Saving Your Disaster Campaigns - France's CRUSHING debt -573,000gold 

It's amazing watching a campaign where legend is genuinely struggling

Although you say you'll only do three episodes total I think this has been a really interesting campaign and if you went even further I'd be interested in watching it You're very good at Med II so seeing a campaign that can actually pose somewhat of a challenge with the inability to replace soldiers or repair anything, it's very interesting to watch If you continued further or even tried to win / map conquest under these conditions I'd definitely watch

I think legend should certainly continue this campaign it will become more challenging the longer it continues due to ever decreasing troop numbers

Truly a total war challenge worthy of RU-vid. Watching decisive battles against overwhelming odds is entertaining and all, but this enemy cannot be outwitted using clever tactics in a single set piece engagement. Debt and attrition is a force that cannot be cheesed. Please keep going with this campaign. Prove to everyone you are a master of every aspect of Total War.

Greece : Total war

Is this the SYDC that Legend can't fix? Not for lack of skill, it's just seems impossible, simply because it's going to take a long time with no possibility to replenish casualties. If each settlement had a sack value of 15000, and you sacked 30, that would come out to 450000,- and it still wouldn't cover the current debt, although the meager tax revenue would build up over that time. I suspect most rebel settlements in Western Europe were once a part of the original empire, and as such they're underdeveloped and won't yield much sack value, so the reality is that you're going to have to sack far more cities than my optimistic estimate. Even if you don't take casualties, you still have to leave one unit behind in each settlement you take, slowly withering your armies anyway. Meanwhile, the Moors have a large army that will be difficult to deal with, and it's conceivable that other enemies are also building their strength, which begs the question; what is going to happen in the next 50 turns? Is Poland, Venice or Hungary going to send a full stack? What about Spain or Milan? There's not a single city able to withstand even a small force, and the French armies are spread thin. It seems to me that it's more likely that you'll actually win the whole campaign with what you have than bring the economy out of the red. And can you do that?

Why don't you just rise the fuel taxes to deal with the problem?

This France campaign is actually super interesting! The lack of money is forcing Legend to finish the game with the army given to him, which is actually super hard... GG!!

A French plague, desperately rampaging across Europe, caused depopulation and economic ruin wherever they conquered, for a hundred years. Is this how the world ends? Is this the judgement of God on the iniquities of Christendom, asked those few monks and priests who survived the repeated waves of sack and slaughter. No matter how far the French bandit-knights roamed, they couldn't outrun their debts, and their hunger. Even as they slew each militia flung against them, they bled away, and yet their need of coin scarcely reduced. Only time would tell which would die first: all of Europe, the French warriors themselves, or the global banking system, teetering precariously over the yawning abyss of the French debts, which it seemed would never be ended, even if every Christian in the world were to be sold into slavery by France's Pauper King.

The Jew of total war has failed, France is still in debt by episode 2

Legend this is by far the most challenging SYDC you have encountered...

"Must have a lot of Dread to do that." With all the generals you've been executing, no shit.

56:52 Frederick II ''He who defends everything defends nothing" Or in our case more like "He who defends everything with nothing only defends his failure" PS tough legend would still crack it

I really enjoy this one. All the previous disasters were less challenging I believe. I won't complain if you did a part 4 as well :)

This is my favourite sydc so far. It's just so interesting. I have never seen a challenge like this. I can't really see a good way to win. So far ledgend has barley dented the debt even with constant victories. And he will just keep getting weaker as time passes.

Legend, whether you succeed or not it's been really interesting to watch you attempt this campaign without replenishment. The fact that you've been thrust into a situation where you just have to make do, rather than building exactly what you want has been fun, especially as it's posed a challenge I've not seen you tackle on this channel before. Keep it up!

Just saying Legend, I think you should change the title and thumbnail of this video because I thought it was the same as last one and so a lot of people might be missing it since they think it's the same video, not a part 1 and 2

I think this is fun to see you paying debt lol

Very impressed mate, as a fellow Aussie and total war enthusiast I cant believe how well your doing this recovery! First time I’ve watched a SYDC all the way through with an eagerness to see part 3!

LeJewnd of total war, at this rate of reducing the debt you need like 20 episodes to get rid of the debt But it's definitely one of the most interesting campaigns

Legend to a general's bodyguard, "I gave you an order, order's aren't optional, move it." What a legend.

the campaign could probably be won before the debt is settled, lol

Hi legend, i love your saving your disaster campaigns and although it was more than half a year ago i would like to congratualate you for this amazing video. pls make a second part or more of this economy crisis disasters i am quite frankly enjoying this very much;)

You should do a vote to see what you viewers think if you should continue past 3 episodes or not. I think you should as this is quite interesting and entertaining given the challenge.

Let’s make this bread

I was waiting for this episode!

I like this one a lot. Please, Legend, keep going. I know you're only supposed to get the campaign out of disaster, but this is the one campaign I really want to see you win. Just how on earth did that fucker manage to get so much into debt...

I don't think that you can even get the budget back to black. It'll just take too many turns.

Finish this campaign

This probably the only campaign I see legend doing part 3

I just finished part 1, what great timing (

This is honestly the most interesting one, especially since legends claimed it was easy and now he seems te be struggling with the campaign.

clearly this only happened, because the sender didn't used merchants.

