this in Wikipedia : The soundtrack features in the scene a funeral march, La Madrugá, composed by Colonel Abel Moreno for the Holy Week of Seville, played by the band of the Infantry Regiment "Soria" No. 9, the successor of the "bloody Tercio", which participated in the battle, the oldest unit in the Spanish Army. ^That's pretty epic.

Hispanic supremacy , baby

We were...and still we got that blood inside us....as soon we throught away the CriminL Genocide Socialcommunist Crap from the country we' ll be Great again....We Are Spanish and that means a lot !!!!

Rocroi was a french Victory tho

Rocroi was a French victory. France succeeded on the sea too

@@gradlon3946 And the Dutch and English.

You can and should be proud indeed. Spain's golden age was something different. Respect from your neighbour France !

spanish are too egoistic

You can be proud as much as I am about being French, respect and forever peace

Love Spain from Italy 🇪🇸❤️

During the Thirty Years' War, decisive victory of the Kingdom of France over the armies of Spanish Flanders. For the first time in Europe, the invincible army of Spanish pikemen is defeated. The French cavalry crushes it.

Let's be honest. First of all this is a movie based on a historical NOVEL (which has nothing historical about it). The costumes: Poop colored filter, The cuts of the clothes wrong (And I mean clothing arrangements), the waists wrong, the shirts wrong, the shoes wrong, the hats huge for some reason and the weapons anachronistic for some periods. A stopped clock marks the time twice a day. Here not even the case. In this film it's as if the will is to fail on purpose. The setting: The interiors are fine, the monuments, the streets.... (Basically because they are historical places) But.... There are a lot of mistakes. There are shots that are fine but others that are a shame. If you squint a little you get a taste of the time. But the eyes are full of dirt. This film is not accurate and the Script is a mess. It's not good dude.

​@@homero_con_lechuguilla 😂😂😂😂😂😂 eres patético, me cae muy mal el autor de la novela, por fascista, pero película es de lo mejor que vi en toda mi vida, superando con creces, salvo rara excepción a la mayoría de superproducciones americanas y del mundo en general, que parte de la palabra novela ni entiendes???😂😂😂😂😂 patético

​@@homero_con_lechuguilla nerd

@@homero_con_lechuguilla nerd

One of my favorite films. I have seen it many times. Seems very real like being transported back in a time machine.

and a primary enforcer of massed line infantry tactic ,except tercios lacked fast movement, which was much improved by the Prince Eugene of Savoy, and made into a much greater strength following the first world war before ww1 aka seven years war .

I agree!

In this battle, the Spanish were neither outgunned nor outnumbered but outmaneuvered by bold French cavalry led by none other than their fearless general Louis de Condé. He was truly brave for leading the cavalry charge himself instead of staying back and observing the battlefield as most generals of his time did, including the Spanish one in this battle. The Spanish had both a little more musketeers and cannons than the French and a little less cavalry but their commander was indecisive and chose to hold ground since he had more guns and let the French surround, flank and rout all of their Tercio formations. The French were especially brave during this battle, charging into cannon and musket fire. Unfortunate that this movie did not depict the key outmaneuvering that led to the French victory, choosing instead to portray the Spanish as outgunned and outnumbered. If anything, the Spanish had both more troops and more guns.

@@tarmynastyr you missed the point. At this stage of the battle, as depicted, the imperial forces already fled the battlefield. So in fact, the remaining Spanish tercio was outnumbered and outgunned. Yet they chose to stay and fight.Additionally, all men, irrespective for which king they fought, were brave.

People will say this about any country but never about France despite having a milenia track record of fighting tenaciously outnumbered and against all odds

​​​​​@@tbuxt3992 because the French are opportunistic chauvinist traitors... who certainly have many victories, but many stabs in the back too! Backstabs especially aimed at Spain... (The treachury of the French during the 30 years war and the Napoleonic wars, Francois 1st captured at the battle of Pavia by Carlos Quinto and who lies to stay alive and flee Like a rat After that , etc etc...) Never believe a frenchman

wiwied wicaksono and the fight below the pikes...wow so brutal

First I've ever actually seen two pike lines face each other in a movie I believe.

Very accurate though

@hasan veysel erol Yeah, and the sword duels are amazing two. Fast, short and very agressive.

