Rome Total War - The Best A.I. Faction? 

This had been requested before. It's now going to be really interesting to see how the AI does in the continuation of yesterday's New Rome Total War A.I. Only Campaign Series: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nla3cFRunkw.html

Parthia is definitely a meme - "Wealth flows through these lands" Proceeds in failing to pay the wages of their pyjama bois

Rebels should be legendary tier because they are invincible

The Seleucids literally don't do good in any of my games if I am not playing as them.

Brutti -all the wonders -start with large greek cities early on to take -rich greece, anatolia, syria and egypt of course they always win

Dacia is what I call a burnout faction: they conquer 6-7 territories and then get wiped out by Germania or Thrace.

I had one time where Gaul was able to successfully take most of barbarian Europe because the Romans were distracted by Greece and Carthage. Their later units are really good, foresters, nobles, and chosen swordsmen

Britannia is super overpowered. A faction with no cavalry or archers in their roster absolutely smashes Gaul and Germania. They have two advantages. They are on an island where they can safely replenish the troops and they are the chariots which are amazing in auto-resolve. The other is Egypt with their unlimited money and man power but that’s a bit more believable

You should do a medieval 2 one of these

Egypt: aka, a bloody Seleucid steam roller.

Julianus Vatinius smiles on you

I've honestly never heard a Yorkshire accent as strong as yours, it's beautiful

I’d say that romans and Egypt should be the highest tier with Brutii > Julii > Scipii > Egypt because they are the 4 that will take the rest of the world most of the time, but when it’s just those 4 left that’s the pecking order. I really disagree with implying that any other AI faction is better than the Romans but more than 9 times out of 10 they will win

Happy to help MELKOR

If the seleucid Empire keep 1 or 2 setlemants they start to make legions,catafracths,elite pikemans,companion cavalry and those beathufull Elephants and they become unstopeble. Sorry for My English i'm hispanic.

Julii win the early game due to fighting barbarians but then brutii win the long game by having taken wealthier and better developed lands. And then scipii loses at both comparatively but will still beat every non-Roman they face eventually

I don't see how Parthia could be a meme faction. From my experience they actually manage to take a few settelments from Selucids, particularly the one that holds hanging gardens. Not only they take a few regions, unlike numidians and SPQR, but they take a world wonder, which is not something every AI faction can do early game. Not only that, but the settelement they have near caspian sea is at the very edge of the map that's seperated by water and very difficult to get to, making them survive for quite a while. I'd say it's better then spanish, but worse then Carthage.

Macedon has a description but isn't playable. It works well and is fun.

Ah yes, my favourite historical tale of the ancient german empire in Egypt

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Doing a version of this with player controlled factions would be great

I've had so many games where the Greeks defeat the Brutii in the very early games pre-25 turns simply by killing their characters, I've seen brutii go from conquering all of macedonia to just get turned into rebels overnight because they just lose their characters so often.

Parthia is the ultimate god of all men the pajamas shall be remembered in history as the ultimate god troop

“Numidia: meme faction” 😂

The last 3 vids have been amazing

I've seen Greece become ridiculously powerful at times and actually challenge me sometimes.

However if be give Armenia the benefit of the doubt for his bad starting position, the Romans also had a natural "cheat" that plays on their favor: they are playing co-op and had their shoulders covered by 3 friends, not sure if its their skill/unit stats, or more their circumstances.

Interesting list. In my experience the Romans (Scipii the least) and the Egyptians are the only really successful ones. Britain and Germania can do well often. Macedon, Pontus and Thrace can occasionally do well. The rest do nothing of note

I start my campaign's by cheating and giving all the successor kingdoms and carthage 100k denari and sometimes giving them island or better located territories that still fit with their factions starting points...and you know what it makes the game fantastic(denari doesn't do much though) it changes the normal flow of a campaign and makes it unexpected..now normally only 1 roman faction gains power(Julii) and either macedon or greek cities become powerhouse and sometimes carthage becomes monster (Seleucids still die most times unless heavily given territory but sometimes they just become a monster) I've had end game times with basically only Scipii Macedon Seleucids and Germania controlling the whole map waging massive war and at that point my save file got corrupted but had a good fight against all of them before it was lost. So my advice try doing something like this and dont use cheats to get ahead yourself just make the game tough and competive because ultimately only the phalanx factions give a great fight.

Parthia in the hand of an human is insane. Best cav in the game and glorious pink pijamas

tbh i think egypt should be fez tier they take the intire middle east and north africa 90% of the time

Can you do one for Attila?

