Historian Rates 10 Massive Battles in Movies & TV | How Real Is It?

when watching ancient massive battles on TV I often wonder how real these depictions are how did huge armies actually maneuver what did The Clash of ranks look like could soldiers tell friend from foe could generals tell what was going on did Heroes duel in combat did archers Provide support fire how effective were formations for attack and defense I've got a ton of questions certainly Hollywood has its punches but today I wanted to get answers from none other than the ditch man himself the really cool thing about this scene is they have a ditch you got to give points for a good ditch if that was your plan all along why dig the ditch in the first place the horses aren't going to try and go into those ditches again they should have been digging ditches you should be digging ditches ditch and a palisade it's that simple it's easy you got to have a ditch ditches just lots and lots of ditches you know this where is your ditch hello every one I'm R Nik I'm an ancient historian I teach at 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on their own Survival and the survival of the men around them and so it was very difficult for them to give any kind of account of what was going on elsewhere um because they were in the thick of the fighting they had other things to worry about and they were trying to lead in a different way they were trying to give the right example you know taking the risks doing the fighting leading the charge Etc um but later times you know and this goes on from the helenistic period onwards from the later Classical period even you have some Greeks who prefer to lead this way you have the so-called sort of Battlefield manager this is a person who stays back and tries to maintain oversight and is who is informed of what happens by Messengers going back and forth by signals going up on the battle field and he's then able to respond to those signals by giving sort of signals you know trumpets Bells Flags whatever else of his own when you see Mark Anthony here leaning back in a tree line somewhere with his with his Cavalry guard you kind of hope that he would have some greater understanding of what was going on either because of where he was sitting so that he had the oversight or because Messengers were going back and forth trying to let him know what was going on so what's being depicted in this scene is kind of a mix of two things on the one hand you have the soldiers General command style where you people come go into battle themselves lead by example they might not know what's going on alternatively you have the you know the the the the battle manager command style which is he seems to be taking on um who really ought to have some idea of what's going on and whose entire purpose in holding back is to try and maintain that level of [Applause] [Music] control [Applause] so we done some interesting stuff in this scene where they tried to depict these two huge Roman armies that are obviously tactically fairly identical um to show them approaching each other across this massive field and it's very interesting to see how you know as they approach that that battle line that no man's land in front of each other um they're actually in pretty clear formations which are meant to present the sort of Roman manipol of cohorts and by this time there really should be cohort formation so they should be a bit larger but that's that's fine um the idea is that they are in these sort of rectangular blocks of men that are orderly Rank and far um and this is obviously the way in which a Roman legion could be very effective they are a very disciplined formation which goes into combat as a unit uh it's very hard to break them apart and they protect each other the fact that they are in ranks and files means that they are able to support each other in combat and able to for united front and so you see this on both sides happening and they they sort of start to approach each other that all looks good until they very suddenly cross the no man's land between them and go directly into this massive confused melee people ask me this a lot you know how did they know you know who was on which side especially in these kind of battles between armies that are more or less equally equipped um who are functionally indistinguishable from each other well you know because people on your side are facing one way the people on the other side are facing the other way and you want to make sure that there's a clear distinction between the two um either by maintaining a distance maintaining that no man's land or by maintaining your battle line and if that isn't the case if there is a gap if there are enemies behind that line if you're not sure who's who or who's facing which way what would almost inevitably happen in ancient combat is that you would run away your entire side would break from combat either run or Retreat to a place that was safe and then restore their line and see what kind of order could be established I mean this is a situation you don't want to be in you don't want to be in in a in a sort of confused melee where you don't know who's who and so you would try to get out of that situation as fast as possible and restore some semblance of the order that you want in order to fight effectively this is another example of a movie that kind of just ruins it for itself like they start out really well in the sense of trying to show how Army marches from colum and deploys into line how these sort of Roman formations form this Checker Board of smaller units and how they form a mutually supporting line but then as