An Actual Guide to the Alans [Total War: Attila]
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2020
- (At least one of) you asked for it, and it's finally here! A beginner friendly, incredibly detailed guide to dominating the battlefield and campaign map the way the Alans were meant to be played: using nothing* but cavalry.
*and maybe an onager. You don't have to but it's more fun that way.
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Songs used:
Egmont Overture
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Not legally required to say this bit but this song is an absolute banger and I might end up using it in a future "how to play"
Village Consort
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Onager: "Technically not a horse"
I loled so hard at that
It's more of a donkey, really.
@@LyricalDJ a wild donkey even!
It has a nice personality though
@@Bibitybopitybacon Unappreciated joke. I love it.
You know what, I’m just gonna go right ahead and stop promising release dates, because I’m comically bad at keeping to them. Really sorry for the wait, I’m going to stick to the usual style for the next few uploads and just focus on getting some more good shit out there.
Keep making awesome stuff, I'll keep waiting
Fun fact my Name is Alan.
I love your videos it’s one of the few I look forward to all the time
take your time!! Qualitay over quantitayyyy
the white huns are also broken spam spet xyon archers
Creative Assembly: NOOO YOU CAN'T JUST USE CAVALRY IN EVERY ENGAGEMENT IT'S NOT HOW YOU'RE MEANT TO PLAY
Yrridian: haha horse go zooom
Zooom
Haha horse archer arrows go brrrrrrrrr
Meanwhile in Warhammer:
Empire: NO! IDIOTS! YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY MAKE A CAV DOOMSTACK WITH A LIFE WIZARD!
Brettonia: Ha-Wha Gwail Knights do Be-whe-whe!!
Ha ha horsy go clopity clopity
@@user-om3wn4yb8q Yeah, but your lowest-tier melee cav with Bretonnia is...Questing Knights? I think what makes this strategy fascinating is that he's using cheap cav to punch way above its weight, and a Grail Knight doomstack is...not that. Making Repanse's early stack 17-18x Knights Errant though..? Might work, because she can recruit those on Turn 1.
"dont recklessly yeet yourself into the enemy formation" - Sun Tzu
The problem of riding faster than light is that you can only charge in darkness...
Also when you arrive millions of years have passed and the battle is already over due to time dilation effect ...
Genyosha
Cant lose if you weren’t there to fight in the first place.
"It's not my best work"
"Now watch as I completely destroy the rock paper scissor combat system in Total War"
Ragebrew
Yeah, but dont play no this mode in online, plz.
Ragebrew Coalclaw AI's* like anyone else does if he wants to cheese*
New to Total War?
Total war games since Rome 2 don;t folloow the rock paper system very much.
@@dabo5078that’s actually when the rock paper system started happening lol. Spears beat cavalry. Swords beat spears. Missiles beat anything except horses. True this happened way before that but a lot less
Look, it's how it was IRL, horses are too op
Imagine: someone actually, for real, made a guide for Alans. Amaze.
Hey man they made a protective case for the nokia back in the day...
@@cynicalpsycho5574 It was for the floor
"Onagers are honorary horsemen."
~Genghis Khan. Probably.
HE'S BACK. OUR LORD HAS RETURNED TO BLESS US WITH THIS CONTENT.
Get the f### out weeb
@@thefourthrome Nah I'm good.
All hail to the god of horse
Hallelujah
@@thefourthrome how old are you to censor the word fuck lol
gods of the afterlife, spare my arese!
This is made me lol
@@antonxuiz i can hear it so clearly in that rough, stereotypical barbarian accent they do. too funny
My time is better spent feasting and hunting..........
GIVE US YOUR GOLD, AVOID THE EVIL IT BRINGS
I DROPPED EVERYTHING FOR THIS LETS GOOOOOOO
Nearly 30 minutes, the master speaking, all the memes.. well worth the wait!
Guide to Alans:
1. Settle down in Hispania
2. Tech up to Cataphract Horse Archers
3. Blot out the sun with arrows
"go straight to spain"
*conquers lisbon*
me a portuguese:
"listen here you little shit..."
I mean, portugal didnt exist back then. Neither did Spain but hey.
I am portuguese btw.
@@Loispealz34i believe it was called lusitania back then no?
funnily enough love of portuguese culture is called lusophilia
@davidtarara6728 that sounds like what you get if you eat too many pasteis de nata and bifanas
try going to my country and eating too many 'mici' will have you saying that it's called Dacia and not Romania 🌝
Portugal is not a real country anyway. You are just fishermen separatists.
