Is Jeff made these songs i mean there's no proof of that he created this theme and many other like Duke of death and Crusaders,He made songs of Total war Rome and Shogun
I still remember playing as Scotland with a small army of pike-men, men-at-arms and archers, occupying a small crest with three English armies coming at me from every direction, and yet managed to defeat them all in detail, but my losses ended up being horrific. My Scottish prince survived bloody struggle, and ended up being the king of the British Isles. Good old times 12 odd years ago. I can still remember my heart beating as the last vital charge of my men-at-arms broke the last wave of enemies. Long live the King of Scotland!
He definitely died like a King, dehorsing a 6'8 jousting champion, killing Henry's standard bearer, and coming within sword's reach of Henry himself before being cut down.
Or defending the city which your economy depends on.Or a castle in a very strategic position. It's not your last settlement but you'll be fucked if you loose this battle
Indeed. It reminds me when you have no time, and need to movilize that damaged and tired heavy cavalry one more time, the same cavalry who had charged dozens of times last battle and this battle. You need to desesperate charge those pikemen from the flanks and if they are routed, you then have a chance and start following the routed units or vacilant enemy archers with those remaining 4-5 veteran cav while your general is strugling and the castle is being taken. Ok sorry I got a bit carried away. But I loved those feelings.
yea if your comment was made 2012 or something i would understand..but yea keep imagining stuff.. CA are assholes now. they said so, so no Dycke and no M3
the choral composition really adds a spin of piety into this, which can be interpreted as an allusion to the fact that kings where thought to be chosen by god at this time, so the war between kings is also a war of divine mandate, and i think this song really gets this idea across.
the idea of divine mandate seems like more of a modern thing to me, say, XVIII century. I guess that since baptism, church was always the one to do crowning, but I feel like church was even above throne.
@@shalomcollege6482 I prefer Caesar's Legions, which was a twist on Brave Romans. He nailed the soundtrack in Attila for me, but I'm not sure about the others after that other than Three Kingdoms.
1:25 - 1:52 this reminds me of a unit in battle charging heroically against much more men (and each time each repeats too) 3:52 - 5:00 The battle was finally ending, the heroic spirit forging the unit a most respectable victory, the few remaining men fighting but the unit could do it, and get rest 5:00 - 5:20 the brief moment of resting is broken by cavalry charging the unit In the end, as the song ends in the charge, I'd say this brave unit was at last defeated in battle "Some defeats are more glorious than some victories"
The last sentiment perfectly describes why the battle of Thermopylae is so remembered. After all, not only did the Spartans lose, but their sacrifice ended up being in vain, as the main objective, protecting Athens, failed, and the Persians burned the Acropolis. Yet still we remember the 300 (and the other Greeks who stood alongside them but are always conveniently ignored by Spartan fanboys)
My game as the Teutonics was amusing. I started out expecting to steamroll the Lithuanians with my superior knights. What I didn't expect was that their lighter and faster cavalry and larger territory essentially allowed them to wage guerilla warfare against my knights. So what should have been a 5 year conquest turned into a 50 year brutal stalemate. Those knights that survived became grizzled veterans, and I quickly learned the value of proper recon and missile troops. Every now and then, some pansy ass English or French lord would come to Crusade, thinking it would be some sort of great noble adventure. Thinking, with this 2 command and 0 chivalry, he could show my 10 command and 7 dread Teutonic commander how it was done. Of course, they always left fairly quickly, once their troops had taken enough of a beating and he had had enough of trying to survive on the brutal Baltic frontier. If there's one thing my Teutonic game did really well, it was instill in me a strong respect for the Lithuanians. Their tenacity, resolve, and ruthlessness is something to be respected. They are a worthy foe.
al Mamlūk And this is pretty much what happened historically. When the Teutonic Order conquered Old Prussia, Lithuania was wary of the great threat they posed and the tribes unitedto form the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. And the fact that they had (relatively) advanced metal technology meant that they could survive whereas the ancient-style Old Prussians were completely dominated. Lithuania started out in a cold war with the Teutonic as they would be supporting two armed revolts against the crusaders. The second one was only one to pose a threat and had serious reprucussions, such as the Old Prussians losing basic human rights. The Teutonics had learned that the Lithuanians had supplied and rallied up the second revolt, so war ignited and lasted for centuries. Two forces came to both respect and hate eachother extremely. Some areas in-between opposite fortifications would have been completely cleared of vegetation and bodies would remain in these no-man lands. Their hatred of each other was so great that even after Lithuania converted, these "holy warriors" ignored papal orders to disarm, were excommunicated, and they ended up fighting both Lithuania and Poland to solidify their local dominance and preserve the territory that they had spilled so much blood to keep.
