Yep, it doesn't just feel as 'Roman'. Purple would be good too, if it wasn't already used by SPQR. Maybe there is a mod for vanilla that ammends faction colours.
Not only for this but also for the low difficulty .... it is worth remembering that the brutii have a good position, but fighting against phalanges its sucks, mainly "armored phalanges" in my opinion the easiest campaign, is the one of the scipios, being that the Carthage army is a shit. Scipios = easy Julii = medium Brutii = hard
joao silva you can beat easy phalanxes. even if they have figthing bonus against cavalry. just attack from rears and behind. and play the game at medium battle diffuculty and very hard campaign diffuculty. otherwise greek peasants can beat your berserkers with +8 bonuses ;)
@@Djawadi90 the problem is the hoplites with more experience, they do not break so easy, and usually AI puts many of them in the battle at once, so the longer the army is more difficult to break. It really is not IMPOSSIBLE to defeat them, but it sucks at the beginning of the game, it takes me a long time .....
Rome total war and hoi 4 now have the same amount of play time on mine, I'm sitting at 3986 hours played, that's an average of 10 hours a day for a year lol. But they are the only 2 games I really play
Third age total war divide and conquer is currently my favorite total war game to play, but Rome total war will always have a place in my heart considering it got me into strategy games and history
NONONO you got it all wrong! Scipii are the real true romans. Tho i agree brutii aint true romans. They attack me with 3-4 units while Julii attacks me with 2 full armys
I've actually stopped playing as the Roman factions on RTW and recently started playing as the Non-Roman factions as I think it's more fun and intense because with the Roman factions, (especially the Brutii) you're guaranteed to win most battles and u can auto-resolve most of them and take as little casualties as possible as the game chooses the Roman factions to be really powerful over the other factions in the game, but with the Non-Roman factions, when u fight the Romans, u have to play the battles manually as you're more likely to lose if u auto-resolve, in my opinion, it's more intense and enjoyable gameplay!
@@FaravusGaming 19 Hastati units with a Julii general will conquer Gaul and Spain by turn 25 when autoresolving on very hard difficulty. If you enjoy managing settlements and rpg stuff with family members, autoresolving is a way to go ;)
400 years well in the field of battle it helps to use archers as a means to scare the enemy. I stopped thousands of men approaching behind our lines. Flames just scare the shit out of em.
You can't go wrong with any of the Romans. What kind of enemies do I want to fight seems to be the main factor in my decision when I start a new game at this point. My only suggestion would be; don't go out of your way to box in the other Romans. Just take the natural path for your faction. The only real late game challenge for a Roman faction will be another Roman faction. Crippling them will make the civil war a doddle and the challenge of the game will be over after you hit like 30 provinces.
Completely true, but my challenge was in fact boxing them in at the start, and they kept me running. Ever seen scippii take Sparta as a fourth province? Halfway through the map i found the perfect moment: the main army boarding one small bireme... A collision at sea can ruin your entire day indeed. I let my ships escort them on their way, and gathered, trained and hired new armies and assasins all around theirs, and in one intense, week-spanning turn, obliterated all but one. Five or six turns later, there was peace again, and now im rushing Susa, Hyperborea and Campus Alani before my first faction leader dies of old age. Roma Victor!
I disagree - I prefer to play Julii faction by ignoring the barbarians in the early game and focus on Carthage and maybe get a couple of Greek footholds as well: by the endgame I will have taken North Africa and the Middle East while Brutii has dealt with most of the barbarian peoples in Europe - leaving me poised to strike a decisive blow at both Rome and Scipii early on and then mop up the Brutii (and the remaining barbarians) as the game goes on.
Had to agree, I just finished my second campaign on RTW mobile in the first i got massacred during the civil war so i decided to cockblock the Brutii and went immediately for Greece and Egypt, while i never had any real issues with economy or public order, the ending felt anticlimactic i sieged Rome and it had 146 soldiers as a garrison, i thought it would be a 4000 man battle but when I sieged Rome I was very dissapointed, I took on both the Scipii and the Brutiii at the same time with no real issue and mind you that was my first completed campaign.
I found Julii the easiest financially, funnily enough. Build ports and snatch Caralis and Paloma from Scipii to hamstring them. Nab Patavium and Mediolanum, build ports, and jack up your shipping trade. I am struggling hardcore with money playing as Scipii. I'm constantly broke, despite all the cities I've taken with ports for trade.
Roman Conquest Order Brutii- Greeks, Macedonians, Pontics, Seleucids (if they are still around), Egypt, Parthia. All diverse and interesting enemies Julii- Gaul, Germania, Britannia, Iberia (not calling it Spain) all barbarians pretty boring Scipii- Carthage, Numidia, ??. They usually get the short stick and just bumble in the desert before even thinking about Egyptians Brutii have the best enemies hands down
Well in my scipii campain Brutii took greece and than head to East Europe. While i had to handle Carthage a bit of numidia, Pontus (the worst enemy) The rest of greece, Spain and britannia. FRIKKING OTHER FAMILYS ARE USELESS and thats why i started my 3rd war the Civil war even tho i already was at war with pontus and brittons.
Im doing a vh/vh Brutii campaign right now and i managed to take patavium early and proceeded to cut off the julii from expanding as well as conquering greece easily. I destroyed the main greek, macedon, gaul, and german armies easily and slowly expanded my borders into dacia and pontus. I now have conplete control of britain and spain, and schthia is on their last province while pontus is wiped out. Ive had to ability to betray rome for a while but im waiting to get good legionary stacks. Its about 235 BC and i have something like 60 provinces.
In my darthmod campaign as the Scipiones, it was a pretty simple Carthage, Numidia, Spain, and then Egypt and Gaul at the same time. Doesn't help that in Darthmod you need boats to go from western North Africa to eastern North Africa.
@@Thouse_Muchachos I am Julli too, i already destroyed Gaul, Spain and Numidia, almost destroying Cartago, Germany and Britain. I already can start the Civil War, but i real fear a full roman army
I like the Julii playthrough. I've got the largest empire finally and a strong army, money isn't a problem because I made sure to invest in trade and food production
Brutii are by far the easiest to play, Scipii the hardest, with Julii giving a moderately difficult experience. Right now though I have an excellent Julii campaign going on by expanding in multiple directions at once. By the way, protip: Corinth and Rhodes are the two most important cities in the game. Each has a key wonder. Corinth provides a global loyalty boost which enables you to have higher taxes, and Rhodes boosts naval trade. Regardless of what faction you play, take these two cities and hold them and you will never have economic problems again.
in my playthrough as the greek states , i wiped out the brutii easily at the start but the Julii are very powerfull as almost every turn they siege northen italy from me with large armies
The thing with the Greeks is that you have to take advantage of your start with spartans, and just mow down southern greece within 5 turns. You also need to either hold Syracuse or dump it, and pay attention to pontians and selucids for pergamum.
The Julii probably put up more of a defense because the Brutii probably just had their 1st two cities, while the Julii probably had several, letting them field more armies. The strength of the Brutii comes from taking Greece, and if you're playing as the Greek Cities, they can't do that.
