As he's been explaining, those settlements on the modern Dalmatian and Albanian coasts are much richer than you'd think; example - Segestica(or was it Salona), with two gold mines...
@@truthseeker-heyoka: Do you have the slightest damn clue how expensive shit gets later on? Just as an example, a third or fourth tier palaces/government buildings are 4,800 denarii by themselves. Most other buildings of that tier cost the same.
Hellenic factions are also much stronger than germanic factions. Rather than the brutii being the 'best' roman faction, it's more a case of trade-offs. The julii in my opinion are the 'best', when you consider their campaign objectives. This is simply because their unit quality is far superior to that of their enemies. This is the case for the scipii as well, but not to the same extent. For the brutii, their unit quality certainly isn't superior to that of greece. Hoplites are very, very good and greece starts recruiting them very early. If I have to phrase it differently; greece and macedon have superior early-game armies vs gaul and carthage. Julii are the best by virue of having the weakest main opponent of the three roman factions.
I was watching when John said "reinforcements never come from the north, we should be fine" (1000 hours of experience tells him so). I immediately think, wouldn't it be funny if they did come from there? 2 seconds later John says "what is this? Reinforcements from the north!?!?" HA :) Great stuff! - good to see the game can still keep him on his toes after all this time.
It's probably a tactical error - it would be potentially wiser to just leave them there as long as possible if they refuse to start the war themselves, but I'd rather make sure I get Patavium, because it's a ludicrously great city.
You can trade ancillaries and it really can be quite important to do so. You simply merge the generals into the same stack, open up the char sheet of the general with the ancillary and drag the ancillary over the portrait of the receiving general's unit card. It doesn't always take first time due the vagaries of RTW 1 so sometimes you have to try two or three times to actually transfer the ancillary.
12:00 actually, enemy spies also make your spies' missions harder. You can deploy spies as counter counterspies in your own cities if enemy agents are causing unrest (spies produce Unrest, in proportion to their skill).
Jon, this was the series that got me into your channel and through a tough freshman year. Now I've come back 5 years later to play through Medieval II and needed some background content. Godspeed, man, Godspeed. Love your work. Keep making great things.
Been playing a bit of this myself as the Skips. Britain has invaded and destroyed the Germans, I've taken over Carthage and Spain, and the other two families are stuck on the starting blocks thanks to huge numbers of Brits and Macedonians
I love Britain and Germany in Rome 1, because the computer seems to think that Britain does well vs Germany - then you watch any fight between them, and chariot meets German phalanx, and Britain's dead.
Oh indeed. Whenever I play as the Germans, it is mass spearmen stuck into defensive circles to ward off cavalry, then berzerkers to hold and, hopefully, crack enemy infantry. Backed up, as always, by whatever ranged units I can get my hands on. Funny thing is, in this game I tried to do what you did and, after taking Sicily, rushed for those gold mines. One turn after the Brits showed up in force, kicked my arse, then offered peace.
I learned recently that in the original battle outside of Carthage between Scipio and Hannibal, the Carthaginians lost 20,000 men, and had another 20,000 taken captive, while the Romans lost something silly like 150 men
Gorbz Keep in mind that it is the Roman historians that created the statistics for most battles. It could have been possible that they always exaggerated enemy numbers and casualties.
If you play the Julii your Senate mission after taking Segesta is actually to take the settlement on Sardinia. I believe the faction AI prioritizes targets in a similar manner to the order of the Senate missions.
It likes Carthage blockade to, which with spy and Carthaginian forces drawn off, can give Julii chance to grab the Scipii long term target city I have evolved to grabbing Marsilla-Palma-Caralis and Salona-Segestica as Julii, which fixes money worries, allowing a flexible expansion, paralysing Gaul/Carthage economy.
