Age of Bronze - Egypt vs the Hittites (Massive Battles)

Hey, what's up guys? It's Oakley and we're gonna be playing an awesome mod. This is ancient empire So not only do you get to play in the past you get to play in the far past Actually, sorry, it's age of bronze Which allows you to play as these ancient empires? I mean playing as Egypt very cool to see the Egyptian chariots here moving forward with a lot of my infantry units As you can see armor and weapons are very primitive. It is the age of bronze Some basic wood or kind of yeah, I can't remember what this type of design is called It's kind of like wicker shields a lot of that type of thing. I also have these Nubian bowmen So a lot of pretty cool variety even in this ancient Dane age So more archers slingers pushing forward. I do have that. We're playing this on large funds, by the way I do have a lot of extra troops in the back some more ranks of spearmen guarding the flanks and Then I have some of my heavier Quote-unquote dudes in the back slowly pushing forward more chariots I wanted things you'll notice in this month that I don't think there's any Calvary mounted units the only mounted units that you'll be seeing is chariots and that's historically accurate The first thing people would have done when they had horses is well thought Are you crazy if anyone suggested riding them no one knew how ancient depictions of horses First and foremost are gonna come where you just kind of use them to pull something and then you yourself stand on a more stable Chariot platform in the back. So first use of horses would have probably been on chariots some early depictions I think Egyptian statues show people trying to ride horses where they would have been sitting on the actual butt and not necessarily Where the modern saddle is right now And so yeah, it's kind of cool to be back cast back at the time When this is really all you have so lots of blocks of infantry So my shirt and guardsmen here pushing forward. So these are my like I said quote-unquote elite troops Yeah, they look like they're ready for a beach party especially this guy here this robes too funny So not too much to expect from these guys Pharaoh's foot guard do look a little bit better But that is gonna be the Egyptian roster for you here. It doesn't actually have too much Armor to bring to bear. It's gonna have a lot of a lot of skirmishers a lot of archers that I'm moving up with Chariots and whatnot. So I'm moving up in a large formation right hand side is gonna be held down by Numidian Or sorry Nubian Bowman hidden in the woods with a couple spears and support You know, my opponent Indy pride is pushing forward and he has this unit this army. That's basically the Hittites it comes with Some Hittite chariots and these guys are for are drawn by four horses much stronger than mine with medium swordsmen Some Anatolian warriors we can watch these guys here a little bit closer So already you're starting to see basically this is the equivalent of the Egyptian forces, but those are just Indy's light troops He has some axmen and Clubman coming up behind But now you start to see some of his Anatolian Footmen that over here are much better armored than anything. I can bring to bear. So that is gonna be some of his Substantial bonuses and he has more provincial axmen so pretty scary force to see this here moving forward and He has like I said his own chariots that are gonna be and it's starting to do with mine on either flank And they do have some cool horned helmets on them. Well, the forces start to stare out at one another now It's hard to estimate how large forces Would have been excuse me at this point in time Excuse me, although some a lot of times with history you start to kind of lose track of things make building Oh, no, these must have been terribly small armies at the time But we do have some indications that the Assyrian army was actually really really strong It was a superpower at the time and I do believe people think they had multiple field armies each numbering at least twenty or thirty thousand and that is crazy to think that this was just fielded by you know, a small number of City states in ancient Mesopotamia to think that they could have fielded so many men fighting in such a primitive way. It's super interesting So my chariots here are gonna start pushing up through the center. I figured that on my left I have a big solid blob reinforced by archers, which I'm doing a good job of knocking over showing the peasants where their place is but yeah What my strategy here is to pull back in the center and hold the wings with archers and try and pepper Indy prides forces He's moving up in a big, you know six layer deep formation What I want to do is start to shoot at his Spears and once that's broken charge through the center and hit his guys with My light chariots, let's get a nice view on this side of the Spears as we push forward man. This is freaking crazy Massive numbers of troops starting to face off against one another His own Spears that are up in the forefront as you can see here have pretty good armor so despite my slinger and archer volleys, I think we're holding up pretty well, but My main goal is to knock out his Spears so that my chariots can do a bit more damage And now he's starting to feel the pain as I start to unload on multiple fronts on his guys Focus fire on them is gonna cause them to drop pretty significantly Meanwhile Indy's own Spears and forces are starting to pick away at my eyes But not do too much damage his front ranks are gonna charge forward