I just found this guy. Did such an excellent job. He states the problem at beginning and then tells you what’s he’s gonna do. He then goes to the very big picotee and then after explaining broadly he brings you back in to the details. I like how he said you can get as detailed or borax as you like and also how he gives good pointers like upgrading buildings unless there’s a negative to it. I’m happy to subscribe to this guy. He puts thought into it.
Great informative video, I just bought this game yesterday. Although I have played a bit of Total War Rome 2, it was good to get a good understanding of how Troy works.
Nice guide. Helpful and not too overwhelming. Some guides that are super long make me feel like uninstalling right away. Haven’t even opened the game yet, I’ve just been binging beginner guides. Slowly starting to make sense. I have never done this much pre-play research on a game I already owned.
Huge tip btw: do not be afraid to be in the red for a material. If you are a person who wants to constantly be at war or trade being in the red on one or two category’s is fine and totally something you should do if you need to take out an enemy or your antagonist. Just don’t go extreme with it. A safe amount to be In the red is around 1000-5000 at max for food, and around 10-500 for bronze. Note this is for mid-late game not early game try to never be in the red for early game as it will halt your growth immensely and can kill a game if severe enough
Yes. I remember the old days when cities were stand alone settlements. Having a few regions as part of a single province certainly is nice and makes things much more interesting.
Helpful video thanks. Are you going to be creating a video about how to properly seige a walled city? Found that lots of my troops die just trying to get in. Would be helpful. Also, how did you get those green, blue, and red lines you draw?
Depends on what stage of the game you are in. Personally I would do the siege icon in the hud. Wait a few turns to crate some siege machines(they help immensely when in the battle) get your tanky units/ hero to climb over the walls while your ranged units shoot the unshielded units/ other ranged units. Once the doors break rush in with the rest of your army. If you have reinforcements get a few to rush in thru the back/sides to take control of the victory point/flank
I really love these campaign videos, I hope somewhere that you do more of them for other factions. I know the basic is the same for each one of them, but I always find it very helpfull to know what you do the first 5 - 15 turns-ish. You had one for Grom the Poach in Warhammer, I also wished you made more campaign starts there.
If you dont feel strong enough to take on nearby factions, consider allying yourself with someone nearby. As the old saying goes, a burden shared is a burden halved. In the worst case scenario your ally gobbles up some land from your enemy, but you can potentially buy it back with a trade deal, and you know that faction you destroyed wont ever attack you. In the best case scenario, you take all their settlements for yourself and are much stronger than before
@@gamesmaster1060 then consider atleast signing non-aggression pacts, you might need to caugh up some resources to make it happen, but NA pacts go a long way to improving relations over time
Excellent as always Zerk' !! this one feels a lil' more like 1st and 2nd Rome games to me.surprisingly ,Agamemnon is a bit hard to play as.alot going on where he is located .gonna try some of the Trojans instead..lol
Nice video, thank you. Have you done - or are you interested in making - a "what's changed" kind of video about Troy, aimed at TW series veterans? I know the information in this and the battle video detailed most of the key features of Troy, but to some extent those were aimed at newcomers to TW, where the established mechanics are likely core. It would be interesting to know if certain new mechanics change the way you play from previous TW games. Using two handed spears as damage dealing units might be one example. The implications of the multiple resources might be another. I used to like those game manuals for a series that had a "what's new" section, which meant veterans could skip most of the rest or at least now what new sections they had to learn.
@@Zerkovich The Agamemnon has a button to activate a tutorial mode. Which starts a specialized turorial campaign. So experienced users would need to refrain from doing stuff they normally would. In order to follow along with that. I've been following along. So far it started with killing the commander clytoris. And taking over his fortress. So there's nothing really in particular other than not knowing how to proceed. I was watching some other user do a walkthrough of that tutorial campaign. He clearly understands the Total War. But was fumbling around alot and not explaining much clearly. Often spending time reading trying to figure stuff out himself. Basically unwatchable. Like just basic information like there's a giant standing on the base. OK so it represents your main character. But no clear explanation on what you as a character are, what you control, what the hell that giant does. Tutorial says to attack Corinth. OK. Then says to choose Encircle (which is the fourth option when initiating combat). Which I did. And nothing happened. It just says the settlement is under siege. I'm just standing there with no clue what to do or what's going on. In the help reference, it explains the first three options of initiating combat, leaving out the fourth.
