Adding on to this, if you focus the capital on ranged and the blacksmith/forge, build the experience shrine in Campus Frisii, and land-bridgewith two of your ships, you can have a very hard-hitting archer-based force pretty early on by bouncing units back-and-forth between those cities. Get a third city that's close (like Colonia Agrippa or Campus Chattii) and build the Morale shrine there and good-golly, your opponents have a lot to worry about from you.
The only downside to going to Britain is that the Romano British spawn in once the WRE has lost it's settlements in the region. So you'll end up facing them very early on if you go this route. So, I'd suggest taking Londinum at the start and building up a bit of a presence before capturing Eburacum.
Happy to see someone making content for one of my favorite factions in the series. Saxon's are a ton of fun especially with the Saxon Hearth Troops. One of the best infantry in the game.
I just finished my ERE campaign, Franks attacked me near Mediolanium, a city that I was sieging. (Heavy forrest map) I had an army of 3 archers, 4 lanciarii, 2 veteranii,and rest was Hippo-Toxotai. I all I did was dividing Army into three forces, Infantry group with archers up front, horse archer divided into two on far/extreme flanks. Let me tell you, Franks had the weakest cavalry units. They immediately charced on the archers, got annihilated on the first contact, routed ane I sent Horse archers slowly (forrest map) to pick up lonely infantry. And one time I bridge camped on Franks, lured frankish infantey encircled it with lanciatii, and still immediately lost somehow
Limited units but you have shield wall + ranged bonus. Add flanking cavalry and you could easily obliterate all the factions around you and take a big chunk of western Rome early in game
Hunters are surprisingly competent at melee, not much worse than levy spearmen. In a crisis you can use em fairly effectively as light shock infantry against weaker units
Saxons: the best faction and my number one favorite faction: sailing to England, attacking WRE from England is like attacking from the sky and raining down havoc all over the dying empire.
I wanted to play a Saxon campaign yesterday, and I found this... Good timing. RTW seems to still be played by many people. +1 subscriber, I love those kind of videos. Do you plan to make factions from others TW games ?
Thanks a lot man, glad you found it useful. I've made similar faction guides for Rome Total War base game and Medieval 2 Total War. I may make faction guides for other games in the future, but I am less familiar with the other games so I'm not sure
I started a new session of TW:BI, because earlier tries didn't work out,but with the Saxon I got it right. I succeeded in crushing bit by bit the nomad armies of the Slavs and the Huns, and then continued to aim for the richer West Roman region (France and Spain). After a while their eastern brothers became another target, and that's the actual situation. Do de Roman states also get nomadic (Western Rome only has the city of Rome left due to a revolt when they still had Salamanca as a second hub)?
I'm not currently doing lets plays (livestreams instead), I would probably leave it to vote but I do enjoy playing as the Romans a lot, but to be honest I enjoy all the factions in this game
I hate to disagree with Lugotorix but I have to on a couple of things here. The Levy Spearmen aren't a defensive unit at all; they're an offensive unit that has decent defense. Look at their stats: attack 7, missile 11, charge 4, defense 10. They also have light spears which gives them a bonus vs cavalry. Think of them as an oversized better-armed and armored skirmish unit that can hang in melee if need be. If you combine the level 3 barracks (and level 1 archery range) with a Sacred Circle of Ull, then retrain them in a town with a Sacred Circle of Wotan (this goes for archers, too) you end up with extremely potent ranged units quite early on (like Levy Spearmen and archers with 4 experience and gold/bronze missile attack/armour); 120 javvies will absolutely RUIN any unit's day. The shield wall formation just gives them a bit more defense but they are definitely NOT a defensive unit. The Saxon Keels on the other hand, are a defensive unit: attack 7 charge 4 defense 16. The Keels attack is the same as the Spearmen but the defense is much higher; put them in Shield Wall and that goes up higher. I suggest demolishing the Sacred Circle of Ull in Campus Saxones and replace it with one of Donar to give your units +2 morale, then pump out all your Keels, Axemen, Hearth Troops, and cavalry from here, then build Sacred Circles of Ull and Wotan in cities closer to your front so as you move your units from Vicus Saxones through Campi Chattii/Frisii and then to Augustae Treverorum/Vindelicorum, you can have most of your troops with 3 experience and at least bronze/bronze, with the increased morale bonus. Hunters are just broken under the Saxons (so are the Levy Spearmen). You can get Hunters to 4 Experience gold/bronze very early and just wreck opposing armies. The Saxon shrines are just ridiculous and they can make your armies very powerful very early. The Saxons are pretty darn potent.
