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I love that Shogun 2 is such a basic Total War game with a small map and basic rosters, but it is such a unique experience and has one of the highest skill gaps from easy to legendary. Such a great game
M2TW (including Americas) is definitely the easiest, AI does not get stat buffs in battles. Rise of the Samurai I think is harder than vanilla Shogun 2. Legendary in modern total wars is just tedious. Loads of anti-player bias and the Ai don't even play by the same mechanics as the player. (attila respawning with endless hordes and AI being immune to starvation or bad public order, etc, etc)
Rise of Samurai was insane. You literally had to use your agents to the max to even survive let alone win. That monk agent(had different name) was basically essential as you could cause rebellions and when you did whole samurai stack of rebels would spawn so you could create rebel buffer as there was no way to have enough armies to defend your borders. Early game units were basically useless and foot samurai stack was too expensive but it was the only unit that could actually do something. Played Kamakura Minamoto. I think i had to restart 5+ times until i figured out the strategy. Definitely hardest campaign. But was very fun however. Warhammer campaigns are just tedious on legendary.
stop playing on anything above normal and nobody get stat boosts , very simple , the furthest i would go is very hard or just hard , legendary is great if you are insane but dont complain about buffs once you go there
The desert factions in Attila are actually super freaking easy. The harmattans and sassanids aren’t even playing the same game as the Romans or European barbarian factions.
Last year, I completed my vanilla WRE campaign on Legendary without abandoning any settlements, keeping my Alliance with ERE (trade bonus is a must), securing the British Isles and North Africa, and my roman expedition to Scandinavia(yes, they got raided and razed. I maintained my Latin Christianity. I killed Attila before he wreak havok on my territory. The WRE campaign will always be one my best campaigns on the whole Total War series.
Shogun 2 was my first TW game. I only managed to win my first campaign when I played with a faction located in the corner of the map, making it easier to defend from only one direction.
My favorite memory in Attila was playing as ERE and forming a late-game marriage alliance with the Huns. After conquering the Sassanids and taking their vassals, I declared war on WRE. I set an allied war target in Hispania. Literally watched the Huns raze Germania and Northern Italy while my elite desert legions marched to Carthago and invaded from the south. Of course, I pulled an Order 66 on Attila once every other faction was dead. 22 full stacks of Tier 3 units. I only needed to kill him twice. XD
Someone finally agrees with me. Attila is my favourite because its undwrrated, extremely difficult, and has some of the best mods with 1212AD and third age. Ive completed 1212AD and the eastern roman empire on full legendary but not the WRE yet.
Just complete a Minor Victory as the WRE in Attila. Tried not to lose any territory, was able to hold Spain, Carthage, Southern France. Heavily Fortified Northern Italy because I knew that was most likely spot for Attila to attack, recruited a bunch a spears and tried to endure the archer fire. The constant rebellion battles in Spain did get super annoying.
I burned everything from the start and fortified Italy. Kept islands and Octoduron. Defended and after a while attacks stopped. Then rebuild Africa, Spain and France, conqured Britain and razed Tracia. By the time Huns arrived I had 10 elite stacks of veterans with large onagres
Havent played the game in a really long time but first move back then was to destroy all of your christian church on turn 1 and replace them with amphetheatre. This should give you a huge chunk of cash to fix the public order and sanitary issue. Recruit an army and on turn 2 attack Savaria and loot and raze then retreat. After that just spam many spear army as you can afford holding down the fort until your economy is built up. Beyond this you can just buy the huns away from you (This is very historical as the East did this to avoid them).
@@sentryion3106 Destroying churches or cities-provinces is a good way to have a lot of public order issues. The key for me was keeping Christianity, and taking the best of it. Fortified Italy and Hispania. Build up the economy, wait for the barbarians to kill each other along the Huns, and then reconquer everything.
Shout out to Westphalia in Age of Charlemagne as another difficult but rewarding campaign. Having the Franks as a constant threat throughout makes for an interesting campaign.
I wish I was better at Total War: Attila. I have attempted the Western Roman Empire, and I completely underestimated the potency of archers, especially after Rome 2
I believe that instead of simply buffing the A.I. to god mode, CA should consider changing the frequency and severity of random events when managing difficulty levels. It would make for a much more dynamic campaign and lead to unique playthroughs. It would also increase immersion massively if A.I. factions would be affected by these events. Imaging a series of natural disasters, a foreign invasion or a civil war reducing a previously invincible looking A.I. empire to rubble while simultaneously opening the field for a rising kingdom.
