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Nice recap. Would you be interested in trying to save my disaster campaign?

''These are my early generals... I don't really remember too much about them''. Let me help you out there: died in battle, died in battle, died in battle and died in battle! Ah, memories. It is fun to look at the early turns again. It's usually the most interesting period in any campaign. One thing I always wished for in Rome 1 was more variety in the late campaign. It was inevitably always the Romans, the Egyptians and sometimes the Britons that would end up dominating the map. I guess we got to see the map painted brown in this campaign though!

great recap episode!!!

Holy crap, you’re alive!!

I'm glad you're back. Great concept with this bonus episode to see what other factions are doing. God Bless you and your Family!!!

you forgot to finish your Germanic campaign.... C'mon

I hope you are doing well. God Bless you and your Family!!!

Great campaign content mate

excited for the new campaign

Buying an empire with I.O.U.s now thats banking

Been watching since day one, so happy to see the progress!

On RTW mods: Rome Total War mods are fun, but they are not mod-foldered like Medieval II mods (RTW doesn't have a mod folder, M2TW does), meaning installing a mod on RTW will replace RTW with the mod. so, to keep normal RTW, you need a 2nd install, which is possible but fiddly. Each RTW Mod will have its own installer guide or wizard. I know of Darth Mod, BareBones, Europa Barbarorum, Extended Cultures/realism and Rome Total Realism that they have proper install-wizard programs. There was a time, long ago, that I had installations of normal RTW and 3-4 of those mods. Most mods are a new challenge and a slight jump in difficulty. Darth Mod is a good vanilla difficulty booster, BareBones is of a similar style but adds some historicity. Rome Total Realism and Extended Cultures are fun Europa Barbarorum-light mods and Europa Barbarorum is the one for the extreme history nerd who wants as much historical accuracy as possible in RTW ;)

Turn Germania into a campaign as well. I hope all is well. God Bless you and your Family!!!

A good alternative to "not using unit X" is to have another limit or house rule, such as only being allowed 1 chosen archer for every chosen swordsman in the army, or no more chosen archers than there are regular basic warband units in the army. i.e. only if you have 5 units of basic warband, you can have up to 5 Chosen Archer warbands. Another option is the 1-in-5 rule, of infantry warbands in an army, only 1 in 5 can be Chosen Swordsmen, only 1 in 5 archer warbands can be Chosen Archer. For cav, 1-in-3 can be Noble cav. Things like that. It avoids elite spam but you can still have some. And it's a bit more realistic or logical; what's the point of being a Chosen Warrior if that is the default? ;) Or for every unit of Noble or Chosen the army must include a unit of peasants to represent the servants of these selected and wealthy men :P

Gaul is better

Peasants ONLY Challenge 😃

Great work with the shake up. It definitely would have gotten stale. Well done.

They Should Use Archer Elephants as back up while the Rest are charging. But the Berserk are Wild and don’t drop Morality since they a brave men. Great Battle! Edit: Scratch That, I see the archer at the Unit picture. Silly me I haven’t finished my first campaign yet🥹

Played with every factions. Egypts are easy on veryhard. Numidians sucks, germans are funny. No exploits or cheats used

Personally I send in the mercenaries first

While Romans have more overall public order buildings (from games and races and whatnot) I’m fairly sure if you build temples of Set and max out the secret police/executions squares Egypt has the max potential bonuses to Law reducing corruption more than any other faction which adds up when doing a world conquest.

Bro, you should start a campaign with Macedon or play Alexander The Great expansion!

i just got recommended this channel and i love it bro. great job! also cause like it’s the only campaign i’ve seen on youtube with my playstyle, in terms of wars i’m always pretty aggressive and trying to win them as soon as possible, but i’m not legends of total war levels of rush. i also like the explanations and the simple editing, even if its simple its very effective bc a lot of campaigns are unadulterated and end up being a slog to get through! anyways great job man keep it up

Babe. Wake up. New TDsniper is out

Remember years ago playing as span and just massing cavalry with +3 exp in every city and streamrolling everything. They're chraper to maintain, moves faster around the map and can hire a mercenary just before taking a city. Was fun but wouldnt say hardest campaign really.

This also works for avoiding the Roman civil war late game. When you’re ready to march in Rome but before the civil war starts, buy the entire empires of your fellow romans, break the deal and take over their final cities with your armies before they can retake any.

21:00 Did you just let your Archer Warband face tank a Falx charge? Lol.

Dacia is one of the easiest with only one disadvantage - their war band can't form phalanx like Germanic (but you can easily mod all spear units in the game to phalanx as it only makes sense). 1. Dacia has long range archers at 2nd tier building = big advantage. 2. population growth is good and I supplement with mercenaries to grow faster. 3. You have access to 2 easy slave lands on start, easy take over, I would take at least 1 of them. 4. immediately taking Macedon, ally with Rome. If Macedon grows you are in trouble because of long pike-phalanx spamming. 5. Push to the sea for ports to boost economy and naval access by taking on Thrace with your long range Archers by now.

