I don't know if you read your comments section but I'd just like to tell you that you're honestly the most interesting, insightful and engaging total war channel I've come across. Blending your love of total war and the history of the period into an entertaining video. Awesome stuff.
I'm very happy because I've finally found someone who creates content to revive things historically to have fun like myself, rather than someone who tries to doomstack and play to win fast from now on, I am a strict follower of these series
Oh my golly. Signed up immediately especially for the historical waffle and the considered pace. Have to say though, that was the scrappiest battle I've seen in a while. Maybe keep it simple. Line 'em up and move 'em straight ahead.
To be fair, Gauls running everywhere miht keep AI disorganised too. I haven't played Rome2 for few years, but sending scout cav slightly to the left used to make whole enemy formation run in circles until exhaustion in every TW game.
43:36 Dave I love your content explicitly because of your narrative choice. Never apologies for making your content interesting. Have a good day if/when you read this!
Galacians are one of my favorite peoples of Antiquity. Their tale basically reads as RTW migration campaign: uproot your entire faction and move across half the known world to fight new enemies, rule new lands and get all of the denarii.
Loving this series, thank you! You've actually got me back into playing this again with DEI. Rome II was always one of my favorite CA games. The political/diplomatic systems were one of the better ones for their genre. I just wish the Family and character portions were just a tad deeper, and not so randomized. Even with their later additions of options, I feel like they were poorly thought out and really unnecessary, and they were just a worse version of what Crusader Kings established. But, I'm just nit picking at this point. Please keep this going! You are an amazing content creator. Thank you again.
I love everything about this. DeI stands as a pinnacle of total war to me. It encourages players to play as history did and it's fantastic. Also FYI, the buffs/debuffs for "senate" control are dependent on government type. The Rome default debuffs for tyranny are actually specific to the Republic government type, which favors political diversity. Government types such as Oligarchy, Kingdom, and Chiefdom go in the other direction and favor influential control. All factions can change their government type with money and meeting certain criteria, the options available are faction dependent. One of the many things that make me love how just a little tweaking adds amazing depth to the game.
Wow, that was a messy battle... TBF, the moment I saw the enemy sally out of their fort I knew you were in a tough spot but still... Pitty you couldn't get more close-up shots, but still, pretty interesting start for a playthrough. I do love the way you make a story for the game. Also: I do love the immage of the soldiers, battered and bruised, returning home drunk of victory and the commander assuring them it was all planned all along and everybody believes it just because everyone thinks this couldn't have been won if there was no plan, but honestly, no soldier can actually explain the plan when asked about it...
Im so fucking stoked for this. The Gauls were really the Normans of their time, migrating far and wide and making contact with every major culture in the vaste reach of the Mediterranean. While I'm more of a Persiaboo like our narrator, I greatly look forward to your foray into this Total War campaign.
Absolutely loved this. I clicked on the video title saying 'who?' in relation to the faction choice, and by the end of it was totally invested in the story that's forming and the Marco Polo style narrator. Can't wait for more!
This intro made me subscribe immediately. I don't even know how the rest of it went, just subbed after hearing of chad Lentulus. This is going to be a wild ride.
I love the way you play this game; it's pretty much how I would play it as well. No min-maxing and the like, just keeping things as realistic as possible in a game like this. I am so there for this let's play.
Dave this is the best rts/total war lets play I've seen in a long while. No power plays no speed running. Just fun in the name of narrative, historical accuracy and the rule of cool. feel like I'm being given an ancient history lesson by some mad history professor.
Small tip: when recruiting agents like spies and champions, you can view their stats before you buy them by mousing over the little gold emblem at the top right corner of their unit card. So excited for this let's play!
I really appreciate all the historical commentary and info, the slower pace is not a problem. Can't wait to see where this new series goes. Thanks for all the work you're putting into this!
Love to see more total war on this channel. Always liked watching videos like these. Tried to play it myself for the first time, but the game makes me anxious with its real time battles. That and my ADHD can’t keep up with managing units.
Bravo! You're such a talented storyteller, Dave. After the abortive Rome: Remastered Carthaginian campaign, I thought that was it for fun and interesting Total War empire building, and yet here we are. Nicely done!
