BRUTII ROMAN CAMPAIGN - Rome Total War #1 

Vanilla Rome Total War, ah the good old days. Love playing it to this day.

I always loved playing as the Brutii because their faction color blends well with most mercenary units.

We Brutii are the only true romans.

It's funny how a standard rome campaign is more interesting to me than the SUPER CHALLENGING REFORMATION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Brutii are the Sons of Rome!

The fact that mercenaries are green and the brutii are green makes mercenaries fit so well in brutii armies

Gotta be one of my top favorite games of all time. There's actually a lot of little subtleties about this game that put it above the newer titles in my opinion. One of my favorites is the retinue system. Really feels like a passing of the torch.

Why the heck did this pop up for me now in Nov. 2022? Not that I’m complaining. Just an interesting choice by the algorithm.

This music is much better than anything I've heard Rome 2. Rome 1's soundtrack is a really popular mod for both R2/Attila for a reason. I guess. Decided to watch a Rome 1 LP just to see how it differs from Rome 2 /Attila. Comparisons about depth are apparently not exaggerations.

my first campaign on this game was the scipii simply because the emblem was a Wolf and the portrait when you clicked on it had a guy with a cool helmet on :P

Rome: Total War, hands down my favourite game of all time! Nothing comes close to the amount of time I've sunk into this game. Graphics may age, but the gameplay is timeless. Thanks for doing the campaign +LegendofTotalWar :)

12:45 - We like you too, Legend. Keep being awesome.

Legend, please please please, just open a Patreon. I'd rather give you 10 or 20 dollars a month of my income instead of watching ads. Its more efficient.

They killed 3 men + They only have 4 survivors Supreme victory

What I love about this game (apart from everything) is the fact that when it came out, I thought "this isn't possible", and yet it was and the machine I had could run it reasonably well. So many great memories. Coming from the original Medieval, this was a huge leap forward and was a stand-out title back then and stands out even now as being a great game. Love it. :) As far as the replenishment goes, I quite liked how Empire handled it, as in it could happen anywhere in your territory, but you had to instigate it and pay for it and then it took two turns. Made it more of a problem to solve than just waiting.

Ah, the Brutii, the funnest Roman faction IMO.

the game that made me love the total war series and military history

To win the brutti campaign quickly and easily do the following.1 The first city to take is Athens at the start you will be neutral/friendly with both Greece and macedon so you should be able to reach Athens by ship easily.2 after taking Athens ally/stay friendly with macedon and prepare an army to take sparta Greece should not have a large army defending it.3 After taking sparta move on to take on macedon Greece is out of the runijng with only thermon and maybe an army left.4 with macedon defeated and thermon taken you should have uncontested ownership of Greece/macedon 5 With Greece/macedon your money problems for the rest of the game are over.6 Ally with Thrace and prepare for war with pontus.7 once prepared for war with pontus cross the ocean and invade pontus with agood mix of infantry/archers and some cavalry pontus should be relatively easy to take.8 After defeating eutralizing Pontus repare for war with Egypt. Egypt will be your most difficult foe at this stage.9 use a two pronged invasion have one army besiege Alexandria by ship (should not be very well defended) and one army attack from the former lands of pontus. Alexandria should be easy to take . After Alexandria move on to Take the other two Egyptian city. Fortify the city you took from in the attack from the former land of pontus and be prepared to defend it from the large egyptian armies that will come.10 move on up to pontus with the army you deployed to Alexandria and take/sack egyptian settlements at this time Egypt will soon run out of money.11 Once you have weathered the egyptian armies and egypt runs out of money conquest should be easy.12 After egypt move on to Armenia and Parthia They will have strong armies but few settlements.13 Take one Thrace and then move on to scythia or Dacia which ever of the two is still alive at this stage. you should have 30 + settlements at this time and nearly unlimited gold.14 once you reach 50 settlements train armies to take rome .

Danny I've been playing this game for a decade and I've never seen the path finding get THAT fucked.

I think you nailed perfectly what made this game so great. So easy to immerse yourself from running cities, family members, the music, seeing landmarks when fighting a battle (like fighting on Rhodes or the west coast of Asia Minor and seeing the wonders and nearby fleets in the water while fighting a battle? FUCKING AWESOME!) etc. Even the next game in the series Medieval 2 felt like a little bit of at step back (ex: cities are A LOT easier to keep in line). It's a pity Rome II fell flat on it's face because this game really deserved some updated loving

This made me lose my virginity... Thank you Legend!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who keeps going back to Rome Total War... Still my favorite total war of all times

I always found the Brutii to be the easiest of the 3 roman factions early game; when conquering the greek city states you get big cash real fast. You get a faster start compared to the other roman factions in that aspect. I liked the julii the most as well, because the romans are indeed supposed to be red :) I will enjoy this anyway. Just keep making great vids!