Yeah, holy shit. I've read into the actual Baltic Crusades and as brutal and horrific as the Levantine Crusades were, the Baltic Crusades were worse. In the Levant, the Muslims and Christians, despite routinely fighting against one another, also often times fought alongside one another, and there was clearly a healthy respect and even amusing camaraderie at times between the Muslim Sultans, Crusader Kings, and Byzantine Emperors. At least until the Mongol Invasions, the different sides would fight each other to the bitter end one year, and then make peace and have friendly summits with each other the next. But the Baltic was nothing like that. It's clear that from the beginning, the Teutonics showed up to enact a campaign of extermination. They annihilated entire cities and towns, slaughtered whole populations. And the Lithuanians weren't having any of it. They responded with their own ruthless scorched earth campaigns, and brutal insurgencies against the arriving Teutons. Its clear that they definitely respected one another, but it wasn't the type of respect that led to episodes of friendship like the Levant did, but the type of respect that demanded an even more ruthless and concerted effort to win the war from both sides. And what's shocking is that this continued after Lithuania converted to Catholicism. Rather than putting their differences aside, the two sides continued to grind it out until the Lithuanians emerged victorious with their alliance with Poland. Honestly, the Baltic Crusades basically disprove the assertion that religion causes wars. These motherfuckers were still slaughtering each other well after their religious differences had been resolved. The cause of wars is mankind inherent antisocial tendencies.
@@Killzoneguy117 Considering that some of the people living in Prussia had not converted until centuries after the Teutons invaded - that is quite the testament to the primary goal of the Teutons - money. When you see an economic benefit in holding non-Christian slaves as the pope did not want Christian slaves, you are not really too eager to convert them.
King Richard III :"God forbid I yield one step. This day I will die a King or win". The king was determined to settle the issue this day, 22 August 1485, at Bosworth, facing an invading army led by Henry Tudor, the figurehead of the corrupt Lancastrians. R.I.P King Richard Plantagenet of York
Godamnit I get tingles remembering having my knights charge into enemy battlelines while this is playing in the background. Replaying the Medieval 2 Crusades expansion now. :3
Try out the Anatolian Principalities mod. It is beautifully done. Mod covers the Aegean and Anatolia (and surrounding area) after the fall of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and wars that lead to the rise of the Ottomans.
+RC15O5 Other than the Turkish splinter-states, it also includes the Roman Empire, the Second Bulgarian Empire, Serbia, Hospitallers, Venice, Trebizond, Georgia, Mamluks, and the Ilkhanate.
I love this picture for the video. How wonderfully admirable. Wouldn't it be great if the rich and powerful of this day and age put themselves in harms way like that - showing greatness and bravery. Instead they are now a bunch of worthless vampiric potted plants that require others to be their frontmen. This is why they have lost the respect of the world and will never be remembered like the great kings and heroes of the past.
+modernknightone While I completely agree with the sentiment, go look at the Battle of Flodden, putting your political leadership in the front rank can have catastrophic consequences.
+modernknightone the major difference of course as well is that in the distant past the kings and also dukes and barons etc. were in that position because of the forces they could raise that belonged to them personally, not the state, so they also had to act as military commanders, which would end up often putting them near the danger. When armies became professional, the political and military classes became more separate, so nowadays the politicians are civilians, unless you live in some state ruled by the military, so of course these civilians aren't going to ever be involved in combat
Aaron Brougham Agreed, however there are notable exceptions to this as western civilization has advanced. A very good example of this were the Prussian elites who were from extremely old noble families and who still participated at the "tip of the spear" in combat during both WWI and WW2. Many British Royals also still participated in dangerous situations in India and Africa on campaign in the 19th century and it can be argued that some even in the 20th. As a retired Colonel with an MA in history I am well aware of the modern military and civilian roles in the current state of things which is one of the reasons I made the comment I did with a certain nostalgic admiration of the elites of former times in comparison to their vampiric useless progeny of modern times.
I played as the Teutonic Order and was sieging Novgorod but the city had a large so I waited then when the city was about surrender 2 full stacks of Troops came in and the city garrison came as well so my general which full dread and had a lot of Ritterbrudder and many other things defended a small but high hill and throughout the battle this song was playing and I won with some losses but the Novgorod threat was destroyed
This music is the speed we all work on. I remember fighting a battle heavily outnumbered. I only won because my troops were slightly better then my enemy. And I had more archers. :)
Remember a similiar situation where I was sieging a citadel and the enemy insited on fighting me at a snowy mountain all what I jad to was to place my army on the top and wait them to reach me tired then make my nufattums break the rest of their spirit.Needless to say my light cave gained lots of experience from capturing tons of prisonners
when the songs in medieval II like this actually improved the moral of the player, this comes on my moral goes way higher as I watch the battering ram break open the last gate of my citadel and desperate last stand
from what i read on his wikipedia page, he was born and raised in Canada and then moved to Australia and became a citizen so he could work with creative assembly Brisbane
What an epic theme! Beyond the video game origin of this, this is a song of struggle, the everyday fight for survival. All you penniless, fighting people, fighting against poverty, misery and sickness, battling through selfish materialistic humans who are not humans anymore, let this War of Kings sound help you get courage and strength, you are honorable warriors, get your heads high! may God help us all!