Yeah, they did a pretty good job on portraying the push of pikes, often commanders would not recommend it if it could be helped, since the pushed of pikes was so deadly for both sides it becomes a battle of attrition.

I can explain this to you if you ever read it: In that battle. There were 3 spanish tercios. The rest of the troops were german and italian. Both italians and germans fleed for their lifes with no order. More than 7000 were killed just in front of the spanish tercios. At that moment, the french offered a deal to the spanish tercios. To keep their weapons and flags and just march away from battle. They all refused. French resumed the charges and lost many people. By that time, the spanish had already used most of their gunpowder. French asked again. 2 of the tercios accepted the deal and just retreated in formation. Another tercio refused (this is the one in the movie) and stayed. People from the other 2 tercios who accepted the deal, but didnt want to retreat, just joined this remaining tercio. ANd then the battle continued until they finally accepted the deal and went their way in formation. This is what the movie portraits, the last guys on the battlefield after the germans and italians fleed and the other 2 tercios just left the battlefield with honors.

@@Trikipum that just the italians and the germans escaped is a bit of a urban legend, read the book: The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, and in several other books, even the tercios that resisted in rocroi were at the same composition of the others, so around 30% spanish and the rest to be devided between italians, germans, wallons, austrians and portuguese. the formation that survived with low losses were the cavalry and artillery, while the infantry had between 2 to 8000 losses distributed evenly between the tercios there present

Thank you! I really admire France during Louis XIII's and Louis XIV's times. We were great enemies and I'm glad now we are friends. Greetings from Spain

It was the most powerfull in the late XV century, the whole XVI and first half of the XVII *Castile* was heavyy stuff in the middle ages so Spain was, for a few centuries, despite the arrival of foreign king and changes in the court, the infintie wars around the new and old possesions in Europe, and the New World. France was a titan but had no possesions outside his mainland neither discoveries, only go agaisnt anyone and the most important: allied with the *ottomans* .

@@dh1.369 You know that France had huhe chunks of lands in the Caraibean and in North America right??

@@mathieuvigne7336 neither of that, french Canada (17th century) and french Louisiana (second half of 18th century and with a Bourbon in the throne of Spain) were possessions with little extension and penetration in the territory. Apart from the principal settlements in the north east and New Orleans, it was expeditionary more than anything else. The pack of 8 tiny little Caribbean islans that France finally owned were (of course) stolen from the Spanish Empire who had very little interest in them, without any fight with Spain, and also latter on in the 17th and 18th centuries.

@@mathieuvigne7336 and France is an astonishing wonder, of course, I like it, love it. 👍

The most Brave.

He was a legend

Que viva!

Bravos soldados, DESPERTA FERRO!!

Y no tanto eso, cuenta tiempos más atrás cuando eran mercenarios pagados por los romanos.

Mexicans know about honor, they respect our deads at Camerone every year, they fought bravely against the US oger. Respect from France

UN ABRAZO PARA MI HERMANO IBERICO. ALGUN DIA, VOLVEREMOS MAS FUERTES.

Os portugueses e os espanhóis são o mesmo, já que os dois venhem dos mesmos povlos e etnias

Si los ibéricos se hubieran quedado unidos la historia del mundo se escribiría en portuñol

Os ibéricos são os melhores. (eu não sou espanhol e nem português)

@@elcostagameplays889 obrigado meu compa

And portiguese navy

@Kaiser Willhelm II Oh

@@raspbel5906 Yeah true

And supported by the Dutch navy at the time. It would be a scary force.

Ottoman artillery was only ever really exceptional when they had essentially sole access to it, wasn't it?

Thanks you my european brother 🤝

Stupids fascists😂

Muchas gracias. Viva la Hispanidad. Plus Ultra.

Shame while there is certainly a level of truth to it Spain is by no means More Evil Compared to its other Imperial Contemporaties, they were no saints and have done a lot of regretable stuff but that doesn't mean they are uniquely bad for the Periods the Rule compared to other European Empires and Empires in general. (The Spanish even have a Controversy about the treatment of Natives in Latin America because of the Encomiendas so they weren't as Evil as the Legends makes them out to be but also this lead to another for of Forced Labour and the practice of Encomiendas Would still continue in New Spain, Peru and the Philippines but still the Controversy did make the Spanish Empire reconsider some of their Actions.)

