Rome: Total War - Part 27 - There's Something About Marius
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2024
- Rome: Total War continues, as we attack two huge cities on opposite ends of the world, before Patavium itself grows into a Huge City, and a bright young chap named Marius has a rather good idea...
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The reason the Numidian guy had so many bodyguard is due to his high personal security, if someone has traits that improve personal security he gains bodyguards and if he has traits that reduce personal security he loses bodyguards.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT.
Well, makes sense.
Mien Gott. Jon didn't know something about Total War
There's actually a lot of stuff he doesn't seem to know, like for example pressing backspace/telling the unit to stop causes hoplites to redeploy their spears if enemies getting too close caused them to switch to a sword. The unit will then push back enemies with the spears and they'll deal the extra phalanx damage.
dragonstomper64 Well that's something I didn't know and that's pretty interesting!
Q: How does Jon like his enemy units?
A:Shaken, not stirred.
I h a v e N o M o u t h B u t I M u s t M e m e i was gonna say 'dead'... but yours is better.
40:09 you missed a massive milestone Jon.... Spurious the Ugly actually managed to snag a wife..... on the rest of the world's valentines day (already the 15th over here) that's a cause for celebration if there ever was one
Well if that guy can get a girlfriend, so can I!
Spends entire night watching youtube videos.
Sir Roderick Quincy von thunderbottom, the Magnificent high king of Australia Celebration? That depends on what horrors spring from Spurious's loins.
Sir Roderick Quincy von thunderbottom, the Magnificent high king of Australia
man you ruined it for me CAUTION spoilers above!
Raging Innuendo
ugly -6 to attraction, smooth talker +12 to charm :)
Because he was rich.
9:55 The Hastati that comes from the left is a god damn hero. He SPRINTED to save his friends! God bless that soldier
"Oh that's an execution square. This is a really really fun thing." All we really need to know about Jon...
still waiting for the flaming pigs episode: high steaks
Y-you know that steaks are cows, right? N-not pigs?
SubatomicSeal i realised that 10 seconds afterwards. this saddens me greatly
Don't worry, I still laughed.
Makin' Bacon
Chopping pork!
C-c-cause p-pork chops.....
40:00 Spurius the Ugly, the hideous bridge troll: Gets Married
Me: Alone on Valentines
Really? Nobody else has said it, yet?
'Carthago delenda est'
That was indeed the alternative title for this episode. Along with 'The Punnic Putsch'
Many A True Nerd can you play MORE rimworld please
@@ManyATrueNerd AVE But I say The NUBIA South ; RISE again out of immortalTHEBIES 😼👳🏾
🤘👻🇮🇲
I always open my Egyptian war with an amphibious landing at Alexandria in order to seize Memphis and the Pyramids. It makes the rest of the war much easier, not having to deal with culture penalties in all the Egyptian cities.
Amen. Been doing that in my epic struggles as well. Incidentally noticed that Jon doesn't apparently care for conquering the world, simply meeting the Victory conditions.
LAST WEEK'S HALF-HOUR TRAVESTY WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED. TODAY'S 50 MINUTE EPISODE SATIATES US, BUT IF WE DO NOT RECEIVE A 90 MINUTE EPISODE BY THURSDAY, YOUR PITIFUL RACE WILL BE ELIMINATED.
Hey MATN, i know this is a cliched thing by now, but your videos really get my mood up. I come home from a hard, stressful day and i see you put up a video and my stress melts away, just wanted to tell you that.
9:04 - I'm surprised the Numidian spearmen were able to climb down the ladder with balls that big.
It's valentine's day, I got a new puppy, and Jon uploaded a Rome Total War video. How could this day get any better?
Schneeragon _ You could win the lottery ☺
That's so much better than my day. Though I do have a chocolate R2D2
I guess Claire knows you very well, wish my significant other gave me something like that... you know, if i had one :D
2 puppies
Jon loses 200 men taking Carthage as the Scipios lose an army helping him out... Some alliance you uphold Jon!
This is perfect. I went to sleep 3 hours ago because I'm sick and I just woke up with a 102.0 fever. And this is my favorite series to watch.
Valentine's day has been saved!
yes
Violets are Blue
Roses are Red
If you don't get me chocolates
then off with your head...?
Dude you gotta stop having 3 narrow formations of troops when you're trying to kill the cav at around 9 minutes in. It gives the heavy cav a chance the bowl the infantry over and get to the flanks of the phalanx instead of a charge.
Just have the phalanx taking up the street braced 4 or 5 ranks deep, it'll chew the cavalry and you can use the hastati and principes projectiles from behind.
this, not sure what he is thinking about this,
Oh, the Phalanx Pikemen are quite crappy, heavy cavalry would shove through them no problem
Though yeah, your strategy seens far more profficient
Yes I was also thinking the entire time that his formation seemed quiete ineffiecient al though I can't remeber the strength of a general bodyguard at huge scale.
