Jon: charges exhausted troops up a hill, into arrow fire, and turns them aroud when the enemy cavalry comes galloping down Troops: immediately break Jon: "Surprised Pikachu Face"
He'd be the worst person to play chess against. You wouldn't know what's a feint and what's just indecision. The way he runs his heavy cavalry back and forth in the back lines always gets me. Just pick a flank!
All this time waiting for Jon to finally take over Greece with his massive pirate army has given me balls bluer than the massive pile of Scipii corpses he's amassed.
Tiberius! I am the golden dragon from the Far East and I’ll tell you your fate! The great leader Jon of the Dacians will come and slaughter Rome and your family! You must come up with a plan greatly in order for you to live! I, the golden dragon have told your fate. Be warned great Tiberius
Oh, so I’ve just got the news from the gods that I need to message you and this is how the gods treat me! Well, that’s fine I can just talk to Gaius Scipio and bring him the news.
There are a couple of ways to interpret this. Your balls are more blue than the corpses are blue? Or the pirate army gives you blue balls more than the corpses give you blue balls? Inquiring minds want to know.
"I'm not saying I've already got a target in mind, but wouldn't my empire look a lot more asthetically pleasing if Dacia didn't actually exist" - Thrace, probably
Some of what appears to be his troops rushing is him using fast forward, but yeah he really ignores the stamina mechanic too often much to his own detriment.
In his defence, they have changed the run mechanic now so that the units are running by default and you have to actually click on the run/walk button to get them to walk. Single click walk, double click run isn't a thing in Remastered.
@@nicholasdraper4722 well if you watch his old series he does it a lot too though it has been worse. Somebody should @him that info on like twitter or something. Or claire. Ooo. @Claire Rousseau. Let her tell him xD
@@nicholasdraper4722 you can change it to single click walk double click run by changing the default modes. I turned guard mode on by default and run off by default, which is opposite of the suggested. It's in the space-bar menu
Jon, a few tips concerning cavalry: 1. You should use alt-attack when fighting foot units with cavalry. They will pull out their swords which do more damage. 2. There's no point pulling your cavalry back three meters to charge again, all you're doing is momentarily stopping them from attacking while they're still under attack. To get the charge bonus you need to pull them much further back. 3. Wedge formation is completely broken. If you charge a unit, the wedge will keep charging through _any and all units_ inbetween, keeping their charge bonus all the way trough. This can be used to frankly outrageous effect, potentially obliterating your enemies in mere seconds.
He's the perpetual archvillain of Rome: Many a Total War. I had a moment a few hours ago where I realised the cool young general Gaius on my new Scipii campaign was the very same man. It was like looking into my son's future and seeing he'd become Darth Vader.
If you tell a unit that's in a tight space to Withdraw, they use different, more sensible pathing; and will disengage from melee much more reliably than even furiously clicking at them to run away will manage.
Good detail to remark. That Scipii stack lifted the siege on Lilybaeum because it see's a city with less defenses. The ai likely grade their attack priority on likelihood of winning. It did not consider the status of the faction before acting.
After watching yesterday's video, I thought this was part of the same series. Needless to say I was very confused as to where you had gotten all those horses and archers. Thanks for the video!
31:52 "Home is behind the world ahead And there are many paths to tread Through shadow to the edge of night Until the stars are all alight. Mist and shadow Cloud and shade All shall fade All shall fade"
Crete and Anatolia and Greece share a merc pool. I'm not sure exactly where the borders are, but there is overlap. Since he got the mercs in Crete, there are none in Rhodes.
playing as if this was barbarian invasions. "oh, the horsemen faction is taking dacia? we'll just go horde and make everything so much worse for the next faction in line."
My first game with the remaster has been a Brutii campaign. The Scipii didn't get stuck as they did in yours play through, but the Juili were beaten back to their first 2 settlements. They have recovered to 4 now, but have made peace with the Gauls
I just started this challenge myself today. In my case, it turned out that Thrace wanted to be my enemy, and I made a critical mistake by only leaving my (very old) faction leader as the only unit guarding the capital. He died on the same turn as the Thracians began their invasion, and I wasn’t able to get reinforcements to the capital bc most of them were off over at Aquincum, so Thrace got the city without a fight. I managed to get it back pretty easily and am preparing an offensive against Thrace right now, and with that conquest I will be able to get a port and thus an economy.
