Rebels Faction & Campaign Guide - Rome Total War 

Due praise is given to my Cretan Archers... I commend you on this!

If you don't understand why the settlements flipped culture, READ THIS: Every army and settlement belong to a culture. When playing as the Rebels, if you want to change a settlement's culture, you need to do 2 things: 1. Take all the units out of the settlement (so that it is empty). 2. Place an army in the settlement(can be one unit) belonging to a different culture. The settlement will change its culture to the army's culture and next turn you will be able to train units from that settlement. THIS WORKS WITH EVERY SETTLEMENT. What this means is that you can make use of barbarian settlements by converting them to more useful cultures like Greek or Macedonian which can train units. For instance: in southern Gaul, you have 2 settlements: Massilia and Lugdunum. One is Greek, the other is Barbarian. If you empty Lugdunum of its army and place a unit from Massilia(which is of Greek culture), next turn Lugdunum will be Greek, and you will be able to recruit militia hoplites from Lugdunum( which starts with a Militia Barracks). This way you can more easily defend southern Gaul from the Gauls by having two settlements recruiting units. Some tips: Every settlement you conquer will have the culture of the army that took it. Every unit built in a settlement will have the same culture as that settlement. When merging two armies belonging to different cultures, by selecting the 1st army and placing it onto the 2nd, all the units will belong to the 2nd army's culture. The number of units doesn't matter.

Great guide! Also I’ve never seen those judean zealots! That’s so cool to see something like that after all this time.

Fantastic work! This is so much more carefully put together than some other faction guides I've seen. Your attention to detail and touch of humour is a good mix. :)

Awesome faction. Great guide. Continue the great work 🐙💪😁

Great guide, awesome Faction; I tried this campaign years ago, but got to a stalemate wherein I could not really get out of Anatolia ...

SOOOO Much better than Lugotorix's rebel guide. There I said it!

Great stuff - An eloquently delivered guide. it really pulls together so many of the little snippets of detail you have discovered whilst playing through your series.

This is the REAL Warriors of Chaos Campaign.

Cool.... I wonder if there's a way to unlock the barbarian units by modding the game files

It is good to have a guide where someone isn't just reading the specs of which troups and is actually showing them in battle :)

Quality content! Rebels really are a unique campaign!

you pretty clearly changed the culture of many cities. athens for example is greek not macedonion. you probably changed the culture by accident by putting units of a different culture into them. i can see how you conquered greece and italy with macedonian militia hoplites while you used greek hoplites for asia minor.

I must assume you got this idea from Lugotorix, who in turn got the idea from me (I've spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours playing Rebel Campaigns) and seeing a youtuber other than Lugo review the Rebels makes me beyond elated. By the way, the Han Empire for TK is the equivalent of the Rebels. Otherwise, sadly, they stopped doing rebels as a unlockable faction post Med-2. Some notes: The ultimate army that I've put together, if you could call it that, of recruitable units (not counting mercs) would be 10-12 Hoplites from western Anatolia, 2/4 Iberian Infantry for flanking, 4 horse archers and 2 Heavy Peltasts. Also, you've got no idea how much time I spent sending full stacks of 16 militia hoplites and 4 peltasts at all kinds of opponents. You learn to love low-tier units like axemen or levy pikemen. You know, units that break in a light gale as opposed to a simple sneeze. Units that can actually win against other units. Jokes aside, there is a amazing strategy for militia hoplites. Group 'em up in two lines back to back, phalanx down, march first line in, they get slaughtered or win, second line marches in PRESSING FIRST LINE INTO ENEMY PIKES a thousand corpses later and you've won.

If you bribe another faction does the money go to that faction?

5:34 Nobody going to talk about how the governor’s name is Aaron

You can overwelm armies if you get 3-4 armies on the same province, barbarians cities are the first to take, they are weak units, usually auto resolve goes against you, believe me the units can actually win, dont waste your time fighting just auto win, theres also a limit to how many rebels can be in the map.

Does playing as the rebels confuse the A.I.?

my favorite campaign. its so desperate and epic because basically every turn is a last stand

Thnx a lot! Your guides return me to rtw with new energy of ruler

A thought on unit recruitment. Is the problem that in the descr_buildings file, the rebels can have all the various barracks, but there are no units assigned to them under the buildings? By extension, would adding "slave" in after the various units then make them playable? Might be more complicated than that, but surely if the units are already available in custom battle and have unit icons, it is just a case of adding them to the buildings lists?

Don't suppose anyone's made a mod that would let you recruit further troops in certain cities adjacent to original faction culture, for example nobles in scythia ect....

can you do it on iPhone can anyone tell me how?

So did you ever figure out a consistent way to change culture?

brilliant guide, thanks for making it!