ROME TOTAL WAR Is a perfectly Balanced Strategy Game With No Exploits - But EVERYTHING IS BROKEN

oh my god, imagine being just this poor light infantry squad being physically pushed away from the point they are defending by an unstoppable wave of angry doggos, oh my god, I mean, this is just a thumbnail here, it's perfect, hello. there ladies and gentlemen and welcome to

rome

total

war this was one of my first

strategy

game

s which made me go omg this nonsense of a

game

is absolutely amazing now naturally

rome

total

war is a beloved game for me in my honest opinion this is one of the best games out there and if you haven't played them you're really missing out on something special now naturally that means on today's modern graphics it doesn't hold up very well but you know which is lovely.

Okay, it's a lovely game, ladies. gentlemen and with charm comes a lot of bugs because my goodness, this game, while it is an experience, it is not a

perfectly

balanced

experience, I can tell you a lot, I know, it's true, I lied in the title, Rome Total War no It is a perfect experience.

balanced

game without

exploits

, if anything, it's quite the opposite, it's a game with possibly one of the largest collections of unbalanced exploit features I've ever seen and I love it that's why now we're going to play a bit of this ourselves game and showing some of its best features, but before we start, when you think about Rome Total War or any Total War game set in history, you probably think that it is actually a very precise game with a lot of well thought out and balanced things. features that reflect the story at the time, well you would be a little wrong because if you followed the story through the eyes of Rome Total War you would end up with some strange things, for example if you play as the Romans. effectively, we're playing three different chapters of space marines, the red ones, the green ones, or the blue ones, and don't even get me started on the births, okay, check out the bloated infections guys, why the whole lineup of a faction and unit list are dressed brightly? pink, I'll just have to point out that buying clothes dye to dress in bright pink at the time was a little more expensive than the average peasant could afford, but sure, if you want to feel like 240 peasants or wear bright clothes. pink suits then go ahead welcome to the game we are playing as the red faction of the roman space marines and these guys are stupid powerful because they mostly fight barbarians.

Now, when it comes to fighting barbarians, there are a million strategies. you could use, you could use advanced technologies, crazy advanced formations, maybe long range weapons or instead what if you just used dogs like a lot of dogs? Like we're talking about a large mass of dogs to the point where if you saw this large mass of dogs in public, they would probably swear allegiance to them because right now they have more power than any of us, so what is this

strategy

that am I going to implement today? Well, it's really something, ladies and gentlemen, so make sure.

You sit relaxed, have a hot cup of tea in your hand, and are ready for one of the most

broken

strategies any strategy game has ever seen. It is an army of only dogs. Now the war dogs are a pretty weak unit because if we take a look at their stats here free total defense and an attack of 10. That's not the best thing though, we're not fighting normal stocky war dogs, we're fighting the Crazy Quintus Julius guys, let me demonstrate the mega war dog to you, bam! It has a defense of 9 and an attack of 16. This is a mega war dock, it only costs 48 gold to maintain, which means it is ridiculously cheap, moves ridiculously fast, and scares away all nearby units.

It does a stupid amount of damage. an upgraded Praetorian Cohort, a pretty decent late unit and look it does 14 melee attacks, this wardog unit here does more damage than a Praetorian Cohort, this is a terrifying army and while statistically it wouldn't win any fights automatic resolution is about to decimate the French army that has just tried to ambush us, it will face 1,500 men with an army made up of 1,000 dogs. This will be

perfectly

balanced, oh God, let the deployment begin now. If we get closer, we can do something like this. I hear the dog bugs and things are about to get very spicy, we're basically going to want to group up every dog ​​we have and put them in a basically dense location and then, well, for the rest of our army we can sort.

We might as well just sit here and watch the dog brigade right until the enemy reinforcements have arrived, but I really don't think we should worry about them and instead, it's time for us to release the dogs just a few kilos away, go buy good sausages, you will be fantastic. I believe in you now of course, we're not that early in the game and I've basically power leveled the Roman faction using peasants to build a really powerful city, allowing me to get the forges needed to give the war dogs armor . I don't know why war dogs probably wear more armor than these topless men here, but for some reason these dogs are wearing the latest in chainmail technology, so what are we against?

