As he's been explaining, those settlements on the modern Dalmatian and Albanian coasts are much richer than you'd think; example - Segestica(or was it Salona), with two gold mines...
@@truthseeker-heyoka: Do you have the slightest damn clue how expensive shit gets later on? Just as an example, a third or fourth tier palaces/government buildings are 4,800 denarii by themselves. Most other buildings of that tier cost the same.
Hellenic factions are also much stronger than germanic factions. Rather than the brutii being the 'best' roman faction, it's more a case of trade-offs. The julii in my opinion are the 'best', when you consider their campaign objectives. This is simply because their unit quality is far superior to that of their enemies. This is the case for the scipii as well, but not to the same extent. For the brutii, their unit quality certainly isn't superior to that of greece. Hoplites are very, very good and greece starts recruiting them very early. If I have to phrase it differently; greece and macedon have superior early-game armies vs gaul and carthage. Julii are the best by virue of having the weakest main opponent of the three roman factions.
That speech when engaging the Gauls reminded me of Suetonius's speech to his soldiers before the Battle of Watling Street (As reported by Tacitus) "Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. They are not soldiers-they're not even properly equipped. We've beaten them before and when they see our weapons and feel our spirit, they'll crack. Stick together. Throw the javelins, then push forward: knock them down with your shields and finish them off with your swords. Forget about plunder. Just win and you'll have everything."
I was watching when John said "reinforcements never come from the north, we should be fine" (1000 hours of experience tells him so). I immediately think, wouldn't it be funny if they did come from there? 2 seconds later John says "what is this? Reinforcements from the north!?!?" HA :) Great stuff! - good to see the game can still keep him on his toes after all this time.
It's probably a tactical error - it would be potentially wiser to just leave them there as long as possible if they refuse to start the war themselves, but I'd rather make sure I get Patavium, because it's a ludicrously great city.
You can trade ancillaries and it really can be quite important to do so. You simply merge the generals into the same stack, open up the char sheet of the general with the ancillary and drag the ancillary over the portrait of the receiving general's unit card. It doesn't always take first time due the vagaries of RTW 1 so sometimes you have to try two or three times to actually transfer the ancillary.
Been playing a bit of this myself as the Skips. Britain has invaded and destroyed the Germans, I've taken over Carthage and Spain, and the other two families are stuck on the starting blocks thanks to huge numbers of Brits and Macedonians
I love Britain and Germany in Rome 1, because the computer seems to think that Britain does well vs Germany - then you watch any fight between them, and chariot meets German phalanx, and Britain's dead.
Oh indeed. Whenever I play as the Germans, it is mass spearmen stuck into defensive circles to ward off cavalry, then berzerkers to hold and, hopefully, crack enemy infantry. Backed up, as always, by whatever ranged units I can get my hands on. Funny thing is, in this game I tried to do what you did and, after taking Sicily, rushed for those gold mines. One turn after the Brits showed up in force, kicked my arse, then offered peace.
I learned recently that in the original battle outside of Carthage between Scipio and Hannibal, the Carthaginians lost 20,000 men, and had another 20,000 taken captive, while the Romans lost something silly like 150 men
Gorbz Keep in mind that it is the Roman historians that created the statistics for most battles. It could have been possible that they always exaggerated enemy numbers and casualties.
12:00 actually, enemy spies also make your spies' missions harder. You can deploy spies as counter counterspies in your own cities if enemy agents are causing unrest (spies produce Unrest, in proportion to their skill).
If you play the Julii your Senate mission after taking Segesta is actually to take the settlement on Sardinia. I believe the faction AI prioritizes targets in a similar manner to the order of the Senate missions.
It likes Carthage blockade to, which with spy and Carthaginian forces drawn off, can give Julii chance to grab the Scipii long term target city I have evolved to grabbing Marsilla-Palma-Caralis and Salona-Segestica as Julii, which fixes money worries, allowing a flexible expansion, paralysing Gaul/Carthage economy.
Yeah, provided you studied for the test already, overworking yourself on the last day just hurts you. If you haven't, studying now isn't gonna change much anyway. Last day is always there for just non strenuous repetition to me.
I know lol That was 2 years ago, since then i've: stopped going to uni, started and stopped 5 different jobs in different areas, had 2 proper relationships, bought and sold 2 cars and that's all the big things That's kinda mad all that's happened, I should be doing more I don't do enough Also i've seen this series like twice lol JS two years is a long time why would you bother haha It's been long enough that I don't even watch matn anymore Too popular too formulaic
Jon, this was the series that got me into your channel and through a tough freshman year. Now I've come back 5 years later to play through Medieval II and needed some background content. Godspeed, man, Godspeed. Love your work. Keep making great things.
