the other reason you stop paying rome is that at 11pm you say 'one more turn'.. and next thing it is 2am and you have to go to bed as you have work in the morning..
This guy is the only reason I reinstalled Rome: Total War. There was a battle where I was fighting Gauls (As the Julii, predictably). I had a general (77 men) and 6 units of hastatii, versus 4 warbands, 2 Gaullic cavalry and some Gaullic skirmishers. I defeated the Gauls losing 5 men. Ther general destroyeed the javelinmen, while the hastatii hid in a forest, and the Gauls were goaded onto the javelins. Is anyone proud of me??
Dude one of my fondest memories was playing as the Julii on VH/VH. After I took the first two Galic settlements in quick succession the Gauls proposed a ceasefire. I sent a spy over to check out what they were doing and they were busy taking those two other rebel settlements and gathering a gigantic stack led by their faction leader for round two. Luckily so was I! By the time they started the second Galic war I had about 1800 men to their 3800. Felt kinda epic when I won with a heroic victory by taking my Equities and smashing their right flank to create a Gaul sandwich! Fucking love this game!
I've watched a ton of your videos and have been for ages now man, I remember back when I first played the game, learned to use rally before the charge very quickly like you do and I actually really like that you do that as well. But another thing great about the game as annoying as it can be is the AI unpredictability, like in the last battle, from my experience, the AI should have stayed in the town square until attacked or until your units moved into it but instead they charged out when you weren't ready. makes the game that much more interesting when things that "shouldn't happen" or don't usually happen just jump out like that.
I can relate to the guy who you didn't see for two weeks after introducing him to the game. Got so hooked when I was a junior at my university I ended up having to drop a couple classes one semester because I fell behind in them. It wasn't uncommon for my roommate to leave to be with his girlfriend for the night and come back the next morning with me still playing (unsurprisingly, my health also went to shit). My senior year I made sure to leave the game at home before I went back. I suppose it'll be good to get a city to produce cavalry but equites....bleh!
You are really good at this game. I am just starting the game, and even though I can beat an entire faction with one stack with 2 turn breaks on very hard, your experience surpasses mines, and I enjoy learning from you
Trying to be better about watching commercials for content producers I like. On my end, you've been sponsored almost entirely by Sabra Hummus. So many hummus commercials...Maybe you should do like a shout-out for Sabra Hummus. "After driving legions of my enemies before me and laughing maniacally to the lamentations of their women, I like to sit down and relax with some nice Sabra Hummus."
Yeah I found the Marian reforms kind of an obvious goal, as by the time I could train Triarii it was always for the few turns before I get a huge city. On the other hand I guess the campaign tends to be late or over if it was to trigger on the historical date...
I would say the brutii probably have the hardest enemies to face out of all the roman factions (hate fighting Phalanxes !) but the get nearly all the wonders so I'd say the most rewarding conquests :)
Honestly I never think theres been such a thing as a bad TW soundtrack. Sure some have been more memorable than others but it's always been authentic and epic. Rome 1 still has the best soundtrack of the entire series though, I consider it one of the best soundtracks ever. It really gets your blood pumping. Also would you consider doing a Rome II campaign once you're finished with this one? Would be nice to see you attempt Syracuse or Parthia (or anything really, it's always entertaining).
And I agree, auto resolve in sieges for such a large unit scale is right. Usually, the settlement is not well garrisoned, and is usually a waste of time and units. The auto resolve is usually better than playing the battle, unless the battle is not in your favor.
The Roman General Bodygouards are superior to the Greek ones. Aside superior statistics, the Greek culture ones lack the shield, which really makes difference in hand to hand.
To the new user, I advise careful detail should be dealt with Macedon. By the time you get to Thessalonica, you may have to deal with a plague. The Brutii can combat this with their shrines involving health(Juno), but be prepared to lose a general
i think your judgement was wrong given the time frame. 3rd century BC, I'm not sure Rome is the best choice. Now 1st century BC or AD, no doubt. 3rd century is just a bit early.
36:12 your general made them break formation, you clicked too close to unit and pikeman tried to let trough general unit. you really should click and drag position of a unit in a city. if you just click, they go all over the place... because unit want to match center of unit with your click. and in city you basically order them to go in to walls. path-finding is ok, you are making it difficult.
