Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion - Part 5 - Roman Steel
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion continues, as we finally construct an army worthy of Rome, as well as making some major changes to the Imperial household...
Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion on Steam - store.steampow...
Follow us on Twitter / manyatruenerd
Support us on Patreon / manyatruenerd
Join our Discord - / discord
Find us on Reddit / manyatruenerd
Find us on Facebook / manyatruenerd
Fanfare for Space, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons...
Additional graphics from www.movietools....
Rome shall conquer!
Oh hi Flavius, how are... uh... why do I have a sudden need to go to a church?
Ah. Hail Ceasar and Hail you the most Christian man to ever Christian
Shit, just being around you makes me wonder if celebrating a mass is indeed right to do XD
DEUS VULT
I feel Narrator Man should make an appearance here lol🤣
1:03:53
-...You what?
- I, ummm, lost the horde?
- The horde? Thousands of men in full fighting gear? Marching in the open?
- ...
- I'm gonna need that spy license of yours back. Now.
you...lost them. they're an army, not a fucking fish
AN ENTIRE AMRY OF MEN WITH NO CAMOUFLAUGE,OUT IN THE OPEN,MAKING AS MUCH NOISE WITH THEIR MARHCES AS POSSIBLE,WITH LARGE AMOUTS OF LOGISTICS YOU CANT POSSIBLY HIDE,AND YOU'RE TELLING ME YOU'VE LOST THAT??!!!
Spurius Flavius: "Fine, I'll have one drink, but I'm not converting half of a settlement's population to Christianity overnight"
*3 Drinks Later*
Spurius Flavius: BURN DOWN THE PAGAN BUILDINGS! BUILD THE CHURCHES!
Spurius Flavius, doing crusades before it was a thing.
@@jacobsxavier6082 well, how do you think Charlemagne did it? And he was like 200-300 years before the first Crusade.
@@alexanderchristopher6237 Maybe Charlemagne is a descendant from Spurius Flavius ?
Spurius Flavius: enters any settlement that is pagan
Every citizen within a 3 block radius: YOUR SON OF A B*TCH I'M IN
_POWERWOLF MUSIC INTENSIFIES_
Sending the Emperor eastwards to deal with Barbarian hordes in the 370s historically ended very well.
Hordes.
"hoards" is the 3rd person present form of the verb 'to hoard'.
@@HighAdmiral Believe me, I noticed this three seconds after posting it and couldn't edit the comment...
Well the emperor is not named Valens so that could end well
"Hey people of Northern Europe have you heard of this great thing called C H R I S T I A N I T Y?"
-Spurius Flavius, moments before Jon ended the turn
"BY OOOOODIN!"
Some zealot in Denmark.
@@DZ-1987 A turn later and that zealot is christian
I need to be promoted after all this work!
Jon is wrong about you Louis. I looked in the game files and it turns out you DO have an attack bonus against cavalry! Can this man get a like for all our boys manning the limes, doing good honest work like all good honest romans should?
nergalsmom Exactly! Thank you for realizing this!
You have been promoted to latrine duty!
FINALLY. Limitanei are spearmen
I counted 2400 Limitanei's pilums into one general bodyguard dealing 0 casualties today.
Berbers are frightened easily, but they will be back. And in greater numbers
Salona, you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
Publius the Handsome Avaricum is an infestation of the worst of Rome. Full of fertile idiots who will always rebel because the local baths burned down because they decided to burn it down one day.
👏
Jon wants Italian Plumbatarii to hold the waterways into Roman territory.
I feel there's a Super Mario Bros. joke here somewhere.
Well, if my understanding of Latin is correct than plumber and plumbatarii both use the root word plumbus which refers to lead (which is why leads atomic symbol is PB).
It's a me! Marius!
And now I'm getting a mental image of a man in Roman armor jumping over the enemy's line chucking pilla as he goes and landing on their leader crushing him.