The fact that you as a Ukrainian can praise the soldiers of an at the time colonial power while your own sovereign nation is being invaded by a Russia asking itself "Remember the good old days when we had an empire and we could step on people with impunity? Good times."

One of the first pike and shot battle was the Battle of Cerignola in 1503.

@@kristofantal8801Ganzalo de Cordoba, "El Gran Capitan"!

Well. Rocroi wasn't a religion war. It was a war between Spain and France that happened at the same time as the religion wars. Catholics vs catholics.

@@Black_Nut_Cryso Rocroi was a battle not a war. And it was a very late battle (May 19, 1643) in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). The Thirty Years War started out as a "war of religion" (Catholic versus Protestant) but eventually became less religiously motivated by the time of the Battle of Rocroi. By that time it was less Catholic versus Protestant and more of a war to contest the Hapsburg hegemony over Europe. The Thirty Years War was the last of the "Wars of Religion." The Treaty of Westphalia (October 1648) ended the Thirty Years War as well as "the Wars of Religion." Plus France wasn't totally Roman Catholic at that time. Large Protestant populations (called "Huguenots") existed in several cities and towns in southern France. The French army during the Thirty Years War consisted of Catholic regiments and Protestant regiments. Plus the first King of the Bourbon dynasty, Henry IV, was Protestant and led Protestant French forces against Counter Reformation Catholic forces in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) which were essentially a series of civil wars between Protestants and Catholics in France. Eventually, Henry IV converted to Catholicism and ended these religious civil wars and gave religious rights to Protestants in France (in the Edict of Nantes). So there was a bond between the Bourbon dynasty and the Protestants of France (the Huguenots) that didn't end until Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1689.

@@thenoblepoptart 🙄

What is wrong with this version ?

He'd only mourn if the guy owed him.

A Spanish think I take revenge for the dead of my brother. Our mentality it's years ago of the British colonized countrys

You mean there were Incans serving in tercios?

@@MbisonBalrog yes and no, most of them were half-blood.

What fantasy are you espousing? Lol

@@koeh07 That's not true. "Tercios de Arauco" (Chile) its a clear example of that. And Peru had the"Ejercito Real del Perú" even a higher rank of division., with 95% peruvian-born soldiers.

@@koeh07 plus wouldn’t any Indios get extremely sick if they went over to Europe?

Lol they outnumbered french soldiers in this battle and they still lost. 🤷‍♂️ 24 000 french soldiers against 27 000 spanish (5 spanish tercios, 3 italian tercios, 5 wallonia regiment, 5 german regiment and 2 flemish regiment)

@@Raisonnance. the Germans retreat at the end, leaving the Portuguese and the Italians with the Spaniards fighting at the end of the battle.

You forgot the Martians and the Neptunians 😂😂😂

@@caesaraltamiranor.7789 Traitors

@@Raisonnance. San Quintín

Hesitation is Defeat. ~Sword Saint Isshin

Cierra España*

They shout: "España" As far as i know, not really sure... the spanish tercios moved in abosolut silence and only when they engaged combat, like in the movie, they were allowed to shout: "España" or "Santiago y cierra" (Santiago is the apostol patron of Spain and "cierra" actually means "to close, in imperativ mode = CLOSE the door" but at that times it also meant "to engage, to attack".

All that for one defeat LOL

@@clio2rsminicup a defeat as much as Thermopylae

@@samuelperezgarcia Not really. The result of the battle of Rocroi was a shift in european power balance. Combined with the dislocation of the Holy Roman Empire which was, like Spain, under Habsbourg domination, it marked the end of the spanish century and the beginning of the french century. France replaced Spain as the dominant continental power

I don’t think war ever was a mosh pit. Gory , yes, chaos and no order, nah

While Rocroi was not the literal end of the Tercios, it was symbolically. After this campaign, the Tercio system would steadily adapt into the French-type line formation of infantry as pike-squares were no longer viable. As for "French propaganda", lets just say it shows the attitude of a nation when they decide to portray their defeated enemies as valiant, gallant warriors.

tercios got beaten all the time during the 30 years war, but well...