When I played Julii, it was easy to steamroll the barbarians but once civil war came I found myself fighting Romans with richer, developed, more defensible cities and got my teeth kicked in by the richer Brutii and lost most of my cities. IDK if I played wrong or what, maybe I just rushed getting into the civil war while I was in an already pretty messy war with Egypt, but it made me not too confident in the Julii even though I like the faction the most. I am a Seleucid Guy too. If given time to develop and get their units, they have one of the most well rounded rosters in the game.
Started a new game on remastered recently as the Brutii. I always play the Julii, so I wanted to mix things up. My goodness it's a rough start. Field battles are easy with enough cavalry, but you can't just roll in when you seige, because of the phalanxes guarding tight roads. I had to actually sit there for multiple turns besieging. Made the game a slow slugging match early on and I lost a lot of men. All my Julii campaigns always had hardened veteran troops because barbarians are easy kills, but it's a meat grinder for me as the Brutii. I eventually triumphed and now have over 300k in the bank and always make over 20k a turn. You can have multiple fleets and a dozen full stack armies and still maintain this income... I'm just steamrolling the east and prepping for the civil war.
That colors of Romans julii(red Romans),scipii(Blue Romans),brutii(Green Romans) and senate(the purple romans) is just like links from the Legends of Zelda four swords.
I started as the Julii on medium difficulty m, conquered the Gauls, Spain and Britons. At the same time I overran most of Greece and Crete before the Brutii, who are reduced to a rump. Now facing up against the Scipii, run who run all of North Africa minus Egypt.
@@FaravusGaming Use skirmishiers, put loose formation, so they take little aoe damadge, javalins have bonus against elephants. But most easy one is pike. Fire arrow make them run amok, but its gonna take a while, whereas in Rome 2, even the first volley may set them off.
Am I the only one who likes "civilizing" barbarians with Julii? Those provinces just needs some investment and "population management" and they will prosper. What I mean by population management is spamming peasants in high pop(and pop growth) provinces and sending them to low pop barbarian province to upgrade settlement. Therefore getting access to more province improvements and lowering culture penalty. It's like that TLC show where they buy trash houses then renovate and sell them. This strategy makes harder to spawn Marian reforms early but I just love roleplaying. Btw Upgrading provinces that has coast to Western mediterranean(Massalia, Caralis, Narbo Martius etc.) will boost your trade income massively.
Brutii is basically easy level Julii and Scipii both have strengths and weaknesses. Julii takes over poor nations with large armies. Scipii takes over some rich lands separated by long distances and some poor cities as well.
Brutii can fast capture the Zeus Olimpia, Artemida and Galikarnas. 3 very good buildings, +4 civilian loyalty, -20% of price religion buildings and -20% of time to build structures faster build. But I prefer Julii, because I dislike green color.)))
Scipii are the best. Exclusively have the best boats in game, none of their temples give your family members negative traits, they can attain gold chevron armour and weapons, the best bonuses to mining income, best managerial traits, location means nothing as BOATS EXIST and ANY faction has access to all mercenaries and the only non starting settlement that's almost impossible to steal off your roman allies is Segesta, but still possible. The other roman factions seem to have massive problems compared to the scipii. Brutii are destined to have corrupt, angry or hypochondriac family members because of the traits their temples trigger. The julii have no temple that offers an initial bonus to troops, in fact the only useful temple it has is ceres (fertility) which gives your family members fertility traits to boost your family (which is correlated with the amount of regions controlled anyway so maxes out making it eventually useless) Yes the brutii may seem the best to an inexperienced player with its bonus to experience, early gladiators, and quick money bonus with their temples of trade (but eventually corrupts them). But in the long run I would rather have a family with traits that I don't have to micromanage, gold armour and weapons, and the best boats in a game where you have to autoresolve every single boat battle in this heckin game. And the best thing about scipii is people don't even seem to understand how good they are because they get a boner over brutus.
Getting a boner over a fucking backstabbing traitor does seem to be in the hearts of most people. Frankly, I never liked the Brutii and am dreading playing through their campaign. Julii is still my favorite and I actually find it a challenge to attempt to box in and hamstring both Scipii and Brutii as the Julii.
The Brutii have though enemies like Greece and Macedon (Macedon if unchecked will go absolutely berserk in the Balkans) and later Pontus/Armenia (one of the two always go insanely strong in the Near East) and maybe even in late game Egypt (which always seems to do good), but they have the huge advantage that they can rapidly gain strong and rich cities in Greece and Turkey. If you are quick you can quite easily decimate the Greeks, Macedons and also eliminate Pontus and those eastern factions before they grow strong. Then you have a strong rich empire ready to make the best troops. The Julii have weak enemies (the Gauls and Germans can't really progress in terms of troops and once you know how to beat a barbarian army it is a piece of cake), so they can gain lots of land in short time, but the downside is that those lands are highly underpopulated. You can't advance till the next city level for better troops until late game in most cities there. The Julii are still my favourite tho cause I find them the most "true" Romans. The Scipii can gain Sicily, which is a rich island and from there you can easily build large strong armies quickly and sail them all over the world, for example to bypass the Brutii and quickly steal their supposed-to-have cities. Carthago and that city under it, Thapsus I believe, are also good cities but the other cities in Africa are kinda crap. Also Africa is huge so it takes a while just to take some small settlement like Nepte. Carthago can be a daunting enemy faction, but they never really advance cause they lose their possessions in Sicily, Spain etc. rather quickly. If you fight them early off in the game as the Scipii you shouldn't really have problems. My list as best Roman factions is: Brutii (if played right) --》 Julii --》 Scipii although the Julii and Scipii are roughly tied.
I love conquering all of the hellenistic world in stylish green clothes worthy of a true general (forever in my heart vibius (vibius victor, also MANAGEMENT GOD), amulius (amulius victor, also MANAGEMENT GOD) and titus (titus victor, also pet lion) brutus)
house of juili are the best house as they seem to have boost to peoples love. they also have weak eniemies and quick expansion into gaul and spain and britian normally gives the juili the most of the population. and they love the people and make the founding of the empire
I mostly play with the julii and after you unlock legionairy units you can beat pretty much every barbarian faction with 5% casualties. I took gaul,spain and britain on my last game before pissing off both scipii and brutii by landing 3 armies right at alexandria and plundering egypt from within
Brutii have it best having the best conquest options and the richest lands to take and while there's tough opposition your forces can take it. Then Julii because they take the poor barely developed part of the world but that should make conquest easier in terms of opposition. Scipii hardest because you start split by water and against a faction owned city (not just some rebel village) before then having to war with Carthage and then Numidia who are very spread out and have a lot of not great places and even good ones like Carthage are just always annoyed. If you can get to Egypt or take over what the brutii should be doing you'll be ok but they have it rough
I hate the Senate in my Brutii campaign they sent me to capture a settlement (Patavium) on the west side. Now I have to face Galic forces on the left, Macedon forces on the right and one Greek city on the far left.
In my Brutii campaign I had take out all of Greece, but the Greeks still have Rhodes and the Macedonians Byzantium. I moved east to quickly eliminate Egypt and Pontus. Then I moved against the Seleucid s and the parthians. After defeating those my campaign was quiet. I started losing money fast since I had too many Armies. Then the senate told me to Suicide my leader twice. The third time I resisted and they outlawed me.
