Top 5 Fragile Total War Factions 

*Denmark also wants to know his location*

Fucking Milan

This is true.

@@twinzzlers Milan - Every freaking time.

Idk about yall but France always attacks me early on too.

Vlad will remember that.

Vlad Will Flay You !!!

Ive heard from a reliable source thay Isabella Von Carstein gives quite a mean *SUCC*

@@Mrkabrat fail and it's suck not succ.

that should be quoted. and besides he should play that with mods in order to keep vlad alive.

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME

That's rough buddy

yup them and egypt always get wrecked

That is what happened to them in history though

@@christiandauz3742 not exacly...they were dominating until rome and parthia destroyed them but they dont do anything

@@Balajohn_ Exactly just like in history

@@christiandauz3742 but they never dominate and lose to antioch to egypt

In so many years that I played Rome Total War they were almost always the first one to die. And most of times I did not even see the damned ones.

@@23Zeljko If you do not start next t them or are expanding fast you will not see them. I still remember when I opened the historical battles and didn't know what that faction was, as I haven't seen it in my first two campaigns at all.

Egypt basically always conquered their central settlements fairly early on and their west and east ones just fall to the Greeks/Pontus and Parthia/Armenia respectively

I was reached a campaign where Pontus dominated everything in the east, from Anatolia to Parthia. Then I once played ERE in barbarian Invasion where the Celts dominated all in the west, and kept sending stacks to Constantinople.

those guys are the most versitille and strong faction, escept for the early game... I never played as egypt in any game because of how much they backstabed me in rome 1

the only time Portugal hasn't been wiped out in my campaigns was when I conquered all of Spain's territories, minus one, and gave them to Portugal. Then 20 turns later Spain somehow managed to reclaim all of their territory and have Portugal as a vassal. Also, every time I play as England Spain always wants to take Wales from me for some reason

you mean that not dat.

What trait do you get from defeating her?

The Princess is in another castle!

Vincent Celeste haha why are you correcting everyone’s grammar

Man, fuck, why did you do this?

Literally identical to my current playthrough 😂

Yeah me to, except they were my second biggest rival behind the HRE (I was england). I don’t know why put Portugal always beat the shit out of spain in my campaigns. Honestly for Medieval 2 Scotland or Novgorod would have been better picks.

Their army roster’s good and they’re on the edge of the map so if they survive the early game they can be really strong. They just get wiped really earlier sometimes due to their 2 starting settlements being so far apart

Same idea I thought they was number 1

Tokugawa not only are very susceptible to being swatted... they're also weak as hell. They have no potential. This top 5 features factions that all have great potential but disappear within 5 turns because of OUTSTANDING MOVE total war ai.

He included games he's played a lot of (and empire) and Shogun 2 isn't one of his favorites

@@schuttle89 yeh I think that is the real reason he seem doesn't interest in shogun 2 and three kingdoms

@@SS-je3kr in Shogun 2 you can't really tell which AI gonna be strong if you not near them it's very randomly but most of the time in my legendary campaign the area surround Kyoto is the Hattori on the right of them is between ikko ikki or oda(60% time is oda 40% is ikko ikki) and next to those 2 is Takeda or Uesugi( 80% 20%)

*Elsaß-Lothringen

@@oguzhangorgun6918 soon

@@paulenan9636 With Merkel?, i dont think so.

@@oguzhangorgun6918 I fear we all will have fond memories of Merkel, once AKK takes over...

@@paulenan9636 more like the History Matters "SOON" type.

Portugal always take Ireland in my playthroughs

@@Smoking_Manthis ^

that what i thought when i see this video

Snesko Belic oda never cared much for history

Lol, how they are not in this list, number of times when they died on turn 1 is absurd

Maybe he doesn't consider them strong

not entirely give it a few turns.

It's because u probably played the 1.05 vanilla version. In the older ones they are much weaker. In the 1.05 they are very aggressive and expansionist

Apparently not Napoleon, nor Hitler, etc etc… I love that Medieval II very much gave you the option to make that mistake though..! (...Well, I didn't love it the first time I tried, but hey)

It's one of the classic blunders - like drinks getting switched while your back is turned. :P

@@HerrRoehrich :D

unless you are the mongols?

