Faction Guides: • Rome Total War Faction... Today we discuss how to defeat Egypt on the campaign map in Rome Total War. Many tips/advice and strategy for the imperial campaign
I once did it with building like 20 assasins and then assasinating every family member encountered, this makes dealing with the Egypt army spam easier, however the AI cheats and just creates more family members out of nowhere so you can't take them out fully like this. Then I turned my assasins attention to towns and sabotaged every single building that provides happiness or public order, and put multiple spies in targeted towns to provide even more unrest. The Egyptians lost about 50% settlements to rebellions, it was quite glorious :D
This is how I used to win in Shogun, I’d focus on building up my settlements until I could train geishas and just assassinate all the other faction leaders until there were only rebels left
i had no idea spies lowered public order... i read this and was like 'wtf is he on about'... loaded up the game, loaded a campaign and read the statistics about spies.. then i sent in a bunch of spies into an enemy settlement and each one lowered it 10%, up to like 50%. i couldn't believe i've never paid attention to this before. What shame i have brought on my house!
aaaand RIP. tried to experiment with it in an old Julii campaign, and i couldn't get it to trigger riots against Gaul (who only have two settlements left) nor spain, nor britainnia. i would target deep settlements with no gov and no garrison, trying to trigger rioting, my mobs of spies would drop order to 45, 55,60, 70. Hit end turn, magically those settlements would be up to 90%+ the next turn. no explanation. A.I. just miracling up 50%+ Public Order. All i can think is maybe it's dumping taxes down to nothing.
@@maxdecphoenix Hmm, don't know what would cause it to go up so rapidly, it's quite possible that the AI cheats to get higher public order for free, especially on higher difficulties. Spies can only cause a maximum of 50% unrest (that is 1 maximum level spy that has 10 "eye" skills, or sevelar lesser ones) so it isn't very effective always. I found the best use of spies is against large settlements with a big number of people, combined with assasins sabotaging every single building that gives public order or happiness. That way you can drop the town down to 0% public order even, which would help significantly in trying to force it to rebel. I think you would have an easier time trying to rebel an Egyptian large town for example, which has several public order buildings and a lot of people, rather than a barbarian town.
@@brodosam3195 I did some experiments in game, and yes, the A.I. does alter taxes to combat the spies. You can gauge the tax rate by looking at the settlement's income and population growth. in one instance i moved a bunch of spies into a Spanish settlement which dropped the P.O. to around 60%. I noted that the income was around $267 and the growth rate was 1%. I ended turn, and checked again; the P.O. was back up to 80%, but the settlement income had dropped to $87 ($-180) and Pop. Growth increased to 1.5%, indicating that the A.I. had in fact dropped the taxes to avoid riots. I think it's sound tactics to use them even on smaller factions/smaller settlements. Having to perpetually combat -50% P.O. in multiple or all settlements opens a whole other front in the war. Causing economic strain by forcing the enemy to lower taxes considerably and/or pay to create/maintain garrison units instead of field units; while losing money. Basically turning a settlement that's supposed to be an asset into a liability. The other thing is that because taxes are low, populations will rise more rapidly than the A.I. can contend with while they're being starved of cash to build/rebuild structures to combat P.O./squalor which will induce rioting. When paired with blockading ports, keeping a unit or two on the roads to interrupt overland trade, and a largish army in a region to cause devestation can rapidly cripple a settlement. I noticed that if land rebels are standing near a port they will also blockade the port, and you can do that too. So you can blockade ports from sea and/or land.
Do what I do, conquer everything else on the map, reach the Egyptians and just got "let's just PRESUME I would have beat them" and start another campaign.
No no no that’s not how it works, you’ll play as Britannia and eventually you’ll reach the Egyptians and they’ll control all of Asia Minor, Arabia, Modern Day Egypt, and Parthia will be their protectorate(this is happening before my eyes with the Germans) Edit:spelling
@@zachmaloney6631 Good thing you can easily counter Egypt as the Germans with Phalanx spearmen, Gothic Cavalry, War Dogs and some of the better archers in the game (not counting mercenaries), so it's not really as bad as it looks.
I find blockading ports to be somewhat useless on higher difficulties, as the game cheats other factions money. I use naval superiority because the opponent then cannot as quickly move armies around or prevent you from shipping in more troops by sea. This is one of the reasons why Rome is so powerful late game: due to their highways, they are more mobile than any other faction.
Nice video, Lugotorix! I just want to add a few more tips :) As you said, you must be prepared to face Egypt and I totally agree with you. That is the reason I build a massive army and a good naval force. That way I can destroy their boats and block the ports (all of them at the same time). That will do a big damage to their economy and that is the way I like to suffocate Egypt. Then I use my army in the north (Tarsus, Antioch...) to lure their full stack armies. Once they are moving, I attack from the south, specifically Memphis to reduce the public order in the other cities. This way they will implode and you can take nice advantage. Last tip: Carry ate least 1/2 catapults in your armies so you can take unprotected cities quicker. I know it can be difficult to defeat them, but with the right strategy and some patience they will fall on your feet, soldier!
Your armies will be slower then though which can be a pain and really negate the extra turn you safe from not having to towers and rams. It's really good to pick up mercenary war elephants though (they're quite rare). They count as cavalry and move as fast as horses on the campaign map and can break down city walls as long as they're not made of stone.
