lol that's basically what I do as Seleucid to protect Antioch. I just station an army on bridge that's near Antioch to defend the North while I try to take out Egypt
@@MajWinters100 1. Because of its geographical situation. 2. Its one of the most fertile province in the entire game after Egypt and Mesopotamia. I verified when in the late game i only have 2nd level farming and it was the most populated city in Italy. I played with the Julii. I dont know why he didnt mention it.
@@heberrodriguez3310 he did mention, he said he wasn't sure which one to choose but picked Medi instead, but to be fair, his points stand for both towns, you have chokes for both of them, allowing a good defense, and while he did mention other advantages, he says his choice is mostly from a positional standpoint, not economic or whatnot. So you're both correct.
I would consider Iuvavum (just north of Patavium) a strong, strategic settlement as it sits right at the end of a passage through the mountains of Northern Italy. When I play as Germania, I use that settlement to guard the my southern border and provide a staging point for any incursions into Italy.
@Sterling Dominick Oh you don't have another account saying "Definitely, I have been watching on flixzone for months myself :D" this time? If anyone else reads this, DON'T it's a scam
My top ten(not in order) : Athens,Corinth,Sparta,Kydonia,Pergamun,Tarsus,Alexandria,Memphis,Campus Getae,Rhodes,south Italy provinces,Carthage. So,taking these provinces or most of them helps you A LOT in campaign not just for their location but also for the resources they provide and keep in mind that the sea trade will make you the richest faction by far. For me,these are the provinces that have helped me the most and i believe they are the most important to conquer strategically speaking.
Nicomedia and Byzantion are quite important too. You can block any ships from moving north or south by blocking the Bosporus. Also Rhodes is hugely valuable as the Wonder there gives a massive bonus to trade across your whole empire.
BROOOOOOOOOO i did not think u would reply. and yea i thought it would be quite funny if u replied to him after 2 years a d i replied to u after 2 years@@steveperez178
I have a problem with some city: -Bylazora shold protect Thessalonica, but its still vulerable from 4 other ways. Even if its guarded, it means nothing. On the other hand, Thessalonica can provide troops and money early on, and it separates more front from eachother. -Crete has no capability to build ships early on, also a poor province comparedto other greek cities. With ships you can block the water without that island from Athen, Sparta and/or Rhodos. Rhodos also provide a HUGE boost to you economy and can build strong ships pretty early. -Cothus (the armenian city) defends nothing. Blocked borders against the nomads just dont worth much, but eah, in multiplayer, it might be usefull. -Memphis. Alexandria give everything as Memphis, but also a signifivant trade income. But even with that, It defends nothing, nobody comes from the desert, more likely to use ships. My honorable mentions: -Babylon, huge income for late game. -Carthage, strongest city in its region, in money and in militarly, and good position for a naval block. -Londonium, relatively strong, good rout for the coast of france, also who hold it, controlles the british island -Tarentum, good foothold for envaders, good naval def for italians. -Thessalonica, Athene, Rhodos, Alexandria, as i said earlier
Zord 13, he did mention at the start he was only referring to the locations, not things like population and resources (but he did mention the pyramid tho)
Yeah totally agree but a bit unsure about Londonium Yeah it has good position to manage British island but it's small and as soon as you conquer it there won't be any problem with it (imo)
Funny, some of these regions, I perceive more as a liability, because taking them early probably gets you warring with 2 other factions. Using navies and trade bonus of Mediterranean ports, mean I'd rate Carthage as strategic, giving people and high unit level. Then in early game Salona/Segestica matter for Julii/Brutii because of relatively lucrative mines. Rhodes is a key wonder, it's an insane trade bonus. But the strategic value of regions change during the game. Often good river defenses provide massacre choke points, bottle up hordes with economy. Island bases can provide good footholds, using range of navies to meet threats or more likely cause them to enemy factions. Good large cities matter a lot though, in a way that Osca simply never has to me, I just roll it up in either coastal sweep or a full Iberican campaign after los Ibéricos estaban locos
I agree about Salona and Segestica. As the Julii the first thing after capturing Segesta is to go after Salona and then Segestica. After things heat up with the Gauls and you get the two provinces to the north, Narbo Martius is the key city heading west. The thing about Osca is when playing VH/VH you'll have a seemingly endless number of enemies coming at you from multiple directions and defending Narbo Martius will be a full time task . Once you take Osca, the Spanish threat is neutralized as they'll concentrate on retaking it instead.