Fun video, nice retrospective overall! I would like to point out something everyone seems to ignore, or just is not awere of. Rise of Samurai is even harder in general than Fall of Samurai and original Shogun 2.(For me personally is also more fun, but I realise that is more or less subjective.) While in FoS and S2 there are just a few factions' campaigns that are really hard, in RoS playing with any of the 6 factions is madness almost throughout the whole campaign - you must heavily rely on diplomacy and vassals, any mistake is severely punished, a single lost crucial battle in the first 20-30 turns often mean end of everything. My claims are based on Legendary difficulty expirience.
Never played TW:FOTS. However, Shogun2 was the game with the strongest anti player bias in my experience. So I am not surprised that FOTS has the same issue.
I have only played the top 3 (4 if you count both expansions under number 3). They were all very fun for me. I really loved playing as the natives in the americas campagn and struggling to fight other natives as well as the ever increasing numbers of europeans. It was a very fun campaign and i honestly played it more than i did the base game. Its my main setting i been wishing for ca to revisit in either a mainline game or another saga game.
Really good list. Was having flashbacks of my shogun 2 yari ashigaru campaigns when you mentioned the game. The AI is abolsute 0 diplomacy on high difficulty too. However, I would add some newer total war games to the list. I know you do not favour fantasy games but when it comes to difficulty, warhammer 2 mortal empires can be brutal with the crazy cheats the AI gets. Three kingdoms is also survival game as the yellow turbans and the late game in general is a very fun experience there. Hell, even troy manages to spice up the game with antagonist faction system.
Thats fair :) I think personally for the more modern games its a lot easier to pick up as a beginner and but you’re right there are some tough factions in them :)
Rome 2, attila and the warhammer games are easily the hardest just loads of penalties, debuffs and just general limitations like the inability to split up armies or insane movement ranges for AI armies coupled with the endless AI stacks and one settlement super-factions make those games the hardest...and the most tedious. Rise of the samurai is also a good shout, unbelievable AI bonuses, whereas i never really had any problem with FOTS tbh
@@OldOnche nah, i only ever played satsuma, jozai and nagaoka, never went republican. But yeah, tsu look quite tough, in the middle of japan and no good faction bonuses
In Napoleon and Empire, tactical combat is more difficult than in many other games in the series due to the very nature of gun warfare. It is much more difficult to get close to the enemy, surround him, the cavalry is no longer OP. It is impossible to shoot the enemy with rifle detachments with impunity.
Just played my first shogun 2 campaign, I always play on normal on the fist campaing, and I basically stopped playing because it was ridiculously easy, even when empire divide started, almost no one attacked me, surprise to see it is regarded as such a difficult campaign.
in FOTS it may be hard if you stick with a Luddite campaign I never tried because I love the gunplay and my GOD the Armstrong guns if you buff them can get like 90% accuracy or something it's insane. I love mowing down people in manual mode with the machine gun too. Too bad units without artillery can keep retreating and never get in range for a battle so I just chase them endlessly around the map.
Even Yari Ashiguaru can't stop Shogun 2s AI, their MAX LEVEL Bow Samurai will Shred them in Seconds. With that in mind the ARMOR UPGRADES are arguably better then the Melee Attack upgrades. Melee Attack will go up from XP, Armor is constant.
Well actually in Attila I find much more difficult to play as the sassanids because my vassals are always revolting and to win we have to have some I don't remember how many at this point. The western Roman empire I found not so difficult the trick is give some lands no hordes they settle and stay where they are and become more friendly towards you. Try to get money as soon as possible and when the Huns came in just propose peace and bribe them for 20 turns or so then they will declare war and bribe them again you buy time to prepare yourself to kill them
I have never had as stressful and fulfilling campaign than my last Western Roman run on Very Hard with FOT and Europa Perdita mods and a mod that makes morale lower so armies acually rout with some exceptions like huns who seem to be extremely brave. Battle difficulty is Hard. I also made things harder for myself only recruiting the units historically serving under certain armies to those armies consulting Notitia Dignitatum. 🤣 And I don’t use battle map since it feels harder but I don’t like battle realism mode as I don’t have eyes everywhere but in reality guys would react to a horde charging their flanks and not need an order from the general. There are scripted revolts so I lost Spain and Africa but what I did was I made Suebi and Visigoths puppet states and they take care of Spain like it happened in history and reconquered Africa. I did not defend Britain and I lost Illyria to goths and other rebels, but it all worked out for the best as the huns have not managed to destroy a single city I own as they were slowed by the people there and I had time fortifying and building armies. It is year 439 now so I have some of the campaing left yet. Also I made Eastern Rome puppet state which started a war against the Sassanids but I let my vassals fight that one. Danes are my biggest enemy as I destroyed five hunnic armies and killed Attila once s so they wait for the reinforcements.