Because of you, I started up Total War again, playing for the first time as the Brutii. Conquered the rebel states and I've been focusing on gold income and hiring mercenaries left and right. Was leaving the Greeks alone but they went and took Apollonia from me while I was conquering Segestica. Finished with Segestica, retook Apollonia and grabbed Thermon from them in a major pitched battle. Then sailed off to take Sparta from them (and forgot to select my general so Sparta actually fell to a large army commanded by only a captain), and Macedonia decided to besiege Thermon with a huge force. Had just a few infantry and missiles in the city but a general with two units of Equites, and one unit of Equites as reinforcements outside the city. Sent the cavalry out the side gate and managed to overrun their isolated general, then smash into the back of one mob of hoplites after another as my few infantry valiantly held their ground at the wall breaches. Did not expect to win that, but cavalry against missile units and the backs of immobilized hoplites is totally OP :D Next turn the Gauls whom I'd been leaving alone suddenly decide to besiege my port, so I ended up conquering Patavium and Mediolanium before convincing them to agree to a ceasefire (after also bribing Spain to start attacking them). Meanwhile, massive battle outside Apollonia with two of my armies against two Macedonian armies, more than 70 units on the field. Smashed them and killed two faction leaders, my Spartan army conquered Corinth after a long siege. The Senate went from happy I conquered Sparta for them to mad I didn't conquer Athens (I was going to before Macedonia attacked me), and I'm averaging four or more fleet battles a turn because the Greeks and Corinthians crank out ships like nobody's business and keep flinging them at my veteran crews. My admirals have so many command stars it isn't funny :D
Aulus Brutus always become a decorated hero and a really good commander in every of my playthrough, and with the recent one, he became the leader, lived about 90 years and fought the Greek from his youth til death, and even helped crush Macedon without losing a single battle. Gotta love the guy tbh
It is fascinating how much you're into this and how much you know. I think I've played hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours of Rome, and I'm now learning things about the game from watching this series
I love how the fights are significantly more realistic than in other RTS games. Not just the breaking, but watching the units form up, charge, run, reform, harass, retreat, etc...
I've played a badly translated version of this game once, and one of the Scythian family members was named after the translator, apparently xD Leave your trace in the game, so to say.
Hey, just wanted to put a comment and say that this series so far has been brillient. Just got back into Romr total war after a 10 year break and this series catches me up whilst being very entertaining.
I know lol That was 2 years ago, since then i've: stopped going to uni, started and stopped 5 different jobs in different areas, had 2 proper relationships, bought and sold 2 cars and that's all the big things That's kinda mad all that's happened, I should be doing more I don't do enough Also i've seen this series like twice lol JS two years is a long time why would you bother haha It's been long enough that I don't even watch matn anymore Too popular too formulaic
Jon I know this is probably going to get lost or ignored but if you do see this please give us another episode 2 a week is just not enough. I even tried looking for another Rome total war let's play but non are as good as you. We need more
1:35 Hoplites are the definition of "unfortunate" in this game, especially the armoured ones. God was I glad when I kicked the Greeks out of the Italic Peninsula in my Dacia campaign...
Yeah, provided you studied for the test already, overworking yourself on the last day just hurts you. If you haven't, studying now isn't gonna change much anyway. Last day is always there for just non strenuous repetition to me.
Knightcommander When he said something along the lines of two episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays I thought this is what he meant. Two and two. Now I'm saddened. This definitely needs to happen.
Please God no. It's not a bad game but but it takes ages to get interesting. For the first however many hours it's just a lackluster rpg, then it's a mechanically flawed rts for the next 60.
No Thanks i said he should try it but youre right.its a very fun but flawed game just thought he might enjoy it because i saw those warbands and i was like...hmm he might enjoy that game.
Yeah Its fun in its way but in the context of producing content... It does not lend itself. Like I would love to see some big name rpg's impliment some of it's ideas. But I don't think making it a series would be good for the channel.
Eh, lol I'm kinda hoping he does a stellaris run now that Kennedy and leviathans has dropped. There have been some serious improvements, and the end game crisis is no longer the only thing you need to worry about late game..
I am new to your channel, with these total war videos being the hook. I bought this game as soon as I saw the first one. You're smart, funny, and your pointing out how everything relates to the realism of the time is an amazing touch that you don't see in many other youtubers. By the looks of it you do videos on loads of games, but just watching all the ones you have now has just got me hooked on this. I really hope you continue the total war vids, but either way, definitely subscribing
Just found a new top tier channel, great stuff, I should have been here 7 years ago lol, just got the game, already knee deep in Rebels and Unintentionally Greeks.....
27:53-28:08 This whole section is exactly what I imagined the other Romans saying about Jon :) Scipii Leader "I've seen Jon do this so many times. Rather than actually declare war on Greece he would rather send an expedition over to Northern Italy to kick out one of the flipping Galic towns." Julii Leader "I don't know why he does this but I see him do this like every single game. This logically strikes me as a settlement that flipping Julii ough to have, but apparently not." Edit: Excuse any grammar mistakes.