@@BraydenLondon88 should be hard to die as the saxons right? franks,saxons,and goths are like the 3 top barbarian factions. they have good late game troops. I think the saxons are not as competent as the franks but they are still strong
Lugotorix So I decided to play as the Saxons in Barbarian Invasion Rome Total War and I am kinda a noob but in my other campaigns I have been pretty successful but I played the Saxons made a Army early on and invaded Britain but then early on the Romano British spawned as a horde and destroyed my British armies and settlements so now I am broke so I need help, Have any advice?
I found it a better strategy to fight the Romans in continental Europe with the aim of raiding their large cities (population extermination) and then holding on to them. Better not do this right away either though. Wait several turns and use that time to build up a sufficient force and take rebel settlements. By the time you invade Roman territory with your forces, the Romans would be facing corruption and even rebellion.
19:00 But that's what the Saxons did, they stayed outside roman territory conquered their neighbour's land and forced them to migrate into the Roman empire.
the thing I don't like about barbarian invasion is that the shield wall formation is not that good, sometimes heavy cavalry can charge into my shield wall and get away pretty much unharmed. phalanx on the other hand, basically pierce through cavalry like paper.
Kevin Xu Testudo are practically immune to archer fire, especially low damage missiles, but a shield wall helps a little on the front, but still exposed to the sides and rear. Most cavalry should be able to penetrate either formation. Hope that clarifies a little more. Please someone correct me if I’m wrong lol
Shield-wall is great for a holding the enemy in place taking little damage while you flank around. It's a defensive maneuver not an offensive so don't be surprised if they don't do very much killing. You're meant to put your boys in the shield wall and then hit them from behind with the chosen axemen.
Shield Wall was not meant to hold off cavalry, it was meant to hold off infantry. The main reason for its existence is the tendency of the 'barbarians' to be undisciplined, as is well represented in RTW with the 'can charge without orders' clause many of the 'barbarian' units have. Shield Wall was a way to force these infantry units to stay in formation by locking their shields and preventing anyone from leaving the battle line. Of course as an added bonus it made the line very strong and tough to break by opposing infantry forces, initially the Roman infantry but later also the likes of the Viking warriors, when it was used by the Anglo-Saxons against them.
Your advice for the saxon is go Britain not South as you end up with a vertical empire yet with the franks you say go south to control Italy, why the difference?
With Roxolani I did opposite in very hard. Instead of going to Sassanids, sacking sarmatians, till Greece completely sacked. Get my horde to Rome, with boat (Adrian sea), sacked till I came back to Constantinople. So I had a huge wallet and was so easy I didn't had to battle, only auto resolve 🤣. Main thing is: wait first couple of turns in beginning, upgrade my 3 horses and 2 Spearman, then left Roxolani campus. Watch where huns, sarmatians and vandals walking. If they are 1 or 2 turns further, then they will leave you. Just don't come to close to sarmatians in the west of you in first turns, avoid those hordes. Then trade rights with northern factions.
@@hannibalburgers477 For barbarian invasions? I am not aware of any mods that does it. As for Rome TW itself, I highly recommend the mundus magnus map. It is very easy to implement into vanilla. Not only does it greatly increase settlement "density", it also stretches the map all the way to India
Nope the Anglosaxons are a different tribe, a splinter faction if you will. The main saxon people stayed in Germany and pretty much all of north Germany is actually saxon.
I hate that their goal is to go to England. only a small number of Saxons migrated to England. Most stayed in German where the dukes of Saxony became the kings of Germany and then the first dynasty of the holy roman empire.
What do you mean franks don't have much for cavalry? Paladins are great! I can tell you don't know enough about this game to make guides for every faction...
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You forgot to mention that the saxons have a unique shrine that improves ranged attacks, giving hunters the gold weapon upgrade
ahh thats a good point, thanks for reminding me!
Adding on to this, if you focus the capital on ranged and the blacksmith/forge, build the experience shrine in Campus Frisii, and land-bridgewith two of your ships, you can have a very hard-hitting archer-based force pretty early on by bouncing units back-and-forth between those cities. Get a third city that's close (like Colonia Agrippa or Campus Chattii) and build the Morale shrine there and good-golly, your opponents have a lot to worry about from you.