The best thing was that Honorius died young and Stilicho became the emperor and lived until 80 years old. Succeeded by Flavius Constantinus who will be succeeded by Flavius Aetius the hero who won a battle against Attila. So history wrote itself again, way better this time.
I also added a mod that makes AI recruitment better since I hate seeing armies of fucking slingers or bowmen and peasants. Norse peoples have almost no missile troops or cavalry but in the Late Game their infantry is ridiculous and facing a 20 stack of axemen supported by light infantry is terrifying. Also it does not screw up sassanid or hunnic recruitment as they do have missile troops and cavalry atleast 50%.
Americas Campaign is pretty easy imo. The only difficulty i ran into as Spain was to produce too many troops, then the additional conquistador stacks arrive and I go bankrupt. Haven't played the natives yet.
started casually playing on lower difficulties with M2TW in 2018 on and off... it took me five years to beat western roman empire on legendary. Absolutely nightmarish
I have so much fun playing vanilla Attila and trying to survive as the WRE. I almost always immediately abandon Christianity and go back to worshipping the true gods! It also helps my economy not having to pay all that upkeep. Then it’s a survival game after that. Securing North Africa, then the British isles, all before the world burns and everyone decides the WRE needs to go lol I miss playing that game. Might start a new campaign today
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Shogun 2 total war the "Realm divide" you need to delay your actions if you reach the acclaimed status from the Shogun. To survive in realm divide make sure only 5 or 7 faction remain 3 of them is your vassal
@@rtsgod what i did is before i trigger RD i help my vassal to grow i help them to expand and if lucky clan marriage .When i trigger RD the shogun automatically declare war on me and that is the time that my vassal join war against him and to the other remaining clans. I March to kyoto capture it as soon as possible.
idk about that. I have a blast playing as Austria. They have great Jager units that you munch up the enemy from the sides if you have calvery protection. Also you could place them in front of your main line in light infantry mode and have them shoot without getting shot in the back, even putting stakes in front. Though i typically put stakes in front of my cannons so they can blast away. I love the howitzers :)
Well, this one I am yet to beat... But I did manage to win as Western Rome in TW Rome: Barbarian Invasion; with Iron Man (no going back in time); plus self-imposed challenges: never recruit peasant units (I find it too cheap and historically dumb, as in reality they would be of minimal value, but would make the province much less profitable, but more rebellious instead); do not rob provinces (the game wrongly calculates the profit against problems IMO); never allow for a rebellion if it could be avoided by lowering taxes; no pausing during a battle... I am not sure if this is somehow comparable to the challenge Attila poses... 🤔
The AI is a little bit better: the path finding in sieges works well enough. The AI is just too outdated on Barbarian Invasion to keep up with players that have known the multiplayer battle meta.
Honestly, I think it's easier to deal with the Attila campaign being the Western Roman Empire, than playing any faction in the classic Shogun 2; The first thing that veteran players have always told me about the Attila is that the best way to survive the early campaign is to abandon most of the outer territories of the Empire (using the devastation mechanic), such as Britannia, Africa, Gaul and the border with the Eastern Empire, concentrating at the same time all the forces in maintaining Hispania, the southern part of Gaul, Italy with the Alps and the islands of the western Mediterranean. After that the rest depends on how good you are playing economically and militarily against the AI, but if you do it right in the beginning, you can easily reconquer all the territories, the only problem being dealing with the Huns. Regarding the rest, it's funny that most of them are campaigns that I haven't played due to lack of time, such as Napoleon, the Invasion of the Barbarians in Rome I, Fall of the Samurai and the New World campaign in the Medieval II (it's the bad thing about not having had these games when they came out, since when I was younger I would have had more time), most of the campaigns I've played have been quick to cover more in less time, although the one that I've played the most cost in time, it has been that of the Teutonic Knights of Medieval 2 and a campaign shared with a friend in the Shogun 2 (if my friend was not a veteran, I would never have passed it on the hard difficulty). XD
the ironic thing about shogun 2 is that even on normal expanding too quickly is generaly a bad idea while at the same time the game has a relatively quick campaign pace and you are pressured to expand quickly , not to mention that both the player and the ai can shid out armies within a few turns , and the whole realm divide thing is why i never completed a campaing , is obnoxiously artifical because the game form my experience has good diplomacy which some 2000000 iq individual decided to throw into the wind by making everyone and their mother hate you , including your allies and subjects
hi thank you for this videos, can you make one with the most challenging mods for this games. you can choose the DEI for rome 2, imperial destroyer for empire, morning sun for shogun, maybe master of strategy too, is just a suggestion because I don't know so many other mods and games for Total war. but these ones I think are very hard to play. have a good day.