playing Westeros mod just ended the Lannister line to this when both Tywin Lannister his two male heirs Jamie and Tyrion launched a massive Sige trying to retake their castle Casterly Rock. this song marked my glorious defence and the slaughter of there men to my arrows. their Calvary breaking on my Spears. before mine own goes around the other gate and smashes their flanks in a pincer routing the army and slaughtering them until the host was no more....god's I love midevil 2!
A year ago I was defending a mountaintop as the English against three HRE armies for three turns with a handful of archers, crossbows, spears, and whatever cavalry I had. My losses kept mounting, but the same whittling tactics and mercenaries I could buy kept me in the fight and broke the HRE's armies enough for an upcoming stack of fresh troops to knock out the capital, forcing the faction into peace. Legit was my favorite moment in a TW game besides fending off a stack of elephants in ETW.
Med II will always be my favourite TW. It was my first and introduced me to the series. My favourite one gameplay-wise is Shogun II. That’s an absolute masterpiece.
My opinion has since changed. Shogun 2 is my third favourite behind medieval 2 and medieval 1. It does have issues but honestly I like the matched combat. Sure entities may wait their turn to play an animation at times but it’s nowhere near as bad as in Rome 2.@@trabuco9
The entire army routed due to severe outflanking (two enemy armies on my quarter stack) Only my 60-or-so general with half his bodyguard remained. Honestly, the man was probably just hoping for a good death in combat. But I wasn't just gonna give up! Ordered the man to run around the few remaining enemy units until he got a chance for a rear charge (they were spearmen, wasn't just gonna waste my men). At the end, two of my guys including the general himself were left, and three enemy spear units from a reenforcement army, virtually untouched. My men exhausted - but so were theirs. Suddenly I realised that the timer's running out. I was the one attacking so I had to move fast. Got two rear charges, and kept escaping the last unit whilst running down the other two, now routing. Finally got tired and lost hope, my two men, including my best general, weren't looking like they were going out of this alive. I ordered a frontal charge. Least I could do is give the hero a good death. By some miracle, these two men charging into 130 spearmen managed to rout them. Not a soul of the enemy was left alive and free, though I ransomed them as a thank you for the great fight. My general got from a bronze bar to two gold bars, effectively becoming the best unit I had in the campaign. Shame the console-forced replay was corrupted and couldn't be actually replayed. All of that to the tune of this song.
The piece at around 3:10 came right when my teutonic knights charged the third army in the flank grantic a costly but worthy victory against an army three times mine. So epic.
Recently, I fought a massive Novorgodian army as the Teutonic Order (1550 vs 2100) and suprisingly won! I only have heavy infantry of mostly order spearmen, one sword brethren and a only 40 man dismounted rittenbrudders and 3 Livionian Axillaried against a massive Novorgodian Army with weak infantry but lots of archers and lots of heavy cavalry and horse archers and 4 trebuchets. With my general surprisingly getting killed by a trebuchet shot and my light cavalry depleted, I decided to have my line of heavy infantry charge the enemy lines and despite expecting utter defeat. Instead, my heavy infantry held on and managed to killed the enemy general and route the entire army. All to the sound of this music.
The intense drum solo at 3:30 is the most intense part of the fighting, watching your allies die in droves around you. You're ready to accept your fate... when 3:52 starts and you see the bannerknights riding in on the enemy flank, mowing them down in a desperate melee. With spirit rekindled you join the fray and find victory.
If we get a medieval 3 here are the same units English knights France heavy knights Spanish conquistadors Genoa crossbowmen Cossacks Landsknects Viking berserkers
One of my favorite moments in Total War Medieval 2 was playing HRE, my general had a small force of men (including some weirdly well armored militia) like 3 used up units who couldn't move anymore and we were about to be attacked by a fugoff massive army of French people with handgonnes, cannons, some cav and lots of foot knights so i panicked and decided to hire every mercenary i could get my hands on and we somehow won the battle using tons of Arqs and crossbowmen, also surprisingly i was trying to use the Pikemen as meatshields but for some reason they decided to work perfectly and i saw tons of french nobles unable to get past them and get stuck on the pikes which were working as they should have and decimated like 2 units of French footknights, it was weird.
Defending polish people, our king fighted back teutonic order, and forces of polish king's forces were so numerous that coldn't stand by teutonic knight's
countless lives were lost while this music was played.......rip
Mate. Don't mourn the dead. Celebrate them.