I actually made a mistake in my original comment. The Roman word for lead is not infact plumbus but plumbum. Although I feel stupid to make this simple mistake I am relieved that I no longer have to deal with Rick and Morty jokes when Sharing this neat piece of trivia
The Scythians had also a female cavalry unit in Rome 1
And the Germans had the morale buffers, who were female
Can't believe Jon forgot about the Scythians.
2 or more female Scythian units. One was melee, the other were archers. Both were tied to religious buildings so they were rarely seen.
Dont forget the Amazonian chariot woman!
Well, this was the era of PER -1 Jon aka the guy who saw the Pacific Ocean in FO2 and said "oh I've found the Atlantic Ocean"
Ah yes the "Screeching Women." Good ol' gaming days amiright lads
While I understand the decision of stripping me from the title of Caesar, I'm saddened by it.
Nevertheless my defense of the Empire remains as strong as ever, and even stronger now that I have to prove myself worthy, as my father is.
Especially now that the barbarian hordes are at the gates. Let them know that Decimua is going to face them and give them a good taste of roman steel! Let them come and let's make sure that they see the glorious City of Rome and we'll leave them in awe as the brave men of the city make sure that that is the last thing they will ever see before they pass to another life!
*DECIMUA*
Petition for that to be Decimus' new nickname.
The wittle wascal has spiwit
I'm just waiting for the second coming of Julianus Vatinius...
Please do not use that name in my presence
The myth the legend.
yes, when will Jon conquer Crete, just for the archers?
Jon what about the screaming women for the germans or the female archers for the schythians
I stand corrected.
@@ManyATrueNerd there are too few women in the game and besides, you have spend memory of everything claire screams at you about in stream, and lets face it, you don't fare well there ;)
@@ManyATrueNerd You even highlighted the Scythian units in your Brutii campaign.
They should arguably have camp followers in the game as well, which would include women. I believe Medieval II added them as fairly useless units of basically highly motivated peasants, but anyway.
@@ManyATrueNerd Classic patriarch downplaying the contributions of women. (Jk)
"Accidentally convert a city of Christianity' I mean we've all done it at one point or another...
The legend says that Spurius' first words were 'deus vult'
Image holding a thousand year grudge through hundreds of ancestors in order to get back at that one emperor who killed a friend 1000 years ago and call him a coward.
Tbh this sounds like a great movie.
But seriously, guys, where the flip did Croton go????
First rule of politics. Never elect a governor who can't find himself on a map
this time on pimp my military force we have spurius flavius and his small number of cavalry, Spurius is an impeccable man of the cloth so we decide to give him 6 upgraded comitatenses, 2 upgraded heavy barbarian spearman, one genuine golden band, 5 upgraded roman archers and we when ahead an overhauled his horses
My favorite part of Jons Barbarian Invasion is when Spurius Flavius said "Oh yeah, its Christian time" then proceeded to Christianity all of the barbarian guys. Truly one of the moments of all time.
2:10 I was having fun watching with autogenerated cc captions, because Jon's diction is incredible and the captions are amazingly accurate. Then you said "Comitatenses" which became "Comets 10 says." Alright, it's Latin, I have sympathy for the poor algorithm-that-could doing its best. But then came "Plumbatarii" which hilariously became "plum boat REE" and I just lost it.
The point is, Jon, I demand that you recruit some plum boat REE's right now. And so does Pepe.
Now wait just a damn minute... Did Aulus Flavius steal my stunningly good profile picture?
Jon! Jon! Another way to defeat a horde faction is to kill all of it's family members. If they still have a settlement but no family members, the faction dies. You can do this by assaulting their last city, killing all the family members there (the last ones on the field,) and then exiting the battle without winning it. Thus, with the family deceased, the faction dies.
Jon addresses this, and says it's false.
@@gadrill4285 I've seen it done by LegendOfTotalWar in his playthrough as the Eastern Roman Empire. In episode 1 he uses this very technique to dismantle the Goths without having them become a horde. I don't think the two use different versions (and I don't think CA has updated the game in the two years since each video came out.) You can check the clip out for yourself, if you want. He explains his rationale around the 1:13:40 mark, immediately followed by the Goths being destroyed by regicide (lack of family members) while still having a settlement. Sure enough, the faction becomes destroyed and no horde spawns. I'm only repeating what I've seen and done in my own tests.