So they get an experience shrine, range attack shrine, and morale shrine? Dang. Well played. Shield wall and hide the archers.
the Saxons in this game has a really hilarious unit roster, but it still feels good sailing to Britannia and invading
Because like all english speaking people CA seems to have the misconception that all saxons ended up in England.
You speak like roman britannia don't have only 2 settlements.
Where's the fun in conquering two lonely settlements?
@@DaDunge They had the balls to portray Arthur as a romano briton (English are deeply terrified of actual history and facts)
@@GAMER123GAMING not really seeing your point here.
These faction guides are becoming a nice little suprise to see on my subscription feed. Keep it up, they're really enjoyable.
Than you, glad you're enjoying them!
The only downside to going to Britain is that the Romano British spawn in once the WRE has lost it's settlements in the region. So you'll end up facing them very early on if you go this route. So, I'd suggest taking Londinum at the start and building up a bit of a presence before capturing Eburacum.
Thanks.
Wish I read this comment before getting myself into a sticky situation just now lol
Happy to see someone making content for one of my favorite factions in the series. Saxon's are a ton of fun especially with the Saxon Hearth Troops. One of the best infantry in the game.
How does shield wall work? Extra defense?
@@NinjaSushi2 extra defense in the front and less likely to have units die from arrows but it'll make the units more vulnerable to flanking and
Just started saxon campaign thanks brp
You're welcome, happy to help!
I remember the Saxon family members in the campaign map wear a battle mask. Really cool detail, I think only the Vandals wore such a garment as well.
"The franks doesnt have great options in cavalry" wait thats illegal
I will said heresy or pagans.
If your choice is pagan the Frank have average cavalry but if you choice christianism you will have Paladins.
I just finished my ERE campaign, Franks attacked me near Mediolanium, a city that I was sieging. (Heavy forrest map)
I had an army of 3 archers, 4 lanciarii, 2 veteranii,and rest was Hippo-Toxotai.
I all I did was dividing Army into three forces, Infantry group with archers up front, horse archer divided into two on far/extreme flanks.
Let me tell you, Franks had the weakest cavalry units. They immediately charced on the archers, got annihilated on the first contact, routed ane I sent Horse archers slowly (forrest map) to pick up lonely infantry.
And one time I bridge camped on Franks, lured frankish infantey encircled it with lanciatii, and still immediately lost somehow
Hell yeah! I love Barbarian Invasion!
When I played Saxons, I mostly ended up using hordes of levy spearmen, keels, hunters, and the odd sea raider, and supported by a general.
Limited units but you have shield wall + ranged bonus. Add flanking cavalry and you could easily obliterate all the factions around you and take a big chunk of western Rome early in game
Hunters are surprisingly competent at melee, not much worse than levy spearmen. In a crisis you can use em fairly effectively as light shock infantry against weaker units
Yesss i have been waiting for this one
Wow thanks! I followed ur tutorial for the early game, and now i end up getting 8k per turn. Thx!
Thats great! Glad I could help :)
I had this glitch where my Saxon archers had infinite ammo and I would just sit back and grind the 10 stack enemy army with 2 units of archers
Did you have arcade mode on?
@@thesacredlobo no but it was on mobile and I think it’s more buggy I play pc and mobile
I still can't believe they got this game to work on mobile. If you told me you could play this game on a cellphone years ago I tell you you're crazy.
Somehow my laptop doesn't always want to run this game smoothly but a cellphone or tablet can?
@@NinjaSushi2it's a brave new world 😂
I love the saxons.
16:30 NO IT's NOT! A mere splinter faction of the saxons went to britain meanwhile pretty much all of North Germany is saxon.
I still wonder what the reasoning was behind giving some factions tons of units and some factions almost none.
Saxons: the best faction and my number one favorite faction: sailing to England, attacking WRE from England is like attacking from the sky and raining down havoc all over the dying empire.
I wanted to play a Saxon campaign yesterday, and I found this... Good timing. RTW seems to still be played by many people.
+1 subscriber, I love those kind of videos.
Do you plan to make factions from others TW games ?
Thanks a lot man, glad you found it useful. I've made similar faction guides for Rome Total War base game and Medieval 2 Total War. I may make faction guides for other games in the future, but I am less familiar with the other games so I'm not sure
@@lugotorix6173 lol same. All I ever play is Rome and Medieval 2.
It’s weird, the mobile version includes all factions and they fixed some of their bugs
What mobile version?
