I believe I would try to find another place to cross the river, maybe one where there wasn't thousands of archers and heavy artillery on the other side..
"It was slaughter, we couldn't see past our faces as arrows whizzed past like crickets during harvest, left and right comrades fell screaming as more arrows pierced into their uncovered bodies, only to be drowned out by the rushing of the river, whole groups were wiped out at once, their shouts and cries, nearly audible over the thud and the screeching of the arrows flying into our shields, I could feel my shield getting heavier by the second, as more and more arrows thudded into it, a few of the men were turning around and running back, but most knew if they turned around, their backs would be revealed to the constant rushing of the arrows."
Facepalm -> apart from the buckler, which isn't much bigger than a persons's fist, no shields where made out entirely of metal. Wood was the way to go. And the most common bows of the Persians at Thermopylea were made out of datepalm wood, which is a terrible material for bows, causing the arrows to hit the greek armours and shields not much harder than rain drops ( exagerated). The greek Hoplon was made out of wood ( preferably oak) and then covered with a thin (!) sheet of bronze on the front. This combination made it one of the heaviest combat shields of all time ( up to 10 kg/ about 20 lbs). The majority of persian foot soldiers however carried shields, made out of thin woods ( cannnot name the specific ones), or even wicker. I think you can imagine what the thrust with a Dori, done by a man who has been regorously trained to be a killer machine, since childhood does on such a thing.
3 times they came close... but decided to stop their advance, look round at the PILES of bodies and go: 1st time: oh my... well... okay advance 2nd time: are some people back there running!?!? get back here1 3rd time: !@#$! RUNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!! RUN FOR THE HILLSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0:45 That unit of spearmen was just outright deleted from existence. They were wiped out so quick that they didn't even have time to even attempt a retreat. Absolutely BTFO.
This is exactly like Pickett's charge in the civil war. When the spearmen actually reach the enemy line then they are spread too thin to actually fight.
Me as an eastern spearman " Fuck this shit I'm out! Mmmmmm, fuck this shit I'm out , no thanks, I donno what the fuck just happened but I don't really care, imma get the fuckup outa here!"🎶
0:46 You'd be stabbed about a hundred times before you even hit the ground. After that it'd take at least a couple seconds before you bled out or went into shock, so you'd just be laying there, unable to move, being stabbed about a dozen times per second. If you managed to live for a bit longer you'd be trampled to death by the oncoming army. I imagine it'd feel a bit like being burned alive, except worse in nearly every way. Worst. Death. Ever.
It'd be much more appropriate if the Eastern Spearmen were replaced with conscripts armed with pointed sticks and giant barks for shields and wearing shirts that say "shoot at me".
I enjoy these videos. What about Ballista units like the scorpion vs infantry , might b fun. The rock throwing ballista is too powerful. So many scorpions with upgrades ?
Poor spearmen. All I see is the smokey looking effect of the arrows, and once it disappears a bunch of people either writhing in agony or face down in the dirt.
its moments like this or like the battle i just had in campaign where 1600 spartans (4 units of hoplites, 6 pikeman, several unites of archers, gorgo slingers and peltasts) where attacked by 4 stacks of just the shittiest tire troops from persia and i slaughtered them to a man where i wish... i just wish so much, that bodies would pile up and have to be traversed. Like, they can make almost make shift defensive formations, where a unite traversing them is slowed, and takes moral damage, and any unit fighting down them would get a high ground advantage. That would be pretty great.
Well this is kinda a fair fight because Archers can kill unshielded infantry easily but the spearman have numbers nearly 3X the size of the Archers so yeah
Are you overclocking cpu or gpu ? what graphic settings are you using !! I just don't understand, I saw your pc specs and mine was very similar if not better in some parts but I cant seem to manage more than 5000 troops in Rome 2 without it lagging. I even went far into buying liquid cooling to overclock my cpu... I just don't get it. If you can help, please do lol
hey how do you get your archers to be so organized and not retreat when the enemies get near. whenever I want my archers to fire on the enemy, my archers move to where they are too close, its really annoying and I can't seem to get the same results as Samesonite
Eastern spearman: hey look arrows are coming right in front of us what do we do ? Put our shield on top of our heads and let our uncover body become a human kabob! (Does not work) I got a better idea!!! It's obvious we aren't going to win so let's retreat and turn around leaving our entire body exposed to the 5000 archers!
if I were the general I would send 5000 in loose formation to cross the river in a well-organized format. When they are all killed, the archers should be really tired already and run out of ammo. then my 8000 reserves can slaughter the 5000 archers
I believe I would try to find another place to cross the river, maybe one where there wasn't thousands of archers and heavy artillery on the other side..
