Top 10 Factions: Rome Total War - Barbarian Invasion 

Is it on twitch or RU-vid! I'm really looking forward to it!

It will be on RU-vid. Then, hopefully, I should be able to upload the Stream as a Video on a Second Channel. And every week their may be a funny highlights video from the Stream.

I do have Windows 10. To fix the FPS I had to use the d3d8 file. There's guides for that online. As for Streamin time, it will usually be around the Afternoon- Evening UK time. There will be weekly schedule posted that should show exact day's, times, and games. : )

Oh, I love Barbarian Invasion stuff. Can't wait! When your new computer arrives, will you switch from large to huge unit scale?

If it can run it XD It's not a pc power issue, it's a bug issue with new pcs on older games that has certain stuff not work. However, I may just stay with Large, to help with the path-finding. Don't know yet, there may end up been a vote. : )

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​@@MelkorGGthe alemani??? F*** the alemani.😂

The Vandals, like the much later Vikings were not at all much worse then the other realms at the time. Stupid propaganda from the victims.

@@danielolsson7134 so? they still sacked R O M A

@@danielolsson7134 Actually the Vikings were considered worse by a variety of different sources so not really a comparable thing. But yes, the Vandals were not as bad as the Goths

​@@danielolsson7134 Vikings were not a realm, but just the plunderers from Scandinavia. Not all Northmen were Vikings, but if you view the Vikings as a realm, they are actually the worst because 100% of them were plunders.

I do love them.

Everybody who hates them basically just doesn't know how to use them. Cav archers are kings through and through, the most broken unit in RTW and in RTW:BI. If you can't use them properly I have only one advice - git gud.

Men in general hate missile cavalry, thats litteraly how noobs play, when i first played Rome total war, i took the Scythians and was laughing at my opponents that could do nothing to catch me, even with good troops, i felt bad so i decided to don't use it anymore

Downside of the berbers is the very limited roster on units

It's a pity they are unplayable(

Zuldavar the Butcher aka Диванный Стратег unless you do some file edits

Илья Салинский playable on iOS

Oh yeah, old fashioned but still able to fight back! Good, i love they have chariots (feature that completely disapeared on mainland Europe) and berskers, Hounds of Culann

​@@roonster1324 can you post a series of you doing playing a campaign as them?

What if you not using huge units? I plan on playing them after beating the game as the Goths, apparently their starting regions have pretty low income so it's tough from the beginning.

I might be 2 years later but if you have Rome Remastered, try the mods: -Mundus Magnus for BI or -Barbarus Mundi (BI also) it gives lot more regions, you can see the entirety of Persia and India. But the ai cheats even more, the WRE had legions of doom (30 stacks in northen gaul)

YAY! Another Alemanni fan, they are so underrated, i know they use the lombard roster, their troops could had at least have been renamed just like some units of the Romano-British about the Western Roman Empire. I feel weird to have Lombard Berserkers when fighting the proper lombards. In Remastered Rome TW BI i could suggest you a mod that will make the campaign even harder for the Alemanni: "Ruins of Rome 500 AD" omg the ostrogothic kingdom is obsessed about attacking your tribe, then the frankish and burgundian kingdoms joins the ostrogothi, you can still repel waves after waves of enemies but you won't have the cash to just retrain/replenish your troops (by the way thats medium difficulty) By now im a Great Germanic Empire (Alemanni) and now fighting the sedentary hunnic empire that took over the balkans

Yep : )

Yup, Horde up and go south!.

Hhhhh

They start as an enemy of WRE and they have a starting position only good for attacking WRE. Alemanni are there because screw Rome!

@@ardademirkale9858 but they will loose fast

​@@jotaro2690if you're a genius the alemmani will never lose fast

They forgot to add the Suebi, the most underrated of the germanic factions in history during the barbarian invasion.

You're not meant to fight the huns and Vandals, you're meant to pick up your bags and move somewhere else, There's prime real estate in Greece. Same for the Goths btw

@@frisianmouve I don't want to be a pussy and abandon the glorious homeland

@@Randomstuffs261 Then dont! But also dont complain as pussy on interne. Sarmatians are one of the most interesting and challenging factions to play with. Melkor doesnt know also what he is talking about... complete nonsense

@@brakonierrr7067 chill out dude, we're just joking around

@@brakonierrr7067 agreed

You even have the Alemani logo as you channel icon XD

The Huns may attack the Vandals and the Vandals become irrelevant. The Huns attack you with so many armies that with walls you can sally out and AI sucks and stands in tower. Killed 4000 huns took 100 casualties on normal unit size. Take Campus Iazyges and rush gothic spearmen then goth raiders. Ai is bad at diplomacy, will often accept peace and you get off free. I had a really fun campaign with this luck and strategy

You can actually hold them off by getting enough Gothic Spearmen to hold the starting town if you do it right. You have to keep them from getting killed by the cav-archers while also stopping the enemy from pouring through the holes they make in the walls, but if you can block the gaps and not get pushed back, and kill the enemy Generals you can break the whole horde or at least make them move elsewhere. It's hard tho 😀

With the most interesting army imo and a nice map color they are my favorite faction as well

In Remastered, there is even a mod that makes them be more op , mod name: FRANKS OP and they can build everything the Romans can build and have more units, unfortunately this mod crash my game

Well try play the Roman empires and you will get a taste of the damn management in the early turns..