Anon 3303 it's tough when u r fighting a war on all fronts. I have been there. I have learned that u should pace yourself. of course u must do as the Senate asks. that's part of the game. but I usually take it slow for a couple of turns after I conquer a city. it keeps from outgrowing yourself
Im pretty much at war with everyone as a roman faction... And i dont care. Its easy to take care multiple wars then u are become better at fighting. Fight the enemies on the battlefield. Kill their armies before attacking a city and they will cry hard, when u plunder the city, killing their ppl and burning down their homes. Ez.
Patavium for julii isnt actually poor, it's like one of the fastest growing cities in the game, key for trading. When I'm playing brutii I always swing round and make sure I get it before them hehehehe
You can unlock the other factions by completing a solo player campaign with one of the Roman factions. It does not matter which Roman faction you play as, or if you play a long or a short campaign. Once you complete the campaign objective, you get to play the other factions.
If I remember correctly because I haven't played the game for a long time, you can unlock other factions by eliminating them from the campaign map. Some factions still remain unplayable though, but you can unlock them by changing the values in the game files. That way, you could play armenia or the scythians for example, which are otherwise locked.
I just held the barbarians at a bridge near Massilia as the Julii and then took most of Greece and Asia Minor instead. Let the Brits, Gauls, Germans and Spanish fight for that crappy land between themselves I don't care, give me some world wonders and good settlements instead
Scipii are best... Why? The Temples are the best. Giving gold-armour and one of the best ships in the game. They are the Soldiers... It wasn´t that hard to fight Carthage in the game cause the backbone of there army is the iberian infantry and horseman. Greece? No Problem either cause the Phalanx is weak on the flanks. Sacrife one or two Hastati and get them with Principes... Sicilly will grow as hell so the temple of Neptune is a good option to get citizens into sailor and lower the population. I conquered Rome in the late game with fresh build urban-cohorts with no exp. but win cause they had level 3 armour. Scipii are superior.
I always expand into Greece as the Julii. You have a land route which encounters Macedon first, allowing you to take out the more threatening faction before they can tech to their superior units. Don't have to pay for a navy, don't have the logistical struggle of reinforcing by sea. I make an alliance with Gaul and let the Brittanish take care of them while I expand east.
Scipii could be the easiest and the hardest depending on your luck and reconaissance. In my latest campaign I saw Carthage boarding most of their armies on a ship and I took them in the next two turns, having time to take half of Greek cities' provinces. The biggest challenge was Egypt as they are the only one manage to boomed and ended 3 civilizations by themselves.
I thought Julio, was the easier campaign because while the brutii are struggling against greece and macedon, I have captured all of gaul and pushed toward spain to cut of the scipii, and because the others are next to each other in southern spain, all you have to do is march south, at end game. Brutii, I found to be difficult but not as bad as scipii, as you can take Sicily early yo cut of scipii, you will then be in a 2 front war as Carthage and Greece fight you
I disagree, the real enemy in the game are the Romans late game they will have military build up and if you send an army to deal with the Gaul prepare two to deal with Carthage and Greece. Cutting off both of their well needed wonders and territory.
Yap I agree... I've actually never finished a Julii campain, simply because I thought that defeating underclassed barbarians and having to build up all the necessary infrastructure wasn't worth my time.
The Scipii are a very good faction to choke the other Romans which comes in handy for the Roman civil war. Taking Salona, Segestica and Aquincum early on will prevent the Brutii from getting a decent foothold outside of Italy, which will make it harder for them to conquer Greece, which will take much longer for them. While The Brutii are struggling to conquer Greece, you take Crete and use it to invade Rhodos and Asia Minor. Within a few years you have conquered three world wonders and some very profitable provinces in the East. If you are swift, you might also be able to snatch Corinth away from the Brutii, so that they will have none of the 7 world wonders, while you already have four. You can also choke the Julii by conquering Massilia, which will delay the expansion of the Julii towards Gaul. While you scramble together some of the nicest and richest provinces on the map (Chersones and Cyrene are nice picks too), you just have to make sure that you don't wage a large scale war with Carthage. I know, that sounds weird, but it works. The other Roman factions won't expand into norther Africa for a long time, so you can delay your conquest of this region for quite a while. Use this time to grab other regions that the Julii or the Brutii would conquer, such as Spain, Illyria, Rhodos and parts of Asia Minor. If you managed that, you can conquer North Africa which is pretty much invulnerable during the civil war, since you have by far the best fleet. You can use that fleet to cut the Brutii off from their towns in Italy, or their possessions in the East, or you invade the realm of the Julii from Spain.
scipii has best position and strength. go take sicily in 2 years max. and then target greek region. block brutiis you dont need them. none will attack sicily trust me. and scipiis have +1 to both weapons and armor which is good for players like me who use only general cavalries.
They are all about equal, no matter what faction you choose, once you win the civil war you can take advantage of the other Roman temples once you conquer their settlements. The Julii have the best color tho.
debatable the shrine of vulcan is a massive advantage for the scipii that makes up for the lacking temple of neptune IMO lets just agree that the julii have the worst (bachus) and move on
Best temple for keeping order = Saturn (Scipii) Best temple for Growth = Juno (Brutii) Best temple for war, well it's debatable. Early bonuses goes to Mars, Vulcan is best on pantheon level. I just mod whichever faction i'm playing to have the best of three worlds
Julii's Jupiter is under rated. +1 for each stat priest and money saved from reduced corruption. Ceres is useful to help cities grow without the growth bonus being permanent. Bachus will turn your generals retarded but keeping one around for the +2 influence (i think) priest is worth it. Julii Temples are pretty good imho. Other two factions can get higher quality troops, that's just facts. All in all i think the Julii in general are under rated. I think people don't exactly play them right. They go slogging through France and Germany too early. I suggest people do as the actual Romans did. Rome conquered Spain before Gaul and Germania. Take the coastal provinces from Massilla to Corduba. Then take the whole of Spain before you go further north then Narbo Martis or cross the Rhine.
+Ram Stones Yeah you're not required to go after the barbarians as the Julii all the time. Last time I played them I only took northern italy, massillia and Illyricum and then took as much of Greece and anatolia as possible before the brutii took it. Gallia will never be as profitable as Greece so why go for it? Even Spain is better than Gallia. And yeah Jupiter is a fine temple, but I still prefer Saturn because it acts as an armourer as well on pantheon level. And you can build Ceres for growing low pop settlements, but Juno does that better
Julii are way easier and stronger (they have archers and Triarii at the start) as you can start with a war on Gaul and take the Po valley in a few turns so you have a secured territorry easy to defend with only a few way for the AI to attack you (behind the alps also at this point you can even have a ceasefire easily with them), as with Brutii once you enter greek territory you're mostly at war with both macedon and greek city states War will have more casualties than against gauls means your population won't be this high compared to Julii pacified cisapline gaul with patavium farms :D ...
Brutii suck. I always race the Brutii to Greece as the Scipii and take out Greece and Macedon. The Brutii spend the rest of the game with just Croton, Tarentum, Apollonia, and Segestica, and are easy to wipe out during the Civil War. The Scipii are the Roman faction best suited to neutralizing the others in the early-game.
