Sparta Must Hold Against Athenian Assault - 4v4 - Total War: Rome 2 

I always like Greek clashes. Something cool about them - though at times I find myself really missing sword infantry, lol. Either way, a good fight, and thank god for enemy artillery.

Honestly, there was a few months where I almost stopped watching, but the flood of siege battles (exactly what I want) has drawn me back to watching daily. And I'm very happy to be drawn back.

Top 10 anime betrayals: Athenian Catapults

Really enjoying these Rome 2 battles !

"This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die!"

When you said “civilian” cavalry I laughed because civilians in Sparta are never JUST civilians 😂

18:34 "My gawd, Athens was able to hold here. Unbelievable!" - Apollo, referring to Sparta Dec 3, 2018

Apollo, dude I don't know how you can make all these battles so interesting.

"Could you imagine being on the frontline how gruesome it would be... *has PTSD flash back* SO yea! Pretty good situation there!" 22:54

Apollo I have never seen someone give his opponent the benefit of the doubt on cheesing as much as you. Never change.

How about you start calling us "Equites" of Apollo?

Suggestion: Greek City States verse's Roman military might!! Loving the Rome 2 replays. Last battle you did people said Sparta wasn't a good faction (Even though you won lol), and yet this battle... Well I enjoy playing as Sparta in Rome 2 for reasons like this, fantastic faction in real life and in the game. There are strategies you can use as Sparta to play better in besieging or open plains battles that can help you win as well, they are a very nuanced faction whereas some people will take that to mean they aren't a good faction, but when you know how they work you can basically beat any other faction in Rome 2 (Though fighting Rome can sometimes be difficult). I'd say Sparta has the hardest difficulty rating to use in battles that aren't defensive, and yet in defensive battles they absolutely wreck house.... as seen here, literally no contest.

That was a great battle!! If the Athens and Spartans don't have any Persian butt to kick around, then they just have to fight each other!!

*New drinking game:* Take a shot every time Apollo says “let’s do slow motion here because there’s just so much going on”

That artillery shot rolling through athens, and then the one falling off the wall were hilarious. Cried a bit laughing

Even by the fact i performed so bad at this battle - still was a nice fight!

Awesome! I'm locked and loaded at work and ready to watch some Spartans destroy some Athenians!!!! All hail Lord Pixie!!!! For Sparta!!!!!

That initial cav game was awesome, it was a perfectly executed group maneuver, with a weak type cav, against the best type of defenders... brutal!!!

Man you know how much I've been waiting for you to come back and post these Total War siege battles? It's been a long time since you posted a siege battle and I'm so happy to see your most recent posts are Total war :)))

I love watching the artillery in this game. Seeing it roll off the wall like that was great

Loving this series of viedos!!!!!! Great strategy, great commentary, great friends! Thanks Apollo!

The amount of team work in the beginning is amazing!!

I wonder if they'll add an update where the cavalry has a chance where their horse dies and only the rider will go on foot

Apollo I’ve said this once but I’ll say it again..bring back the third age total war series with Jackie fish!! Like this if you want it back as well ma dudes 👍🏼

Me before video: How tf was this battle 33 minutes? Me after video: *_spartans_*

I’m loving the consistency of the good quality videos. Keep it up!

That cavalry at the start was amazing

Honestly it's nice to see some sieges begin and end at the walls and not always go into the streets. Really cool to see, and rare in MP battles. Awesome fight!

I love your videos man, they keep me going throughout the week!

Bro I love your rome videos man. I really hope this game never dies because there’s nothing like it. Keep the videos coming bro. The audience may be small but we’re a unique community ❤️💪🏼

at 28:36 I was like '"OH MY GOD LOOK AT THE BALANCE OF POWER AND YOU'RE STILL FIGHTING FOR THE INNER WALL!"

Apollo, your replays are my favorite videos to fall asleep to. your voice is just so relaxing.

Overwhelming amount of amazing battles and I love it lol

perioikoi is pronounced "perry-oh-koy" :)

THIS IS SPARTA Really good vid pixelated plz do more Greek v Greek

Damn, another great battle. Hoping for a medieval battle next time )))))

Hey Apollo.... watching those Artillery Shots i must now name it! YOU have bribed them to do these Shots! CONFESS !! ^^ Joking ;) Those where really really unlucky shots

Bro the Spartans don’t need walls 😂🤣 keep up with these great videos

And another one.. and another one.. pumping out these videos. Love it.

You were to nice to that guy cheesing his catapults.

I really like live battles, I wish there were more of those!

That was some grade A teamwork with the cav bravo

Just can’t stop watching this... Sparta is like a drug.

Wow I haven’t watched my favorite RU-vidr for almost 7 months. Miss this

Jesus, the Athens just went and chucked themselves into a meat grinder...

These walls are made with millions of rocks

“Come back with your shield or on it” you came back with your shield

periokoi- pear (like the fruit)-e-oak (oak tree)-oi (what Australians yell)

Can u start playing dunedain in third age

Awesome teamwork at the start

Man I totally want one of these games now. Any suggestions for which Total War game to get?

Love watching these battles so much thinking I'm getting a PC over PS5 just to play this game

Couldn't brake that Spartan wall! Athens lost a battle but not the war!! Trex great General. See you on the battlefield!

THIS IS SPARTA😠 (Whos Team sparta)

Is this like a rematch? I remember how it ended when Sparta was sieging Athens, it was a glorious video!

I love these Rome 2 siege battles.

31:09 Shots fired !

i love your Rome II vids!!

A TWR2 siege with equal resources and sparta defending... i wonder how this will ever end

what an epic arty bounce !! greatest friendly fire ever !