32:45 I did actually lose a general to those Cretans. Not even through arrow fire, he charged them while they were repositioning and immediately died...
Kydonia, Patavium, Sardis, Halicarnassus and Rhodes have the same mercenary pool. Also, Apollonia, Thermon, Athens and Corinth. These are the only two pools with Cretan archers. Frequency of replenishment is higher in the first one. Nicomedia and Ancyra have their own separate pools. Check them both. No Cretans or hoplites though.
Jon I'm pretty sure casualties don't recover more from arrows than melee. Iirc it's that earlier casualties recover more than later ones (hence why most of the recoveries on Crete were the bodyguard), and it's just that missile units tend to do their thing at the beginning of a battle before it descends into melee. It's been a few years since I've played so I might well be wrong, but that's how I remember it being.
If i remember talk from modders way back, there is a decent amount of math to it. Each unit has a base chance of recovery as a hidden stat, modified by a variety of factors. So much of Rome was procedurally calculated resulting in a much more organic flow to the game.
I've long wondered wether the procedural battle maps are identical for all players or if everyone uses a different randomiser seed, but it seems they are! I've had the exact same map as in 37:53 when taking out random rebels in that spot, graveyard and all! (They were clever enough to take the high ground, though)
The right click on the map that shows you the faction who controls the region still exist It's shift and right click or alt and right click... its remastered!
Speaking of becoming the new Brutii: In my game, the senate themselves clearly wants me to replace them. After they completely failed to launch, the senate keeps sending me missions to attack Apollonia instead. Does the game still cheat properly in favour of your "allies"? 'Cos both of them seem to be having an impossibly bad time for me...
You could get that settlement before scythia, instead sending an army should of send 1-2 cav units to start besieging they are faster and travel more distance then regular infantry so would of made it easily then wait for your army just to catch up
Those falxmen impetuously charging, while huge numbers of noblemen watch on and go, well, we can't possibly take those peasant jobs, so I guess we go home boys! amazing
Day 354 of requesting Zoo Tycoon. Aside from exams and the actual graduation, I am officially done with college. Personal news aside, Jon making it to Crete almost seems like a load of bull..... .... that was a joke, but it almost hurt to make
♪♪ It's a good day to die, when Jon knows the reason why. Samnites they fight for what is right. A noble sacrifice. When Jon's orders come they pay the price. Against the army they were payed to fight. -Battlehymn of the empire. Not at all slightly stolen from a certain Starship Trooper franchise.. :D
Also, when they decided to do away with the actual arrows of Rome TW and ME2TW in favor of tracer rounds, is when the TW franchise finally broke completely and became shit.
"The AI really keeps their word in this version" - Immediately gets betrayed by Thrace.
I feel sorry for the units being blamed by Jon for not following the orders he didn't give them
Or the ones he gave the wrong orders too
Fell asleep while watching one of these late last night, woke up minutes later to Jon screaming "STUPID BASTARDS".
jons videos all ways make me sleepy
@@HellishSpoon I swear it's the suave British accent
@@HellishSpoon I still have PTSD from Dan Nerdcubed screaming *WAKE UP*
14:40 "Cretans! Fire straight down into the Triarii!"
*Cretans fire*
"Your OTHER down!!!"
Jon: charges exhausted troops up a hill, into arrow fire, and turns them aroud when the enemy cavalry comes galloping down
Troops: immediately break
Jon: "Surprised Pikachu Face"
He's terrible at battles, its painful to watch
He really needs to stop having his soldiers run all the way across the battlefield when getting them into position. Just let them walk Jon
He'd be the worst person to play chess against. You wouldn't know what's a feint and what's just indecision.
The way he runs his heavy cavalry back and forth in the back lines always gets me. Just pick a flank!
All this time waiting for Jon to finally take over Greece with his massive pirate army has given me balls bluer than the massive pile of Scipii corpses he's amassed.
Tiberius! I am the golden dragon from the Far East and I’ll tell you your fate! The great leader Jon of the Dacians will come and slaughter Rome and your family! You must come up with a plan greatly in order for you to live! I, the golden dragon have told your fate. Be warned great Tiberius
I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but I'm already dead, and have been for like, 2000 years. You're a little late to the party.