Hey Legend, love your channel, i think you could make more campaign with Rome total war, it is the best total war game all time in my opinion, keep up the good work.
+LegendofTotalWar I love rome total war and your videos are awesome. I think you should try using the legions (after marius) or hastati/Principe (footsoldiers) to face the hoplites and charge them from the back with cavalry. That way the risk is much less vs the reward :) Also when your commanding general charges into an enemy it is good idea to press the horn (rally troops) just before they come into contact with the enemy so that the general himself stays behind and the bodyguard unit is in front of him = less chance of him dying.
I don't know why I'm typing this comment but hey, better than sitting here watching a 3 minute soda stream ad about Palestinians that work in their factory. I don't quite understand how the ad revenue works but I assume if I watch the whole thing it helps. Thanks for the great content Legend!
Fuck, I'd never criticize someone's play style, but I actually like your play style. I can't believe anyone would bitch about it at all. Super aggro and Machiavellian.
I would say the exploit of having your men on a different side of the city not sieghing it is like sort of similar to the Trojan horse tactic of making your army hide out of sight from the city so they think a smaller force is just left. as there really is no way to do it in game the exploit allows that. so it's okay in my mind
Watching you retrain your units very last moment of ending the turn giving me great anxiety, don't you afraid of forgetting them before you end the turn? i always retrain my units as the first moment i saw its available
+ninjutsugrandmaster I'm thinking the same. But there is something I needed to do to get it working on my win 8.1 pc and I can't remember what (I spent hours googling the issue last time)...
im not sure how it did it but i rome 1 i played as julii i only had conquered lower france and after about 20 turns i went from struggling for money to having about 80000 gold like wtf happened
Brutii actually have better economy just because they are closer to Greece and Greece in this game is the real money maker also when I play this game I make a rush to Rhodes and that naval trade bonus
would you consider posting a link on your description where your fans can donate? you dont have to say that in your videos though. for some of the bills :)
+Jacob Matlock sometimes i do, but often when i tap r to run the game doesn't register it. so its actually a lot more reliable if i just click the run button.
Could someone give me a few tips on how to optimize my RTW, for some reason, when I got my better computer, it runs slower than the worse computer and I can't play it now because of it :(
+Jerome Holt 2 things causing it, both unfixable. the game is designed for older computers that are using single core processors and im guessing you have 4 cores. with rome 1 less cores high speeds is preferable to more cores less speed. and the other thing is that when steam picked up rome 1 it got a massive performance decrease so the only way now to get good performance is to play on disk with an older computer.
That sallying out tactic is a bit fishy when the ai doesn´t "realise" that the other army is there, which is not meant by the developers, oh well you called it an half exploit yourself, but yeah i couldn´t do that, feels too much of cheating wjen i know the ai is not realising it. Sure is helpful tho
Legend im playing a non installed version of rome total war which i copied from one of my friends, its version 1.0 is there anyway to patch a non installed version?
Weak! :P I fucking love this game, but really, now that I've finished it on VH/VH with each faction I think I'll retire from it and move on to the others
+Blue Tiger not really, with numidia you only have chartagians near you at the begining, their units do suck more than gauls' but that only has impact on multiplayer, campaign is pretty easy couse you fight 1 or 2 factions at the same time, and gauls get ganged up from all sides
+Blue Tiger pretty hard yeah, but phalanxes are op against AI since it mostly charges right into them, but still one of the toughest to survive first few years
I am actually so happy that you are playing Rome 1.
the other reason you stop paying rome is that at 11pm you say 'one more turn'.. and next thing it is 2am and you have to go to bed as you have work in the morning..
+rwd76 Literally last night...
+rwd76 6am in Victoria and I really should get some sleep but im watching some more of this
This isn't the best Total war, it's the best game period.
This guy is the only reason I reinstalled Rome: Total War.
There was a battle where I was fighting Gauls (As the Julii, predictably). I had a general (77 men) and 6 units of hastatii, versus 4 warbands, 2 Gaullic cavalry and some Gaullic skirmishers. I defeated the Gauls losing 5 men. Ther general destroyeed the javelinmen, while the hastatii hid in a forest, and the Gauls were goaded onto the javelins.
Is anyone proud of me??