@@DZ-1987 Aye, we shall see them in Valhalla in one day! Ops wrong game
www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-Corinthians-Chapter-15/
i imagined a bloody charge of infantry and cavalry, and in the end of music the last stand of a unit covering the retreat
REQUIESCANT IN PACE QUISQUIS IN NOMINE MARIAE VIRGIS PATRIS FILII ET SPIRITUS SANCTI DOMINE IESUS CHRISTI MORTUI SUNT
Jeff Van Dyck ftw
May Fortune favor your campaigns and your battle strategems good sir.
@Ivan The evil She does
@Ivan The evil Haven't you heard the old phrase "Fortune favors the BOLD.....or in this case the CAPITALIZED"
@Ivan The evil Roman Goddess of Fortune and good luck ha
@Ivan The evil I don't understand your question
Played every single Total War from Shogun to Warhammer 2.
Nothing comes even as close to the musical genius of Jeff Van Dyck!
I'd say Napoleon Total War had a soundtrack that is on par with his earlier work in Medieval 1 but yeah... the rest aren't as good.
Shogun 2 was composed by van dyke.
@@ra.n9482 to be fair
Napoleon's main theme was awesome
The Bretonnian trailer theme is fire though. Just wish it was longer
Is Jeff made these songs i mean there's no proof of that he created this theme and many other like Duke of death and Crusaders,He made songs of Total war Rome and Shogun
I still remember playing as Scotland with a small army of pike-men, men-at-arms and archers, occupying a small crest with three English armies coming at me from every direction, and yet managed to defeat them all in detail, but my losses ended up being horrific. My Scottish prince survived bloody struggle, and ended up being the king of the British Isles.
Good old times 12 odd years ago. I can still remember my heart beating as the last vital charge of my men-at-arms broke the last wave of enemies. Long live the King of Scotland!
What an epic story!
Robert the Bruce but even more op
A monarch worth following!
A epic deserve to be passed down to generations to come!
Man, this is the kind of story I wish I could tell. If only I had the ability to do so ^^’
"I'LL CHOP YOUR ARMS OFF" -Random Danish Soldier
" 'tis but a fleshwound" -random black knight
"I'LL EAT YOUR HEART" -Random English soldier
BE GONNNEEEE YOU ARE NOT MY KAISERR
"I'll RIP OFF YER HED AND SPIT DEWN YER NEHCK" - Scottish Nobleman
"AHHHH" Random general speech
"I shall die a King or win"--Last Words of Richard III, depicted in pic
He definitely died like a King, dehorsing a 6'8 jousting champion, killing Henry's standard bearer, and coming within sword's reach of Henry himself before being cut down.
@@triplehernan5155 Highly glorious!
"This day I will die a king, or win." Whatever you might think of Richard III you can't deny him the glory of his final moments.
one of the badass monarch in english history
White Album he had a cooler banner too
Guy was so badass that even while injured he insisted on being carried to the site of battle and fired at the enemy with his crossbow.
@@Omega4Productions Based chad
@@Omega4Productions But fr tho isn't that Richard the Lionheart not Richard III?
Its the kind of music that makes you feel that this battle will have a Pyrrhic Victory, defending your last stand.
Or defending the city which your economy depends on.Or a castle in a very strategic position.
It's not your last settlement but you'll be fucked if you loose this battle
Indeed. It reminds me when you have no time, and need to movilize that damaged and tired heavy cavalry one more time, the same cavalry who had charged dozens of times last battle and this battle. You need to desesperate charge those pikemen from the flanks and if they are routed, you then have a chance and start following the routed units or vacilant enemy archers with those remaining 4-5 veteran cav while your general is strugling and the castle is being taken. Ok sorry I got a bit carried away. But I loved those feelings.
Your last group of 60 armored swordsmen fighting bravely alongside your general to the very end.
@@deusvult77 Nah, this feels more like a brewing storm, just before a decisive battle.
You can hear the war horn blowing and the knights thundering down on the enemy.
"Come and face the might of the Reich, coward!" - some imperial general.
> I attack
> imperial general flees.
>reinstalls MTW2
You had it UNinstalled?!
You uninstalled? Burn in hell!
Athaeus Infidel! You uninstalled?! Heathen!
The Pope made a crusade to your home!
Welp, it's an excomunicado.
I'm really waiting for M3TW with Jeff Van Dyck.
yea if your comment was made 2012 or something i would understand..but yea keep imagining stuff.. CA are assholes now. they said so, so no Dycke and no M3
@@orestisgiannis8851 /watch?v=D2MkMjALH4Q
He will never return. They have a shitty Beddow and everything is going well for them.
wont happen
If they do it without him then that is canonically not M3TW
the choral composition really adds a spin of piety into this, which can be interpreted as an allusion to the fact that kings where thought to be chosen by god at this time, so the war between kings is also a war of divine mandate, and i think this song really gets this idea across.
the idea of divine mandate seems like more of a modern thing to me, say, XVIII century. I guess that since baptism, church was always the one to do crowning, but I feel like church was even above throne.
