5. Slaying the Vritra | Rajendra | Dynasties of India DLC
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The grand finale to both Rajendra and Dynasties of India!
In this scenario, Rajendra wages an all-out war against the Srivijaya Empire of Nusantara. You have a massive fleet, but must conquer your way through the fortresses and villages of Sumatra before you can conquer their empire. You also get the support of our old friend Suryavarman I!
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Small trivia: Vritra basically means a "Dragon" in Sanskrit. Indra, the chief of Devas in Hindu theology, slays the Asura who could transform into a Vrtra, Vritrasura to gain the name Vrtraghna or Vrtrahan. His ancient Iranian counterpart is called Verethragna.
What a nutty campaign. Just gets bigger and bigger with every scenario, I'm honestly blown away.
27:10 - "Let's send an Elite Cannon Galleon over here to scout"
Just campaign things...
personally, my favourite scout unit in campaigns is the trebuchet. The vision range is soooooo good and it easily allows you to spot enemies before they spot you
... yep, just campaign things 11
You won, but at what cost... Rajendra went into the dark side.
It's matter of perspective 😅
Great Campaign overall . Absolutely loved seeing Normie Rajendra get radicalised into an Social Dwarwinist with Tamilian characteristics
I made the mistake of trying both land and water, then i restarted and i figured its much easier to liberate my ally first, then get rid of purple quickly(who is a big pain in the ass on water), and after that you can snipe castles with cannon galleons, no landing on the main island needed.
As you've said, its good that there are options, for those that like different approaches.
your approach was more historically accurate, how perfect !! ^^
Your initial navy is actually strong enough to defeat that Srivijaya armada, if you avoid that first castle
I tried it but half the navy got stuck against the castle. Nevertheless, it provided enough of a distraction to safely land, mission accomplished
@@Duke_of_Lorraine If you put a flare directly underneath Suryavarmans base before attacking Srivijaya navy they go along the NW edge of the map, avoiding the castle
@@Duke_of_Lorraine Exactly this is the only big problem with this scenario I have. I started several times. Sometimes, all ships going straight to the north and they easy clapped the whole armada, sometimes a good bunch where fighting the docks and the castle in the south... felt so random and out of my control.
dude u just need to flare a lot
@@derPandre To bee historically accurate, attacking Tambralinga is just the decoy... The main navy goes to Palembang directly and takes them by surprise (Till then, no ships could accomplish this in the harsh Monsoon winds off the Western coast of Indonesia - which is dangerous to sail even today)
9:41 Yep. U right.
29:27 Dont worry Ornlu. 🤣
40:27 Finally, Ornlu arrive in Palembang.
44:05 Yep. They later build Sunda Kingdom
about the question, which tower is better againist ships. The answer to that is actually not that straightforward. Generally, the bombard tower should do more raw dps no matter what, however it is both more expensive and easier to dodge so it depends. Other than that, it heavily depends on two factors: 1. the type of ship you are fighting and 2. whether your civilization gets heated shot. Galleys are very vulnerable to keeps and essentially melt when the keep also gets heated shot (29 per arrow against a galleon with all upgrades and they can shoot extra arrows). Fire Ships and Tirisadai, on the other hand, have high ship armor and as such take significantly less damage from keeps. Heated shot does a great job at mitigating this but if you ever were in a situation during the saracen campaigns where you had to defend against fast fire ships with castle age guard towers without heated shot, you know how bad this is ... 11
On the other hand, bombard towers with heated shot straight-up oneshot everything that isn't a turtle ship or thirisadai and even they take almost 200 damage... but again, accuracy can be an issue if the ships move alot (for example to harass your villagers)
In short: usually bombard towers but if you have heated shot and especially against the galley line, both will work.
-now I want a t-west video where he talks 30 minutes about towers vs. ships 11-
I actually found this one easier than usual by the standards of this campaign, although crossing that southeast bridge you were fighting on around the 41 minute mark was interminable becuase of the unreal unit spam from Srivijaya. And for water I honestly didn't bother with Thrisadai because purple and blue had so many fast fires that I figured I'd need my own fires anyways to deal with them so might as well spam nothing else. I actually think that's the better approach considering what the enemy has.
I think, a combination of fires + ranged support (thirisadai get a bonus for being more pop efficient here) is best, because too many fire ships will start getting in each others way so having something with more range allows for more efficient dps. But yeah, throwing like 10 fires into your ship army really does wonders.
I did this one by going full Siege Onagers, a few Trebs and Dravidian Elephant Archers up front.
Once you hit a critical mass of Elephants Archers and SO you can steamroll Sumartra with some ease.
Then you go take out the Tambralingas and the Srivijayan castle.
Tbh once you take all of Sumatra you are pretty much home free. So focusesing all your efforts on the main island is the only thing worth doing tbh
This was indeed an epic campaign, does it deserve S tier? Maybe, it has it's flaws, but again it tried to be consistent and even if in my opinion it should have done a few things differently it is still a great campaign to play
The 3rd and 5th missions were grandiose large-scale B&D with a lot of strategic choices, and the rest was solid enough (2 is only awfully grindy if you decide it to be). The narrative was well done, bonus points for linking with the Suryavarman campaign. A S-tier is likely indeed.
@@Duke_of_Lorraine yea, definitely S tier. i mean, some of these missions have so many different little things you can do that ornlu missed out on some. they did a great job allowing the player to have somepotent choices
The purple castle counts as well, plus they give up and stop annoying you with their fleet ;)
This was a great final level
Lmao no Malay ald nerfed so badly since rise of rajas dlc
I went to help our ally first - you end up getting control of the Timbalinga's village. Also I want to know if they found the thaku. A fitting end to this great campaign!