I've beenn following this campaign the last few weeks and enjoy your commentary. Lots of info all clearly narrated. You literally never stop talking yet I don't tire of listening to you. I too love RTW which I played for years when it came out back in 2003, including a lot of online MP (although I've been playing M2TW the past few years) yet I find that I am still learning new tips and tricks from you! The only thing I dislike is the annoying way you overuse the word "guys". My guys, your guys, these guys, those guys, some guys, more guys, less guys, many guys, few guys, good guys, bad guys, strong guys, weak guys, guys, guys, guys... What's wrong with using pronouns? Me, You, They, Them, Those etc. Or call them "men"... Aside from this, excellent presentation and decent game knowledge. Please keep up the good work!
I remember having this game years ago. Such a fun game & really my first RTS game I ever played. I sucked at this game so bad but always had a great time playing.
The reason I like to leave the battle time-limit on is it gives the attacker more reason to, well, attack--if time runs out, the defender wins. This isn't usually going to come up like you said since battles don't usually take that long, but it still puts an underlying impetus on the attacker to make the first move (part of the reason it's more advantageous to be the defender).
Just bought Rome because of this playthrough, the only thing preventing me from diving right in is the control scheme. I have it set to FPS style, so I can use WASD, but other than that, the camera is completely alien compared to news Total War. Anybody have any tips to make the controls more comfortable?
Just change the keys to what you're used to. Cam height up/down is essential in the German forests or your army fights blind. But be careful, you don't lose hot key abilities, sometimes I want to withdraw units with W, ammo out or unwanted reinforcements from a town garrison for example.
I can't believe I'm only finding out about ur RTW Brutii series now! I wish I found out about u earlier! I could've kept up-to-date with this series as each episode was uploaded!
Actually Jon (hopefully you will go back and read this...) command stars are very powerful both in autoresolve and in manual battles in RTW 1. They are known to increase the stats and morale of every unit in the army within a certain radius of the general and increase the command radius of the general. I believe it also applies to the general's bodyguard as well. It's less clear exactly what the boni are and there are various research and speculation threads discussing that online.
Coming back to rewatch after running out of present episodes. See him talking about Cassius maybe turning into someone competent. Sure he will. Sure he will.
Jon, are u running it on W10? i cant seem to get it running even with www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?696391-Updated-Making-RTW-or-RTW-Gold-work-on-windows10-FIX Do you have any suggestions?
Jesper Fabian Bon i have the same problem with enb series on skyrim and fallout 4, i may have to think of reverting to windows 7 because dx12 is not worth it
Frisbie147 just fixed it at this moment compatibilty at xp sp2 and run in admin now trying to fet 1440p to work *edit* fixed 1440p changed max res in prefrences txt file
Crash to desktop on Skyrim usually means you're missing a master file, I've got a bunch of mods, an enb, and windows 10 and my game runs fine besides the occasional crash
At 14:14 Jon gets a Senate Office Assignment and within all the years of playing RTW I still don't know what it is, so if someone reads the comment and knows what it is, I'd appreciate it! Thanks so much!
the command stat also increases your troop morale, for 2 command stars your morale (of all the troops in the generals influence area) is increased(by +1, I think). Additionally, command stars also widen the area of your generals influence. Command is very useful.
42:34 Hello, yes, Gaul here. Just thought we'd let you know that we are *most* displeased with your decision to invade our lands and rule our populace. Have you no manners?
That speech when engaging the Gauls reminded me of Suetonius's speech to his soldiers before the Battle of Watling Street (As reported by Tacitus) "Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. They are not soldiers-they're not even properly equipped. We've beaten them before and when they see our weapons and feel our spirit, they'll crack. Stick together. Throw the javelins, then push forward: knock them down with your shields and finish them off with your swords. Forget about plunder. Just win and you'll have everything."
I know this is an odd one, but hoping someone will be ale to help: Despite having a half decent pc that can run most modern games comfortably, why does Rome lag for me like something rotten? Is it a common problem? Is it just that it's too old for my PC? Is there some sort of fix? It's utterly baffled me. Any advice is appreciated. :)
Mod Kate As far I know, the Gauls were descendent of the Celtic culture of the British isles, whom crossed the channel and settled the southern lands and had the misfortune of living in the area Julius Caesar wanted to take on his way to the seat of absolute power. Mostly tribal with settled tribes, similar to cities, and would've been able to crush Rome if they had organised themselves due to their sheer numbers. However, do not take this as fact, as I could be mistaken.
