I recently revisited M2TW and it has genuinely aged so well. It's not the most complex or historically accurate or graphically impressive, but damn, nothing beats pulling off a heroic victory against impossible odds or restoring Rome as the Byzantines.
i just hate playuíng as the byzantins case they have so shitty basic infantry and i play aggressive so that on every other nation i have like halfe the world concerd.
I recently installed the mod "The Long Road". All around great mod that gives the game a different scale but still feels pretty vanilla. Way bigger map, faster movement, more civs. The only thing they messed up is merchants. The AI seems to be cheating and spams out high level merchants that reliable kill your merchants the round after you've deployed them.
Fun Crusade exploit: The turn before the city is taken, have as many generals as you can join the crusade. The next turn, assuming the crusade is successful, every unit/general will receive experience and some generals may get permanent buffs to their skills or retinue. I think you also get money based on how many units join, but I don't know how that calculation works.
I used to just play Russia, put all my troops on the boat and take a new city somewhere across the map and just start from there, horrible strat but from the nostalgia I’m tempted to do it again 😂
this is my FAVORITe strategy game. I spent HOURS playing this in highschool, had the map on my wall above the computer. Loved starting as Scotland, crusading to the middle east ,and taking over the world from Jerusalem
Heated shot was a thing for early cannons. Being hit by a big Iron ball was painful, being hit by a big RED HOT Iron ball must have been so much worse, especially on wooden ships.
I remember installing Pope from my country crusading half the europe for 5 years just to end up exocummnicated and being crusaded by the other half of europe. 10/10
Yknow the one thing i never learned to do in this game is dupe the AI with diplomacy, it took me so fucking long to kill the french with the Pope on my ass
Cultures come and go. The descendants diverge from their ancestors. It's just the way of things. Just like species. Neanderthals are extinct. They were bred out of existence. Their genetics still exist within a lot of homo-sapiens, but they're still gone.
@@owlblocksdavid4955 their culture is extinct though, oh and they didnt breed with the invaders, they adopted the culture of the upper class because they were being oppressed
@qhu3878 no, there's definitely mixed ancestry of Celtic and Saxon among Englishmen. They weren't all exterminated, nor did they adopt English culture and just become English (modern Englishmen aren't just Celts that adopted Saxon customs).
Fun fact at 5:55, the László mentioned here, if the game is historical, was László the First. One of the most pious Hungarian monarchs. Oh Total War. This series is always madness.
I had a try with this earlier in the year, also with an English campaign. Damn French grew out of control and I needed to conquer half of Spain before I'd finally finished the garlic munchers off.
Haven't played unmodded Medieval II in a while, but I will say I still think it looks better than the updated Rome Remastered. It's the most fun I have in total war games and is the first game I ever bought on steam. Still weird to me that the game that took me a real life week to download back in 2012 has never had a sequel despite it being almost 20 years later.
still want medieval 2 remaster if they don't make medieval 3 in the next 5 years. modding is so good and they should have learn from the unsucessful rome remastered
Dare i say it, Planet War.
Dare I say, yes please.
Please ISP
I think someone was saying the mods dev was *interesting* and added some racist stuff into it
@@Dameyer cool ima dl it now
YES!!! BRING IT BACK!
Didn't play as Denmark...
Ok
My favorite quote about the faction. "With enough armor piecing to defeat a skynet invasion."
Where is the rat bo?
@@edwarddragonblood8749 That video is legendary
Oh look we got the Snake of Denmark here 🐍
I recently revisited M2TW and it has genuinely aged so well. It's not the most complex or historically accurate or graphically impressive, but damn, nothing beats pulling off a heroic victory against impossible odds or restoring Rome as the Byzantines.
i just hate playuíng as the byzantins case they have so shitty basic infantry and i play aggressive so that on every other nation i have like halfe the world concerd.
@ really?? in my experience the only AI faction that really gives me trouble are the italian ones. everyone else is pretty easy to figure out
I recently installed the mod "The Long Road". All around great mod that gives the game a different scale but still feels pretty vanilla. Way bigger map, faster movement, more civs. The only thing they messed up is merchants. The AI seems to be cheating and spams out high level merchants that reliable kill your merchants the round after you've deployed them.
Its by engine far better than any other TW and the main reason why every TW after it has been garbage with the exception of TW Warhammer
@@werwie7902Byzantines are easy to play with. They have lots of cavalry/cav archers plus a core of spearmen to smash any AI army.