UK campaign is probably the easiest total war campaign. Just repeat their real strategy and it goes very well. Beat the French navy, blocked every French port, and invade the Iberian peninsula.
When France has armies after armies of chasseurs à cheval that slices through your cav and inf like butter 😰😰 Or when Sweden pulls out 3/4 armies of militia from Finland 😵😵😵 My problem with Realm Divide is how your vassals suddenly turn on you. Like 😮 you supposed to be obedient tf 😭😭 But also, when you play with mods that increase factions and the map with smaller regions, the realm divide mechanic isn't moving so once you conquered a bunch of provinces, you get the Realm Divide but bc of the mods, you only have a small territory and the world hates you 😭
Also the Warhammer games aren’t all that difficult. I mean I get some factions are more difficult than others but its insanely easy to get higher tier units very early in the campaign and cheese your way across the map
@@TheTerminatorGaming yeah and there are lots of exploits in those games, its just hard for beginners, gets easy as you learn how to fight battles and cheese.
Role play: I did my campaign by initially moving the Capitol to Britain, conquered and built that up, let everything else go whilst I held my newb box. But the saxons are really annoying for this strategy. Inflict as many casualties as possible by holding onto the outer territories for as long as you can.
I would argue that Shogun 2 and FOTS are THE BEST GO TO Total Wars for beginners! You can always go to hard or normal difficulty at which point it is map painter, yet there is always that point of Realm Divide that challenges your overstretch should you steamroll. Shogun 2/FOTS is the last Total War that was made for gamers and not casuals. Meaning? Proper combat between models, last TW before the stats powercreep, simple yet VERY meaningful sim city aspect, actual battle tactics - there is no battle that cant be won, even without cheese. The Shogun has just the most tight Player-skill rewarding battles in all TWs, especially the new ones... Shogun 2 was before the dark times... before 60% Passive replenishment/Turn BS... You want replenishment? RECRUIT AND MERGE = Costs money and Looses EXP THAT MATTERS / OR Get them to the recruitment center/ Hospital in FOTS/ Give them to that one General that is speced into replenish but nothing else. Passive Replenishment that is always ON and gives you (And to AI) entire army back in one/two turns totally killed entire campaign side of Total wars as casualties DO NOT MATTER as long as the regiment survives... Campaign became Custom battle map selector Braindead doomstack speedrunner in modern TWs...
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I love that Shogun 2 is such a basic Total War game with a small map and basic rosters, but it is such a unique experience and has one of the highest skill gaps from easy to legendary. Such a great game
Playing as the Western Roman Empire in Attila gave me PTSD
😂😂
My favourite campaign.
But only at hard, legendary can go get fecked.
@@ChrMuslimThor Very hard is just fine. Just turtle in the right province and build your force to retake everything in the west for the Roman Empire.
let everything fall apart and moved east for the slavic religion for the fertility bonus, it was fun
M2TW (including Americas) is definitely the easiest, AI does not get stat buffs in battles. Rise of the Samurai I think is harder than vanilla Shogun 2. Legendary in modern total wars is just tedious. Loads of anti-player bias and the Ai don't even play by the same mechanics as the player. (attila respawning with endless hordes and AI being immune to starvation or bad public order, etc, etc)
Rise of Samurai was insane. You literally had to use your agents to the max to even survive let alone win. That monk agent(had different name) was basically essential as you could cause rebellions and when you did whole samurai stack of rebels would spawn so you could create rebel buffer as there was no way to have enough armies to defend your borders. Early game units were basically useless and foot samurai stack was too expensive but it was the only unit that could actually do something. Played Kamakura Minamoto. I think i had to restart 5+ times until i figured out the strategy. Definitely hardest campaign. But was very fun however. Warhammer campaigns are just tedious on legendary.
I remember using agents to starve enemy factions and being horrified at the realization they wouldn’t suffer any attrition at all
Rise of the Samurai was BS. AI would instantly spawn full veteran stacks after you destroy their armies.
stop playing on anything above normal and nobody get stat boosts , very simple , the furthest i would go is very hard or just hard , legendary is great if you are insane but dont complain about buffs once you go there
The desert factions in Attila are actually super freaking easy. The harmattans and sassanids aren’t even playing the same game as the Romans or European barbarian factions.