@@sakesaurus dude just say 18th century lol
such a shame creative assembly didnt hire him for rome 2 :( the new guy is not bad, but everyone remembers every song from rome and medieval
I've come back in time to agree from the future.
rtw2 title screen music is such a banger tho
Idk about that Brave Romans is really good
@@shalomcollege6482 I prefer Caesar's Legions, which was a twist on Brave Romans.
He nailed the soundtrack in Attila for me, but I'm not sure about the others after that other than Three Kingdoms.
www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-Corinthians-Chapter-15/
1:25 - 1:52 this reminds me of a unit in battle charging heroically against much more men (and each time each repeats too)
3:52 - 5:00 The battle was finally ending, the heroic spirit forging the unit a most respectable victory, the few remaining men fighting but the unit could do it, and get rest
5:00 - 5:20 the brief moment of resting is broken by cavalry charging the unit
In the end, as the song ends in the charge, I'd say this brave unit was at last defeated in battle
"Some defeats are more glorious than some victories"
perfect description
The last sentiment perfectly describes why the battle of Thermopylae is so remembered. After all, not only did the Spartans lose, but their sacrifice ended up being in vain, as the main objective, protecting Athens, failed, and the Persians burned the Acropolis. Yet still we remember the 300 (and the other Greeks who stood alongside them but are always conveniently ignored by Spartan fanboys)
God the buildup at 1:07, none can compare. Always closed my eyes at this part, feeling the atmosphere.
"My lord! This is no time for a nap!"
Our lord is asleep. A shameful display!
Impossible not to writhe in enjoyment over Jeff's medieval masterpieces
I always think of this as the main theme of Kingdoms, because it combines all of the sounds (teutonic, crusader, aztec, celtic) at some point.
My game as the Teutonics was amusing. I started out expecting to steamroll the Lithuanians with my superior knights. What I didn't expect was that their lighter and faster cavalry and larger territory essentially allowed them to wage guerilla warfare against my knights. So what should have been a 5 year conquest turned into a 50 year brutal stalemate. Those knights that survived became grizzled veterans, and I quickly learned the value of proper recon and missile troops. Every now and then, some pansy ass English or French lord would come to Crusade, thinking it would be some sort of great noble adventure. Thinking, with this 2 command and 0 chivalry, he could show my 10 command and 7 dread Teutonic commander how it was done. Of course, they always left fairly quickly, once their troops had taken enough of a beating and he had had enough of trying to survive on the brutal Baltic frontier.
If there's one thing my Teutonic game did really well, it was instill in me a strong respect for the Lithuanians. Their tenacity, resolve, and ruthlessness is something to be respected. They are a worthy foe.
awesome tale sir!
al Mamlūk And this is pretty much what happened historically. When the Teutonic Order conquered Old Prussia, Lithuania was wary of the great threat they posed and the tribes unitedto form the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. And the fact that they had (relatively) advanced metal technology meant that they could survive whereas the ancient-style Old Prussians were completely dominated. Lithuania started out in a cold war with the Teutonic as they would be supporting two armed revolts against the crusaders. The second one was only one to pose a threat and had serious reprucussions, such as the Old Prussians losing basic human rights.
The Teutonics had learned that the Lithuanians had supplied and rallied up the second revolt, so war ignited and lasted for centuries. Two forces came to both respect and hate eachother extremely. Some areas in-between opposite fortifications would have been completely cleared of vegetation and bodies would remain in these no-man lands. Their hatred of each other was so great that even after Lithuania converted, these "holy warriors" ignored papal orders to disarm, were excommunicated, and they ended up fighting both Lithuania and Poland to solidify their local dominance and preserve the territory that they had spilled so much blood to keep.
Yeah, holy shit. I've read into the actual Baltic Crusades and as brutal and horrific as the Levantine Crusades were, the Baltic Crusades were worse. In the Levant, the Muslims and Christians, despite routinely fighting against one another, also often times fought alongside one another, and there was clearly a healthy respect and even amusing camaraderie at times between the Muslim Sultans, Crusader Kings, and Byzantine Emperors. At least until the Mongol Invasions, the different sides would fight each other to the bitter end one year, and then make peace and have friendly summits with each other the next.