Viva la España!
Omg it actually happened
THE SAVIOR HATH RETURNED!
You're doing God's work, my good man
The moment I received the notification, I knew I needed to watch this
*girlfriend is calling me to her home*
*Yrridan releases video*
Sorry babe, I'm too busy
"Babe I'm in a fight with onagers and aux paltina"
*immediately mounts horse and flank attacks"
Bro you are 99% of the reason i got back to these "Old" titles. Got so caught up in the warhammer things that I forget how interesting and engaging these games were, thank you for that! You are a Legend!!!
I only bought this game because of this video lmao
I’m playing an Easy Rome campaign and I have no idea how this man completed this on Legendary…
He speaks, the lord's voice brings us wisdom to us peons. A mighty lord.
6:02 - Is he trying to fight of a horse with a... gilded broom?
Mr Scapegrace Roman Standard Bearers are just janitors change my mind
Ah, the tactical broom! Though dated, the strategically sound choice against centaurs. Sadly it only unleashes it's destructive power on a 90° degree forward angle. Some would look for the tactical mop to solve the issue, with a 360° degree angle for tear wiping
Auctally .. it is really made video and i didnt mind that it took so much time to wait ... and your vocie is good for listening .. so dont be afraid do more videos with comentary keep up your good work man :)
Me at the beggining: Wat? 28 min Yrridian video?
Me at the end: LOOK AT MY HORSE, MY HORSE IS AMAZING
I know you only infrequently post here, but you unironically taught me how to play Total War with this video. I was so bad before I regularly lost battles as the Sasanids. After watching this video, I ran my first successful Total War game ever as the Alans. Thank you very much! You transformed an insignificant peon and zandik into a horse -lord- lady who could take on forces three times her size and win. It made me appreciate this game that I had always wanted to love, but couldn't. I even beat up and bullied Attila the Hun until he died. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it a lot! This video took a whole lot of time and effort to make, and I had doubts about it while I was working on it, but when I read comments like this I know it was worth it. Good luck with your future conquests!
Oh shit good to see you alive!
Our King has returned
Ohhhhh a new Yrridian videoooo!
Time to crack open the good Single Malt, its Total War time. Will you ever make a video in Shogun 2? I can see the memes already.
Don't have plans for one any time soon, but I'd love to make one at some point. Haven't played it much (couldn't run it at the time it came out) but I've only heard good things.
@@Yrridian I hold it up there with Rome 1 and Medieval 2 as one of the best total war experiences out there but theres plenty of ways to meme your way to victory (fire bomb throwers anyone?).
And I mean ninjas and samurai, cmon ;)
@@Yrridian you can use medieval units to destroy Gatling guns and British Marines :)
@@PhilipCripe Yeah adding on with Fall of the Samurai expansion... theres a literal endless goldmine of good times.
@@TheStaniG Fall of the Samurai is made for meme runs. My fondest memories with this series are of my traditional/spear levy only runs, routing borderline WWI era armies with my dumbass stick wielding peasants and the odd yari cav.
Ahh so pleasent snow and ponies
Hearing Yrridian’s voice for the first time I was 99% sure he was a fellow Aussie, but then every now and again he’d sound Canadian or English....now I don’t know what to believe. Edit: I now believe he is a Horse in Human form
I literally just started playing Attila two days ago(Big Rome 2 fan) and every tutorial on hordes made me want to pull my hair out. This was very entertaining while also very easy to watch. Great editing skills and great commentary.
"HE'S BACK" ... I read this evey time under ur Vid
A very interesting watch , even for a person like me who doesnt really play Total war. Keep it up dude! Quality is and will always be better than quantity ! :)
Do more of these voiced tutorials, the memes with the good info given by voice over is perfect.
Now I know how the enemies of the Mongols felt... This is probably how actual Mongols fought as well, feigned retreats, disrupting and isolating enemy units as they chase, then swarming on one enemy as the opportunity arises. This type of strategy in Total war can be pulled off easily because of our God-vision and perfect control, but the Mongols could do this when their only communication is shouting and flags, that is why they were the terror of the world.
An absolute master class in editing and visual gags, kudos to you dude. If there's one thing I love above all else in your videos, it's how amazingly well-edited it all is, especially when it comes to syncing on-screen actions to background music.