I remember when I did a julii campaign and I conquered western europe and I looked at egypt and they had like most of the middle east and they had full stacks in egypt... I never actually tried to attack them cause I got bored of the campaign... don't really think egypt is that big of a deal when you play as rome with legionaries and pretorian cav, but still nice video... I like this 'how to beat x' concept... maybe a 'How to beat romans' ??
Just wrapped up a campaign as Julii. Took all of the known world except Parthia and Numidia. Quickly focused my forces on the Levant Judea region and quickly mopped up Egypt as they had no reserves defending their flank in actual Nile Egypt.
Lugotorix, the best way to defeat egypt is to take one of their cities and make sure you have at least 12 decent units and watch the entire military of Egypt rush to siege that one city and defeat them on the walls or in the city itself. Egypt is quite a weak faction for assulting a settlement but strong when defending. Every faction except for Parthia, Scythia and Armenia should beat Egypt in most siege situations
I have clashed with Egypt playing as Brutii, with massive budget and having legionaries in my army. I attacked them first, and captured the Tarsus, then they strike back, but i have bought every general who was trying to invade me :D
I pretty much always go for Alexandria and Memphis first to cut them off from the two massive production centers rather than grinding through the Middle East and letting them rally for a last stand in those massive cities. It also gives you high population cities to crank out armies from if the war goes on. If you can't blitz Egypt proper, you're in trouble.
I remember with my first long campaign with the Julii I had Gaius Julius with his elite imperial army literally ransack all the way from Tarsus down to Memphis. I'd take a settlement and destroy all their buildings and move on to the next. By the time I had captured the Pyramids Egypt was basically crippled and I had enough time to regroup and reconquer. Was pretty epic shit.
Glad people still enjoy this game and came to share their campaign and experience My first war against Egypt was in Siwa with the Brutii, a very long and funny campaign, I land with my full army of veterans (silver and golden chevron) lead by the family head and my best general when Egypt send half army with slingers, nubians and two chariot units with no general. Balance was in my favor 5 to 1, because was tired after hours of play just autoresolve and guest what? Decesive Defeat. I lost all my army who take me 20 years to built. Legions, equites, velites, all. I was so angry and sad that leave the game alone for months. Now on this years I replay againt and beat them in their own lands. Was so sweet, and could be more if wasnt by a plague in Thebas that kill my hear. :(
Great Video! :D A great strategy to use alongside this one in taking the settlements is to positions those armies and navies near Alexandria, Sidon, Jerusalem with catapults/ballistas, so that you can potentially take multiple, lightly-defended settlements within one turn. That way, you can already be moving on to attacking a second round of settlements by the same turn as you would otherwise just have completed your siege equipment.
Can't forget the time, when I figured out like 15 years ago, how to beat them, with exactly the same tactic you described in this video :D I was playing with the Brutii, had a decent empire by the time, but Egypt already conquered the entire area, which belonged to Numidia, Seleucid, Parthia, Armenia, Pontus etc, and they started to swarm over my cities in (todays ofc) western Turkey, if I defended any, another full stack army attacked the next round, so they kept some cities under siege over years. They did this for around 10-15 years in the game, and I was so annoyed, that recruited like 3 armies back in Italy and sailed them over to todays Egypt just to do some damage to them, and how was I surprised to see those valuable, but almost empty cities.... Since then I never had any problem to deal with them. :D
Great video's. Old time player that has learned a few new tricks from you! I actually think Egypt is one of the easiest big powers to take down. For some reason they never have any armies in Egypt proper....Amphibious landing in Alexandria with 2 solid armies and then blitz their 3 huge Nile cities. Build up soldiers for inevitable counter attack and defend rivers. I am shocked how easy it is.
Good video! Insightful comments about how to beat the blasted Eggys. Only slight quibble is that the images you are using in the background are at a lower resolution than the video :)
Also, if you are a phalanx faction, attacking before the Marian reforms is good: - Egyptian chariot generals melt like butter in the sun when faced with the business end of a phalanx
I usually attack from the north, wait for their troops to rush up there, and in the process they leave their heartland mostly ungarded. Sweep in, take the cities (Alexandria etc). Then wait for their armies to return and break them like water on a rock using their city walls against them. Plus i like getting the pyrmid wonder before taking their lands
Currently playing the Julii and me and the Egyptians have been at war for nearly 70 turns. All of Asia Minor has been conquered, a mass of Roman legions has just poured across their lands. Currently fighting for Sidon and Damascus, Egypt is finally on their last stand against my red horde😂😂😂😂 they spawn doom stacks pretty quickly but if you have a solid couple armies of legionnaires, auxilia archers and solid cavalry you will annihilate the Egyptians. They play very defensively so it’s easy to out maneuver them, soon I’ll be turning around to fight the rest of Rome. The key for facing them on the battlefield is to keep them off of hills, hills make their spearmen stupid powerful so try to maneuver them off of the hills
Haven’t played this version in years, but I’ve always would play as a Roman faction. I’d abandon my starting territories, demolish all buildings for extra cash, then send all my armies via ships and land at Alexandria, besiege it and finally fight out about 2-3 battles the Egyptians send while besieging and after that they have no large armies left and I finish to mop up the rest of their empire.
