Top 5 - Most Over-Rated Factions - Total War

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  • @MelkorGG
    @MelkorGG  4 года назад +190

    I am VERY Sorry about the Mic issue for Number 4. XD
    Here is what happened: The music that played before I had to edit, slightly, to avoid a copyright issue. Turns out, I must have edited my commentary for the rest of 4th Point also, and it was too late to fix by the time I noticed. Sorry, but I hope some of you found it funny at least. : )

    • @Gongas2Kill
      @Gongas2Kill 4 года назад +12

      priceless

    • @bramlinssen6940
      @bramlinssen6940 4 года назад +18

      It's pretty funny lol

    • @MKfoxbat
      @MKfoxbat 4 года назад +18

      Point 3
      Do not inhale helium before you make an entry in a list

    • @liamlyons6645
      @liamlyons6645 4 года назад +17

      Mate the fact it’s a mistake makes it the funniest thing I’ve ever seen hahaha

    • @stormrunner4081
      @stormrunner4081 4 года назад +6

      No this needs to stay it’s just so funny

  • @gudigoat2463
    @gudigoat2463 4 года назад +380

    I’m sorry I just couldn’t take melkor seriously when his audio went really high 😂😂

  • @weenniethepoop5667
    @weenniethepoop5667 4 года назад +219

    it's ya boi, alvin chipmunk with another top five!

  • @quiprinceps1149
    @quiprinceps1149 4 года назад +164

    2:21 YEAH RIGHT! The audio didnt mess up here, THATS HIS ACTUAL VOICE! HES ONE OF THE COWARDLY GNOMES!!! HE ESCAPED OUT OF THE TOWERS, GET HIM!!!!

  • @herroberbesserwisser7331
    @herroberbesserwisser7331 4 года назад +294

    Chipmunk Melkor isn't real he can't hurt you!
    Chimpmunk Melkor: 2:30

    • @coolthefool1
      @coolthefool1 4 года назад +2

      Herr Oberbesserwisser My ears oh the horror of my high pitch giggling

  • @Aemond_One-Eye
    @Aemond_One-Eye 4 года назад +166

    1:10: "I don't really like missile cav."
    20 seconds later: *recruits three units of missile cav*

    • @jagotiberan2181
      @jagotiberan2181 4 года назад +3

      Jameson Nevitt saw that too, was like wtf 😂😂

    • @21Arrozito
      @21Arrozito 2 года назад +8

      "I really don't like missile cav" This explains why he's kind of shitty at Medieval 2. Missile cav dominate in Medieval 2. You can rout whole armies with a half stack of missile cav.

    • @lugiasimply6054
      @lugiasimply6054 2 года назад +1

      I fucking love Missile Cav, especially in mods

    • @tommyortiz6623
      @tommyortiz6623 2 года назад +3

      Any mobile ranged units way too OP maybe that’s what he means? 🤷🏻 but yeah they are hella annoying only way take them out is lot of light Calvary I personally do not use them I like using infantry and bowmen

    • @ivanvoloder8114
      @ivanvoloder8114 2 года назад +1

      @@21Arrozito Missile cav is my favorite type of unit and Byzantine was the one to introduce me with. After that I play cavalary factions only with Russia being my No.1.

  • @drosso4956
    @drosso4956 4 года назад +141

    The gods of seleucia are punishing you for your transgression melkor

  • @gramboni0624
    @gramboni0624 4 года назад +247

    Me about to start my first Seluecid campaign: "They get legionnaires? Sweet!"
    Jump cut to turn 30 where I've destroyed every faction around me with militia because I've been under endless sieges and cant build anything else.

    • @boshengjones1778
      @boshengjones1778 4 года назад +21

      @@TryToHardForFun The easist way for the seleucids is focus on egypt. Kill Egypt first, you can afford to lose every province you started with, if you kill eggy. Every other option for the seleucids is putting yourself into a harder mode.

    • @RJALEXANDER777
      @RJALEXANDER777 4 года назад +34

      @@boshengjones1778 Interesting strategy. How to play as the Seleucid Empire...
      Step 1: Become Ptolemeic Egypt.
      Step 2: Win.