If you rate money as high as you did you are right, but for me money is a non issue in Rome. And then the Julii are the best faction because their enemies are weak and you can conquer a lot of stuff quite fast.
I favor the Scipii. They have the power of Rome plus the most powerful Roman Navy, and they can also expand into Greece and Asia Minor with its Wonders.
I disagree, the Scipii are the better choice. Carthage and Syracuse and later Egypt have an abundance of wheat, which means you will grow and tech up rapidly. Their holdings can ship this grain to other coastal regions, stimulating their growth as well as long as you keep the sealanes open, which is made easier with the temple of Neptune and the advanced ships it provides. Further, they are the only faction that can build temples to Vulcan, which grants unit upgrades the other two families can never get. The Scipii units can still gain experience to match the Brutii's temple of Mars, but the Brutii can never max out armour, missile and attack bonuses. The Murmillo gladiator, if you use them, is also far superior to the Velite gladiator.
Carthage has very poor army outside of Elephants, once they've dealt with fighting Carthage is a joke. Where Scipii have trouble is in the mid-game. Once you deal with Carthage, Numidia and Spain, you have to bumble around in desert for a long time before stumbling onto Egypt, and there is a chance that Egyptians will be way too much for you. Julii have a problem of mid-game too. The cities of Gauls and Germans are poor and usually have their population overdrafted. So, no strong units for you most of the time. On top of that, Britons have chariots, and without those strong units, you're going to have quite a time dealing with them. That said, I also like to capture Iberia while playing as Julii, so that gives quite a lot of slaves to be migrated into Gaullic and Germanic cities.
How on earth can't you afford to transport your armies by sea after conquering Carthage, Numidia and Spain? I mean you have to be filthy rich by that time. Btw, small unit scale option will totally let barbarians develop their settlements sky high.
It is doable from that region, but this time you will bumble around in the sea, which isn't much better option. If anything, it's better to attack Egypt from Greece since there are a ton of developed cities there that allow you to pump armies left and right, and, unlike Africa, that region prints money like crazy. As for the small scale, I am just not used to it, and prefer to play on huge scale.
Instructions unclear: Played Brutii, abandoned Italy on turn 1. Marched all the way to Mogontiacum and let Italian cities rebel. Played the game as Brutii Germany. Second most fun campaign I've had in 10 years with this game.
I havent played this game in years but from what i remeber of the diplomacy (or lack there of) they will betray and attack you thenext turn. The suicidal bastards.
Julii are the most exposed and they conquer a lot of weaker villages, while Brutii can conquer Greeks and Macedonians, and a lot of cities therr have some of 7 wonders as well. Just conquer Sicily, Carthago, and Greece to start with whoever 😁
God damn I am halfway through a campaign as the julii and i have taken all of the western portion of the map but now i'm broke. What would you guys do??. I'm trying to get rid of the germans and Greek cities. The Brutii have basically destroyed everyone on the west side of the map except armenia.
Mate, turn one julii, Put 4/5 of army into boat and sail to conquer greece, and then other Anchient wonder locations. Game won, just a matter of how many turns untill victory.
I always try to enclose my fellow allies Romans with forts on pathways mostly skirmish forces easy to maintain for long use so the border around their capital is mine "I is Switzerland in nazi Germany ww2 other roman families think" than after I build up enough or beat the game to attack them I carry out full domance with my most skill unit's from the front line's.
So I have to disagree about the Julii campaign being “poor” If You Use Patavium You Can get Marian reforms and trade riches Even if you are not good at managing settlements you can still make around 4500 from patavium so I have to disagree
Brutii have the worst temples, and the AI doesn’t find the Brutii easy to play. In my recent game as the Julii I conquered Greece because the AI Brutii was doing such a bad job. This also happened when I played as Scipii. Playing as any Roman faction you can take Greece.
Well you have to go with Julii cause you gotta have red Romans
Yep, it doesn't just feel as 'Roman'. Purple would be good too, if it wasn't already used by SPQR. Maybe there is a mod for vanilla that ammends faction colours.
Mh Makes the main colours all red, but the secondary faction specific. I.e. leave Julii as Red/Black, make Scipii Red/White and Brutii Red/Gold?
Not only for this but also for the low difficulty .... it is worth remembering that the brutii have a good position, but fighting against phalanges its sucks, mainly "armored phalanges" in my opinion the easiest campaign, is the one of the scipios, being that the Carthage army is a shit.
Scipios = easy
Julii = medium
Brutii = hard
joao silva you can beat easy phalanxes. even if they have figthing bonus against cavalry. just attack from rears and behind. and play the game at medium battle diffuculty and very hard campaign diffuculty. otherwise greek peasants can beat your berserkers with +8 bonuses ;)
@@Djawadi90 the problem is the hoplites with more experience, they do not break so easy, and usually AI puts many of them in the battle at once, so the longer the army is more difficult to break.
It really is not IMPOSSIBLE to defeat them, but it sucks at the beginning of the game, it takes me a long time .....
You know a game's good when people are talking about it 12 years after it's release
Ionescu Marian yes, this game has the best replay value out of all games in my opinion
Ionescu Marian Can't argue with that logic😂😂👍🏻
I just set my troops to single column when im fighting the barbarian horde of carthage.
I used to play it with my dad as a kid and now 12 years later its still good XD
And Roma Surrectum mod oh boy
Scipio: bestes ships ever
Brutii: Money,Money and Money
Julii:best roman color
Bernhard der Starke Ert you cant fking use ships when you play at very hard campaign.
The best Roman colour is green... For the brutii
Hell no red
No way blue is the best
@@Djawadi90 what? You can use everything on every dificulity you idiot..
Rome total war taught me geography
Peter Ahaha me too
Peter sad but true
Smh did you learn nothing in school
Same I can remember geography for school because of this game
Must of failed it
The bruitii are the best because the mercenaries look out of place in any other army because they are green.
I have over 1000 hours plugged into this gem. How other, more modern total wars don't match up to this astounds me.
Shogun 2 was as good. Specifically the whole samurai theme is just wonderful.
Rome total war and hoi 4 now have the same amount of play time on mine, I'm sitting at 3986 hours played, that's an average of 10 hours a day for a year lol. But they are the only 2 games I really play
Third age total war divide and conquer is currently my favorite total war game to play, but Rome total war will always have a place in my heart considering it got me into strategy games and history
The best game ever
You lie, Brutus has paid you off. The Julii are clearly superior because they are true Romans, unlike those Greek-like Brutii.
NONONO you got it all wrong! Scipii are the real true romans. Tho i agree brutii aint true romans. They attack me with 3-4 units while Julii attacks me with 2 full armys
Julii still looses the battles tho.
Leoxandar Magnus Agreed
Greek-like? You puffed up ignorant bastards!
Well, do Julii temples give xp bonus to trained troops?
I've actually stopped playing as the Roman factions on RTW and recently started playing as the Non-Roman factions as I think it's more fun and intense because with the Roman factions, (especially the Brutii) you're guaranteed to win most battles and u can auto-resolve most of them and take as little casualties as possible as the game chooses the Roman factions to be really powerful over the other factions in the game, but with the Non-Roman factions, when u fight the Romans, u have to play the battles manually as you're more likely to lose if u auto-resolve, in my opinion, it's more intense and enjoyable gameplay!