Let's forget some guys with light spears topless and some lighter ones topless. guys with spear and oh my god income the dogs right now immediately the dogs will start attacking and start doing a lot of damage now the dogs really can't be hit as soon as they get hit they pretty much die instantly however these They are not your normal dogs, these are dogs with the ability to take down horses, let's take down their commander, why don't we go? That's the first unit en route because it's fleeing the battle. Kind of lovely as soon as one unit starts running away they all start running away there. wow, that's the next unit around him, oh my god, there's another one going, oh, the enemy general is fleeing, basically meaning the enemy army will stop fleeing too, honestly the dog only met her, very powerful, stupidly powerful, in fact the only downside to the dog-only thing is um, once the dogs start chasing something, they'll keep chasing it, I mean, these guys aren't technically going to bounce back, but yeah, not very fast , yeah, okay, you guys are going to break up again, oh my god.

Look at them, this is an entire squad of 144 men running away from a couple of angry dogs and now the entire enemy army is on the run. Look at it. He is terrified. I want to be fair if you are in a fight and you clash. against an enemy who is famous for his swords and shields and for his good cavalry pieces and you say: okay, let's bring our throwers to defeat the cavalry, let's bring some horses to fight the infantry, but no, he doesn't bring that army. instead bring an army of over 1000 dogs and that's when you'll start to realize wait a second this battle isn't being fought very fairly now unfortunately the dogs have started running away from the bear, which makes them a little more It hurts, but oh well, oh well, it's not like we're going to lose this fight anyway no, the dogs aren't coming back, they're not coming back at all, it's okay, oh, and here we go, another enemy general is dead, huh, that's it.

Hopefully, I'll just defeat the enemy army again, yes, that's exactly what's going to happen. They are attacking some war dogs there. No, these are just the peasant caretakers. They were not made for combat. Oh, they attacked my war dog. Oh wait, no. the dogs are coming back oh my god the dogs are coming back they were not happy to hear that their owners were being attacked and so yeah now the enemy's route oh right let's lead this battle that was perfect so the enemy achieved around 60 kills there. I managed in turn, uh 1252, with the back of a bunch of dogs.

Now technically more dogs died, but dogs respawn instantly after the battle, turning them into an immortal army of super soldiers who are practically a nightmare to kill because you'll defeat your army before you can fight them, oh, what a beautiful and glorious battle. Well, now let's put the dogs to one more test. This is our lovely dog ​​army, but this time it is a siege battle, not a siege defense. a siege attack, that's right, we are going to use dogs to attack this settlement, it is not a common strategy, I will say that most people do not use attack dogs for settlement wars, but that is exactly what we are going to do because we can now all we have to do is herd the dogs once again, break down the front door and immediately send out a horde of angry doggos and these angry doggos, believe me, they are very angry, these are dogs that just realized that when their owner pretended to throw the ball, he didn't actually throw the ball and had the ball in his hand the entire time, but they are absolutely sick of it and now they really want revenge, so that's exactly what we're seeing from these doggos .

Right now we will be able to demolish the reinforced doors and, of course, the wall as well. This will happen nice and quickly and of course once we take him down, no, we won't attack with our garbage infantry. We're going to use the doggos right, so we'll keep all those men sitting there and have time to straighten the dogs out. You know what to do. Here come the dogs. Here come the dogs. I would be terrified if I saw this. We take down the wall also perfect and here the dogs come in through the main gate, they go, it's a terrifying prospect to see, but you know it depends on these ghoul swordsmen, heavy infantry, you see, they say that victory is a clear possibility, however, dogs.

Just keep coming, they won't stop, there's an endless wave of them here, uh, defeat is now a distinct possibility, it's not looking good for these swordsmen, they're getting a little scared, but they're a little impetuous, uh, so Things are fine, oh God. Oh my god, the sea is coming in now it's um, it's scary, they're not going to win this, I'm afraid not, okay, let's take our horses inside the walls too for fun, just so you know, it really excites these dogs, do it a little. rally the troops here that'll really liven things up a bit oh and the enemy swordsmen just ran away and the dogs will keep going uh they won't stop oh my god they'll just keep going there's a barbarian boss Warlord how about a beautiful heavy cavalry unit, theoretically perfect for fighting dogs, but no, no, actually terrible for fighting dogs right now?