God, watching the battle at around 17 minutes in this video reminds me of my favorite battle in Total War I had. I was some kind of barbarian tribe or something for whatever reason, and I had a small army detachment to guard towns, never really expected to use it. Then all of a sudden my neighbors declare war, and in rushes I think 3 stacks of units, against my like, 5 units. I luckily had 1 unit of heavy cavalry, and I first tried to stage a defense, it didnt work and I lost my 3 main infantry, and was left with 1 skirmish unit, and my heavy cavalry. So in began the battle, and I started to bait and kill the units, i sent in my skrimishers, then hit them in the back with cavalry. Eventually, a unit of my infantry stopped routing, and I eventually was able to use them to divert a force that would be to much for my cav and skirmishers.. After another 10 minutes, the battle was won! I had like, not even 100 men left, and I killed thousands... Next turn another 5 stacks came in, I stopped playing. I can't remember what Total War game this was, I think Rome 2?
Omg this is my favourite series! ^-^ I was always terrible at the Total War campaigns, it's nice to pick up some tips from someone who actually knows what they're doing (sort of :P ).
Episode 1: "The Brutii are the best faction to play because of world wonders."
Episode 3: -Goes in the completely opposite direction
Bucket Hat Trick yes, but the rest of the factions aren’t going that way either, so they’re safe for now
Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, trade, gold, business investments, more gold... He was distracted by aggressive capitalism...
As he's been explaining, those settlements on the modern Dalmatian and Albanian coasts are much richer than you'd think; example - Segestica(or was it Salona), with two gold mines...
@@truthseeker-heyoka: Do you have the slightest damn clue how expensive shit gets later on? Just as an example, a third or fourth tier palaces/government buildings are 4,800 denarii by themselves. Most other buildings of that tier cost the same.
Hellenic factions are also much stronger than germanic factions.
Rather than the brutii being the 'best' roman faction, it's more a case of trade-offs.
The julii in my opinion are the 'best', when you consider their campaign objectives.
This is simply because their unit quality is far superior to that of their enemies. This is the case for the scipii as well, but not to the same extent.
For the brutii, their unit quality certainly isn't superior to that of greece. Hoplites are very, very good and greece starts recruiting them very early.
If I have to phrase it differently; greece and macedon have superior early-game armies vs gaul and carthage.
Julii are the best by virue of having the weakest main opponent of the three roman factions.
"Publius the Handsome, indeed. Dear oh dear..."
... I heard that Jon
I was watching when John said "reinforcements never come from the north, we should be fine" (1000 hours of experience tells him so). I immediately think, wouldn't it be funny if they did come from there? 2 seconds later John says "what is this? Reinforcements from the north!?!?" HA :) Great stuff! - good to see the game can still keep him on his toes after all this time.
*Drops from 79 to 70* "I think I've lost two guys..."
Jon never excelled at maths.
@@OneJazzyBoye ye Groovy YEA👯 😎
Aaay! WhatO
Gaul-blocking the Julii, very nice.
It's probably a tactical error - it would be potentially wiser to just leave them there as long as possible if they refuse to start the war themselves, but I'd rather make sure I get Patavium, because it's a ludicrously great city.
anyone else read 'ludicrously' in Jon's voice?
Does Jon know about trading ancillaries between generals? (or is that only in M2TW
Ah, alright, unfortunate, but I guess having too many (8 is max I think) is only a problem with mods. (in MT2TW)
You can trade ancillaries and it really can be quite important to do so. You simply merge the generals into the same stack, open up the char sheet of the general with the ancillary and drag the ancillary over the portrait of the receiving general's unit card. It doesn't always take first time due the vagaries of RTW 1 so sometimes you have to try two or three times to actually transfer the ancillary.
"Let's get him some military experience...."
picks up "doubtful courage" trait....pmsl
It seems that you are out-armed, outmanned, outnumbered, outplanned! You gotta make an all out stand! Ayo, I'm willing to be your right-hand man
I admire how he keep firing at the Gallic from a distance
Calum But still I got some questions, a couple of suggestions, how to fight instead of fleeing west
Yes?
This is now my favorite comment thread in all of RUclips
the hastati's throwey things Jon? you have what kind of degree again?
hmmm ok, what school?
I think you mean pila
Hans peter pilum singular, pila plural
lol pilums
I can feel it down in my pilums
12:00 actually, enemy spies also make your spies' missions harder. You can deploy spies as counter counterspies in your own cities if enemy agents are causing unrest (spies produce Unrest, in proportion to their skill).