Agreed. I usually create a buffer zone that i never fully defeated one faction just kept only one province for them because i dont want to fight a new war with another faction
I agree with all of these besides Osca. Like you, i thought that if i blocked off that mountain pass i would be ok. I learned the hard way that armies can actually walk around along the coast of either side! Anyway besides that, great vid :)
watchtowers exist. the pathway on the south leads south to Osca so you can intercept anything moving that direction and the route up north takes a gazillion turns due to the very right terrain and 1 million kilometers away from any road. a watchtower there literally allows you to recruit a big army before anyone gets near one of your cities.
Luvanum, just north of the alps is very good. Not the city itself but the river crossing in the province. Placing a moderate army with lots of archers on the bridge at Luvanum will mean you can easily defend against Barbarians to the north. Bridge battles are very easy, even on VH/VH, the AI does not recognise the force multiplier effect of an army guarding a bridge.
Dear BlueMatona, I do believe this could go fit in your rtw guide play list, it's a really cool set of tips and I didn't see this in there, thought to mention just in case
@@DerCheker10 oh cool. I’ve been doing a Carthage campaign and I’ve decided to attack all the islands in the Mediterranean to pass the time until Rome is strong enough to put up a good fight
@@DerCheker10 i played as the romans and i had conquer all of their european historical settlements. I even used cheats and gave the seleucids 400.000 denarii and thei still lost. But when i play with the seleucids after turn 10 i steamroll everyone, why does this keep happening?
Massilia is incredibly defensible. To the east, Mediolanium is two or more turns' march away (unless a Roman faction has fully built up the roads), giving you time to recruit reinforcements, retrain troops, and garrison the bridge. To the West, you have TWO bridges that you can use to defend, so that even if the first bridge gets overwhelmed by three or four waves of enemy stacks, they'll be too worn out to overwhelm the second bridge garrison.
Wouldn't Porolissum also make a good strategic point? While I know those territories aren't threatened that much, it can make for a good stronghold while expanding north-east. The mountain ranges encircle it and there's only a few mountain passes, so setting a few forts at those passages can slow down most armies and make you gain a few turns to train more troops. It is also not too far from Campus Iazigeus and Campus Scythium, which can provide good economic support due to naval trades and can be reinforced pretty easily with armies trained in Porolissum.
What you can do if you are a hoplite faction and have bylazora and all land below the Danube, if you Dont want to expand north of the Danube you can pay the small price of like 2000 a turn putting tiny hoplite armies on bridge crossings, and as long as you have at least 2 unkits of hoplites you can easily defend each river crossing. in my Greek cities campaign i did this.
Indeed a good tactic, i even managed to stop chariots with only skirmishers and peasants for cover..... But.... Scythian horse archers have a range longer then the width of a river (even the Danube) and do very nasty things to hoplites when outnumbering them
Oscar can be attacked from any direction, you would have to have multiple armies out of the settlement at 3 river crossings to stop unyielding Spanish assaults if taken from them, I found it very difficult.
@@wnd9434 they are like military alliance they join you’re war and give you income but can betray you anytime and AI in Rome 1 is fucked up so they are gonna do it anyway
I took kydonia as carthage when I was at war with Greek City States and helped me attack there docks with ships and I could build a small army and take other places like rhodes
Defensively Masillia is probably the best, only 2 ways in and both are river crossings. Bylazora and tylis together make it so there’s a border on the Danube which only has 3 crossing points, playing as Macedon or Thrace and you can plug all 3 with a few pikes easy
massilia is easy to take because it's owned by rebels at the start of julii campaign, but the gauls will quickly attack you if you take it (they'll attack you if you don't take it as well, obviously). But without spears it's very costly to defend. I prefer to let the gauls build up mediolanium a bit and then just steal it from them to save on building. Mediolanium is in no way an economic province. It has no port, and only 3 land trade partners. It has high fertility, but w/e. I typically just make it the main military center while focusing economic growth in arretium, arriminum, segesta and patavium.
