Rome: Total War - Part 6 - Chaos in the Mediterranean 

New drinking game: Take a shot every time John says "Flipping" "Marvelous" or "High ground" RIP livers

I literally jumped up in joy when I saw the thumbnail. Jon, good series. bloody hood series.

Such a bingeable series, I love it!

Never played Total War (Civ fan since version 1.0), but this is kind of bittersweet for me to watch - it looks like an awesome game, but this is exactly the kinds of functionality I've always wished Civ could have. Always wanted to storm the enemy personally - not watching from the stratosphere. Anyone else remember Nobunaga's Ambition? Like a more primitive version of Total War.... loved it too.

In my SPQR campaign, the Macedonians and the Greeks (with their Roman family allies) did the exact opposite of what happened here: the Greeks attacked me, allied with the Roman families that I started a civil war with, and attacked the Macedonians. I counter-invaded, but it was a bloody one with the loss of Augustus Claudius, a man who did not live up to his title.

when are you gonna upload more?

And thus, Ping-Pong was invented by the Brutii. Greek boat ping-pong.

Thursday's are bittersweet for me now. On one hand, I get another episode of this. On the other, I have to wait until next Tuesday for another episode

I wonder if the tedius speaker gives boring speeches in battle?

10:21 All roads lead to Rome, just not past the Julii.

It just occurs to me why it takes two turns to train the war dogs and only one turn for infantry. As you said you only have the handlers take population from the city... the time is spent breeding and training the dogs. Make sense that it takes about a year to breed and train that many dogs!

What. Accept or we'll attack. Please do not attack. E_E I had a brain fart when I read that and had to pause the video.

You probably already know this, but if yo hit DEL while you have a ranged unit selected, your camera follows one o their missiles from every volley fired.

Jon! When constructing watchtowers along roadways, the ideal placement is adjacent to your roads rather than directly on them. This is because rebel factions like to occupy watchtowers, and if they do so to a tower *on* the road they will also block trade along that road. A road-adjacent tower draws them away from your trade arteries, minimizing economic damage until you can move troops to deal with them.

I played a ton of Rome back in the day and this series is teaching me new stuff that I never knew about.

The greeks have an admiral named Odysseus XD

@26:48 [Macedon Pikeman] "Ha! Those losers are burning their own arrows! Oh -"

Many A True Nerd is like urinating. It happens every day, yet you're utterly surprised when it happens, and you feel a warm sense of being pleased when it's over.

You may want to speed up your invasion of Greece and Macedonia, the scipii tend to go after Greece if they don't make any headway in Sicily

Greeks gone, Carthage shows up #Roman_Problems

I really like Rome Remastered, but watching this it's rather disappointing to see how much Cretan archers (and foot archers in general) have been nerfed. In the original Rome they were devestating - 20 downed in one volley - but in the remaster they barely cause much damage. You'd be lucky to get 5 in one volley.

War dogs are great for chasing down fleeing units. Especially if you're lacking enough cavalry to chase off enough of them

I love how you talk about the game mechanics in your letsplay. I have learned many things I didn't know about this game.

give up Macedonians! MATN has the high ground!

This is a great series!

Romans can convert a Gaul God and upgrade the shrine until it gives cavalry trained there +5 experience. please respond to this

i know this video is crazy old, but i have to say it still makes sense the hates farmers guy got that trait. he started in a province with terrible farming and got the first level of the trait that he doesnt care about farming at all, then he was sent to the agricultural center of the empire to manage it and being constantly forced to deal with farming which he doesnt care about drove him to a hatred of the farmers he had to deal with.

Wait how is Bzyantium a city? this is still before the Roman empire formed.....

This series is fantastic. I can tell you really have a passion for this game, and it makes it very entertaining. Keep it up!

Played this game when I was 13. Watching you play this gives me a new found appreciation of how much thought and work went into this game. Only $10 on steam right now guys, good buy.

Seriously, the traits system was one of my favourite things about this game. They could have done so much with it in the later Total War game.

I've been playing Rome Toatl War since I was 10 and I've watched many campaign play throughs but none as enjoyable as this. Keep up the great work.

Jon, what would you say is the best European Country the in the game?

the best youtube channel hands down no questions except maybe nerdcubed.

Possibly my favorite series on RU-vid right now, always excited when I see the notification. MATN kicking ass and taking names this episode.

Using war dogs to ride them down is very effective in rome 2 so I imagine it would be here too

Can we get to see a player controlled sea battle at some point, or will they all be auto-resolved?

Release the hounds! I see them as one shot heavy missile troops, with the bonus of automatically chasing down routers.

You can build the Govenors palace and drag it to the left of whatever you're currently building without loosing the turns that are already built. One could argue that building the palace is more important than anything else. Thank you for a great series! :)

A little note: The actual chaos begins at 23:12, if you're here for the battles.

Game is Half Price on Steam right now.