But the Baltic was nothing like that. It's clear that from the beginning, the Teutonics showed up to enact a campaign of extermination. They annihilated entire cities and towns, slaughtered whole populations. And the Lithuanians weren't having any of it. They responded with their own ruthless scorched earth campaigns, and brutal insurgencies against the arriving Teutons. Its clear that they definitely respected one another, but it wasn't the type of respect that led to episodes of friendship like the Levant did, but the type of respect that demanded an even more ruthless and concerted effort to win the war from both sides. And what's shocking is that this continued after Lithuania converted to Catholicism. Rather than putting their differences aside, the two sides continued to grind it out until the Lithuanians emerged victorious with their alliance with Poland.
Honestly, the Baltic Crusades basically disprove the assertion that religion causes wars. These motherfuckers were still slaughtering each other well after their religious differences had been resolved. The cause of wars is mankind inherent antisocial tendencies.
@@Killzoneguy117 Considering that some of the people living in Prussia had not converted until centuries after the Teutons invaded - that is quite the testament to the primary goal of the Teutons - money.
When you see an economic benefit in holding non-Christian slaves as the pope did not want Christian slaves, you are not really too eager to convert them.
al Mamlūk The war itself started for religious reasons, so it counts.
I put this in Mount & Blade Warband and sounds awesome :)
& now Bannerlord!!
King Richard III :"God forbid I yield one step. This day I will die a King or win".
The king was determined to settle the issue this day, 22 August 1485, at Bosworth, facing an invading army led by Henry Tudor, the figurehead of the corrupt Lancastrians.
R.I.P King Richard Plantagenet of York
Series honestly hasn't been the same since he left
this makes me want to play med2 again
Godamnit I get tingles remembering having my knights charge into enemy battlelines while this is playing in the background. Replaying the Medieval 2 Crusades expansion now. :3
Get stainless steal mod and play literally and play all the Kingdoms expansion packs at once
Try out the Anatolian Principalities mod. It is beautifully done. Mod covers the Aegean and Anatolia (and surrounding area) after the fall of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum and wars that lead to the rise of the Ottomans.
+RC15O5 Other than the Turkish splinter-states, it also includes the Roman Empire, the Second Bulgarian Empire, Serbia, Hospitallers, Venice, Trebizond, Georgia, Mamluks, and the Ilkhanate.
Broken Crescent is also a lot of fun. The unit models are especially well done.
It is said...the sultan does not mind you
4:38 So majestic.
Kingdoms soundtrack was so epic. They are not making songs like this anymore.
Shame CA.
I love this picture for the video. How wonderfully admirable. Wouldn't it be great if the rich and powerful of this day and age put themselves in harms way like that - showing greatness and bravery. Instead they are now a bunch of worthless vampiric potted plants that require others to be their frontmen. This is why they have lost the respect of the world and will never be remembered like the great kings and heroes of the past.
+modernknightone While I completely agree with the sentiment, go look at the Battle of Flodden, putting your political leadership in the front rank can have catastrophic consequences.
+modernknightone the major difference of course as well is that in the distant past the kings and also dukes and barons etc. were in that position because of the forces they could raise that belonged to them personally, not the state, so they also had to act as military commanders, which would end up often putting them near the danger. When armies became professional, the political and military classes became more separate, so nowadays the politicians are civilians, unless you live in some state ruled by the military, so of course these civilians aren't going to ever be involved in combat
Aaron Brougham
Agreed, however there are notable exceptions to this as western civilization has advanced. A very good example of this were the Prussian elites who were from extremely old noble families and who still participated at the "tip of the spear" in combat during both WWI and WW2. Many British Royals also still participated in dangerous situations in India and Africa on campaign in the 19th century and it can be argued that some even in the 20th. As a retired Colonel with an MA in history I am well aware of the modern military and civilian roles in the current state of things which is one of the reasons I made the comment I did with a certain nostalgic admiration of the elites of former times in comparison to their vampiric useless progeny of modern times.
Because gun beats spear
True, and the useless modern elites are too cowardly to ever face either one.
I played as the Teutonic Order and was sieging Novgorod but the city had a large so I waited then when the city was about surrender 2 full stacks of Troops came in and the city garrison came as well so my general which full dread and had a lot of Ritterbrudder and many other things defended a small but high hill and throughout the battle this song was playing and I won with some losses but the Novgorod threat was destroyed
This music is the speed we all work on. I remember fighting a battle heavily outnumbered. I only won because my troops were slightly better then my enemy. And I had more archers. :)
Remember a similiar situation where I was sieging a citadel and the enemy insited on fighting me at a snowy mountain all what I jad to was to place my army on the top and wait them to reach me tired then make my nufattums break the rest of their spirit.Needless to say my light cave gained lots of experience from capturing tons of prisonners
Discover Medieval II: Total War in 2015. This was my first Total War game, and still, nothing was created better than this. Makes me sad.
For Wales and For King Llewellyn let our arrows blacken the sky and let the English meet our fine Arrows.