Jon, this was the series that got me into your channel and through a tough freshman year. Now I've come back 5 years later to play through Medieval II and needed some background content. Godspeed, man, Godspeed. Love your work. Keep making great things.
Been playing a bit of this myself as the Skips. Britain has invaded and destroyed the Germans, I've taken over Carthage and Spain, and the other two families are stuck on the starting blocks thanks to huge numbers of Brits and Macedonians
I love Britain and Germany in Rome 1, because the computer seems to think that Britain does well vs Germany - then you watch any fight between them, and chariot meets German phalanx, and Britain's dead.
Oh indeed. Whenever I play as the Germans, it is mass spearmen stuck into defensive circles to ward off cavalry, then berzerkers to hold and, hopefully, crack enemy infantry. Backed up, as always, by whatever ranged units I can get my hands on.
Funny thing is, in this game I tried to do what you did and, after taking Sicily, rushed for those gold mines. One turn after the Brits showed up in force, kicked my arse, then offered peace.
furthermore, carthage must be destroyed
I learned recently that in the original battle outside of Carthage between Scipio and Hannibal, the Carthaginians lost 20,000 men, and had another 20,000 taken captive, while the Romans lost something silly like 150 men
Gorbz Keep in mind that it is the Roman historians that created the statistics for most battles. It could have been possible that they always exaggerated enemy numbers and casualties.
now i want to major in classics just so i can nitpick about latin grammar
You'll also be able to read medicine bottles after your schooling.
HA Rathburn trust me, correcting Latin in media is like a drug
As someone doing Classics, I can tell you that I'm watching this series nitpicking his pronunciation.
You could also just learn Latin.
You have them right where you want them, surrounded from the inside.
If you play the Julii your Senate mission after taking Segesta is actually to take the settlement on Sardinia. I believe the faction AI prioritizes targets in a similar manner to the order of the Senate missions.
It likes Carthage blockade to, which with spy and Carthaginian forces drawn off, can give Julii chance to grab the Scipii long term target city I have evolved to grabbing Marsilla-Palma-Caralis and Salona-Segestica as Julii, which fixes money worries, allowing a flexible expansion, paralysing Gaul/Carthage economy.
Because of you, I started up Total War again, playing for the first time as the Brutii. Conquered the rebel states and I've been focusing on gold income and hiring mercenaries left and right. Was leaving the Greeks alone but they went and took Apollonia from me while I was conquering Segestica. Finished with Segestica, retook Apollonia and grabbed Thermon from them in a major pitched battle. Then sailed off to take Sparta from them (and forgot to select my general so Sparta actually fell to a large army commanded by only a captain), and Macedonia decided to besiege Thermon with a huge force. Had just a few infantry and missiles in the city but a general with two units of Equites, and one unit of Equites as reinforcements outside the city. Sent the cavalry out the side gate and managed to overrun their isolated general, then smash into the back of one mob of hoplites after another as my few infantry valiantly held their ground at the wall breaches. Did not expect to win that, but cavalry against missile units and the backs of immobilized hoplites is totally OP :D Next turn the Gauls whom I'd been leaving alone suddenly decide to besiege my port, so I ended up conquering Patavium and Mediolanium before convincing them to agree to a ceasefire (after also bribing Spain to start attacking them). Meanwhile, massive battle outside Apollonia with two of my armies against two Macedonian armies, more than 70 units on the field. Smashed them and killed two faction leaders, my Spartan army conquered Corinth after a long siege. The Senate went from happy I conquered Sparta for them to mad I didn't conquer Athens (I was going to before Macedonia attacked me), and I'm averaging four or more fleet battles a turn because the Greeks and Corinthians crank out ships like nobody's business and keep flinging them at my veteran crews. My admirals have so many command stars it isn't funny :D
to a large.....
Sends men to certain and agonising death
"I'm really sorry about this guys"
Aulus Brutus always become a decorated hero and a really good commander in every of my playthrough, and with the recent one, he became the leader, lived about 90 years and fought the Greek from his youth til death, and even helped crush Macedon without losing a single battle. Gotta love the guy tbh
I absolutely love this series, what I don't like is my un-manly squeal whenever I see a new upload of it...
Man this was such an amazing series. Rewatching
Nice cliff hanger.
Damn you Jon...
Yes! I've been waiting so much for this!
Brian Seguel isn't it wonderful?
Matthew Greenwood it is indeed
After that ending I'm seriously excited for the next part
It is fascinating how much you're into this and how much you know. I think I've played hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours of Rome, and I'm now learning things about the game from watching this series
I love this series! Great job John, its like a half walkthrough, half tutorial guide. Can't wait for more.