soon as you get there it just evolves into absolute chaos and it's it's it's just frustrating to watch you're just like you could have done it you almost did it you almost had a real battle that might have looked like The Clash of Roman Legions but instead you decided to go with just another Hollywood brawl which has just no connection to any modern reconstructions of what an anent battle look like so you know points for effort in trying to start it off the right way but then you threw it all out the window I couldn't give this more than a four out of [Applause] 10 Shield wall FL out this is a really interesting little scene where I mean the whole point of this uh battle scene is that Hercules supposedly has been training this Army has been updating their equipment and now it is a much more effective Force because of his leadership and his good tactical ideas the way that they tried to portray that is that as it moves into combat it is able to respond to certain commands is able to act much more cohesively and is able to form a very strong Shield wall against the enemy but the depiction of it is a little bit strange in the sense that their marching column is enormously wide um first of all it's sort of it's almost like a big Square that's like 100 wide and 100 deep or something um which is not how a marching column obviously works because how many roads in the ancient world were there where people could March um 100 AB breast it's just not likely you're much more likely to be marching two or four breasts to something like that along a road and then when you come into battle you have to perform quite an elaborate maneuver to turn that column into a line and certainly the way that works is not the way it's depicted here by getting your troops that are Marching In a column to slot in one next to each other as files um one next to each other you know every file that comes up down the road or every two or three or four files that come up down the road will March to the right or to the left usually of the one that's already in place and so Brick by Brick you build up your infantry line and so you don't just take the sides of that formation and turn them out like wings and make them form part of your battle line you would have to take those files and Slot them in one at a time as a sort of um a sort of wall building mechanism um which you know ancient armies had had well-developed systems to do this which allowed you to build the battle line that you have deemed most effective and on the basis of which you have organized your army so given that this is a fantasy story I mean obviously you don't want to be too harsh it's it doesn't it's not real um they're just trying to depict something that looks like you know to the viewer like an ancient battle formation going into battle so okay you know that's that's really nice some of the pieces of kit that they're wearing are are very authentic others are made up you know but the whole principle that they explain in the movie is that as you work together as a formation using Shields that you you know deploy in an interl mutually supportive way that you become stronger than men fighting individually I mean they've really s of tried to capture that and put that on display here with this marching column and so to that extent I think it's it's really you know it's admirable for what it's trying to do it just doesn't have any connection to any specific you know historical event um and certainly that column is much too wide and I've tried to explain how you know how this doesn't actually you know how how a formation deploying from col into line doesn't actually function that way so they've kind of gotten it wrong but it's you know with good intentions shall we say um so I would give that five or six out of 10 so I think Troy is actually trying to do something really interesting here where on the one side you have the Trojan Army which is clearly well organized and forming this impenetrable shield wall and on the other side you have the Greek army which is obviously led by this impetuous angry General Agamemnon which therefore behaves um much more like an armed mob and in some ways this obviously works for the story but it's not very real ISC for all the reasons that you can see in this scene the men who are crashing into this Shield War are literally s of plunging to their death some of them are sort of tumbling over the shield wall completely losing cohesion completely losing order and very quickly losing their lives um realistically they would start to slow down and try to find a way to weaken that line before they actually made contact with it um either they would try to you know get up close to it and start poking at it with Spears because I mean you have those Spears that's what you're going to do um try and make some gaps into it that way or you would stop at a greater distance and first use missiles and in fact you know some famous armies like for instance the Kelts and the Romans would carry javelins into close combat specifically for that reason they would halt um they would start throwing those javelins first hoping to break the enemy formation before they ever thought about charging in because this is how you can try to weaken that formation weaken that Shield wall and then you might actually have a chance of assaulting it with success so you can see these waves of arrows coming in which obviously looks really spectacular um and you even have this scene where you know agon's in his Chariot and his charioteer is killed and he has to sort of take the Reigns himself which is a very homeric Scene It Happens a few times in the