    • @spbkoon3385
      @spbkoon3385 4 года назад +3

      You should have focused on building certain military buildings in certain cities to get to good stuff faster. For example, baracks in Antioch and archery range in Susa or Memphis. Also, being proactive about your wars helps a lot.

    • @frisianmouve
      @frisianmouve 4 года назад +8

      You can get your general in Ephesus to recruit a mercenary army and start taking settlements from there, I defeated Pontus with a ragtag group of Cretan archers, rhodian slingers, mercenary hoplites, barbarian cavalry, barbarian spearmen, scythian horsearchers and falxmen

    • @Dan-uf2vh
      @Dan-uf2vh 4 года назад +1

      and legionaries are one tier higher (final tier) than romans would get them (penultimate tier); on that tier romans get to use urban cohorts (for the record legionaries are the more cost effective, 1 turn to make, kings of auto resolve)

  • @caiawlodarski5339
    @caiawlodarski5339 4 года назад +55

    Did i just hear Alvin the chipmunk lecture me about the selucid empire ?

  • @selder_7
    @selder_7 4 года назад +54

    It’s not the gunpowder that crushes the natives when you’re new Spain, it’s the cavalry. They have none and almost no counter to it

    • @jamieslingsby9907
      @jamieslingsby9907 4 года назад +9

      yup, i took an army of nothing but conquistadors and pretty much went from one side of the america's to the other. won every battle even when outnumbered by like 10:1 and overran thousands of them.

    • @sethcoleman2906
      @sethcoleman2906 4 года назад +6

      @@jamieslingsby9907 cavalry un medieval 2 is just plain dominating. Legend of total war demonstrated that

    • @warwickthekingmaker7281
      @warwickthekingmaker7281 4 года назад +6

      Look at the battle. Melkor has no idea how to play medieval 2 well.
      He places his cavalry in reserve instead of being proactive and has his gunpowder units simply stand in front of his melee infantry until they are engaged. That way you are relying solely on melee infantry to win the battle for you which is a really bad idea. Melee infantry can be great but not for winning battles by themselves. They pin enemy units so that ranged units or cavalry can win the battle

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 3 года назад +5

      Natives: No no no you can’t just get on horses and rout us that easily! 😡
      Spamish: Jajaja, Horse does: Clop clop

    • @esclavodelsistema9783
      @esclavodelsistema9783 3 года назад +1

      @@warwickthekingmaker7281 this

  • @codyh9175
    @codyh9175 4 года назад +51

    I agree, Seleucids are overrated for beginners, but for people who are experienced, they are a massive powerhouse. Definitely my favorite campaign in vanilla. Surrounded by enemies, with a powerful empire, it's really quite fun.

    • @richardthomas5362
      @richardthomas5362 4 года назад +1

      I would jump on Parthia immediately, driving them out of the Iranian highlands. Armenia is usually next, while holding off the Egyptians. Once Pontus is gone I can roll up Egypt and move west with the irresistible might of a tidal wave.

    • @codyh9175
      @codyh9175 4 года назад +1

      @@richardthomas5362 I like to do that too. Taking out the northern neighbors so that I can focus all efforts on Egypt.

    • @zord1352
      @zord1352 4 года назад +2

      I'm the one who focuses south first because after Egypt, there is no more space and have to turn back. If I go north first, turn back south, then turn back again, I would make my army March too many times and I'm just too kind of a person to not to exhaust my beloved man :)

    • @codyh9175
      @codyh9175 4 года назад +1

      @@zord1352 respect

    • @rovsea-3761
      @rovsea-3761 4 года назад

      I think you just kill all of them to be honest. The Seleucids are actually really strong economically.

  • @skov1949
    @skov1949 4 года назад +85

    Can we get more of chipmunk MELKOR?

  • @bo1bo1bo1unlosode
    @bo1bo1bo1unlosode 4 года назад +19

    Never thought Bizantium or the Seleucids as a powerful faction as i have always seen them being steamrolled by turn 6

    • @041mikey
      @041mikey 4 года назад +7

      Classic ai mismanagement

  • @emaniajr6553
    @emaniajr6553 4 года назад +35

    Plot twist.
    The voice got high so no one could understand the apology for underminig the SE.