Oh, so I’ve just got the news from the gods that I need to message you and this is how the gods treat me! Well, that’s fine I can just talk to Gaius Scipio and bring him the news.
There are a couple of ways to interpret this. Your balls are more blue than the corpses are blue? Or the pirate army gives you blue balls more than the corpses give you blue balls? Inquiring minds want to know.
It's the hard knock life for us
Watching this while actually being able to play the game myself is the absolute flipping best
Thats cool, but imagine watching this series without the abilty to play the game yourself 🤟
Cocking brilliant
Thrace is just taking revenge for what you did in the Brutii campaign!
Mostly for the Thrace puns in video titles xD
"I'm not saying I've already got a target in mind, but wouldn't my empire look a lot more asthetically pleasing if Dacia didn't actually exist" - Thrace, probably
On today’s episode
Jon: this is going to be a good plan.
**it turns out not to be a good plan**
An Italian based empire abandoning Dacia because it was indefensible, Déjà vu
Jon to Germany every time they come a-knockin: "I'm gonna give you 2000 denari to fuck off"
During your fight with Scythia, all your units are exhausted the moment they had contact. Maybe try walking, unless you already are.
Some of what appears to be his troops rushing is him using fast forward, but yeah he really ignores the stamina mechanic too often much to his own detriment.
In his defence, they have changed the run mechanic now so that the units are running by default and you have to actually click on the run/walk button to get them to walk. Single click walk, double click run isn't a thing in Remastered.
@@nicholasdraper4722 well if you watch his old series he does it a lot too though it has been worse. Somebody should @him that info on like twitter or something. Or claire.
Ooo. @Claire Rousseau. Let her tell him xD
@@nicholasdraper4722 you can change it to single click walk double click run by changing the default modes. I turned guard mode on by default and run off by default, which is opposite of the suggested. It's in the space-bar menu
While Jon is moving to a new eggbox, he helps the Dacians move to a new homeland as well...
As the scythian loot Jon's capital we should hear. "Spiff sends his regards"
Jon, a few tips concerning cavalry:
1. You should use alt-attack when fighting foot units with cavalry. They will pull out their swords which do more damage.
2. There's no point pulling your cavalry back three meters to charge again, all you're doing is momentarily stopping them from attacking while they're still under attack. To get the charge bonus you need to pull them much further back.
3. Wedge formation is completely broken. If you charge a unit, the wedge will keep charging through _any and all units_ inbetween, keeping their charge bonus all the way trough. This can be used to frankly outrageous effect, potentially obliterating your enemies in mere seconds.
23:05 “Flouting deficit machine” Jon 2021
Gaius the Harsh pays for killing Captain Nero once again.
He's the perpetual archvillain of Rome: Many a Total War. I had a moment a few hours ago where I realised the cool young general Gaius on my new Scipii campaign was the very same man. It was like looking into my son's future and seeing he'd become Darth Vader.
Jon has become death, destroyer of Factions
Highlight of my Friday night, thanks Jon and Claire!
If you tell a unit that's in a tight space to Withdraw, they use different, more sensible pathing; and will disengage from melee much more reliably than even furiously clicking at them to run away will manage.
Why not bribing Scythian generals and their armies ?
After all ... horse archers are rather dangerous ^^
John: "It's over Scipio! I have the high ground!"
*Volcano explodes in the background*
Tabby: "CUT!"
@ 12:05 Jon, park your general against the wall close to where your units are fighting. Give your dudes a well needed moral boost.
Jon check Sparta's province for Merc they have their own pool and the Merc Hoplites have 3 ranks of experience.
Good detail to remark. That Scipii stack lifted the siege on Lilybaeum because it see's a city with less defenses. The ai likely grade their attack priority on likelihood of winning. It did not consider the status of the faction before acting.
Enjoying this series
I'd like to see a Mercenary Roman Legion with Illyrians as Velite, Spanish as Hastati, Samnites as Principe, Hoplites as Triarii
This seems marvelous
After watching yesterday's video, I thought this was part of the same series. Needless to say I was very confused as to where you had gotten all those horses and archers.
Thanks for the video!
31:52
"Home is behind the world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadow to the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight.
Mist and shadow
Cloud and shade
All shall fade
All shall fade"
“Your father loves you, Faramir. He will remember it before the end...”