What worked for me was just building up a strong navy and blockading their ports and take like 1 province every few turns after you have kinda built up the last province
anything works on lower difficulty levels. on VH/VH however, the AI spawns full stack armies constantly just out of your vision range and attacks you relentlessly. the extent of AI cheating, besides difficulty level, depends on the economy of the faction. that's why late game well established Romans or Egyptians are considered hard to deal with. striking quickly on multiple fronts and taking as many settlements as you can very early, is the way to go.
In my experience the best way to defeat a developed Egypt is twofold. Firstly you need to utterly defeat their navy. The Egyptians make bank from levantine trade but they can only build level 2 trade ports, which means they can only build triremes. Blockade the levant and their income will dry up. Secondly you need good foot archers. Chariots and phalanx spears are really vulnerable to massed missile units. Egypt is especially vulnerable to this because their elite spearmen don't have shields. Go for a decapitation strike on the egyptian heartland and abuse the sheer number of bridges on the nile to make them throw their chariots away. Phalanx spearmen of your own make this much easier.
I always try to blitzkrieg them. Send a couple of armies to Alexandria and try to take those cities asap. They tend to have a lot of armies that spawn quickly so it works if I am aggressive from the start.
How to beat Egypt if you are the Seleucid have some small defensive armies made of milita hoplites and levy pikemen blocking the bridges and mountain pass ideally in forts so you can have cover from their missile units and funnel the Egyptians head onto the pikes, meanwhile launch a naval invasion with a strike army into the Egyptian heartland. Take their main settlements of Alexandria and Memphis, exterminate the population and demolish all their buildings. Then evacuate or disband your strike army and now the Nile delta is left off as basically a scorched wasteland. Egypt is now in a position where they can't rebuild their armies and will have trouble upkeeping their existing ones while they rebuild their infrastructure. If you don't want to disband your strike army and can't evacuate them then recommend keeping your army in the captured cities. If you have pikemen or hoplites in your army you can use the city choke points to your advantages which will increase the effectiveness of your faction's strength while reducing the Egyptians strengths
All the Seleucids want is a friend, and instead every other faction attacks them. It sucks when you play as a faction outside of the eastern part of the map, because the Seleucids have such a fun unit roster and you never get to fight them. They always die by Turn 30 when the AI controls them. I’ve only been able to fight them as Rome in custom battles. Never in the campaign.
With any problematic faction I start with dismantling their economy (prevents recruitments) and damaging their public order - no need for an army, just block their ports, and use several assassins' to destroy buildings in the settlements, after few turns their economy is in the red, they can't build/recruit - easy win, it sometimes even results in an uprising/riots/city turns to rebels.
Trying as Parthia I tend to besiege then just trounce them and the garrison in the open field. Difficult though as Chariots can shred horse archers if not careful.
Tried invading Egypt as the Julii after i conquered Spain, Gaul and Carthage. I amassed possibly my largest army yet 2 full armies of 20 with 12 infantry, 3 archers and 4 cavalry and 1 half army of mostly cavalry an infantry. The half army would march from Carthage to Egypt taking what it could and holding there before Alexandra, the 2 full armies would land at Alexandra and Jerusalem. Long story short i was not prepared to handle the cavalry spam and i got trampled an sieged into default but i inflicted 5× my army size. After what seemed like a clear defeat i started a scortched earth plan if demolishing building at all settlements i was hold except the far west witch i was retreating to to regroup and wait for reinforcement and blockading most of their ports for sea Dominates.
You barely ever have to declare war on Egypt, they'll usually attack you anyway. Their roster is respectable (especially chariot archers and pharaoh's bowmen) but not perfect. My favored strategy for beating them is a surgical strike at their power base. Simply invest in a good navy and land a couple of full stacks near Alexandria. They rarely have strong defenses in the area, and once you take Alexandria and Memphis they're toast. Thebes should also fall pretty quickly. Now the Egyptians have lost their best recruitment options and have to worry about being hit from behind. Just don't underestimate their remaining armies and they'll die in no time.
5-6 Phalanx vs chariots and cavalrty. General x2. Good cavalry to backstab x3. Horse archers, archers - the rest. Shoot flaming arrows at chariots. Horse archers for their phalanxes when they approach you. Run away from their phalanxes with yours. Let the archers kill everything.
To beat them as a non roman faction hammer and anvil tactics work very well im currently playing as the selucids and i just sacked memphis however this is where i might struggle as my army took a decent hit taking memphis but i think i got this. Edit: attacks egypt asap steam roll them befor they army spam
4 steps.step 1 build a great army and navy atleast have full 2 stacks of both,step 2 land your troops on alexandria and attack there home land it will be easy because they dont have many men there, step 3 with one stack attack the citys and with the other build a fort and buy time for your second army to finish and join and re group with the holding army as the trops are going to attack from the levant, step 4 attack the rest of the settlements and use the navy to blockade and harras the enemy fleat.
When I started fight the Egyptians was during the civil war chasing the scipi I took the scipi out in Egypt and Jerusalem the swarms of Egyptians came from Turkey is completely overwhelming
I did a bruti campaign beat everybody. Green map lol. I had about 15 epic battles with the sword. Crossed logo. About seven or eight of those were in egypt Isreal area. Because of them. They the real deal
How to change factions midway your campaign? I would love to play some factions that are not possible on RTW: Barbarian Invasion. (like the Romano-British)
As rome the one unit I feel I have no answer for is chariots. Britannia has chariots too and even with auxillia and archers they do horrific damage. They piss me off more than any other unit in the game.