I have my general charging here alone because most of the enemy army is now fleeing because they can't. actually fight the dogs, however, the dogs are not going to stop him. The reasoning is simple because as soon as a unit enters a siege defense it runs back to the city center and then once in the city center it becomes unbreakable, the only problem is. Theoretically the dogs will never stop coming now, if we don't win this siege on our first attack we could just retreat and so far we haven't had any casualties because dogs that die respawn immediately so you can redo the sieges as many times as you want . like breaking a hole in the wall unleashing 1,000 dogs killing about 2,000 men and then retreating and doing it all again with a new wave of dogs it's not fair it's not balanced but it's very entertaining oh my god imagine being just this poor squad of light infantry being physically pushed away from the point they are defending by an unstoppable wave of angry doggos, oh my god, I mean, this is just a miniature here, it's perfect, here we go, they are.

They're all dead, you can tell because the frames dropped at 2 fps, so in that whole fight we lost 10 soldiers, killed 637 men, and won a siege where the resort car said we probably shouldn't win glorious things, how fantastic. win there of course the AI ​​diplomacy in Rome the total war is famous for being quite spicy because for example the ghoul AI here now wants us to pay them 2000 gold and give them all the cities we I have taken in this war. now I just want you to know that it is not a good military idea for us considering we are completely crushing them oh my god we are actually being attacked by a proper army.

Now this is an army of more than 2000 men who now decide to defend their The agreement against our mega doggo sucked. Let our deployment begin. Now we're in a pretty fun place because we can deploy right in the corner of the map here with our actual army and then deploy as many dogs as possible here as well. Okay, you know the unit placement isn't the best in this game, because sometimes it just breaks, okay, let's go for the phallus, uh, strategy here of just men on the left, right, and an object sticking out forward, right,we will wait. so that the enemy army really closes in on us and then we are going to do a massive doggo charge against them now this is a real enemy army in front of us this is over 2000 men against a much smaller army here In theory we shouldn't win this though, the dog's power probably has no limits and the problem is that attacking us with a massive wave of light infantry isn't going to help you, hell, they even have some ranged units thrown in there. just in case, it's time to unleash the doggos and they go, ladies and gentlemen, full speed forward for all dogs, now directly to the enemy front line, they go, of course, the enemies are mistakenly believing that They really have a chance here, now, of course.

In order to protect our dogs for future battles, we are going to push back all the peasants. The dogs immediately broke the front line, there we go, that's the first unit breaking and there we go, that's the second unit breaking the enemy general. now he's dead on the ground oh my god come onbring back the dog handlers come on we have to keep you safe in the back oh well the enemy army is tearing up like paper against our men. I'm launching a couple of cavalry charges for fun just to really clear out some of the enemies. heavy infantry so we don't have to worry about them later, now the dogs are just chasing a stack of two soldiers and honestly, okay, there's not much we can do to stop the dog at this point, and there we are.

Wow, the enemy general is now dead too, perfect stuff, oh wow, the entire enemy army is completely disbanding on the spot against us. Well this is a great sign, my goodness what a glorious success for us now, of course dogs are brilliant at cleaning too. Almost every en route unit on the map, because they run at such incredible speed, will literally pick up anything that we can't really see very well, but there is a wave of almost a thousand dogs running and walking towards various en route units. and just evaporating them on the spot My God, almost none of the enemy army is going to survive. 30 men did not survive.

Only 30 men managed to leave the battlefield. The dogs killed 2,000 men, oh my God, what a battle that was. It's just not fair, dogs. They are not fair at all, they are not balanced in any way, the best thing is that even when we suffer losses with the dogs, you can spend a very small amount of money to cure them all, it is remarkably simple, so there we have it ladies. and gentlemen, this is how to completely and absolutely destroy the balance of this game with a pile of just dogs, they are so stupidly

broken

, absolutely absolutely incredibly broken now, of course, that's not all Rome Total War has to offer in terms of pauses in the game, because it comes.

Next we have the awesome Scythian Horse Archer meme build which, once again, can't be countered by the AI ​​and is even easier to pull off early in the game, so make sure you refill your Yorkshire tea cups and jump to the comments section. to praise the war dog before he bites your hand, making it impossible for you to like or subscribe to a video again. Let's see what Syphia can do. We begin like the Scythians. These are effectively semi-nomadic running horse towns. In the regions of Ukraine and Russia and the various slopes in terms of strategic control and historical significance, these guys are pretty much swept under the rug because there were more exciting things happening here in Rome, but what were the Scythians good at?