@@apokos8871 *YESSS!*

yes, it is odd

Not Wales, but Ireland for me

Yeah i was doing a campaign with each faction and during both Scotland and England i had them showing up at my doors it was damn annoying

I Feel you so much! I was playing a campaign as scotland and suddenly the portugese king just D-days Wales out of nowhere. I beat them back and kill there king and prince and think im done with them but ten turns later another full stack lands in wales and by wiping that I actually defeated the portugese faction because I killed their last noble. So from a Spanish perspective all the portugese Kings went oversees and died , only leaving leaderless rebels behind....

Yes

"You either die as a knock-off of Spain, or live long enough to establish a colony in the British Isles."

Without fail. They want my sheep

But his reason for not including the Western Roman Empire is a bit silly, so if the Seleucids don't count by the same reason, it's also problematic.

@@alex_zetsu his reason for not including them is because he’s separating fragile from weak. West Rome and the Seleucids aren’t fragile, they’re just weak. It’s not like the Seleucid’s are a powerhouse until they lose Antioch, because I’ve seen the seleucids get reduced to just Sardis and Seleucia and then hold on strong for the rest of the game. They just don’t have the resources at the start to deal with it, so they’re weak. But East Rome on the other hand, once I see them lose Constantinople, it’s over. They just evaporate into the dustbin of history like dry ice. That’s fragile

Bcs CA didn't give a shite about accuracy these days. Well they still don't but not so much as back then :D

Is to give then a way to expand, all factions have rebels settlements to then to conquer, Pamplona is next to Zaragosa

Same reason Russia is "Russia" and not The Kingdom of Novogord. Stainless Steel's mod fixes a lot of the minor factions to be more historically accurate.

@@ktvindicare +1

They should have made Pamplona a rebel settlement with 2-3 Basque units buffed with experience. It would suffice for Portugal only to control the city of Lisbon. Milan and Denmark also start without castles.

Naah he already did that. White huns, total war Attila win.

Vampire coast. Dread fleeth xd should be first, second seleucid empire rome 1, third chotzu fots, 4th should be ostrogoths attila and 5th Otomo in shogun 2

Greenskins in WH. Really freaking fun, but they can't manage public order for the life of them.

What I found interesting in Empire TW is, that the Austrian Line Infantry has 150 men per unit, compared to most of the other LI, where one unit only has 120 men. Also for some reason Austrian LI is also "a lot" cheaper. I mean some stats are a bit lower, but overall it is the most cost efficient in all of ETW.

@@morganwithaneevee246 The Greenskins are one of the weakest WH2 factions

They do not necessarily get crushed until the Egyptians reach them whilst having the Brutii knocking on their western border so

The same goes for Napoleon Total War!

Usually because they are an easy target for Prussia to conquer before invading Poland/Austria

Is it 1 or 2? When I play 1 what you say is the case. But 2 never see them unless start next or play as them.

Yeah I've noticed that too. They normally take Bordeaux then constantly invade Wales and Ireland

Them and Spain always go for Wales if I own it. In my England, Scotland and even my Denmark playthrough(once I took Britannia) Portugal and Spain dont leave Wales alone

@@gearsankylosaurus9624 Never had Spain go for Wales, always just Portugal

I wouldnt say its interesting, given these placeholder factions LL factions start at war with, should always just die imo. Currently there are a number of LL factions which you'll never see if you dont start next to them. These include Lizardmen /Mazdamundi (killed by either Skeggi or New World) Vampires/ Vlad and Mannfred actually, even if he lives longer, Lokhir, Khalida, all the Skaven most of the time, all VCoast (whenever Tyrion decides to slap the Maelstrom.. or Teclis, altho I've no idea how he confederates Tyrion nowadays when Tyrion is always larger, the other Vcoast lords usually die before that), Arkhan, Skarsnik, other Greenskins are usually also killed by Dwarves, Beastmen (ofc they're a bit special. But imo the main Beastmen faction should return EVERY TIME, not some crappy noname horde), Dark Elves also have a hard time because of the northern Chaos armies usually going for their coast first, not Ulthuan. So yeah, in current patch Order factions rule by a huge margin. If there is a top 5, I can tell you who they tend to be: High Elves, Empire, Dwarves, Bretonnia and Settra/Kroq-gar. If you're evil you'll have a hard time surviving. Esp. since most evil factions hate each other just as well and rarely confed (except dark elves). So by the time Archaon dies, the world is usually a happy place with the End Times averted and world peace achieved. And most Legendary Lords get to be actually legendary, as some item in rpg-s, since there is a really small chance you can get their traits. Some may like it, but I think non-Order factions need a buff somehow. And yeah, I remember the patch before this, where Vcoast and Vcounts ruled hard. That was the other end, but this isnt good either.