Should really do a Rome one, I find them much more trickier than Egypt, (I usually like to play as Spain Gaul, Briton, Germany and Dacia) Rome are Usally massive when I get to the.
Well because of their lands Egypt can recruit troops more easily and cheap than others factions. You can send assassins to kill generals and family members to weakened. But even with latest patch avoid autoresolve against them, siege and open field battles, if they have chariots. That damn bug really ruin your campaign.
I wanna play this game so much now!! But it says "failed initialise 3d audio" i have windows 10 and I already tried to change preference folder (smtg about AA_Quality i believe) Pls if Anyone Can Help!?
To unlock factions to be able to play I've used to pick for example Bruti Romans, build one army and then rush into enemy lands. Just one army is enough to deal with Egypt, Seleucids, Greeks, Carthage, etc. Just rush through and retrain in conquered cities. Then I was just playing normally with conquered state.
"How to beat Egypt in rtw?" Easy:Just be Egypt lol.That's what I always do.They're my favorite faction.Ahh,mighty slave trading/owning and endless treasury Egypt.Lol
Egypt are a problem for you? Lel, just attack them first, egypt is weak on the sea, just start taking all sea cities, and the island, spam cheap hoplits if you play with greek, seleucids, or macedons ^^ and always come from behind
Just hit the Egyptians early and hard and you shouldn't have too many issues. Their early units are not as good as most people think. If you let Egypt build up, it will become a very difficult adversary.
I like your reviews, but I cannot help but say this: all RomeTW faction guides are useless because the game (in vanilla state) is very very easy. I really don't know how bad you have to be in order to not simply roll over everyone by attacking the next settlement.
I simply landed my main army in Alexandria and wiped out their major cities within 3 turns; their main army must have been fighting wars to their northeast; I would next have to head over to Sidon and Antioch and whatever remains
How to beat any faction:
1. Pick a Roman faction.
2. Get Marian reforms.
3. Say to your enemies, "omae wa mou shinderu".
Nani?!
QVE?!
Missed a step: Spam Arcani.
what?!
@@gabork5055 I see you are a man of culture as well.
I once did it with building like 20 assasins and then assasinating every family member encountered, this makes dealing with the Egypt army spam easier, however the AI cheats and just creates more family members out of nowhere so you can't take them out fully like this. Then I turned my assasins attention to towns and sabotaged every single building that provides happiness or public order, and put multiple spies in targeted towns to provide even more unrest. The Egyptians lost about 50% settlements to rebellions, it was quite glorious :D
This is how I used to win in Shogun, I’d focus on building up my settlements until I could train geishas and just assassinate all the other faction leaders until there were only rebels left
i had no idea spies lowered public order... i read this and was like 'wtf is he on about'... loaded up the game, loaded a campaign and read the statistics about spies.. then i sent in a bunch of spies into an enemy settlement and each one lowered it 10%, up to like 50%. i couldn't believe i've never paid attention to this before. What shame i have brought on my house!
aaaand RIP. tried to experiment with it in an old Julii campaign, and i couldn't get it to trigger riots against Gaul (who only have two settlements left) nor spain, nor britainnia. i would target deep settlements with no gov and no garrison, trying to trigger rioting, my mobs of spies would drop order to 45, 55,60, 70. Hit end turn, magically those settlements would be up to 90%+ the next turn. no explanation. A.I. just miracling up 50%+ Public Order.
All i can think is maybe it's dumping taxes down to nothing.
@@maxdecphoenix Hmm, don't know what would cause it to go up so rapidly, it's quite possible that the AI cheats to get higher public order for free, especially on higher difficulties. Spies can only cause a maximum of 50% unrest (that is 1 maximum level spy that has 10 "eye" skills, or sevelar lesser ones) so it isn't very effective always. I found the best use of spies is against large settlements with a big number of people, combined with assasins sabotaging every single building that gives public order or happiness. That way you can drop the town down to 0% public order even, which would help significantly in trying to force it to rebel. I think you would have an easier time trying to rebel an Egyptian large town for example, which has several public order buildings and a lot of people, rather than a barbarian town.
@@brodosam3195 I did some experiments in game, and yes, the A.I. does alter taxes to combat the spies. You can gauge the tax rate by looking at the settlement's income and population growth. in one instance i moved a bunch of spies into a Spanish settlement which dropped the P.O. to around 60%. I noted that the income was around $267 and the growth rate was 1%. I ended turn, and checked again; the P.O. was back up to 80%, but the settlement income had dropped to $87 ($-180) and Pop. Growth increased to 1.5%, indicating that the A.I. had in fact dropped the taxes to avoid riots.
I think it's sound tactics to use them even on smaller factions/smaller settlements. Having to perpetually combat -50% P.O. in multiple or all settlements opens a whole other front in the war. Causing economic strain by forcing the enemy to lower taxes considerably and/or pay to create/maintain garrison units instead of field units; while losing money. Basically turning a settlement that's supposed to be an asset into a liability. The other thing is that because taxes are low, populations will rise more rapidly than the A.I. can contend with while they're being starved of cash to build/rebuild structures to combat P.O./squalor which will induce rioting.
