Dumb War Tactics that Actually Worked

Weird War Tactics Throughout History that actually worked:
00:47 - Playing Dead
02:39 - Kitty Distraction
04:28 - The Corvus
06:12 - Caesar's Double Siege
08:31 - Flaming Camels

[hoi-polloi]

"Yo Caesar, what's this wall for?"
"It's to besiege Alesia. Duh."
"So ... um ... what's this *other* wall for?"
"It's to besiege the rest of Gaul!"

[ironiccookies]

Another thing about Alesia: facing starvation, the women and children left the city hoping Caesar would open the gates for them. He didn't. And the city didn't want them back. And so those women and children died of starvation between the walls of the city and the Roman walls

[Vastionborr]

Julius Caesar’s “Super Siege” was an incredibly brilliant tactic. It effectively allowed them to defeat 2 Gaul armies at the same time while being outnumbered.

Fun fact: Caesar notably joined the battlefield once he/his officers noticed that the outer Gaul force found a gap in the walls near the water. This is stated to have bolstered morale, allowing the Romans plug the gap and win the battle. Caesar is also known to have dual wielded Roman Gladius swords

[skrahnha]

Flaming camels against elephants is reminiscent of Macedon's use of flaming pigs against elephants. I wonder if he was aware of that or just came up with the idea of flaming animals independently

[Elgato]

3:20 no, that didn’t happen. That whole “cat battle” was made up by a Roman historian with questionable views on Egyptians hundreds of years after the fact

[icy_lemonade]

DUDE. I WAS WAS WATCHING THIS THINKING YOU HAD AT LEAST LIKE 30K?? NO WAY MAN YOU ARE SO UNDERRATED KEEP IT

[HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV]

And prove useful the elephants Timur took with him after the battle did. In the 1402 battle of Ankara, where the Timurid and Ottoman Empires and their respective vassals and exiled allies clashed, Timur had a unit of 32 elephants with him. However, he wouldn't use them until near the end of the battle, after the Ottoman forces, despite being under pressure and on the backfoot, managed to restabilize their line. Timur then ordered the elephant crews to charge the Ottoman centre, and any Timurid units in the way got out on time. The Ottoman janissaries somehow managed to survive the elephant charge, and most of the elephants died of the many wounds they received fighting the Ottomans, while the rest fled the battlefield after having broken through into the Ottomans' rear, but the damage was done, as up to half of the Ottoman forces that fought the elephant charge lay dead or dying. Right on cue, the Timurid centre re-engaged and the last Timurid reserves were sent to bolster the attack on the crushed centre and wavering Ottoman left. With that, Timurid victory was all but guaranteed, and, indeed, many Ottoman forces fled, some fought their way out and the rest were all killed or captured, including sultan Bayezid, the youngest 2 of his 5 sons, wife, the governor of Anatolia and several vassal lords, like at least one of the three Branković brothers that ruled the southwestern parts of Serbia

[rocoo]

Bro is underrated he needs more credit

[MonkeySimius]

#2 Isn't true. It was made up by a Roman General well after Egypt was already conquered by Rome to make fun of their culture.

[амбалТоварищ]

385th subscriber, dude I get the feeling this page is going to blow up.

[sjohnson]

0:38 MF flipped me off.... I respect that

[mangarajatyangsa]

can't wait until a million subs in the future

[GSIlivetrading]

Watched your video today subscribed liked and became a fan. Keep bringing more

[judechauhan]

9:22 because people in the past weren't idiots, they just didn't have the same information we do

[diamondpascual]

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[nafg]

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[ergon]

Timurs army wasnt riding camels they rode horses. Camels were used for logistics.

[wfadf]

Excellent video, subscribed

Correction: Ceasar built the second wall around the first one, not within it

[RodolfoGaming]

Hannibal's oxen guided escape out of ager falernus is my personal favorite

[Biodeamon]

the line between genius and insanity is thinner than AP flechette rounds. but the dudes who fell for a literal trojan horse learned a harsh lesson about charity that day.