@@khizrsuhailanwar90 use diplomacy, I am Achilles myself now after trying agamemnon. Didn't like Aga. As Achilles you get alot of wood early, so get 5 turns of food from someone and then u can have 2 armies. Also when you take a city you can sack and then occupy at the same turn. Not loot and occupy, but sack and then occupy. You get alot of extra resources. I am at minus 1400 food pr turn right now, but total food is 24 000
@@valorousjoe i feel like the ai can get bigger armies faster than me and also better troops. But I think it has alot to do with the diplomacy. I couldn't have more than 1 army in the beginning with Achilles, but I just swapped out my extra wood and stone for food, then I could have 2 full armies within the 15 turns. Then I just took provinces that gives food and now I'm good. One bad thing I have noticed that is still a problem with total war is that some factions declared war on me for no REASON. Factions that were far away. 5 turns later they beg me for peace even though I never attacked them, and they never attacked me😂 they even gave me 6000 food 😳😂
Are the other total war games just like this but within different worlds? I've never really played any games like this but im really interested in getting into it. I downloaded the game for free on epic a long while back and got into the game, zero sort of tutorial so I had no idea what I was doing and was feeling generally impatient at the time, so I turned it off after a few minutes and never touched it again. But obviously I'm here watching this video because I want to get into it 👍
OK where is the rest of Troy? I would really like to improve on diplomacy strategy. Like how to effectively use alliances in this game. Since it's such a huge major part of the game. And I always see toxics running around complaining about alliances rather than just improve their play. It's like being terrible at combat, and just complaining that the combat systems are bad. Therefore, nobody should be playing in combat. I have been using alliances pretty well. Yes you can have problems of getting dragged into war and such if you're not using it well. Yet the game isn't just going to hand you control over other factions. Just like it's not just going to hand you control over your enemy in combat. Here is a really good post about it - www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/iqo5zq/you_are_playing_twtroy_wrong_advancements_in
All was going well, just needed to conquer one more province. Started a siege and then Hector comes over with 4 armies, 20 units each, and screws me over.
@@mandytran8023 LOL, because I play for fun and don't wanna get stressed cos work/life already does that I have started just scamming the AI - offer them a long term barter agreement for ALL your resources, then accept, then offer them a long term barter agreement for 10 turns one piece of grain, that should bring a response of +30~+75 favour, then ask for a one time payment of all their copper, rinse repeat, get them to un-ally all their friends if possible, get them on a non-aggression pact with you etc. then cancel your first long-term barter and betray them asap, unless you want to play normally and want to actually get good of course. Then just enjoy the game how it was meant to be played haha
I find battles a bit boring, used to TW2 where I never run with doom stacks, I love diversity in the various armies and magic. Started on easy, took a settlement and immediately lost another to armies coming from nowhere, that´s ok ... didn´t expect it on easy though. The game was free .. so can´t really complain :). I could straight away see that things are a bit more complex than TW2 though in terms of ressource management and which buildings to go for, going back to my Dawi campaign atm, not really catching my attention but will give it a try later on.
It's a beginners guide. He touched the basics but he is completely right that you can p much ignore them on lower difficulties. He covered the important ones in depth. Too much information will just discourage and overwhelm new players. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ZephrymWOW as and old school tw player i just find it funny 😂 whole point of ignoring huge proportions of content its just fucking funny i dunno why tho🤣🤣
I came from TW Warhammer 2 and Napoleon TW and I thought understanding Troy was gonna be easy, boy I was wrong! this video helps a lot
Oh thank goodness, I needed this video.