Jon, do you remember what happened last time you paid the Greeks to be your friends?
No, of course you bloody don't.
Yandere Scythia is here to play, haha.
*Just Scythia*
A Hop, a Scipii, and a Jump
exccept John says it Scipionese i beleve
Is some one else buying up Jon's Mercs before he gets there ? have they spotted his one weakness ?
Crete and Anatolia and Greece share a merc pool. I'm not sure exactly where the borders are, but there is overlap. Since he got the mercs in Crete, there are none in Rhodes.
@@shorewall Crete, Rhodes, Halicarnasus and Pergamum all share the same pool. Maybe Salamis too, not sure though
Thank you Jon, this is may favorite thing on the internet right now.
playing as if this was barbarian invasions. "oh, the horsemen faction is taking dacia? we'll just go horde and make everything so much worse for the next faction in line."
Anyone else who saw the Thracian ‘backstab’ coming after John essentially invaded them by standing next to Apollonian get mercs raise you hands....
Floating Deficit Machine was the name of my high school synthwave pop band, how did you know?
27:00 I think it had more to do with a lot of troops being pretty tired already before you attacked!
Edit: and of course horse archers.
Scipiones? More like Scipi-Gone-s
My first game with the remaster has been a Brutii campaign. The Scipii didn't get stuck as they did in yours play through, but the Juili were beaten back to their first 2 settlements. They have recovered to 4 now, but have made peace with the Gauls
It perplexes me to no end that Thrace has not been wiped off the map yet.
Starting with a bang! Thanks to this series. I'm looking forward to learning this game myself. And that title? Stinkin' rad!
I just started this challenge myself today. In my case, it turned out that Thrace wanted to be my enemy, and I made a critical mistake by only leaving my (very old) faction leader as the only unit guarding the capital. He died on the same turn as the Thracians began their invasion, and I wasn’t able to get reinforcements to the capital bc most of them were off over at Aquincum, so Thrace got the city without a fight. I managed to get it back pretty easily and am preparing an offensive against Thrace right now, and with that conquest I will be able to get a port and thus an economy.
32:45 I did actually lose a general to those Cretans. Not even through arrow fire, he charged them while they were repositioning and immediately died...
Kydonia, Patavium, Sardis, Halicarnassus and Rhodes have the same mercenary pool.
Also, Apollonia, Thermon, Athens and Corinth.
These are the only two pools with Cretan archers. Frequency of replenishment is higher in the first one.
Nicomedia and Ancyra have their own separate pools. Check them both. No Cretans or hoplites though.
Weird how patavium got in that list.... I believe sparta has its own pool as well but he skipped that.
@@nikosh6565 he meant Pergamum
Patavium? Aint no Cretans there. Cretin😀
Jon I'm pretty sure casualties don't recover more from arrows than melee. Iirc it's that earlier casualties recover more than later ones (hence why most of the recoveries on Crete were the bodyguard), and it's just that missile units tend to do their thing at the beginning of a battle before it descends into melee.
It's been a few years since I've played so I might well be wrong, but that's how I remember it being.
If i remember talk from modders way back, there is a decent amount of math to it. Each unit has a base chance of recovery as a hidden stat, modified by a variety of factors.
So much of Rome was procedurally calculated resulting in a much more organic flow to the game.
Wait, Jon's diplomat is called "Attila"?! And he negotiates peace and alliances? In 244 BC? That makes sense ;)
Do you have a giant list of puns you pull from for the video titles? I love it XD
I would say yes, but that the list of in his head
Knowing Jon, it might be an Excel spreadsheet...
At this point, with all his ancient history based puns, Jon is the most qualified person on Earth to write Asterix comics.
Jon's siege tactics are the best tactics! :D
please keep pumping this series out
The dacian gambit continues!
"The Germans are getting a bit fighty again."
Not words you want to hear very often...
Er, if you feed all of that land to Scythia, won't that make them even stronger and fund the production of even more horse archers?
I think Jon might be enjoying Rome with two days in a row lol. More please!
The great [Placeholder] is a magnanimous man (48:56)
Love this channel, especially while playing games.
You can also just click Pontus in the diplomacy screen and it'll show you all their territory. :)
I love this man
The more I watch Jon play this the more I'm convinced the old reload bug is still a thing!
