Empire: Total War World Domination Campaign #1 - Great Britain 

Oh, is it still alive... really need Empire 2 TW.

Doesn’t matter if you build the Conservatorium in Edinburg. If your in Scotland, happiness is merely a dream

empire total war at it's finest: turn 1, let's build alliances, pay them if we have to... turn 2, TOTALEN KRIEG

Finally someone who takes his time playing ETW in a slow pace world dom and explaining what he does - I like that plus you are not talking of sponsors and have standard sentences that you rattle at the beginning and at the end - and you are even playing on highest difficulty - that will be fun to watch.

I want Empire 2 so badly

Not quite sure what's happening lately but welcome to all the new viewers! Please note there are always many things I wish I did different in campaigns but that's half the fun. On my channel you can find numerous Very Hard difficulty campaigns even on Total War games I haven't or hadn't played for years, like this one! Hope you enjoy and consider sticking around with that sweet subscription. Cheers!

The british empire was my favorite to play. Build strong navy, blockade ports, starve their armies.

I love how you pace your campaign, explaining and reading all important bits instead of rushing them like other players. Subscribed!

Coming from Shogun 2, this game feels like it needs a PhD in political science to properly play lol

Government Tab: You have your ministers but below ministers "in waiting". You can replace the ministers with any of those in waiting by simply dragging the portrait to whatever slot you want. If you pick a guy with the appropriate bonuses you can really boost your economy etc

I just like that Wales is just a big Forrest

You asked for tips about the government tab- do NOT increase your taxes, especially on the middle class! Increasing the taxes on your middle class will, among other things, stifle your growth, which controls how quickly your provinces/territories create new towns. I usually LOWER my taxes on the middle class on the first turn, and if you have the town info tab opened on any town where the province/territory still has a town to produce, you can see the "next town developing" in the bottom left corner of the tab go down drastically when you lower taxes on the middle class. For instance, on Turn 1 when playing GB, if you open the town tab of any town in England province, you will see that the next town developing is Liverpool in 27 turns; if you then open the government tab and lower taxes on the middle class 1 notch from 3 of 5, down to 2 of 5, you will see Liverpool is now developing in 11 turns; if you turn the taxes up 1 notch instead (as the video suggests) from 3 of 5 up to 4 of 5, you will see that the bottom left message is now "villages are not growing." The sooner that you do lower your taxes, the better, because growing your provinces to have max towns gives you the most powerful economy possible for each nation. If you do what I do, you won't even miss the money that you would lose by lowing taxes. For the first several turns (4-8) do your best not to produce any units, and to focus all spending on building up buildings; you can usually move your starting units around quickly enough to reinforce the needed areas without having to build more troops for a while. Just focus on first building and upgrading economic buildings (farms, smiths, weavers, fur, plantations, etc.) and then schools. The first few turns you will lose some money, because you lowered taxes, and the economic buildings you are building take a few turns to complete; once they do, however, you will begin to see your money creep back up. If you build units, you will lose money every turn, and it will be that way until the die or are disbanded; at least by building buildings and lowering taxes, you income recovers after a few turns, and you will start to also have new towns popping up much more quickly. I also usually make sure to have at least 2 schools operating, even if that means destroying some other building to do so (usually a church). After you have upgraded your economic and school buildings as much as possible in the provinces that you own (2-9 provinces to start), usually 4-8 turns have passed, and your income has recovered to its starting position, even though you lowered taxes on the middle class in every theater. Now is the time to build a small invasion force, to conquer the pirate islands; I usually avoid declaring war on a country in the beginning, so they are one faction I can invade and conquer without having to worry about upsetting allies or creating enemies. If someone declares war on me in the beginning, I try to get out of it quickly. It is only after I destroy all the pirates that I declare war, and only on small nations (1-3 provinces) that I can quickly conquer. Throughout the game, I usually try to avoid wars that I do not declare, and only declare war on nations that have at least 3 less provinces that I do at the time. Also, once I've played the first 4-8 turns and have built up my buildings to max, I usually have a pattern of 2-3 to 1 turn set up, with 2-3 turns spent upgrading buildings, and then 1 turn to build troops- unless something forces me to adapt, like someone declaring war on me and not being willing to negotiate out of it. By turn 45, you should have continued to lower your taxes on both classes; the middle class should be at the lowest (1 of 5), and the upper class should be at the second lowest (2 of 5); as you lower them, lower middle class first, then bring upper class down to even with middle, and then lower the middle again. Usually, I lower taxes when I reach 10k income- if you follow my system, that will happen over and over again, even though you are continuously lowering your taxes. Basically, you are always adding new provinces, creating new towns in the province, and upgrading those towns, so it is constantly raising your income; if you do the 2-3 to 1 system, you won't build too many units too quickly, before the buildings have a chance to complete and provide income enough to be able to afford the troops you are building/maintaining. I am usually going to war every 7-10 turns; once my armies are in position, I declare war, and usually destroy the faction in the first 1-4 turns; I usually conquer their provinces, build them up for 4-7 turns, then build each their own defense force (up to that point, I leave the invading forces there to maintain Public Order), and finally I move the invasion force into position to attack the next country. The invasion force starts as 10 troops, but then grows to 20; I also start with one force, and by mid-game I usually have 3 or 4 forces. Also, don't take more than 4 provinces at a time in war, because that will also help regulate your income vs spending/upkeep. If you take too many provinces in 1 turn by ending a war, it will take a long time to build up those towns (like if you take 10 provinces at once), so you won't be able to maintain your war schedule of conquering, building new provinces up for ten turns, and then move on to the next war; you also likely won't have enough troops to occupy those province capitals while you build them up, so you will then face rebellions. My system is all about balancing/moderation, and steady but staggered growth (the number of provinces/towns, your income, your military/navy, etc.). Anyway, you asked for tips because the thing you know the least is government tab stuff, so I wanted to correct you on how raising taxes is actually a bad idea, and lowering them is much better- the rest was just me explaining how you are able to lower them without going bankrupt. It is very rare that I increase taxes, and that usually still only involves raising them back to 2 of 5, or back to the starting position of 3 of 5; and I only do that if I am several turns into a war with one of the 3 major powers (GB, France, Spain), and they wont negotiate out of it. Otherwise, if you use the strategy that I do, halfway through the game you can earn over 10k a turn, while maintaining the lowest taxes.