Well, what were they good at? horse archers, that's why we start the game with a bunch of these lovely guys, statistically speaking, they're not very good, they can't fight well in close combat, they're not very good at charging, however, what do they really makes? Quite powerful is the fact that they are an archer unit and they are on horseback and they are also one of the fastest units in the game, which makes them terrifyingly powerful because they are almost impossible to catch, that is, AI cannot defeat a band of syphian horses, because they can't touch a band of scythian horse archers, they have incredible range and incredible damage, making them one of the most powerful units in the game right now in terms of opening move for a fraction of completely horses, we basically want to launch into the beautiful gateau campus region here, this is a frey city soon and phrase doesn't exactly have that many friends, in fact, they don't even have that many cities, I think they only have two meanings.

They will be relatively easy to knock out, so we will immediately jump out of our city with our faction leader. In fact, we could recruit an additional Scythian mercenary. This would basically be another extra horse archer and you know, we could Also, as soon as we turn the corner, we can pick up a melee unit, a Fraser Mercenary, so this is brilliant because we actually need a melee unit to take over. of your region and, as fun as it is to use peasant mobs, it's usually for the best. We actually have an army with you, so we'll attack Frey's next turn as soon as we have some more men and until then we basically just need to fix all our beautiful cities.

Fortunately, Frasier's army has decided to walk outside. of their big city, which is perfect for us because that will allow us to walk right up to them and hopefully provoke them into a fight outside the walls of their own city and oh my goodness, they have accepted wonderful things now that we can auto . Solve this and win, but instead we're going to fight this manually. The reason is simple. We are going to attack an army composed mainly of infantry in open planes using archers and horse archers. This will not be a balanced fight. OK lets start. our beautiful display, so the enemy will appear there logically, I just want my infantry and my archers to sit back and not do much and instead we will have our horse archers cause a lot of chaos on the flanks, oh my goodness.

The reinforcements are coming from our rear, this is perfect, oh my goodness, this is great news, as long as the enemy in front of us decides to stay completely still, we are in a prime position to decimate the enemy reinforcements before they even arrive, as? Can we decimate the enemy reinforcements? Well, it's very simple. We have horse archers. These are horse-backed archers who can go well and quickly. They move very fast. They generally do not get stuck on objects and the benefit of being able to do so. Running faster than

everything

basically means that they will never be attacked because they are so fast, so what is going on here?

Well, our horse archers have started shooting. These are one of the few units in the game that can actually run and gun. At the same time, they are naturally going to start attacking the various bodyguard units of the reinforcements and of course if they start charging at us like this heavy infantry unit, we can start running in the opposite direction because all of our units have skirmishes. As for the meaning, they will simply run away from the enemy, resulting in this very interesting chase where a heavy cavalry unit will never catch up with our real army.

The same can be said for this unit of unarmed flaxmen charging at the cavalry, yeah these guys aren't. I'm going to have a good day because, well, you guessed it, they can't actually reach the unit they're fighting and likewise being topless in the snow with long knives isn't going to protect you from a ton of fired arrows. It turns out that Frasium's main army decided to even attack us too and that hasn't gone too well for them, they're actually starting to retreat so I guess our charge will have to begin. Wow, they just ran away. the battlefield, what cowards, oh what a beautiful thing, the cowards have fled, but that means we clearly won the battle, unfortunately we lost a horse in a friendly fire incident because you know these units have friendly fire and it is very easy. accidentally shoot you in the back, so here we go, we lost a single horse and defeated a large part of his army, so they will never come back now, after that fantastic fight, we are in a great position to attack. the army retreated into their own little settlement now of course we could solve this automatically, in fact it might be a good idea so bam it's time to solve it automatically oh my god we lost come on you said I was going to win , I'm devastated. right we're fighting it ourselves damn it ai resolves automatically you're so bad now if you've ever played this game make sure to let me know because honestly i'm surprised how little is talked about total war of Rome today.

It's such a lovely game, it's full of charm, it's full of inside jokes, it's full of references, it's pure nonsensical humor and I love it, it's absolutely fantastic, it's time for us to start this beautiful battle, so we try to lay siege to a settlement natural from The Enemy is a little more exciting and spooky because the enemy now has defenses on their walls. What we are going to do is send a beautiful battering ram to break down those walls and also send a unit of horse archers to start attacking. several enemy defensive units on the other side of the walls and, you know, we can also combine with our various peasant archers because they are lovely and affordable disposable units.