    • @jasonlupo4117
      @jasonlupo4117 3 года назад

      How do we know it was really him? XD

  • @Duke_of_Lorraine
    @Duke_of_Lorraine 4 года назад +13

    About byzantine missile cavs, their best unit of the category, the vardariotai, are excellent. Do not fear making them charge lines of archers or light infantry, they'll be fine.
    Just don't forget to send a swarm of priests in any province you want to conquer...

    • @rorschach1985ify
      @rorschach1985ify 3 года назад +1

      My issue with the Vardariotai is they are too available compared to the Byzantine Lancers and Kataphraktoi which were the real powerhouses of the Byzantine Military. They have a nice roster but the way it is laid out in the campaign puts too much focus on Horse Archers when the Byzantines in real life were not as proficient in them as others, only using them as Mercs or as a hybrid type of horse archer lightly armored cav. The buildings for Cities and Castles are too focused on HA and not as much on Good infantry and cavalry which you need to go through too much work to finally get and by then it should be over. I also wish Med 2 Byzantines had actual good Spearmen because their strongest spear unit is way too damn weak for a faction that historically was pretty good with them.

  • @oivanurminen8946
    @oivanurminen8946 4 года назад +12

    I need more helium voice, I need it now!

  • @bramlinssen6940
    @bramlinssen6940 4 года назад +17

    HELP a cowardly gnome has narrated part of your video! I think you should take a look under your desk melkor.

  • @Randomstuffs261
    @Randomstuffs261 4 года назад +32

    I thought you were about to mention Numidia... but then i remembered that numidia is not "over-rated" ... it is merely *ACCEPTED* as the most superior faction in the series

    • @VanadzorImSirac
      @VanadzorImSirac 4 года назад +2

      nah its armenia

    • @Randomstuffs261
      @Randomstuffs261 4 года назад +4

      @@VanadzorImSirac How dare you

    • @zord1352
      @zord1352 4 года назад +4

      @@VanadzorImSirac you ruined my childhood!

    • @VanadzorImSirac
      @VanadzorImSirac 4 года назад +5

      Imagine not having cataphracts #armenia

    • @Randomstuffs261
      @Randomstuffs261 4 года назад +6

      @@VanadzorImSirac Imagine being weak enough to *need* cataphracts #Numidiagang #Doesnotneedcataphracts

  • @blakeprocter5818
    @blakeprocter5818 4 года назад +6

    LOL That audio glitch during Seleucid makes it sound like you are taking the piss! Haha

  • @Duke_of_Lorraine
    @Duke_of_Lorraine 4 года назад +14

    The Timurids. Laughs in "sallying out" then sitting behind towers to bomb their forces in impunity for an entire hour.

  • @kippies66
    @kippies66 4 года назад +8

    Plot twist:
    Melkor deliberately messed with the tone of his voice because he actually loves the Seleucids so much to the point of obsession.
    Therefore picking them as an overrated faction to disguise it, but giving himself a silly voice so no one actually remembers his actual criticism.
    Foolproof plan!

  • @PoorManatee6197
    @PoorManatee6197 4 года назад +5

    The thing with spain in the americas campaign is that you can hire native mercenaries, they arent the most elite thing but they give you numbers to engage the enemy while destroying them with artillery and cabalry. So if you only count their normal roster i will agree it is very lacking, but if you count the mercenaries they are incredibly OP.

  • @flaggy185
    @flaggy185 3 года назад +2

    Melkor in number 4: Prepares to explain why the Seleucids are over rated
    Audio mess up
    Seleucids fans: *Well, well, well...*

  • @louisk6637
    @louisk6637 4 года назад +8

    Liked bc of the audio screw up. We need more videos with helium melkor.

  • @Zach-mw5so
    @Zach-mw5so 4 года назад +1

    Thanks Melkor for your channel. I found you a few days ago before the Total War Steam sale. Watched some videos and I ended up buying all the total wars on sale on steam. Massive discount but lockdown is making me bored. I won’t be bored now. Thanks again

  • @flarek9686
    @flarek9686 4 года назад +25

    I mean if you are going to play the Romans in RTW you have to pick the Julii. The TRUE Romans.

    • @azarlgor
      @azarlgor 4 года назад +2

      True Romans? You mean the Senate, right?