Thanks for making these. I like watching it when I’m going to bed. Just interesting enough to keep my mind from running, but not too exciting so I can fall asleep!

Glad to see Lincolnshire being prioritised for once 😂😉

Ships sail on water, my lord

Really glad to see Empire on the channel!

Currently learning how to play this game, what a channel to do just that. Great video, I enjoyed it alot.

"Experienced seamen" Teehee

Finally a Great Britain playthrough with decent commentary, nice one

I liked your creative pronunciations! It's like seeing how these places got anglicized names in real time. 😂

The best total war game, but with many faults. Let us have Empire 2

Holy shit, Vulcan! I've been subbed to your other channel for years and never knew this one existed! What a pleasant surprise, tho.

Great video. I love the total war games but don’t have a PC anymore, subscribed. Keep it up

Generals not leading reinforcements is most definitely realistic, they didn't really oversee regiments and battalions like some of the games force them to. Tis why Colonels, Lt Colonels and Majors were and are so numerous, cause that's their job

I'm late but you don't want to raise taxes to much. It will lower population growth. So over time you will earn more tax revenue due to more population to tax. Raising taxes helps only in the short term. When you look at the region tab you will see factors in population growth or decline so you can adjust to accordingly.

The absolute madman! He actually did it haha! I don't think id last a couple of turns on very hard lol

In every game of Empire I played, the Thirteen Colonies always merge with Britain - same for New Spain merging with Spain and Lousiana merging with France. Having never played any of these countries, I was really wondering how that happens. This is so cool!

I am Really surprised this is not a Darthmod lets play cause most of the lets plays i have seen are Darthmod lets plays

Gotta love the Warcraft 3 peasant death sound at 1:04 :P

Wow didn't know you had another channel. Glad it was recommended in the side.

Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire here~ :D

This game brings me back

Your accent made this feel much more authentic

was britain i did rush a army to india and manged to capture and hold 3 regions broding the marthen confederacy was besieged many times but still glad i did it as it led to some of the best battles in that theater and a staging ground when i was finally able to bring my full attention to india

You have the voice of a regal viceroy

Just found your channel as I'm typing this and I'm surprised, immediately subscribed!! Your like the sexy Lionheartx10.. Cheers!! Also Darthmod is a really good mod if you ever do mods..

Lowering taxes on nobles increases wealth per turn for all cities and lowering taxes on the middle classes speeds up the development of new city plots for building churches, schools etc. I know that late game that if I keep my taxes at second to lowest on nobles that my cities can easily make over 10k a piece. As for ministers, I believe absolute Monarchy allows you to drag opposing ministers to fill in your current ministers. Unfortunately Britain is a constitutional monarchy and can only boot 1 minister per turn and the game randomly fills in one of the opposing ministers, unfortunately you can receive random garbage for a minister as a replacement.

When you can play a game that you can rule the world I’m in for it 😎🤷🏻‍♂️😂

I would love this setting but with the improved gameplay from Napoleon. Having the foot soldiers look more like real men when they get hit, hearing the rank and file talking to one another and drill sergeants screaming at the private’s in the ranks, having firing be less awkward and less like a struggle to get the proper ruthless rank fire that made Britain into an empire to be feared. Truly an awesome setting with so much versatility but truly let down by gameplay that Napoleon really capitalised on

Hey man awesome video

The first step is to take over trade spots and open trade with everybody.