When God needs people to preserve the foundations of the world, he looks to the Slavic.

@@filipselakovic9768 nice. Nastravia.

@@filipselakovic9768 ciertamente, en la actualidad, parecéis la ultima defensa de Europa, Saludos!!!

@@filipselakovic9768 again the West looks to the East as it falls.

Yea, but considering spanish did many genocide in to the native American I think that's not actually a fancy achievement

Gracias y un abrazo desde España, amigo.

Juan File Si que se volvió a ver en las guerras napoleonicas,solo se que eran soldados prusos pero no me acuerdo exactamente del nombre

@@su_morenito_1948 Pero la gran armada fue de corta duración comparada con el dominio de siglo y medio de los tercios. Saludos desde México.

@@florentinoramirez2257 Si duro poco tiempo, pues se desenvolvia nuevas tecnologías haciendo que quedasen obsoletas ya en la mitad del siglo.

@@florentinoramirez2257 Y sin embargo dio el mismo coraje y valor que cada tercio, sobre todo en aquella tragedia en Belgica donde fueron destruidos por fuego de cañon tal como los tercios que vemos aqui. No lo podemos negar. Ambos pueblos somos latinos. Saludos desde México.

LOS Españoles tenemos mucha sangre de Ucrania, desde los YAmma , Hasta los scyitas, Cimmerios (Gomeros) y TAuridos de Crimea. Los Celtas españoles vinieron originariamente de ahi. Tambien hay descendencia del Rus de KIev en el norte de España, Guipuzcoa (San Sebastian) y Navarra, , yo mismo desciendo de Volodimir I y Jaroslaw el Sabio. Slava Ukraine Ucrania no se rinde

@@diegoapalategui579 Ну як що испанський генерал ФрАнко і український писменник Іван ФранкО мають одне призвище, а іспанська провінція Галісія та українська область Галичина мають одну назву, то чого б і ні ....? Тавро-скіфи та сармати де тільки не були, тому не дивно що всі люди брати поміж собою )))

Тільки треба додати до солдатів в іспанських військових моряків та флот. Цілі покоління пасіонарних ідальго та кабальеро відправились за обрії по пригоди та золото, але дуже не багато з них повернулось додому Так Іспанія загубила на чужих шляхах свою долю ,що робе їх схожими на наших козарлюг запорожців.

Запорожці!

Abrazo al pueblo ucraniano, gracias por tus palabras y la mejor de las suertes en vuestra guerra. Slava Ukraine!!

Desde España te digo que andas algo despistado

​@@sobrevaloradoTu a seguir con la venda en los ojos y a votar a la izquierda

spain is the arab nation of europe

Remember when movie theatres could actually form masses of people?

@@hannibalburgers477 your comment reminds me how far down in the gutter we are going as a society. Restrictions or not, there arent many movies worth watching now a day

@@SIGNOR-G His comment makes perfect sense. Society isn't going down into the gutter, but if you want to build an aqueduct you have to roll up your sleeves and look up.

Instintive archery i

Is it really Viggo Mortensen there? I thought i was the only one who thinks he looks like that Nevermind, watched further, there is just no doubt of the man :D

Jajajaajaja nieto de isildur

Your profile pic. THICCC

Plus ultra

hmm, cavalry had not truly waned, more like morphed and changed. In fact here, they seem to go much too close to the tercio, whereas the tactic of the time would have been to harass them with fire, and only charge units that were dispersed

​​@@Kamfrenchieyep. Calvery at this time was no longer as incredibly dominant as it had been, but the invention of wheel locks and carbines made them into extremely effective mobile fire platforms

musketeers did not operate before the tercio, because they were part of the tercio.

Sin duda,Iberia jamás volvió a ser tan gloriosa y brava desde que ambas naciones tomaron sus caminos por azares del destino.Pero ahi esta nuestra historia para recordarnoslo y nos hará falta saber para lo que viene.

A história de Portugal devia ser mais conhecida, aqui no Brasil tem uma produtora de documentários de direita chamada Brasil Paralelo que fez o documentário a Última Cruzada, contando a história de Portugal e a verdadeira do Brasil, pois a esquerda aqui sempre gostou de retratar os portugueses e a história brasileira de forma a menosprezar os portugueses e a história do Brasil. Combatendo a ignorância e a mentira.