Hortonius Imperialus I would let them have their side of the river because I didn't sign up for this shiet
***** Hahaha
Awesome XD
Hortonius Imperialus There was a friggin' CARPET of dead people after it was over!
1:04 Rambo leading the charge!
Well the RIP rambo ;-; ( If only he lived to make another film, shame he died in this blood bath xD )
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"It was slaughter, we couldn't see past our faces as arrows whizzed past like crickets during harvest, left and right comrades fell screaming as more arrows pierced into their uncovered bodies, only to be drowned out by the rushing of the river, whole groups were wiped out at once, their shouts and cries, nearly audible over the thud and the screeching of the arrows flying into our shields, I could feel my shield getting heavier by the second, as more and more arrows thudded into it, a few of the men were turning around and running back, but most knew if they turned around, their backs would be revealed to the constant rushing of the arrows."
+Some Delicious Crisp Perfectly Aged Potatoes. How about some full stops mate.
Pester, the Fox sorry mate. I'll use more commas next time.
derp hunter me? or he?
derp hunter Dear... god.... *unsheathes sword*
derp hunter NEUHHHHHHHHH *shrivels up into a raisin*
NASA Called, They want their Computer Back.
"And on that day the river ran red".....
wow it's like D-day except as a river crossing
So operation market garden
Yeah
99batran i agree XD
Emre Cura
still holds the base concept of a lot of guys getting massacred i believe you could agree
Emre Cura
I don't think a computer could handle hundreds of thousands of soldiers without lagging
Strange to hear the order to "Fire!" when there was no firearm.
Instead of "Nock!" "Mark!" "Draw!" "Loose!"
Albert Obukhov Yeah, that's why Rome 2 failed.
Because Rome 1 had that...smh. All the Rome 2 hate is so ridiculous.
"We will block out the sun!"
"And we will fight in the shade... oh man we are doomed!"
Employees at Black Friday be like:
If the Persians had arrows that could go through shields like these the battle of Thermopylae would have been a piece of cake!
***** Only at short range. An arrow loses a lot of it's force very quickly.
+Eric D Those shields are made of wood or an other cheap thing, not like the shields of Thermopylea that were made of copper
Facepalm -> apart from the buckler, which isn't much bigger than a persons's fist, no shields where made out entirely of metal. Wood was the way to go. And the most common bows of the Persians at Thermopylea were made out of datepalm wood, which is a terrible material for bows, causing the arrows to hit the greek armours and shields not much harder than rain drops ( exagerated). The greek Hoplon was made out of wood ( preferably oak) and then covered with a thin (!) sheet of bronze on the front. This combination made it one of the heaviest combat shields of all time ( up to 10 kg/ about 20 lbs). The majority of persian foot soldiers however carried shields, made out of thin woods ( cannnot name the specific ones), or even wicker. I think you can imagine what the thrust with a Dori, done by a man who has been regorously trained to be a killer machine, since childhood does on such a thing.
3 times they came close... but decided to stop their advance, look round at the PILES of bodies and go:
1st time: oh my... well... okay advance
2nd time: are some people back there running!?!? get back here1
3rd time: !@#$! RUNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!! RUN FOR THE HILLSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To think that King Henry IV had 7,500 archers against the French at Crecy and about 5,000 at Agincourt is crazy...
Not surprised, they're Eastern Spearmen. I'm just surprised the archers bothered to use their arrows on them.
eastern infantry are all cannon fodder in total war games. they get no justice LOL
0:50 - "That seems like a bit overkill for that one group..."
0:58 - "..Oh my god!!"