mediums swordsman once they close the distance they should do pretty well and Over on this side. He has his own medium swordsman tango with my Egyptian spearmen same thing over there But as I've been telling you, I just want to use them to pin his guys down So his forces are gonna be caught up here and then my bowmen are all gonna target the flanks of his heavy Spears And chip away at them This spear force is starting to dwindle and then slowly he's gonna engage with the rest of his troops Let's watch a little bit of this ancient combat up close and personal Indy does have I think I brought four or five more Spears than him. So he's gonna have more swords to bring to bear So this is gonna go the melee advantage is gonna go to him. I mean even staring at these two forces My guys only have a bath towel wrapped around. I'm not gonna be good but now archers In a pretty punishing position against Indy pride Spears Just showering them and then I'm gonna come in with two club infantrymen To reinforce this position just as my Spears start to falter Clubman charging through the woods as I focus fire on his troops. So clubs against Spears I should win that meanwhile Indy is charging full force up through this central position after carving through one of my Spears So now we have the second line reinforcing Historically, you wouldn't have much in the way of first second and third reserve lines in ancient battles It was often just a big scrum along these central positions with some skirmishing Of course thing place in the center before the battle and afterwards, but now we're tied up in the center my bows are gonna start to Turn their attention to what's going on on the flank Which is basically his troops moving forward seeing off these chariots with my Spears So I feel pretty comfortable and any one of his troops that tries to penetrate through I focus fire with all of my archers To dispatch them. Meanwhile, take a look at what's happening in the center I come in with both of my chariots and I'm gonna have a clean shot through his center. No Spears here So like I was saying that was my ultimate goal on this front Was to be able to do a nice old school as close as you can get to a Calvary charge as possible So I'm still stuck on to his guys through here, but I'm slowly trying to pull through Indies own chariots are gonna come and hit me from the side So I'm gonna try and continue to pull through and it is a pretty wide scale chaos Down through here. I'm gonna get a lot of kills With the chair, you can see how much damage it did to this force And a lot of chaos archers focusing fire to take out India's Indies chariots. It's doing pretty well But then again my front lines here My own forces club infantry very weak troops are gonna fall prey to his heavier armed troops And with the covering fire of the archer is gonna start doing a lot of damage Clubman holding pretty well, but these Anatolian guys are super strong comparatively on The far right my main line of Spears is finally crashing But now here comes the Egyptian shock infantry closing the distance against his own tired and depleted men Pretty eager to see how that goes waves and waves of guys coming in I do like the scimitars or curved blades that they have at their disposal here But Indy also has a lot of reserve men coming forward I do have Spears coming to the back to try and strike at him focus fire with the archers and now Let's get itself in a nice position to watch another huge clump of infantry get hit by chariots And he's trying to do the same thing on his flank That's why I have a lot of reserves to hold strong and I'm gonna commit my chair It's down to the center while archers continue to focus fire in the center and all throughout the rest of the battlefield It's infantry tied up, but this here is gonna be a nice Solid blob to hit the rear of and then I'm just gonna knock them on their asses and continue to pull through the scythe They're cutting men apart Most of them being knocked to the ground and then my infantry is gonna be routed at the same time But I do just pull through and hit his next alley tone and and totally enforces How many kills do I have 58 starting to come up his own chariots are in the rear? So I'm trying to retarget my archers and other forces to try and see off his chariots. That could be pretty devastating for me and we're gonna try and see them off and That is his general. So I'm pretty happy to have Indies prides general pulled off to the side, but there is a huge gap developing meanwhile up through the center Or I can do everything I can to try and cover this with archer fire and dissuade the enemy But ultimately they're gonna recognize that there is a massive gap and they're gonna poke and prod their way through the guts Central underbelly of my army where I have lots of archers But my spears have only just come back from routing and now take a look at what any prides general is gonna have facing him I'm trying to turn around and shoot at him. It does take out a couple but now it's easy pickings, especially against light troops like this He's gonna carve through my guys Although I do break his Hittite chariots, and so that's gonna be a nice little boon for me But it did provide just the chance for him to push through the center Also his own chariots gonna be pushing forward and they spot an opportunity here to come after my weakened Nubian Bowman What I decide to do is try and throw some infantry brace them at the last second to try and hold his chariots back I need to have archers and skirmishers in the