In case you didnt know, your generals can pick up the trait "tedious speaker" if you skip their battle speeches

Jon, I know you may know this, but a small tip that I think you may have overlooked (probably for RU-vid reasons) The Hoplites can be turned off from Phalanx mode If you hit space while in the Campaign map, everything will speed up I know you may know this, but just putting it out just in case you have forgotten.

Hey mate. Do you know about switching retinue from leader to leader? If leaders are in the same city (not sure about in the same field army) You can drag a retinue member from one leader to another. It's a GREAT way to keep the retinue around, for example if your faction leader is like 68 you can start giving away his retinue so you don't lose all those great bonus's when he dies of old age. It's also a great way to build "super" administrators, or super generals. It's a bit cheap of course. Not sure if you knew about it and didn't approve, or just didn't know about it.

1 person dies in a pretty big battle why is that not a famous battle

Attack the Greeks then Thrace then Dacia then Gaul then all of you allies,you have basically won the campaign.

I always loved the way general traits were based on what they were doing too, but then you had a bunch of whiny ass "hardcore" people crying that their general got a bad trait once, and that's how we ended up with the Rome II (and maybe Shogun II I forgot) system.

Man this is my favorite series of yours, even convinced me to buy the game when I get the money.

How do you get the massive unit scale? I would like to play with it ;-;

That 15:36 diplomatic exchange always confused me every time I play RTW lol.

‘Retrain half of the boat’ -john 2017 or 16 idk it’s 2018 now

I seem to remember taking both a population hit and damage to my army from etna blowing. This was over ten years ago but i thought for sure that happened cuz I went from ready to build a government palace back to like 4 k population

Remember when you talked about how awesome Segestica was? Well, this is why Brutii never follow this path: go past Salona, and you have to over-extend yourself in order to protect your settlements. Go after Greece strategically, or perhaps hop down to an unguarded Rhodes or Sparta, and you can more easily concentrate your forces, and then post-Greek unification you're at a much stronger economy. I find the Greek route to be faster than getting involved North past Salona

You got no mercy with those archers XD btw is better for the general to participate the fight so he gains very good traits very fast

What also makes a big change to land trade and also farm devastation are the small rebel units stood there quietly

God MATN I need more of this series it's definitely my favourite series you make

are you playing the steam version?

These are the best videos on youtube right now. Also, merry christmas mr nerd :)

Wow that last battle was ridiculous.

every time you say "Hastati", I just hear "Astartes" and I think your troops are gonna mow down the macedonians with storm bolters.

FYI for your next playthrough, ALWAYS USE WARDOGS! They only take casualties if their HUMAN HANDLERS get killed in combat. The Dogs are just fodder for the battle. You will see your Wardog unit numbers go down in combat as the dogs are slain but as long as no handlers die, you will be at 192 again right after the battle. Therefore, they are amazing for things like stopping the general's heavy cavalry charge in it's tracks, breaking critical units without engaging them, hunting down annoying ranged units without exposing your cavalry, and best of all, massacring fleeing units so the army routes after the battle.

Reposting this hoping that you see it Found this series and this channel this moring, it's 2 P.M. and I just had a Rome: Total War marathon despite having played it for hundreds of hours (I usually don't watch videos of games that I played myself)...that shows how entertaining you are, great work! I even learned things I had no idea about, like disbanding units to move population and a bunch of other strategies

It amazes me you still haven't played Mount and Blade on the channel yet. I know you're most likely gonna play M&B2 Bannerlord on here, but will you do a series on it? If you even play it?

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I was about 10 turns in I had taken apollonia and Salona heading toward segestica when Greece attacked apollonia with a 3/4 stack army. I managed to fend that off but immediately after the battle another battle started(at same city) with another almost full stack army. This game cheats on very hard.(sooo.....I may have cheated a bit to, even the odds you know)

I need more of this Jon, please

Jon, use your dogs, if the handlers don't get hurt, the dogs will regenerate directly after battle en they make peltats break easily and can save up your hastati

Do more rimworld for the next strategy series's

Just finished downloading my copy of Astroneer, but most certainly have to watch this before hopping in. =)

i spent the last two weeks watching your videos instead of studying for exams and i still passed them

John, you should do another Rome 1 playthrough where you assassinate all other Roman rivals without starting the civil war. This amounts to a lockdown on all senatorial offices for your faction, making your commanders incredibly sexxy.