Last year, I completed my vanilla WRE campaign on Legendary without abandoning any settlements, keeping my Alliance with ERE (trade bonus is a must), securing the British Isles and North Africa, and my roman expedition to Scandinavia(yes, they got raided and razed. I maintained my Latin Christianity. I killed Attila before he wreak havok on my territory. The WRE campaign will always be one my best campaigns on the whole Total War series.
Shogun 2 was my first TW game. I only managed to win my first campaign when I played with a faction located in the corner of the map, making it easier to defend from only one direction.
Oda Nobunaga enjoyer be like:
My favorite memory in Attila was playing as ERE and forming a late-game marriage alliance with the Huns. After conquering the Sassanids and taking their vassals, I declared war on WRE. I set an allied war target in Hispania. Literally watched the Huns raze Germania and Northern Italy while my elite desert legions marched to Carthago and invaded from the south. Of course, I pulled an Order 66 on Attila once every other faction was dead. 22 full stacks of Tier 3 units. I only needed to kill him twice. XD
Someone finally agrees with me. Attila is my favourite because its undwrrated, extremely difficult, and has some of the best mods with 1212AD and third age.
Ive completed 1212AD and the eastern roman empire on full legendary but not the WRE yet.
Just complete a Minor Victory as the WRE in Attila. Tried not to lose any territory, was able to hold Spain, Carthage, Southern France. Heavily Fortified Northern Italy because I knew that was most likely spot for Attila to attack, recruited a bunch a spears and tried to endure the archer fire. The constant rebellion battles in Spain did get super annoying.
I burned everything from the start and fortified Italy. Kept islands and Octoduron. Defended and after a while attacks stopped. Then rebuild Africa, Spain and France, conqured Britain and razed Tracia. By the time Huns arrived I had 10 elite stacks of veterans with large onagres
Havent played the game in a really long time but first move back then was to destroy all of your christian church on turn 1 and replace them with amphetheatre. This should give you a huge chunk of cash to fix the public order and sanitary issue. Recruit an army and on turn 2 attack Savaria and loot and raze then retreat. After that just spam many spear army as you can afford holding down the fort until your economy is built up. Beyond this you can just buy the huns away from you (This is very historical as the East did this to avoid them).
@@sentryion3106 Destroying churches or cities-provinces is a good way to have a lot of public order issues. The key for me was keeping Christianity, and taking the best of it. Fortified Italy and Hispania. Build up the economy, wait for the barbarians to kill each other along the Huns, and then reconquer everything.
@@Krafanio I mean you replace them with amphitheater so public order issue never gets too big to handle anyways.
Shout out to Westphalia in Age of Charlemagne as another difficult but rewarding campaign. Having the Franks as a constant threat throughout makes for an interesting campaign.
I wish I was better at Total War: Attila. I have attempted the Western Roman Empire, and I completely underestimated the potency of archers, especially after Rome 2
Yeah I feel the same man :)
I believe that instead of simply buffing the A.I. to god mode, CA should consider changing the frequency and severity of random events when managing difficulty levels. It would make for a much more dynamic campaign and lead to unique playthroughs.
It would also increase immersion massively if A.I. factions would be affected by these events. Imaging a series of natural disasters, a foreign invasion or a civil war reducing a previously invincible looking A.I. empire to rubble while simultaneously opening the field for a rising kingdom.
Great point 👍
I really like your top 5 total war, hope you do more of this. Great stuff mate well done
Thank you! ❤️
Ever tried marcomanni from imperator Augustus in rome 2? Its also pretty tough
I played it once but in normal difficulty, I remember having tons of laughther by bonking romans with wooden clubs
Fun video, nice retrospective overall!
I would like to point out something everyone seems to ignore, or just is not awere of.
Rise of Samurai is even harder in general than Fall of Samurai and original Shogun 2.(For me personally is also more fun, but I realise that is more or less subjective.) While in FoS and S2 there are just a few factions' campaigns that are really hard, in RoS playing with any of the 6 factions is madness almost throughout the whole campaign - you must heavily rely on diplomacy and vassals, any mistake is severely punished, a single lost crucial battle in the first 20-30 turns often mean end of everything. My claims are based on Legendary difficulty expirience.
Never played TW:FOTS. However, Shogun2 was the game with the strongest anti player bias in my experience. So I am not surprised that FOTS has the same issue.
Yeah both of course have major anti player bias, but I think they’re also just super tough for beginners
Agreed on the anti-player bias being the most noticeable in S2.
I have only played the top 3 (4 if you count both expansions under number 3). They were all very fun for me.