Selucids should had been in Great Tier and Egypt should had been bumped to Fez Tier otherwise good list

Actually I did see Numidian take out mainland Africa Carthage but they where stopped at the border of siwa and then lost lepsig magna to Egypt and it went to shit from there

Macadon is my favorite faction but when the AI plays then they are the worst

You should do one for BI and MTW2 and all its dlcs.

If Greece AI knew how to use choke points, they would conquer the world

Parthia is a meme faction that also has the ONE, the LEGEND, the PAJAMAS WARRIORS, the ultimate meme thing in RTW

Do this for medieval TW. Cheers

SPQR isn't entirely passive. If you at war with them and you have an army in an area of their allies within reach of their army, they will probably attack. They also attack enemies im Latium itself, of course. They will never conquer anything, however. It's right not to rank them because their behavious is scripted.

In my campaign, Thrace conquered all of Greece and much of the upper Balkans. They crumpled when faced with the Brutii and my forces at the same time though

the thing about the Greeks is that IF they survive to midgame they'll roll Egypt. Egypt autoresolve is very strong vs. almost everyone but their chariots and omnipresent pharoah's archers are countered by armored hoplite spam. I've seen this a couple of times.

Numidia... nay, Numeme! Ah, well... *goes into hiding*

In my games in remastered with factions that doesn't change their game plan like Parthia or seleucids i usually see numidia take carthage

Is there a plausible explanation as to why Seleucids can only succeed if the player isn't playing?

Pontus is a good one. Either they or the Egyptian take over to ME due to Pontus spice road or Egypt starting position. The flaw in the AI is with chariots. All you need do is add one unit of chariots to any army of decent size and it wins. You can have 10 units of peasants with two chariots and beat just about any non-chariot army on AI. Even an army of 10 hoplites which in on the field takes a lot of stupidity to lose.

Good idea 😉

Funny enough..in my hard campaign with Parthia when i allied with the Britons against the romans, hispania which survived until late game allied with the Julii and actually started beating the crap out of Britania, getting up to 15 settlements..so i guess they can have good campaigns.

Where would you put Rome:tw remasterd? :D

I would say Carthage is a meme faction because their into narrator is crazy.

3:42 yeah Egypt do incredibly well in autorrsolve I had a full stack army of legionaries and lost to 5 units of Egyptian chariots

i have a dumb question about 100 turns in my troops kimda changed like the asthetcs of them and name of them whats that about

Bruh, Egypt as great, not Fez? In all my campaign Egypt conquers all of the Middle East, Turkey, and even part of Scythia lol.

Is there no way to mod the AI so it plays like a pro gamer as every fraction. That would be worth seeing.

only time seen numidia take territory is against carthage never seen them go against the scipii or the bronze age Egyptians

Still waiting for the notification

British headhurlers - what a unit!!

11:20 all you have to do to permanently block their expansion as the Julii or Brutii is capture Carthage within the early game. 14:51 >Does Nothing >Still better than Numidia

What does Fez mean?

Egypt definitely fez always expands. Gauls bad, too much fronts and they can't handle an actual fight. Armenia bad, sometimes lasts long although doesn't do anything especial and ultimately conquered by other powerful factions.

Egypt should be included into the best tier.

Macedon always does well in my campaign, always find there way to the top of Italy

britain gets alot of land for me

I thought Brutii is in the meme tier because I like to play Macedonia and the brutii never expand farther than Apolonia

Egyptian and Brutii aggression should be Fez. There's almost no way you won't deplete your manpower fighting or even containing them. I wouldn't put the Greeks and Macedonian at the same rank. Even when suffering from loss of far away colonies ( Pergamum and Syracuse ), they can held their own very well back in the ancestral homeland. They can thwart of Macedonians easily. Macedon's only saving grace is that it gets impossible alliance with the Brutii ( never works with player ). They are both pestered by Thracians to the North and Greeks to the South. They can only bully Thracians.

What fez means?

Noice

Can u do Rome 2 please

Good. But you seem bias with the British and blue rome should be top of good cause they never win but are more consistent.

0:53 Carthago Delenda Est!

You say that Dacia is just good ? *Sharpening falx*

I've literally never seen Egypt NOT get skullfucked by scipii.

Rebels should very well be S tier. My agrument for this is one word - SQUALOR!! Seriously. Squalor in this one is just a bitch. There is nothing you can really do about it once you have a huge city & the population gets too big other than either a) let the city revolt then exterminate it. or b) build a full stack of peasants and send them off to die somewhere. Happens every mid-late game! Here endeth the lesson: Never underestimate the rebel!!!!

Good video but selecuid not sure about being great

I'm a Scipii

In most of my games Numidia takes out Carthage

im sensing british bias- Egypt is def a tier above british

Rebels all the way

Dacia is aweful