@@gordonholon there's a tablet version for rtw
Yep. Including the Romano-British which can only be added with mods on the PC.
Great video! Keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
The ultimate no nonsense faction
I started a new session of TW:BI, because earlier tries didn't work out,but with the Saxon I got it right. I succeeded in crushing bit by bit the nomad armies of the Slavs and the Huns, and then continued to aim for the richer West Roman region (France and Spain). After a while their eastern brothers became another target, and that's the actual situation.
Do de Roman states also get nomadic (Western Rome only has the city of Rome left due to a revolt when they still had Salamanca as a second hub)?
No I dont think so
I need this right now! How'd you know?
haha I'm psychic :)
@@lugotorix6173 spooky. Thanks for the video!
Very informative, I subscribed a few videos back... will continue with the next faction and so on
Thank you! More videos are coming soon
This faction has been done by some people and it's a pretty good and fun camping, but if u where to start a lets play what faction would u choose?
Franks and Alemanni are easier due to their very good infantry roster
I'm not currently doing lets plays (livestreams instead), I would probably leave it to vote but I do enjoy playing as the Romans a lot, but to be honest I enjoy all the factions in this game
I hate to disagree with Lugotorix but I have to on a couple of things here.
The Levy Spearmen aren't a defensive unit at all; they're an offensive unit that has decent defense. Look at their stats: attack 7, missile 11, charge 4, defense 10. They also have light spears which gives them a bonus vs cavalry.
Think of them as an oversized better-armed and armored skirmish unit that can hang in melee if need be.
If you combine the level 3 barracks (and level 1 archery range) with a Sacred Circle of Ull, then retrain them in a town with a Sacred Circle of Wotan (this goes for archers, too) you end up with extremely potent ranged units quite early on (like Levy Spearmen and archers with 4 experience and gold/bronze missile attack/armour); 120 javvies will absolutely RUIN any unit's day. The shield wall formation just gives them a bit more defense but they are definitely NOT a defensive unit.
The Saxon Keels on the other hand, are a defensive unit: attack 7 charge 4 defense 16. The Keels attack is the same as the Spearmen but the defense is much higher; put them in Shield Wall and that goes up higher.
I suggest demolishing the Sacred Circle of Ull in Campus Saxones and replace it with one of Donar to give your units +2 morale, then pump out all your Keels, Axemen, Hearth Troops, and cavalry from here, then build Sacred Circles of Ull and Wotan in cities closer to your front so as you move your units from Vicus Saxones through Campi Chattii/Frisii and then to Augustae Treverorum/Vindelicorum, you can have most of your troops with 3 experience and at least bronze/bronze, with the increased morale bonus.
Hunters are just broken under the Saxons (so are the Levy Spearmen). You can get Hunters to 4 Experience gold/bronze very early and just wreck opposing armies.
The Saxon shrines are just ridiculous and they can make your armies very powerful very early.
The Saxons are pretty darn potent.
Can you make shogun 2 faction guides?
I thought something like this was coming
Hope you enjoy!
@@lugotorix6173 oh I love it I was trying to play them but would die as soon as I tried to fight the celts this should help thank you
@@BraydenLondon88 should be hard to die as the saxons right? franks,saxons,and goths are like the 3 top barbarian factions. they have good late game troops. I think the saxons are not as competent as the franks but they are still strong
Got rtw now I’m gonna get rtw bi like the content I’m gonna start a Saxon campaign
Lugotorix So I decided to play as the Saxons in Barbarian Invasion Rome Total War and I am kinda a noob but in my other campaigns I have been pretty successful but I played the Saxons made a Army early on and invaded Britain but then early on the Romano British spawned as a horde and destroyed my British armies and settlements so now I am broke so I need help, Have any advice?
I found it a better strategy to fight the Romans in continental Europe with the aim of raiding their large cities (population extermination) and then holding on to them. Better not do this right away either though. Wait several turns and use that time to build up a sufficient force and take rebel settlements. By the time you invade Roman territory with your forces, the Romans would be facing corruption and even rebellion.
@Otto Von Litmarck stupid question but how exactly to sell/buy cities with 100% success?
How does shieldwall work? Can't find anything on the internet.
19:00 But that's what the Saxons did, they stayed outside roman territory conquered their neighbour's land and forced them to migrate into the Roman empire.
Idk why, but I only enjoy the WRE in BI and no one else.
