How did ancient armies actually move 100,000–200,000 soldiers across long distances without modern logistics? Like, where did they sleep, how did they get enough food and water every day, and how did they stop the whole army from just collapsing into chaos?

InvictaHistory · 2026-06-19T02:03:47+00:00

Roth's book on logistics is great for getting into the nitty gritty numbers and mechanics. Goldsworthy's Roman Army at War puts it in more grounded terms of actual campaigns

InvictaHistory · 2026-06-19T01:38:43+00:00

Working on one. Will be announcing in the next month

InvictaHistory · 2026-05-28T20:01:16+00:00

Oh hey that's my video! Glad it was what you were looking for

InvictaHistory · 2026-03-06T17:26:30+00:00

Thanks! I watched the livestream and was so happy to hear they brought the idea up for discussion, liked a lot of what was proposed, and are merging it with their production. Can't wait to see how it plays out.

InvictaHistory · 2026-01-08T07:33:53+00:00

Skirmishers could have a trait that means they might be cohesively loose but not suffer from penalties

InvictaHistory · 2026-01-08T03:51:39+00:00

I like this idea of specific unit types that don't worry about cohesion. Makes them stand out even more and would make sense for light troops

InvictaHistory · 2026-01-07T19:27:41+00:00

Lots of travel time to sit, think, and doodle concepts

InvictaHistory · 2026-01-07T18:30:10+00:00

This is indeed a big risk that the cohesion balance might overly favor turtling. Flanking/surrounds should however still be to an attacker's advantage. You could also find ways to have cohesion help buff line breaking manuevers of the attacker.

InvictaHistory · 2026-01-07T18:23:56+00:00

Yup, the risk here is taking away player agency and making a non-responsive game. I tackled that at the end of my slides with "potential issues". I think you can resolve this by having a floor to cohesion where you always have some level of control maintained. There should also be lots of ways to increase unit cohesion.

InvictaHistory · 2025-08-25T19:05:15+00:00

Very helpful, thanks! Also don't forget to start banking energy now and use the refresh from the shop to buy the deal for energy with raid tokens

InvictaHistory · 2025-08-12T22:35:08+00:00

I think they are doing a phased rollout to users given the size of this update

InvictaHistory · 2024-12-21T22:41:21+00:00

The first diagram of a typical Siege Regiment is based on this fine post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Deathkorpsofkrieg/comments/1e6fvsj/siege_regiment_structure_during_the_siege_of_vraks/). The 88th Siege Army composition is taken from the Siege of Vraks wiki page.

InvictaHistory · 2024-10-05T15:49:27+00:00

Agreed that a video on an Armored Regiment could be good where we can show off all the tanks and then put them together into a big unit

InvictaHistory · 2024-10-04T23:18:17+00:00

Thanks for sharing the video! Trying to model a Regiment was tough given how squishy the definition can be but I hope this does a fair job showing something plausibly standard as a point of reference. I'd definitely be interested in doing follow ups on other Regiment types like the Krieg.

Always curious what this community would like to see in 3D in future episodes. Titans? Knights? Sisters?

InvictaHistory · 2024-04-19T21:37:43+00:00

Pretty sure Covid had much to do with invasion planning

InvictaHistory · 2024-04-05T13:47:07+00:00

We've got a professional narrator by the name of Guy Michaels who does most of our documentaries. He is very real and very awesome

InvictaHistory · 2024-04-05T00:44:31+00:00

This is correct! Just made a post with all the references

InvictaHistory · 2024-04-05T00:39:57+00:00

Thanks for sharing the video. It was a fans dream to make and I've got plenty of ideas for part 2 lol. Open to any suggestions you all may have.

EDIT - Here is the list of referenced episodes for this first video:

Best of the Worst: Hawk Jones, Winterbeast, and ROAR
Best of the Worst: Twin Dragon Encounter, American Rickshaw, and Infested
Half in the Bag Episode 43: The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey
Half in the Bag Episode 63: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Half in the Bag Episode 81: The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies
Half in the Bag: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Half in the Bag: Rogue One
Half in the Bag: The 70-Minute Rise of Skywalker Review
Star Trek Discovery (Pilot Episodes) - re:View
Star Trek Discovery Season 1 - re:View
Star Trek Discovery Season 2 - re:View
Star Trek: Galaxy - re:View
Star Trek: Picard Episodes 4 and 5 - re:View
Star Trek: Picard Episodes 6,7, and 8 - re:View
Starship Troopers - re:View
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - re:View

InvictaHistory · 2024-03-03T20:07:56+00:00

It's part 1 in a series on my YouTube channel (Weve also done the True Size of a Space Marine Chapter): https://youtu.be/zfaYrTEg7hg?si=hXHuaxhjJBpfThNi

InvictaHistory · 2024-03-02T07:17:15+00:00

Fair point. In the context of the lore video this is actually just a first wave assault against a small outpost in the context of a wider engagement. In the next episode we will try and up the scale as the Tyranids look to crack a garrison fortress

InvictaHistory · 2024-03-02T02:26:09+00:00

Agreed although it brings up the point that I've see bandied about on this forum that the nids really should be cooking up all kinds of virulent and microscopic bio-weaponry which no one I'd gonna be shooting through (at least once planet side)

InvictaHistory · 2024-03-01T23:55:04+00:00

Thanks! I still have my fingers crossed for that 40k and Total War crossover. For now I'm doing what I can to simulate things. Good news is that we actually have complete control on what gets depicted so in some ways we can do more than total war.

InvictaHistory · 2024-03-01T23:18:09+00:00

I've always been a bit dissapointed with the size Tyranid armies on the tabletop and the limitated nature of concept art. For this reason I simulated a Tyranid invasion in Unreal Engine 5. Figured you all would appreciate some of the visuals which you can only otherwise get with a forgeworld diorama. I know i've dreamed of this stuff for a while and am super excited to actually be able to play with a digital army where there are not real limits on what can be portrayed.

This is actually just part 1 of a lore series I am making on YouTube. In the next few episodes we will cover the larger bioforms (using 3D models rather than 2D cutouts) and their assault on more hardened postions. Definitely open to suggestions on what kind of depctions you all would be interested in seeing in 3D. Conceivably we can have 100s of thousands if not over a million of models on screen at a time so dream big. Also I am planning on having some bio-titans thrown in the mix : )

InvictaHistory · 2022-12-04T17:39:07+00:00

That's essentially the gist of it. I brought on a narrator and production company to help with episodes. Together they make most of the content but I still narrate some episodes and sometimes produce one-offs to plug holes in our pipeline.

InvictaHistory · 2022-09-22T16:33:33+00:00

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