I believe I heard "ignore those bows" somewhere in there.
Yeah. Right.
I love how your battles never lag, if you look on some other ones, they are hillariously laggy.
5000 Archers vs 13000 Eastern Spearmen #totalwarrome2 #totalwar
what map is this
ReeceTucker1 Let me check and I'll get back to you :)
ReeceTucker1 The map is Battle of Jerusalem (river crossing) 0.607; 0.658.
Its the only river crossing with only one crossing point
***** These are hillmen not eastern spearmen.
Extreamly Old School D-Day.... But they didnt win this one
0:45 That unit of spearmen was just outright deleted from existence. They were wiped out so quick that they didn't even have time to even attempt a retreat. Absolutely BTFO.
Matrix Revolution!
Tim Kurb dodge this
Holy shit... :o
That's so brutal.
I love the continuous sound of raining arrows... so satisfying..
If the spearman didn't run away all the time, they may have won.
This is exactly like Pickett's charge in the civil war. When the spearmen actually reach the enemy line then they are spread too thin to actually fight.
I used to be a general like you..but one day I took a arrow in the knee
This is like orcs vs elves in Lord of the Rings XD
This was red vs blue, red won because the blues switched to red's team involuntarily.
It’s like exiting a trench into “no mans land” in world war 1
That was awesome! It's the ancient equivalent of saturation fire and the mad minute. I love it. Though it still needs more dakka.
What is daka?
3:20 The pit of corpses.
The men in the back yelled "forward!" , while the men in the front screamed "back!"
Me as an eastern spearman " Fuck this shit I'm out! Mmmmmm, fuck this shit I'm out , no thanks, I donno what the fuck just happened but I don't really care, imma get the fuckup outa here!"🎶
Next u should get some slums, train multiple armies of mobs, and pit them against 1 rlly good hoplite unit on a bridge.
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I'd like to see a close up of the carnage after the battle of the field.
"Their arrows are no match for our cardboard shields!"
0:46 You'd be stabbed about a hundred times before you even hit the ground. After that it'd take at least a couple seconds before you bled out or went into shock, so you'd just be laying there, unable to move, being stabbed about a dozen times per second. If you managed to live for a bit longer you'd be trampled to death by the oncoming army. I imagine it'd feel a bit like being burned alive, except worse in nearly every way.
Worst. Death. Ever.
The Oldshool Bridge Set. What you want to prove here?
Master of Editor.
Reminds me of the movie troy when the trojan archers were slaughtering the greeks infront of the city of troy...
heynub123 its a good movie
really well edited
I love your videos. I get a huge laugh with every single one. keep it up sir
Amazing.. I would like to see the results of 13,000 praetorian guards in testudo lol
Im still thinking about Eastern Spearmen's General attack plan..
He is dumbest general ever!
The May as well go through the water ;-;
With eastern spearman all the plans are bad
It'd be much more appropriate if the Eastern Spearmen were replaced with conscripts armed with pointed sticks and giant barks for shields and wearing shirts that say "shoot at me".
0:45 - 0:59 ...it's like throwing acid an making them disappear!!! XDDD
This could be in a movie, so fucking awesome!
This proves my theory, the spearmen have been the ones slacking off during training.
I enjoy these videos. What about Ballista units like the scorpion vs infantry , might b fun. The rock throwing ballista is too powerful. So many scorpions with upgrades ?
Dominic M Sounds pretty interesting! 10/10 will try out
Oh Honey! Look at our brand new carpet!
Probably what Carrhae was like.
jizmacdacusha Yep, Carrhae should be more like my 3000 horse archers vs 1000 praetorian guards
+samesonite ur playing the computer for too long xD
Crazy to think that wars were actually like this in roman times
this is awesome video :) good job
EragornPL Thanks Eragorn :)
Poor spearmen. All I see is the smokey looking effect of the arrows, and once it disappears a bunch of people either writhing in agony or face down in the dirt.
Nice vid man I like it
2:04 dudes head is on fire 🔥
I wonder how it would’ve ended if all the swordsmen were sent at once
If this was a real fight: i'd say run away now and live to fight another battle on better ground.