No soy español pero respeto mucho a los tercios. Muy bravos. Saludos de parte de un chileno.

Coreano Mamadisimo Del sur de Chile

Coreano Mamadisimo No, estimado. De la Capitanía General de Chile, dependiente del Virrey del Perú. Flandes indiano.

@WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE a mi me podrian llamar glandestone solo por ese comentarii

Mejor morir con la conciencia tranquila que morir con trabajo por terminar

During the Thirty Years' War, decisive victory of the Kingdom of France over the armies of Spanish Flanders. For the first time in Europe, the invincible army of Spanish pikemen is defeated. The French cavalry crushes it.

@@fredericvolatil8910 so what? Every great army has its time of glory and fall, including the French one. That doesn't stop us from admiring his performance in history.

La muerte se Sebastián me parece la mejor muerte del cine. Se muere como un toro.

Que viva la Hispanidad! monumental tu comentario!

Vive la América Española, hay mil cachorros sueltos del león Español Saludos desde hispanoamérica

A buenas horas mangas verdes. Eso haberlo pensado en el XIX.

Lo mejor es su ultima mirada al sol y sl horizonte …. Pero luego de eso como buen Español aun sabiéndose muerto aun intenta volver a su sitio en el tercio y cae y muere …. Que mejor muestra de nuestra gran infantería!!!!

Commenting so I can translate this later.

Qué idea? Morir por un rey al que le importas un ardite? Si de eso va Alatriste. Es decir, sobretodo los libros. El pobre soldado va a la guerra y el noble se lo pasa teta en su mansión. Nada nuevo bajo el sol. Estamos bien, si eso es una idea por la que morir hoy en día.

Gracias de corazón, por tu rigor histórico, tu honor, tu empatía hacia tus hermanos españoles. Un saludo, feliz año y suerte en la Vida. Desde Alcalá de Henares, tierras cervantinas, Madrid, España.

@@psameticoIII eso lo ve un ser producto de esta triste realidad... morir por un rey, morir por un imperio.. solo el que entiende por qué vivían y morian ... por españa, por roma, por él sentido de una realidad trascendente de la cual nosotros seres de la democracia nunca visualizaremos ... ud moriria de amor por la mujer de sus sueños?!? Ud moriria por darle lo mejor a sus hijos?!? Ud moriria por alguna razón digna? O solo vive en la miasma de esta era

@@carlosteran5617 y cómo no sentir empatia por todo lo que la hispanidad significa “lo que nunca debió dejar de ser” el imperio donde nunca se ponía el sol... sin conocerle o haberle nunca visto compartimos el mismo espíritu y en esa estima somos hermanos

@@3Impacto Bellísimas palabras, gracias por emocionarme.

It is also used in holy week for processions. It called "Madruga" from Abel Moreno.

And really painful, especially the pike push

But it's not

The movie is pretty inaccurate actually.

@@user-sg3wp2qs2b Explain please.

@@morriganravenchild6613 However, the film shows the last moments of the battle after the cavalry had been dispersed or withdrawn, the guns run out of ammunition and only two tercios there were five originally decided to stay and face the french. The battle lasted for nearly seven hours and it swang one way and the other but the reinforcements that the spanish marshall was expecting did never arrive.

no

@@rade6912 yes

yes and that's an honor to fight for the king.

not for their empire, but for their faith, for their people, for their culture, for their glory, and for spain

@WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE En realidad es al revés, los franceses estaban invadiendo a España, pues los franceses financiaron a los rebeldes neerlandeses, véase como los descarados gabachos le quitaron a España Lila y Cálesis, el franco condado, y la conquista más descarada; Perpiñan.

Very spanish behaviour xd

Sarude Danstorm agreed aside from the exploding cannon balls lol.

@@danielallan8061 both depend on cannon size and the nation

lol me too

Si verdad

Stupid tactic

@@eesponja5540 back then they were the only good tactics

At the time, Heavy Cavalry rule the battlefied, which lead to the Pike formation being use & very popular among all army, and mercenaries group. While fire-arms weapon are slowly rise in the battlefield, there accuracy still very low, short effective range & rate-of-fire are too long, most army still favor Cavalry to destroyed range troops, artillery & out-flank enemy line, then Pike-men to stop the Cavalry charge ( which why plate armor still being use, while knights & horse-men equipped with pistol to counter the pike-men, it was in late Medieval & early Renaissance after all so lots new tactics being develop with medieval technology around ).