Yeah, letting them build the temple that gives a bonus to ranged weapons is incredibly useful. You can train some deadly skirmishers there, and the culture penalty is still somewhat manageable
This video is essentially exactly wrong, and the comments are a better source of information. Don't guard the grass - what's important to hold are urbanized centers that can quickly retrain troops or that provide an economic advantage. Don't worry about controlling Bylazora, for example, if you control Thessalonica; worry that guarding Bylazora will cost your advanced units two turns retraining in Thessalonica before returning to the front line, and that those professional units may be destroyed if left diminished in the poorer settlement, not to mention the fact that it's easier for the enemy to ambush you from behind those "defensive" mountains. If you can control Athens, Rhodes or Seleucia for the economic advantage, do it early. If you can take Carthage, Arretium/Tarsus, Sparta, Thessalonica, Memphis, etc. in a contentious territory, prioritize it so that you can build and retrain a professional army to harass, seize and control the surrounding territories. In R:TW logistics is king.
Not really. When I play as the Julii, I usually put an army in a fort at that mountain pass that separates the peninsula from the rest of Europe, locking it off and letting the Spanish, Gauls, and Carthaginians duke it out in there until I can bother to send an actual army in there to clear them all out.
Those are the two most defensible cities in the game, true. But they're not actually defending anything of any importance or strategic value. They're just really annoying to attack because they're so isolated.
the only times i've had issues with dacia is when i took some of those rebel held towns at the start of the game. If you just ignore them at the start and let the brutii have them Dacia will probably never bother you.
I remember when I was a kid, I was playing RTW on my brother’s computer, I think I was the Brutii I was in the battle with Greek forces and I lost; I raged quit and broke my brother’s computer 😂. Now, I’m currently playing the game on my iPhone, it’s still super fun, I play the game on very hard difficulty. The golden shield and the spartan troops are a pain. I look at your vids to help me, I’ve gotten better through time. I hope you still make vids like this.
Yeah probably should've included that one. There are a few old videos I want to go back and re do because I'm not completely happy with them. Have learned a lot over the past few years haha
The bridges for me are very strategic...
Take control of your borderline bridges and you can defeat thousands of enemies with one army
lol that's basically what I do as Seleucid to protect Antioch. I just station an army on bridge that's near Antioch to defend the North while I try to take out Egypt
Patavium is a one very important settlement too
Yes, but he did mention it, and explained why he didn't choose it instead
@@MajWinters100 1. Because of its geographical situation.
2. Its one of the most fertile province in the entire game after Egypt and Mesopotamia. I verified when in the late game i only have 2nd level farming and it was the most populated city in Italy. I played with the Julii. I dont know why he didnt mention it.
@@heberrodriguez3310 he did mention, he said he wasn't sure which one to choose but picked Medi instead, but to be fair, his points stand for both towns, you have chokes for both of them, allowing a good defense, and while he did mention other advantages, he says his choice is mostly from a positional standpoint, not economic or whatnot. So you're both correct.
i realize it's kinda off topic but do anyone know of a good site to watch newly released tv shows online?
@Koda Prince lately I have been using FlixZone. Just search on google for it =)
I would consider Iuvavum (just north of Patavium) a strong, strategic settlement as it sits right at the end of a passage through the mountains of Northern Italy. When I play as Germania, I use that settlement to guard the my southern border and provide a staging point for any incursions into Italy.
What about Rhodes though: money money money moooooney, MONEY!
Rhodes is arguably #1.
@@ahagglund what's good about rhodes?
Huge bonus to all sea trade...something like 40%
@@ahagglund oh damn. Yeah here because I saw the remastered trailer lol.
@Sterling Dominick Oh you don't have another account saying "Definitely, I have been watching on flixzone for months myself :D" this time? If anyone else reads this, DON'T it's a scam
My top ten(not in order) : Athens,Corinth,Sparta,Kydonia,Pergamun,Tarsus,Alexandria,Memphis,Campus Getae,Rhodes,south Italy provinces,Carthage. So,taking these provinces or most of them helps you A LOT in campaign not just for their location but also for the resources they provide and keep in mind that the sea trade will make you the richest faction by far. For me,these are the provinces that have helped me the most and i believe they are the most important to conquer strategically speaking.