Now once again the advantages of having ranged units is that you can shoot at enemies who may not respond like all these lovely militia hoplites say once again. I sat in a prime spot to be shot. theirs to fight ours, but of course the enemy archers are not going to win against ours because we simply have so many of them equally. If you want to make this even cheesier, you can just set up a loose formation for all your troops so that the way they are almost impossible to hit now, the horse archer loose formations are absolutely broken because it means they can deal a lot of damage to the troops. enemy formations and they will never be attacked because they will outrun

everything

, I don't know who allowed them.

They will be added to the game because they just don't fundamentally work, they are as fast as light cavalry units which means you can't catch them so the only way to kill them is logically, I don't know a ranged ballista but that's not it. very efficient at taking out the fast moving cavalry because the cavalry can dodge the ballistae anyway, we're almost through the wooden gates and then once we're in the city it's pretty much over for them, here we go, it We have achieved. Alright, now what we're going to do is have one of our units enter the city and this will cause the AI ​​to panic and send something to defend.

Yes, there we go and now this will allow us to once again get beautiful shots. the enemy archers, you know, let's switch to fire arrows, this will be fun, oh Peltist peasants, nothing has hit us so far, but we just committed a war crime by setting the peasants on fire right now, what are we going to do? . Is cheese the city center mechanic by having our lovely archers sit behind a nice defensive wall and shoot arrows at the enemy's heavy infantry? Actually, why not the enemy's general bodyguard unit? Why not? Yeah, that would be fun. Yes, now we can attack the enemies. units in the center of their city, uh, although they are not going to attack us because the enemy has assessed that our level of concern is too high and they do not want to attack us, oh, and here come Flaxman's lovely heavy infantry, now sadly they are not .

I'm going to win although a couple of my ranged cavalry decided to charge them oh well, okay, let's send the general's bodyguard, let's finish this fight oh, and lovely, we have killed the enemy general and immediately his forces have fled, like this That's a victory for us, wonderful thing, we lost quite a bit of chod infantry, mostly general bodyguard units and our lovely sacrificial mercenary infantry unit, but other than that, it was a lovely first siege, now I want to finish off the Real armies of the phrase, I'm not. I'm pretty sure of their whereabouts, so we're going to pick up everyone, except my lovely faction leader, and take them on a super fun adventure to go see the world.

We have just discovered a real phrasing army. This is the right one. Look at it. led by the legendary skylist and is a pretty meaty guy filled with a bunch of units that will actually have to retreat and wait for additional reinforcements to arrive now that we're about to fight a pretty even battle against some rebels and, naturally, us. We are about to turn this balanced battle into something that does notis very fair, so we have here five units of syphian horse archers and a lovely general bodyguard, although we won't actually need to use him since we're about to do it.

Let's start with our lovely, classic patent-pending strategy of simply attacking the enemy with horse archers. It's just a rebel army, so it's not like we have much to fear, although they have a long range, which means we're going to attack. pattern pending everyone adopt a flexible formation strategy and here we go, now we can open fire on the enemy forces, lovely thing, but oh no, the rebel captain is charging us, whatever we do right, we will just run in the opposite direction , that's what we're going to do. I'm going to do it, oh, these poor rebellious grubs, they just don't stand a chance, they're not even shooting.

These archer units will just stare at us. Poor Nigel and his 150 cousins ​​all come here with their bows and arrows, okay, let's go. you can shoot at any time, any day, the problem is that the AI ​​has a hard time shooting for the sole reason that because the horse archers are moving around so much that they just don't know what to do, arrows are now raining down from the sky and uh, things aren't looking too good, you know, we're just going to charge at one of the peasant archers, sorry guys, this is a general bodyguard unit, so it's going to decimate them.

Now let's shoot the enemy general bodyguard unit from behind. will do more damage because that's how the game worked seriously, it's actually quite ahead of its time, if you shoot a unit in the back where it has no shield it will take more damage, it just makes a lot of sense, honestly these developers were really in front. of its time in terms of game design, here we go, the enemy general has surrendered now, it won't last long, although oh this poor guy, oh my god, look at him right away, it's still raining outside, you know you can't run very fast.

