Some of them I thought are common knowledge. Here is one that I frequently use. If you attack an enemy with a reinforcement, the tile you are attacking is going to be the battleground. And the reinforcement is going into the battleground through the corner based on its position relative to the tile. With that, you can easily predict where reinforcements are going to appear and intercept the reinforcement - I like to attack the smaller army of the two and intercept the bigger reinforcement. You can put infantry (some especially powerful options are like Muire in kingdoms) directly on the edge of the map to easily beat cavalry or archers and win even harder on horse archers. Or you can put archers and artillery near the edge of the map so when enemies appear one by one they are already peppered with arrows or blasted with artillery.
@@sligacheese6470 When you are allied to a faction and they are near to a battle you are having, they can (and usually will) go to help you, and if the pope (as your ally) was neutral he goes to war with the enemy he is helping you with. So, if the pope was any unit near a battle you are having against another catholic, he will go to war with said faction (as your ally). Any catholic faction at war with the pope is immediately excommunicated. I've used this before as HRE fighting Venice and Milan.
No need to get ambushed for me, the ai always sieges or attacks me whether they'll get excommunicated or not, the pope's warning may as well be the game telling me to take a three turn replenishment breather. lol
I dont consider the agent surrounding a cheat. Cuz assasins are hella bad in that game, not at the kingdoms expansions. And if u surround an army from 8 side and attack from another, they also evaporating. (At Venice u just need 2 units from the back and the whole enemy army will evaporate if they lost a siege
The video should have started at 9:49. There's no point in going over exactly what another video does. Just title it something to the effect of "Medieval 2 - Lesser Known Expoits".
Another one i really really enjoy: leaving only fast cavalry in your settlements to defend. If sieged, and you attack them, the AI just stands there and does nothing. You first charge down their first row missile units, and after that ride behind their army and charge them down from behind again and again. you can, this way, even win with only one mounted sergeants group against 6 full stacks of troops. its simply ridiculous. just get a hang of it and you will love that. and ofc, later on, the bombard towers. simply afk and let the idle ai army get shot to hell.
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 I think he is asking what the attack/defense stats on a unit mean. When a unit with 10 attack hits a unit with 15 defense, what happens?
@@Dr.CaveCurinas I think some of it is luck but of course if you have a bigger attack and he has a small defense then you are more likely to wound/kill enemy
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 Strange I'm trying this with Poland attacking Thorn and it dosent seem to work. I split my general and rest of the army nearby and the garrison doesnt sally out. Same thing with Prague.
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 Ah I see. In this case I've managed Prague to sally out, but can't do that with Thorn, since there are only 2 sieging zones. I wonder how LegendOfTotalWar in his hot seat campaign managed to attack with only 32% chance of spy opening the door and simply attacking straight on the same turn as the siege.
Medieval total war 2 should have used different voices for generals and governors on the world map. Instead of the same voice for everything? Other than that I love the game. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
When attacking an army outside the city/castle or an army within the city/castle, if you kill off at least 85% of the force, including the general, than the city will be vacant with no defenders left, this then allows you to enter the city/castle and occupy it
Why would you want to play a game by ruining it like this? If you think its too hard, go for easier difficulties. If this is not enough, use cheats. There is no difference.
I remember there was an exploit to copy the experience level of higher level units onto other units/recruits of the same type. Am I crazy? I feel like there was some way to to get one card to lv 9, and then use it to recruit high level units of the same type.
Attack castles first, and then cities. Cities don't provide as good troops as Castles, and you can hold a castle better.
unless your playing milan or venice then you can get very good heavy cav and even heavy inf from cities
Some of them I thought are common knowledge.
Here is one that I frequently use. If you attack an enemy with a reinforcement, the tile you are attacking is going to be the battleground. And the reinforcement is going into the battleground through the corner based on its position relative to the tile.
With that, you can easily predict where reinforcements are going to appear and intercept the reinforcement - I like to attack the smaller army of the two and intercept the bigger reinforcement. You can put infantry (some especially powerful options are like Muire in kingdoms) directly on the edge of the map to easily beat cavalry or archers and win even harder on horse archers. Or you can put archers and artillery near the edge of the map so when enemies appear one by one they are already peppered with arrows or blasted with artillery.
Yeah I use that all the time. Sometimes also to get a better terrain for myself
Make a video
or you can get them excommunicated by allying papal states and forcing a papal army to fight against them as reinforcements
Yep that also works
I like to pay the pope big bucks for using the "attack faction" diplomacy option.
During a crusade? Not sure I follow you ?