I really loved playing as the natives in the americas campagn and struggling to fight other natives as well as the ever increasing numbers of europeans. It was a very fun campaign and i honestly played it more than i did the base game.
Its my main setting i been wishing for ca to revisit in either a mainline game or another saga game.
Really good list. Was having flashbacks of my shogun 2 yari ashigaru campaigns when you mentioned the game. The AI is abolsute 0 diplomacy on high difficulty too.
However, I would add some newer total war games to the list. I know you do not favour fantasy games but when it comes to difficulty, warhammer 2 mortal empires can be brutal with the crazy cheats the AI gets. Three kingdoms is also survival game as the yellow turbans and the late game in general is a very fun experience there. Hell, even troy manages to spice up the game with antagonist faction system.
Thats fair :) I think personally for the more modern games its a lot easier to pick up as a beginner and but you’re right there are some tough factions in them :)
Rome 2, attila and the warhammer games are easily the hardest just loads of penalties, debuffs and just general limitations like the inability to split up armies or insane movement ranges for AI armies coupled with the endless AI stacks and one settlement super-factions make those games the hardest...and the most tedious. Rise of the samurai is also a good shout, unbelievable AI bonuses, whereas i never really had any problem with FOTS tbh
Have you ever tried a Republic Tsu campaign ? It's quite difficult if you overextend and don't fortify choke points
@@OldOnche nah, i only ever played satsuma, jozai and nagaoka, never went republican. But yeah, tsu look quite tough, in the middle of japan and no good faction bonuses
In Napoleon and Empire, tactical combat is more difficult than in many other games in the series due to the very nature of gun warfare. It is much more difficult to get close to the enemy, surround him, the cavalry is no longer OP. It is impossible to shoot the enemy with rifle detachments with impunity.
Just played my first shogun 2 campaign, I always play on normal on the fist campaing, and I basically stopped playing because it was ridiculously easy, even when empire divide started, almost no one attacked me, surprise to see it is regarded as such a difficult campaign.
in FOTS it may be hard if you stick with a Luddite campaign I never tried because I love the gunplay and my GOD the Armstrong guns if you buff them can get like 90% accuracy or something it's insane. I love mowing down people in manual mode with the machine gun too. Too bad units without artillery can keep retreating and never get in range for a battle so I just chase them endlessly around the map.
Even Yari Ashiguaru can't stop Shogun 2s AI, their MAX LEVEL Bow Samurai will Shred them in Seconds. With that in mind the ARMOR UPGRADES are arguably better then the Melee Attack upgrades. Melee Attack will go up from XP, Armor is constant.
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You keep these top 5 coming. I'll be back.
Well actually in Attila I find much more difficult to play as the sassanids because my vassals are always revolting and to win we have to have some I don't remember how many at this point. The western Roman empire I found not so difficult the trick is give some lands no hordes they settle and stay where they are and become more friendly towards you. Try to get money as soon as possible and when the Huns came in just propose peace and bribe them for 20 turns or so then they will declare war and bribe them again you buy time to prepare yourself to kill them
I have never had as stressful and fulfilling campaign than my last Western Roman run on Very Hard with FOT and Europa Perdita mods and a mod that makes morale lower so armies acually rout with some exceptions like huns who seem to be extremely brave. Battle difficulty is Hard. I also made things harder for myself only recruiting the units historically serving under certain armies to those armies consulting Notitia Dignitatum. 🤣 And I don’t use battle map since it feels harder but I don’t like battle realism mode as I don’t have eyes everywhere but in reality guys would react to a horde charging their flanks and not need an order from the general. There are scripted revolts so I lost Spain and Africa but what I did was I made Suebi and Visigoths puppet states and they take care of Spain like it happened in history and reconquered Africa. I did not defend Britain and I lost Illyria to goths and other rebels, but it all worked out for the best as the huns have not managed to destroy a single city I own as they were slowed by the people there and I had time fortifying and building armies. It is year 439 now so I have some of the campaing left yet. Also I made Eastern Rome puppet state which started a war against the Sassanids but I let my vassals fight that one. Danes are my biggest enemy as I destroyed five hunnic armies and killed Attila once s so they wait for the reinforcements.
The best thing was that Honorius died young and Stilicho became the emperor and lived until 80 years old. Succeeded by Flavius Constantinus who will be succeeded by Flavius Aetius the hero who won a battle against Attila. So history wrote itself again, way better this time.