Were sending out «some cav»

i dont play any of your games but i like your content keep it up my guy:)

It should if been the other way around Sparta attacking Athens it would be a recreation of the Peloponnesian war!🤣🔥

That cavalry coordination at the start tho...

I love your commentary keep up the good work

Athens has three units left apollo : I think sparter is winning

Yo was this live-streamed cause I always get the notifications for this hours late

An epic attack!!!!i was happy to see this agresive move

Apollo, could you make a siege video about Macedonia vs Persia or Macedonia vs Athen? BTW Great videos. Really thank you for your workings.

Love these videos apollo can you do a few third age total war custom scenarios you know with lord of the rings kinda factions

Sparta ! Is Sparta ! Best for defending and attacking.

only fan from tunisia i love you so much keep up the god work

rewatching this one, this is a great battle. :)

Damn Spartans, not one step back

Geez Rome 2 multiplayer looks like a lot of fun Wish I could play with you guys lol

My favourite units are hoplites when I’m playing campaign.

Current up to date Rome 2 is the Skyrim of Total War games. It's super buggy and kind of jank but at the same time sitting through the jank is super fun and it's a good game underneath.

How are there thracian warriors for athena? which dlc is that and are they actually worth it? Sorry for the stupid questions but im new and really interested in playing the Greek factions XD

Haha chillin with the enemy.

16:20 the artillery shot only seemed possible in old cartoons

Enjoying the Rome 2 gameplay, keep the game alive!.

I would love to see a battle between a united Greek army, Sparta, Athens, Macedon, or one of the Greek colonies like Syracuse, or Massilia, vs either a massive barbarian army or some sort of massive army of invaders like Cimmeria, Colchis, or the Odrysians.

Nice video Apollo

Can you do a battle without many mistakes ahahhaha good video apollo

How do you save Rome 2 multiplayer battles I’ve had some great battles but I can’t seem to save the battle replays

17:52 tell me about bugs, I had syracuse attacking a city of Emporion it was a really tough battle, me entire army was roman legions most of them the top (from subjugating rome and etruria) soccii extraordinary mercenary cretean archers etc, Only me general was me faction unit lol . They were all gold armor and gold weapons (almost mid game) they were unit type 4 from subjugating the shores of africa , numudia, coscica and sicilly and magna greacia. So started with 4 siege towers to take their city emporion, they almost had ~4000 units from garisson and a max unit defending the city, ( I had this 20 max roman/etrurian/syracusian/and other greeks lol, and a 20 unit admiral top unit, gold with many thoraxs that I confused for my other admiral with 5 catapults) Started destroying their towers with general's cats breached a wall, lost one ship to their defense arty, landed 4 thoraxs to the side of me army, then i pushed my top units to the 4 siege towers, he had bugged pikes and as soon as they landed i lost my best 4 units to the last men in seconds, the rest is history, i raged so much that I ordered my entire army to attack and raze the city to the ground, i did friendly fire i didn't care, even when i won the battle from routing them inside the city i ordered my cav to chase, i lost half my army and 7 units to the last man. 3 ships and 2 thorax swordsmen. I wanted to throw babies from the walls and execute the entire population but this option isn't available in Rome 2. THEN OUT OF FKN BLUE, massalian reinforcements arrived for emporion (wtf?) I couldn't close the battle at this point , had to rush to the towers to capture them and move units from the other side of the map to the breaches i made, burn the siegetowers i had with my own cats, i had 8 units available in sea that were crushed heroically by massalian 20 unit admiral , they lost 11 ships from this sea battle and i was like OKAAY thats their army, defeated it and later i realised 20 unit massalian general had entered the city from my breach, killed my cats and 1 unit of itallian horsemen i forgot there. Then i moved my entired exhausted army to the "acropolis" (Walled from all sides with an opening in the mid) that I HAD DESTROYED it's towers and defend it, had cretean archers both sides and all my army testudo and behind them shield wall thoraxs. Had hidden general socii and some other italian horsemen in the port area from the encounter with his ships charged them and sanwiched them, won the battle, had 3 units left, no navy, lost me admiral and me general(Faction leader). 2 Opposing political parties seceded, my subjugated Rome and Etruria seceded and declared war, Celtiberian confederate declared war. I haven't played since yesterday, not planning to.

How did you build walls in Sparta? I started a campaign as Spartans but walls are not available!

Would there be any chance for stuff like this in Total War: Warhammer 2? I would love to see multiplayer sieges in that game; I love historical sieges more, but maybe one or two battles in Warhammer for fantasy fun (if possible at all)

Bring these back .👊👉👍👈

you never go for flaming rounds if u need precision in your catapults. In fact , i never use flaming ammo on catapults. The extra damage isnt worth the precision hit. Plus , standar ammo is actualy better at firing at cav.

How do you exploit sound tactics like artillery positioning in a game like total war. It is a strategy game and strategy is all about exploitation (including Romans shield bashing their way through a pike formation)

It's 12 midnight here oh well lets get it done with.

Hail the sun god Apollo!

Sparta is very tough to beat when they are defending. They actualy get one of the few hoplites that can actualy kill instead of just holding (heroes of sparta). And still get very good mid tier hoplites that will hold forever leting ur archers (which you also have good options) do the damage. The only faction more brutal than them at defending, is rome. Rome is just OP in sieges.

"THICK line"

When do you play? Haven’t seen you online yet?

Dem stabbie bois

THIS IS AHU! AHU! AHU!

I'm sure Apollo realizes this, and I'm not trying to be a smart-a** or anything, but historically Sparta never rebuilt their walls after the fire that burned down their walls and palace. Instead they relied on their citizens to defend their city. Just in case of any misconception.