    • @Maria-sr6zz
      @Maria-sr6zz 4 года назад +1

      I’am The Senate

    • @esclavodelsistema9783
      @esclavodelsistema9783 3 года назад

      @@azarlgor i dont like purple romans. Red romans are just better

  • @PeterTeal77
    @PeterTeal77 4 года назад +2

    ERE is powerful because you don't have to fight any wars you don't want to. You can peace out of 3/4 of starting wars and end the visigoths by turn 3. Then just turtle up throwing cash at and allying sassanids and huns while your empire rakes in cash. Also with greek christianity + libraries you can max out techs way before any other playable faction making civic management and high-level troop spam trivial. I think they are misunderstood because everyone focuses on the unlimited cash thing.

  • @scottblackburn7192
    @scottblackburn7192 3 года назад +4

    Man if only Byzantium could be assessed in its Stainless Steel form. It's so much more fleshed out and unique in it's roster than in vanilla and the campaign is also far more interesting with the addition of the Cumans into the previously barren steppe. SS Byzantium holds up.

  • @idontlikerome2744
    @idontlikerome2744 4 года назад +22

    MELKOR: We have Byzantium...
    Anyone with good character: So you have chosen DISLIKE
    But for real, thx Melkor, u made me chuckle

  • @artamir6605
    @artamir6605 4 года назад +2

    Your editing and video creativity have really gone up a level. Great to see. Was so much fun to watch.

  • @TheTomray94
    @TheTomray94 4 года назад +4

    The Seleucid voice bit is the most hilarious thing I have heard in a while 😂😂

  • @tobysullivan3510
    @tobysullivan3510 4 года назад +5

    5:48 we’re blessed with a vision of our Lord MELKOR

  • @timothyernst8812
    @timothyernst8812 4 года назад +2

    I think a big part of Byzantium's popularity in Medieval 2 is actually due to how ridiculously overpowered they were in Medieval 1. For a lot of people it was the first faction they completed a campaign with. Then with every new game, the vets would hype the Byzantines or suggest them to new players, and it basically became a trend. I don't understand all this hate for horse archers though. Easily the best unit category in the game and the Byzantines easily have the best one. If they have a weakness, it's that their campaign is boring. It's relatively easy to complete the long campaign long before the Mongols show up. God only knows how many full stack armies of Venetian spear and crossbow militia units I slaughtered with a half stack of vards.

  • @ΒασίλειοςΚαϊμάκης
    @ΒασίλειοςΚαϊμάκης 4 года назад +11

    MELKOR: number 5 Byzantine empire
    Everybody at 20 kilometer radious: take it back, take it f*cking back

  • @ajavierb2078
    @ajavierb2078 4 года назад +7

    NO NOT THE SELEUCIDS!!!!! Dont you dare!!
    Stil love your content btw.

  • @Natural.Traditionalist
    @Natural.Traditionalist 4 года назад +2

    Another fantastic video!!! Keep up the good work!

  • @whakabuti
    @whakabuti 4 года назад +1

    I couldn't hear anything you said about the Seleucid Empire over the sound of my laughter XD

  • @randomhistoryfan5749
    @randomhistoryfan5749 2 года назад +2

    The selleucid empire is good, IN THE LATE GAME. But really, in the early game, they suffer under novice/ new players

  • @rovsea-3761
    @rovsea-3761 4 года назад +1

    The Seleucid starting position is actually great. Because they're centrally located they can just expand in every direction and conquer the entire southeastern third of the map.

  • @fettfan91
    @fettfan91 4 года назад +1

    Your next video should be entirely in that chipmunk voice, that was hilarious.

  • @markghostproductions3697
    @markghostproductions3697 4 года назад +1

    So.
    Melkor is secretly a Chipmunk.
    Who knew?