endgame because I know how powerful those can be but he is slippery and he gets right through and Now it's hungry hungry hippos Straight through my guys how many kills is that 146 already an entire unit. Oh my god 150 kills in the blink of an eye and he's coming after the next couple rounds I do kind of try and beat him over with the Libyan Bowman to save my Nubian Bowman who are a bit better But I have nothing to hold the rear I'm gonna put this on slow motion so you can see what can happen while on the right side I'm kind of holding center got blown up by Indy's forces, but on the left flank. I'm doing pretty well I've got a lot of reserves. My main line is holding I've got his Anatolian spearmen surrounded and then I have my own chariots doing the same to Indy's skirmishers So I'm doing pretty well on that side Center is going to him left is going to me right is Pretty contested. Oh the main problem here. You'll notice is all the number of archers that he has here and They're gonna blot out the Sun when it comes to firing at my general So it doesn't matter that my guys are in the mix with Indy's forces He has decided that **** it. He's gonna kill everyone Here comes another brutal volley And so thank God my guys are a little bit more heavily armored, but still That's gonna be pretty brutal So now I'm gonna try and chase off his archers with what I have left This would be a really good time to come back with the chariot, but my chariots Are busy in the back dealing with these Hittite force with 542 kills it has obliterated my skirmishers in the back and finally I'm gonna see it off and break it But yeah that his Indy's chariots have been doing a lot of work I meanwhile did not have the chariots present to try and reinforce and knock out his skirmisher blob Meanwhile, it's gonna get caught up here pulling through his guys. I do spot a pretty juicy target I'm gonna try and go after his blob here. How many kills am I at so far? 195 So I plow a headlong through his guys more orders to pull through but in the time being I End up losing my force got 70 more kills for my troubles But he was finally able to massacre the last of my chariots And so now we're caught even without chariots my chariots would have been better Suited knocking out these huge infantry clusters who now can turn about and fire away at my foot Egyptian, you know Pharaoh's foot guard and other units who won the flank but Indy has won the skirmishing fight for the most part He has lots of healthy units. I'm gonna win the infantry fight for the most part in the center I do have a couple infantry left to deal with Indy's forces. So now I get to fire into the flank with my Nubian bowman We'll see how that goes Well, most of the fire is actually going to be retargeting Indy's own archers So now we're kind of shooting out of each other's archers and he has these Neha river hunters What turns out are pretty freakin strong my own archers here. Meanwhile are caught up against some Anatolian words. It's really bad for me I desperately need to bring back some of these units to try and save my archers But meanwhile, they're gonna get caught up against sword. So I need to 2v1 them. Otherwise, I'm gonna lose So looks like my archer fire here doing a good job of destroying his Neha hunters But in the back Indy has four of those guys left gonna try and chase them off with my infantry But in the center, I'm starting to lose With my forces here. So I do disengage with one of my Nubian bowman sacrificing slingers. That's a pretty good exchange. I would think And now let's watch a bit of the Neha hunters exchanging with the Nubian bowman. My guy is with 265 kills I told you that's why I kept these guys alive. They're the most elite bows I believe Egypt can bring to bear and they're gonna start to pick apart Indy's forces as they start to run away from my elite forces The problem with my elite troops there is every couple of volleys gonna take out more and more of my guys They're gonna get more and more tired and he has so many volleys of arrows. This ---- is crazy It only takes a couple of volleys to start doing punishing fire Indy are obviously starting to get some splits on me real quick I'm gonna try and hurt at least half of his men back to the center where I can continue to fire at them with my Nubian bowman try and deal damage to them But now his infantry is closing in to shut down my archers pretty troubling I'm still trying to see off his Anatolian warriors in the back But now I have for I've been forced to split up my troops and this is where the late-game Archer superiority especially in ancient times like this where you don't have much in the way of armor This is where it's gonna start to really really hurt And you're doing a good job of focusing fire on the flanks of units wherever he can And yeah now there's 360 degrees of fire coming on my forces This archer unit running away from my guys and still getting shots off my own Nubian bowman out of ammo trying to chase him Away, but now he can do the dance around my forces Really scary stuff for my troops 27 men left going up against 61 provincial Axeman. We'll see how that goes But yeah, I don't expect too much, especially when I anticipate Indy turning around any second now. Yep. Here come the archers and They're gonna decide to pick away at my pursuing guys and look how that was flanking shots I'm gonna knock out one after another of my elite men good God Not good stuff for me So here come my elite troops that won that flank with a lot of kills 129 kills 349 now they've been reduced to