How did Soldiers Train for War in the Early Modern Period? | Soldiers’ Lives

What about learning to use a sword. Both pikemen and musketeers received swords. Swords are not simple weapons to use (eg pike vs pike fencing can be tought in a metter of days, swords would require weeks)

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hey, heres a question for ya, SandRhoman.
ima reenactor who uses a spear 10ft long in fairly small combats...
and.. this makes me curious about how pikes might have been used outside of the bigger blocks and formations we usually see

Do we have written, or pictoral references maybe showing smaller groups of pike wieldig soldiers, fighting in smaller scale combat, i.e a few dozen people all up... and more importantly ones that maybe describe what they did with said pikes.. did they.. drop the pikes and just fight with their hand weapons.. did they just make two dense lines and fight that way?, did they fan out and skirmish?, using the pikes in much more open fashion?

Tight formations vs cannon balls. What could go wrong..

What really helped the Dutch was Spain had so many enemies.
If it was 1v1 Spain would win hands down as they did in the first revolt.

I love this era.
Even with the new add on's by the Swedes the Tercio were still able to destroy them at Nordlingen.

love your content but you need to learn how to pronounce a "V" in English.

Great video SandRhoman. More like this on the Pike and Shot era would be great. 👍

most idiot battles of the humanity..

I read that military drills were revived by the Swiss in the 15th century not the Dutch revolutionaries in the 16th century.

Catholic Spain was absolutely Glorious.
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¡VIVA CRISTO REY!

God, that would please you, wouldn't it, if you were in a unit facing an enemy shooting at you; if they start going back through to reload and set light to someone else's black powder - enemy soldiers start going pop pop pop like a string of fire crackers!

Dini videos entüsched nie! Sehr interessant, danke!

Great video and excellent content.

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Please do more gunpowder age stuff

This guys so brilliant

Absolutely love your videos, the topic you teach has inspired me. Now if only yt can actually showcase your videos more when they are released.

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I'm wondering if you ever plan to re-record any of your videos in German or if you know any similar channels like your's in German? I really love your videos. They have a good balance of entertainment and information. I'd love to share them with my father who's very interested in history but doesn't understand english.

could anyone tell me the music used in SandRhoman's videos, I've been searching for it for a while now

I have to say, 16th through 17th century is my favorite period. It was like, half medieval and half modern. Redcoats and heavy full plate cavalry on the same battlefield. Very unique, yet not often talked about.

Very good video and I like the channel because it speaks about the pike and firearms era, very interesting for me at least

Would love a video on the Cossacks, great work by the way.

Fear our cannons or get turned into pixels!

Did match locks ever have a steel butt end? if you had to use it as a melee weapon.

Hi i want to ask do you plan to make videos about Eugene of Savoy ? War of Spanish succession and Otoman wars.

As a military history lover, and teacher this channel hits all the sweet spots.

Okay, don't twist my arm.
Ready to watch Alatriste, yet again.

People, who consider drilling to be mindless, are mindless themselves- they clearly have no idea, how fighting works, how human mind works, how human body works, and how all those elements work together...

To this very day, fighting men- be it a soldier, or a sport fighter, or civilian learning self defense- all fall back to formulaic, but effective mantra of training, beecause there is no real presence of intelect, when somebody suddenly is trying to take our head off. And body moves, for those few very short, but very crucial moments, practically, on its own, and muscle memory can save the brain, that still isn't capable of understanding, what is going on, much less to strategize. Practising teaches, how to handle panic, pain, how to control breathing, how to negate tunel vison, how to relax- i know how much of a scary sight it is, when a man takes a swing at me druing a brawl. I can only- maybe- imagine, how much more scary wold it be, if there was a battle raging around me... But thanks to traing, movements become faster, more clean and effective- and all this comes down to making same movements time and time again. To drilling them into our body and brain. And instead of freezing, turning our head away, and closing eyes, or running on stiff legs of terrorized person, which makes us easier target, we can respong properly...


I think, that anybody, who went through training, and then went into combat, was thankful in the end, that they could respond and survive- i sure as hell am, that i drilled 45 degrees side step and hard straight punch counter with either hand, till i almost vomited just thinking about this technique...

Hey man! Can you do a video on the English Civil War / the New Model Army? I would love to know more about the equipment / training / tactics of those armies. Thanks

Man the preview of your video. I put my cursor on it, and suddenly there are tanks going around! Scared me for a moment!

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Excellent video, like the others one; I think that the Spanish Tercio need one video talking about his training and drill in specific, because as an empire, they have different training according the theather of operations in which they were deployed. They had different way to fight, for instance, against the turks and the moors in Africa (raids, organizeed looting, defensive formations and quick retreats), against the dutch (amphibious warfare, "Encamisadas", extensive sieges, flexible formations) or against the frenchs (anti-cavalry tactics, compacts formations, etc), among other things. They were known as the most versatil army in two centuries for something.

Great video! Would it be possible for you to go into detail on the training, drill and disciplinary measures of the cavalrymen of the time?

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I wouldn't say heroism didn't win battles. Collective heroism, that is. You have to be quite the hero, or quite the madlad, to march straight into an enemy pike formation, with nothing to keep you alive other than the prospect of using your own pike to kill the enemy and the hope that they will lose their nerve first.

Pike and shot or how I like to call it peanutbutter and jelly

id rather get slapped than called up to quarterdeck!

were muskets used to fire multiple projectiles like shotguns?

Is it just me, or does the recruit looks older than other soldiers lol

"Ungentle advice" That was a very nice way to put it ;D

Spanish Tercios were Europe's best infantry until the disaster of Rocio in 1643. Although Maurice managed in one encounter to make the Spanish Tercios retreat it was the exception rather than the norm