I also added a mod that makes AI recruitment better since I hate seeing armies of fucking slingers or bowmen and peasants. Norse peoples have almost no missile troops or cavalry but in the Late Game their infantry is ridiculous and facing a 20 stack of axemen supported by light infantry is terrifying. Also it does not screw up sassanid or hunnic recruitment as they do have missile troops and cavalry atleast 50%.
Americas Campaign is pretty easy imo. The only difficulty i ran into as Spain was to produce too many troops, then the additional conquistador stacks arrive and I go bankrupt. Haven't played the natives yet.
playing legendary is not fun, they didn't make ai challenging, they made it cheating
started casually playing on lower difficulties with M2TW in 2018 on and off... it took me five years to beat western roman empire on legendary. Absolutely nightmarish
I have so much fun playing vanilla Attila and trying to survive as the WRE. I almost always immediately abandon Christianity and go back to worshipping the true gods! It also helps my economy not having to pay all that upkeep. Then it’s a survival game after that. Securing North Africa, then the British isles, all before the world burns and everyone decides the WRE needs to go lol I miss playing that game. Might start a new campaign today
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Shogun 2 total war the "Realm divide" you need to delay your actions if you reach the acclaimed status from the Shogun.
To survive in realm divide make sure only 5 or 7 faction remain 3 of them is your vassal
Good advice :)
I heard that vassal's mad after RD don't have the RD penalty
@@rtsgod what i did is before i trigger RD i help my vassal to grow i help them to expand and if lucky clan marriage .When i trigger RD the shogun automatically declare war on me and that is the time that my vassal join war against him and to the other remaining clans. I March to kyoto capture it as soon as possible.
Austria might be a more difficult faction to play in NTW
idk about that. I have a blast playing as Austria. They have great Jager units that you munch up the enemy from the sides if you have calvery protection. Also you could place them in front of your main line in light infantry mode and have them shoot without getting shot in the back, even putting stakes in front. Though i typically put stakes in front of my cannons so they can blast away. I love the howitzers :)
Yeah, last time I played Austria, almost all of my allies betrayed me
@@charlesmiv3842 ouch
@@charlesmiv3842 or you gotta betray them eventually.
@@rtsgod units are decent. It's the campaign which is challenging
Well, this one I am yet to beat... But I did manage to win as Western Rome in TW Rome: Barbarian Invasion; with Iron Man (no going back in time); plus self-imposed challenges: never recruit peasant units (I find it too cheap and historically dumb, as in reality they would be of minimal value, but would make the province much less profitable, but more rebellious instead); do not rob provinces (the game wrongly calculates the profit against problems IMO); never allow for a rebellion if it could be avoided by lowering taxes; no pausing during a battle... I am not sure if this is somehow comparable to the challenge Attila poses... 🤔
The AI is a little bit better: the path finding in sieges works well enough. The AI is just too outdated on Barbarian Invasion to keep up with players that have known the multiplayer battle meta.
surprised alexander didnt make the list
Honestly, I think it's easier to deal with the Attila campaign being the Western Roman Empire, than playing any faction in the classic Shogun 2; The first thing that veteran players have always told me about the Attila is that the best way to survive the early campaign is to abandon most of the outer territories of the Empire (using the devastation mechanic), such as Britannia, Africa, Gaul and the border with the Eastern Empire, concentrating at the same time all the forces in maintaining Hispania, the southern part of Gaul, Italy with the Alps and the islands of the western Mediterranean. After that the rest depends on how good you are playing economically and militarily against the AI, but if you do it right in the beginning, you can easily reconquer all the territories, the only problem being dealing with the Huns. Regarding the rest, it's funny that most of them are campaigns that I haven't played due to lack of time, such as Napoleon, the Invasion of the Barbarians in Rome I, Fall of the Samurai and the New World campaign in the Medieval II (it's the bad thing about not having had these games when they came out, since when I was younger I would have had more time), most of the campaigns I've played have been quick to cover more in less time, although the one that I've played the most cost in time, it has been that of the Teutonic Knights of Medieval 2 and a campaign shared with a friend in the Shogun 2 (if my friend was not a veteran, I would never have passed it on the hard difficulty). XD
the ironic thing about shogun 2 is that even on normal expanding too quickly is generaly a bad idea while at the same time the game has a relatively quick campaign pace and you are pressured to expand quickly , not to mention that both the player and the ai can shid out armies within a few turns , and the whole realm divide thing is why i never completed a campaing , is obnoxiously artifical because the game form my experience has good diplomacy which some 2000000 iq individual decided to throw into the wind by making everyone and their mother hate you , including your allies and subjects
I think Empire Total War Vanilla Ottomans VH/VH was also very difficult.