10:46 Then he turned himself into a mortar! Funniest shit I've ever seen!
I’m mortar riiiiiiick
Fun Crusade exploit: The turn before the city is taken, have as many generals as you can join the crusade.
The next turn, assuming the crusade is successful, every unit/general will receive experience and some generals may get permanent buffs to their skills or retinue.
I think you also get money based on how many units join, but I don't know how that calculation works.
This looks like an interesting Crusader Kings mod
there's an EU4 mod that has you open and play every land battle in Empire: Total War lmao
@@ethnetomek3621 theres the same thing for ck3, I forget which game the battles are in tho
I used to just play Russia, put all my troops on the boat and take a new city somewhere across the map and just start from there, horrible strat but from the nostalgia I’m tempted to do it again 😂
The great Russian migration
take rome and become the third rome
Russia's start is genuinely terrible, Just yeeting yourself over to Denmark or even London and relocating your capitol is a legit strat
4:27 The Pope making you hire a priest for your chapel is heresy. The Pope is the one who's supposed to choose what priests go where.
I suppose it is the game's way of communicating 'the Pope has decided this priest will go there, make sure it actually happens or he'll be angry'".
@@peperoni_pepino That makes sense.
this is my FAVORITe strategy game. I spent HOURS playing this in highschool, had the map on my wall above the computer. Loved starting as Scotland, crusading to the middle east ,and taking over the world from Jerusalem
me too! it's a timeless classic
7:06 as an avid medieval 2 fan, Milan being and absolute anus is no suprise to me
ISP NEEDS to play the funny Medieval 2 mod, you all know the one.
No I don't. I don't play M2
" - Denmark. Our mortal enemy. "
Tell'em Daddy!!!
"taking my anger out on the irish" a classic from england! jolly good!
Heated shot was a thing for early cannons. Being hit by a big Iron ball was painful, being hit by a big RED HOT Iron ball must have been so much worse, especially on wooden ships.
we are so back even attila returned to see the video
I miss those little spy and assassin cut scenes. They were a blast!
2:38 That is 100% what soldiers looked like in 1067, full plate armour.
I don't even want an M2TW, just a remaster like Rome 1
BABE, SORROW FINALLY PLAYED MEDIEVAL 2 AFTER YEARS
One step closer to Planet War
I remember installing Pope from my country crusading half the europe for 5 years just to end up exocummnicated and being crusaded by the other half of europe. 10/10
thank you so much i was hoping you would return to medieval 2 some day soon and you uploaded this thank you mister gravy
A good way to make the pope love you in this is to just constanly send him money. Much like they did IRL
Yknow the one thing i never learned to do in this game is dupe the AI with diplomacy, it took me so fucking long to kill the french with the Pope on my ass
Finally more total war
IS IT A COINCIDENCE THAT ISP UPLOADS THIS THE DAY I BUY MEDIEVAL 2
yes
Alf Landon foretold it.
2:29 A reminder that the Britons of what is now England (minus Cornwall) are extinct.
Not exactly, they just bred with the invaders
Cultures come and go. The descendants diverge from their ancestors. It's just the way of things. Just like species.
Neanderthals are extinct. They were bred out of existence. Their genetics still exist within a lot of homo-sapiens, but they're still gone.
Culturally and linguistically, yes. But technically they went on to conquer a quarter of the planet, only under a germanic culture and language
@@owlblocksdavid4955 their culture is extinct though, oh and they didnt breed with the invaders, they adopted the culture of the upper class because they were being oppressed
@qhu3878 no, there's definitely mixed ancestry of Celtic and Saxon among Englishmen. They weren't all exterminated, nor did they adopt English culture and just become English (modern Englishmen aren't just Celts that adopted Saxon customs).
Fun fact at 5:55, the László mentioned here, if the game is historical, was László the First. One of the most pious Hungarian monarchs. Oh Total War. This series is always madness.
Blessed by the 2 videos a year ISP releases for total war
That moment when he hasn't got the fix for the diplomacy bug... Ah, bugged medieval 2 is best medieval 2
Empire Total War 2 when
not sure i want it nowadays considering the overpriced slop that CA keeps releasing
Empire TW is best IMO
agree
The only Total War game with true chemical warfare.
I loved the small little vids when agents do something. I really miss those things in the newer games
Actual nostalgia… in November…. Incredible.