  • @Geshiko-GuP
    @Geshiko-GuP 2 года назад +1

    i also dont really like missile cav...if i have any sort of missile unit i want them to be behind my melee units, while my cavarly flank the enemy, but with missile cav..not only is it not fit of being behind my units, it also doesnt charge at my enemies, i expect my cavarly to be able to smash into the enemies sides..sure they might be OP..i used em once before and they where very good..but i prefer a more "brute force" strat for my cav..and for my archers a support role..i cant just combine both..brute force and support is the exact opposite of eachother

  • @DrYnroh
    @DrYnroh 3 года назад

    You hitting byzantines and selucids killed me
    Your "there goes the other 50%" was fkn hilarious too
    Good job man

  • @yacinebenchoubane3645
    @yacinebenchoubane3645 4 года назад +6

    WHAAAAT ??????
    SELEUCIDS?????????
    I'M DONE
    *TRIGERRED*

  • @cactuscoe9096
    @cactuscoe9096 4 года назад +4

    Melkor took a deep, deep breath before posting this video

  • @thatadambyrne
    @thatadambyrne 3 года назад +1

    That voice change is generally the funniest thing ever

  • @milkman6883
    @milkman6883 4 года назад +4

    Wait So you didn’t ONLY put the Byzantine ONCE BUT TWICE
    You were definitely paid in Turkish Coin

    • @radgoncan
      @radgoncan 3 года назад

      Was searching for this comment.

  • @goatruso3198
    @goatruso3198 3 года назад +1

    Hold on, how do you select multiple units and disband them all at once like you did with the Seleucid milita cav? I need to know how to do that so badly, the endless clicking is draining my soul.

  • @thunder_chunder6491
    @thunder_chunder6491 2 года назад +1

    Chipmunk Melkor! Is something I didn't know I needed to hear.

  • @princeniccolo8299
    @princeniccolo8299 4 года назад +1

    Lol. I’ve been obsessed with the Byzantine empire lately after I delved into their history a bit more. I’ve been looking high and low for every game, movie or documentary out there. Surprisingly, there’s really not much out there. Because of this I found it particularly funny when your first mention was Medieval 2’s Byzantines haha.

    • @Krafanio
      @Krafanio 4 года назад +1

      There are a bunch of good books about the Eastern Roman Empire.
      I suggest you "Constantine XI the inmortal life of the last Roman Emperor".
      Prettt good book.

    • @princeniccolo8299
      @princeniccolo8299 4 года назад

      PixelPixeliado P.P I’m definitely gonna check that out, thanks!

    • @Krafanio
      @Krafanio 4 года назад +2

      @@princeniccolo8299 Your welcome, it's pretty good. There are other books that talk about the end of the Roman Empire in 1453 against the Ottomans. But this book for me is more direct about the topic of the last emperor of the Roman Empire.
      Take care buddy and enjoy the reading.

    • @Zach-mw5so
      @Zach-mw5so 3 года назад

      @@princeniccolo8299 Read John Julius Norwich’s “Byzantium”. It’s a 3-volume history from the Tetrarchy to the fall of Constantinople. It’s also available as a condensed 1-volume “A Short History of Byzantium”

  • @deutschamerikaner
    @deutschamerikaner 4 года назад +3

    I do agree the Seleucids have a tough position, but it does make for a fun campaign

    • @ajavierb2078
      @ajavierb2078 4 года назад +1

      Same thoughts

    • @jasonlupo4117
      @jasonlupo4117 3 года назад

      Exactly. I would go so far as to call it the "ultimate" Rome: Total War campaign for that and a few related reasons; maybe that's just me.

  • @lordblenkinsopp1537
    @lordblenkinsopp1537 4 года назад +3

    @Melkor I bought Rome 2 and Attila thanks to the sale, with all DLC. Which faction do you think I should start with for my first Rome 2 play through?

    • @MelkorGG
      @MelkorGG  4 года назад

      Rome for sure. It's designed to be New Player Freindly :)

    • @lordblenkinsopp1537
      @lordblenkinsopp1537 4 года назад +1

      MELKOR Thanks, I just wanted to know because it is very different from the older titles. Also I agree with what you said about the Julii, during my first play through, I almost lost the civil war because I had all of these undeveloped barbarian regions where I couldn’t recruit troops

  • @TheGoldennach
    @TheGoldennach 4 года назад +2

    2:33 I like the chipmunk sound of Melkor XDD

  • @napoleoncomplex2712
    @napoleoncomplex2712 4 года назад +3

    This was worth it just for the squeaky voice. Can you do a helium- intoxicated stream/video?

  • @aaronlockley9207
    @aaronlockley9207 4 года назад +1

    MELKOR you killed me with that "unlike/unsubscribe" clip LMAO

  • @stefanstoyanov7460
    @stefanstoyanov7460 4 года назад +14

    I really like your Donald Duck interpretation.