There are only three guys left in your bodyguard right, I guess we just select everything and have them attack the remaining 50 guy archer units, oh my god this isn't even fair and they aren't very good either. Very expensive units, the archers on Scythian horses, pretty cheap, only 110 upkeep per turn, which is surprisingly affordable, oh anyway, they managed to kill 62 units, we killed 455. I'd say overall a glorious success of a battle there and the good thing is that every time you fight, there is a chance for your commander to improve, so our lovely factionist here just picked a good commander, making him even stronger.

Now what we're going to do is just march straight towards the enemy capital, hopefully we can do that. We'll be able to take them out very quickly and I'm pretty sure we're ready for our siege of the Syphian capital. This will be a glorious success now in terms of the powers and weaknesses of our factions. It's actually weak against late game armies such as the Romans, once they come online towards the end of this game they have hugely armored units that are terrifying, however when we get to that point in the game we can recruit mercenary units that can perfectly counter whatever the Romans decide. to launch anyway it's time for us to start this beautiful battle, we have a ridiculously large army, I mean just look at it, it's terrifying, no one would want to face this, but the most important thing is that I brought two special bonus units, these are war . dogs, okay let's start this battle by taking down that wall, getting some infantry up behind it, they have some missile cavalry too, lovely stuff, two can play that game.

I see we have a linen man here, lovely, these are topless guys without any body armor meaning flaming arrows, absolutely perfect for dealing with them or really anything, a strong pointy stick will finish with Flaxman. Now I feel sorry for the AI ​​because the problem is that the game is telling the AI ​​that it needs to defend this wall. but at the same time he really can't, there's nothing he can do, he'll just get riddled with arrows if he tries to place any units near the door and here we go, that door just got smashed through and now there's a bunch of them.

There are a lot of angry pelters here, as well as some militia hoplites, and I want to decimate them before we get to the city, so I'll have all these lovely men put them in a loose formation and send them straight to the walls, okay, now chaos may begin, a bunch of pelters who can't respond, as well as a group of retreating militia hoplites, yes this is fair and perfectly balanced, everything is fair and broken in Rome, total war is that the saying: I'm pretty sure that's the saying, oh precious things, lots of perfect damage. It's true that this little tower box is shooting at us here, but I mean it's just decimating the occasional horse and that's a sacrifice I'm more than willing to accept. my archers participated in close combat why they won in close combat that is the even bigger question what went wrong there now comes the enemy's peltes cavalry throwing spears the only problem is that we throw much more back than they can actually hand out, i.e. this Here is a guaranteed victory, sorry guys, but men in light armor and t-shirts riding horses with sticks and pointed spikes are not going to win against the huge army we have.

I mean, it's crazy the fact that we can have horses sitting on it. These hills here still shoot arrows, oh, and you just can't shoot them, so they always win. It's scary what you can do in this game. Where do the dogs go? Because the dogs keep attacking. They never stop. never go back to the handlers you just have to keep running around the battlefield it seems like they have failed the terrain here yeah ok this game isn't perfect it has some issues but we still love it. It's a beautiful game. Don't look, the enemy cavalry is trying to charge us.

We will free the puppies. They will be able to completely defeat our trash militia unit, but they will not be able to defeat a massive battle force of war dogs. Yes, now. that's a guaranteed hit, oh my gosh, my poor little men, I left them defenseless, so they were accidentally charged by a metric ton of cavalry, but it's okay, we can solve this situation by simply shooting from beyond the walls in a position unattainable. where the general bodyguard cavalry will never roam. What I love about horse archers is that even though I'm currently relocating my army, they technically shouldn't be able to shoot, they still can. um, yeah, they're fine.

I'm just trying to get through the doors at the moment, but normally when units line up to get through the doors they become completely useless, but no, these guys can still shoot, which is brilliant, honestly, we just need to sit them on the walls, They do not do it. They don't even need to go anywhere and they will still manage to defeat most of the enemy army. Oh, and lovely, the enemy general is dead, so that will get most of his army on track, which is perfect because when an army is fleeing, you can just charge his units anyway, take more casualties. than I would like, mainly due to my own mismanagement, but I would say that overall it was a glorious success of a fight, and here we go, I think this is perfectly fine. having the final enemy unit sitting in a small box where they can't escape by simply being pelted by huge reigns of arrows falling from the sky and lovely things, a great and glorious success for all our men and that's all the defeated Fraeuans of this. map and here we go, Frace, as an entire faction is now destroyed.

