Who's heard the new one?

Who's heard the new one?

I think Dan admitted on Twitter that it was pretty weak, and he just wanted to get it out of the way. I think the problem is that he didn't have enough sources to work with, to approach the material from the different angles he normally tries to go for. Just the Commentaries. That said, how the fuck did the podcast take six months when he's only working with a 300-page book?

In summary - the comparisons between Gauls and the struggles for independence of other tribal peoples is kind of interesting, but he doesn't go into depth and it basically falls flat. There's not much of a drilldown on Caesar, his ruling style or his military tactics either. The closing description of the Siege of Alesia is fairly decent, though.

It was too wordy relative to the amount of actual content.

It's probably the weakest HH, by far, but when he's done so many amazing ones I'm not going to complain. Hopefully we get another Rome one down the line that's better, maybe something during the Imperial era.

I've listened to the Achaemenid episodes and I liked them.
How do the others compare? Any recommendations?

Yea it's wasn't the best one he has done, but still fairly interesting.

It really felt directionless and without any consistent theme. Like thinking it would be more focused on Celts and their culture, the proceeding years after the Roman domination, or something like that but really it was more of a story about Caesar

Khans and Fall of the Republic for sure.

What would you guys say are the top HH ranked?

Ghosts of the osfront blew me away

King of Kings

Death Throes of the Republic
Wrath of the Khans
Ghosts of the Ostfront

Ghosts of the Ostfront
Logical Insanity
Blueprint for Armageddon

Wrath of the Khans
King of Kings
Ghosts of the Ostfront

TheseProphets of Doom
Death throws of the Republic
Thors Angels

Crisis of the Third Century is perfect for his style tbhq.

Ghosts honestly pissed me off, I understand he was going for the human angle but there was very little on the tactics or even major battles, iirc he basically skipped Kursk alltogether.

Ever since the second King of Kings he's been weak. Goes on long tangents, weaker narrative where he interrupts himself to spew out ever more disclaimers and excuses to the point that you forget what he was even going to say.

Maybe he's at bottom of the barrel of what he finds interesting or he needs to learn from his younger self.

I enjoyed Logical insanity to be honest

The random tangents worked well in a Blitz edition where its less of a narrative and more of a concept or idea

Prophets of Doom is comedy gold. Also socialists getting BTFO centuries before Marx.

Prophets of Doom is my personal favorite, it's also the episode that got me hooked. They could easily make the whole story into an HBO series, the way he tells it is so good too. It's like half comedy, half thriller.

Guess I have to buy ghosts of osfront now

Wrath of the Khans and Blueprint for Armageddon are GOAT. Going back from that you'll find the episodes are shorter and have meme stuff like sound effects, but are still worth listening to. The episode on nuclear bombs he did recently is really good too.

Wrath of the Khans was fucking amazing

I wish there was more content on the Tetrarchy, there's so much drama in that period.

I really like "Thor's Angels", even if it is a bit weird

Its close to the interesting musings of Dan as you get, doesn't settle on a point, covers about a thousand years of history.

Better yet its later era Dan, so he's more willing to accept that history is best viewed through a prism of the period.

>Aside
Does anybody else do similar content? I (via his shameless advertising) have an audible account and go for some of the more academic options out there, but nothing else is as much... fun