You should totally try the Total War Medieval 2 Tsardom mod!
This just proves that if Poland had taken over the steppe the Mongols would've been defeated earlier
Still one of my favorite games
Ah, Milan doing Milan things and casually declaring war on everyone who breathes.
Fun Fact: Mediaval 2 is featured in a german high school history book
You can make a return to the Rimworld right ? Rat empire perhaps (i can oil up if you want. Perfect deal)
I think his answer to this is a resounding *"no"*
@@qhu3878 remember what Diddy said
"Never take a no"
Love when you upload makes my day much better PS i miss the rat
I had a try with this earlier in the year, also with an English campaign. Damn French grew out of control and I needed to conquer half of Spain before I'd finally finished the garlic munchers off.
for 1 mil you need to play total war warhammer 3 as the skaven to satisfy our rat desires
I love all the cutscenes with the agents back then 😂
Fun fact, greg wallace likes playing total war
If you think you can escape calls for the Rat in M2TW you are sorely mistaken.
One day we ~~wont~~ get a good sequel to this
The Lord of the Rings mod for this game is actually pretty good too
Haven't played unmodded Medieval II in a while, but I will say I still think it looks better than the updated Rome Remastered. It's the most fun I have in total war games and is the first game I ever bought on steam. Still weird to me that the game that took me a real life week to download back in 2012 has never had a sequel despite it being almost 20 years later.
"you have pressed the guard mode button for the first time"
Bro, the mobile port holds up. I have hundreds of hours, IN THE MOBILE PORT.
Med 2 is just the best
Aahh, Khan "Please Clap" Jebe the Mauler. Afraid he never did live up to big bro Genghis "W" Kahn. X'3
Mom... Dad!!? Did you buy a new laptop... and actually exist?
The best total war game.
The only other opinion i'll accept is shogun 2
for a 18 year old game, this doesn't look that terrible
The snakes of Denmark have deep roots it seems.
I really want to play Medieval II now instead of working on my thesis. Oh no...
Well, when are you going to play Star Wars Empire at War?🤔
Should play this with the deus vult mod!
It makes it even challenging to take out the rebels.
only thing i hate about MTW2 is the - complete - disconnect between the diplomacy AI and the rest of the AI.
It wasn't very good, but variety is a spice of life
Loved it!
still want medieval 2 remaster if they don't make medieval 3 in the next 5 years. modding is so good and they should have learn from the unsucessful rome remastered
favourite total war game is rome total war. obviously because it is the best
To be honest, you need a Very high IQ to understant Rick and Mortar
Mod scene in M2TW is unparalleled, exceeds everything Creative Assembly has tried since.
bro we are NOT getting another historical total war mod 😂😂😂
Isp NEEEDSSSS to play March Of The Eagles again.
we are so back
Why didn't you show off the new world?? I loved dunking on the aztecs with arquebusiers.
BASED
MTW2 is the best by far the one i always go back to plus all the dlc’s well worth it
You can conquer the whole map in 1 turn, if you use all exploits.
Mostly boat exploits.
March of the Eagles A-Z when
SOMETHING OTHER THAN HOI4 YESSSSS!!!!!!!
Okay. Hear me out. Ballista only Medieval 2 world conquest. You're lucky, I didn't say "catapult only" btw.
Forgot to explore the new world smh
I'm surprised at the graphics..and I remember medieval 2 being easy to mod, while Empire was not 😅
cant wait for empire next
Palpatine’s gambit hoi4 mod vid when
What about the planet war mod?
Wait, this isn't the slop channel.
I want medieval 3 so bad…
God bless the medieval FOLK
when the war sus (total mortyius)
WE NEED PLANET WAR EPISODE 3
Haven't played this in a long time
PLANET WAR OR BUST
Rick and Mortar. FFS ISP lol
CA still haven't made a better game than this, it's been over 20 fucking years.
Day 462 demanding ISP to form Mongolian empire with generic focus tree and minimal mods.
Captain Fantino world conquest when?
ISP walked so that Fantino could ren.
Next time please play as France.
Step 1 booting up medieval 2:
Select my nation.
Step 2:
Get everyone on boats and invade Britain.
Planet War, mate
When we getting Med Evil One?!
not playing as Papal States, YIKES
I don't remember it looking this shit when I was a kid...
Funny Danish flag with a christian cross and a pagan raven..
Must... planet war
This new mega campaign is kinda weird