Found your channel via the Fall of the Republic series, and I love your narrative style. Also wholeheartedly support playing to role as opposed to efficiency, more fun that way. Keep it up!
Good stuff bro, I definitely like your taking a slower more intricate approach to gameplay. It makes the battles feel for important and personal. Hope to see a lot more👍
Always loved your approach to games, Dave. While sometimes it differs to my own, the pacing is perfect. You have personable and constructive thoughts throughout as a bonus. Good stuff, mate 👍
man i played the orignal Rome Total war back before steam was a thing and logged probably hundreds of hours during my high school days, hearing some my favorite music in the background around 38:00 mins in makes me soooo nostalgic i may have to go play some... thanks for the great storyline and and as always fascinating tangents
Ai does get some minor economy cheats, but it’s mostly due to the AI getting bigger sum of cash at the start (to prevent them from being too passive). The downside is that they do not have a strategy for saving money so they will keep recruiting until they’re nearly bankrupt. This is less of an issue with larger factions, but smaller ones simply don’t have much else to spend on, so can pretty easily get 1-1,5 stacks if they get enough time.
I have been thinking of trying out this mod for years, but never got around to it. Your slow method of doing this will probably help in my decision making in that regard ^_^ Also I like a slow playthrough over a stressful elite experience any day! Looking forward to this one.
Awesome start to a new series! You could've offered to Pontos to join the war against Katpatuka, resulting in improving your relationship with Pontos. You can also start promoting certain characters which will improve their stats such as culture income, taxes paid of army upkeep
and many times reinforce the attack on the fortified stack. If they retreat but still can reinforce the town, then you have a straight main v main open field battle which if you win they get wiped
Honestly would love you to do just a history series or even start your own podcast. It's fun to hear you gush over this early history (a topic I love as well, but rarely get the time to delve into)
i loved this! the historical intro bit was amazing, the role-playing approach was great and the historical information was super interesting. i'd love to see more of these!
I really enjoy your slow and thoughtful playstyle and all the history is extremely interesting to me. I had no idea there were Gauls in modern day Turkey. :)
Absolutely awesome new series. Thank you for role playing it and including some history tidbits throughout. Looking forward to the next episode. Keep up the good work.
Loved this so much it finally drove me over the edge (along with the staggering 75% off on steam which helped among other things) to buy Rome 2! Really hope you crank these out fast cause I'm getting the feeling I'm gonna get latched onto this series quick, lmao. As always love the unique sort of narrative jive you got going at the start and am surprised more youtubers don't do that. Like you said in the video it'd be pretty funny if you said the battle advisor guy is the same as Lentulus and would fit the immersion pretty good.
As an Archaeologist and avid Total War player, this is the best series I've seen to date. I absolutely love classical history and I honestly didn't know about the gallic settlement in Galacia. So I'm learning a lot myself, and watching some great gameplay. Love it. Can't wait to see the rest of the series.
It’s the first time in my life I watch such a video. I thought videos with Rome gameplay were boring as hell. But look now I watch a 1 hour and 50 minutes of someones campaign! I love the man his voice and interesting inputs!
Marvelous production. Thanks for a very calm series stuffed with interesting historic snippets, comments, jibes and insight as well as going through a lot of things in detail. I have racked quite a few hundred hours of Rome 2 playtime and I stilled learned something new abut the politic system as you went through it! I also love RP-ish, non-perfect play-throughs any day of the week as I feel immersion is the thing that really carries TW titles. Well done - subscribed on the spot.
Great start! I love the history focus, role play, and storytelling. One small piece of advice though, there several moments during the battle where I felt you could have easily routed their ranged units with your cavalry, and then quickly turned around and charged their spearmen in the flank. Instead I felt like the enemy skirmishers were for the most part ignored and thus lead to more casualties and morale penalties for you
Hey Dave, I'm really excited for this playthrough! Have you ever considered fighting the battle off camera and then recording the playback of the battle? It would allow us to see more action but I understand if that would be too much of an editing headache.
First one of your videos I found 5 minutes in and I’m amazed at how much effort you put into the cinematics and voice over compared to other total war youtubers earned my sub already