  • @aqhat3702
    @aqhat3702 4 года назад +8

    We all saw this coming

    • @damjan4435
      @damjan4435 4 года назад +1

      Most underrated faction - Carthage, it's rated very highly, but for it's glory, no rating is good enough

  • @KingMichiPL16
    @KingMichiPL16 4 года назад +1

    Name of the epic music at 2:08?

    • @MelkorGG
      @MelkorGG  4 года назад +1

      Verdi's Dies Irae

  • @jacobj869
    @jacobj869 4 года назад +1

    Just wanted to say that Byzantium isn’t a successor state to Rome, but a continuation of the Roman Empire. Not the same.

  • @szeklergeneral4266
    @szeklergeneral4266 4 года назад +1

    hi i love your channel and the attila content you post its great that i found this channel. will there be more vids about 1212 ad?

    • @MelkorGG
      @MelkorGG  4 года назад +1

      There will be more. Not sure when or how many, but there will be : )

  • @MartinGreywolf
    @MartinGreywolf 4 года назад +1

    SPain in Kingdoms depends on one thing, and one thing only: do you know enough about how the morale system works to stack enough bonuses to make EVERYTHING rout the second it gets into melee? If yes, it's a cakewalk. If not, you're gonna have a bad time. It's like Apaches, but with easier setup and not quite as crazy late game.

  • @KirkWilliams300
    @KirkWilliams300 4 года назад +1

    Surprised Holy Roman Empire from M2TW and Teutonic dlc wasn’t considered, I love being them (zweihanders are neat) but I think they are over rated

  • @FlushedNoob
    @FlushedNoob 4 года назад +1

    If you ever do a role play game and you ever have the campaign characters talk please use that super high pitched audio.

    • @MelkorGG
      @MelkorGG  4 года назад

      THat could be funny XD

  • @alexandrustan968
    @alexandrustan968 4 года назад

    I love the way you edit. I appreciate the effort that you put in those vids

  • @tonymaloney7096
    @tonymaloney7096 Год назад

    Melkor is very smart. As a northern boy, he knowS the secret to calming the seleucid fanboys by drinking yorkshire tea and inhaling helium to divert anger with humour

  • @DOMDZ90911
    @DOMDZ90911 4 года назад +1

    1:23 They ARE the Roman Empire.

    • @MelkorGG
      @MelkorGG  4 года назад

      It does not count. The Roman Empire died once it felt it could no longer call itself the Roman Empire. (It all comes down to the arguments made by the sources you read)

    • @Krafanio
      @Krafanio 4 года назад

      @@MelkorGG The Roman Empire was in the need of 2 administrations west and east, both were the Roman Empire, Constantinople was called the Nova Roma = The New Rome by Constantine the great.
      When one of this 2 parts of the same empire fell the other was what it was left of the empire.
      They never call themselves anything else but Romans and their empire Roman Empire.
      Because THEY WERE the Roman Empire until the end of the empire in 1453, even the description in the game says so idk how if you like historical titles can be so anti-historical about them.
      There was never a Bizantine Empire, just the Roman Empire, the legacy of August that star in the city of Rome and end in the Nova Roma in Constantinople.

  • @ramiromen6595
    @ramiromen6595 4 года назад +1

    I would say Rome in Rise of the Republic.
    Don't get me wrong , it's my favourite mini campaign in the series alongside Charlemagne and i enjoy Camillus faction a lot but i have seen very few people actively using the reformed roman military as the starting hopilite based roster is quite usefull; and getting the reformed units should be the main point of RoTR.

    • @siryassenius1783
      @siryassenius1783 2 года назад

      Yeah, I get what you mean. I just got really anxious that somehow the Principes and Triarii are gonna be worse than the Centurae and the hoplites. (I just got base game Rorarii PTSD) so I waited quite a while to recruit them. Until I managed to defeat an entire migrating horde with just the reformed garrison. After that I just completely autoresloved my way through Taras and the Greeks.

  • @lifes3ps
    @lifes3ps 4 года назад

    Why don't you like missile cav/horse archers?

  • @Splicer87
    @Splicer87 4 года назад +1

    I don't think I've ever heard that accent with a chipmunk voice before.