When paired with blockading ports, keeping a unit or two on the roads to interrupt overland trade, and a largish army in a region to cause devestation can rapidly cripple a settlement. I noticed that if land rebels are standing near a port they will also blockade the port, and you can do that too. So you can blockade ports from sea and/or land.
Do what I do, conquer everything else on the map, reach the Egyptians and just got "let's just PRESUME I would have beat them" and start another campaign.
Simple play as the British and never go near them
I like to play as Britannia, put all my troops on a boat as fast as possible and relocate to Egypt
Or as Pontus, I like Pontus, except for their voice acting (and any eastern factions) because its horrible
This might just be the best tactic against all factions.
No no no that’s not how it works, you’ll play as Britannia and eventually you’ll reach the Egyptians and they’ll control all of Asia Minor, Arabia, Modern Day Egypt, and Parthia will be their protectorate(this is happening before my eyes with the Germans)
Edit:spelling
@@zachmaloney6631 Good thing you can easily counter Egypt as the Germans with Phalanx spearmen, Gothic Cavalry, War Dogs and some of the better archers in the game (not counting mercenaries), so it's not really as bad as it looks.
I find blockading ports to be somewhat useless on higher difficulties, as the game cheats other factions money. I use naval superiority because the opponent then cannot as quickly move armies around or prevent you from shipping in more troops by sea. This is one of the reasons why Rome is so powerful late game: due to their highways, they are more mobile than any other faction.
Nice video, Lugotorix! I just want to add a few more tips :)
As you said, you must be prepared to face Egypt and I totally agree with you. That is the reason I build a massive army and a good naval force. That way I can destroy their boats and block the ports (all of them at the same time). That will do a big damage to their economy and that is the way I like to suffocate Egypt. Then I use my army in the north (Tarsus, Antioch...) to lure their full stack armies. Once they are moving, I attack from the south, specifically Memphis to reduce the public order in the other cities. This way they will implode and you can take nice advantage.
Last tip: Carry ate least 1/2 catapults in your armies so you can take unprotected cities quicker.
I know it can be difficult to defeat them, but with the right strategy and some patience they will fall on your feet, soldier!
Your armies will be slower then though which can be a pain and really negate the extra turn you safe from not having to towers and rams.
It's really good to pick up mercenary war elephants though (they're quite rare). They count as cavalry and move as fast as horses on the campaign map and can break down city walls as long as they're not made of stone.
Thanks for the extra tips man, I always like learning more about the game!
help, unable to recruit half catapults
How to defeat bronze age Egypt: *Become Bronze Age Assyria as Parthia or Armenia.*
Or be the phantomatic “sea peoples”
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@Derek Enzo Yup, have been using Kaldrostream for years myself :)
Sea peoples lost to Egypt.
I’m dealing with the Egyptians in a scipii campaign rn, great advice
Happy to help!
How to beat Egypt? Take their wonders, and watch those full stacks run back to claim their homelands
And get on those bridges
@@mattmcdonald4033 with phalanx and archers!
@@mattmcdonald4033 love chokepoints and mountain regions
I remember when I did a julii campaign and I conquered western europe and I looked at egypt and they had like most of the middle east and they had full stacks in egypt... I never actually tried to attack them cause I got bored of the campaign... don't really think egypt is that big of a deal when you play as rome with legionaries and pretorian cav, but still nice video... I like this 'how to beat x' concept... maybe a 'How to beat romans' ??
Thanks man, glad you thought the video was good. Yeah I definitely want to do a How to beat the Romans video, look out for it soon!
Just wrapped up a campaign as Julii. Took all of the known world except Parthia and Numidia. Quickly focused my forces on the Levant Judea region and quickly mopped up Egypt as they had no reserves defending their flank in actual Nile Egypt.
Happy to see you making videos again!
Thank you
I played this game for the first time a week ago, thanks for making this to help out the newbies. Keep it up!
Glad to help!
Welcome to the world of rtw brother, enjoy!
Hey there great idea. Also I liked your Greek camping specially those episodes where u where fighting the julii over and over in the north of Italy
Thanks a lot man, glad you enjoyed!
Lugotorix, the best way to defeat egypt is to take one of their cities and make sure you have at least 12 decent units and watch the entire military of Egypt rush to siege that one city and defeat them on the walls or in the city itself. Egypt is quite a weak faction for assulting a settlement but strong when defending. Every faction except for Parthia, Scythia and Armenia should beat Egypt in most siege situations
great that someone still make good video about this game
would you in ur next video show us some mods for rome ?
Glad you enjoyed, yeah I could certainly make a video about mods for rome
I have clashed with Egypt playing as Brutii, with massive budget and having legionaries in my army. I attacked them first, and captured the Tarsus, then they strike back, but i have bought every general who was trying to invade me :D
I pretty much always go for Alexandria and Memphis first to cut them off from the two massive production centers rather than grinding through the Middle East and letting them rally for a last stand in those massive cities. It also gives you high population cities to crank out armies from if the war goes on. If you can't blitz Egypt proper, you're in trouble.