Drinking game: Drink every time Jon says "these guys" while in battle.
Good luck.
I love how the fights are significantly more realistic than in other RTS games. Not just the breaking, but watching the units form up, charge, run, reform, harass, retreat, etc...
He controls 5 towns and is already speaking about mines being 'the worst in his empire'. Never change, Jon. Never change.
13:30 Admiral Asinus? Doesn't that literally mean "donkey"?
I've played a badly translated version of this game once, and one of the Scythian family members was named after the translator, apparently xD Leave your trace in the game, so to say.
I can't get enough of these.
THATsideOfRUclips Neither can I haha
Honestly MATN, your fresh perspectives and playthroughs on games are genius, genuinely nothing else like it on RUclips, keep it up!
Hey, just wanted to put a comment and say that this series so far has been brillient. Just got back into Romr total war after a 10 year break and this series catches me up whilst being very entertaining.
rewatching RTW. It's just such a good series.
feels nostalgic seeing young Aulus Brutus again.
Love this series John. Give us more episodes each week please!
I like how you explain your moves
I really want to try to reference Spartacus every episode, but it's kinda tough to do.
does john know about the general's horn ability to stop a diff unit from breaking?
Oh he remembered goodgood
I know lol
That was 2 years ago, since then i've: stopped going to uni, started and stopped 5 different jobs in different areas, had 2 proper relationships, bought and sold 2 cars and that's all the big things
That's kinda mad all that's happened, I should be doing more I don't do enough
Also i've seen this series like twice lol
JS two years is a long time why would you bother haha It's been long enough that I don't even watch matn anymore Too popular too formulaic
Keep it coming I love this game. great content as always.
Jon I know this is probably going to get lost or ignored but if you do see this please give us another episode 2 a week is just not enough. I even tried looking for another Rome total war let's play but non are as good as you. We need more
You thought Dark Souls was hard? Try Seleucids campaign on Very Hard mode.
I enjoy coming back to this series every once in a while lmao
Professor Jon is the best history teacher ever. Even my university professor can't hold a Roman Candle to him.
1:35 Hoplites are the definition of "unfortunate" in this game, especially the armoured ones. God was I glad when I kicked the Greeks out of the Italic Peninsula in my Dacia campaign...
This is great. I love your commentary and explainations. This is one of my favorite games of all time too :) Gonna watch the whole series. Subscribed.
Huh you know it's only 11:08pm and it's not like I have finals tomorrow or anything... Kill me now
Make sure you get some rest before you do any sort of test. It won't help anyone if you're too tired to function (without large amounts of caffeine).
Yo, if your exam is on fake-Greecian city states, you're all set!
Yeah, provided you studied for the test already, overworking yourself on the last day just hurts you. If you haven't, studying now isn't gonna change much anyway. Last day is always there for just non strenuous repetition to me.
enternamehere2222 huh these replies are not what I expected... But hey think I did well in the exams.
Great to hear =)
John, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE release 4 of these a week!
yes please listen to this person
like this persons comment so jon can see it
Knightcommander When he said something along the lines of two episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays I thought this is what he meant. Two and two. Now I'm saddened. This definitely needs to happen.
The lines of infantry backed with cavalry plays out like a football match! That's so cool.
you know jon you should try mount and blade warband
Please God no. It's not a bad game but but it takes ages to get interesting. For the first however many hours it's just a lackluster rpg, then it's a mechanically flawed rts for the next 60.
No Thanks i said he should try it but youre right.its a very fun but flawed game just thought he might enjoy it because i saw those warbands and i was like...hmm he might enjoy that game.
Yeah Its fun in its way but in the context of producing content... It does not lend itself. Like I would love to see some big name rpg's impliment some of it's ideas. But I don't think making it a series would be good for the channel.
No Thanks youre right but what should be the next series is hitman contracts i mean hitman season one is over so why not?
Eh, lol I'm kinda hoping he does a stellaris run now that Kennedy and leviathans has dropped. There have been some serious improvements, and the end game crisis is no longer the only thing you need to worry about late game..
I am new to your channel, with these total war videos being the hook. I bought this game as soon as I saw the first one. You're smart, funny, and your pointing out how everything relates to the realism of the time is an amazing touch that you don't see in many other youtubers. By the looks of it you do videos on loads of games, but just watching all the ones you have now has just got me hooked on this. I really hope you continue the total war vids, but either way, definitely subscribing
I've been waiting... I absolutely love your videos Jon.
