Saving Your Disaster Total War Campaigns - Mongol Invasion of Russia 

Emperor Palpatine. Don't you have some rebels and planets to destroy?

If all you have is debt, that is all Mongol can steal.

Mongols discovered a new sexual oriphlice in Bulgaria :(.

Russian have spent too much gold and their money worth as much as crap

Mongols got money mostly by ransoms in medieval total war they did

A vbad anon acount I more more amazed he didn't just say fuck it before then. I know I would have

Reminds me of a few games I had as eastern factions when I was new to the game. I thought I was doing well until the mongols and later the tumirids arrived

Until this day I cannot deal with mongols and I don't want to cheese them with forts and sieges. What I do is just conquer west and leave the east to mongols.

@@nomooon one strategy is to get an amry far behind their lines vie a fleet. Did this with sicily and just held constantinople with cannon towers. I then sent countless armies to the levant and into the black sea to take undefended mongol lands

I'm late but just make full spearmen (9-10) and crossbow/longbow (9-10) armies with a general. Pavise crossbowmen in front and pulled behind spearmen or just longbowmen up front with spikes will do it.

creeper.cz same shit in warband

Its no fun if you're not charging up a ladder and being flank shot by forty odd crossbowmen.

@@lokenontherange I once spent half an hour to clear up the defending Rhodok crossbowmen. Guys, does overcrowding of ladder when climbing annoy you too?

@@scepticsquirrel Tbh there's not much about Mount and Blade that doesn't seriously irritate me. Be it the complete imbalance of the combat or the utterly retarded siege aspects or the problem of how bandit stacks are either semi-unbeatable without serious cheese at early game or completely pointless later on. Or the followers and their stupid fucking arguments.

"Give me 10 good men and climbing spikes and I'll impregnate the bitch." Sir Bronn of the Blackwater

😂

Lmao

I love it because he's constantly mocking his subscribers too

@@Peter-uu2qg we are all equally worthless

That was the main attitude of the Middle Ages toward merchants outside of most republics/

*loses Orthodoxially*

By gopnik you mean a guy that squats, listens to hardbass and wears Adidas?

@@saulgoodman7787 yes

MrPanzergrenadier11 not how statistics work

Should have save scummed then reloaded and edited the video :)

@@sikkableeat5614 he doesnt

@@gumbyshrimp2606 why not? 0,05*0,12=0,006

@@MrPanzergrenadier11 are these independent statistics or conditional probability? I've been out of school for a long while now and can't remember any of it :o

Wish they were uploaded, some of them look fun

this one looks legit. mongols fuck russia really hard, I can totally see an unprepared player getting wrecked by them.

@@DarkAnd1000 Mongols fk everyone hard lmao. Every time I face them I either lose or win with a shit ton of casualties

Mount and Blade intensifies

How’s the actual Russian? I’ve heard a lot of voiceovers in games that were originally in English are hilariously bad

MSF soldier Alligator I'd say some (most of) nations have decent voices and some are kinda sketchy, almost cartoonish.

Best reason to play as Russia is the hilarious accent lul

And the best cavalry, infantry and archers in the late game. ;) As a russian I absolutely can't handle russian voice acting in M2TW. It's just an unacceptably garbage shit. Unit names also mostly sounds stupid. So I always play in english. And the same for other TW games actually. To be honest, I think so far I've seen only two kinda okeyish russian localizations: Skyrim is fine and The Witcher 3 is quite good.

Its ok actually. There were some good voiceactors working on it. One of them was just legendary. Vladimir Vihrov. He is the russian voice on Arthas in original warcraft III. Any russian would tell you that his voice of Arthas is just best of all. And now I realised that there are french and german accents in russian Medieval II and they sound funny

Broken Crescent mod does exactly that. Merchants make tons of money there, making them sort of essential, rather than annoyance. Unfortynately Mongols are broken in that mod at the moment (due to no AoR restrictions).

Shogun 2 sort of made sense got to be honest, felt helpful using it

Come on they probably removed it because of the merchant fort exploit lol

@@leofwulf268 that kind of exploit should exist in single player games imo, it takes so much work to set it up that it's like who cares

Nah, Mongols appear near Baghdad and head west - why are the Turks still in control of their area? Would make more sense if it was the timurids

@@fraservickers1257 Dont the mongols also have a spawn near the north?

I've been waiting for someone to comment this

+TheLastCasualty For the love of god, YES! I've been wanting to try out these challenges myself ever since this series started.

Interesting. I might only try one or two, but they have had some very interesting pickles...

I already made that comment twice in earlier save your campaign vids :p

For the Republic in this case

Eh don't worry. Legendo0fTotalWar was to this campaign what Aleksandr Nevsky and Dmitry Donskoy were to Novgorod IRL.