Thats actually pretty good.
it's one of the best games, no reason to uninstall it in the first place
32:56 Me too! Rome Total War was he first game that introduced me to ancient history, and I have been intrigued by history ever since
Pikes can run when not in phalanx formation in Rome 1
He said that in Rome 2 they can run while in formation stance. He obviously knows about the button lol.
Well he also didnt use skirmish mode for his Velites.
PrinsMaandag Using skirmish mode is bad, the AI is terrible with it. Much better off micromanaging.
Dude one of my fondest memories was playing as the Julii on VH/VH. After I took the first two Galic settlements in quick succession the Gauls proposed a ceasefire. I sent a spy over to check out what they were doing and they were busy taking those two other rebel settlements and gathering a gigantic stack led by their faction leader for round two.
Luckily so was I! By the time they started the second Galic war I had about 1800 men to their 3800. Felt kinda epic when I won with a heroic victory by taking my Equities and smashing their right flank to create a Gaul sandwich!
Fucking love this game!
I love flanking infantry and just break them from all sides
Path finding aside. Rome 1 will always be one of the best! This play through made me go watch your old Parthian one.
+Lachlan Barker Agreed. The campaign is just so fucking good. Sieges can be annoying, but other then that, the game is great!
I guess Legend won't care about the graphics mods for Rome 1.
Awesome! Another fix of RTW from the Legend. I never fail to learn something from your videos.
I've watched a ton of your videos and have been for ages now man, I remember back when I first played the game, learned to use rally before the charge very quickly like you do and I actually really like that you do that as well. But another thing great about the game as annoying as it can be is the AI unpredictability, like in the last battle, from my experience, the AI should have stayed in the town square until attacked or until your units moved into it but instead they charged out when you weren't ready. makes the game that much more interesting when things that "shouldn't happen" or don't usually happen just jump out like that.
I can relate to the guy who you didn't see for two weeks after introducing him to the game. Got so hooked when I was a junior at my university I ended up having to drop a couple classes one semester because I fell behind in them. It wasn't uncommon for my roommate to leave to be with his girlfriend for the night and come back the next morning with me still playing (unsurprisingly, my health also went to shit). My senior year I made sure to leave the game at home before I went back.
I suppose it'll be good to get a city to produce cavalry but equites....bleh!
Blowing your Generals horn, I never copped that when I Romed the light fantastic as the where's me Juli
I like that you show the in-game vids, like when you captured the statue of Zeus. Always found those vids to be a nice touch.
You are really good at this game. I am just starting the game, and even though I can beat an entire faction with one stack with 2 turn breaks on very hard, your experience surpasses mines, and I enjoy learning from you
Trying to be better about watching commercials for content producers I like. On my end, you've been sponsored almost entirely by Sabra Hummus. So many hummus commercials...Maybe you should do like a shout-out for Sabra Hummus. "After driving legions of my enemies before me and laughing maniacally to the lamentations of their women, I like to sit down and relax with some nice Sabra Hummus."
+Deidealized lol actually everyone is shown different ads. I've never seen a Sabra Hummus ad on any video.
Yeah I found the Marian reforms kind of an obvious goal, as by the time I could train Triarii it was always for the few turns before I get a huge city. On the other hand I guess the campaign tends to be late or over if it was to trigger on the historical date...
I would say the brutii probably have the hardest enemies to face out of all the roman factions (hate fighting Phalanxes !) but the get nearly all the wonders so I'd say the most rewarding conquests :)
Honestly I never think theres been such a thing as a bad TW soundtrack. Sure some have been more memorable than others but it's always been authentic and epic. Rome 1 still has the best soundtrack of the entire series though, I consider it one of the best soundtracks ever. It really gets your blood pumping.
Also would you consider doing a Rome II campaign once you're finished with this one? Would be nice to see you attempt Syracuse or Parthia (or anything really, it's always entertaining).
Keep the series going great vid
a tip for pikes- you have to make the formation narrower then the road- then they fight somewhat decently
You can move populations by recruiting pesants in one town and dissbanding them in another town, but you probably allready knew that.
yeah he did that in the julii campaign
darklordschannel
Yeah thought so
TheOldBearTime i think he actually mentions doing that around the end of this video maybe part one
Well I didn't so thank you good sir
And I agree, auto resolve in sieges for such a large unit scale is right. Usually, the settlement is not well garrisoned, and is usually a waste of time and units. The auto resolve is usually better than playing the battle, unless the battle is not in your favor.