"Cheap spearmen are not necessarily bad spearmen." Sorry to disappoint you but in this case :YES THEY ARE!
its moments like this or like the battle i just had in campaign where 1600 spartans (4 units of hoplites, 6 pikeman, several unites of archers, gorgo slingers and peltasts) where attacked by 4 stacks of just the shittiest tire troops from persia and i slaughtered them to a man where i wish... i just wish so much, that bodies would pile up and have to be traversed. Like, they can make almost make shift defensive formations, where a unite traversing them is slowed, and takes moral damage, and any unit fighting down them would get a high ground advantage. That would be pretty great.
Whats the coordinates for that map? ;)
Imagine what ancient war would be like if they all use Bows
I listened to Tiny Tim's Living in the Sunlight while watching this.
Goes well together :)
Just imagine how brutal were some archer strikes in real life back than O_o
***** Yes, would be utterly terrifying
The boys in striped pyjamas being sent to their death, I have a sense of déjà vu.
Maple Waffle lol
The arrows are like literal rain.
The arrows wouldn't come down like this. So many volleys in short burst till they run out which would be maybe 10 times.
just imagine a gatling and 2 monster ribaults set up in front of the crosing
OUR ARROWS WILL BLOT OUT THE SUN!!!
You think CA would have given their missle block chance higher with that tall wide shield
1:20 ok well thats satisfying
Well this is kinda a fair fight because Archers can kill unshielded infantry easily but the spearman have numbers nearly 3X the size of the Archers so yeah
You sir, are a fucking savage... And I love it
I have a request....it the 300 Spartans and Persians I would really like if you re-create it
Love this battle for real love the blood keep it up
i always love archers. i usually have 60% archer in my team in most battles actually. i really enjoy archers allot
YOU! CAN NOT! PASS!
looks like the river has been divided
If I was the guy at the very back of everyone else I'd GTFO the second I saw that OP army! XD
Herkeste psikopatlık var heralde bıraz neden hosumuza gıdıyor lan bu kadar ınsanın olmesi :D enteresan ama bayıldım :d
That River would be Blood red for Miles
Who organised this attack? Custer?
George hand me my flamethrower we have some work to do
This river is familiar, the ford especially. Is it called Red River? :)
what are all the tiny puff balls as the arrows hit, that's not normal.
Are you overclocking cpu or gpu ? what graphic settings are you using !! I just don't understand, I saw your pc specs and mine was very similar if not better in some parts but I cant seem to manage more than 5000 troops in Rome 2 without it lagging.
I even went far into buying liquid cooling to overclock my cpu... I just don't get it.
If you can help, please do lol
There's just a point where firepower concentration beats any number.
Johel3007 Yup, until the ammo runs out
*****
Battle of Agincourt
hey how do you get your archers to be so organized and not retreat when the enemies get near. whenever I want my archers to fire on the enemy, my archers move to where they are too close, its really annoying and I can't seem to get the same results as Samesonite
easy, in the game menu comands is the option. "Retreat", so click on that button to deny archers retreat
well the battles over and it's lootin time who's with me
Eastern spearman: hey look arrows are coming right in front of us what do we do ? Put our shield on top of our heads and let our uncover body become a human kabob! (Does not work) I got a better idea!!! It's obvious we aren't going to win so let's retreat and turn around leaving our entire body exposed to the 5000 archers!
on the right
reaching his hand out
Just for my information: how many spearmen were killed and how many archers?
how much do those eastern spear men carpets cost?
This is the way a real battlefield should look like, littered with corpses, blood and despair :D
if I were the general I would send 5000 in loose formation to cross the river in a well-organized format. When they are all killed, the archers should be really tired already and run out of ammo. then my 8000 reserves can slaughter the 5000 archers
Didn't know there was D-Day in the ancient times.
The. Best. Attacking. I. Ever seen
only way to survive the arrow storm is running ahead of the mass.
0:57 Blood bath
btw are those Legacy Persian Archers?
My Noble Phantasm will be like...
Fate/Stay Night UBW
W/catapults
did you use a "large unit size" mod for this?