"We'll fight them on the shade"
when the songs in medieval II like this actually improved the moral of the player, this comes on my moral goes way higher as I watch the battering ram break open the last gate of my citadel and desperate last stand
For the moment the fortune of battle goes our way, let us pray it remains as such.
The memories man, so many memories.
from what i read on his wikipedia page, he was born and raised in Canada and then moved to Australia and became a citizen so he could work with creative assembly Brisbane
No one expects the spanish inquisition
+Golden Eagle never!
+Golden Eagle Our 2 weapons are fear and surprise! Oh and Ruthless efficiency so that's 3!
+Golden Eagle Unless YOU ARE the Spanish inquisition. JAJAJAJAJA (Spanish Laugh)
MulthybridGodKyrNair lol
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! ...THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!
Been following this series since rome 1 total war. Never have i heard more epic soundtracks !!
What an epic theme!
Beyond the video game origin of this, this is a song of struggle, the everyday fight for survival. All you penniless, fighting people, fighting against poverty, misery and sickness, battling through selfish materialistic humans who are not humans anymore, let this War of Kings sound help you get courage and strength, you are honorable warriors, get your heads high! may God help us all!
Материализм сломит мракобесов-изуверов!
playing Westeros mod just ended the Lannister line to this when both Tywin Lannister his two male heirs Jamie and Tyrion launched a massive Sige trying to retake their castle Casterly Rock. this song marked my glorious defence and the slaughter of there men to my arrows. their Calvary breaking on my Spears. before mine own goes around the other gate and smashes their flanks in a pincer routing the army and slaughtering them until the host was no more....god's I love midevil 2!
This the musical incarnation of what a total war battle is.
A year ago I was defending a mountaintop as the English against three HRE armies for three turns with a handful of archers, crossbows, spears, and whatever cavalry I had. My losses kept mounting, but the same whittling tactics and mercenaries I could buy kept me in the fight and broke the HRE's armies enough for an upcoming stack of fresh troops to knock out the capital, forcing the faction into peace.
Legit was my favorite moment in a TW game besides fending off a stack of elephants in ETW.
Med II will always be my favourite TW. It was my first and introduced me to the series. My favourite one gameplay-wise is Shogun II. That’s an absolute masterpiece.
Shogun 2 has major issues due to the 1on1 only melee from the Empire Total War engine.
Rome and Med 2 are the peak.
My opinion has since changed. Shogun 2 is my third favourite behind medieval 2 and medieval 1. It does have issues but honestly I like the matched combat. Sure entities may wait their turn to play an animation at times but it’s nowhere near as bad as in Rome 2.@@trabuco9
I wish Jeff van dyck music was on apple itunes
I really can't decide whether my favorite soundtrack is this or Duke of Death
They are both phenomenal tracks that are hard to beat when it comes to medieval battle atmosphere.
Also crusaders.
and Mare Nostrum, you know.
I always thought this felt like some kind of epic rescue mission music.
So many memories and battles under this soundtrack. Really pulls you into the game
Has anyone else used rome and medieval 2 soundtracks as workout soundtracks?
As a volleyball player, I use them as pre-match motivation and inspiration sources
Yeah, they hit so hard. 40kg bench is done with ease when I open something like this.
MY BODY IS A TEMPLE, I WILL MAKE IT A CATHEDRAL MY LORD
YES
climax 3:50, best part of this song and put it loud
This music played as my king an 2 bodyguards made their final charge into 300 spearmen and routed them from the battlefield.
The entire army routed due to severe outflanking (two enemy armies on my quarter stack) Only my 60-or-so general with half his bodyguard remained. Honestly, the man was probably just hoping for a good death in combat. But I wasn't just gonna give up!
Ordered the man to run around the few remaining enemy units until he got a chance for a rear charge (they were spearmen, wasn't just gonna waste my men). At the end, two of my guys including the general himself were left, and three enemy spear units from a reenforcement army, virtually untouched. My men exhausted - but so were theirs.
Suddenly I realised that the timer's running out. I was the one attacking so I had to move fast. Got two rear charges, and kept escaping the last unit whilst running down the other two, now routing. Finally got tired and lost hope, my two men, including my best general, weren't looking like they were going out of this alive. I ordered a frontal charge. Least I could do is give the hero a good death.
By some miracle, these two men charging into 130 spearmen managed to rout them. Not a soul of the enemy was left alive and free, though I ransomed them as a thank you for the great fight. My general got from a bronze bar to two gold bars, effectively becoming the best unit I had in the campaign. Shame the console-forced replay was corrupted and couldn't be actually replayed.
All of that to the tune of this song.
The chills whenever 1:31 plays as soon as my cav hits the enemy infantry
One last epic stand
It's remember Bouvines and our great french knights!
Monjoie Saint-Denis !
Golden Eagle lol no
Remember the golden spurs
Wait.....