poem and of course it builds on the idea that if you're under a city wall your troops are covered by the men on the wall and this is something that a lot of Greeks historically preferred to do they would fight near a city wall so that if something went wrong they had to retreat to their city or fortified position you would then um be under cover of the men on the wall so they would be able to prot protect you with their missiles against the people who are pursuing you against the people who are chasing you to that City so in a way being under the walls is very safe because of those because of that Archer support essentially or the Slingers on the walls um however what you're seeing in this scene is a battle that's taking place on the foot of the walls and The Archers are throwing are firing over their own men that's actually not a very good proposition because of course you're very likely to shoot your own men in the back and so it's very likely the men that the men on the ground would actually be begging the guys on the walls to stop shooting um because there is such a great risk that they would be hit and obviously any arrow that gets fired at a long range might sort of go over those lines and and and hit the hit the Greeks that are still approaching which is something that you see in the scene but you know arrows for all sorts of reasons May in unv verly end up falling short and you don't really want to end up killing your own men in the process so it's not something that is widely done and in fact deploying missile troops behind the battle line although it's sometimes described as an option you very rarely actually see it in historical battles because generally commanders would be very very hesitant to try to risk um their troops firing into the backs of their own men so this is obviously a scene where Troy gets the most homeric I mean in the poem in The Iliad you have all these scenes where two Heroes meet each other on the battlefield and they have a big fight and this is you know what gives them their Glory this is what they want and so for the story this obviously makes a lot of sense but the way that battle is depicted in this movie with these huge formations of heavy infantry slamming into each other it's basically impossible for this to happen there is simply no room because as I said before these armies are halting at some distance from each other and then they start shooting missiles and and and and trying to Peck at each other that way rather than smashing contact if you have a more modern so to speak a more developed form of heavy infantry combat in which formations are actually fighting each other there is simply no space for this when this later happens when you have certain Greeks like the Spartan aradus for instance at the Battle of pla he tries to do this homeric thing by going out alone in front of the formation and the Spartans actually say well you know he was very brave but we don't actually want to encourage this so these kinds of duels while they happen in the ilad and this this depiction of a very early form of War Warfare um once you get to the kind of fighting that's actually depicted in the scene it doesn't happen anymore it can't happen and it's undesirable had to give it a grade it's actually really hard to judge this one I mean there's so much about this movie that I really like and I think they done a lot of interesting things with it in terms of the way they use the source material um it's not necessarily historically accurate of course but at least it has something of the spirit of it and it has the great Merit of creating some of the most exciting both Mass combat scenes and individual jewels that have ever been put on film as far as I know I mean it's just really interesting the way they've tried to make both the equipment look unique everybody has their own sort of specific gear that is sometimes based on real historical examples like the Trojan helmets um or the m m helmet gears things like that and then there are other parts where I'm just like okay well this is not you know what Homer says or anything like that characters keep dying at random moments but then there are other times when it's you know it really does manage to capture something of the way that you know this epic poets work like the way that these Jewels are supposed to work and the way that these characters bounce off each other sometimes it's actually quoting The Source um there is a lot to this that you can feel like you know it gives you a rise when you know the source material when you know this when you recognize this and it's like oh this is super cool um so you know it depends on what kind of aspect of it you're asking me but if I had to say like oh just just on the mass combat scenes I mean it's it has some really interesting features again like the The Shield wall formations that actually sort of really work in this case um the way that they try to you know reflect fighting underneath at the foot of the city wall these kind of aspects are really interesting the equipment is broadly you know accurate for I would say you know the the early um sort of Iron Age period um or at least inspired by elements from that period from the 8th to the 7th Century in in in Greek and Assyrian history So to that degree what should we say six or seven out of [Music] 10 this is a a bit of a strange gear shift um when you're talking about the movie Troy before and then you you know these modern movies with their modern effects and their look and then you go back to the 1960s and things look you know a lot more simple in a way and a lot more modest and and contained and