Edit: I corrected "huns" with "Goths" in one instance near the beginning of this post.
@@gadrill4285 Jon is mistaken. It's perfectly possible to kill a horde faction when they're settled either by killing the family members with assassins or by killing them on the battlefield but refraining from taking their last settlement. What triggers the formation of the horde is the loss of the faction's last settlement.
I also suggested this to Jon in his first BI video but sadly he just ignored it. Maybe he considers that to be an exploit and not suitable for role playing purposes, because he clearly roleplays a lot when playing Total War
@@partizanlegis That makes sense. After all, no peasant garrison spam.
22:45 If you assassinate the Frankish leadership...they can't really Horde, can they? XD
29:20 Oh. Okay, that sucks.
1:08:45 Attack the leftmost horde and then LEG IT!
Well you "just" have to kill 2-3 of them in one turn, that needs a lot of assassins, but it's cheaper than 3 armies.
That last point would be what I always do I'll admit
Was playing as the Goths yet the Vandals swung my direction really early so I decided to not prolong the inevitable and attack them in some mountain pass before running back into my city and then fighting them off *again* on the walls.
I'm still really proud of that despite the Huns showing up after the routed Vandals to snatch the city off me (or how the optimal strategy for the Goths is to just abandon the city and get a good head start in the horde race)
In each of these videos, I desperately hope for a new general to be generated named Flavius Flavius. Not going to happen, but I live in hope.
It reminds me of a guy called in french Capitaine Leucon, Leucon sounds like "The shithead" so his name was Captain the shithead
I had an Egyptian diplomat called Alexander Alexander, so anything is possible.
@@quno5174 That's a really great name.
I had a general in the base game called Alexander Alexander once
@@anthonymichael1259 LegendOfTotalWar saw him once in a playthrough as Numidia and he went out of his way to kill him simply because of his name lmao
You should call these the No Sleep Sunday series from now on, Jon.
Roman steel...in a Brutii fist!
Jon in fact you can destroy horde factions just by killing all of their family members, and they don't need to be in "horde form" in order for you to do that.
Total war is how i found your channel while mediëval was being uploaded and i loved it!
You should watch the first rome total war playthrough if you haven't, Jon has never been so enthusiastic, also it spawned various characters who kept showing up in the chat (all praise vatinius)
I found him from the first RTW play through. Its been a great ride.
peter weitzman I already watched it
Jon, for the love of God, please build Academies in your cities! In Barbarian Invasion they provide a public order bonus and they reduce corruption!!! Please upvote this so that Jon can see it!
Rewatching the original 56 odd episodes of the first Rome playthrough to get caught up..... Thats alot of catching up..... Oh well, the vids are entertaining and the comments are gold.
As my favorite Total war streamer, it is my hope that one day we get a whole proper series in Empire Total War.
4 years later, I have good news!
Jon forgot about the female Sarmatian horses or the Germanic screeching women in RTW
You mean the Scythians?
TitanDarwin you’re right! My apologies it’s been a while since I’ve played
Vatinius would be angered by the state of the empire, his inheritor will return and reforge the roman empire
That's saying if he comes back from space.
@@DZ-1987 Vatinius is eternal and omnipresent, we all know that, his merest thought could psychically impregnate a woman with his heir. He is the one true lord of Rome.
... You sure you're not thinking of King Connor of Cornwall?
DZ you know very well that while Connor was brilliant and magnificent and his men would die for him, Vatinius would have his men die, reincarnate and keep fighting for him. Vatinius reached the stars Connor reached Europe
No, Connor reached for hell itself and it claimed him.
Julianus however, he went up to space and stopped caring about what happens within the empire he left on earth.
How else would the empire devolve into such a sorry state?
heroic victory
Jon, the Big Damn Hero
killing peasants.
yeah, that fits.
also, out of curiosity, why do you not use your low level generals anyways? I've usually found that if you take them into a few battles, outmanuever the ai, and they do start leveling up. Just wondering!
