This battle is what Fall of the Samurai is made for 

The enemy have trained their artillery well! No, really, they REALLY trained them! Turned them into rail guns they did!

love that the sharpshooters' officer is firing his revolver alongside the rest of the unit, ultimately useless but dig the enthusiasm.

I really like just how much terrain matters in Shogun 2, perhaps more so than any other TW game. Aesthetically, the sound of the cannons is also amazing. Best music is still Rome 1 though.

God I love this whole smoke effect going down the hill. Really immersive stuff.

Best part of these Disaster Battle videos is that the tactics are SO EASY TO IMPLEMENT in my own campaigns. Love these fall of the samurai vids the most.

I'm the guy that sent that one in. Right before you said you didn't read the mail, I was wondering if you even read it. I just told you where the enemy would come in from and that I set up on that same hill. But it worked out fine anyway. When I fought the battle, they came in all at once and overwhelmed me, so I had no time to regroup. The enemy didn't regroup mid fight like they did here. Lucky break I guess. Anyway great battle, thanks for fighting and winning it. Glad you enjoyed it. Great video.

"That hill is making me wet" Great quote from the LOTW. Good battle!

9:00 gets you right into the middle of it

Really liked how AI reformed its units for second charge

Imagine how awful/terrifying it is being those guys at the very front taking the brunt of the cav charge and gunfire lmao.

A massive hill defense against a much larger force is one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring kinds of battle ever in FOTS. Like the title says, this is what FOTS was made for. An absolutely astounding and satisfying battle.

3:20 Pretty much everything can be stopped by most trees. If the tree is close enough, it can prevent "line of fire" confirmation for the gun(s) to even shoot, even though the hit box isn't as huge as that check thinks and the shell would go well wide of the tree.

Clarification for newer players and newcomers to the channel: Of course, the balance of power *is* important. Getting that yellow thing up in your favour is how the game determines that you win, after all. However, in 'Fall of the Samurai', and I assume other blackpowder-based Total War games, cannons are vastly misjudged in their killing potential and the maps are so delightfully crooked that any hill you deploy on and every clean line of sight can throw off the predictions immensly. It might sound like the Legend is contradicting himself halfway through a video, but what he means is that we, the players, should not be intimidated by the balance bar. It lies to us :) Cheers fellas!

That little spot for the cannons is so perfect.

It’s big hill battles like this that can make anyone feel super powerful even when outnumbered.

Almost had a stroke trying to read that title.

Legend is this is Legend is Total War here

You sir are an artist! So satisfying watching you tear apart armies with excellent strategy. Love your commentary through the process too.

Praise the lord and pass the ammunition!

I bought FotS years ago but never found the time to play it. Watching this string of videos has really made me want to clear my schedule.

I like it ❤ You know it was so long since the last time I saw a great fight like this

What a beautiful battle! Had to start another campaign after finishing the short campaign with only line infantry haha Also I believe you were the attacker given you could wait on the weather (only possible as attacker I believe) :D

That landcape looked awesome. Enjoyable vid

Shogun 2 is really one of the best total war, you win with tactic/positioning not just unit stats like in new total war.

All of that gun smoke is glorious.

I am loving all these FOTS vids but this one was super incredible

That was a lot of fun to watch!

I had a siege against three fullstack armies in vanilla shogun. I replayed it about ten times, although I managed to defend the castle the first time. But it was necessary to cut out the retreating enemies, otherwise my army would not have survived another such massacre 🙂

Really loving these Shogun 2 uploads

That position of that second gun was grinding my gears until the first one finally ran out of ammo and was moved. Glad it worked out. Great battle.

I have shogun 2 on steam played it way back when never played fall of the Samurai. Your videos have definitely made me want to give it a try, the gameplay looks completely different than Shogun 2 as I remember it.

Im so glad he's back doing historical games.

Really cool that this game still has such an active player base. Makes me wish, I still had a working Gaming PC.

This title is what we like to see (nice timing as well, legend)

*Finds one good hill right away, "Hot diggity dog! This place is magnificant!"

I can tell this is gonna be sick from that thumbnail

Gotta love Shogun 2!!

An interesting note about terrain is the difference between a plane and a changing gradient. In this battle, for much of it, some units are not firing, mostly because they are blocked by another unit despite being on a hill. It's because the hill gradient was largely constant, effectively becoming a flat plane so the angle of fire was still being drawn through units instead of over them. It's much better to place your infantry around the bottom of a hill, with lines moving higher up than at the top of the hill with lines getting lower. From the top of the hill, there may not be range to the change in gradient to allow your rearmost units to fire. But from the bottom of the hill, it's almost guaranteed. But the interesting thing is that it means that hills aren't always the best. A ditch can be absolutely amazing, letting units on a flat plane fire over one another, or even putting a melee unit in the ditch in front of your guns to prevent a melee charge. A ditch with a ridge behind is even better, letting you have 3 sets of units firing into 1 with proper placement.

This is battle is is is. I see! I think?

Fall of the Samurai hill tier list when?

Correct artillery gameplay: find the biggest hill for the biggest guns and guard them with all the smaller guns while letting the big guns do their job. Result: record kill counts!

Legend would you consider doing a FoTS campaign live stream? I would love to watch you play a full campaign of this game, especially as you seem to really enjoy playing it.

Damn, my man chose Saga and went with 2 Parrot Guns. Another 2 would decimate that jumpscare army reinforcements in no time seeing as Saga gets a hefty bonus for artillery (if I recall, Saga gets the lovely Accuracy bonus for their artillery).

I don't get the AI. 9:45 starts a nice surround. 10:48 nope - lets blob up and build a line, that always works. 23 years since shogun 1 and still stupid in wh3.

