APPARENTLY YOU CAN PLAY ON HIGHER UNIT SIZES! - According to the mod developer Drunk Flamingo :) Hope you enjoyed the video guys, subscribe for more! & check out the mod below! TheTerminator Discord - discord.gg/eHVBpAC6U2 Shieldwall Steam Page - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1747012157
Any french traduction of this mod? I know it sucks but i play this game in french my first language and the total war modding community is 99% english. Installing an overhaul mods is hard for me cuz i have to play it in english in order to use it. Sometimes i found french translated mods for some mods. But not all the time
Hi, I'm the lead campaign developer for Shieldwall. Just wanted to clarify one thing from the video: the mod works fully at ultra unit sizes - the population numbers will match up exactly with the unit numbers when you play on medium, but if you play on other unit sizes everything will still work and have the exact same balance as on medium. Playing on medium makes things look nicer because you'll pay exactly 80 population to recruit a unit of exactly 80 men, but that unit will always cost 80 population even if you change the unit sizes so that there are 160 men in the unit. That way you can change unit sizes without us having to rebalance the pop system for each possibility. Hope that makes sense. Medium sizes were chosen because they reflect (quite accurately) proper army sizes for the time period, which is a rare opportunity when making a total war game. For example, our Norman invasion is 7000 to 8000 soldiers, which is a common historical estimate for the size of William's army. Nice to see the mod being covered, if anyone else has any questions I'll try my best to respond :)
Awesome clarification that will make me install the mod again as couldn’t play on medium unit sizes ...now I got that I works like the remastered Rome pop sys👍👍👍
Thrones of Britannia has a lot of mod potential that I haven’t seen anyone take advantage of. Imagine if someone made a mod for it based on the Scottish War of independence, or the English Civil War, or the War of the Roses. The map and the mechanics could be used so well for that and this is the first time I see anyone make a big mod for the game
That’s what I would say. Wars of the roses. Make the larger houses with there own sigils and the smaller factions as houses and Vassell states with there own sigils and armour etc suited to that age. Make Scotland the same. The main house like Bruce with its own Vassel states. This allows you to take a rival smaller house and challenge Lancaster and York. Would be brilliant
its cause almost nobody plays it, can speak for myself and i enjoy it alot. But if you compare it to any other total war its barely anyone plays Thrones :
I can't understand why people say that TOB is a shitty game because of its lack of diversity between factions but everyone enjoys Shogun 2 in which armies are strictly the same
alot of the arguments that channels like andy's take or terminator make are based on sheer nonsense , in terms of accuracy yes the ashigaru increasingly dominated warfare in japan and shogun 2 somewhat reflects that which is why i dont have a problem with it , but to then complain about ToB lacking action diversity (it actually has faction diversity) is what i have a problem with , shieldwalls and lots of levies like the saxon fyrd played an important role on the battlefield and were the dominant strategy in western europe and the island of britain (ireland was slightly different with its kerns), now you could say that even tho there are 20 varities of axemen in ToB they all play the same , well duh there is only so many ways in which an axeman can be used and only so many strategies/tactics that make sense
Finally got around to try it but even on very hard, the game seemed to have become a million times easier, did anyone have the same experience? Im not sure if i just got really ´lucky´ or if the mod just makes the game super easy to steamroll. Ive just finished taking the main isle and i have still not met a full stack that wasnt at half strength from mustering.
I'm playing this mod right now. Really diggin it, it does make the game a lot more fun. I have to say, thank you. I would have probably not tried the mod if not for this video.
Great overview! Hoping to pick up Thrones of Britannia in the next sale and was wondering; Should I just skip the vanilla campaign and hop straight onto Shieldwall or would I appreciate Shieldwall more after finishing a regular campaign?
I have to agree with the Terminator, you should always play vanilla first, but my reason for saying that is that after you play vanilla you'll have a rough idea what mods you'd like to use.
Thrones of Britannia is a good total war and one of the last good ones.let alone best sieges in all the games the game bring the feel of the early medieval period as close as you can plus this and age of charlemagne are most close to medieval 3 total war we will ever get
I will never understand why people don't like this game even vanilla. I have replayed it a boatload of times and with just a few unit reskins and adding in unplayable factions, this game is so fuckin' good basically vanilla.
Medieval era is by far my favorite one of all, and Thrones of Britannia is cheaper than some Warhammer's DLCs, but still it's not enough for me to buy it. Also I've already tried this game before and it felt like a paid update of Attila, or a "scam") This mod seems to be adding more complexity and it's really making me consider whether to give the game a new shot or not.