I think everyone knew that asturica should be at least an honorable mention, it’s the most defensive city in the game
It is very defensible, but isn't really holding any strategic importance sitting in the north west of Spain
The iron rings of Bilbao, eh?
Nicomedia and Byzantion are quite important too. You can block any ships from moving north or south by blocking the Bosporus. Also Rhodes is hugely valuable as the Wonder there gives a massive bonus to trade across your whole empire.
There's nothing in the north. Just scythians.
@@SerTempleton Thrace & Armenia
@@steveperez178nibba really replied to a 2 year old comment 💀
@@satanwithinternet2753 ironic 😂
BROOOOOOOOOO i did not think u would reply.
and yea i thought it would be quite funny if u replied to him after 2 years a d i replied to u after 2 years@@steveperez178
I have a problem with some city:
-Bylazora shold protect Thessalonica, but its still vulerable from 4 other ways. Even if its guarded, it means nothing. On the other hand, Thessalonica can provide troops and money early on, and it separates more front from eachother.
-Crete has no capability to build ships early on, also a poor province comparedto other greek cities. With ships you can block the water without that island from Athen, Sparta and/or Rhodos. Rhodos also provide a HUGE boost to you economy and can build strong ships pretty early.
-Cothus (the armenian city) defends nothing. Blocked borders against the nomads just dont worth much, but eah, in multiplayer, it might be usefull.
-Memphis. Alexandria give everything as Memphis, but also a signifivant trade income. But even with that, It defends nothing, nobody comes from the desert, more likely to use ships.
My honorable mentions:
-Babylon, huge income for late game.
-Carthage, strongest city in its region, in money and in militarly, and good position for a naval block.
-Londonium, relatively strong, good rout for the coast of france, also who hold it, controlles the british island
-Tarentum, good foothold for envaders, good naval def for italians.
-Thessalonica, Athene, Rhodos, Alexandria, as i said earlier
You talked about multiplayer, can we play a multiplayer campaign on that game?
@@gc6826 there is a hotseat mod with some places free. Ask Melkor here on TH-cam.
Zord 13, he did mention at the start he was only referring to the locations, not things like population and resources (but he did mention the pyramid tho)
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 yes, but he mostly focused on positioning, while adding any other benefits
Yeah totally agree but a bit unsure about Londonium
Yeah it has good position to manage British island but it's small and as soon as you conquer it there won't be any problem with it (imo)
Funny, some of these regions, I perceive more as a liability, because taking them early probably gets you warring with 2 other factions.
Using navies and trade bonus of Mediterranean ports, mean I'd rate Carthage as strategic, giving people and high unit level.
Then in early game Salona/Segestica matter for Julii/Brutii because of relatively lucrative mines.
Rhodes is a key wonder, it's an insane trade bonus.
But the strategic value of regions change during the game. Often good river defenses provide massacre choke points, bottle up hordes with economy.
Island bases can provide good footholds, using range of navies to meet threats or more likely cause them to enemy factions.
Good large cities matter a lot though, in a way that Osca simply never has to me, I just roll it up in either coastal sweep or a full Iberican campaign after los Ibéricos estaban locos
I agree about Salona and Segestica. As the Julii the first thing after capturing Segesta is to go after Salona and then Segestica. After things heat up with the Gauls and you get the two provinces to the north, Narbo Martius is the key city heading west. The thing about Osca is when playing VH/VH you'll have a seemingly endless number of enemies coming at you from multiple directions and defending Narbo Martius will be a full time task . Once you take Osca, the Spanish threat is neutralized as they'll concentrate on retaking it instead.
Agreed. I usually create a buffer zone that i never fully defeated one faction just kept only one province for them because i dont want to fight a new war with another faction
I agree with all of these besides Osca. Like you, i thought that if i blocked off that mountain pass i would be ok. I learned the hard way that armies can actually walk around along the coast of either side! Anyway besides that, great vid :)
watchtowers exist. the pathway on the south leads south to Osca so you can intercept anything moving that direction and the route up north takes a gazillion turns due to the very right terrain and 1 million kilometers away from any road. a watchtower there literally allows you to recruit a big army before anyone gets near one of your cities.