@@sligacheese6470 When you are allied to a faction and they are near to a battle you are having, they can (and usually will) go to help you, and if the pope (as your ally) was neutral he goes to war with the enemy he is helping you with. So, if the pope was any unit near a battle you are having against another catholic, he will go to war with said faction (as your ally). Any catholic faction at war with the pope is immediately excommunicated. I've used this before as HRE fighting Venice and Milan.
that excommunication trick is hilarious
Yeah I agree haha
These exploits make me too powerful, I think my gameplay is somewhat ruined
Haha yeah they can make the game rly easy TBH
Lol that 1st trick game me the ability to discover america a turn after it's available
No need to get ambushed for me, the ai always sieges or attacks me whether they'll get excommunicated or not, the pope's warning may as well be the game telling me to take a three turn replenishment breather. lol
Well that just speeds it up I guess
I dont consider the agent surrounding a cheat. Cuz assasins are hella bad in that game, not at the kingdoms expansions. And if u surround an army from 8 side and attack from another, they also evaporating. (At Venice u just need 2 units from the back and the whole enemy army will evaporate if they lost a siege
Well I guess its up to interpretation
how to get better at medieval 2: Total War
Just get fucking better by practice
thats also a way
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 also rest in peace stan lee
The video should have started at 9:49. There's no point in going over exactly what another video does. Just title it something to the effect of "Medieval 2 - Lesser Known Expoits".
You assume everyone else has seen said video...
I hate how A.I always jams a bunch of it’s units against my one trying to storm the gates 😂
Another one i really really enjoy: leaving only fast cavalry in your settlements to defend. If sieged, and you attack them, the AI just stands there and does nothing. You first charge down their first row missile units, and after that ride behind their army and charge them down from behind again and again. you can, this way, even win with only one mounted sergeants group against 6 full stacks of troops. its simply ridiculous. just get a hang of it and you will love that. and ofc, later on, the bombard towers. simply afk and let the idle ai army get shot to hell.
What recording software are you using? I had it in my old pc but i forgot the name
Currently nvidia geforce experience
how can you see this yellow thing ?
in 2:17
just press space bar
Press right click and stretch out untis to line you want them to be
does anyone know how battle mechanics work for attack/defense values?
Im not sure what you are asking
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 I think he is asking what the attack/defense stats on a unit mean. When a unit with 10 attack hits a unit with 15 defense, what happens?
@@Dr.CaveCurinas I think some of it is luck but of course if you have a bigger attack and he has a small defense then you are more likely to wound/kill enemy
I'm not sure if forced sally out works on definite edition.
They do. This was recorded on it
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 Strange I'm trying this with Poland attacking Thorn and it dosent seem to work. I split my general and rest of the army nearby and the garrison doesnt sally out. Same thing with Prague.
I even had only general sieging and no sally.
@@SilencerGDA the reinforcing army has to ve on the opposite side of the sieging one
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 Ah I see. In this case I've managed Prague to sally out, but can't do that with Thorn, since there are only 2 sieging zones.
I wonder how LegendOfTotalWar in his hot seat campaign managed to attack with only 32% chance of spy opening the door and simply attacking straight on the same turn as the siege.
Thanks for this mate
no prob
YourTotalWarMaster some guy 👍
Don't follow any of these tricks. It makes the game boring. Too easy, the AI on maximum difficulty is beyond boring.
"How to get better at the game" but you aren't actually getting better at the game
Medieval total war 2 should have used different voices for generals and governors on the world map. Instead of the same voice for everything? Other than that I love the game. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
How you can use the movement bug without use a crusade or jihad?
I am not sure how. I do know hot to make your whole army move as fast as the fastest member of it tho.
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 DOes anyone know how?? I know papa Legend does but I cant find how to do it
@@thissucs1815 I think in this video all the big exploits are used:
th-cam.com/video/OCO4jESwnFM/w-d-xo.html&t
Thank you for this Tips
No problem
whats the thing about 85%? not clear
What do you mean?
When attacking an army outside the city/castle or an army within the city/castle, if you kill off at least 85% of the force, including the general, than the city will be vacant with no defenders left, this then allows you to enter the city/castle and occupy it
1:11 wow 0_0 i realy don't know this
How did your get your peasants to get 150? Mines only like 60 or 65 i think..
You have to change the unit size to huge in settings
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 where ..why settings?
@@rafaelnieto5625 in main menu you go to options and then I think advanced options and there should be unit size or unit scale. You turn that to huge
Its in miscellaneous settings
I like your pet dog bro
Is he heard in the video?
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 Nah he wasn't
@@sleekismboyz605 ok
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 Thanks
Why would you want to play a game by ruining it like this? If you think its too hard, go for easier difficulties. If this is not enough, use cheats. There is no difference.
2:27 wait i really work what the
Yup
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 but i don't work is i have archer
@@zinveliuovidiu4656 do they outnumber 1:4?
@@yourtotalwarmaster3635 i mean is easy but because of that castle or city etc i don't have archers so i think to you i understand now
@@zinveliuovidiu4656 ok cool
You linked to the channel and not the video. Unhelpful as there are a lot of videos.
Ill link th3 vid
here you go:
th-cam.com/video/YF3epfAvFOs/w-d-xo.html
Bro he’s just giving credit
My man really is replying to comments on a 3 year old video, what a Chad 👌
xD Thanks
This is not getting better, this is basically cheating.
I don't think of the surrounding enemy agent as cheating since it seems like the army is surrounding a wanted man and he can't slip away this time
I remember there was an exploit to copy the experience level of higher level units onto other units/recruits of the same type. Am I crazy? I feel like there was some way to to get one card to lv 9, and then use it to recruit high level units of the same type.
there's a an actual game mechanic to switch retinue over from general to general. it was also in RTW.
can u tell me how t odo it