Jon: If I enslave half this city's population, that'll make it happier.
I would try to make the Greeks go to war with Thrace by giving them Crete. Surely they want Crete.
John this series is great.
I've long wondered wether the procedural battle maps are identical for all players or if everyone uses a different randomiser seed, but it seems they are! I've had the exact same map as in 37:53 when taking out random rebels in that spot, graveyard and all!
(They were clever enough to take the high ground, though)
The right click on the map that shows you the faction who controls the region still exist
It's shift and right click or alt and right click... its remastered!
Nice
Speaking of becoming the new Brutii:
In my game, the senate themselves clearly wants me to replace them. After they completely failed to launch, the senate keeps sending me missions to attack Apollonia instead.
Does the game still cheat properly in favour of your "allies"? 'Cos both of them seem to be having an impossibly bad time for me...
You could get that settlement before scythia, instead sending an army should of send 1-2 cav units to start besieging they are faster and travel more distance then regular infantry so would of made it easily then wait for your army just to catch up
"Germany's getting a bit fighty again" This is why you should never have any more than slightly less than two drinks!
I feel like Jon is getting a little used to all this murdering he is doing.....
How about a short trip to Africa. I hear they have elephants there .
...Can we Acknowledge that one general was called Madyes the Mean ?
That's a mad yes from me
Those falxmen impetuously charging, while huge numbers of noblemen watch on and go, well, we can't possibly take those peasant jobs, so I guess we go home boys!
amazing
noblemen never change
Man, when I played the game years ago the only thing I wanted was to mass Cretan archers.
Day 354 of requesting Zoo Tycoon. Aside from exams and the actual graduation, I am officially done with college. Personal news aside, Jon making it to Crete almost seems like a load of bull.....
.... that was a joke, but it almost hurt to make
Nice. I just graduated too. Registered Nursing..how bout you?
hey! next month i graduate for computer engineering :D
@@JoshuaKevinPerry Humanities degree with a history minor
Well, that's a bummer. Guess it's time for me to find a hobby.
Ya know any showtunes?
Interesting that Jon keeps referring to Porolissum as his capital when it hasn't been that for a goodly while now!
JON you could have killed the scipii last episode and avoided all the headache
The Dacian merc tour reached Krete for the concert...
"This is not an invasion" I'm pretty sure the british always so that before they invade.
Barbarian Crete, the War of Thracian aggression... what will they think of next?
Apparently you need 4 melee troops minimum to operate a battering ram. Interesting!
Towers were modified significantly, werent they? Those like the one Jon is highlighting @3:19 didnt have any windows facing inwards in the original.
They actually did. But only a few on inward corners. On the higher level walls if I'm correct
nobody comes close to your playthroughs, can make the worst games entertaining!
Remember when this was a Dacia play through. Yeah me neither.
Man, if Jon keeps up with this murder thing, I won’t have a job :(
32:21 - 32:33
close your eyes and listen
I like big boats.
I cannot lie.
You other navies can't deny when a sloop sails in with an itty-bitty boom and a double bottom in your face you raise the main sail
fun playthrough xD
I hope CA are paying you plenty of money
Love this series
♪♪ It's a good day to die, when Jon knows the reason why. Samnites they fight for what is right. A noble sacrifice. When Jon's orders come they pay the price. Against the army they were payed to fight.
-Battlehymn of the empire. Not at all slightly stolen from a certain Starship Trooper franchise.. :D
@Many A True Nerd, have you recently played the original? If so is the remaster worth it for $30 or $15 for those who have the original copy?
Anyone got any idea how to swap retinues? It seems you can’t transfer them the old fashioned way
the germanic tribes of the 5th century ad have found a time machine, it seems like
Also, when they decided to do away with the actual arrows of Rome TW and ME2TW in favor of tracer rounds, is when the TW franchise finally broke completely and became shit.
"This is why you really don't want to fight scythia" ~A man who just used the strategy of blindly charge at the enemy
find it funny how he pronounces unit names :D
Generals cost more to bribe than its worth unless you’ve got 6 figures left over after having buildings in the works in every territory
Yess
Am I interpreting that correctly? Gaul came to you and offered an alliance but declined it?
They probably just came offering trade but Jon made a counter-offer of an alliance.
What if Great Migration, but 600 years earlier?