I remember with my first long campaign with the Julii I had Gaius Julius with his elite imperial army literally ransack all the way from Tarsus down to Memphis. I'd take a settlement and destroy all their buildings and move on to the next. By the time I had captured the Pyramids Egypt was basically crippled and I had enough time to regroup and reconquer. Was pretty epic shit.
Glad people still enjoy this game and came to share their campaign and experience
My first war against Egypt was in Siwa with the Brutii, a very long and funny campaign, I land with my full army of veterans (silver and golden chevron) lead by the family head and my best general when Egypt send half army with slingers, nubians and two chariot units with no general. Balance was in my favor 5 to 1, because was tired after hours of play just autoresolve and guest what?
Decesive Defeat. I lost all my army who take me 20 years to built. Legions, equites, velites, all. I was so angry and sad that leave the game alone for months.
Now on this years I replay againt and beat them in their own lands. Was so sweet, and could be more if wasnt by a plague in Thebas that kill my hear. :(
Great Video! :D
A great strategy to use alongside this one in taking the settlements is to positions those armies and navies near Alexandria, Sidon, Jerusalem with catapults/ballistas, so that you can potentially take multiple, lightly-defended settlements within one turn. That way, you can already be moving on to attacking a second round of settlements by the same turn as you would otherwise just have completed your siege equipment.
Thank you! Yeah I definitely agree with what you've said, siege equipment is really useful for taking many settlements really quickly
Can't forget the time, when I figured out like 15 years ago, how to beat them, with exactly the same tactic you described in this video :D I was playing with the Brutii, had a decent empire by the time, but Egypt already conquered the entire area, which belonged to Numidia, Seleucid, Parthia, Armenia, Pontus etc, and they started to swarm over my cities in (todays ofc) western Turkey, if I defended any, another full stack army attacked the next round, so they kept some cities under siege over years. They did this for around 10-15 years in the game, and I was so annoyed, that recruited like 3 armies back in Italy and sailed them over to todays Egypt just to do some damage to them, and how was I surprised to see those valuable, but almost empty cities.... Since then I never had any problem to deal with them. :D
I always rush Egypt. Put the troops in a boat, ignore the Senate, and attack.
Great video's. Old time player that has learned a few new tricks from you! I actually think Egypt is one of the easiest big powers to take down. For some reason they never have any armies in Egypt proper....Amphibious landing in Alexandria with 2 solid armies and then blitz their 3 huge Nile cities. Build up soldiers for inevitable counter attack and defend rivers. I am shocked how easy it is.
Keep up the good work mate
Thank you!!
Good video! Insightful comments about how to beat the blasted Eggys.
Only slight quibble is that the images you are using in the background are at a lower resolution than the video :)
Also, if you are a phalanx faction, attacking before the Marian reforms is good: - Egyptian chariot generals melt like butter in the sun when faced with the business end of a phalanx
thanks for the advice man, I'll try and work on the resolution thing for next time!
I usually attack from the north, wait for their troops to rush up there, and in the process they leave their heartland mostly ungarded. Sweep in, take the cities (Alexandria etc). Then wait for their armies to return and break them like water on a rock using their city walls against them. Plus i like getting the pyrmid wonder before taking their lands
Currently playing the Julii and me and the Egyptians have been at war for nearly 70 turns. All of Asia Minor has been conquered, a mass of Roman legions has just poured across their lands. Currently fighting for Sidon and Damascus, Egypt is finally on their last stand against my red horde😂😂😂😂 they spawn doom stacks pretty quickly but if you have a solid couple armies of legionnaires, auxilia archers and solid cavalry you will annihilate the Egyptians. They play very defensively so it’s easy to out maneuver them, soon I’ll be turning around to fight the rest of Rome. The key for facing them on the battlefield is to keep them off of hills, hills make their spearmen stupid powerful so try to maneuver them off of the hills
Blockading the ports is very effective when it comes to Egypt. It’s easier than doing that with other fractions too.
Helps that they can't build quinqueremes so any Roman, Greek/Macedonian, or Carthaginian fleet can easily overwhelm them at sea.
I’m your 3000th sub!!! Wooooo
Thanks a lot!!!
Haven’t played this version in years, but I’ve always would play as a Roman faction. I’d abandon my starting territories, demolish all buildings for extra cash, then send all my armies via ships and land at Alexandria, besiege it and finally fight out about 2-3 battles the Egyptians send while besieging and after that they have no large armies left and I finish to mop up the rest of their empire.
What worked for me was just building up a strong navy and blockading their ports and take like 1 province every few turns after you have kinda built up the last province
anything works on lower difficulty levels. on VH/VH however, the AI spawns full stack armies constantly just out of your vision range and attacks you relentlessly. the extent of AI cheating, besides difficulty level, depends on the economy of the faction. that's why late game well established Romans or Egyptians are considered hard to deal with. striking quickly on multiple fronts and taking as many settlements as you can very early, is the way to go.
How to beat Egypt: Swiftly take on an aggressive offensive and crush their armies
Great video
Thank you!
I'm here for much needed guidance because in my game Egypt has completely taken over everything East of Rhodes.
Best of luck with your campaign!
It is quite simple - Seleucid hoplites :)
Seleucid doesn't have hoplites besides the militia. But yes, longer spears are better than shorter spears.
