I treat influence for family members as a currency, and the faction leader having more at least mitigates loss of loyalty on certain subjects. Also, I have taken to using wives to perform the majority of loyalty securing tasks while also trying to make them use influence to gain other benefits that can make them more loyal, or at least get them other traits that can benefit them. All of this, of course, benefits the kingdom/tribe/empire for the most part. All of that, too, leaves your king with more influence to handle situations when something goes wrong politically and your king might need to spend influence to make something happen. Don't know why I just typed all this out, or why I'm going to post it, but this is fun for me and I'm enjoying learning about the new system in place and the fact that there is more to do on most turns, now. Also, I hope you don't end up having a eunich family member that somehow fathers 30 illegitimate children like I did. Thankfully that mess is over because he's dead.... long good story on all of that..
Heir I would really recommend that you put your King as a governor so he gains more influence cause if some one has more influence then the king EVERY character will get -1 loyalty thats how i got a civil war so you might want to avoid that. and the household things that give extra influence dont give them to anyone except to your king or maybe to some family members that need influence but take it out when they get the influence they need.
Heir you should do a viking campaign! The naval battles are actually pretty decent in this game and if you chose a vinking faction there would be plenty of them :D
Hey Heir, new sub here. Living in China so I can't actually buy the damned game yet - region locking online stores is a real pain in the Euphrates. Gonna have to live vicariously through some quality let's plays... keep up the good work! Forward Sassanids!
I hope they fix the fire affects so that they and their smoke can be seen at farther distances, at least on some graphical settings. It is a bit annoying that fire just disappears if your camera is a certain distance away from it and it also makes it harder to assess the situation.
Hey Heir nice lp campaign series dude, are you playing on very hard? I started with legendary campaign with the Huns, and i gotta tell you man it's really tough! :))
Kamden Kenerly Like everything is hard when playing legendary dif! You can't even save whenever you whish, nor can you beat far more superior foe as you've could in Rome2. Haven't tried sieges and navals yet, but it is really hard to beat AI when they have twice the army compare to yours. I do know that even a town with towers can make some serious damage to your men.
You're better off using stone shots on onagers as the missile bounces, which means if the shot falls short it still has a chance of killing. Flame shot seems better against buildings and boats and that's about it
This game looks so familiar, but so different. Wow. I would like to buy it but can't. Have Shogun 2 and Rome II. Not enough space and PC can't run it :(
I would imagine it runs pretty similar to Rome II, and if you don't have enough space and don't plan on playing Shogun and Rome you can simply delete them.
Frankly after Rome 2 I have trouble trusting that CA knows what they are doing,and Attila has one issue that I wish they'd address which is that some techs upgrade units to a different type of unit entirely,one example is gothic warband->falxmen. It also doesn't make historical sense that almost every units has an upgrade - which is not an upgraded version of itself, but rather a completely new unit often times with different roles or types. From the TW forums forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/148049-Can-only-Recruit-either-Elites-or-Levies.-Armies-unsustainable-mid-game./page13
Rellana1 Seems kind of weird that that would be a feature. (English language, please fix the fact that it have to say "that that" rather than something I don't have to think about twice)
A little but not as much as youd think, if you can run rome on high you should be able to run this pretty well on medium and absolutely perfectly on low
Not sure about these raiders. These units seem OP on their instant ability to destroy towers. With that and the after effect of burning walls makes you think what's the point of fortification in this game. I also notice that you have to really keep a eye on the path finding which is freaking annoying.
From what i've seen sofar the raider units seem to be light troops, so you (or the AI if..well yes) can focus them down with archers before they burn the whole city
Yeah I've played about an hour into the a campaign and I love it. It looks absolutely amazing and the battles just seem funner now that the AI is a little smarter. Ex when I try to attack their skirmishes with cav they pull them back behind their lines, they try to outflank with cav and troops, and sometimes Ive had them throw the right types of troops in combat. I was in a cav fight and a close unit was a sword and a spear unit. Instead of throwing te sword it it threw the spear unit in! Love the game and thanks for the feedback!
