Completely Surrounded 

Bro that thumbnail 😂

Ai: "give up we have you surrounded!" Legend "All I am surrounded by is fear and dead men"

This deserves a like just for the 10/10 thumbnail skills

That opening speech... Now THATS an inspiring leader 🤣

the thumbnail is gold, more medieval 2 videos please!

Legend playing medieval 2 can do a completely outside the box strategy to win against impossible odds and he doesn't even get hyped up about it, its nothing to him

At 7:07 the comments regarding loose formation archers being worse is true as the way total war has archers shoot is generally going to lead to fewer archers shooting if a unit is spread out. The guys in the front are now significantly closer to the enemy and that pushes the guys in the back out of range, so the entire unit wont shoot all at once. In some games only the guys in range shoot while the rear men are idle out of range. In other games the unit will not shoot at all and wait until everyone is in range to shoot, which this is common when advancing (are click attacking a unit), letting the enemy chew the front guys a bit. I have seen loose formation work better if you make the unit very wide to minimize the front to back range difference issue, which if you have a too ranged heavy army leads to spreading out too much as your front gets massive compared to your back lines or the enemys shooters in range. This is diluting how many man are firing and making your army less effective and allowing a form of defeat in detail due to having too much "surface area" in your frontage. With gun units it leads to the issue of a unit with fire by rank on waiting slightly until the units in the rear have the enemy in range, so sometimes a unit not firing by rank will shoot immediately when the front is in range while the opposing unit in fire by rank will wait until the enemy is slightly closer to realize they can shoot. It is is an edge case but can be the decider when you need to preserve manpower for a protracted shootout as whoever shoots first gets an edge in total guns still firing. As a caveat this issue feels less important with smarter AI in newer total war games but remains there in one way or another.

If I've learned one thing from GoT is that you should always charge your cav in first

No matter the video, the thumbnail is beyond legend! ;)

Gonna need the Holy Grenade of Antioch for this.

Thumbnail 10/10 Content 10/10 Battle Result 10/10 Legend: "just another Friday bro"

A.I.: give up we have you surrounded 5-1. Legend: you should’ve brought more.

I just love how battles in medieval 2 play out. In my opinion better than newer total war games.

Take a shot every time legend says he's not corner camping

Thumbnail goes nuts

the thumbnail killed me

Honestly im not sure i would be ale to win this battle sir, after all those years in still learning from your dynamic approach. All the best for you and all extraordinary people who still find satisfaction in this exeptional game.

The thumbnail and "Arse Pickles" comment at the beginning of this video are absolutely wild.

I think the reason the last army didn’t attack is because since their heavy cavalry has ammunition it counts as a ranged unit and plays passively as per missile advantage

Dayum. This battle is like a boss rush. Each army got a bit harder than the last. Wild scenario.

Still love Medieval II. My first TW game, I basically grew up on it. Crazy to think it's almost 20 years old!

Hello LegendofTotalWar, I have been watching you for years. I love your content, it explains in detail the way the games work and you often go into the way the mechanics work in great detail. Despite all of that, I often find myself discouraged from trying the harder campaigns myself, or any at all, for the fear of losing or feeling like I'm doing everything wrong. I'm not sure if there's a solution but I wanted to throw it out there anyway in case you have something to say for someone like me.

I really wish the pre battle speeches were in TW Warhammer as well , this dude was going off 1:18

The execution is still gold :D Legend is a true skaven warrior XD

I wish medieval 2 AI would dare to send 4 or 5 armies like that...

And I thought that only the old Legend would have made such a thumbnail 🤣

Man! Those general speeches! I miss those! CA should have made that a thing, Legendary Lords giving morale boosting speeches!

The thumbnail is pure perfection *chefs kiss*

Now THIS is a legendary thumbnail

Bonzer use of the infantry in Schiltron formation acting like a breakwater. have used Infantry Squares in E/Ntw like that but you taught this old TW player a new wrinkle for M2TW

Absolute BANGER thumbnail

That is a legend tier thumbnail

When Legend has your rear you're screwed.

Greatest thumbnail of my lifetime

That thumbnail 😆 But really, Legend, thanks to you, I've recently come back to Medieval 2, and I must say I haven't had this much fun with a total war for years. It's so much more immersive and tactical than the modern ones. The controls are a bit dated, but you can fix them using the Freecam plugin. Cheers, mate!