*philangites
@@couchpotatoe91 Yeah that's what she said;)
In my experience the best way to defeat a developed Egypt is twofold.
Firstly you need to utterly defeat their navy. The Egyptians make bank from levantine trade but they can only build level 2 trade ports, which means they can only build triremes. Blockade the levant and their income will dry up.
Secondly you need good foot archers. Chariots and phalanx spears are really vulnerable to massed missile units. Egypt is especially vulnerable to this because their elite spearmen don't have shields.
Go for a decapitation strike on the egyptian heartland and abuse the sheer number of bridges on the nile to make them throw their chariots away. Phalanx spearmen of your own make this much easier.
I also like putting blockades on all their ports. It causes them to run out of money and will eventually make their army growth slow down.
I always try to blitzkrieg them. Send a couple of armies to Alexandria and try to take those cities asap. They tend to have a lot of armies that spawn quickly so it works if I am aggressive from the start.
How to beat Egypt if you are the Seleucid have some small defensive armies made of milita hoplites and levy pikemen blocking the bridges and mountain pass ideally in forts so you can have cover from their missile units and funnel the Egyptians head onto the pikes, meanwhile launch a naval invasion with a strike army into the Egyptian heartland. Take their main settlements of Alexandria and Memphis, exterminate the population and demolish all their buildings. Then evacuate or disband your strike army and now the Nile delta is left off as basically a scorched wasteland. Egypt is now in a position where they can't rebuild their armies and will have trouble upkeeping their existing ones while they rebuild their infrastructure. If you don't want to disband your strike army and can't evacuate them then recommend keeping your army in the captured cities. If you have pikemen or hoplites in your army you can use the city choke points to your advantages which will increase the effectiveness of your faction's strength while reducing the Egyptians strengths
As a Selucid player, the idea that you can be bordering someone and not be at war with them is completely insane to me.
All the Seleucids want is a friend, and instead every other faction attacks them.
It sucks when you play as a faction outside of the eastern part of the map, because the Seleucids have such a fun unit roster and you never get to fight them. They always die by Turn 30 when the AI controls them. I’ve only been able to fight them as Rome in custom battles. Never in the campaign.
With any problematic faction I start with dismantling their economy (prevents recruitments) and damaging their public order - no need for an army, just block their ports, and use several assassins' to destroy buildings in the settlements, after few turns their economy is in the red, they can't build/recruit - easy win, it sometimes even results in an uprising/riots/city turns to rebels.
Trying as Parthia I tend to besiege then just trounce them and the garrison in the open field. Difficult though as Chariots can shred horse archers if not careful.
Yes finally
Tried invading Egypt as the Julii after i conquered Spain, Gaul and Carthage. I amassed possibly my largest army yet 2 full armies of 20 with 12 infantry, 3 archers and 4 cavalry and 1 half army of mostly cavalry an infantry.
The half army would march from Carthage to Egypt taking what it could and holding there before Alexandra, the 2 full armies would land at Alexandra and Jerusalem.
Long story short i was not prepared to handle the cavalry spam and i got trampled an sieged into default but i inflicted 5× my army size.
After what seemed like a clear defeat i started a scortched earth plan if demolishing building at all settlements i was hold except the far west witch i was retreating to to regroup and wait for reinforcement and blockading most of their ports for sea Dominates.
Just do the sea peoples way, land, attack and move in ship
You barely ever have to declare war on Egypt, they'll usually attack you anyway. Their roster is respectable (especially chariot archers and pharaoh's bowmen) but not perfect. My favored strategy for beating them is a surgical strike at their power base. Simply invest in a good navy and land a couple of full stacks near Alexandria. They rarely have strong defenses in the area, and once you take Alexandria and Memphis they're toast. Thebes should also fall pretty quickly. Now the Egyptians have lost their best recruitment options and have to worry about being hit from behind. Just don't underestimate their remaining armies and they'll die in no time.
Calvary spam, my build for beating Egypt stacks is 3/4 your legionary of choice, and 1/4 Roman calvary.
5-6 Phalanx vs chariots and cavalrty. General x2. Good cavalry to backstab x3. Horse archers, archers - the rest. Shoot flaming arrows at chariots. Horse archers for their phalanxes when they approach you. Run away from their phalanxes with yours. Let the archers kill everything.
It’s easy go right for Egypt itself. It’s almost always undefended.
To beat them as a non roman faction hammer and anvil tactics work very well im currently playing as the selucids and i just sacked memphis however this is where i might struggle as my army took a decent hit taking memphis but i think i got this.
Edit: attacks egypt asap steam roll them befor they army spam
4 steps.step 1 build a great army and navy atleast have full 2 stacks of both,step 2 land your troops on alexandria and attack there home land it will be easy because they dont have many men there, step 3 with one stack attack the citys and with the other build a fort and buy time for your second army to finish and join and re group with the holding army as the trops are going to attack from the levant, step 4 attack the rest of the settlements and use the navy to blockade and harras the enemy fleat.