Heir, please try to make those videos informative. They already are, don't get me wrong, but I feel you could help us new players learn to better manage our campaigns
Please don't do a horde faction! Every single youtuber is doing it and its kind of repetitive, so please do either Western Roman Empire or Armenia since you really like armenian spears(if its possible)
Don't exist. Strategy games are not big on consoles and next gen have to my knowledge 0 strategy games. You need a pc if you want to play strategy games like total war and paradox strategy
Kyler Green that sucks, i have a regular macbook, you think thats enough to run the game? i am a complete pc noob, how would that affect the computer? would it make it slow? thanks for the reply
HohoSMG Likely as a way to more easily add/subtract lower food numbers from your overall amount without having to resort to fractions and decimal points.
HohoSMG Not sure how I can explain this any simpler than I already have. Small food numbers mean that when anything is added or subtracted from it, it would have to be in single digits. What increasing those decimal points does is allow for the possibility of amounts BETWEEN those numbers, e.g 10-20 instead of 1-2, allowing for a more diverse amount of food effects in the game.
It seems that people are pretty content with the game. I have played my first campaign on normal and hard, and I am disappointed to say, that it has been one of the most boring campaigns I've ever played. I played as the Franks, and attacked the Western Roman Empire in order to migrate to Gaul - I took the Belgian territories without meeting any resistance other than garrison troops. They never managed to drum up an army and confront me (apart from a single lonely general they sent on a suicide mission to my lands - probably not the most popular guy in Rome, which is weird, as his name was "Hilarius"). Within a few turns the former areas of WRE in Iberia, Gaul and Italy lie completely desolate, destroyed by various tribes. Most of the remaining gameplay was then spent moving around and resettling the abandoned regions. Not exactly the most exciting thing to do in a game about war. My question is, then, have any of you experienced the same problems, or have I just been unlucky with my first campaign? PS. Oh, and about the Huns. They never really bothered me.
So the two Roman empires are both easy to beat down since there are so many hordes and they start economically broken in the West. Also the Romans start with crap units like every other faction. Rome never survives long enough to do research and improve their armies. It needs to be patched a little for sure.
dont play a faction close to WRE i guess, and if you want challange play the WRE, you actually start with negative income and 7 half done rag tag armies and at war with about 7000 tribes, if you want a normal campaign i would say the danes of the great migrators or even ERE, if you want easy go with the sassanids
You're trashing all of your religious buildings yet there are edicts that give public order bonuses for the percentage of your religion present. And what about basic public order? Does religion not affect public order anymore?
Yea just don't need to build the religious building. You can use a priest to up the level of religion and it doesn't have the exact same effects as culture did in Rome 2.
I treat influence for family members as a currency, and the faction leader having more at least mitigates loss of loyalty on certain subjects. Also, I have taken to using wives to perform the majority of loyalty securing tasks while also trying to make them use influence to gain other benefits that can make them more loyal, or at least get them other traits that can benefit them. All of this, of course, benefits the kingdom/tribe/empire for the most part. All of that, too, leaves your king with more influence to handle situations when something goes wrong politically and your king might need to spend influence to make something happen.
Don't know why I just typed all this out, or why I'm going to post it, but this is fun for me and I'm enjoying learning about the new system in place and the fact that there is more to do on most turns, now. Also, I hope you don't end up having a eunich family member that somehow fathers 30 illegitimate children like I did. Thankfully that mess is over because he's dead.... long good story on all of that..
Hell ya more Sassinid campaign!! :D
Should be more coming every day
Heir I would really recommend that you put your King as a governor so he gains more influence cause if some one has more influence then the king EVERY character will get -1 loyalty thats how i got a civil war so you might want to avoid that. and the household things that give extra influence dont give them to anyone except to your king or maybe to some family members that need influence but take it out when they get the influence they need.
only the person with more influence gets the loyalty debuff
Heir you should do a viking campaign! The naval battles are actually pretty decent in this game and if you chose a vinking faction there would be plenty of them :D
i agree it would be sweet man.
I will be doing lots of campaigns on this game I am sure.
heir you should check out the "household" option in the upper right corner of the character upgrade skill tree
would definitely help ^^
I will try to take a look at it
"C'mon toke it ip"
I hear you heir... 420 blaze it. :)
You know what would be appropriate for Attila? FFAs like in Rome 1.
That would have been great
Hey Heir, new sub here. Living in China so I can't actually buy the damned game yet - region locking online stores is a real pain in the Euphrates. Gonna have to live vicariously through some quality let's plays... keep up the good work! Forward Sassanids!
Don't get rid of the temples!!!!!