Please don’t stop at 50 provinces!! Need to see some Spanish/egyptian battles

Haha, an all-mercenary challenge in Med II would be interesting if you started as the Turks, or Egypt, because almost all the mercs early on out that way are cavalry. Good for field battles, but not sure how you assault a settlement.. Of course it depends if crusade/jihad mercenaries are included. If so, no problem in the Middle East, plenty of disposable infantry in that case. In Europe, it's not hard to keep adding spearmen and crossbows up to a point, so your actual armies won't suck. You'd need to abuse the crusade mechanic to get access to cavalry though. Sounds like fun, because it would force you to really refine your battle approach. Can't just feed units into the meat grinder, or rely on mass routs from the enemy. You'd have to be extremely methodological. Seems like the kind of campaign where it'd be advisable to limit it to 45-region win conditions, because the episodes themselves would be slower paced.

Looking forward to the new series! Thanks for putting so much effort into all this.

Oh hey, it's back! I think your economy is slowly recovering, still a bit precarious though. I wonder if it might be worth closing off at least one of the - four, five? - theatres of war currently going on. Probably Scythia, or in Greece once you knock out Macedon. A lot of wars means a lot of troops draining the economy. It's one reason why I'm not sure it's even worth marching over to the north east corner at the moment, the settlements there don't even pay for themselves. You'll have to have a long-term plan for fighting in the East in general, re. hoplites or lack thereof. I think you'll need some, not just to fight Pontus, but Egypt and Parthia thereafter. Once your economy is in order, it might be worth leaving a general or two in some recruiting hotspots to hire every mercenary hoplite you can get your hands on. Something to deter chariots and also soak up horse-archer ammo in field battles. For city sieges it's not as important though.

Oh boy, your false VH campaign that isn't actually set on VH Campaign is back.

Hell yeah ! Dacia is back baby! I don't wanna sound nosy but I'm curious. Where did you move from and to where ?

Missed your plays boo

this is absurdly funny! Genius

A darthmod campaign ?

Welcome back loving all 3 campaigns plus you do an excellent job on the campaign guides as well. 1 suggestion especially on this campaign queue up more buildings you have over 224000 denari it will speed up the campaign. I'm excited for your future campaigns and guides. God Bless you and this great community that you have built.

A little secret about the temples is their effects on the governors traits. Dacia has 2 religions that effect the economy very positively Bendis turns governors into keen farmers who boost money from farming & population growth in any settlement they govern Zalmoxis turns governors into keen miners who boost money from mining in any settlement they govern. That's especially useful in Segestica which has both gold & silver!

Spain doesn’t seem like a bad starting position in terms of surrounding factions. The parts of Gaul and Carthage that are on the peninsula very seldom get rescuing reinforcements, and Gaul have far more pressing problems to deal with normally. It’s just that the romans will crush you once you reach each other that’s the problem, such a bad army. A Mediterranean port in Osca is my top priority for spend

Love all your content! Thanks so much

Recently found your channel and binge watched this Dacia campaign everyday after work. I'll now go check out your Spain campaign while this one is on halt. Keep up the good work my friend !

Loving all 3 campaigns. 1 request is for you to queue up more buildings since you have lots of money & it will speed up the campaign for you.. God Bless you and your Family!!!

You are a liar.

You were never playing on VH Campaign difficulty.

Hmmm. After what I said yesterday, and after playing many Dacia VH campaigns including yet another one I started earlier today, it's clear your Dacia campaign is NOT on VH campaign difficulty. I don't know if that's purposeful on your part, because I don't have a reason to assume out of hand that you're a liar, or if your game bugged and isn't operating on VH campaign rules. But in either event, despite your video showing VH/VH in your faction select screen, your Dacia campaign is ABSOLUTELY NOT behaving as if it were VH campaign. Battle sure. But not campaign. I hope it's not you lying and showing a different faction select screen. That whole "buggy" thing, if I were cynical, would sound like BS to me. But like I said I have no reason to just assume........... At the very least, Germania should have attacked you by the second part of your Dacia series. Especially when you beelined to Segestica and left Aquincum open. Germania will go for Lovisce and then try to come down and attack Campus Iazagys from the north, whether you put a tower/spy there or not. You have much too easy a time and experienced none of that.

Your Dacia VH Campaign Difficulty is incredibly strange. VH Campaign AI dogpiles Dacia the moment Dacia starts to either build up or takes a rebel settlement, no matter which one it is. That didn't happen to you. The AI goes insane when you're about to bulldoze a faction out of existence, yet nobody messed with you at all while you took your time with Thrace. That's VERY strange. Scythia or Germania "should" have attacked you. Also on VH Campaign Difficulty, you typically can only pull off the 1000 to 2000 for map info 1, maybe 2 times, before factions start declining it or forcing it down to low 100s. You were able to do it multiple times. I'm not entirely certain your entire Dacia playthrough actually had VH Campaign Difficulty. Your were able to control the pace in the beginning to a degree that is very strange for VH Campaign, especially in that area of the map. Do you think it's possible your game bugged and defaulted the Campaign back to Medium? That's happened to me once or twice.

Nice

Facing Thrace sounds weird ngl(not your fault)... Since Dacians were but a tribe of the Thracian people, as were lots of them.

this original strategy is so scandalous and I love it