I think that WRE is definitely the most exciting faction, but I do enjoy the others as well
I usually pick Franks because of their AP units and ofcourse - Badass Paladins.
assonance was the word you were looking for
I’m at war with goths west romans and huns lmao
A few basic saxon keel can beat the crap out of most higher tech infantry. Once you get chosen axemen you can take over western Europe.
This game is still good
Can U do barbarians next
nice video really enjoyed it
Thank you!
the thing I don't like about barbarian invasion is that the shield wall formation is not that good, sometimes heavy cavalry can charge into my shield wall and get away pretty much unharmed. phalanx on the other hand, basically pierce through cavalry like paper.
Shield wall is to use against infantry or help a little, and I mean a little, with archer fire.
@@v1sion_unkowngaming777 when I first started playing the game, I thought testudo and shield wall units are completely immuned to archer fires🤣
Kevin Xu Testudo are practically immune to archer fire, especially low damage missiles, but a shield wall helps a little on the front, but still exposed to the sides and rear. Most cavalry should be able to penetrate either formation. Hope that clarifies a little more. Please someone correct me if I’m wrong lol
Shield-wall is great for a holding the enemy in place taking little damage while you flank around. It's a defensive maneuver not an offensive so don't be surprised if they don't do very much killing. You're meant to put your boys in the shield wall and then hit them from behind with the chosen axemen.
Shield Wall was not meant to hold off cavalry, it was meant to hold off infantry. The main reason for its existence is the tendency of the 'barbarians' to be undisciplined, as is well represented in RTW with the 'can charge without orders' clause many of the 'barbarian' units have. Shield Wall was a way to force these infantry units to stay in formation by locking their shields and preventing anyone from leaving the battle line. Of course as an added bonus it made the line very strong and tough to break by opposing infantry forces, initially the Roman infantry but later also the likes of the Viking warriors, when it was used by the Anglo-Saxons against them.
Your advice for the saxon is go Britain not South as you end up with a vertical empire yet with the franks you say go south to control Italy, why the difference?
With Roxolani I did opposite in very hard. Instead of going to Sassanids, sacking sarmatians, till Greece completely sacked. Get my horde to Rome, with boat (Adrian sea), sacked till I came back to Constantinople. So I had a huge wallet and was so easy I didn't had to battle, only auto resolve 🤣.
Main thing is: wait first couple of turns in beginning, upgrade my 3 horses and 2 Spearman, then left Roxolani campus. Watch where huns, sarmatians and vandals walking. If they are 1 or 2 turns further, then they will leave you. Just don't come to close to sarmatians in the west of you in first turns, avoid those hordes. Then trade rights with northern factions.
May I say if your going to play barbarian invasion don’t play the huns
No Romans’ play either Saxons celts or franks.
If I do a livestream for BI i'd probably leave it to vote :)
Fair enough :D
I got normal Rome total war I want to get that one more than napoleon
Got a good corner
how did u get the berbers and lombards
You can unlock every faction in the game files
Nice
You forgot to mention that Saxon Sea Raiders will drink from skulls.
Wait. They have that animation?
@@hernanreipp6983 No
So why you write that about drinking on skulls?
Any way that could be awesome or using skull in their lances.
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@@hernanreipp6983because they say it, when you press on them...
Make aguide for west roman
Yeah I definitely will very soon!
U should do a goths guid
Uh yeah, horses can swim in real life.
Damn, those vanilla maps are terrible. It could have had way more settlements
what mods do you recommend
@@hannibalburgers477 For barbarian invasions? I am not aware of any mods that does it. As for Rome TW itself, I highly recommend the mundus magnus map. It is very easy to implement into vanilla. Not only does it greatly increase settlement "density", it also stretches the map all the way to India
@@iamcleaver6854 thx
@@hannibalburgers477 Having googled it, it seems that you can download mundus magnus for barbarian invasions as well
It needs the Preston Garvey mod.
Anglo Saxon anglo saxon anglo saxon anglo saxon
Nope the Anglosaxons are a different tribe, a splinter faction if you will. The main saxon people stayed in Germany and pretty much all of north Germany is actually saxon.
I hate that their goal is to go to England. only a small number of Saxons migrated to England. Most stayed in German where the dukes of Saxony became the kings of Germany and then the first dynasty of the holy roman empire.
Yeahhhh anglo saxons
What do you mean franks don't have much for cavalry? Paladins are great! I can tell you don't know enough about this game to make guides for every faction...