Do you think this all could've been avoided if he had focused on merchants. Asking for a friend

Did this guy believe Justin Trudeau’s like of “and the budget will balance itself” ? Lol

The garrison wouldn't even need to believe that the only troops outside their castle are a single general and his bodyguard. If they know that the general is on one side and the army on the other side, they may still risk sallying out to catch the general, since if they would manage that it would be a huge blow to the sieging army. I don't doubt that scenarios like this have happened countless times over history with varying levels of success for either side. Sometimes leading to a successful capture of the sieging general and then lifting the siege through negotiation. Other times leading to a result like you get here every time, with maybe the only difference being that the enemy atleast kept a minor garrison and the sallying force simply surrendering when the tide turns against them. Really the "cheese" tactics that LoTW uses aren't the unrealistic parts of his playstyle, the unrealistic part is that he has a 100% success rate.

It's stupid you can get so far in debt. Normally your civ would rebel as hell and soldiers would go away. No money, no war. But then again, nice battles and good strategy to balance economy again.

Please. Do a third part. Link up the empire. Even finish the campain... Do this time only. For a change.

Legend, maybe if you were to fight that Moorish army in the mountains or on a bridge? If the enemy cavalry panic, those ghazis probably won't put up much resistance, and the whole army could chain rout off the field.

needs a third episode

first time seeing you doing a med2 SYDC with more than 1 episodes and this one supposedly take 3? damn it fucked hard

I don't believe it's possible for one player to get sooo badly in debt. Like, seriously; even the _worst_ player cannot get so badly in debt. At _some_ point during the game you'd think he'd look at his balance and think: "Huh... maybe I should do something about this."

This is quite the challenge. Have to win basically with the troops you have.

You need Yellow Jackets mod!

Im assuming he's already "saved" this campaign and we just need the episodes to come out. This really is a cluster fuck of a campaign. I can't believe someone would neglect their economy so much and then proceed to end turns knowing he's going almost 100k in debt. At that point your instinct should kick in to either disband some troops or use the ones you have to take more settlements lol.

Original's player adventures are like in that meme with the guy from the Minions. > play the first campaign ever on easy > conquer the world in 300 turns > start a campaign on vh/vh > be at war with 12 factions and 500k in debt

Ready and able

He spend all his money on mercenaries that’s where he fucked up he should of kept troops from towns to have free up keeps

22:10 If you had kill the king, Spain would be destroyed. I think you had already kill the heir.

I feel like an easier (but much more boring) way to do this would have been to get all your armies back to the british isles, capture all of it, and then disband most of your military. You would probably make the money back eventually, and it wouldn't matter so much that you don't have much military because the AI doesn't like to attack islands very much.

Is there reasoning behind where you position your armies around a city when you trick them into sallying out? you always seem to put them almost but not quite opposite and I was wondering if it was just a coincidence

Watching this in 2023 ,still entertaining

Better then my debt

O_O that's quite a debt....

Cmon bro, you can do it

how does one get that in debt and not attempt to remedy it ??

In regards to your opening statement. Don’t worry about what everyone says bro. We all love your content. When you’re making videos that you have fun recording, we all get to profit. Trolls are everywhere but you can just horse sandwich those mutha fuckas.

"We need MORE problems," 1:03:30...Oh there are the Moors. ja ja ja

Now I know, why Napoleon wanted to conquer the world: look at this friggin debt. All the money in the world would just be enough to settle it with 10ct to spare, holy shit

This one might be too fucked for even Legend to unfuck it which is why I'm loving this. No way this will be taken care of in the next episode.

Could you share out this save file? I would like to give this campaign a try.

Lol that scream at 1:16:50

Jesus that debt.

Don’t send this back until it’s not fucked legend

I had a campaign with the juliar about 200k in debt too. Couldnt save that campaign. xD

You could abandon small settlements and leave them to the rebels. Focus on the larger and richer settlements and move your capital more closer to them. You could also try to make as much money from ransoming, since you need money more than dread. Use diplomacy to force other factions to pay you money.

Did Legend ever play the Lord of the Rings mod or the Warhammer mod for Medieval 2? Those are kinda difficult and I want to watch him play it

"There is no dishonneur in winning men" - France FIFA world cup semi-Finals

i'm still not sure how he even managed to loose that much money in less than 50 turns. Closer to 20

Would it be reasonable in this case to let someone capture a damaged city, let them repair it, and then recapture it?

any diplomats? perhaps getting peace with a couple of countries might help? cause wow this is really a messed up game

it would be interesting if you could win this by that i just mean get out of debt

He went to war with every one and towns dont have no one to trade with just looks his towns there is no town close to 1k and of course static armys

Ah, but Legend still has general's bodyguards. with them, he cannot lose

Louis XVI campaign

it looks like the ai is broke too lmao, lots of peasants and no garrisons

More like GREECE!

1:13:55 literally 1v9

How does that even happen?!?

u could put very high taxes for 1 turn for making a little bit of money

Still the same shit today

The debt "mechanic" in medieval 2 is kinda interesting. Definitely better than in attila though, where soldiers run off because you have negative income even though you have money on hand.

Legend, I think it's a good idea to destroy useless buildings to gain cash to pay down the debt.

why build the arty buildings ??? u dont need them & do not use them so u can demolish them

This campaign explains why the AI is so awful at the game; Set unit production and building to auto and you get a horrible economy and shit armies. The broken pathing does the rest.

Roman Campaigns you havent played yet: Prologue (Rome 1 Total War)> you can conquer the whole of Italy Prologue (Rome 2 Total War) Gallic Empire (Rome 2 Total War) Palmyra (Rome 2 Total War ) You have served Rome well, but there is still some work left.

It's impossible to get this deep into debt so fast. I'm guessing he used cheats to do it.

get rid of your castles and replace them with towns and cities

* I know what I am doing...but clearly other people don't.* Lul.

episdoe 3

Your comments are full of anti-semitic remarks.

first lol

He should just use the cheat code add_money 40000 Back to back done deal

If this game was realistic there would be Jews or Italian bankers for loans lol

Jew total war