Faravus Gaming lol i had 21 casualties against 2300. just use general cavalries. they are so overpowered. archers are shit in that game
TheConfidentNoob and dont forget running enemy is dead enemy
@@FaravusGaming 19 Hastati units with a Julii general will conquer Gaul and Spain by turn 25 when autoresolving on very hard difficulty. If you enjoy managing settlements and rpg stuff with family members, autoresolving is a way to go ;)
400 years well in the field of battle it helps to use archers as a means to scare the enemy. I stopped thousands of men approaching behind our lines. Flames just scare the shit out of em.
How to play with other nations, I don't have those options
You can't go wrong with any of the Romans. What kind of enemies do I want to fight seems to be the main factor in my decision when I start a new game at this point. My only suggestion would be; don't go out of your way to box in the other Romans. Just take the natural path for your faction. The only real late game challenge for a Roman faction will be another Roman faction. Crippling them will make the civil war a doddle and the challenge of the game will be over after you hit like 30 provinces.
Ram Stones. True, I never understood why other people would do this. It makes the game more boring. I like a challenge!
Completely true, but my challenge was in fact boxing them in at the start, and they kept me running. Ever seen scippii take Sparta as a fourth province? Halfway through the map i found the perfect moment: the main army boarding one small bireme... A collision at sea can ruin your entire day indeed. I let my ships escort them on their way, and gathered, trained and hired new armies and assasins all around theirs, and in one intense, week-spanning turn, obliterated all but one. Five or six turns later, there was peace again, and now im rushing Susa, Hyperborea and Campus Alani before my first faction leader dies of old age. Roma Victor!
I disagree - I prefer to play Julii faction by ignoring the barbarians in the early game and focus on Carthage and maybe get a couple of Greek footholds as well: by the endgame I will have taken North Africa and the Middle East while Brutii has dealt with most of the barbarian peoples in Europe - leaving me poised to strike a decisive blow at both Rome and Scipii early on and then mop up the Brutii (and the remaining barbarians) as the game goes on.
Had to agree, I just finished my second campaign on RTW mobile in the first i got massacred during the civil war so i decided to cockblock the Brutii and went immediately for Greece and Egypt, while i never had any real issues with economy or public order, the ending felt anticlimactic i sieged Rome and it had 146 soldiers as a garrison, i thought it would be a 4000 man battle but when I sieged Rome I was very dissapointed, I took on both the Scipii and the Brutiii at the same time with no real issue and mind you that was my first completed campaign.
Julii- Easiest campaign, hardest financially
Brutii- Hardest campaign, easiest Financial
Scipii- In the middle each
I find brutii as easy lol
I found Julii the easiest financially, funnily enough. Build ports and snatch Caralis and Paloma from Scipii to hamstring them. Nab Patavium and Mediolanum, build ports, and jack up your shipping trade.
I am struggling hardcore with money playing as Scipii. I'm constantly broke, despite all the cities I've taken with ports for trade.
Roman Conquest Order
Brutii- Greeks, Macedonians, Pontics, Seleucids (if they are still around), Egypt, Parthia. All diverse and interesting enemies
Julii- Gaul, Germania, Britannia, Iberia (not calling it Spain) all barbarians pretty boring
Scipii- Carthage, Numidia, ??. They usually get the short stick and just bumble in the desert before even thinking about Egyptians
Brutii have the best enemies hands down
Well in my scipii campain Brutii took greece and than head to East Europe. While i had to handle Carthage a bit of numidia, Pontus (the worst enemy) The rest of greece, Spain and britannia. FRIKKING OTHER FAMILYS ARE USELESS and thats why i started my 3rd war the Civil war even tho i already was at war with pontus and brittons.
Im doing a vh/vh Brutii campaign right now and i managed to take patavium early and proceeded to cut off the julii from expanding as well as conquering greece easily. I destroyed the main greek, macedon, gaul, and german armies easily and slowly expanded my borders into dacia and pontus. I now have conplete control of britain and spain, and schthia is on their last province while pontus is wiped out. Ive had to ability to betray rome for a while but im waiting to get good legionary stacks. Its about 235 BC and i have something like 60 provinces.
In my darthmod campaign as the Scipiones, it was a pretty simple Carthage, Numidia, Spain, and then Egypt and Gaul at the same time. Doesn't help that in Darthmod you need boats to go from western North Africa to eastern North Africa.
As the Julii i already have the gaul territory, i have a bit of Greece and im moving soon to Africa, that's how you play with the Julii ehehehe
@@Thouse_Muchachos I am Julli too, i already destroyed Gaul, Spain and Numidia, almost destroying Cartago, Germany and Britain. I already can start the Civil War, but i real fear a full roman army
I like the Julii playthrough. I've got the largest empire finally and a strong army, money isn't a problem because I made sure to invest in trade and food production
Brutii are by far the easiest to play, Scipii the hardest, with Julii giving a moderately difficult experience. Right now though I have an excellent Julii campaign going on by expanding in multiple directions at once.
By the way, protip: Corinth and Rhodes are the two most important cities in the game. Each has a key wonder. Corinth provides a global loyalty boost which enables you to have higher taxes, and Rhodes boosts naval trade. Regardless of what faction you play, take these two cities and hold them and you will never have economic problems again.
Scipii has a very nice religion buildings let them have strongest ships in the game or make units with upgraded experience, defence and attack.
I'm doing the same. War came fast for my campaign. Julii. Expanding in many directions. Now it's starting to slow. And thanks for those tips.
in my playthrough as the greek states , i wiped out the brutii easily at the start but the Julii are very powerfull as almost every turn they siege northen italy from me with large armies
The thing with the Greeks is that you have to take advantage of your start with spartans, and just mow down southern greece within 5 turns. You also need to either hold Syracuse or dump it, and pay attention to pontians and selucids for pergamum.
The Julii probably put up more of a defense because the Brutii probably just had their 1st two cities, while the Julii probably had several, letting them field more armies. The strength of the Brutii comes from taking Greece, and if you're playing as the Greek Cities, they can't do that.
When I played Julii, it was easy to steamroll the barbarians but once civil war came I found myself fighting Romans with richer, developed, more defensible cities and got my teeth kicked in by the richer Brutii and lost most of my cities. IDK if I played wrong or what, maybe I just rushed getting into the civil war while I was in an already pretty messy war with Egypt, but it made me not too confident in the Julii even though I like the faction the most.
I am a Seleucid Guy too. If given time to develop and get their units, they have one of the most well rounded rosters in the game.
Started a new game on remastered recently as the Brutii. I always play the Julii, so I wanted to mix things up. My goodness it's a rough start. Field battles are easy with enough cavalry, but you can't just roll in when you seige, because of the phalanxes guarding tight roads. I had to actually sit there for multiple turns besieging. Made the game a slow slugging match early on and I lost a lot of men.
All my Julii campaigns always had hardened veteran troops because barbarians are easy kills, but it's a meat grinder for me as the Brutii. I eventually triumphed and now have over 300k in the bank and always make over 20k a turn. You can have multiple fleets and a dozen full stack armies and still maintain this income... I'm just steamrolling the east and prepping for the civil war.