I just found this guy. Did such an excellent job. He states the problem at beginning and then tells you what’s he’s gonna do. He then goes to the very big picotee and then after explaining broadly he brings you back in to the details. I like how he said you can get as detailed or borax as you like and also how he gives good pointers like upgrading buildings unless there’s a negative to it. I’m happy to subscribe to this guy. He puts thought into it.
Super-helpful. Love your guides.
FWIW, Greek vowels are all sounded, and accented in many cases. Same = SAH-May. Hyrie = HIGH-ree-yay.
Yeah I had no idea, haha. Thanks!
Found ur channel via TWW2, such a familiar voice is always welcomed, really needed a guide for this one :D
I think I needed this video. All I manage to do is make more enemies every time I enter the diplomacy tab.
Great informative video, I just bought this game yesterday. Although I have played a bit of Total War Rome 2, it was good to get a good understanding of how Troy works.
Nice guide. Helpful and not too overwhelming. Some guides that are super long make me feel like uninstalling right away. Haven’t even opened the game yet, I’ve just been binging beginner guides. Slowly starting to make sense. I have never done this much pre-play research on a game I already owned.
Huge tip btw: do not be afraid to be in the red for a material. If you are a person who wants to constantly be at war or trade being in the red on one or two category’s is fine and totally something you should do if you need to take out an enemy or your antagonist. Just don’t go extreme with it. A safe amount to be In the red is around 1000-5000 at max for food, and around 10-500 for bronze. Note this is for mid-late game not early game try to never be in the red for early game as it will halt your growth immensely and can kill a game if severe enough
Thank you! I just tried the game for the first time and just messed with stuff. The province thing makes way more sense now. Appreciate it.
Yes. I remember the old days when cities were stand alone settlements. Having a few regions as part of a single province certainly is nice and makes things much more interesting.
Oh my this is the best I've seen so far. u really got me on confederation xD
very good short explanation
This needed to be done, great work, helps me a lot to understand this new total war ! Thx m8
"... Or be a total DI...plomat" nice save bro ;7
Helpful video thanks. Are you going to be creating a video about how to properly seige a walled city? Found that lots of my troops die just trying to get in. Would be helpful.
Also, how did you get those green, blue, and red lines you draw?
Depends on what stage of the game you are in. Personally I would do the siege icon in the hud. Wait a few turns to crate some siege machines(they help immensely when in the battle) get your tanky units/ hero to climb over the walls while your ranged units shoot the unshielded units/ other ranged units. Once the doors break rush in with the rest of your army. If you have reinforcements get a few to rush in thru the back/sides to take control of the victory point/flank
and dont shoot units on the walls with your archers, aim for the ones on the ground
Nice Zerkovich, love you're work. Now that Troy is out does this mean we will see more videos from you, great cant wait
I really love these campaign videos, I hope somewhere that you do more of them for other factions. I know the basic is the same for each one of them, but I always find it very helpfull to know what you do the first 5 - 15 turns-ish.
You had one for Grom the Poach in Warhammer, I also wished you made more campaign starts there.
Thanks for this video Rome Total war and Napoleon Total war the games I play and even then my economy has always been my weakness vs the battles.
Your videos are informative and funny. Go zerkovich!!
Not the video we deserved, but the video we all need
I'm glad someone made a video about this, I have no idea what am I doing in the game LOLS
I dont feel like I can expand, if I try to go to war they always have armies appearing out of nowhere and destroying me
Perhaps you need to make more friends first.
If you dont feel strong enough to take on nearby factions, consider allying yourself with someone nearby.
As the old saying goes, a burden shared is a burden halved.
In the worst case scenario your ally gobbles up some land from your enemy, but you can potentially buy it back with a trade deal, and you know that faction you destroyed wont ever attack you.