I know this comment is late, and I wouldn 't normally criticise except you said you were going to kick the games ass 1. Rebels or enemies on roads stop trade. You let Rebels gut Tarentums trade for how long? 2. Garrisons are worth building. Keeping high upkeep mercenaries as perma-garrisons, wtf? Use peasant garrisons to boost public order in safe locations. A small number of strong units on a plaza can hold off very huge armies as they are unbreakable. They can move between towns as-needed. 3. You have a massive treasury, and population issues. You should be buying every mercenary unit available. All can be useful. 4. Watchtowers in Southern Italy. Rebels often pop-up there and mess with land trade. 5. You keep saying, 'I need to be careful,' when what you mean is, 'I hope the AI doesn't exploit the holes in my strategy.' (i.e Greeks besiege Southern Italy where you had six turns to train/ship troops and hire mercenaries to force them out) 6. All spears have a bonus vs. cavalry (check the code,the listed bonus for 'long,' spears is just better) 7. War dogs are worthless unless you need to pin fast cavalry or kill weak skirmishers/artillery

If I recall correctly (been a number of years since I played Rome), isn't it possible if you have 2 or more generals/family members in the same settlement or fort, you can swap Retinue loadouts between them..... Simply hold down left click on a Retinue icon then drag and drop it on the avatar of another general within the same settlement. Although its not possible with some Retinue if I recall, but still very useful for tweaking faction members, if looking to boost generals/administrators effectiveness.

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Would Syracuse not be pronounced si-ra-cues, not sigh-ra-cues like Syria is pronounced si-ree-ah? This is slightly annoying me and I just want to know.

Cretan archers are completely broken. You might as well give your troops repeating rifles. Does make it a lot easier to play on very hard battle mode. You just cheat the cheater. Pretty mindless though. Reminds me of the English longbowmen in Civ 5 with the same range as field artillery who could just fire arrows into a city from the next province until every last garrison soldier was dead.

I MANAGED TO MESS UP THE DATE. I AM VERY PLEASANTLY SURPRISED. YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

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How to defend croton: Leave the place. If they attack give up because croton is absolute shit. If they just go away get the place back.

will you ever play warhammer total war again?

John please to Warhammer: total war (the orininal one (the mod for Rome: total war)) series !!!

he has a face reveal in his first ever video!!!

The giant pile of corpses is just LUVV_LEE

huh. my number one use for the dogs is hunting down routed enemies. why didn't you use them?

this is by far one of my favourite series so far and I have loved most of what you make 10/10 would peltas again

The Rebel force near your capital really annoys me for some reason.

why dont you want to use the wardogs, dead dogs doesnt count as a loss at the grand map for repairs

Suggestion--you know about history, right? So... next time you do a Rome: Total War series, or something similar, can you teach us what you know? It's so much nicer hearing it from somebody who likes history than reading it from a dry textbook.

Oddly enough, Wardogs actually carried my Greek - Macedon Invasion campaign and Aulus Brutus and Tiberius trains alot of them when you automanage the recruitment

You know what I think would make a good Total War game? Dragon Age, like the first big battle in the beginning with the Kings army and the Darkspawn just really reminded me of some of the Total War battles I've seen on here, I mean the King's Army had sloppier strategy than Jon but still.

Will there be another Rome Total War playthrough on your channel someday? Maybe something more crazy and difficult with a mod.

I know this is an old video, but with sea combat, if there is a ship unit that you just need to die, you can break your fleet up into multiple units and surround them on all 8 sides, preventing them from running away. Or, failing that, create a blockade connected to the land that prevents them from escaping. Just remember that even a slight gap (Even a diagonal between two ships) can allow them to get through. It's more of a late game tactic, for when you can afford the maintenance cost for enough biremes to literally start clogging up the sea, but it's totally worth it!

This series is the most horrifying piece of torture you have ever produced. I mean, honestly, 5 days , including a weekend, to wait for the next episode is an outrage! *turns off entitled youtube-viewer-mode* Good work and thank you for this series and triggering all the happy memories I had on this game.

Does anybody recommend buying and experiencing Rome Total War _before_ watching this series? Watching Jon do his thing is fun but it'd be a bummer if it also spoiled the game for me ^~^

Fucking loving this LP! "16 years old, and already apparently catastrophically ugly". That cracked me up so bad

Don't forget about the Greek army at the bottom of the bottom of Greece. Also can I do this on a Saturday or Sunday pls it's a long time to wait for it after Thursday. Keep it up.:)

I'm not sure if you know this, but you can move members of the retinue I believe. i can't remember if it was true in Rome or if it was medieval. I think that if you have two general's in the same place you can exchange the little face cards by pulling up the person you want and dragging the trait to the other character's portrait. I do believe this has to be done in the field.

I have a question for anybody. For some reasons, when battles start, i cant position my army, the timer starts running automatically. Anyone know why?

Regarding archers and defence: I'm pretty sure the defence stat is irrelevant when counting damage done by archers, the only stat that matters is armor rating and shield if they're facing the archers, and the defence skill only affects melee combat, so optimally you'll want to shoot at lightly armored targets with high defence skill, like some of the northern barbarians

I think the reason Cornelius isn't picking up traits is that the battles are going too easy for him. In the battles in this video, he was never outnumbered of flanked by a reinforcing army. These fights were kind of like tossing javelins at fish in a barrel.