Definitely one of my favourite atilla campaigns so far
I hope they fix the fire affects so that they and their smoke can be seen at farther distances, at least on some graphical settings. It is a bit annoying that fire just disappears if your camera is a certain distance away from it and it also makes it harder to assess the situation.
nice campaign and battle, keep it up
Hey Heir nice lp campaign series dude, are you playing on very hard? I started with legendary campaign with the Huns, and i gotta tell you man it's really tough! :))
He is playing on normal.
Kamden Kenerly Thank you, i regret playing on Legendary lol
Atilla The Great I'm curious, does the difficulty affect the stats of the enemy troops. or just the AI?
Kamden Kenerly Like everything is hard when playing legendary dif! You can't even save whenever you whish, nor can you beat far more superior foe as you've could in Rome2. Haven't tried sieges and navals yet, but it is really hard to beat AI when they have twice the army compare to yours. I do know that even a town with towers can make some serious damage to your men.
Kamden Kenerly the stats of the AI get buffed a lot and more
sorry this is late I slept in today, Heir's Kill Total: 3,524
It seems like you just brush through this campaigns like nothing u gotta challenge yourself man do legendary this game
Nice battle !
@ 12:49 how do I do that? Reply would be appreciated! :P
I think you needed that temple building in your capital for victory
On your future campaigns when you get a better hold if it try a horde faction
You may want to rebuild some of those religious buildings. You're going to have problems, otherwise
need more close ups of the battles heir
You're better off using stone shots on onagers as the missile bounces, which means if the shot falls short it still has a chance of killing. Flame shot seems better against buildings and boats and that's about it
The political situation is starting to look bad. You'll have to increase your power sooner rather than later.
I wonder where they got the timber for that fort in the middle of a completely barren desert
Did you really say "Toke it up"? lol Heir, so much for a family channel.
Heir you need to watch the Maximus Decimus videos on what ammo type is better ( which would be flaming shot but you need to watch does videos)
I have, I recorded the first 5 or 6 episodes on release day, so I hadn't figured out a few things.
Oh ok so now you now know
This game looks so familiar, but so different. Wow. I would like to buy it but can't. Have Shogun 2 and Rome II. Not enough space and PC can't run it :(
I would imagine it runs pretty similar to Rome II, and if you don't have enough space and don't plan on playing Shogun and Rome you can simply delete them.
Frankly after Rome 2 I have trouble trusting that CA knows what they are doing,and Attila has one issue that I wish they'd address which is that some techs upgrade units to a different type of unit entirely,one example is gothic warband->falxmen. It also doesn't make historical sense that almost every units has an upgrade - which is not an upgraded version of itself, but rather a completely new unit often times with different roles or types.
From the TW forums forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/148049-Can-only-Recruit-either-Elites-or-Levies.-Armies-unsustainable-mid-game./page13
Rellana1 Seems kind of weird that that would be a feature. (English language, please fix the fact that it have to say "that that" rather than something I don't have to think about twice)
This game is more demanding on a PC than Rome 2
A little but not as much as youd think, if you can run rome on high you should be able to run this pretty well on medium and absolutely perfectly on low
when will u make the part five video?
Not sure about these raiders. These units seem OP on their instant ability to destroy towers. With that and the after effect of burning walls makes you think what's the point of fortification in this game. I also notice that you have to really keep a eye on the path finding which is freaking annoying.
If you are fortified your troops get a bunch of buffs even if the fortification falls
From what i've seen sofar the raider units seem to be light troops, so you (or the AI if..well yes) can focus them down with archers before they burn the whole city
After this campaign could u do a Saxon campaign? But don't worry about it
I see that pulling your cav out is devastating in attila. If you charge you should stay in the fight
If you knock down/ kill all but 11 men in the unit then pulling out your cav to cycle and kill the unit is more efficient.
the rear charge tho
Heir out to 10 what would you rate Attila?
I would give it 7 for multiplayer and 8-8.5 for campaign. Once they do a major rebalancing of units in mp I would rate it higher.
Yeah I've played about an hour into the a campaign and I love it. It looks absolutely amazing and the battles just seem funner now that the AI is a little smarter. Ex when I try to attack their skirmishes with cav they pull them back behind their lines, they try to outflank with cav and troops, and sometimes Ive had them throw the right types of troops in combat. I was in a cav fight and a close unit was a sword and a spear unit. Instead of throwing te sword it it threw the spear unit in! Love the game and thanks for the feedback!