This battle looks epic. It's still mindblowin what they were able to achieve with this game and it's equally mindblowing they decided to not develop on this and instead go into fantasy strategy with warhammer and fps with hyenas. They had here a proper mid to late 19th century combat. They could have explored the American Civil War, colonisation of Africa, Europe nation-building wars of the period, and many more...

I mean given the title I was expecting a bridge defense with grenades, gatlings, artillery and bolt actions vs 10000 samurai but this was pretty dope too 😂

Holy shit this battle looks so good

Battle, this is

Your trouble with the cannons were a little funny. Telling it to shoot repeatedly won't exactly have it's LoS unblocked magically haha. I remember well the stress of getting those moody bastards to shoot when there's a single tree in the way or a single friendly cannon. Somehow that stops the entire battery from shooting. Very frustrating.

Lol, it really does look like the artillery got ran over by a train xD

Incredible battle

Going to install shogun 2 again. This convinced me!

ALERT, ALERT, TITLE TYPO ALERT, ALERT, TITLE TYPO Stand down, stand down, the situation has been dealt with

I think the enemies not immediately charging you was due to the second parrott gun running out of ammo, anecdotally i find that removes the artillery advantage. Usually when they have like 1 ammo left i stop firing them

hill people, we assemble once again!

Don't fret, Legend... Some people simply do not understand that war and battle is simply not fair. The one who is able to exploit their battlefields better are more likely the ones to be victorious

The infantry that got cut up at the bottom of the hill were on the reverse slope of another one. Obstructed line-of-sight + right at the front to receive cavalry charges = bleed boys.

If I was the player, I'd fight the battle and make an epic last stand. Take the defeat, and learn from it. Nothing is perfect, and nothing can directly be in plan, be careful next time scout more.

This battle puts 'super' into superfiring.

Watching this battle made me install Shogun 2 once again

Amazing!

You finally made it it, im installing shogun 2 rn

Okay, guard mode looks broken with kneel fire. In an earlier video I was like "omg put them on guard mode", but apparently it doesnt seem to work. Thats very odd

Hey this's the place i chose to hold entire south factions when i play independent Nagaoka. I got like 20 battles, 5 historic victory.

Legend of the Hill

Legend has the cheekiest laugh.

I think the spot you chose for arty would've been good for the sharpshooters aswell. Unfortunately they dont kneelfire so their only real plus is range

Damn, the sieges in old Total War games were so good that you'd even fight siege battles in the field.

How you have the restraint to have no close-ups, is mind blowing

@LegendofTotalWar, something can't more more ideal. They are either ideal or they are not.

FoTS looking so good

I have to say... this is the least cheesiest I ever seen Legend. This is just tactical brilliance with terrain

Legend: "balance of power is still even" me: "ish" Legend: "ish" me: ":()"

Legend you should remind people to subscribe, I’ve been watching for a few months since getting back into the game recently. But I didn’t realize I wasn’t subbed. I know other creators swear by the effect of reminding people to sub in the first 30 seconds.

Napoleon was not a fan of putting cannons on hills and cliffs. He prefered to put them on plains so that enemy cavalry and infantry couldn't get under their cone of fire. He also thought they should be put on the far flanks so that they could fire down enemy infantry once they had depolyed in their line

One must imagine having that many Imperial Infantry

In S2 it's easier to toggle "fire-at-will" off and on than to manually select targets of they have LoS issues.

"50% of the time, works every time"

one gattling cannon on that hill where was arti will be epic massacre ,shogun is for me still best total war game , ye now warhammer but this game is 15 year old still awesome

This army is missing glorious french Marine Infantry

Regarding artillery in 14:50, one time in med 2 at a bridge battle i placed my artillery one in front of the other. And the one behind was just shooting the "operators" of the one in front. So if they were trying to shoot, maybe that happened.

Legend

Any thoughts on having a live stream for Shogun 2- Fall like the good ole days of TWW2? Learned so much from those.

I think samurai maybe would like your military genius

Lesgoooo

Nice battle this is what TW is about

Shogun 2 has my favorite battle maps... there's so many different ways to do battles

The term "Hill Cheese" is quite funny to me.

Does anyone remember the "nice coat" guy from Batman Begins? In 30 years, I imagine Legend being that guy, except sitting outside on a sunny day in Australia, patting the ground and muttering "nice hill!". 🙂

It feels like everyone here seems to be playing as Saga. Same here; I ended up picking my first campaign as Saga too...

It is a pity that you can't send your modded disaster campaign, I played as Poland in Napoleon total war, throughout the game I tried to ally with France, but they always refused, even when I was attacked by Prussia. And on the hundredth turn Napoleon decided that attacking me is better than splitting Austria and Prussia between each other. It happened when I attacked Galicia and provoked other members of Anti-French coalition. Only good thing that happened in this void of anti-player bias is that Hungary revolt and allied me)

I fucking love this game oh my GOD

The enemy artillery dying to a train... 🤣

les goooo

Will you ever do Rise of the Samurai?? i feel like people have forgotten it exists. I never played it so i'd love to see gameplay.

Everytime i hear fall of the samurai's OST i'm just blown away by how hard it goes CA almost always does a good job with total war OST but my god the shogun 2/fall of the samurai soundtrack is fire

Hill cheese? I like to imagine the Prussians fighting Napoleon and the general saying "It's not fair! He's using hill cheese!"

SERIOUSLY though did a train come and crash into those two enemy parrot guns?! That would be immense!

14:56 common glitch is arty will simply collapse on train tracks.

25:45 Guess they never read Sun Tzu?