In the best case scenario, you take all their settlements for yourself and are much stronger than before
@@jamesrobsonza7752 no one wanted to ally with me lol
@@gamesmaster1060 then consider atleast signing non-aggression pacts, you might need to caugh up some resources to make it happen, but NA pacts go a long way to improving relations over time
Excellent as always Zerk' !! this one feels a lil' more like 1st and 2nd Rome games to me.surprisingly ,Agamemnon is a bit hard to play as.alot going on where he is located .gonna try some of the Trojans instead..lol
Thank you. I thought this game was going to be simple like Age of Empires, but I realized the UI is a bit complexed.
Nice video, thank you. Have you done - or are you interested in making - a "what's changed" kind of video about Troy, aimed at TW series veterans? I know the information in this and the battle video detailed most of the key features of Troy, but to some extent those were aimed at newcomers to TW, where the established mechanics are likely core. It would be interesting to know if certain new mechanics change the way you play from previous TW games. Using two handed spears as damage dealing units might be one example. The implications of the multiple resources might be another. I used to like those game manuals for a series that had a "what's new" section, which meant veterans could skip most of the rest or at least now what new sections they had to learn.
Thank you for this. This is my first Total War game and was lost. I really appreciate knowing what is not totally important if I want to casually play
Took me 4 hours to fully get the campaign all by myself haha. Started over after that
I been playing. Still don't get much. Watched this vid carefully. It helps alot. But still a bit confused.
What are you confused by Chief?
@@Zerkovich The Agamemnon has a button to activate a tutorial mode. Which starts a specialized turorial campaign. So experienced users would need to refrain from doing stuff they normally would. In order to follow along with that. I've been following along. So far it started with killing the commander clytoris. And taking over his fortress. So there's nothing really in particular other than not knowing how to proceed.
I was watching some other user do a walkthrough of that tutorial campaign. He clearly understands the Total War. But was fumbling around alot and not explaining much clearly. Often spending time reading trying to figure stuff out himself. Basically unwatchable.
Like just basic information like there's a giant standing on the base. OK so it represents your main character. But no clear explanation on what you as a character are, what you control, what the hell that giant does. Tutorial says to attack Corinth. OK. Then says to choose Encircle (which is the fourth option when initiating combat). Which I did. And nothing happened. It just says the settlement is under siege. I'm just standing there with no clue what to do or what's going on. In the help reference, it explains the first three options of initiating combat, leaving out the fourth.
Is it just me or is the difficulty actually harder now. Been playing total war since empire, but Troy seems harder
Im literally stuck in easy mode achilles because general upkeep is so fucking high, so i cant defend while expending
@@khizrsuhailanwar90 use diplomacy, I am Achilles myself now after trying agamemnon. Didn't like Aga. As Achilles you get alot of wood early, so get 5 turns of food from someone and then u can have 2 armies. Also when you take a city you can sack and then occupy at the same turn. Not loot and occupy, but sack and then occupy. You get alot of extra resources. I am at minus 1400 food pr turn right now, but total food is 24 000
Yeah I started a campaign recently and I was like jesus this is way harder than Warhammer Total war. Idk why
@@valorousjoe i feel like the ai can get bigger armies faster than me and also better troops. But I think it has alot to do with the diplomacy. I couldn't have more than 1 army in the beginning with Achilles, but I just swapped out my extra wood and stone for food, then I could have 2 full armies within the 15 turns. Then I just took provinces that gives food and now I'm good.
One bad thing I have noticed that is still a problem with total war is that some factions declared war on me for no REASON. Factions that were far away. 5 turns later they beg me for peace even though I never attacked them, and they never attacked me😂 they even gave me 6000 food 😳😂
Played on easy mode as Aga, all was going well until I got screwed by Hector because he attacked me with 4 armies
Are the other total war games just like this but within different worlds? I've never really played any games like this but im really interested in getting into it. I downloaded the game for free on epic a long while back and got into the game, zero sort of tutorial so I had no idea what I was doing and was feeling generally impatient at the time, so I turned it off after a few minutes and never touched it again. But obviously I'm here watching this video because I want to get into it 👍
thanks for guide
think im still gna wait for warhammer 2
zerkovich i respect you
I have a hard time with the Achilles campaign. As I'm busy expanding, one of Hector's armies suddenly become so OP.