Lovely things, Greece wants to form an alliance with us. Sure, why not, my friends? Because at this point, as much fun as it would be to go to Greece and fight them, honestly. It is not necessary for us, as long as we can fight Macedonia, it makes much more sense for us to go to Daesia and wipe out all the Germanic tribes. Why do we want to find the Germanic tribes, unlike most factions in the game? Tribes haven't invented clothing yet, which means they're surprisingly easy to defeat anyway. We have a slight rebel problem here because there was one living family member left on the map, so we'll send an army of two horse archers. and it sure says we're not actually going to win this one, we're 57 men against two squads of horse archers who can outrun said 57 men, it's physically impossible for us to lose, okay, you know what to do, go to fight the rebels. and then once they are in range, the enemy general unit will simply stay there.

Oh welcome to death my friend, you are being attacked, what are you going to do about it? Enemy general, are you going to do something or are you just going to sit down. there on your horse with your funky looking sword and just yes, yes, that's exactly what you're going to do. Innovative AI, ladies and gentlemen, truly innovative, yes ok, for its time this was truly amazing, the fact that you could have an AI that would focus on flanking and making interesting fights, it posed a bit of a challenge on the difficulties. maximums, but that was mainly because he constantly cheated, but you know it adds to the charm anyway.

Enter all arrows. This is going to take a while because they are a heavily armored unit and I can't be bothered to flank them so we're just going to sit here and let all the gunfire hit there, let's go and now we've done the horse archer sandwich basically meaning that the AI doesn't know. how to confront their only unit and now we have won the battle. Yes, this is completely perfect because if he chases the army on the right, he will simply leave it behind and be chased by the army on the left. And if he decides to do it. turn around and face the army on the left, the army on the right will shoot him in the back, so he will simply choose to run back and forth against both stacks and not catch either of them.

This is a high quality game right here. The enemy army is fleeing there, come on, good job, what a great fight, we did excellent. You know, we will take our army on a beautiful and fantastic adventure back to the north to invade the Dacians. I think why not? It will be so much fun I swear, sometimes I don't fully understand how this game works. For some reason, the barbarian cavalry unit here has lower maintenance than this peasant. Peasant maintenance 100 gold per turn, barbarian cavalry 90. Archers 170 to maintain, not worth it. Look at Scythian Horse Archers 110. You save a lot of money by having Scythian Horse Archers and they do a lot more damage.

Well, AI works in mysterious ways that I guess I'll never fully learn now that you'll fight the day that's soon to come. It's going to be an absolute walk in the park, the reasoning is simple, the day scenes here have some units, these units are fake, they have incredibly good attack stats and you know their total defense is good, but their total defense comes from their ability of defense, which means how good they can be. paring swords instead of their physical armor because, as you can see, Gerald hasn't worn clothes for the last 70 winters, this means that although most people normally die from pneumonia, they are also extremely vulnerable to any ranged attacks.

Well, it's time. so we attack the days, here we come, it's time to go to war, this will be lovely and spicy. Here comes the legendary siege of Perilycillium, featuring one group of archers and two groups of flexibles facing a huge cavalry horde of 2000 horse archers, yes. one person is going to win this war and it will be me. Oh, they've put a bunch of men near the front door. Oh, sure, let's knock down those wooden doors, but at the same time let's line up a bunch of horses. cavalry close to the walls and uh look how the AI ​​responds and here we go the firefight will now start a bunch of bands of archers against higher ranged cavalry hmm who could win this fight?

Well, the archers don't think they're going to win, so I immediately started running away, well, it's off to a good start, I'd say that's a great thing, let's break down this front door, here we go, we're through the walls, stuff beautiful, so let's send a lot of our troops inside the walls just to scare the remaining men sat on top because I'm pretty sure we can stay here and shoot at the town square no, we need to go up a little higher, alright , the horses get a little higher and he fights a pile of 300 topless guys, oh my god, look at these adorable topless guys, topless guys, what are you going to do?

They are shooting at you. What do topless guys do? And that reckless hatred hasbeen thrown in his direction. Well, they just leave. walk slowly towards the path of the arrows, this is going to have a bold choice, oh, and apparently this rider has decided to charge headlong into those good things and, uh, the rest are still starting to flee now at high speed, yeah, it's coming . our lovely retreat oh and actually that was the general and they are defeating oh my goodness oh yes income the arrows here they come oh they just look brilliant absolutely fantastic there we go glorious success the battle is ours very few casualties that is one of your cities that now belong to ours, a fun thing you can do is bribe enemy armies, so apparently this army of men only wants 1500 gold and now they won't exist anymore, so here we go, an entire Dacian army that just existed there. just disappeared for 1,000 gold heck, you can even bribe entire cities here.