Total war attila is so hard that make my Laptop lagging
Western Rome in Atilla is easy if you do scorched earth and pull your troops back to Italia to start again 😂
People who's favorite game is Attila like to be choked, spanked, and abused
I hadnt rage quited a game since i was 13 years old.... and then i played as WRE in attila 🤣
hi thank you for this videos, can you make one with the most challenging mods for this games. you can choose the DEI for rome 2, imperial destroyer for empire,
morning sun for shogun, maybe master of strategy too, is just a suggestion because I don't know so many other mods and games for Total war. but these ones I think are very hard to play.
have a good day.
Still working on my Western Roman Empire campaign on legendary.
10:37 me a stubborn MF: this will end well for me.
UK campaign is probably the easiest total war campaign. Just repeat their real strategy and it goes very well. Beat the French navy, blocked every French port, and invade the Iberian peninsula.
When France has armies after armies of chasseurs à cheval that slices through your cav and inf like butter 😰😰
Or when Sweden pulls out 3/4 armies of militia from Finland 😵😵😵
My problem with Realm Divide is how your vassals suddenly turn on you. Like 😮 you supposed to be obedient tf 😭😭
But also, when you play with mods that increase factions and the map with smaller regions, the realm divide mechanic isn't moving so once you conquered a bunch of provinces, you get the Realm Divide but bc of the mods, you only have a small territory and the world hates you 😭
Gonna play Attila right now xd
Have you tried grand tactician civil war
I have indeed! Super super tough game, but very fun :)
I’ll think about it :) ❤️❤️
Me who is proud of playing easy or normal difficulty on Attila total war WRE 🗿
Thats why I'm biggest Attila fan
On Easy west Rome in BI is hardest campaign. I can't survive there and can survive and kicking in Atilla
i like how he is not including the warhammer series, team historical total war games
Also the Warhammer games aren’t all that difficult. I mean I get some factions are more difficult than others but its insanely easy to get higher tier units very early in the campaign and cheese your way across the map
@@TheTerminatorGaming yeah and there are lots of exploits in those games, its just hard for beginners, gets easy as you learn how to fight battles and cheese.
The older games by far had the worst amount of cheese with Rome total war having zero counters to Scythian archers or Greek phalanx bridge battles.
Any other tips people have for WRE on legendary difficulty.
Role play: I did my campaign by initially moving the Capitol to Britain, conquered and built that up, let everything else go whilst I held my newb box. But the saxons are really annoying for this strategy. Inflict as many casualties as possible by holding onto the outer territories for as long as you can.
10:00 HERESY ! HERESY !
i wish CA give us Shogun 3 with a bit Attila vibe. Shogun 2 a bit too arcade for me. Battle a bit too fast, unit die too fast.
i beat attila as WRE on legendary many years ago so i am master of TW?
Shogun 2 and attila are quite unplaylable in very hard i prefer to play in hard
Warhammer 2 is honestly very difficult, i can complete a very hard Attila campaign in a week but i struggle on normal on Warhammer 2
I would argue that Shogun 2 and FOTS are THE BEST GO TO Total Wars for beginners!
You can always go to hard or normal difficulty at which point it is map painter, yet there is always that point of Realm Divide that challenges your overstretch should you steamroll. Shogun 2/FOTS is the last Total War that was made for gamers and not casuals. Meaning? Proper combat between models, last TW before the stats powercreep, simple yet VERY meaningful sim city aspect, actual battle tactics - there is no battle that cant be won, even without cheese. The Shogun has just the most tight Player-skill rewarding battles in all TWs, especially the new ones...
Shogun 2 was before the dark times... before 60% Passive replenishment/Turn BS... You want replenishment? RECRUIT AND MERGE = Costs money and Looses EXP THAT MATTERS / OR Get them to the recruitment center/ Hospital in FOTS/ Give them to that one General that is speced into replenish but nothing else. Passive Replenishment that is always ON and gives you (And to AI) entire army back in one/two turns totally killed entire campaign side of Total wars as casualties DO NOT MATTER as long as the regiment survives... Campaign became Custom battle map selector Braindead doomstack speedrunner in modern TWs...
Great vid dude
Thanks! ❤️
Ab Urbe Condita, Roma - R2TW DEI 😋
Too soon? 😅
😂😂
Rome total war barbarian invasion isn't really difficult as western roman empire
ETW and take Poland gl
Yeah.. Shogun 2 is hardcore asf. Definitely not for the faint of heart. It makes Western Rome in Attila look like a cakewalk.
nobody wants to micromanage 20 units at a time