I am just wondering is there going to be a updated guide for vampire counts?
Nice vid mate. Thx :)
This looks like a great game. however I'm waiting until the blood dlc is available.
PB H, it used to be free on EG Laucher
great vid, thanks.
OK where is the rest of Troy? I would really like to improve on diplomacy strategy. Like how to effectively use alliances in this game. Since it's such a huge major part of the game. And I always see toxics running around complaining about alliances rather than just improve their play. It's like being terrible at combat, and just complaining that the combat systems are bad. Therefore, nobody should be playing in combat. I have been using alliances pretty well. Yes you can have problems of getting dragged into war and such if you're not using it well. Yet the game isn't just going to hand you control over other factions. Just like it's not just going to hand you control over your enemy in combat.
Here is a really good post about it - www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/iqo5zq/you_are_playing_twtroy_wrong_advancements_in
Skipped my tutorial thinking "I got this"... Buttttt, nah I really don't lol
Helpful 10/10
how often should i turn
I take one province then get stormed on all angles and completely screwed
All was going well, just needed to conquer one more province. Started a siege and then Hector comes over with 4 armies, 20 units each, and screws me over.
@@mandytran8023 LOL, because I play for fun and don't wanna get stressed cos work/life already does that I have started just scamming the AI - offer them a long term barter agreement for ALL your resources, then accept, then offer them a long term barter agreement for 10 turns one piece of grain, that should bring a response of +30~+75 favour, then ask for a one time payment of all their copper, rinse repeat, get them to un-ally all their friends if possible, get them on a non-aggression pact with you etc. then cancel your first long-term barter and betray them asap, unless you want to play normally and want to actually get good of course. Then just enjoy the game how it was meant to be played haha
does "raze settlement" work like it does in attila?
How do you enable these icons to draw lines on the map?
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Troy\scripts\preferences.script.txt
change ui_telestration_always_on from false to true
@@monty3854 It worked! Thank you so much!
How do I get these painting mechanics for the map an in battle?
Should I leave the unit scale to what the game suggested or bump it up?
Large unit sizes is generally best and the most balanced in TW.
@@Zerkovich Cheers
I would like to play TW: Warhammer 40000 :)
40k doesn't really fit the format sadly. Empire TW had garrisonable buildings for example, and it was underwhelming af...
im still dreaming about star wars total war
@@prawojazdy858 Dobry pomysł! Good Idea!!
Been watching total war for a long time now but I can’t play cause I’m not willing to pay and my comp can’t run it on 60 FPS
All I want is above 30 fps but I can't mantain that.
It was free on epic games
16:35 And they would like to become... Ur bEatcH.
I find battles a bit boring, used to TW2 where I never run with doom stacks, I love diversity in the various armies and magic. Started on easy, took a settlement and immediately lost another to armies coming from nowhere, that´s ok ... didn´t expect it on easy though. The game was free .. so can´t really complain :).
I could straight away see that things are a bit more complex than TW2 though in terms of ressource management and which buildings to go for, going back to my Dawi campaign atm, not really catching my attention but will give it a try later on.
16:37 LMAO
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If this is the first time ypu have picked up a total war game........ put it down and pick up rome total war (the first one)
Lmao nice guide. Just ignore everything.🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a beginners guide. He touched the basics but he is completely right that you can p much ignore them on lower difficulties. He covered the important ones in depth. Too much information will just discourage and overwhelm new players. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ZephrymWOW as and old school tw player i just find it funny 😂 whole point of ignoring huge proportions of content its just fucking funny i dunno why tho🤣🤣
Holy Hades, the UI is terrible.
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What you needed to do was not buy Troy. Your first step is Total war warhammer 2 :)
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This game fucking sucks. Did one battle, now my guy won't move, literally can't do a thing.
If this is the first time ypu have picked up a total war game........ put it down and pick up rome total war (the first one)