"Technically not a horse"
That's what they want you to think
It's just a slow wooden horse that yeets big rocks at the enemy
"It's not my best work"
Bro this is amazing
Glad to hear you're back. The tutorial was comprehensive covering battle and campaign with directions being simple and clear. Most of the focus was on battle but given this is focused on how to run a certain field army that makes sense. Nicely done.
this is the "I exploit the one strength these units have and nothing else" in a pure form state that I adore. very impressive, very well done, and I give you props to making a guide of how to use cavalry, even applicable to a normal run of the game.
Yrridian: *make a viable Religions sheet*
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Minor Religions: "Am I a joke to you?"
Yes, yes you are
CA: YOU CANT JUST TAKE DOWN AN ENTIRE EMPIRE WITH ONLY BRETONNIA CAVALRY
Our horse God: Haha horse go nyoom
I expect a bretonnia campaign when you next go back to warhammer. Good day you glorious sir.
add the free knights exploit and your golden
@@tacticalsine9005 the WHAT?
@Gabriele Severoni it’s possible to get two different knight vows on top of each other makeing knights free. You have to unlock the knights vow manually and then disband the lord. Once your chivalry level is high enough for your lords to start with that tier of knight vows you recruit the lord again with him having the same tier of a vow twice resulting in free knights for that lord.
@@tacticalsine9005 Thx, I'll have to go play bretonnia now, for science
@@gabrieleseveroni The Free vow you get is always the top option of the three you get, so make sure to get the second or third option for the Knight and Questing vows, the ones the exploit works for.
I don’t even play any total war game but I still enjoyed watching this guide
I picked up and read a book on warfare and fighting techniques in the ancient/medieval era recently, and in the chapter dedicated to cavalry it just had a link to your channel. It was nice to finally get a book with some actual well sourced historical accuracy!
King Théoden: "where is the horse and the rider?"
Alans: hold my beer
Celebrates 50K I S G O N E 5 M O N T H S.
(Happy to have you back!)
Honestly one of the most informative Total War tutorials I've ever seen, a lot of them tell you the how without doing the why, you've got the theoretical and the practical which is so much more useful (Guilliman would be proud) than a lot of tutorials which just go, 'do this it works' even though I only in the main play Warhammer Total War 2, I can still see elements I can transfer to enhance my own cavalry use in that game as the theory transfers. Cheers really impressive for a first voiced vid
Trully an excellent video
An excellent rythm, really instructive advices and just the good amount of delicious humour
Just susbcribed a week ago and already fan
You're part of the youtubers that make me returning for long to Total War Games
Can't wait to see your other projects !
Congratulations from France !
what happened in half year of Yrridian's disappearing ?
The WW3 came close
Fire in Australia
Corona virus
TW: TK is death
So pls, keep uploading ur videos for the sake of this world
This may be a weird question to ask here, but I've been looking for the wallpaper you've used in "How it feels to play Lizardmen" and have had no luck finding it. Any dice in linking it?
Glorious mate. Only advice I can give you is to not doubt your work, it's great :) loved the voiceover and it's some of the most instructive, valuable Total War battle help I can find on the platform :) thanks for the time and effort
This is probably the best video game tutorial/guide I've ever watched. I've recently tried Alan's after your earlier video after getting a bit burnt out on atilla (my definite favourite among the TW games). It quickly became my 2nd/3rd favourite faction in matter of turns after figuring things out.
The Alans or how I stopt worrying and love the horse
i'm sure this guy has a lot of fun while editing, really i can understand him, shitty jokes such as: 16:39
Nice video! I love both this new format and the usual one.
This channel never disappoints. Just got the Rome games + Attila as a TW introduction (playing through Rome 1 first), and this stuff makes an inspiring example of the kind of thing that's possible.
And I enjoyed the older Age of Mythology videos too--even more stuff I never thought of back when I played that loads.
Clicked the thumbnail so fast so hard broke my screen
OMG,is it a dream? How many time I waiting? I was young.
I've just found your channel, and your content quality is top notch. 👌👌👌👌 I'm eager for your new uploads, but till then, I'ma binge watch all of your channel. Good luck and keep up the good work!
Love this, hope you do more, I hardly ever comment on videos but it's important I throw my hat in for more great tutorials like this
Explain guide with normal way : ❎❎
Explain guide with meme : ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Me:sees notification
Also me:(in oversimplified voice)OOOOOOHHHHHHH
Holy shit, you returned. You just made my and a lot of peoples 2020 a little better. Please keep it coming, I won’t stop watching that’s for sure!