I play german faction then i took massilia asap. Defended those 2 bridges with 4 spear warband... NO ONE ENTERS AND NO ONE LEAVES! >:(
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
Luvanum, just north of the alps is very good. Not the city itself but the river crossing in the province.
Placing a moderate army with lots of archers on the bridge at Luvanum will mean you can easily defend against Barbarians to the north.
Bridge battles are very easy, even on VH/VH, the AI does not recognise the force multiplier effect of an army guarding a bridge.
Not really what you were going for, but Rhodes for the insane trade bonus is a must-have.
Dear BlueMatona, I do believe this could go fit in your rtw guide play list, it's a really cool set of tips and I didn't see this in there, thought to mention just in case
I enjoyed the visual aids. Nice work!
Salamis, Rhodes and Athens missing here
What’s the benefit of Athens and salamis?
@@buckwave7047 They basically print money because of their excellent geostrategic trading position
@@DerCheker10 oh cool. I’ve been doing a Carthage campaign and I’ve decided to attack all the islands in the Mediterranean to pass the time until Rome is strong enough to put up a good fight
@@buckwave7047 Good decision. I´m also doing this with the seleucids. It´s the most fun if you wait until the Marian reforms
@@DerCheker10 i played as the romans and i had conquer all of their european historical settlements. I even used cheats and gave the seleucids 400.000 denarii and thei still lost. But when i play with the seleucids after turn 10 i steamroll everyone, why does this keep happening?
Massilia is incredibly defensible. To the east, Mediolanium is two or more turns' march away (unless a Roman faction has fully built up the roads), giving you time to recruit reinforcements, retrain troops, and garrison the bridge. To the West, you have TWO bridges that you can use to defend, so that even if the first bridge gets overwhelmed by three or four waves of enemy stacks, they'll be too worn out to overwhelm the second bridge garrison.
Wouldn't Porolissum also make a good strategic point? While I know those territories aren't threatened that much, it can make for a good stronghold while expanding north-east. The mountain ranges encircle it and there's only a few mountain passes, so setting a few forts at those passages can slow down most armies and make you gain a few turns to train more troops. It is also not too far from Campus Iazigeus and Campus Scythium, which can provide good economic support due to naval trades and can be reinforced pretty easily with armies trained in Porolissum.
You are my fav RTW youtuber!
Same
Same
same.. too bad he gone for months :(
can you do the same video for rtr imperium surrectum? as there are so many cities, its a hard thing to think about which cities are the best located
What you can do if you are a hoplite faction and have bylazora and all land below the Danube, if you Dont want to expand north of the Danube you can pay the small price of like 2000 a turn putting tiny hoplite armies on bridge crossings, and as long as you have at least 2 unkits of hoplites you can easily defend each river crossing. in my Greek cities campaign i did this.
Indeed a good tactic, i even managed to stop chariots with only skirmishers and peasants for cover..... But.... Scythian horse archers have a range longer then the width of a river (even the Danube) and do very nasty things to hoplites when outnumbering them
I do it for Hoplite and Roman factions, expand to all the bridge choke points and then play defensively, spying and assassinating my neighbours
@@poorpotato7623 build forts aswell
Oscar can be attacked from any direction, you would have to have multiple armies out of the settlement at 3 river crossings to stop unyielding Spanish assaults if taken from them, I found it very difficult.
Yoo ive been trying to make a faction come under mine as a protectorate...how do you do this?
If i am remembering good only eastern faction can do this...
Overpay by 5,000,000 denarii
What is the positive side of the protectorate? Does it give something to us or they can betrayed at anytime they want when we are weak?
@@wnd9434 they are like military alliance they join you’re war and give you income but can betray you anytime and AI in Rome 1 is fucked up so they are gonna do it anyway
You missed Tarsus. Just west of Antioch, it's the only route that armies can take between Asia Minor and Syria for miles around.
I would add also Calaris, Bizantium and Siracusae
What was the ancient looking font you used?
I took kydonia as carthage when I was at war with Greek City States and helped me attack there docks with ships and I could build a small army and take other places like rhodes
1:18. Makes me wonder why the Macedonian rulers didn't exploit that city during the rl wars with Rome.
Cuz there is no "city".