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR HOURS. THANK YOU JON.
40:15 "don't worry you can't get skewered on your own spikes"
*Instant flashbacks of my faction leader dying cause he rode through my hoplites
19:22 It‘s over Rebells! I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!
"Uploaded 10 sec ago" Awww yisss, I've been waiting! Thanks John! :)
Just found a new top tier channel, great stuff, I should have been here 7 years ago lol, just got the game, already knee deep in Rebels and Unintentionally Greeks.....
Waited for this the whole day :)
Loving this series so much
27:53-28:08 This whole section is exactly what I imagined the other Romans saying about Jon :)
Scipii Leader
"I've seen Jon do this so many times. Rather than actually declare war on Greece he would rather send an expedition over to Northern Italy to kick out one of the flipping Galic towns."
Julii Leader
"I don't know why he does this but I see him do this like every single game. This logically strikes me as a settlement that flipping Julii ough to have, but apparently not."
Edit: Excuse any grammar mistakes.
FINALLY!!! I've been waiting forever for this!
I've beenn following this campaign the last few weeks and enjoy your commentary. Lots of info all clearly narrated. You literally never stop talking yet I don't tire of listening to you.
I too love RTW which I played for years when it came out back in 2003, including a lot of online MP (although I've been playing M2TW the past few years) yet I find that I am still learning new tips and tricks from you!
The only thing I dislike is the annoying way you overuse the word "guys". My guys, your guys, these guys, those guys, some guys, more guys, less guys, many guys, few guys, good guys, bad guys, strong guys, weak guys, guys, guys, guys...
What's wrong with using pronouns?
Me, You, They, Them, Those etc.
Or call them "men"...
Aside from this, excellent presentation and decent game knowledge.
Please keep up the good work!
love this series so much, cant wait to see more.
I remember having this game years ago. Such a fun game & really my first RTS game I ever played. I sucked at this game so bad but always had a great time playing.
18:08
This whole battle was just like
"Hammer and anvil? You don't need an anvil if you hammer hard enough"
"What? That doesn't even make sense.
I cant believe someone is still playing this... this game is awesome.
Hi Jon, Thanks for making great videos!
Best NerdCubed Completes series ever!! ...............wait a minute........
The reason I like to leave the battle time-limit on is it gives the attacker more reason to, well, attack--if time runs out, the defender wins. This isn't usually going to come up like you said since battles don't usually take that long, but it still puts an underlying impetus on the attacker to make the first move (part of the reason it's more advantageous to be the defender).
Just bought Rome because of this playthrough, the only thing preventing me from diving right in is the control scheme. I have it set to FPS style, so I can use WASD, but other than that, the camera is completely alien compared to news Total War. Anybody have any tips to make the controls more comfortable?
Just change the keys to what you're used to. Cam height up/down is essential in the German forests or your army fights blind.
But be careful, you don't lose hot key abilities, sometimes I want to withdraw units with W, ammo out or unwanted reinforcements from a town garrison for example.
You can change keys.
Currently crying because of the massive cliff hanger. Can't wait to see if Jon survives this fight. Good luck.
I can't believe I'm only finding out about ur RTW Brutii series now! I wish I found out about u earlier! I could've kept up-to-date with this series as each episode was uploaded!
Actually Jon (hopefully you will go back and read this...) command stars are very powerful both in autoresolve and in manual battles in RTW 1. They are known to increase the stats and morale of every unit in the army within a certain radius of the general and increase the command radius of the general. I believe it also applies to the general's bodyguard as well. It's less clear exactly what the boni are and there are various research and speculation threads discussing that online.
Coming back to rewatch after running out of present episodes. See him talking about Cassius maybe turning into someone competent. Sure he will. Sure he will.
I've been waiting for this since Thursday XD
Ahh, Jon flexing his knowledge of Latin noun declensions
Thank god, I just finished watching Time Commanders and I need some sensible strategies.
its good to come to this after watching time commanders.
God, you're making me feel old - I used to watch that series Y-E-A-R-S ago...
Jon, have you ever played Mount & Blade? It seems like something you would like.
Guess what!
Jon, are u running it on W10? i cant seem to get it running even with www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?696391-Updated-Making-RTW-or-RTW-Gold-work-on-windows10-FIX
Do you have any suggestions?
Sorry - pure fluke for me - this is completely vanilla Steam version running nicely on Windows 10...