No joke, your voice is perfect for this kind of content. It's very clear and you accentuate well.
“How to zoom through Europe” There, fixed the title.
Great to see another video man, it is beautiful work.
just found your channel yesterday, was dissapointed you'd stopped posting, than saw this and was so hyped! Please post more, your channel is so good
Great video, man! You've got a great voice for this kind of video. Looking forward to seeing what you do next! Stay safe!
I have played total war for many years, and my play style has always been that of fast hard hitting units either with light infantry such as skirmishes strong enough to engage in hand to hand combat or cavalry. As much as I love skirmishers and light infantry I have always had an almost spiritual connection with cavalry. I seldom ever create an army without a strong cavalry contingent and in many of my victories it’s always been my cavalry that carried the day. With that being said; the fact I just got total war Attila and played it only once in custom battle with the first faction I touch being the Alans and now you give an entire guide on them is brilliant. This will greatly help me when I start their campaign and as always I love your content. But this along with your last stand against the Suebians has to be one of my favorite videos. For that you’ve earned a life time subscriber my friend, keep up the amazing work! :D
Man, those 28 minutes really went by quickly!
Honestly, this was such a good video. Informative, but with all the jokes you worked in, it really was quite the enjoyable experience. (Even though I don't play Attila XD)
Keep up the good work, man!
Legendoftotalwar eat your heart out, Yrridian is the true legend of total war!
This was an amazing watch, well made and informative. It honestly explained many of the problems I had with playing horse lord campaigns. Thanks and great work!
This is Undoubtedly one of the most entertaining tutorial vid i've ever seen...
and the beginning is also very cool...
Memes aside this is actually very smart and very enjoyable to watch you break down the strategy, provide commentary, and show it in action
Nice to see you back Yrd, great content
The tonal dissonance between what's being said and whats on screen is so perfect 👌
Smooth edits, sexy voicework, a lot of effort clearly went into this. 10/10 neighs.
I tried doing a similar thing with Parthians in Rome 2. Worked pretty well and was fun to do.
Anyway it's good to see you still making videos, I hope to see manu more silly videos as well as guides from time to time :)
Everytime I start to forget, our and Savior Yrridian blesses us with video.
Keep'em coming my man .
Thank God you're back! Guide is great btw. Funny and informative at the same time.
You actually have a really good voice for this. Great pace too. For your first speaking video(that ive seen anyway) this is excellent
Holy hell. Your chaotic ways give me so much anxiety. I love it though.
Man I dont even play attila cause I never enjoyed it but you still find a way to make me.
You are highly one of the most underated total war youtubers, your editing is superb and this change if your content seems like an improvement in something already great.
Best of luck to you in these harsh RUclips algorithm days
This video is amazing tbh. It made so many things clear. I really learned a lot. Thanks!
Mate, you're great to listen to. You should consider more doing more videos like this!
Awesome guide, well done on the voice over side!
1:45 Dude, this video is awesome and amazing. Do another, if you want, cause this is some of your best work and you got great narrator voice!
I hope you make more of these in the future, its both interesting and tempts me to try out these games! (Started at Warhammer 2, thus looked at the older titles as "the same but less unit variety")
Great tutorial! Going to try that Alans campaign now.
Good job! It is not often I sea a good guide to cavalry battle and especially a rather good one! Please do more
Didn't expect this kind of format from you at all, but it sure is a pleasant surpirse. I wouldn't mind seeing voiced videos or something similar in the future.
soo glad you're back!!
first pinufla returns out of nowhere, and now you're back as well. praise the gods!
great video bro, enjoyed every second of it
Honestly, while this isn't what I expected it's also pretty good man.
What's clear is you make great high effort content regardless of genre my man
Why the fighting square was invented, a video.
Great work, man. Was really happy to see this pop up in my feed today.
Longest 2 weeks of my life, and Ra'tok better be rebuilt too! Lol But seriously, love the concept of having a tutorial video like this from ya, can both be informational and memey on your channel! And I think ya did well for 1st voice video, keep it up!
This video is great I feel like it can be used for any army using cavalry not just the Alan, Thank you so much!
Amazing guide that is easy to understand and entertaining to boot, cheers my man
Great to see a new vid mate!