Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A history documentary on the tactical disaster that is The Ride of the Rohirrim. Improve your career using my code Invicta for 30% off on all their programs! Sign up for a FREE TripleTen career consultation with my link: get.tripleten.com/Invicta

The documentary begins with a review of the Ride of the Rohirrim as portrayed in Peter Jackson's Movie, The Return of the King, and in Tolkien's original book. We then pick apart the film's depiction frame by frame with all the flaws in the Army of Rohan's charge at the Battle of Pelennor Fields. Then we delve into the history of cavalry in combat for a better understanding of how such forces actually behaved in the past. We then finally use this knowledge to reconstruct the Army of Rohan and the Battle of Pelennor Fields in Unreal Engine 5 as it should have been.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:49 Depiction in the Film
04:59 Sponsor
06:32 Tactical Issues
12:20 Historical Organization
16:40 Historical Formations
21:43 Historical Combat
28:55 Revised Army Model
30:35 Unreal Army
32:22 Revised Attack Model
34:05 Unreal Attack

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