    • @RJALEXANDER777
      @RJALEXANDER777 4 года назад

      The Yorkshire accent really moved it from odd to hilarious.

  • @knightinspace2562
    @knightinspace2562 4 года назад +1

    Criticizes Seleucid Empire - promptly has audio struck down and sounds like he's inhaling helium for the rest of his point... ;)

  • @benedictjajo
    @benedictjajo 4 года назад +1

    I don't know, I only play the Greek factions in Rome 2. I usually have two armies supporting each other, 1 army full of pikes and cavalry for field battles and another army of Swordsmen,archers and siege unit for capturing walled cities.
    Even the the levy pikemen can hold against far superior units. So, technically the pike phalanx is overpowered especially against AI who charge them head on.

  • @svon1
    @svon1 4 года назад +1

    amateur , i play the Julii conquer northern italy and Salona & Segesta for the mines ,save some money for a few turns, recruit 3 armies as soon as possible bankrupting myself in the process
    sent one of them with ships straight to egypt
    one of them to carthage and one to greece trying to steal as much land from the scipii and brutii as possible and than i focus on the barbarians at the end :)
    P.S. if you want something greater than a victory
    if you conquer 50 regions and get both senate and people to max approval you will get a message that you are Romulus Reborn , which is such a high honor, i count it higher than victory , especially since most dont that this message even exist

  • @emaniajr6553
    @emaniajr6553 4 года назад +4

    "But melkor whats with the dwarfs from warham.... . "
    Gets killed by Medival 2 fans.

  • @mellon4251
    @mellon4251 4 года назад +3

    You could do some videos on Third Age: Divide and Conquer to get some new topics 😃

  • @AidanMartin
    @AidanMartin 4 года назад

    It makes sense really for the byzantines in medieval 2 to be on the list considering at the starting date of the game, the Byzantines had already lost most of their territory in real life by then.The Selucids in Rome 1 since it begins shortly after the pyrrhic wars had already ended so they still had most of their territory.The Selucids either way were still able to even give the Romans a run for their money.The Spanish though sure may have had superior technology to the aztecs but there were other factors to keep in mine.the rest of them what else is there to say

  • @IrishPennant0311
    @IrishPennant0311 4 года назад +1

    The Julii gets tedious because I like to play semi-historically and mirror Rome’s expansion. Half the time, the Britons have engulfed the Germans and have expanded all the way to Russia. The rest of the campaign until the civil wars is nothing but Gauls, Spaniards and Britons. It just gets dull.

  • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
    @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 3 года назад +2

    With the Julii you only capture barbarian settlements who are not very populated, so you need to constantly keep a strong presence in the city or the town, slowing your advance

  • @thunder_chunder6491
    @thunder_chunder6491 2 года назад +1

    Massalia modded is a beast one of the only times I painted the map was with them.

  • @spencertaylor-sputtaylor3937
    @spencertaylor-sputtaylor3937 2 года назад +1

    Hot take possibly because my first ever campaign wasn’t with the Julii, my first was with the Brutii. Having done many campaigns with all the Romans at this point I’d say the Julii are actually my least favorite Roman faction to play as. Love the color as it’s more historically accurate but otherwise the Brutii are my favorite and this Scipii and are my favorite color blue, and they actually have fun opponents at beginning especially with Carthage. My thing with the Julii that I don’t like is that fighting barbarians is never my favorite in many cases those factions feel too easy.
    To be fair my favorite thing about the Julii is that if you do focus on the Barbarians at the start that gives the other greek/eastern factions time to actually build up and become a fun challenge when you do get to them.

  • @Smaug2b
    @Smaug2b 4 года назад +1

    I forget that byzantium has no gunpowder unis

  • @Ottocide
    @Ottocide 4 года назад +2

    I have the new theory. Number 4 contains Melkor's *ACTUAL* voice, and he needs to edit it in every video so no one find out. But you have failed!!! Your secret is out!!! Muahahahaaaaa!
    We all still love you tho, squeaky boi

  • @dot2562
    @dot2562 2 года назад +1

    Juli is as dull as you want to make it, I like sending an army over to Greece and trying to snag some wonders first, send 1 to Egypt early on grab their capital.

  • @ebercondrell6603
    @ebercondrell6603 8 месяцев назад

    Chipmunk MELKOR was not what I came for but it is what I stayed for.