@@hannibalburgers477 So CA made it up?
Awesome video !
Porrolisium is like the best an easily defended one in the game but go off ig
Defensively Masillia is probably the best, only 2 ways in and both are river crossings. Bylazora and tylis together make it so there’s a border on the Danube which only has 3 crossing points, playing as Macedon or Thrace and you can plug all 3 with a few pikes easy
massilia is easy to take because it's owned by rebels at the start of julii campaign, but the gauls will quickly attack you if you take it (they'll attack you if you don't take it as well, obviously). But without spears it's very costly to defend. I prefer to let the gauls build up mediolanium a bit and then just steal it from them to save on building. Mediolanium is in no way an economic province. It has no port, and only 3 land trade partners. It has high fertility, but w/e. I typically just make it the main military center while focusing economic growth in arretium, arriminum, segesta and patavium.
Yeah, letting them build the temple that gives a bonus to ranged weapons is incredibly useful. You can train some deadly skirmishers there, and the culture penalty is still somewhat manageable
It all depends on which faction you got
This video is essentially exactly wrong, and the comments are a better source of information. Don't guard the grass - what's important to hold are urbanized centers that can quickly retrain troops or that provide an economic advantage. Don't worry about controlling Bylazora, for example, if you control Thessalonica; worry that guarding Bylazora will cost your advanced units two turns retraining in Thessalonica before returning to the front line, and that those professional units may be destroyed if left diminished in the poorer settlement, not to mention the fact that it's easier for the enemy to ambush you from behind those "defensive" mountains.
If you can control Athens, Rhodes or Seleucia for the economic advantage, do it early. If you can take Carthage, Arretium/Tarsus, Sparta, Thessalonica, Memphis, etc. in a contentious territory, prioritize it so that you can build and retrain a professional army to harass, seize and control the surrounding territories. In R:TW logistics is king.
Cornth?
Themiskyra numba 1, home sweet home numba 2
Some strategist you are, you rightly guessed only Massalia and Corinth.
Is there anything in Spain worth taking though!
Not really. When I play as the Julii, I usually put an army in a fort at that mountain pass that separates the peninsula from the rest of Europe, locking it off and letting the Spanish, Gauls, and Carthaginians duke it out in there until I can bother to send an actual army in there to clear them all out.
Asturica and Themikyra too
Those are the two most defensible cities in the game, true. But they're not actually defending anything of any importance or strategic value. They're just really annoying to attack because they're so isolated.
You should have also included Rhodes tbh.
You assume one has no problem to the east of patavium
What happens if Greece goes nuts
Yeah I'm in hell
the only times i've had issues with dacia is when i took some of those rebel held towns at the start of the game. If you just ignore them at the start and let the brutii have them Dacia will probably never bother you.
In mine, German and Macedons go nuts and attack Patvium all the time
In my experience, the only ones who wind up attacking Patavium are the Brutii, after the Civil War has started.
Kydonia is modern day Cyprus, not Krit
Nice
I remember when I was a kid, I was playing RTW on my brother’s computer, I think I was the Brutii I was in the battle with Greek forces and I lost; I raged quit and broke my brother’s computer 😂. Now, I’m currently playing the game on my iPhone, it’s still super fun, I play the game on very hard difficulty. The golden shield and the spartan troops are a pain. I look at your vids to help me, I’ve gotten better through time. I hope you still make vids like this.
It's available for phones? What's the name of it?
It is. Look up Rome Total War on your app store
Okay.. Now top 5 Worst Settlement
Save 8 mins and just say anywhere at a choke point...
I love Athens, money money
yesss, 4000 for some reason
CORNITH!
Melkor? Lol
@@steveperez178 no, but I am a follower of the one true God ;)
😂
If this was TWA I would have pick Byzantium/Constantinople good luck breaking the 3 layer theodosian walls plus the golden horn Muhahahahahahaha.
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Do mods
I'm playing on the Feral Interactive version on the Mac app store. I don't think I can mod it unfortunately
This guys drunk
CORNITH
Yeah probably should've included that one. There are a few old videos I want to go back and re do because I'm not completely happy with them. Have learned a lot over the past few years haha
Alright do it good luck
Only 11 more...
Defenceable lol