I actually love thrones of Britannia especially compared to any fantasy or troy/three kingdoms. It was like a modern and new advanced total war covering a certain region in depth, with a beautiful artstyle, and similar to control on attila. I love thrones and i feel like it has/had alot of potential and is not a direction i mind total war going in (if only they actually would)
Then you would have loved Shogun 2 if you discovered it before Thrones of Britannia : Shield Wall. Maybe you still will. You just need the unique units DLC.
@@bravomike4734 I played shogun 2 and still do but it's starting to get dated. It was absolutely the best for it's time and is better than any warhammer, but it's aged nonetheless
You are right with the atilla style control no matter what faction I am cavalry just makes my army so OP since I watched the Alans guide I’m now good at commanding cavalry tbh I’ve yet to seen anyone use the strategies in the guide in multiplayer battles
@@re-birth8865 this is true but only due to how limited the game was in scale. Imagine if they added the rest of europe at such a scale, and had all of the different cultures, unit types, etc
Hi there, I have been watching quite a few of your mod videos and the content you are making is great! However, there is one thing your videos really lack. Higher resolution! (clips) Keep it up!
I always thought ToB was underrated and undeservedly unloved by the community, mainly for its recruitment system. And that it lacked some good mods like DeI for Rome 2. But here we have Shieldwall and I guess it's time to visit the British Isles again. Thanks everyone, who worked on the mod, and thank you, Terminator, for making this video!
Hi Terminator, I greatly enjoy your videos.. They're enjoyable, concise, and loaded with good info. Will you be posting when there's updates to this mod, or should I check discord for update announcements?
The one big problem I have with this mod is it takes FOREVER to get to the point where you're able to actually start attacking settlements and the economy runs soooo slooowly. Also, the AI is not aggressive at all. I've tried playing in 2 different campaigns and got bored after playing 15-17 turns without a single threat from anyone. I mainly spent my time trying to build things to levy the noble units as commanded. IDK if I'm using too many mods now (6 mods including Enhanced income, all 3 Variation packs,) or have them loaded wrong? I may give it another go when someone comes up with a mod that gives the campaign a kick in the ass.
I love playing Rose of the republic on small unit size. It really turns everything into a deadly gang fight and then when you do mobilize and have 870 guys vs 700 it really does feel more epic. For ROTR and TOB small unit is historically accurate especially for dark age tactics they were essentially bloody gang fights and lots of vendettas.
I've seen this mod before, and I have to try it. But as I said before, for me ToB of worth playing even without this mod (maybe a few minor mods). Not sure about all of the new/changed mechanics, the tech try for example. But the rest is mostly interesting.
I ask myself why there is not a real king arthur mod out there... it makes me so sad. :( just imagine that you play a "fantasy" legend of the king with his knights... defend the lands against the nordmans after the romans and try to safe all the culture and knowlegde... man :(
In my opinion Thrones is the most beautifull total war that CA produced for em no doubts. But it didnt sell well so CA got lazy and went with Warhammer and pump it with DLC and because it sells then they wont improve on old ideas, cough cough sea battles.
It’s a great mod love the mechanics and turns per year. unfortunately the combat is so fast it totally ruins the battles imo. Have tried using combat speed mods but none seem to work properly with the mod and slow combat down enough.
I can’t even play it because the camera just keeps moving forward by itself during campaign map nonstop I don’t even have mods on I haven’t even play the game because it won’t stop moving
@@TheTerminatorGaming It’s great. All that you mentioned, and I love the 12 turns per year. Winter is only a minor annoyance at 4 turns per year. Now, you have to plan your military campaigns based on the weather and your food storage. It’s such depth to the game, but it does start slow and takes a long time, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. If someone likes to get totally immersed in a game and the time period, they will love this mod. Will download every update.
@@TheTerminatorGaming after playing more of this mod, I noticed the A.I. not building armies later in the game. I was blitzing through territories with only 11 units with not an army in sight. It was like I was playing by myself. Did you notice this, as well? Someone made a comment on the steam community about it and the developers said it did seem to be an issue and they were working on it. I hope so, because it’s a game breaker.
@@TheTerminatorGaming after playing more of this mod, I noticed the A.I. not building armies later in the game. I was blitzing through territories with only 11 units with not an army in sight. It was like I was playing by myself. Did you notice this, as well? Someone made a comment on the steam community about it and the developers said it did seem to be an issue and they were working on it. I hope so, because it’s a game breaker.