chasing away archers and that is bad for me. There's still a bit of an infantry pile up here But I only have shock spearman and Nubian bowman Thankfully, I do have Pharaohs foot guard with 113 kills to their name still very healthy They're coming in to help you being Bowman with 481 These guys with 121 so I should be able to do pretty well But look at what's turning its attention towards my guys Indy does a good move comes in with the Anatolian swordman and pins me in such a way that now my flank is completely exposed. I'm not even sure if these archers Yeah, it looks like they're coming in for melee, but take a look That killed 20 or so men Two units in the back are now reloading and here comes a couple more volleys So with that goes my infantry advantage so in ancient times What would have been the composition of forces? You would have seen a mix back in the day kind of one of the easiest pieces of equipment to have Would have been a spear or a club so you would have seen seen war bands equipped with spears and clubs bows from hunting communities and maybe even the The city-states armory would have been able to equip some of their troops with bows wouldn't have seen too much of it as first And actually early infantry blocks would have been mixes of troops Bows mixed with spears mixes clubs a bit of everything pushed together it wasn't till some of the larger city-states and Kingdoms started to form up like the Assyrians that you start to see the differentiation of infantry units the accumulation of archers And it was known that the Assyrians had a pretty good infantry Corps over time and made good use of deadly archer fire Massing it in ranks and doing what you would imagine against low armored troops. It's just Seeing them off with massive archer volleys now in the future that would be iterated upon by having You know usually a proportion of combat troops to archers would have been 50-50 or maybe a bit more heavy in favor of You know melee infantry But even that 50-50 mix between melee infantry and archers the inheritors of the Assyrians and the future Persians later start to tinker with that mix and they start to see you know what happens if I go For you know, I tweak the ratio and put more and more archers Just get a light spear wall in the front and then mass tons of archers get a four to one Five to one ratio of archers. I can't remember offhand what the statistics are But I know that historians believe that they the Persians or early Persians and other people Basically led by Cyrus the Great and the pioneering that they did How their armies focused around archers and how just devastating that was to infantry formations how much they could get done with archer fire And that was kind of what started to form what we know of the kind of Eastern troops very reliant on slingers Bowman different projectile units and inevitably once the domestication of the horse and learning how to ride the horse came about the Use of heavy cavalry mixed with archers very mobile very versatile force So in this battle We see the archers here Basically being dominant and he's gonna kill my Pharaoh's guard with his combination of Anatolian swordsmen and others But I kind of have his guys down to almost nothing. I have a pretty healthy Sheridan guardsmen unit taking out his archers. His archers are almost out of ammo But his last couple volleys here gonna prove punishing 313 on the Neha hunters and they're gonna focus Of course on my melee infantry and they're gonna take them out So with that my forces collapse But still nonetheless for the number of troops that we deployed for it to come down to just a couple, you know Three four units on either side very impressive and look at the bodies littering the battlefield really crazy stuff. I love seeing These mods which play with the unit sizes all of seeing big unit sizes of chariots just makes everything more epic It's gonna end the replay and take a look at some of the final stats here. So, holy crap I did not know that I brought you know, 8,000 men to the battlefield. Are you serious? That's freaking crazy with any 7300 But like I was saying earlier, I have one Two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven spears To Indy prides one two, three, four five six, so I had five more spears than him Which in the end you could see my spears got almost no kills had I swapped those out I think for just more archers or more infantry that were pretty capable They're roughly the same cost. I think it would have come out far better in this But man, everyone just slaughtered everyone like everyone has mad amounts of kills except for the spears Indies high killers chariots here provincial chariots with 617 that's absurd his Neha river hundreds all with over 200 kills apiece his top scoring Bowman unit with 314 actually Whereas my top kill 349 483 my archers did work slingers as well should have definitely focused on more of those They did a lot of good damage. Even my my swords and Clubman doing fairly. Well Pharaohs chariots 268 and yeah, the Sheridan guardsmen definitely paying for themselves So yeah, that was very very fun. I do hope you guys enjoy it. I'll have more of this. The mod is tremendously Entertaining definitely shifts up the pace of battle. It's nice not to see a you know predominance of chariots or sorry Excuse me Predominance of cavalry as a deciding factor focus on infantry and skirmishers really changes up the pace of the game Anyways, that's it for this video. I do hope you guys enjoyed stay tuned for more. See you in the next one. Peace out