Because of you, I started up Total War again, playing for the first time as the Brutii. Conquered the rebel states and I've been focusing on gold income and hiring mercenaries left and right. Was leaving the Greeks alone but they went and took Apollonia from me while I was conquering Segestica. Finished with Segestica, retook Apollonia and grabbed Thermon from them in a major pitched battle. Then sailed off to take Sparta from them (and forgot to select my general so Sparta actually fell to a large army commanded by only a captain), and Macedonia decided to besiege Thermon with a huge force. Had just a few infantry and missiles in the city but a general with two units of Equites, and one unit of Equites as reinforcements outside the city. Sent the cavalry out the side gate and managed to overrun their isolated general, then smash into the back of one mob of hoplites after another as my few infantry valiantly held their ground at the wall breaches. Did not expect to win that, but cavalry against missile units and the backs of immobilized hoplites is totally OP :D Next turn the Gauls whom I'd been leaving alone suddenly decide to besiege my port, so I ended up conquering Patavium and Mediolanium before convincing them to agree to a ceasefire (after also bribing Spain to start attacking them). Meanwhile, massive battle outside Apollonia with two of my armies against two Macedonian armies, more than 70 units on the field. Smashed them and killed two faction leaders, my Spartan army conquered Corinth after a long siege. The Senate went from happy I conquered Sparta for them to mad I didn't conquer Athens (I was going to before Macedonia attacked me), and I'm averaging four or more fleet battles a turn because the Greeks and Corinthians crank out ships like nobody's business and keep flinging them at my veteran crews. My admirals have so many command stars it isn't funny :D
I've played a badly translated version of this game once, and one of the Scythian family members was named after the translator, apparently xD Leave your trace in the game, so to say.
Please God no. It's not a bad game but but it takes ages to get interesting. For the first however many hours it's just a lackluster rpg, then it's a mechanically flawed rts for the next 60.
No Thanks i said he should try it but youre right.its a very fun but flawed game just thought he might enjoy it because i saw those warbands and i was like...hmm he might enjoy that game.
Yeah Its fun in its way but in the context of producing content... It does not lend itself. Like I would love to see some big name rpg's impliment some of it's ideas. But I don't think making it a series would be good for the channel.
Eh, lol I'm kinda hoping he does a stellaris run now that Kennedy and leviathans has dropped. There have been some serious improvements, and the end game crisis is no longer the only thing you need to worry about late game..
Yay, you pronounced velites correctly. (Not that I doubted you, but thought you might use the same incorrect pronunciation the game uses). Also, Waynnee Weedee Weekee! Any other pronunciation is just... Vulgar.
Jon I know this is probably going to get lost or ignored but if you do see this please give us another episode 2 a week is just not enough. I even tried looking for another Rome total war let's play but non are as good as you. We need more
Just bought Rome because of this playthrough, the only thing preventing me from diving right in is the control scheme. I have it set to FPS style, so I can use WASD, but other than that, the camera is completely alien compared to news Total War. Anybody have any tips to make the controls more comfortable?
Just change the keys to what you're used to. Cam height up/down is essential in the German forests or your army fights blind. But be careful, you don't lose hot key abilities, sometimes I want to withdraw units with W, ammo out or unwanted reinforcements from a town garrison for example.
Aulus Brutus always become a decorated hero and a really good commander in every of my playthrough, and with the recent one, he became the leader, lived about 90 years and fought the Greek from his youth til death, and even helped crush Macedon without losing a single battle. Gotta love the guy tbh
It is fascinating how much you're into this and how much you know. I think I've played hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours of Rome, and I'm now learning things about the game from watching this series
Actually Jon (hopefully you will go back and read this...) command stars are very powerful both in autoresolve and in manual battles in RTW 1. They are known to increase the stats and morale of every unit in the army within a certain radius of the general and increase the command radius of the general. I believe it also applies to the general's bodyguard as well. It's less clear exactly what the boni are and there are various research and speculation threads discussing that online.
I know this is an odd one, but hoping someone will be ale to help: Despite having a half decent pc that can run most modern games comfortably, why does Rome lag for me like something rotten? Is it a common problem? Is it just that it's too old for my PC? Is there some sort of fix? It's utterly baffled me. Any advice is appreciated. :)
I love how the fights are significantly more realistic than in other RTS games. Not just the breaking, but watching the units form up, charge, run, reform, harass, retreat, etc...
