Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion Tip - How to Prevent Enemies Forming Hordes 

I've done this before but I captured the settlement after killing all three family members inside, thanks for the tip

My man, thank you. Sick of fighting 4 stacked units right after

Its like breaking something and leaving it for the next person to fix, creating more hordes to cause havoc is awesome lol

Love your channel man. Thank you! Great new video as well

I just started to put my western Roman Empire together on the 4th try and things were looking good but then a horde came I freaked out and I set up defenses on the side there coming from but to my surprise they walked right by the garrison and attacked Rome but failed then there was one major army left and 2 smaller ones and they marched to France and conquered a small city. Then I destroyed that city 20 turns later then another horde appeared beside the city I freaked out then they marched for Spain and conquered a rebel city and built 2 full stacks somehow they attacked the 2 closest settlements of my empire and failed now I’m trying to do this thing this vid is telling me I hope it works

That's helpful. I was replaying this game and playing a Hun campaign and captured Constantinople along with the rest of the Balkans when the AI decided killing the same factions over and over would justify spamming like 2-3 hordes over and over. It seems even if you work on killing them asap., they sometimes still can snatch a settlement from another AI faction, which makes this mechanic really annoying, it becomes a never ending cycle if you can't effectively kill all their stacks in a few turns. It somehow emulates the way hordes migrated during the Hunnic invasions irl. because sometimes those hordes decide to just take a neighboring settlement and leave yours alone entirely. But the really annoying thing, you need to focus on killing off factions separately solely because of this one mechanic, even if your economy would allow for taking on several factions and expand faster if it wasn't for the endless horde spawns. Imo. Total War: Attila got better gameplay mechanics regarding nomadic factions even though Rome 2 wasn't the best Rome all-around.

Thank you, I’ll use this in my next game for sure

Thanks for the upload

Thanks for tips dude. I have suffered a lot from Huns. And last time I survived only doing cheating. Auto_win attacker/defender. Thank you again.

taking down hordes is quite easy with a few spearmen and/or heavy infantry (+ at least one heavy cavalry is good for taking down enemy morale with charge but not required if not severely outnumbered). dont defend the walls, just chokepoints on the streets. 6-7 units total should be enough against 3 full stacks if the composition is right, at least with both roman factions. with huns however should protect the walls as their infantry sucks and they have too much heavy cavalry.

Man,i got this exact scenarios after playing the hun and annihilating a Frankish settlement and they got horde 😂

What if you finish the same battle on the same turn after killing all their family members on the field?

Nice

It's called Regicide

Does this work in remastered?

I can't believe there isn't a mod which removes the horde mechanics to this day. Worst TW mechanic ever

lol this is an exploit

AKA regicide

Is this fixed in remastered or something? I tried this 4 times now and all times the general was the last 1 standing, starting to feel like the general can't die unless he's last if it's their last citu