The Roman General Bodygouards are superior to the Greek ones. Aside superior statistics, the Greek culture ones lack the shield, which really makes difference in hand to hand.
To the new user, I advise careful detail should be dealt with Macedon. By the time you get to Thessalonica, you may have to deal with a plague. The Brutii can combat this with their shrines involving health(Juno), but be prepared to lose a general
i think your judgement was wrong given the time frame. 3rd century BC, I'm not sure Rome is the best choice. Now 1st century BC or AD, no doubt. 3rd century is just a bit early.
36:12
your general made them break formation, you clicked too close to unit and pikeman tried to let trough general unit.
you really should click and drag position of a unit in a city.
if you just click, they go all over the place... because unit want to match center of unit with your click.
and in city you basically order them to go in to walls.
path-finding is ok, you are making it difficult.
I love this game, keep going LegendofTotalWar
I will watch the ads, unless it is that unskippable 20 minute TOm Clancy the Division one.
+wilhelmrk That's the worst, when you expect a 20 second advert for wine or some shit and it's a full music video.
Snoopy Ikr and then it is unskippable.
Thanks a-lot Legend, now i have to reinstall this game and play it for hours! Also, thanks for another great video!
the irony of my question asked not that long ago answered, nice!
I've played Rome 1 years ago. I may actually do some crazy campaign now. Memories are back!
+adamczik Like conquer the whole map on VH/VH difficulty using town watch only & manually resolved battles with no generals?
07jaworski07
Sounds good!
Hey Legend, love your channel, i think you could make more campaign with Rome total war, it is the best total war game all time in my opinion, keep up the good work.
I love watching the statue of zeus video
+LegendofTotalWar
I love rome total war and your videos are awesome.
I think you should try using the legions (after marius) or hastati/Principe (footsoldiers) to face the hoplites and charge them from the back with cavalry. That way the risk is much less vs the reward :)
Also when your commanding general charges into an enemy it is good idea to press the horn (rally troops) just before they come into contact with the enemy so that the general himself stays behind and the bodyguard unit is in front of him = less chance of him dying.
Probably the biggest change that annoys me is the fact that you can't split up generals and armies.
I believe the Marian reforms happen in this game when you first build an 'Imperial Palace'.
It's just the moment you get a huge city.
You should do a Scythian campaign, their a pretty cool faction.
I don't know why I'm typing this comment but hey, better than sitting here watching a 3 minute soda stream ad about Palestinians that work in their factory. I don't quite understand how the ad revenue works but I assume if I watch the whole thing it helps. Thanks for the great content Legend!
You can skip them, don't worry
One thing I always found weird in the earlier total wars was that you could end up with entire armies consisting to about 50% of generals.
+Emil Söderman I've had an entire army in M2TW of generals...
+Jerome Holt man you can crush anything with a stack of general in that game, unless people are on a wall...
Can't argue with that legend Rome is with out a dott the best country ever
Fuck, I'd never criticize someone's play style, but I actually like your play style. I can't believe anyone would bitch about it at all. Super aggro and Machiavellian.
Hi. Coming back to watch this awesome Walkthrough!
Btw Larissa is called LA-rissa Not Larri-ssa
Not to piss u off legend just so you know!
I would say the exploit of having your men on a different side of the city not sieghing it is like sort of similar to the Trojan horse tactic of making your army hide out of sight from the city so they think a smaller force is just left. as there really is no way to do it in game the exploit allows that. so it's okay in my mind
Well one good thing is when I get back from basic most of the series will be up
Jonathan Vermont How’s the military treating you?
well
I like your work and plan to watch more of it.
So I disable adblock for you
Watching you retrain your units very last moment of ending the turn giving me great anxiety, don't you afraid of forgetting them before you end the turn? i always retrain my units as the first moment i saw its available
Speaking of which... Legend, did you have problems with Stainless Steal crashing at turns 50-60 when you end the turn? If yes, how did you fix that?
Princeps are not so good in beginning, since is very hard to retrain them. I usually go hastati all the way.
18:54 what do you mean? I've noticed that sometimes I lose experience when retraining so that must be the reason why.
Light Lancers have charge bonus of 10! The maximum available value. I learned that the hardway! Otherwise, they are shit, because have no shield.
you can just turn off the formation for the pikemen. then they'll run.