Any french traduction of this mod? I know it sucks but i play this game in french my first language and the total war modding community is 99% english. Installing an overhaul mods is hard for me cuz i have to play it in english in order to use it. Sometimes i found french translated mods for some mods. But not all the time
"It suffered from a complete lack of replayability, with virtually every faction a copy paste of another, and let's be honest no real depth or meaning." "Needs more unit variety, faction diversity, and more gameplay mechanics that make it engaging enough to feel invested in a campaign." You just described shogun 2.
I completely agree but I don't know what it is about Shogun 2... I CAN replay it over and over and have done so for around 1000h. Yet in thrones, I only have 30h...
Yeah, I don't think those are the main issues. Honestly I think the biggest one is that the battles feel so boring, its just put all your troops in a shield wall and win. It's hard to get invested in a game when I know that one battlefield mechanic that pretty much every unit has means I can win any battle.
@@kapitankapital6580 The mechanic is good for me. And i say that because (and correct if i am wrong) battles where fought that way in that era in England, norse warriors used it and Anglo-Saxons adopted it. The problem is that if you want to make that mechanic be balanced for both the player and the AI they should have done 2 things: 1) Make the AI use the shield wall more efficiently and 2) Make the AI much better at flanking. I also want to mention that they made such great siege maps in that game and they wasted it. Its only worth when you being attacked and you have smaller numbers than the AI. Otherwise if you attack the AI just sits on the first level of walls and behind the gate you attack.
@@kapitankapital6580 I see what you mean but that's how battles were fought. If they were going to be even more true to history, it would be even more boring. You would just mass Spearman and shield wall. That's pretty much it. I guess I don't find it boring because when I play these games i try to implement real life battle tactics and army compositions as closely as I can that's half the fun for me
isn't it a bit sad we have to rely on the modding co.munity to bale out underwhelming TW titles? thank god they do though, they're keeping the series alive.
Never played Thrones and reviews always told me to stay away from it. How close it to Attila's battles? Cause Attila to me is worse TW of all and units fight so disorganized and chaotic and messy it triggers me. Graphics on campaign surely from Attila which I also disliked and poor performance from there as well. I greatly enjoyed DEI Rome 2 though. Should I look into Thrones or no?
Awesome mod, but I probably won't play it again until the modders have it tweaked in a bit more. Some things about it are just outta wack it seems still.
Especially the population mechanic feels like that would need to be the base game, not a mod. The whole three strata system formed the basis of the migratory period all the way up to the beginning urbanisation of much later centuries in the renaissance so the omission of this distinct system is really sad.
Hey just in case you didn't see it the mods developer confirmed that you can, in fact, use larger unit sizes without messing up the population mechanic. Units cost the same amount of pops on every setting, Medium is just most accurate.
Excellent. Thanks for flagging this up. I was looking at it a while back but thought it had been abandoned. Edit: The mod I mean. We all know CA pretty much abandoned the game on day 1 😂
Hi All, As a life long Total war player I'm thrilled to see that this edition has been modded and made much more playable. As I am Irish myself I love the idea of this time period and the factions This video prompted me to buy the game from steam but for the life of me I can't figure out how to download the Mod. Any hints tips guys?
yoo shaklaf is here, nice video again, focusing on thrones of britannia, we need more fsctions and also guys sub and join the terminator discord for more information
About time, I always thought this game had such potential, just needed a good modders love. It sounds like we've finally gotten it. I'm already deep in a crusader blade mod, fighting the reconquestia as the Crown of Aragon, and kicking ass getting my mediteranian empire going, so it will be hard to pull me from that, ck3 is such an amazing game, but this looks ridicuously good, do I even still have thrones installed...
My man William Lawerence! Haven’t seen you comment in a while mate hope all is well! And yes TOB actually has a few mods worth checking out including Shieldwall. I’ll be doing more spotlights for the game soon :)
Does it fix the bug that made this unplayable for me...? Changing governor? made the game crash.. cant remember the name as I played once and after 5 crashes in a row, I uninstalled it
@@TheTerminatorGaming I can't remember the name of the position but it's essentially the government tab, obviously there was no government back then, but it was a well known bug on release with no fix to date, I searched the hell out of it and even posted on threads about it and all I got was toxic replies from people saying to just not change it, when I don't see why I should ignore an important part because of a crash the devs ignored
@@TheTerminatorGaming amazing, I may just test it myself as it seems like a bug that doesn't effect everyone, but those who it does effect, there is no fix, just work arounds, which if you forget to do, your entire game crashes, I'll post a link if youtube let's me to a steam thread about it, otherwise Google crash, change governor thrones of britannia and it should show up. Thanks for testing though!!
i was duped into buying this game based on these fake hype videos. Nothing in this mod really works. Population system is bugged, allegiance system is bugged, character system is dumbed down even further from the base game. Lots of exploits and unit bugs.