Remember Castillon.. oh wait
I, the RATIO, We got a score to settle!
Still play this game all the time
The piece at around 3:10 came right when my teutonic knights charged the third army in the flank grantic a costly but worthy victory against an army three times mine. So epic.
Amazing game (as all total war games) and amazing soundtrack.
Recently, I fought a massive Novorgodian army as the Teutonic Order (1550 vs 2100) and suprisingly won!
I only have heavy infantry of mostly order spearmen, one sword brethren and a only 40 man dismounted rittenbrudders and 3 Livionian Axillaried against a massive Novorgodian Army with weak infantry but lots of archers and lots of heavy cavalry and horse archers and 4 trebuchets.
With my general surprisingly getting killed by a trebuchet shot and my light cavalry depleted, I decided to have my line of heavy infantry charge the enemy lines and despite expecting utter defeat. Instead, my heavy infantry held on and managed to killed the enemy general and route the entire army.
All to the sound of this music.
Sitting here checking my e-mail, listening to this song. Accidentally reclaimed the holy land.
:] ahhhh....now I can go out and snowplow the driveway. Nothing like a little Jeff Van Dyck to get your blood flowing :D
this song needs a videoclip, the best song of medieval 2 total war
Nope, the Duke of Death is much better.
@@akinkinalexandr5672 no
Fricken epic! They need to play this at the 2066 re-enactment at Senlac.
Aww many years later and I still love it! 👍👍👏👏😍
My Favourite track thanks for uploading it o7
When you've formed the Kalmar Union and everyone else sets aside there differences and goes after
me.
;( leik if u crie everitiem
When that bridge is the last obstacle before a superior foe would besiege your fortress...
this is so fuqing epic, it keeps me pumped while writing and researching ⛈
Bro.... your music shaped my life.
Absolutely genius dj
In a kingdom of heaven, kings would fight their wars alone.
Awesome!
*When more French Knights arrive and your longbowmen are almost out of ammo....*
*Once more into the breach! Charge!!!*
The intense drum solo at 3:30 is the most intense part of the fighting, watching your allies die in droves around you. You're ready to accept your fate... when 3:52 starts and you see the bannerknights riding in on the enemy flank, mowing them down in a desperate melee. With spirit rekindled you join the fray and find victory.
Imo this is the best song from M2TW, shame I almost never get it in battle
I, Billmans. HEY TH-cam! DONT FORGET THE UN-HORSED!
You came for the whole video. Because the entire song is awesome
If we get a medieval 3 here are the same units
English knights
France heavy knights
Spanish conquistadors
Genoa crossbowmen
Cossacks
Landsknects
Viking berserkers
I am not sure if his family line comes from there not, but I do know that he is Australian.
I love this
One of my favorite moments in Total War Medieval 2 was playing HRE, my general had a small force of men (including some weirdly well armored militia) like 3 used up units who couldn't move anymore and we were about to be attacked by a fugoff massive army of French people with handgonnes, cannons, some cav and lots of foot knights so i panicked and decided to hire every mercenary i could get my hands on and we somehow won the battle using tons of Arqs and crossbowmen, also surprisingly i was trying to use the Pikemen as meatshields but for some reason they decided to work perfectly and i saw tons of french nobles unable to get past them and get stuck on the pikes which were working as they should have and decimated like 2 units of French footknights, it was weird.
4:00 My favorite part
I miss this game.
Why miss? Download and play
I wish this played in all campaigns and not only in the Brittania one. :(
It's in the Teutonic one too.
This definietely gets me in the mood to teach the enemey how to war
This was, and to an extent still is the music I imagined the battles in Warhammer Fantasy were set to.
Hell yeah! Whenever I play Total War: Warhammer I always listen to this music
Last 10 years is best in my life! And this music remind it to me)
2:58 Definitely my proudest fap.
The Greatest battle music of any total war.
If only this song was also played on the vanilla Medieval 2
When the Squad play an online free for all campaign.
God, the battle of Bosworth Field, the siege of Stralsund, the battle of Braitenfeld were so LIT!
one of the best tw battle ost ever
Well, Medieval 2 has the best music.
3:30 - Just to save you time.
Indeed the best part.
Time to play/upload even more Medieval 2 Total War!!!
Reminds me of the Bond intro in Mexico with the Day of the Dead parade, only much more epic!
This should've played as the night king faced Jon
Montjoie Saint Denis!
There must a great battle if this music plays
Лучший боевой саунд за все тотал вары
Perfect song for the Game of Thrones trailer.
Damn I really hope CA makes medieval 3. I've been on the wars of the roses kick for a min now
when you come to your home with the school marks
I didn't know Jan van Eyck was a music composer too.
Very strong.
Defending polish people, our king fighted back teutonic order, and forces of polish king's forces were so numerous that coldn't stand by teutonic knight's