The corruption mechanism is pretty amazing in this game. The farthest away a province is from your capital, the more denarii are lost to corruption.
That colors of Romans julii(red Romans),scipii(Blue Romans),brutii(Green Romans) and senate(the purple romans) is just like links from the Legends of Zelda four swords.
I started as the Julii on medium difficulty m, conquered the Gauls, Spain and Britons. At the same time I overran most of Greece and Crete before the Brutii, who are reduced to a rump. Now facing up against the Scipii, run who run all of North Africa minus Egypt.
False, AI Carthage is pathetic and is easy to beat.
Pikes and fire arrows with greece or as romans : Sellswords and archers (fire arrows )&velites&Dogs ( for the moral debuff ).
@@FaravusGaming Use skirmishiers, put loose formation, so they take little aoe damadge, javalins have bonus against elephants. But most easy one is pike. Fire arrow make them run amok, but its gonna take a while, whereas in Rome 2, even the first volley may set them off.
@@FaravusGaming Phallanx ...
Am I the only one who likes "civilizing" barbarians with Julii? Those provinces just needs some investment and "population management" and they will prosper. What I mean by population management is spamming peasants in high pop(and pop growth) provinces and sending them to low pop barbarian province to upgrade settlement. Therefore getting access to more province improvements and lowering culture penalty. It's like that TLC show where they buy trash houses then renovate and sell them. This strategy makes harder to spawn Marian reforms early but I just love roleplaying.
Btw Upgrading provinces that has coast to Western mediterranean(Massalia, Caralis, Narbo Martius etc.) will boost your trade income massively.
Brutii is basically easy level
Julii and Scipii both have strengths and weaknesses. Julii takes over poor nations with large armies. Scipii takes over some rich lands separated by long distances and some poor cities as well.
Still a glorious, magnificent game! Sega and The Creative Assembly deserve respect for that! Respect and obedience!
Brutii can fast capture the Zeus Olimpia, Artemida and Galikarnas. 3 very good buildings, +4 civilian loyalty, -20% of price religion buildings and -20% of time to build structures faster build. But I prefer Julii, because I dislike green color.)))
Scipii are the best. Exclusively have the best boats in game, none of their temples give your family members negative traits, they can attain gold chevron armour and weapons, the best bonuses to mining income, best managerial traits, location means nothing as BOATS EXIST and ANY faction has access to all mercenaries and the only non starting settlement that's almost impossible to steal off your roman allies is Segesta, but still possible. The other roman factions seem to have massive problems compared to the scipii. Brutii are destined to have corrupt, angry or hypochondriac family members because of the traits their temples trigger. The julii have no temple that offers an initial bonus to troops, in fact the only useful temple it has is ceres (fertility) which gives your family members fertility traits to boost your family (which is correlated with the amount of regions controlled anyway so maxes out making it eventually useless) Yes the brutii may seem the best to an inexperienced player with its bonus to experience, early gladiators, and quick money bonus with their temples of trade (but eventually corrupts them). But in the long run I would rather have a family with traits that I don't have to micromanage, gold armour and weapons, and the best boats in a game where you have to autoresolve every single boat battle in this heckin game. And the best thing about scipii is people don't even seem to understand how good they are because they get a boner over brutus.
Getting a boner over a fucking backstabbing traitor does seem to be in the hearts of most people. Frankly, I never liked the Brutii and am dreading playing through their campaign. Julii is still my favorite and I actually find it a challenge to attempt to box in and hamstring both Scipii and Brutii as the Julii.
@@nephalos666just take the first settlement the senate asks them to capture before they do.
The Brutii have though enemies like Greece and Macedon (Macedon if unchecked will go absolutely berserk in the Balkans) and later Pontus/Armenia (one of the two always go insanely strong in the Near East) and maybe even in late game Egypt (which always seems to do good), but they have the huge advantage that they can rapidly gain strong and rich cities in Greece and Turkey. If you are quick you can quite easily decimate the Greeks, Macedons and also eliminate Pontus and those eastern factions before they grow strong. Then you have a strong rich empire ready to make the best troops.
The Julii have weak enemies (the Gauls and Germans can't really progress in terms of troops and once you know how to beat a barbarian army it is a piece of cake), so they can gain lots of land in short time, but the downside is that those lands are highly underpopulated. You can't advance till the next city level for better troops until late game in most cities there. The Julii are still my favourite tho cause I find them the most "true" Romans.
The Scipii can gain Sicily, which is a rich island and from there you can easily build large strong armies quickly and sail them all over the world, for example to bypass the Brutii and quickly steal their supposed-to-have cities. Carthago and that city under it, Thapsus I believe, are also good cities but the other cities in Africa are kinda crap. Also Africa is huge so it takes a while just to take some small settlement like Nepte. Carthago can be a daunting enemy faction, but they never really advance cause they lose their possessions in Sicily, Spain etc. rather quickly. If you fight them early off in the game as the Scipii you shouldn't really have problems.
My list as best Roman factions is:
Brutii (if played right) --》 Julii --》 Scipii although the Julii and Scipii are roughly tied.
If you think barbaric factions are weak, try playing on a small size unit scale ;P
Team julii
I love conquering all of the hellenistic world in stylish green clothes worthy of a true general (forever in my heart vibius (vibius victor, also MANAGEMENT GOD), amulius (amulius victor, also MANAGEMENT GOD) and titus (titus victor, also pet lion) brutus)
house of juili are the best house as they seem to have boost to peoples love. they also have weak eniemies and quick expansion into gaul and spain and britian normally gives the juili the most of the population. and they love the people and make the founding of the empire
Plus Julii are red Romans
I mostly play with the julii and after you unlock legionairy units you can beat pretty much every barbarian faction with 5% casualties. I took gaul,spain and britain on my last game before pissing off both scipii and brutii by landing 3 armies right at alexandria and plundering egypt from within
Whoa, legionaries?! You can beat every barbaric faction using equites and general bodyguards.
Brutii have it best having the best conquest options and the richest lands to take and while there's tough opposition your forces can take it.
Then Julii because they take the poor barely developed part of the world but that should make conquest easier in terms of opposition.
Scipii hardest because you start split by water and against a faction owned city (not just some rebel village) before then having to war with Carthage and then Numidia who are very spread out and have a lot of not great places and even good ones like Carthage are just always annoyed. If you can get to Egypt or take over what the brutii should be doing you'll be ok but they have it rough
Scipii is best because you can train gold armor and weapons for all units with the temples
Also when does someone make a video regarding the fact that the selucids always get brutally fucked even before the brutii arrives?
I just like the color red so I pick red, quite the educated decision I know.
As good a reason as any! My first Rome 1 game ever, I played as Julii just because romans=red lol
I hate the Senate in my Brutii campaign they sent me to capture a settlement (Patavium) on the west side. Now I have to face Galic forces on the left, Macedon forces on the right and one Greek city on the far left.