Cause Creative Assembly gave the Mongols the Middle East Building set. I would have given the Mongols a more unquie mechanic. Their settlement buildings set are dependent on the culture of the orignal owners plus a unquie Mongolian/Nomad building set depending on the type of governance type you have set up (similar to the Rome Total War mod Europa Barborum). There should three goverance types that affect the types of buildings and units that can be recruited. The first type of governance is where the Mongol Horde has direct overlordship and have begun migrating their tribes to this province. This tends the place where the Mongols tend recruit to recruit almost all their factional units and buildings however usually this government type has a rather poor economy due to Mongols tend to live nomadic lifestyle so they don't tend to develop their controlled lands very much. The second type of governance is allied tribes where the local people had been conviced or forced into joining the Horde but are allowed to retain a degree of Autonomy. This allows the player to recruit a balance of basic Mongol Troops and local units of the original provincal owners which includes local mercenaries. Also it has a mixture of mongolian buildings and local culture buildings The third type of governance is Tributary state is where this where the inhabitants are forced into a tributary vassalage. This allows you to build most of the buildings of the local culutre and recruit most units of the previous owners allowing you to have stronger economy and to have greater flexibility to your mongolian armies. However you would have to be careful with these as should they grow too large they will suffer serve public order pentalities if not managed properly rebellions would likely occur. A second mechanic I would like the Mongols and any other nomadic faction to have is in provinces that are under a Type I government or a Type II government is that the nomads dont need to recruit from the settlment instead whenever they build fortified camps and have it occuiped they can recruit from the Camp instead

lmao

Ivan Grozny to Mongols in 1480 😂

Stalin murdered all the talent in the Red Army was why.

Shanshaaa

The Moor is pregnant!

Give me 10 good men and ill impregnate the bitch.

When was that?

About 35:00

Always found that funny in that game.

@maciejl20 If the enemy has lots of good melee units up on the walls it's good to have more than one point of entry.

Well at least you’re playing medieval 2

Just spam Longbowmen and watch the world map turn red. I usually finish England campaign before gunpowder era.

It was the foundation of parliamentary rule, and eventual democracy, because filling the armies by hiring non-professional freemen soldiers who didn't belong to the aristocrats like the men-at-arms did built up a prosperous lower middle class who couldn't be pushed around. Everyone else who relied on feudal knights and men-at-arms whose full time job in between wars was to oppress peasants wound up with absolute monarchies which didn't start to be overthrown until the French revolution.

Didn't say there weren't downsides lol

@@patrickholt2270 Yeomen were pretty cool.

@@patrickholt2270 It goes to show what monarchs and dictators feared the most, people seeing through the illusion of power.

A bodkin arrow through the face is a good social leveller. @@_Gandalf_The_White

@@MedeivalWarfare Nein nein nein

FotS was the last great total war I manually siege in only because I love that era and guns but Med II again I feel had the best balance and I love seeing each unit look cooler as you splash out to give them armour, really great detail and nearly blew my mind 10 years ago.

Well in his hre campaign he did it in 60 without even trying if i recall correctly so i dont think it will be much of a challenge

Tbh I did it in around 80 on my 2nd mtw campaign, without sweating too badly. When you are aggressive early you can snowball out of control REALLY fast. Especially if you take "alloted rebel settlements" from other factions. Plus a single crusader army can take half of middle east with no upkeep if you play christian nation

The mongols randomly spawn in either the south or the north. If they spawn in the north they basically just plow through the Russians. I should know, that's what they're doing to me right now.

I once played a Bizantine Campaign and they didn't care for anybody except me. And the Russians and Egyptians were still alive!!!

Based on their spawn they will either head towards Antioch in the south or Kiev in the north. And as Erik already stated they spawn in a random location that is either south or north of Caucasus mountains.

In my game as byzantium they spawned north, but went south after the black sea towards Constantinople :(. Lost it and took it again, entire balkan in trouble for tens of turns. Every other faction didn't really had any trouble.

They tend to rush towards key cities ignoring a lot on the way through, yeah they do hone in on the player aswell

kgb is only good to spy and accuse it's own country population

yes blyat! :D

russians taked two walls with one ladder and take over Helsinki with less than 100 people. later will be said that this is myth, provided by tsar to increase and legitimate his power

CK2 is too easy, EUIV may be impossible to save a campaign, just because so many descisions are made like 5 steps ahead

C Marshall arumba has a series on saving eu4 campaigns that i would recomend checking out

He has streamed Pdox games, but he admits that he's much closer to the average in those. @Damo2690 And the battles in Pdox games are influenced almost entirely by those long-term decisions plus RNG, which makes coming back from the brink of destruction through smart tactics much harder.