Dude, I haven't even played this game and I LOVE IT
Woohoo Attila
Fucking hell, I bought it but I have to wait till tuesday!
why do you keep dragging and redeploying troops in battle?
I think a Frankish campaign would be cool
>yfw he tries to torch buildings with non-raider units
:^)
Heir, please try to make those videos informative. They already are, don't get me wrong, but I feel you could help us new players learn to better manage our campaigns
Watch a tutorial, not a Let's Play, then.
FretlessTree Your tone was just totally rude...and yes I can hear your tone through your typing lmao :)
Gosh, someone was rude on the internet? You must be new here. Have an internet hug.
Yea.
Please don't do a horde faction! Every single youtuber is doing it and its kind of repetitive, so please do either Western Roman Empire or Armenia since you really like armenian spears(if its possible)
WRE would be cool
lol nice try armenian.
armenia isn't playable.....
All factions mod is to be made ASAP.
Not sure which faction I will be doing next. Eventually I want to cover a variety of factions.
hey guys, do you know of any games similar to this one for ps4?
Don't exist. Strategy games are not big on consoles and next gen have to my knowledge 0 strategy games. You need a pc if you want to play strategy games like total war and paradox strategy
Kyler Green that sucks, i have a regular macbook, you think thats enough to run the game? i am a complete pc noob, how would that affect the computer? would it make it slow? thanks for the reply
What year? I've seen a MacBook air play Rome 2 on low settings
Why was there fog in the desert?
Good point.
And why was there a wooden fort in the desert?
Kosake The soldiers carry supplies with them right?
Kamden Kenerly
Yeah but not wood to build a fort in the desert lol
Kosake I suppose not.
12th....because "first!!!" is too mainstream...
Noice
On a different note, HOW DO YOU HAVE 594 FOOD? WTF?
Food and other numbers seem to have been increased by a decimal point or so; eg. 3 food being 30 instead.
Manualatice Um..... why?
HohoSMG Likely as a way to more easily add/subtract lower food numbers from your overall amount without having to resort to fractions and decimal points.
Manualatice I am still confused
HohoSMG Not sure how I can explain this any simpler than I already have. Small food numbers mean that when anything is added or subtracted from it, it would have to be in single digits. What increasing those decimal points does is allow for the possibility of amounts BETWEEN those numbers, e.g 10-20 instead of 1-2, allowing for a more diverse amount of food effects in the game.
Hun lets play plz!!!
It seems that people are pretty content with the game. I have played my first campaign on normal and hard, and I am disappointed to say, that it has been one of the most boring campaigns I've ever played. I played as the Franks, and attacked the Western Roman Empire in order to migrate to Gaul - I took the Belgian territories without meeting any resistance other than garrison troops. They never managed to drum up an army and confront me (apart from a single lonely general they sent on a suicide mission to my lands - probably not the most popular guy in Rome, which is weird, as his name was "Hilarius"). Within a few turns the former areas of WRE in Iberia, Gaul and Italy lie completely desolate, destroyed by various tribes. Most of the remaining gameplay was then spent moving around and resettling the abandoned regions. Not exactly the most exciting thing to do in a game about war.
My question is, then, have any of you experienced the same problems, or have I just been unlucky with my first campaign?
PS. Oh, and about the Huns. They never really bothered me.
So the two Roman empires are both easy to beat down since there are so many hordes and they start economically broken in the West. Also the Romans start with crap units like every other faction. Rome never survives long enough to do research and improve their armies. It needs to be patched a little for sure.
dont play a faction close to WRE i guess, and if you want challange play the WRE, you actually start with negative income and 7 half done rag tag armies and at war with about 7000 tribes, if you want a normal campaign i would say the danes of the great migrators or even ERE, if you want easy go with the sassanids
Does Total War require java?
No
Ok. Thank you.
You're trashing all of your religious buildings yet there are edicts that give public order bonuses for the percentage of your religion present. And what about basic public order? Does religion not affect public order anymore?
If he has as much religion as he needs i would assume he would not need religious buildings.
Yea just don't need to build the religious building. You can use a priest to up the level of religion and it doesn't have the exact same effects as culture did in Rome 2.
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