  • @anonymussicarius8899
    @anonymussicarius8899 4 года назад +1

    Melkor: "Well, my job today is to make as many of you as angry as possible."
    Me: *grabs popcorn* Well that vid is gonna be good. XD
    -> It was that good. ;)

  • @oesophagus5614
    @oesophagus5614 4 года назад

    in late game money is not an issue but in attila top tier units costs 500 to upkeep and a building gives only a thousand, not to mention the food and sanitation problems. in my provinces i get like 4000 usually so thats only half a stack of top tier units.

  • @martind5653
    @martind5653 4 года назад +5

    It's just money? Money wins wars my friend.

    • @oesophagus5614
      @oesophagus5614 4 года назад +4

      you need 3 things in war, money, money, and more money

  • @J4R0D
    @J4R0D 4 года назад +2

    France in Med 2. My friend swears up and down they are the best but I have beaten him with every faction in MP. Including the Aztecs.

  • @ke-mob634
    @ke-mob634 4 года назад +2

    02:20: Was that one of those slave gnomes? xD

  • @ecargfosreya
    @ecargfosreya 3 года назад

    So with the Eastern Roman empire you said money doesn't matter but for the Juliei you said they're weaker than the other factions because they are poorer... Am I missing something?

  • @gosman6945
    @gosman6945 4 года назад +2

    Just say the cowardly gnomes took over part of the video

  • @daniele-k1250
    @daniele-k1250 4 года назад

    To me a reason to consider a faction as "overated", would be their unit diversity, military power, position in the map and their early overpower.
    Due to that would be (RTW Example):
    -Macedon (Low kind of units)
    -Selucid (alot of units, but always dies first on campaing)
    -Brittain (they are on an island, that gives time to get op)
    -Egypt (They begin as already strong)

  • @jumperwilli7770
    @jumperwilli7770 4 года назад +1

    2:24 Hahaha I like it the sound that way

  • @Krafanio
    @Krafanio 4 года назад

    1:22
    No, thet were not the successors of the Roman Empire.
    They were *The Roman Empire*.

  • @MrlspPrt
    @MrlspPrt 4 года назад

    About the Spanish campaign: it's funny, but powder doesn't help Spanish too much when fighting Aztecs, they were too few to win that war and powder in the XVI century has too little use compared with iron (or even bronze, Aztecs hadn't skills using metal). The true factor here in México (and also with the Incas) was the Aztecs were hated, so Tlaxcala (another city-state) sided with Cortés and gave him 10k soldiers. The Spanish army were at most 1k fighting against thousands of Aztecs.
    With the Incas was the same: two brothers fighting for the throne when Pizarro arrived.
    I don't thing the Aztecs could win here, but they were thougther than many believe, and Cortés had luck when Tlaxcala sided with him.

  • @zord1352
    @zord1352 4 года назад +1

    MELKOR: Seleucids are overrated.
    Me: Where is my silver shield?!

    • @jasonlupo4117
      @jasonlupo4117 3 года назад

      Did you see? Your comment was one of the ones in the intro to that section! XD

  • @21Arrozito
    @21Arrozito 2 года назад +1

    Lol, you put your artillery in front of your infantry when you had a literal hilltop right behind you to put them on.

  • @seankinsellasean
    @seankinsellasean 4 года назад +1

    id buy rome 2 if the unit cards wherent so awful looking, is there a mod that makes them better?

    • @MelkorGG
      @MelkorGG  4 года назад +1

      XD Yes, there's several Mods out there, and I agree with the unit cards, they kept me away for a while.

  • @virtualsignals1215
    @virtualsignals1215 4 года назад

    Well now I know what a chipmunk from Yorkshire would sound like...

  • @inaces1
    @inaces1 4 года назад +1

    Bizantine empire is great. Location difficulty it's all great and a very on replay since you can expand to multiple sides.

    • @zord1352
      @zord1352 4 года назад

      What I could replay if I expand all the sides at once? :P

    • @inaces1
      @inaces1 4 года назад +2

      @@zord1352 if you can expand equally on all sides while playing in the hardest level, then I salute you.

  • @yourtotalwarmaster3635
    @yourtotalwarmaster3635 4 года назад +1

    holy shit 2:20 MELKOR on drugs