Today we take a look at the strategy and shipping of the 1st Punic War with expert Bret Deveraux!
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Incredible video, it just flew by haha
I found the collection of rams near the NW-iset tantalizing, confirming the historicity, & placing a finite, coordinates-X on the sea-battlefield location.
It'd be wonderful to have a Drach episode covering ancient marine-warfare, and what the most-recent, (or, generally-recent) archaeological finds have been— and how those confirm & conform to the ancient-historiography; or counter it… and how they confirm, or dispute, what we thought we understood about naval warfare, shipbuilding, & technologies of the ancient-world…
What a great video-explained so well! Thanks so much!
I'm happy old 40k prepared me for Drach's videos with things like the Corvus Assault Ships and rams and stuff.
The crossover I didn't know I needed.
Been a while since I was hooked on Roman history but this presentation got me hooked right back in. What an interesting time. Great presenter as well loved Bret's style.
Great talk, thank you both for this!
I do not recall if mid-WW2 US fleet submarines were deployed in this theater. Were they?
I'm perseverating.
I keep rewatching this. Excellent conversation.
As much as I love Polybius, it's also worth mentioning that he was a Greek hostage raised in the Scipio family so largely identified with Rome.
Since you got into the 2nd Punic War a bit, it's worth noting — as Mahan must have at some point — that the REASON Hannibal marched over the Alps was because he didn't have the ships to go by sea. Moving an army by sea is easy and fast in comparison.
Super interesting. Thank you
The new title music is nice…
Totally didn't know this was a thing or know this about myself, but I'm evidently on some drach voice mental namaste thing, in addition to being genuinely interested in the subject matter, but it's like nails on glass to hear these other nasally guys on here. Me no likey
Great talk. I enjoyed it.
Literally appointing ship commanders from the wealthy to pay for upkeep is wild. A US DDG is 2 Billion to build and 15days at fuel economy can burn 350k in fuel alone let alone pay, food, parts ect.
Sounds a lot like the current situation brewing w/ Taiwan….
Off topic, but why do so many academics prolifically pepper their speech with ahs and ums? It's quite an epidemic I've noticed. I have theories but choosing not to elaborate here.
I am in the middle of planning a trip to Sicily to learn more of its ancient history. This episode just eliminated a large portion of my ignorance on that subject. Thank you.
Best program on I have ever seen. There are restored Lingurian ships Italy. .
Why would lead sheeting on the hull be a weight problem? Most of it would probably be even lower then the ships ballast right? So for each kg of lead sheeting you nail to the under water ship you can probably remove 1.5kg of stone ballast, no?
Love the new intro music.
Challenge for every ahhmm drink a shot
One of the things that most people do not realize is that for long stretches of time the Roman Fleet may have had x number of ships, but they would allow the ships to go into disrepair and poorly crewed. This first happened in the Republic and then would occur again and again all the way through the Empire. Maritime interests of the Romans would wax and wane accordingly to their perceived threat levels.
“This tri-ream brought to you by Marcus Guius and sons” 🤣
(Sorry for the spelling lol)
I like that he is covering some ancient naval history but would really enjoy some coverage on buccaneer and pirate ships.
oh neat, ACOUP and Drach is a pretty good combo
Ooh this was bloody interesting! 😁
Do more with Bret please 🖤
Great clip on ancient naval warfare. Hopeful we will see something one on the battle of Salamis or Hansan island.
Second punic war!
I miss your old music!
I like the idea of forcing people like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk to pay the operational cost of a Nimitz or Ford class carrier; this seems acceptable.
Anyone counted the "AAAAH"s?
Fascinating.
It’s extremely difficult to listen to a presentation to anyone who begins every sentence with “Um”.
I gave up.
This was surprisingly awesome and engaging, thank you Drach, thank you Mr Deveraux.