Because Jon. That's my reasoning right there. Because Jon.
Jon: Order slowmoving spearmen to lead the charge INFRONT of much faster cavalry through a narrow chokepoint.
Also Jon: Blames spearmen for being "In the way"
Jon, you often talk about the population system in Rome. There is another Total War game that has this population system as well, Total War Rome 2, ish. It's the Divide et Impera (DEI) mod for Rome 2, it's brilliant. It's also wonderfully complex as the original Rome 2 wasn't. You have played numerous other mods on the channel. How about adding another after this series is finished? What do everybody else think? Make this top comment so he can see it.
If it's a mod, then literally every game has that. All you have to do is mod it.
People of the commenst section here me.If you lvoe wathcing MATN videos and dont have time.
Watch them in 2x speed,Jon is such a good speaker even on 2x speed you can hear him great :D
Might be a bit difficult for non native English speakers. And why would you want to cut down on MATN goodness?
I watch the strategic map gameplay on 2x speed and slow the battles down to 1x speed to make following the action easier. It also makes battle Jon sound drunk.
That's some impressive diction
"Even if everything goes wrong with the Saxons or the Celts, we can cower in London quite effectively." -- Jon
Jon the space romans are why the western romans will live
Poor Decimus Flavius- he was the heir. But then he got dropped in favour of his father. Then when his father became Emperor, he was passed over as Caesar in favour of his pious younger brother. And now he has the defend Italy from the Vandal horde with nothing but a couple of units of cavalry. The poor guy can't catch a break!
Playing Rome Total war again now I’ve got it working on my laptop and after watching you I am SWIMMING in money compared to how I was when I played before, like when I turned against Rome I just bought the Julii Scipii armies and used those to wipe out the factions and Egypt tried to betray me but I just buy off any army they raise
The scenario keeps getting more and more interesting! :)
1:20 You have a big fat river in Northern Italy, is actually a very good choke point.
"Don't come back, you stupid losers!" -Jonitus, Chief Strategist of the Western Roman Empire, 368 AD
On this day, Marcus the Gambler makes his fateful move
the calm before the storm
I am loving this series!
Hype for that diplomat at 53:50
41:00
Virgin head hunters were not the first female units in a total war.
Germania had Screeching women and Scythia had headhunters in Rome 1.
I'm sure dozens of other people have already commented on it, but the Scythians in vanilla Rome have two female units, actually, the maidens and the noble women, and Germania has the women who apply morale debuffs (and also axes) to enemy units. The Sarmatians do have slightly more, though -- iirc they have the foot archers, the light cavalry, and the horse archers.
Total war series are by far my favourite watching, keep up the good work
Once I played as the west and none of the hordes reached the empire
so if that religious conversion leader guy just chills out in the enemy's province, even hiding in some godforsaken patch of forest safely away from roads and cities, he can still convert people and wreak havoc on the enemy's peace? would the npc players eventually cheat to find his location and send assassins/armies at him or would he just sit there till the whole place is converted and theres no further point in having him there?
1:01:20 Jon had a real Totally Spies Jerry gear explanation moment there.
I've never watched a total war lets play where Jon didn't unnecessarily complicate things😂🙌🏿
At this point I would've sent foreign aid to sarmatia and helped tackle the horde because lord those people deserve an alliance.
'Wo-lo-lo!' - Spurius Flavius, probably.
When you trying to get some sleep then Jon be like: *video noises*
Flavor Flavius
this let's play has me at the edge of my seat
Hmmm... I might have risked declaring war by attacking that vandal army then retreating back on to the crossing if it was possible. In my experience the AI doesn't really like to declare war by attacking armies but prefers to declare by attacking cities instead; but once at war its like moths to a flame if you can stand your forces in defensible positions and I believe that's your best chance to defend northern Italy. I may be wrong though.
if u can get the emperor passed the horde and get to the bridge u can defend on the bridge
Great series so far. I would take your Faction Leader and wipe out the Vandal half stack to your west, then march back toward northern Italy. You should be able to stay ahead of the rest of the horde armies. There may be a place where you can make a stand, maybe build a fort at a choke point so the Vandal armies have to attack you one at a time.