When I started fight the Egyptians was during the civil war chasing the scipi I took the scipi out in Egypt and Jerusalem the swarms of Egyptians came from Turkey is completely overwhelming
Egypt is annoying enemy because of chariots. Otherwise they are a piece of cake... but I never played campaign on Very hard :D
I did a bruti campaign beat everybody. Green map lol. I had about 15 epic battles with the sword. Crossed logo. About seven or eight of those were in egypt Isreal area. Because of them. They the real deal
how to beat egypt: CAVALRY AND LOTS OF ARCHERS
LOTS OF EACH
that's how i've beaten them in my brutii campaign
which was very easy for me to do
How to change factions midway your campaign? I would love to play some factions that are not possible on RTW: Barbarian Invasion. (like the Romano-British)
ahh yeah I could make a video on that actually
you can in the new remastered version
My first rome total war campaign as scipi fighting egypt:
AND THEY DONT STOP COMING AND THEY DONT STOP COMING AND THEY DONT STOP COMING
I just rushed down with everything I had as the Scythians at the start and wiped them out,Horse archer spam for the win 😂😂😂👍
Really useful information but try using Bullet Points; it will cut out the repetition and the video time in half!
11 min into the video and I was wondering for a moment how I already watched 45 minutes of the video.
As rome the one unit I feel I have no answer for is chariots.
Britannia has chariots too and even with auxillia and archers they do horrific damage. They piss me off more than any other unit in the game.
Should really do a Rome one, I find them much more trickier than Egypt, (I usually like to play as Spain Gaul, Briton, Germany and Dacia) Rome are Usally massive when I get to the.
Get them early. Build a 6ship fleet you're good
all based on sheer military force lol, it works if you have more army than Egypt...
Well because of their lands Egypt can recruit troops more easily and cheap than others factions. You can send assassins to kill generals and family members to weakened.
But even with latest patch avoid autoresolve against them, siege and open field battles, if they have chariots.
That damn bug really ruin your campaign.
I took a lot of there settlements but its costing me so much -5000 each turn to keep the people happy whats wrong?
Can we see one of these for Thrace sometime pls?
Yes quite possibly, I do hope to make more of these!
I still hate fighting Egypt in a open battle
Lots of river crossings in Egyp. It'd be a shame if someone camped them...
best option when play rome is recruit hoplite on greece land and long range archers. chariot ? what chariot :D (3 hoplite are OK)
How to Beat Egypt: start as Numidia.
Your response to “how to beat Egypt?” Is to pick numidia???
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I wish you do all the factions
I may do so, I will certainly make more of these!
I wanna play this game so much now!! But it says "failed initialise 3d audio" i have windows 10 and I already tried to change preference folder (smtg about AA_Quality i believe)
Pls if Anyone Can Help!?
Do you have the original cd version? The steam version is just 10 bucks I think and it works very well!
@@couchpotatoe91 no i lost my CD, download was via torrent
Will you make a RTW Faction guide on the Senate?
Yep I probably will, but I know less about the senate than other factions so I will have to do plenty of research first :)
If you've got any advice on how to play the senate, and any different features about that campaign that would be really helpful!
So you probably know how to unlock Senate campaign right?
My discord is: discord.gg/xDdYjrJ
I won't be able to talk right now, but I almost certainly can tomorrow if thats cool with you, thanks
Yeah, I just haven't ever played the campaign extensively like the others ive covered
Can someone please tell me the latest version of the game because i want to know
Urban chort capture all citys
The faction with technology 1000 years out of date is one of the strongest. Why develop technology aye
I’m fighting them right now and they are using soviet tactics on me
Just walk to it and exist.
To unlock factions to be able to play I've used to pick for example Bruti Romans, build one army and then rush into enemy lands. Just one army is enough to deal with Egypt, Seleucids, Greeks, Carthage, etc. Just rush through and retrain in conquered cities. Then I was just playing normally with conquered state.
Egypt is easy to beat. I just hit the back end of Egypt main city.
How to defeat Egypt:
1. Go to Greece
2. Get Cretan archers
3. ???
4. Profit
Egypt has missile chariots right? Even if you had e stacks of cretans they will hunt you down sooner or later. And cretans are hard to replace
@@hannibalburgers477 didn't I explain the ??? part?
Don`t apologize for plugging your own vids, if those vids are relevant.
How are you reading my mind?
I have many talents haha
I like to park hoplites+archers on bridges... am I a cheater?)))
Oh, watched until the end now
"How to beat Egypt in rtw?"
Easy:Just be Egypt lol.That's what I always do.They're my favorite faction.Ahh,mighty slave trading/owning and endless treasury Egypt.Lol
5. Dont forget on Salamis(cyprus) :D
Egypt are a problem for you? Lel, just attack them first, egypt is weak on the sea, just start taking all sea cities, and the island, spam cheap hoplits if you play with greek, seleucids, or macedons ^^ and always come from behind
How to beat Egypt...don’t play selucids
ATK Productions uhhhh, I beat Egypt as Seleucids in VH tho
Just hit the Egyptians early and hard and you shouldn't have too many issues. Their early units are not as good as most people think. If you let Egypt build up, it will become a very difficult adversary.
I like your reviews, but I cannot help but say this: all RomeTW faction guides are useless because the game (in vanilla state) is very very easy. I really don't know how bad you have to be in order to not simply roll over everyone by attacking the next settlement.
Mod?
Theres no mod in this video :)
Vanilla
I simply landed my main army in Alexandria and wiped out their major cities within 3 turns; their main army must have been fighting wars to their northeast; I would next have to head over to Sidon and Antioch and whatever remains