HYPEEEEEEEE!

Al principio hay que investigar granjas comunales y desarrollar las granjas, los talleres de hierro y textiles, asi como firmar acuerdos comerciales con la mayor cantidad de naciones posibles

Almost a great game! almost!

I forgot how good this game is. Rush an army to India=game over

First move is to churn out trade ships and spam all the trade ports.

When your legitimate website is marked by Facebook as against their "community guidelines": "It seems they didn't want the competition for world domination".

Vulcan: we have this plantation here The black community: do u want war? Idk if this is funny or hurts peoples feelings….also nice video it relaxing and fun to watch,similar to Anno 1800

This and Medieval 2 are still my favorite. I hope they drop the fantasy crap soon and go back to making real games.

Finally, a non darthmod playthrough

god damn it vulcan. i am not dome with your rome2 and now i want to watch this. loving your content

Gawd I loved being Prussia and ruling Europe!

favorite total war.

Just found your channel its great love the older TW games. I dont know what crap TW is bringing out next but I really want medieval 3 TW, empire 2 TW and Napolean 2 TW. Why do they deny me. Why do they play these games (no punn intended)

It would've been more glorious to see unit sizes in ultra setting

Kudos to Britian for Ruling almost whole World! ;)

Vulcan I had no idea you had another channel.

Do you plan to build some trade fleets and take trade nodes anywhere?

Good relations with the wookies, I have

So will you try playing pirates in this after you're done? I think they are playable

Just got done with the Tomb Kings Series, now im starting this Big Boy. Wish me luck lmao!

Love empire total war! It's a good idea to lower the tax on the rich, that will increase your town wealth over time, so it's very beneficial in the long term!

Nice Video mate! But I'd like to keep the upper class taxes a bit higher then the middle class, otherwise they want reforms and going to revolve :)

Definitely my favourite, even though the real version I bought was broken so I had to get a pirated and fixed copy. :-) As a Warhammer fan I also think CA should go back to real games.

My favourite game

nice. cant wait to watch the rest

could you do this as the US (Darthmod allows you to play a conquest as them)

Don't try to demand they give YOU money, GIVE them money. Giving them money convinces on your side. Demanding money convinces away from your side.

I'm from Portsmouth too!

How do you have units of that size?Did you go to a specific folder?

When America became independent In my game I immediately took out the nation as Great Britain. I sent gifts so they are happy with me but apparently America’s just a dick. I couldn’t let the war happen all over again. I was the one being reasonable now. Oh and if you read through the whole paragraph sorry😅

The one thing that fucked this game. Is knocking countries out of Europe destroys faction. Making France and Spain easy to defeat.

Get the Darthmod for this game , it makes this somewhat broken product quite awesome . It is free available. check it out. the battles are far more immersive.

what does the captain in intro say?

Hello, I'm a new viewer of your channel. Do you play any mods for Empire Total War? Imperial Splendour? I've tried it, and really like it.

This may be a noob thing to ask but how do you save? And quit the game, get off the game screen? Hope you or someone can help Cheers Great vids

I invaded france,took me 10 years in-game due to french resistance.

YESSS

I love my Swedish Empire

How do you make the end turns go so fast? plz help

I have empire but could never get into it, so wanted to see how is done, hence why I'm here.

Ennnglannnd ohhhhh eeeengalanddd...

How do you avoid lag after the game progresses?

Long live the British empire!

Petition for a mobile version A: Yes B:YESSS! C: A and B

I really wish naval battles hadn't been dropped in Warhammer because it would have been awesome to have dragons flying around over the seas burning enemy ships while arhcers shoot at them from the ships it would just have been awesome such a shame they weren't in Warhammer. On another note yay empire total war

YES! Im the 1,000 like

Omg wow

You sound like Henry from kingdom come deliverance lol

How to dowload this game?😊😊

I'm late but try the Darthmod. Improves the game significantly

Can't believe you have not used Darth mod ! Makes empire truly great

i bought this game 3 years ago and never played. is it worth playing?

WAIT WAIT 12:15 what you say is that u was born in a dockyard ? omg

1337 !

would be cool to never conquer any major factions home territories, could attack France in late game, take Paris but give it back, dont destroy the faction, only have proxy wars around the world so you always have strong enemies and never just boringly steamroll, also invading small territories like the crimean war or temporarily capture port settlements to force countries to pay you the big bucks for you to leave or smaller personnel objectives would be cool to see, introduce some nice story

What I would like to see is a new total war game something like this but with modern tanks, planes, ships, and troopers

It's because your asking for money

i wanted to see some fighting!! :(

Long live the spanish empire