they obviously struggling in this movie I think to try and depict the Spartans as being Superior in fighting um in a way that they can actually put on screen so for instance 300 this later movie that is very much based on this one um tries to do this for instance through ramping you know through this this speeding up and slowing down the action so that it seems like these individual Feats of heroism come out more sort of cinematically I think these early movies kind of struggle to make close combat with pre-modern weapons look cool and so they thought what can we give them well we'll give them an infantry wedge formation I'm honestly not sure where they got that because infantry wedge formations are not attested in Greek history this isn't something the Spartans ever did it's it's not something the Spartans were known to do it's not something the Spartans were able to do and in fact historians doubt whether a wedge formation would even be in any sense effective I mean you can see in this scene that Leonidas who is at the front of the formation promptly dies because if you're at the front you have many enemies in front of you and there's only you um so this wedge formation it's not something that gets used it's certainly not something get used by infantry so we're basically just seeing something that the director thought looked cool um but has no basis in history [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] whatsoever so in the final moments of the battle of thop Leonidas has died and the Spartans um we are told retreated to a small hill to make their stand against the Persians they've tried to depict this here by having the Spartans pick up the body of Leonidas and bring him sort of back to retreat in good order this is a very difficult maneuver but in this case it may have had to happen in some way um some Scholars have suggested that this must be because the Persians were temporarily sort of willing to let them go to to leave off the pressure um because that is the big question how do you Retreat from an enemy who is trying to keep the pressure on most ancient armies were not able to do it very well and so this ability to maintain order even in adversity is something that gives the Spartans a huge Advantage we mustn't think of it as them stepping backwards or walking backwards while facing the enemy retreating in good order still means you're turning away from the enemy and you're marching with your back to them and it's only if they try to pursue you that you would then turn around that formation um and face them again which means you have to bring the the people who are in front of your formation to the other side of the formation so that they're in front and turn all the files around um it's a complex maneuver but the Spartans could do it um but at this time in history we have no evidence that they had that level of organization yet so again this is something that the director clearly thought was going to look very cool and look very interesting and make the Spartans look very impressive but we don't actually know if this has any foundation in fact so had to give this a score again is not easy because to some extent I mean the kind of weird it's stilted and by modern standards quite boring depiction of combat in this movie May well be a more accurate reflection of what actual ancient close combat might have looked like in the sense that it's all a bit clumsy and it's all a bit awkward and it's all a bit sort of seemingly now unspectacular um we are used to very stylized choreographed action whereas this seems more like a bunch of guys just kind of being told to meet each other in the middle and then when they get there they're not really quite sure what to do um to some extent that seems that seems right um but then the formations they come up with are are frankly just nonsensical I mean both on the Persian and on the Spartan side these are completely unattested and and and strange um and the way they managed to kind of actually depict the fighting while to some extent possibly you know within the limits of of the technology accurate um uh doesn't seem to for for me at least doesn't seem to convey the sort of um the drama of it very well um it does it it usually kind of feels a little a bit silly um and it would have been better I think if they had actually tried to replicate the formations that we actually know about or at least tried to theorize to some extent what Mass combat would have looked like instead of coming up with random things that that they kind of just made up so in that sense um I would give that one maybe a five out of 10 [Applause] get one it's nice to see the trumpets that you'd use to try and uh give commands on the battlefield obviously this trumpet sound carries much further than vocal commands so this is something that ancient arms would use from Greeks to Romans um but on the other hand the Romans appear to be Spearman all of a sudden which obviously historically they are not they famously fight with swords and and javelins anyway um this is a big battle huge armies operating in the field um and then one of those armies Suddenly at the command of one of its leading figures stops in place it's likely that the people around him would be able to stop um on command apparently this is something that ran actors have tried to do you know can you charge and then stop apparently people are quite responsive and people don't actually bash into each other when they do that so it's quite possible to to not so much turn on a DME but at least to to stop when the person in front of you suddenly stops that shouldn't be too much of an