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Chris Moritz
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Postby Chris Moritz » Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:33 am

Infantry squares defend against massed cavalry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dBfdNrf9A
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Mathieu Westernosse
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Postby Mathieu Westernosse » Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:19 pm

Valhalla Rising also has some very nice one vs. many and one on one fight scenes. Not the most artistic, but they get the job done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqp_QWguWDQ

The entire movie is well worth watching.
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Postby Chris Moritz » Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:03 pm

Director Stanley Kubrick, fielding the two full Roman legions of Crassus against the army of Sparticus: 20 full cohorts, to a man, more than 10,000 Romans. Cohort-scale formations, movements and deployments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4Aw6RyS9c

Detailed explanation here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndh3b9wC-A0
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Postby Chris Moritz » Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:14 am

Woman more potent than weapons, Braveheart nobleman's rights scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_BvsyF5JUE
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Postby Chris Moritz » Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:36 am

The movie 'Revolution' (1985). British infantry defeat American insurgents in New York state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s08ucJsH ... re=related
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Postby Chris Moritz » Tue May 03, 2011 7:26 pm

French and Indian war, 1757, George Road ambush; regiment-scale melee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1d5J3xh ... re=related
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Postby Chris Moritz » Fri May 06, 2011 7:17 pm

Virginia 1607 (this is 11 years before the 30 Years War even began in Europe). Cogs, galleons, skiffs, swords, halberds, polearms, helmets, plate armor, shields, knives, drums

Das Rheingold Vorspiel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kybRkfp02fQ

Battle scenes assembled in this vid, not necessarily in sequence, showing full plate armor knee deep in a Virgina swamp, and a pike formation with matchlocks and armor, breaking into a melee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAXifDrycRg
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Postby Chris Moritz » Wed May 11, 2011 11:51 pm

Deception and surprise, boarding and melee,

Surprise versus Acheron

(Acheron is supposed to have been built in Boston, the same structure as USS Constitution)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUpoDugMBn0
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Postby Chris Moritz » Sun May 15, 2011 1:49 am

Bloodiest battles scene from Ran - (set in feudal Japan) (1985)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZThHw54 ... 6BD8E7D912
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Postby Chris Moritz » Sun May 15, 2011 9:54 pm

Roman legions in Germania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xyj5M1F ... 68644C31CE
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Postby Eli Freysson » Mon May 16, 2011 9:33 am

Whoa, STILL getting responses. I thought they'd stopped for good. I should obviously check in more often.

Thanks everyone. :)
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Postby Chris Moritz » Sat May 21, 2011 9:06 pm

Barbarians series: The Huns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUJOBc_x ... re=related
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Postby Seth Woodbury » Mon May 23, 2011 1:28 pm

How about the 1973 & 1974 version of the the Three Musketeers with Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain and Christopher Lee... while they were trying to be funny, those were some of the more realistic duels that I have seen.
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Postby Chris Moritz » Fri May 27, 2011 7:52 pm

Barbarians 2: The Franks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JCjgpJ ... re=related
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Postby Chris Moritz » Mon May 30, 2011 12:10 am

The Lombards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRfjSQQa ... er&list=UL
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