@Abhinandan Banerjee yes, but if the empire is to have minimal territorial losses, I think a player that is just "experienced" is not enough

@Abhinandan Banerjee and till you have played at least 30-40 custom or campaign battles, so you are a good strategist. When playing as the Western Roman empire, the odds in battle will often be against you, so you need to know how to win while outnumbered or at least inflict maximum amount of casualties

Destroy the churches. Don't spend any money until your interest payments are high.. then expand out ;)

@@Nobumblegumforyou you can't just destroy churches. That will lower public order

@@makeromaniagreatagain9697 you calculate what is better off by playing around with lowering taxes/constructing public baths and the issuing of certain edicts and the development of governors.

me too, glad many people pointed it out

Shim can easily die to their northern neighbour with the horses resource.

Able Seaman Stainz 1 Rome 2 Rome 3 Rome 4 Rome 5 Rome

Any that bonuses for merchants

Yeah, same. It's a real shame because as a player it would be really cool to face off against all their high-tier units in the late game, but it just never happens. That said I'm currently playing Europa Barbarorum and the Seleucid Empire isn't such a pushover which is cool (currently playing as Macedon ravaging egypt).

​@@couchpotatoe91 It is a shame, but it makes sense when CA decided to make one faction go at war with like 5 factions and have a terrible early game roster.

@@RTB3550 Well, the wars are hostorical. That said giving the seleucids only barracks that can recruit militia hoplites at best just doesn't make any sense. Also Greece has a unit of Spartans, Carthage a unit of elephants, but the seleucids have nothing despite there being enough reason to give them either silvershields, elephants, companion cavalry or something similar.

I rarely meet them in Halicarnassus or Sardis when I'm playing as Brutii. Sonetimes a diplomat comes to rome oferring map info and trade rights but havent seen them dominate.

me too, glad a lot of people are pointing it out

They are so good. Aventuros make my day.

and before it was nobunaga

You need to rebel against Imagawa and go to war against Takeda and Hojo whilst getting a negative penalty so that’s why it’s always dying.

Yees but there was never much potential with the bribe brigade with an AI leader.

This!^

they don't have a strong potential to begin with.

FUCK YOU ADVISER

"Agnus, you cow, come down here and have sex with the Pope."

South European General speech: "It is said that the French are good lovers, this is true..just ask any barnyard animal"

Really? Dwarfs usually steamroll in my campaigns when I'm not playing as them. They usually stomp the greenskins

only in my recent playthrough have the seleucids survived until i came along, and surprisingly enough egypt was destroyed rather early

@sum body well pontus starts near them, if you play as a faction in Europe they almost never survive

He's in the thumbnail

In my game he almost always ally himself with Mannfred and they team up against Empire and dismantle it quickly. I remember my last game Vlad took Altdorf. I rarely see him dying.

There is no protagonist in any of these games. They are strategy games. Even then it's quite easy to say that rome IS treated as the protagonist in rome 1.

West Rome: Rome barbarian invasion

You dun goofed

rekt

I guess he was going by the ratio between how likely they are to get wiped out under AI control vs. their in-game/real-life/in-universe strength.

@sum body you're so edgy ;)

congrats, you got the joke

@@Sarcasmses Or it could've been unintentional.

@@icloptomlpporn4776 it was intentional, it's a common meme on his stream

@@Sarcasmses I don't watch those.

@@icloptomlpporn4776 ok consider this your meme memo then

You can use troops as garrison, also pro tipp in empire hold taxation down it makes the bigest economy grow

He normally has a rule where he limits his lists to one per each game

@@liamwalton4183 he didnt include any game from rome 1 so that doesnt make sense

@@stephenhartley2853 Ah that's right, my bad

@Niek Warnas Not always, check out my last 3 timelapses, they did pretty good in em...Thrace literally never survived