issue um the bigger problem is that this Commander is only able to speak to the people who are directly by his side and behind him people can respond to what they see the men in front of them or the the men and women in front of them doing um and so in an in an event like this what would very likely happen is that the people around this Commander who apparently know where their trench is um they will be able to stop on the edge of it but the people further on the line they're going to walk into it um because they haven't realized that they're supposed to stop just yet unless there are other officers along the line who also know exactly where it is and will tell those men when to stop Spartacus so this movie I mean it's very hard to judge it on historical accuracy when it's clearly not trying to be historical I mean nothing we're seeing here has anything much to do with anything historical except for the fact that Spartacus eventually gathered an army around him that was eventually defeated by a Roman army I mean that is about the extent of it and that is what you're seeing I suppose um but it does very little to actually depict any anything that we could seriously call the Reconstruction of Ancient Warfare it's nothing to do with with what we know of of how a Roman army functions certainly nothing to do with how we know about what little we know about spar's Army so um so I would give that one you know two out of 10 so this movie has a really ambitious depiction of what the advance of a Roman legion into battel would look like um we had these accounts from the Republican period so from the the second and and from the mainly the second century BC of Roman Legions marching into battle in three lines so in the front you have the Young Warriors um then behind them the more experienced ones with more expensive equipment and at the back you have the Spearman who are sort of old veterans um who are there to kind of bolster the line um watch over the others to make sure they're not doing anything unseemly and if really necessary to go into battle um and decide the issue with the last reserves available so that three line formation is what you're seeing depicted here um we are told that they would Advance into battle in a sort of checkerboard formation so the first line would be split up into blocks or manipul um these blocks would then be arranged sort of in a checkerboard behind each other so that each block in the second line was overlooking a gap in the first line and then as they March into battle we don't really know what happened next um somehow these armies would fight with coherent front lines so either the blocks in the back in the second line would March forward and fill the gaps in the first line or the blocks in the first line would somehow expand or contract together in order to form a coherent first line because you don't want any gaps in that if the enemy flows into those gaps and gets into your flanks you're in big trouble so some kind of evolution must have happened in that advance that meant that the Romans could conf their enemies in a single coherent cohesive line even though they were advancing in a checkerboard formation and this scene shows one solution where basically uh the theory is that these um these formations as they approach into battle essentially broaden out they stretch out um from the the deeper formations in which they advance to a thinner but broader formation so that they close those gaps and form a cohesive front line which then advances into battle as the line behind them starts to do the same so this is again I mean this one is a great example of a director really paying attention to the source material and trying to reconstruct it as best he could in terms of the approach of the Roman army so he's done a really good job of depicting that and I think we're probably not likely to see ever you know something as meticulous unreal you know these are these are all like extras that are there on the field they're trying to reconstruct this ancient maneuver and like that is phenomenal that's fantastic but then when it comes to the actual fighting it's a brawl it's once again just a big mess of dudes who are just absolutely performing in no particular order not operating tactically just seeing themselves as one you know each man for himself and so again like they've put so much effort into making this look like a Roman army as it marches into battle and then when it is in battle it's just a bunch of guys on a you know a pub brawl basically I just I it's it's so aggravating like you're just like you almost did it you almost did it and they can do it some of these movies obviously like Troy um some of these older movies as well that that actually show a cohesive line of Shields and Spears you know a formation that functions like a formation they can do it they know how to do it even 300 Spartans had Spartans you know a fictional formation but a formation and so there is something there that they can they can absolutely do if they teach the exas how to do it and it shouldn't take that long but then when it comes down it they just think you know it's more exciting to show you know a bunch of guys Milling around slashing whoever appears in front of them and and everybody gets really confused and in the end everyone dies because yeah battles don't look like that don't do that stop doing that please um so I mean points for effort at the beginning like if you just if you cut off there and said okay and this is how Sparticus lost it would have been totally credible because you have this clear contrast of discipline Romans and disorganized mob of