Mod Kate As far I know, the Gauls were descendent of the Celtic culture of the British isles, whom crossed the channel and settled the southern lands and had the misfortune of living in the area Julius Caesar wanted to take on his way to the seat of absolute power. Mostly tribal with settled tribes, similar to cities, and would've been able to crush Rome if they had organised themselves due to their sheer numbers. However, do not take this as fact, as I could be mistaken.
I've beenn following this campaign the last few weeks and enjoy your commentary. Lots of info all clearly narrated. You literally never stop talking yet I don't tire of listening to you. I too love RTW which I played for years when it came out back in 2003, including a lot of online MP (although I've been playing M2TW the past few years) yet I find that I am still learning new tips and tricks from you! The only thing I dislike is the annoying way you overuse the word "guys". My guys, your guys, these guys, those guys, some guys, more guys, less guys, many guys, few guys, good guys, bad guys, strong guys, weak guys, guys, guys, guys... What's wrong with using pronouns? Me, You, They, Them, Those etc. Or call them "men"... Aside from this, excellent presentation and decent game knowledge. Please keep up the good work!
Knightcommander When he said something along the lines of two episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays I thought this is what he meant. Two and two. Now I'm saddened. This definitely needs to happen.
Jon, are u running it on W10? i cant seem to get it running even with www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?696391-Updated-Making-RTW-or-RTW-Gold-work-on-windows10-FIX Do you have any suggestions?
Jesper Fabian Bon i have the same problem with enb series on skyrim and fallout 4, i may have to think of reverting to windows 7 because dx12 is not worth it
Frisbie147 just fixed it at this moment compatibilty at xp sp2 and run in admin now trying to fet 1440p to work *edit* fixed 1440p changed max res in prefrences txt file
Crash to desktop on Skyrim usually means you're missing a master file, I've got a bunch of mods, an enb, and windows 10 and my game runs fine besides the occasional crash
Someone's gotta tell me, is there a different connotation to "my own ___" in england? Jon will often use phrases like "my own guys" with emphasis implying that there is some extra meaning on top of the fact that he is contrasting his own units compared to the enemy. I'd love to know if this is just is a unique phrase in Jon's vocab, or if this has a more colloquial meaning in England
Just found a new top tier channel, great stuff, I should have been here 7 years ago lol, just got the game, already knee deep in Rebels and Unintentionally Greeks.....
Hey, just wanted to put a comment and say that this series so far has been brillient. Just got back into Romr total war after a 10 year break and this series catches me up whilst being very entertaining.
"el costo de rutina total de tus fuerzas armadas se divide segun el tamaño de los enclaves, esta es la cantidad que se paga aqui 2766....que significa??? como bajo ese gasto??? y la corrupcion se aminora NO poniendo gobernadores en ciudades lejanas??
you let your illyrians charge on a unit behind another unit...which cut them to pieces as their formation was broken and they werent fighting back. USE your GENERAL RALLY to RALLY your routing troops!!
I remember having this game years ago. Such a fun game & really my first RTS game I ever played. I sucked at this game so bad but always had a great time playing.
At 14:14 Jon gets a Senate Office Assignment and within all the years of playing RTW I still don't know what it is, so if someone reads the comment and knows what it is, I'd appreciate it! Thanks so much!
why purposefully fuck over the other Romans? makes the late game so easy its like playing on a different difficulty. Having an epic civil war is the reason the late game of Rome 1 is fun instead of mop up duty like most other Total Wars
The Unheard Voice Always used the Julii, never really found that worthwhile (I may be influenced by pirates sinking a large army of mine when I was young 😅)
42:34 Hello, yes, Gaul here. Just thought we'd let you know that we are *most* displeased with your decision to invade our lands and rule our populace. Have you no manners?
actually Greece usually declares war on me and I don't have a choice but to put the smack down on them. Admitfuly, they are pretty difficult to defeat compared to other factions like carthage and the barbarian factions but once defeated you make soooooooo much money.
Imo not taking on the Greeks is a mistake. The east side of the map has big, valuable cities and all the wonders, add the factions there are still weak, while Rome's early power is great thanks to hastati, and you want to snuff them out before they bring on the later tier hoplites
Dang I don’t think I have ever seen a general pick up a trait mid battle or an admiral get a retinue after a battle. Only after turn ends for the most part.