Oh, sadly, this guy isn't going to accept it, but sometimes you can force entire settlements to change. Now we are going to defeat the Dacian capital and its great defending king with his own Good army, the only problem is of course that his army will not be able to get out of the walls and we can shoot over the walls, basically turning any city into what should be a fight to fight your way into a fish shooting fight. in a barrel, okay, let's send all our lovely men, okay horses, you know what to do, open fire, my lovely horse archers cause chaos, yes, it's good to defeat the enemy warlord, heavy cavalry before that he can shoot and, of course, get out of the way. from the annoying turrets that are going to shoot at you, oh and unfortunately foxman's squad has almost completely collapsed before the battle begins, as is tradition, here we go, beautiful things, we managed to break down the main door, which means that now we can walk straight. inside their settlement, which is perfect because they can't shoot us there anymore, perfect, I've moved our huge mass of horse archers inside the enemy walls, what do we have here to fight?

Well we've got decent light infantry like well, like some, well there's just the general unit, lovely stuff, so I guess all we have to do is get a little closer, man, open fire, you know what to do, they're 230 lightly armored units, yes, they have a shield, but in reality it is not. I'm going to do a lot, and of course you guys can't use skirmish mode, right? I'll have to mic them myself oh my god it's actually working they're actually taunting the enemy units and running in circles even though they just got caught by the enemy general unit ah that's a little frustrating oh no we killed the enemy general , good things, okay, that will make finishing this a little easier and more beautiful, there we go, glorious things, we only lost a hundred men in that beautiful siege, now we are losing. 100 men in the siege in 259 BC. it's absolutely amazing, oh and sadly our faction leader has died, what a shame, I mean it's perfectly fine, it was expected to happen and if anything it has made our new faction leader even more powerful. so let's take our new faction leader and send him out of the war because look, there's an enemy faction leader right in front of us.

It's a beautiful thing, I mean, I don't even know what the Dacian army is doing right now. point just sending out light armorlots of chod in deadly battles against cavalry, yes this, the poor AI just wasn't designed to fight like that, the AI ​​was designed to fight the Romans using small, densely clustered formations of ranged units sitting behind of the frontline infantry and then charging at the frontline infantry to try to get to the range units, that's what the AI ​​was intended for, the AI ​​wasn't designed for whatever we're doing, here comes the fight, oh , you are poor boys, oh, the flying infantry would not design to cross open fields. against the archers oh no, no, they're even attacking you from the flank, they're attacking you from behind, nothing is going well for you, light infantry, nothing at all, I mean look, this guy even brought his favorite little flag to work, okay , it was bring your flag to work day this guy spent a whole week painting his flag now he's going to die what a poor thing if only he hadn't joined the Dacian empire and instead joined the really pimped out Scythian empire which is ninety percent Cooler than any Dacian empire, okay?

I'm sending the dogs for fun because dogs have a habit of breaking every little bit of morale, so come on little dogs, look at them, they charge, okay, here comes the cavalry right now, hopefully, yes, the cavalry for some reason, eh, he's famous. cannot defeat the dogs because they simply trip over them or body block them, which makes the dogs the perfect obstacle against literally anything, because now heavy cavalry focuses on the dogs and therefore our soldiers at a distance they will completely slaughter him, oh my god, what the hell is that? Is this fight? This isn't even a fight, it's just a general's body guard being attacked by really angry doggos and there we go, the enemy general is defeated.

Something lovely, so they killed nine units. We managed to kill them. A glorious success. Say very, very profitable too, ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid that's all I have time for today. I hope I've shown off one of my favorite games of all time because Rome Total War is lovely. I highly recommend you pick it up. especially when it's on sale, it's incredibly cheap for the amount of fun you'll get as always. If you really enjoyed today's video be sure to give it a thumbs up as it helps us tremendously and as always if you have any suggestions on what games you would like me to break down next please hit the comments section and give me your suggestions because I'm I'm sure there are a million games I've never heard of that are absolutely perfect and waiting to be decimated by a bit of British magic and a lot of Yorkshire tea, as always a huge thank you to each and every one of my majestic sponsors who make these videos even more possible, seriously, thank you very much without you.

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