The only sad part about medieval 2 is that the late units are absolute shite. The pikes are rigid and stop moving in combat, so you end up with two pike formations which are touching diagonally just standing there and not engaging. Also Arquebusiers have a tendency to move slightly backwards in a fight. Which creates problems in sieges. Like squashing up against the building behind them.

best thumbnail i’ve ever seen by legend

2024 and im still exited about a m2tw video. That shows how awesome this game is

Thumbnail is god tier

The Legend of Thumbnails and the Legend of Total War are one and the same.

Now that's a spicy thumbnail

10/10 thumbnail

Thumbnail goated

Great thumbnail 😂

Bravo on the thumbnail, stimpee would be proud.

sir, they have us surrounded. Legend: the poor bastards.

The thumbnail had me GEEKING

That thumbnail is outrageous, more.

This guy chooses wisely 😅

LegendofTotalTumbnail strikes again

Love the video.

Do you ever have to do multiple attempts on these or do you just naturally one tap every one of them?

Legend of Total Spawn Camping!

LEGEND YOUR MEDIEVAL 2 BLITZ RECORD HAS BEEN BEATEN!

legend cooking the thumbnail 😂😂😂😂❤

This was insane.

Okay, Legend... Twenty six days into 2024 and you’ve already won thumbnail of the year 😂

Hello i have some noob question... Where can i check keyboard bindings for the game? I see you picking horse archers and when they have ammo you send it to meele etc. Did you have it on video somewhere? What is better dread or chivalry, and what is benefit of each?

Hahahahaha that thumbnail is hilarious

Oh Georges my boi...

Today, in saving the Holy Land...

Nice battle 😮 also the thumbnail 😂

That thumbnail is wild 😂

LMAO legendary thumbnail

Nice Thumbnail

any suggestion what to do when i can't start my(steam version) medieval 2 total war on win10?

Thanks for great Medieval II content Legend! If anyone has some of those saving your disaster campaign saves for Medieval II Total War, can you please share ? I'd like to give them a try myself.

And I struggle against two armies. A skill issue indeed

Shame you cut off that general speech, it seemed to be a banger.

Thumbnails and Music are absolute banger ! Always love the Saracens Battle Theme in Crusade Campaign ❤

Will you try out SSHIP? It will be a nice challenge for you at the highest difficulty I think

New veiwer here, I've seen a couple of your videos especially the MTW2. I have to disagree with your opinion on cavalry. Sure crusader cavalry or late tier chivalric knight equivalent can be devastating to infantry. But it has to be a massed charge with ALOT of cav. AI typically typically handle units poorly anyway, and if your infantry have decent longbow or crossbow cover all you need is like three or four units of cavalry in your armies. Where calvary is devastating is in the flanks. Historically the french learned the hard way about why not to charge with cavalry headlong into a prepared opponent

Round of applause on that thumbnail. Just perfect 😂

legend of total war thumbnails getting creepier 💀

the announcer in Medieval 2 seems very confusing, because it felt like he was calling out battlefield conditions for each individual army rather than the whole balance of power. Which, I guess does make some sense but it made it seem like you were doing way better. like, yes the enemy lost half their men but that's only 1/8th of the enemy force :P

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Watched some of your videos, just out of curiositiy why never u play mods? Because u cant stand ctds, unfinished features and / or incongruences? Just curious

TIL CA CAN create maps without forests sprinkled everywhere to obstruct every ranged unit you have

guys, I think he is corner camping

that thumbnail thou

Incredible thumbnail

Question to the respected Legend of Total War: I once found myself in approximately the same situation as the person whose campaign is shown in the video. I fought back, but the enemy, who at that time had only one province, systematically sent similar armies at me every turn, despite an empty treasury. How was this even possible?

The goat

Lmao the thumbnail

Dont understand why you need to delay chasing the archers killing your ranged units? 10:25?

That thumbnail LMAO

Brilliant thumbnail

Lmao I just came to comment about that ridiculous thumbnail. Well done

Guys what is the best dommsta for Troy?

How do people get into these situations? I’ve never been surrounded, how do I get difficult battles like this without deliberately sabotaging myself?

Instant click because of this god tier thumbnail

The Thumbnail 😂😂😂 Jesus Christ

Medieval 2 still amazing

hahah the thumbnail is just ridicolous hahah

Antioch had cooler units than Jerusalem in this game imo

Crusades campaign disaster battle! Crusades is my favorite, even if Antioch is probably the lamest faction on the map.

Bro why you are not playing vanilla beyond mod?

Now we all dont know what the thumbnail is. But we all can guess the ending to that....😂😂😂

I clicked for the thumbnail

Just imagine legendoftotalwar in command of a real life army - he'd probaly conquer the world with somalias armed forces within a week ...