*find tako*
For those whom have familiar with TBS game Battle for Wesnoth and the custom campaign named "Legend of the Invincibles", that Vritra's name is a synopsis Unholy Breed (elf character) is only on LotI part 2 chapter 8 & 10. I've played that campaign until the end as 4 times...
Battle For Wesnoth!
Best free game I ever downloaded!
Love the game universe and the campaigns are great fun.
Excellent TBS game.
Been playing it since age 12 if I remember. Didn't know if it still growing or not since I didn't play it anymore
Wrong title. c=
I like using signals or chat commands to order allies to attack. Would like to see more of that in future campaigns.
I also liked the focus on Naval combat in this campaign, it's good variety.
I kinda wish they could go back and add some features to old campaigns, make maps better, doesn't need too many changes.
it was a great adventure with the DoI addon, looking forward to more in the future :)
Thanks Ornlu for your video series!
With that new triggers to use flares to order where the navy should strike, it's surprising that other missions from this expansion used the older method of typing a command in the chat to choose which enemy your allies should focus on.
Still, a very welcome addition.
Hey Ornlu why is the title of this video is the same from 4th campaign of Rajendra? Or is it just me?
Nah, he will fix it
Great job there, I took 3 hours to complete that one, on the second attempt (hard mode as well). Did it with basically zero navy and tons of towers xD also did a lot of trade with light blue
26:50
well not really a fantasy ship. the design is from the borobudur ship, a series of reliefs on the borobudur temple in java, built by that exact same sailendra dynasty. this kind of boat design are only found in borobudur and nowhere else. so it was most likely to be austronesian in origin (with it having outriggers and tanja rigging and javanese being one of the austronesian peoples etc etc).
so, it feels a bit weird to see borobudur ship is used as one of indian civs unique unit. given their lack of historical connection whatsoever. and then they make it fight against the sailendras, lol.
Nope. The actual cholan and gujarat ships were unplayable. This is just the deep seated insecurity of accepting the truth that diluted everything that India created. That history that you consumed is just BS written after erasing actual facts during the brutal european invasion of india.
There is a funny bug, I prepared a few trebs to take back the castle to the north east every time it was taken by the enemy. Too bad I trebbed it way too hard so it became mine and collapsed still counting as mine. What can I say, 200 IQ move as an enemy cannot take over a castle if there is no castle XD
That exact thing happened to me but with the castle at the east, the one near the bridge 😂
i took the top island route, boi was the purple annoyin af. However, that route render blue to 98% useless. Having multiple tower on top of the island bay proves to be extremely effective against the purple assault.
I am playing it now. No bombard towers. Only cannon ships
i assume you would've won the naval battle if you hadn't thrown alot of ships at the enemies castle :)
Are The Slaying of Vritra and Challenging a Thalassocracy the only campaign scenarios which show the same event in history, but in two different viewpoints?
May yes.
Nah, Joan of Arc 5/Grand Dukes 6 & William Wallace 7/Longshanks 5
Honestly, it's becoming more and more of a thing lately, considering the Grand Dukes and Edward Longshanks campaigns revisit Joan of Arc and William Wallace while Jan Zizka and Jadwiga also tie together.
Ornlu, if u feels tired, take a rest. So u can type title correctly. 🙂
This scenario felt quite unique compared to the others. I mean you get to control a fleet that isn't even you own.
fighting on land seems better idea. fighting on water is horrible
Can you range Palembang Castle from water? I know the other ones can but that’s the only one I’m not sure about.
Overall I'd give this campaign like a B+ or A-. It's got a nice story and the levels are well designed with different challenges, but the execution feels a little rough. 1st level's raid doesn't really do anything, 2 has the no villager glitch right now, and in 5 the purple navy feels a little too oppressive. You can't take a hybrid approach for the last level, you need to go either full navy or full land. Still, it's a great effort and I really do like the 3rd and 4th scenarios.
What if Rajendra found the bandit?
"4. Sacred Waters | Rajendra | Dynasties of India DLC"
Seems legit.
I"M SORRY 11
Hi the title mentions it's mission 4 Sacred Waters
I think Sailendra was too prepared .....
They were waiting for the apocalypse, basically
arrival in Jambudvipa
31.kurma-nadyam sthairyam
I dislike the start here. With fog of war, I had no idea where (and when?) to land. Had serveral starting attempts; everytime I pinged my watter-ally to the fleet in the north. Sometimes, they all go there and eazy clap, but sometimes a good bunch of them attacked the docks in the south, felt very random to me. I wish the designers would have marked (with a flag) two or three landing points with the hint, you can decide on advantage or disadvantage of each option.
After that, it became kinda fun. it wasn't as complex as the previous missions, what a relief!! It is all about taking and holding towers and castles. A good hand for siege rewards massive here. Eco is available, but not that important. Prioritising land is stronger, but take care of water is good for you. it's the kind of scenario that gets easier and easier over time and by the point I did the last push I thought, something will come as a climax. Bit of a letdown, that it just.. ended, I dunno xD
On one hand, I dislike the fact that it ends on a non-challenging way imo. BUT as I think about it, the campaignw as hard, you always had these complex (often annyoing for me) mechanics to deal wwith, because you know.. you build an empire, that SHOULD be messy I guess.. So maybe ypou can see this one as a payoff. Your army gets superior very fast except on water, you take the frotresses of the enemy on by one und in the end, you take the economy and fortresses to finish him off, with the help of the allys you made in previous scenarios. So, kinda fitting.
So in short, very weird and irritating start (again), but played out in a very fun way for me. As I sayed numerous times in the comments allready, Rajandra was not so much for me. The last scenario saved it from my personal C-tier to an average-good campaign B-tier.
Why u build so many town center?
thought you replayed mission4 11
Tamil❤
title is wrong
Name is wrong
This one sucks. Wave after wave with big ass troops😏