49:42, "but first the march of the diplomat"
41:27 There were also the screeching women from Germania
Little detail, the Germans had shrieking women on their roster from a religious building in Rome total war as well
Spurius Flavius, there's another settlement that needs your help. Here, I'll mark it on your strategy map.
It cracks me up how many of the comments sound like older brothers trying to take the controller from Jon cause he's messing it up.
If many a true nerd was a Roman emperor he'd be "Jon Flippin-ius"
9:32 Have to disagree with this assessment. The population system in the Romeshell games (Rome 1 and Medieval 2) causes massive problems in keeping public order in check. All cities will inevitably rebel against you because of building squalor, and your natural instinct to lower taxes to raise public order causes population boosts which cause more squalor in a never-ending cycle until all your most loyal cities rebel on you because you can't build anything to cut down population without dropping public order to the extent that it'd rebel anyway.
I totally understand that there's a layer of depth that's gone from removing that system, but that depth was the embodiment of fun ending bullshit that causes more frustration that it's worth.
daevious M-Morty, *burp* time to purge
Roman steel! In the brutii fist!
I'm so used to watching Medieval Two: Total War on 1.25 speed that normal-speed Jon sounds comically slow and deep.
37:30 DJ Khaled : suffering from success
The four hordes of the apocalypse :P
You can retrain at a Pagan temple because who knows what religion your soldiers are.
8:31 Glad I wasn’t drinking anything or I would’ve done a spit take.
Love your videos! I hope you keep it up, thank you for making them.
They need to make a game of thrones mod for this and have the horde be the white walkers
*sniff* you go, diplomat! Live free!
if you hit space units will move faster after you hit end turn
If you kill all of a horde faction's leaders in their last settlement then retreat and "lose" the battle the faction will be destroyed and a generic rebel army will take over the settlement. Better than dealing with a horde imo.
You can wipe out a horde by killing all their family members in their last city during battle and then withdrawing manually from their last settlement, thereby destroying the faction without taking their land. At least, that's what I recall. They might magically spawn a new member.
What a spurious victory 😉
Graal = Knights of the Templar
I know plumbatarii are better, but you don't want to replace us!
So, this is how the Pax Romana started.
Well, in my playthroughs, the Huns were quite useless, they were getting their ass handed to them by Goths, Sarmatians and Vandals and usually they would end up conquering just one city
There were mounted axe-women and noble women archers that belonged to one of the eastern factions in base Rome: Total War
This Gratian is also about 20 years older than the historical Gratian.
Screeching woman of the Germania faction 41:20
On the Gratian issue. They could have tried giving him some bad traits relating liking Scythians or just foreigners in general.
Should have traded map info with the Ere before they declared war on you. Would have probably been worth it.
Also, I'm sure you could've found something to do with 8k instead of queing up a circus Maximus a turn early
Wait The first Berbur guy is Christian but has doubts about God.... Perfection
is anyone aware of that Gratianus the lily-livered and Spurius Flavius are goddamn brothers?😂 Spurius may be adopted but what the hell (family tree at 1:00:51)
1:02:45 How about "Valentinianus the Just-Sat-In-A-Random-Germanic-Town-The-Whole-Time?"
Omg I LOOVVEE THIS SERIES
Spurius Flavius is my favorite from this series. Roman Jesus.
u didnt properly upgrade your troops with experience bonuses...and sent them east
It's an interesting logical problem, having to figure out how to march Flavius through a region, without having him accidentally Christianizing it in the process.
Spurius for Sainthood
Never clucked something so fast in my life thanks neko means cat
Are you a chicken?
*clicked
Something I noticed in previous episodes but is also somewhat of an interesting question. While killing off the Frankish Leader and Heir at the same battle did not regicide them. Their last family member in Marcomanni became King. However, if you manage to somehow assasinate them while settle, does that kill off the faction (provided there are no other generals of course) or does that sends them horde anyway ?