Anti Elephant Tactics #shorts #documentary #militaryhistory #elephatns #polyperchon #fypシ゚ #fyp #war
Anti Elephant Tactics #shorts #documentary #militaryhistory #elephatns #polyperchon #fypシ゚ #fyp #war
War elephants were ancient weapons of mass destruction…until they weren’t. 🐘 In 318 BC, Polyperchon tried storming Megalopolis with 65 war elephants. Big mistake. The city defenders were ready with:
🔨 Hidden stakes to block their charge.
🎯 Missile attacks to turn them against their own troops.
💥 Chaos that forced Polyperchon to…
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The more things change, the more they remain the same. How does one neutralize tanks?🤔
Narrow streets and tight quarters seems about the worst spot to use a war elephant
HOW IS THIS MIXXXED ???
Given the ambush zones, kind of forecasts how ill suited tanks would be for urban combat.
That's a great title for a Bosnian Ape Society video
The Finns tried at least once to domesticate moose for military cavalry, but found the moose would stop taking direction from the rider as soon as they were attacked or startled. Moose were saved by their ability to think for themselves and nope out of our human skirmishes.
Should have given the elephants bronze, leather or wooden sandals. Then they could have walked over the spikes!
Did ancient greek fortifications look like those big walls? I'm used to seeing more medieval European battlements.
Wait, the defender abandoned the siege?
Couldn't imagine anything sadder than an elephant at war :'(
21st century war commentators are impressed by how drones are being used to take down entire tanks in modern conflicts. Meanwhile, the ancients used some pointy wood to turn the enemy's elephant into their elephant.
MISSILES ARE DIFFERENT DUMBASS 🤦🤦
Thats what you get polypercos, leave them elephants alone and use horses like a normal warlord
So there was a city called Megalopolis….
Nice 😏
Stakes hidden in mud, projectile weapons, pot of tar + flaming arrow, Greekfire. All good weapons against elephants.
Reminds me of tanks and the javelin missile of today
Nonsense. The city's defenders obviously had a secret Legolas to handle elephant attacks but nice try.
Elephants were best used in open battle or for ramming city gates. They couldn't be used inside cities..
Correction: Mahouts are India-specific. Northeast India, maybe?
Regardless, being a Mahout to an elephant means you're committed to the elephant for the rest of your life. You're paired from the earliest days of the elephant's life.
Those poor elephants😢
Everytime i see elephants in a battle,i already know that side has most likely lost.Puts into perspective how large of a liabilities elephants are in warfare.
I can trace my ancestry back to these elephants so I feel partially responsible, I’m sorry we didn’t do a better job.
U need to be smart to use them. Also enemy has to have no info of them. Plus u have to use them on the battlefield and transport not to storm. Plus u need at least 200+ of them. They become really good when you have 500+ of them.
They even more useful in the world of guns as they can be used to transport big cannons as well enable the use of big cannons to be used and load on the battlefield very fast shoting at a leader position or a shotgun like effect on the enemy army line. India used them to lunch rockets in a very mobil way.
Most war elephants are Indian. However the best war elephants are African. They very hard to deal with as they 2 or 3 times bigger than Indian war elephants.
War elephants can be used so commander see more as well in building military stuff and guard camps.
Some Indians where useing large elephants as a sinping position with the big rifle to shot long range.
U need to be very careful when useing them on an open field plane battlefield.
Elephants are the real tanks of back in the days not knights. Heavy carverly are more like trucks or Henvies.
Just like a tank it needs support from some carverly and needs to be used properly with careful consideration. Also do not storm a city or fortresses with tanks.
500 elephants need the support of at least 2000 horses medium and light carverly. Persians includes horse arches too. Sometimes they include like 100 or 200 additional heavy carverly.
If u have 1000+ armored big on drugs war elephants that is properly trained and how exactly to use them and u be very careful with them and only use for plane battlefields u would stomp almost any army that has most of their men or a big % as infantry.
Chinese used elephants too. They use smoke and sound wave pull signals with them.
In the battle against First Caliphate of Qadisa Persia alongside their 250k army bringed 2k+ armored war elephants half or so of which are African war-elephants.
They lost battlefield but not because of the elephants. Elephants infact carried the Persian army for month before the final showdown. Even then they got carried for 1.5 days. It is less than 24 hours after the Persian army got defeated. Most of the Muslims casualties where because of the elephant core.