You get a like from me in 2020, high quality man. Hope you do videos on historical total war games though, even three kingdoms maybe would work

Holy Shit, those Spartans Hoplites are tough as nails. :-o

Fun fact: In the three odd turns it takes to take Apollonia, you can also beat the Scippi and take Syracuse at the same time. Each time I've done it has had interesting effects on the general progression of the Scippi

In the italian version Brutii are called Valerii, probably similar to Valor. Brutus was actually a Juli

I would just love a reworked or even opened up M2TW. It's not making much money anymore, let the fans see what they can do with it.

Rome Total War is for me the best to both play and watch! Can find myself doing 5 hour stints on this game without even realising, most addictive one of the series, great to see a new campaign on it from the legend

My favourite game and my favourite campaign. Can't wait for this Legend mate.

9:27 *laughs in thrones of Britannia*

Hey Legend, decided I would pause AdBlock whenever I watch your videos -- you're easily my favorite TW RU-vidr (you have a *lot* more personality, you're funnier, and you're absolutely amazing at the games themselves). Keep making vids, you're great!

Happy to know people still play this game. Now I play on iPad

Was looking for youtubers who play the original Rome. This is a great start to a new series.

this does remind me from my first contact with the total war series, I immediatly think back about the first time I played te on Rome with the bruti, love this, it's awesome.

I would agree with your choice of temples to Juno. I often enjoy playing with Arcani when playing as the Roman factions, so naturally for the Brutii I would lazily build a temple to Mars everywhere. Every family member almost always becomes "the mad" with the flaccid trait. Maybe if they could get it up they'd chill the fuck out.

I've been waiting for this! Can't fucking wait to see the rest of the series! Thanks dude!

This was Total War! I loved this game so much, it was way ahead of its time, a truly innovative game. The music still sounds great too.

I could never play this on anything but normal unit size. Even on that the pathfinding in cities can be cumbersome. On huge it's basically broken. I also try to do draw-outs every time I can because field battles are just way better.

the Graphics on these older Games are actually amazing, recently i just plugged my Pc into a 4k Resolution Tv, Medieval 2 looks better than Attila on that.

I saw this in my subscriptions and I threw my phone across my room in happiness. Haven't seen such a good introduction to no doubt what will be a great playthrough

I would watch any Rome I and medieval II series of yours, mods included

I love you your vids keep it up for 5 years later

When you talked about not giving a shit about blinking camels xD you make me laugh man.

Since when did you quit your job?

First video i watched on your channel was your parthia campaign even tho it was 8 years ago you played almost every battle perfectly, now i watch sparta fight i see it is total different that your parthia efforts, maybe in 2 years you became a bit different player

Happy to watch whatever you feel like putting up. Medieval II was my first Total War, but I've never been really successful in vanilla Rome. Pick and up and play around with it and the Warhammer mod for it every now and then though.

You could consider doing mod campaigns with more limited goals than conquering the whole map, perhaps? Generally the last half or two thirds are just snowballing/roflstomping anyway, so you could consider just setting yourself challenges like "conquer 20 settlements in 6 turns in EB" or whatever. Solves the problem with the campaign length, but it lets you play mods.

lol 2023 And Legend is still doing the legend things!

Damn this game and Medieval 2 never get old. Never stop playing these classics!

And I completely agree. The new total wars just don't have the same feeling as this truly classic, amazing game!

One of the rare youtubers that can fucking play Total War properly

this game is so awesome! was my first TW, and it still brings the feels!

Point taken mate. I use adblock primarily because I use RU-vid for music a lot. I will pause adblock when I watch the channels I want to support.

Thank you for your all effort and series you are the best total war player ever i seen.. I really enjoying while im watching your videos. even in gym :) thanks again.. keep going..

It seems the pathfinding gets extra fucked when approaching the town plaza for some reason. My units always tend to go and tap the enemy on their shoulders saying "I'm here, dude, come and get me!" instead of orderly going into formation... Ah, but then again that's what makes this game so good imho xD

didn't think you'd come back to rome i, i'm happy

YESSS! Something I was waiting for. Though I'm watching Venedians and Himyar at the same time, but cannot help myself not to watch this series aswel. Damn you Legend

Definitely agree that they should take away replenishment. Some of my best Total War memories are guarding the unit of Triarii you get with Julii, knowing that I'm not going to get any of them back.

Jeff Van Dyke is actually still doing music for Sega. The most recent one he has done (that I can think of) was Alien: Isolation. Strangely enough, it seems all the Total War games he's worked on have received critical acclaim.

Fuck yes. Was waiting for you to come back to this game, looking forward to the series

So I would have used the mercenary hoplite to pin the Spartans and then used the missile units to weaken them. Moving the infantry near the town center in order to use their missile ability as well. I used the infantry in relay and then attacking the Spartans with all units.