of of spartacus's forces I mean just go with that just stop there8 out of 10 maybe even more you know fantastic depiction of of you know why Rome tends to win these battles um but then they continue into a big messy brawl and then it just goes all the way down so like after that point two out of 10 just complete nonsense why would you bother sorry it's just those two things you know [Music] such a great scene they really did what they could hear um I mean there's so much going on here that you can directly Trace back to ancient source although some other parts are obviously made up because they had to work with the extras that they had so they created various ways of trying to keep the Rhythm you know all moving the spears back and forth and things like that this is you know cute but it doesn't really have any basis in in fact but then there are things like the fact they chant um the name of the war god enalos which we are told is is the Macedonian war cry is is a cry to enalos um and so you hear them CH chanting Enos which is supposed to be um the name of valos turned into a way to keep the Rhythm in in the March so these are really kind of inventive ways to make sure make sure that all these guys these ex know what they're doing um and and stick to the uh stick to the the way that this supposed to look so as you fly over the battlefield you can see these squares of Pikes which are the the pike formation the taxes of the Macedonian falanks um these are blocks of 16x 16 forming 256 men there are formations of 1500 men that consist of these blocks um and there are eight of those in the in the formation there are six of those rather in in the Macedonian formation and you can see them all in the overview I mean it's all sort of laid out um and then you have Alexander's Cavalry of course the companions which are moving off to the side on one flank um the intent there was hopefully to try and separate the Persian Wing opposite Alexander's heavy Cavalry from the rest of the army to create a gap and then to charge into that Gap while further troops coming in from behind that cavalary wing on the Macedonian side would keep the Persian left wing busy and you can see all of that unfolding exactly as our best accounts and reconstructions of this battle have it so we are told exactly you know where everybody is how they're drawn up um and how these forces were supposed to operate in battle yes great king [Music] the fact that this Pike Fons which you see very clearly here despite being relatively vulnerable to missiles because it has quite small Shields and its armor is not very heavy um that it has this impenetrability this ability to take on any enemy from the front and fix them in place and so in this scene we actually see them attacking we see them marching forward and advancing into these waves of arrows but in the battle accounts that survived as far as we know it was relatively passive it was simply standing there and taking it to make sure that the Macedonian line would remain cohesive so there's always going to be this Macedonian base The Rock on which the rest of the around which the rest of the army can maneuver the problem with a lot of these kinds of accounts is that a the numbers of the Persian armies are completely untrustworthy and B the number of Persian casualties similarly are completely unverifiable and very likely exaggerated so we don't really know how many of them actually died trying to hold up this Macedonian fank or trying to break it um or whether the Persians would have simply decided on the various peoples that were serving them um at that were that were under their yoke um simply decided that it was not worth risk and um and buckled the way it looks is is frankly unrivaled there's no other movie that does this much to try and portray the formations as they actually looked now I'm well known for saying this before but the advisers on this movie were really a crack team of scholar there's Lloyd lellan Jones at Cardiff and Robin Lane Fox at the University of Oxford who are each um experts in their field so uh Lloyd managed the the costuming basically he he designed all the all the outfits for this movie and uh Robin was the one who who was an expert on Alexander the Great who choreographed all this trained the the Moroccan soldiers who were involved in this um as the extras and and and rode with Alexander you know he was personally involved in in making this look as good as he could and because the director really gave them clearly gave them a lot of leeway and and listen to them the result is the most accurate in terms of its faithfulness to the source is the most accurate depiction of ancient combat that we have um there is just nothing that holds a candle for this maybe the the beginning of that battle in in Spartacus where you see the Roman Legions approaching that is as true to the source as this is but there's almost nothing to point to in these scenes that would make you go like I don't think it actually was like that except the drums I mean they didn't have drums to keep rhythm they would keep rhythm with flutes but that would sound weird so I guess they left that out um but fundamentally this is this is an attempt to reconstruct it as it actually was and in that sense it is unparalleled um I'll give it you know because you can point to these little things I'm not going to give it a 10 but you know nine out of 10 it definitely deserves and I would very much wish for directors to be trying this hard to make Ancient Warfare look uh as it actually did on screen

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Published: Sat Mar 23 2024