In my Brutii campaign I had take out all of Greece, but the Greeks still have Rhodes and the Macedonians Byzantium. I moved east to quickly eliminate Egypt and Pontus. Then I moved against the Seleucid s and the parthians. After defeating those my campaign was quiet. I started losing money fast since I had too many Armies. Then the senate told me to Suicide my leader twice. The third time I resisted and they outlawed me.
Anon 3303 it's tough when u r fighting a war on all fronts. I have been there. I have learned that u should pace yourself. of course u must do as the Senate asks. that's part of the game. but I usually take it slow for a couple of turns after I conquer a city. it keeps from outgrowing yourself
chad Hobson senate is useless i always ignore them
Im pretty much at war with everyone as a roman faction... And i dont care. Its easy to take care multiple wars then u are become better at fighting. Fight the enemies on the battlefield. Kill their armies before attacking a city and they will cry hard, when u plunder the city, killing their ppl and burning down their homes.
Ez.
Patavium for julii isnt actually poor, it's like one of the fastest growing cities in the game, key for trading. When I'm playing brutii I always swing round and make sure I get it before them hehehehe
How do you choose more factions instead the 3 roman factions ?
Jordi Bosselaar You have to personaly destroy a faction (by taking over all there settlements) to unlock them.
You can unlock the other factions by completing a solo player campaign with one of the Roman factions. It does not matter which Roman faction you play as, or if you play a long or a short campaign. Once you complete the campaign objective, you get to play the other factions.
Do you really need it?I can write you all the steps to unlock the nations what you can't play normal,like the rebels.
If I remember correctly because I haven't played the game for a long time, you can unlock other factions by eliminating them from the campaign map. Some factions still remain unplayable though, but you can unlock them by changing the values in the game files. That way, you could play armenia or the scythians for example, which are otherwise locked.
he defeated Gaul then he unlocked more factions
brutii are the best
How many denarii have they given you to say this?
Julii playthrough so far the scipii has taken all of Sicily Sparta and Corinth and the bruitii are stuck on 3 cities and I've taken out gaul.
I just held the barbarians at a bridge near Massilia as the Julii and then took most of Greece and Asia Minor instead. Let the Brits, Gauls, Germans and Spanish fight for that crappy land between themselves I don't care, give me some world wonders and good settlements instead
Scipii are best... Why? The Temples are the best. Giving gold-armour and one of the best ships in the game. They are the Soldiers... It wasn´t that hard to fight Carthage in the game cause the backbone of there army is the iberian infantry and horseman. Greece? No Problem either cause the Phalanx is weak on the flanks. Sacrife one or two Hastati and get them with Principes... Sicilly will grow as hell so the temple of Neptune is a good option to get citizens into sailor and lower the population. I conquered Rome in the late game with fresh build urban-cohorts with no exp. but win cause they had level 3 armour. Scipii are superior.
Haha as Scipii I invaded by boat Spain because it’s fun =0
You mean you sailed to Spain with 1 ship?
I like that these vids are short.
excuse me the senate
i love seleucids why? because now that i finished campaining with them i got bored and dont want to play with any other faction.
Yeah but Julii wear red.
The first time played Rome total war i started as the Brutii
Good choice
I always expand into Greece as the Julii. You have a land route which encounters Macedon first, allowing you to take out the more threatening faction before they can tech to their superior units.
Don't have to pay for a navy, don't have the logistical struggle of reinforcing by sea.
I make an alliance with Gaul and let the Brittanish take care of them while I expand east.
What about spqr?
Taking Syracuse as Brutii actually is good for Scipii, because they often get stuck on Syracuse
Scipii could be the easiest and the hardest depending on your luck and reconaissance. In my latest campaign I saw Carthage boarding most of their armies on a ship and I took them in the next two turns, having time to take half of Greek cities' provinces. The biggest challenge was Egypt as they are the only one manage to boomed and ended 3 civilizations by themselves.
Julii till I die!
I thought Julio, was the easier campaign because while the brutii are struggling against greece and macedon, I have captured all of gaul and pushed toward spain to cut of the scipii, and because the others are next to each other in southern spain, all you have to do is march south, at end game. Brutii, I found to be difficult but not as bad as scipii, as you can take Sicily early yo cut of scipii, you will then be in a 2 front war as Carthage and Greece fight you
I disagree, the real enemy in the game are the Romans late game they will have military build up and if you send an army to deal with the Gaul prepare two to deal with Carthage and Greece. Cutting off both of their well needed wonders and territory.
Im Always doing that since noone is supposed to have my land ( evil laugh )
Yap I agree... I've actually never finished a Julii campain, simply because I thought that defeating underclassed barbarians and having to build up all the necessary infrastructure wasn't worth my time.
The Scipii are a very good faction to choke the other Romans which comes in handy for the Roman civil war. Taking Salona, Segestica and Aquincum early on will prevent the Brutii from getting a decent foothold outside of Italy, which will make it harder for them to conquer Greece, which will take much longer for them. While The Brutii are struggling to conquer Greece, you take Crete and use it to invade Rhodos and Asia Minor. Within a few years you have conquered three world wonders and some very profitable provinces in the East. If you are swift, you might also be able to snatch Corinth away from the Brutii, so that they will have none of the 7 world wonders, while you already have four. You can also choke the Julii by conquering Massilia, which will delay the expansion of the Julii towards Gaul. While you scramble together some of the nicest and richest provinces on the map (Chersones and Cyrene are nice picks too), you just have to make sure that you don't wage a large scale war with Carthage. I know, that sounds weird, but it works. The other Roman factions won't expand into norther Africa for a long time, so you can delay your conquest of this region for quite a while. Use this time to grab other regions that the Julii or the Brutii would conquer, such as Spain, Illyria, Rhodos and parts of Asia Minor. If you managed that, you can conquer North Africa which is pretty much invulnerable during the civil war, since you have by far the best fleet. You can use that fleet to cut the Brutii off from their towns in Italy, or their possessions in the East, or you invade the realm of the Julii from Spain.
Don't understand how to prevent Julie from conquer Segestica if they do in 1 turn from the beginning?
@@neilan452 You're confusing Segesta and Segestica.
scipii has best position and strength. go take sicily in 2 years max. and then target greek region. block brutiis you dont need them. none will attack sicily trust me. and scipiis have +1 to both weapons and armor which is good for players like me who use only general cavalries.
They are all about equal, no matter what faction you choose, once you win the civil war you can take advantage of the other Roman temples once you conquer their settlements. The Julii have the best color tho.
Brutii also have the best temples btw
debatable
the shrine of vulcan is a massive advantage for the scipii that makes up for the lacking temple of neptune IMO
lets just agree that the julii have the worst (bachus) and move on
Jerec 12 Vulcan is good but their other temples suck. All the Brutii temples are great and have a purpose though
Best temple for keeping order = Saturn (Scipii)
Best temple for Growth = Juno (Brutii)
Best temple for war, well it's debatable. Early bonuses goes to Mars, Vulcan is best on pantheon level.
I just mod whichever faction i'm playing to have the best of three worlds
Julii's Jupiter is under rated. +1 for each stat priest and money saved from reduced corruption. Ceres is useful to help cities grow without the growth bonus being permanent. Bachus will turn your generals retarded but keeping one around for the +2 influence (i think) priest is worth it. Julii Temples are pretty good imho. Other two factions can get higher quality troops, that's just facts.