FINALLY ROME i god damn loved this game, Medieval 2 & roma1 just the best total wars ever made, no discussion about it.

"I've always been attracted to playng as the Julii... because they're red". I'm exactly the same with the Brutii - I play as them because I like green; never done Julii or Scipii (well, never more than a few turns) XD

"If they're gonna release a new total war game" - Video uploaded in 2016. There is Rome II allready out, but I like the first one more

It is the best total war game! When I was the Brutii, I remember my brutal battles with those Macedonian lancers..

I love this game. My favourite since high school. I wish I can still play it. I have the disc still but computers today can't run it. Most don't have disc drives.

Probably too late, but you need some infantry to properly skirmish against hoplites. The AI will usually face the infantry while the skirmishers give it to them from the other sides.

''Genghis Khan Total War?'' who knows? Prophet of Total War.

Haven't played vanilla Rome 1 in years This has inspired me to boot it up again.

Dude, Julii me too. It feels more Roman. You look at history of Roman arms and equipment at this time and it's all read.

The Teutonic campaign has the best soundtrack imo

My perfect start with Brutii was, ignore Senatmissions, go and conquere all Island and cities near Scipio and Julier and built a Empire without them. 😂😂

Ive always thought they were bushes XD 20:01

Me watching this in 2023 yea loving it

I'm so happy to see this campaign! Looking forward to the next episodes!

UNDEROOS!! sry just watched the new trailer for civil war. big super hero fan. btw been waiting for another rome 1 lets play Legend!! Thanks mate your the gr8est total war youtuber/player out there

I'm deliriously happy that you're doing another RTW campaign since it's my favorite game. I agree with your comments on the game. One small point: elephant and chariot units have multiple hit points as well.

Don't worry, legend. I make sure that while ads are playing, I don't skip them as much as possible. I would be busy on other stuffs first. Unless they're really long. I will allow them to at least play for 5 to 10 minutes and then skip them.

something about your play style on RTW and medieval II that's just so good and entertaining to watch

I don't understand why people like nice looking shitty games and dislike sub-par looking good games.

What they could do with replenishment is the units get 0 exp after you recruit them and get up to like 10 after a year of training. If you go to a battle with them you don't get unit exp but every person has its own exp so after you fight a battle and lose 20% of your units and replenish them you will have 80% of the units exp at 18 or something and 20% at 0 making the unit's exp 14 after the battle. Also instead of just being a modifier units with more exp could fight better visually. That'd be really cool.

I'm sad that Legend doesn't play these campaigns anymore... :(

Should try doing this with the Darth Mod. Adds a lot of great variations and "historical" changes, while not really making it last longer, just more of a challenge.

you should make a barbarian invasion series and play as either one of the roman empires really tough

You just won a new suscriber man,i really likee your commentary and strategy.I hope you end this campaign conquering all!!

Praiseth The Lord! A Rome Total War campaign!

Getting Vibius Brutus having a son is the hardest part of a Brutii campaign.

I found my favourite tactic was to close the other Romans in by taking the settlements they take first, generally that halts the other Romans from expanding that much. that means those strong factions are much easier to deal with (since they have a smaller economy)

I womder if there is a mod that has a small, passive unit replenishment that still retains the retraining replenishment as well

Are you ever going to do an let's play of Euroba Barbarorum ? Just asking because I play that instead of Rome I. ( It is a lot better in my opinion and many more think like this ). Ok you explained why you haven't done any mod let's plays. But thank god it is in your to do list ! The reason why i play it over Rome I is mostly history. It is historically more accurate and it tells me even more about history. ( I love history ) and to me it just is better. There more things why I think it is better, but that was the main reason. And now I realise I wrote this much... And it looks a lot better ;)

brutii is my favourite campaign ever man, i mean you get right in the thick of things, you get to take the richest cities in the game besides rome within a handfull of turns

started my total war games with this 7 years back

I enjoy the older games. I started playing Rome the other day because Rome II has ben problematic for me since the last update over a year ago (I think). My favorite is the original Medieval TW because of the immersion, the atmosphere of the game was incredible.

random comment,but @LegendofTotalWar tell me if you agree that they need to at CA combine how settlements work from empire,medeival2,rome1 and 2.as in they bring back how buildings appeared on the map from empire combined with having to choice between buildings (IE a mine or logging camp,fishery or school just of the top of my head.)lastly they need to combine the settlement UI of rome 1 and 2.because rome 2 is to simplistic and limited well rome 1 is a little to in your face and innately hard to learn. but i would love to hear other opinions and if someone could make a mod of this even better.

Totally agree, one of the all time greatest games.

Glad you're doing this, been a while since ive played this game

I have my own little ways of playing these Rome 1 campaigns, like trying to wrap round to block off the other factions advances. Be so interesting to see how you play this.

I fucking love this guy, he's honest about everything

if only I knew how to use good combatant strategy in this game without just cav spamming