I white-listed the channel but still not getting any adds =s
Bravo, Legend. Now I need to install Rome and/ro BI and start playing it again :(
This is infections
+ninjutsugrandmaster I'm thinking the same. But there is something I needed to do to get it working on my win 8.1 pc and I can't remember what (I spent hours googling the issue last time)...
you can get pikemen to run turn off phalanx and then run then turn it back on suprised you didn't know this
Loving the videos :)
Do a western roman empire campaign on Barbarian Invasion
+rwd76 He already did one...
+William stasholm
Yes, he did. His Western Roman Empire campaign on Barbarian Invasion is one of the most popular series he did.
+William stasholm look up rome total war barbarian invasion. Literally the first thing that comes up on TH-cam.
So are the Marius reforms triggered by population in your capital or the city level? I always thought it was based on year.
+Sean Brocklehurst It triggers the moment you get a huge city.
+LegendofTotalWar In Italy
Cheers Legend fucking great!
Lol wat hing the chaos on the streets 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 they just go wherever 🤣🤣🤣🤣
im not sure how it did it but i rome 1 i played as julii i only had conquered lower france and after about 20 turns i went from struggling for money to having about 80000 gold like wtf happened
Same, I have over 100.000 gold now
Brutii actually have better economy just because they are closer to Greece and Greece in this game is the real money maker also when I play this game I make a rush to Rhodes and that naval trade bonus
Yep, I'm playing a campaign as Greece and Athens is making me over 7000 denarii per turn...
would you consider posting a link on your description where your fans can donate? you dont have to say that in your videos though. for some of the bills :)
+Xylene Flux Twitch link has a donate button :)
Why don't you use the keyboard for running ect its so much faster than moving your mouse
+Jacob Matlock sometimes i do, but often when i tap r to run the game doesn't register it. so its actually a lot more reliable if i just click the run button.
You have ads that are anywhere between 30 seconds to 3 minutes, not skipable. This has to be a joke.
Could someone give me a few tips on how to optimize my RTW, for some reason, when I got my better computer, it runs slower than the worse computer and I can't play it now because of it :(
+Jerome Holt 2 things causing it, both unfixable. the game is designed for older computers that are using single core processors and im guessing you have 4 cores. with rome 1 less cores high speeds is preferable to more cores less speed. and the other thing is that when steam picked up rome 1 it got a massive performance decrease so the only way now to get good performance is to play on disk with an older computer.
Do a 1v1 vs prince of macedon
That sallying out tactic is a bit fishy when the ai doesn´t "realise" that the other army is there, which is not meant by the developers, oh well you called it an half exploit yourself, but yeah i couldn´t do that, feels too much of cheating wjen i know the ai is not realising it. Sure is helpful tho
I like using peltasts since they can function as semi-decent infantry if the need arises.
Legend im playing a non installed version of rome total war which i copied from one of my friends, its version 1.0 is there anyway to patch a non installed version?
$5. go buy it on steam.
Don't know how you can still play this game, I got burned out back in 2014 after like 500 hours in the space of a year
Weak! :P I fucking love this game, but really, now that I've finished it on VH/VH with each faction I think I'll retire from it and move on to the others
Try the Rebels. You go in debt after first turn like Persia, and everyone is out for your neck
Yup why be only have 1 city enen u can kill ever one
third!!! 😃 😃 😃
haha but after your yesterday's episode I went in steam and got it and it is a great game and also I love this series so keep it going
oh and anyone respond t this
should I invest in a big fleet or just have a few small fleets
Yup why be small when you can take over world
You're a great player obviously, but my god you're bad with hoplites lol. But they are annoying, you have to be so patient to use them right.
blitzkrieg
brutii on very hard is like gauls on medium everyone can manage it, play gauls on very hard if you dare :)
+Blue Tiger not really, with numidia you only have chartagians near you at the begining, their units do suck more than gauls' but that only has impact on multiplayer, campaign is pretty easy couse you fight 1 or 2 factions at the same time, and gauls get ganged up from all sides
+Blue Tiger pretty hard yeah, but phalanxes are op against AI since it mostly charges right into them, but still one of the toughest to survive first few years
I'm doing a campaign as Gaul on VH/VH right now haha
yeah good luck with that, it's the only campaign in any total war title i managed to fail
greek mercs are best