All in all i think the Julii in general are under rated. I think people don't exactly play them right. They go slogging through France and Germany too early. I suggest people do as the actual Romans did. Rome conquered Spain before Gaul and Germania. Take the coastal provinces from Massilla to Corduba. Then take the whole of Spain before you go further north then Narbo Martis or cross the Rhine.
+Ram Stones Yeah you're not required to go after the barbarians as the Julii all the time. Last time I played them I only took northern italy, massillia and Illyricum and then took as much of Greece and anatolia as possible before the brutii took it. Gallia will never be as profitable as Greece so why go for it? Even Spain is better than Gallia. And yeah Jupiter is a fine temple, but I still prefer Saturn because it acts as an armourer as well on pantheon level. And you can build Ceres for growing low pop settlements, but Juno does that better
the blue Roman's are the best
Julii are way easier and stronger (they have archers and Triarii at the start) as you can start with a war on Gaul and take the Po valley in a few turns so you have a secured territorry easy to defend with only a few way for the AI to attack you (behind the alps also at this point you can even have a ceasefire easily with them), as with Brutii once you enter greek territory you're mostly at war with both macedon and greek city states War will have more casualties than against gauls means your population won't be this high compared to Julii pacified cisapline gaul with patavium farms :D ...
The Julli have a decent position I find, and the scipii have excellent temples (providing armor bonuses) ...
scipii has the best boats by far
Left alot out such as Julii having easiest public order but a good quick glance.
Well, everybody knows the Brutii are the True Romes. Not fancy powdered nose Scipii or outlander Julia.
Always found scippii the best personally
Praise to the Brutii!
Brutii suck. I always race the Brutii to Greece as the Scipii and take out Greece and Macedon. The Brutii spend the rest of the game with just Croton, Tarentum, Apollonia, and Segestica, and are easy to wipe out during the Civil War. The Scipii are the Roman faction best suited to neutralizing the others in the early-game.
If you rate money as high as you did you are right, but for me money is a non issue in Rome. And then the Julii are the best faction because their enemies are weak and you can conquer a lot of stuff quite fast.
I favor the Scipii. They have the power of Rome plus the most powerful Roman Navy, and they can also expand into Greece and Asia Minor with its Wonders.
I disagree, the Scipii are the better choice. Carthage and Syracuse and later Egypt have an abundance of wheat, which means you will grow and tech up rapidly. Their holdings can ship this grain to other coastal regions, stimulating their growth as well as long as you keep the sealanes open, which is made easier with the temple of Neptune and the advanced ships it provides. Further, they are the only faction that can build temples to Vulcan, which grants unit upgrades the other two families can never get. The Scipii units can still gain experience to match the Brutii's temple of Mars, but the Brutii can never max out armour, missile and attack bonuses. The Murmillo gladiator, if you use them, is also far superior to the Velite gladiator.
Carthage has very poor army outside of Elephants, once they've dealt with fighting Carthage is a joke. Where Scipii have trouble is in the mid-game. Once you deal with Carthage, Numidia and Spain, you have to bumble around in desert for a long time before stumbling onto Egypt, and there is a chance that Egyptians will be way too much for you.
Julii have a problem of mid-game too. The cities of Gauls and Germans are poor and usually have their population overdrafted. So, no strong units for you most of the time. On top of that, Britons have chariots, and without those strong units, you're going to have quite a time dealing with them. That said, I also like to capture Iberia while playing as Julii, so that gives quite a lot of slaves to be migrated into Gaullic and Germanic cities.
How on earth can't you afford to transport your armies by sea after conquering Carthage, Numidia and Spain? I mean you have to be filthy rich by that time. Btw, small unit scale option will totally let barbarians develop their settlements sky high.
It is doable from that region, but this time you will bumble around in the sea, which isn't much better option. If anything, it's better to attack Egypt from Greece since there are a ton of developed cities there that allow you to pump armies left and right, and, unlike Africa, that region prints money like crazy.
As for the small scale, I am just not used to it, and prefer to play on huge scale.
Well im playing as the Julii and i have taken the north and Greece it all depends on how fast you move.
Instructions unclear:
Played Brutii, abandoned Italy on turn 1. Marched all the way to Mogontiacum and let Italian cities rebel. Played the game as Brutii Germany.
Second most fun campaign I've had in 10 years with this game.
Julii are the best imo for that law bonus
How do client states and protectorates work.
I havent played this game in years but from what i remeber of the diplomacy (or lack there of) they will betray and attack you thenext turn. The suicidal bastards.
guys i have a question why can i Pick Only 3 factions and roman not others?
ChickenSoundedMexican YT You need to finish the short campaign first. After you have captured about 12(?) provinces, you can unlock the full campaign
Why talking about Spain in Roman era?
Cause land exists
Name of land is Iberian Peninsula, not Spain.
Complain to Creative Assembly. They called the Iberian faction spain. They also made Egypt retarded. Oh well LOL
Pferd Schild explain
Ram Stones explain
Julii are the most exposed and they conquer a lot of weaker villages, while Brutii can conquer Greeks and Macedonians, and a lot of cities therr have some of 7 wonders as well. Just conquer Sicily, Carthago, and Greece to start with whoever 😁
God damn I am halfway through a campaign as the julii and i have taken all of the western portion of the map but now i'm broke. What would you guys do??. I'm trying to get rid of the germans and Greek cities. The Brutii have basically destroyed everyone on the west side of the map except armenia.
Brutii the easiest
Scipii the hardest
Julii the best
Jco
Cool video.
Mate, turn one julii, Put 4/5 of army into boat and sail to conquer greece, and then other Anchient wonder locations. Game won, just a matter of how many turns untill victory.
I always try to enclose my fellow allies Romans with forts on pathways mostly skirmish forces easy to maintain for long use so the border around their capital is mine "I is Switzerland in nazi Germany ww2 other roman families think" than after I build up enough or beat the game to attack them I carry out full domance with my most skill unit's from the front line's.
I keep wanting to call u French Montana. Good vid
So I have to disagree about the Julii campaign being “poor”
If You Use Patavium You Can get Marian reforms and trade riches
Even if you are not good at managing settlements you can still make around 4500 from patavium so I have to disagree
Brutii have the worst temples, and the AI doesn’t find the Brutii easy to play.
In my recent game as the Julii I conquered Greece because the AI Brutii was doing such a bad job.
This also happened when I played as Scipii. Playing as any Roman faction you can take Greece.
Or you play as either of the other two and just move into greece ahead of the Brutii.
Also way to ignore temple benefits.
agree, too bad however, that you didnt mention each factions unique units
The roman factions have almost 0 units unique to themselves...
I play bruti for the first time and it wasnt easy like juli. But july is little boring because it is very easy.
Brutii (idk why in italian verision they called Valeri but ok) to me are the bests, Giulii seconds and scipii the lasts
tyvm
No Senate?
Bruti best family tree
Its Julius, Brutus or Scipius
The only true Roman's are the brutii. With the riches of Greece, and the mercenary's. They are the richest and most powerful Roman's
Blue romans are the best and purple Roman are the best in barb invasion
Julii for life
SPQR is the best
First game I was julii