Fox Blue Heavy cavalry ruled the battlefield? Are you serious? The pike and shot tactics were developed during the Italian wars by the Spaniards,to fight against French heavy cavalry specifically,so no

@@su_morenito_1948 you didn't understand my points yet, i was talk about the dominated of Heavy Cavalry since "medieval" time, was the reason let to the development of the Pike formation later on. You we're "half" right about the Spanish Tercio: it was developed to counter "both" the French Heavy Cavalry & the Swiss mercenary Pike formation, also the German Landsneckts. Because both of them we're dominating the Battlefield, and were unstoppable when use together, as the French did in the video. Yes, the Pike & Shot tactics was one of the most effective formation, but not undefeated. The pike line may stop the charging horse, but the Carvaly itself still a very powerful unit, especially the French Cavalry. You have to know in "the Battle of Rocroi", it was the French knight & horse-men that defeated the Spanish cavalry & other infangry on the flank, then eliminated there artillery line and left 5 out of 8 Tercio unit alone ( 3 Tercio was already fallen with others troops ). What happened next was show in the video: after 8 hours of fighting, only 2 Tercio unit still standing against the French army, being bombardment by both French & captured Spanish cannons earlier ( which show the weakness of the Pike & Shot tactics - against artillery, and musket line formation some hundred years later ). The Spanish we're surrounded, over-numbered by Knight & Pike-men, fought bravery against all attacks & event refused an honorable surrender.

tienes razón pero se acabo en Rocroi!

@p R tienes toda la razón, en Francia pasa lo mismo. Ya no hay honor, moral patriotismo nada. Hay poco tiempo se sacrifico 2 soldados por un par de putos inconscientes . no el mundo va al fracaso, mi amigo. saludos

Janissaries

@@alainguillem7795 Falso: acabo en las Dunas de 1658 frente a un ejercito anglofrances. En 1656 derrotaron a los franceses en Valenciennes por ejemplo.

@@sanberkmutlu5286 Eran buenos, pero no tanto, los Jenizaros nunca estuvieron al nivel del tercio, la prueba la tienes en Castelnuovo.

No no, Aragon is the spanish region, aragorn the LOTR guy lmao

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Rather play medieval 2 total war

Isec Sanchez yeah me too! good game to spend your money. no regret

not realistic enough for me, play crusader kings insted

Why is it not realistic? In eu4 pikemen make gun sounds how can that be more realistic?

You can write in English so what is the problem with subtitles?

@@Pikkabuu I find it very distracting.

You need to learn a good level of Spanish. This is not XXIst Century language

"¡¡¡¡CIERRA ESPAÑA!!!!" That was the war cry. It comes from the old days fighting the yihad during the Reconquista. "¡¡Santiago y cierra España!!", was the motto. And the Tercios inherited it.

Thats literrally false. Technology is what made this fights posible. We tend to link the word technology with 21th century things, which is no true. How where the cannons invented? Why they choose to fight in pike formations with heavier breastplates than 15th century knights? Because of technology

Actually, that was the "Modern" era ( in strict, Historiographical terms). But yes, it is a superb reendition of a Pike and Shot battle.

@@ernstschloss8794 Yes, you are right, in the traditional division of history into three eras: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, everything from the 15th or 16th century down to the present is considered 'modern'. However, from the mid-twentieth century onwards, the 'Modern' era has often been defined as starting in the late 18th century. Under this classification scheme the period depicted here is 'Early Modern', which spans from the 1400s to the late 1700s.

@@filipselakovic9768 Agreed my friend. Also, it's common from everything from beyong the late 19th Century to fall under the "Contemporary" period, but I guess We'll see that change again within the spam of our lifetime.

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Tercios were the upgraded version of the Landsknecht btw.

"were the first professional European army, considered the rebirth of the infantry on the battlefield," That is nonsense. The Swiss and the Landknechte came before, the Spanish infantry had a very a high quality due to their recruiting system and interesting mixture of different types of fighters, however, they were not the first modern infantry.

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