Meh sucks for me then got steam version aswell but it starts for 2 secs and then dies on me....
Jesper Fabian Bon i have the same problem with enb series on skyrim and fallout 4, i may have to think of reverting to windows 7 because dx12 is not worth it
Frisbie147 just fixed it at this moment compatibilty at xp sp2 and run in admin now trying to fet 1440p to work *edit* fixed 1440p changed max res in prefrences txt file
Crash to desktop on Skyrim usually means you're missing a master file, I've got a bunch of mods, an enb, and windows 10 and my game runs fine besides the occasional crash
41:35 was amazing!
At 14:14 Jon gets a Senate Office Assignment and within all the years of playing RTW I still don't know what it is, so if someone reads the comment and knows what it is, I'd appreciate it! Thanks so much!
Loving this series. Love this game.
the command stat also increases your troop morale, for 2 command stars your morale (of all the troops in the generals influence area) is increased(by +1, I think). Additionally, command stars also widen the area of your generals influence. Command is very useful.
42:34
Hello, yes, Gaul here. Just thought we'd let you know that we are *most* displeased with your decision to invade our lands and rule our populace. Have you no manners?
Keep this series going! its great!
Jon, would you consider doing a medieval total war playthrough after this one finishes?
risker34 Well how about that.
i have to study for exams but you just uploaded a video so
same
Ahh the ever so lovely pirates sailing on best starting ships :)
That speech when engaging the Gauls reminded me of Suetonius's speech to his soldiers before the Battle of Watling Street (As reported by Tacitus)
"Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. They are not soldiers-they're not even properly equipped. We've beaten them before and when they see our weapons and feel our spirit, they'll crack. Stick together. Throw the javelins, then push forward: knock them down with your shields and finish them off with your swords. Forget about plunder. Just win and you'll have everything."
Dat ride down of the Gaul general tho.
I know this is an odd one, but hoping someone will be ale to help:
Despite having a half decent pc that can run most modern games comfortably, why does Rome lag for me like something rotten? Is it a common problem? Is it just that it's too old for my PC? Is there some sort of fix? It's utterly baffled me. Any advice is appreciated. :)
Jack Hundley download a dll file and you will have 60 fps, search it on google
that was some fun! i can't wait for the next episode!
Those revolting peasants!
Oh my god revolting(rioting) and revolting(disgusting) are spelled the same... How confusing.
How confusing indeed.
both fit :)
that was lucky getting that general good battle
Who were the Gauls? Could anyone give me a quick synopsis of what they were?
Mod Kate Dirty Frenchmen
Eagle262
What did they do? They sadly never popped up in any of my history of classes.
Mod Kate As far I know, the Gauls were descendent of the Celtic culture of the British isles, whom crossed the channel and settled the southern lands and had the misfortune of living in the area Julius Caesar wanted to take on his way to the seat of absolute power. Mostly tribal with settled tribes, similar to cities, and would've been able to crush Rome if they had organised themselves due to their sheer numbers. However, do not take this as fact, as I could be mistaken.
Mod Kate face palm
Mod Kate the ancient French
You always want hoplites 4 deep, 3 spears are part of the phalanx, losses don't draw from the flanks and shorten the line
God, watching the battle at around 17 minutes in this video reminds me of my favorite battle in Total War I had. I was some kind of barbarian tribe or something for whatever reason, and I had a small army detachment to guard towns, never really expected to use it. Then all of a sudden my neighbors declare war, and in rushes I think 3 stacks of units, against my like, 5 units. I luckily had 1 unit of heavy cavalry, and I first tried to stage a defense, it didnt work and I lost my 3 main infantry, and was left with 1 skirmish unit, and my heavy cavalry. So in began the battle, and I started to bait and kill the units, i sent in my skrimishers, then hit them in the back with cavalry.
Eventually, a unit of my infantry stopped routing, and I eventually was able to use them to divert a force that would be to much for my cav and skirmishers.. After another 10 minutes, the battle was won! I had like, not even 100 men left, and I killed thousands... Next turn another 5 stacks came in, I stopped playing.
I can't remember what Total War game this was, I think Rome 2?
The Plebeians are revolting. Also the Plebeians are Rebelling.
I am loving this game so so much
man i love RTW so much better then Rome 2
This guy really knows how to play this game.
Omg this is my favourite series! ^-^ I was always terrible at the Total War campaigns, it's nice to pick up some tips from someone who actually knows what they're doing (sort of :P ).