I played as the Vandals once. Wanted to beeline for the African coast so I headed south.. but no ports until I got to Athens. And then I was like.. oh, this is kind of nice. Unlikely to garner too much attention. I'll just take it easy and rest on the beach. ;o) And then I suddenly had replaced the western part of the ERE. Funny how that happens. Goths are a fun faction to play as, too.

@@LyricalDJ yeah I liked playing as the Goths too. You can either horde or defend the first settlement with spearmen from the steppe hordes (though that 2nd option can be a bit hard sometimes, I kinds prefer it...when it works lol), i've done both in different playthroughs. In my last runthrough as the Vandals, they basically replaced the historical Frankia, plus a bit more - all of Gaul, 'Germany' and Italy. 😀 I just wish the Saxons had more troop options, I like the idea of playing as them, but they are so limited. Or that the Romano - British were playable, try to take the WRE over as a successor state, now THAT would be an interesting playthrough, with Graal Knights!

yeah i dont know why do saxons have like one axe unit, one sword unit and that is pretty much it, the Attila version of the saxons has so many different units

Alemanni: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Saxons aka. how to lose the game as quickly as possible

Playin with other factions, I never see them succeed. Either low public order gets them or Alemanni.

Pretty much the only way to play as the Alemanni is blitzing the Saxons and then beating the Franks to taking Roman France. Absolutely great campaign, probably the hardest barbarian faction

Thats odd. Some things may not work but it should work like it did for me. There is a known problem with Medieval 2 total war with windows 10 where you can go into the exe file and run it with windows 7 compatibility and it MIGHT work, but who knows with the internet.

It's done through using the Descr_Strat file. It has all the regions labelled under faction names and you can move stuff around in there.If you mess up though, it could crash your game.

MELKOR Thank you so much, I will try

Something must have gone wrong XD Yes, all are unlimited turns, except Alexander DLC. Maybe you died to Regicide (where all family members die) which instantly kills you.

@@MelkorGG oh great then! Yh I think my generals died, the ones in North Africa died mid game and was left with two in Cordoba and the kingdom next to it. can you recrute generals because they always die lol.

Proto-Dutch! (Only for color reason)

yes they have one good sword unit, one ok cavalry and one good axe unit, they have maybe the least amount of units in the game for some reason

Yeah the franks are the ones who have the interesting axemen

For the Horde!

Impossible. You are obvious cheater!

​@@user-ox7ob6fm7e I hope you're joking.

well it doesn't matter whether op or not, he just doesnt like to play with them.

Thanks. Don't worry, the video, once streamed, will not be deleted. It will either be: A. Made Private then shared as a link on Discord or B. Be uploaded onto a Second channel just for the Vods. (Can't upload normally on Main channel as there is a risk it may mess up the algorithm) There will also be a Weekly highlights video of the funniest moments and stuff. : )

XD Yep, I get asked around 5 times a day average now : ) Yorkshire, Northern England.

@@MelkorGG lol well thank you for answering my question. I thought somewhere in the UK but was not sure.

@@MelkorGG I think i subbed when you were at 4 or 500 subs. Glad to see you are doing so well now!

You seems to play different game to me because Clabiaries and especially the Immortal would make a mince meat any ERE unit ypu have early game and later also You can win the game easily with just Cav with Sassanid while other factions would have to do some works to get their heavy cav to do that.

@@huntermad5668 I once beat the game with armies composed nothing but a hordes of peasants in the center and flanks of Clibnarii and Cataphractii. I just don't like the fact how the Sassanids have a poor infantry roster.

@@grimgoreironhide9985 that's how they fought their wars in Iran and that's how they killed roman generals and took roman emperors as prisoners of war. from Crassus who was killed by only a full cav Parthian army. to valerian who was captured fighting the Sasanian king. that large highland called "iran" wouldn't allow having a big empire with infantry core army. highland open field and long marches without any ships. so having a good combination of light and heavy cav is the best choice. and matter of fact they did have some heavy and good infantry not as good as roman infantry obviously but good enough. CA just didn't create them in this game.

@@spartanh1438 So glad Attila fixed the Sassanid roster.

Yep, but only 10 : )

Exactly, they are difficult to fight against. Also, I don't play to win, I play to entertain on videos or stream, and cav archers are less entertaining to watch me use, and slower to fight against dragging out the gameplay, so I avoid them for that to.

Makes perfect sense haha, and are the sarmatians worth using if you got cheat codes and can build your army fast haha cus I love their banner