Damn you came up against the Numidian 300 in that siege battle didn't you
I am going to have to say Arcani are very good at taking walls, load them in a tower, and just watch them slaughter an entire army that decides to go onto a wall, it is just so satisfying
still waiting for killed all the Egyptians with nothing but Dogs episode. That would be epic
Exterminations in Carthage and Sidon - oh no it's Evil Jon. Also, you missed the faction announcement of Spurius the Ugly getting married.
Yep, a particular shame on Valentine's Day too!
Even Spurius the Ugly has a wife, feels bad man
Arcani are amazing for assaulting walls. You can chew through 3 or 4 units of infantry and lose maybe 3 or 4 guys. Archers on walls are a bit more dicey, but if you can attack them directly before engaging other units you can get through even Pharaohs bowmen only losing 2 or 3.
Once you get to the finale of this series, can you make an army out of all the units that you can make but haven't made so we can see how they work?
A novelty army full of flaming pigs and Roman ninjas sounds like fun!
Ah the Marius Reforms. The power spike Rome always wanted, but never needed :p
I have mixed feelings about this comment.
5:27
Something I don't know, and surprised Jon hasn't even mentioned... That guy at the front holding that banner sign thing. Considering everything else he's talked about, it legitimately surprises me.
if rebels end up taking over the pyramids would the entire Egyptian empire collapse?
As it happens, Egyptians don't suffer culture penalties from Egyptian buildings, so the Pyramids aren't really useful if you're playing as Egypt.
9:45 - Those hastati in the bottom right corner are going absolutely crazy! They are running in circles while being clustered together.
"We'll just kill him the old-fashioned way." What, send him mammoth hunting? There's not much more old-fashioned than assassins.
21:00 I think the problem you're having is that, instead of having the hoplite unit take the brunt of the cavalry charge (where they'd do the most damage to the cavalry) with the lighter infantry going around the sides, you have the light infantry take the full brunt of the heavy cavalry while the hoplites are left at an awkward angle leaving them completely useless.
Basically, take what you're doing in these traps (which seem to end up with your units being killed most of the time) with the light infantry and the hoplites, and switch them around.
I think I recall, skirmishers (like velites) actually get a bonus vs elephants and chariots, I guess they are sort of the same class of unit), funny thing is that, I think the bonus also carries over in melee combat. (unless that was patched out)
A close friend of mine passed away from an unexpected heart attack tonight, Jon. But Rome Total War is here to at least distract me for a little bit. Thank you.
9:56 that one Histati on the left had no mercy
Those Carthage phalanxes taking on all those egyptian chariots was the most beautiful thing I've seen all day. Thank you, Jon.
Okay I know they are incredibly expensive and take a while to train, so probably one of the most cost inefficient units in the game, but there is a certain feeling to having a fully stacked army of Urban cohorts being absolutely unstoppable and murdering literally anything and everything that gets in their way.
Lol I love how you use the Roman factions to your advantage, I just started playing RTW(because of this series) and I'm learning a lot from this series, so thanks:)
Me too
How do you get the new armies, is it when you get your first huge city or is it a certain popularity with the senate/people?
Finishing the Imperial Palace.
Thats what I thought, thanks.
the imperial palace has to be done in italy
"He's rather good besides the fact he's massively corrupt."
I've never even played a total war game and I'm addicted to this...
27:53
That guy got hit by a wheel and went flying.
I haven't commented yet on one of these because I typically watch the day after they're posted, but this series is awesome, Jon! Hope to see you see it through to the very end - conquer everything including the crazy far off town at the top of the map!
Hilarious note about bridge battles? They're the perfect place to play with Scorpions. They're almost guaranteed to get the multi-hit kill.
Jon, do *not* skimp out on the Praetorion troops.
They are the best, and the Roman army deserves *only* the best!
To Hell with Praetorians. Urban Cohorts all day every day.
Thank you so much for the custom battle! Hilarious and educational :)
Oh shit, today I will actually get decent sleep
Oh no, there's a Valentine's Day Special coming later. NO SLEEP FOR ANYBODY. BWAHAHAHAHA
Many A True Nerd FFS😂😂 Now I have to stay up late.
hi
Little pro Tipp ;)
Arcani are amaaaazing to fight spezial units like Berserks or Berserker - when you play a siege online and your enemy chooses Germany ^^then TAKE the Arcani
They are also nice against Elefants, Phalanxe etc. i think - but mostly they kill Berserks like no other unit
I think its because they do kind of splash damage and Arcani are always in lose formation.
At least he isn't calling the Javelinmen 'Javelrymen' this episode
SCIPIO AFRICANUS... oh wait, wrong franchise...
Also, I love it when Jon gets so excited he interrupts himself!
Any other single Pringles?
The Pringles were nice though~
Oh sweet, I was waiting to see the Marian reforms happen.
This is getting so much fun with new units! Thanks for this Playthrough! It's part of my week now
The titles of this series have been universally hilarious
That chariot charge might be the best thing I've seen in any Total War game!
NOOOOOO! You NEED to use those badass-looking Arcani people! Make a whole flipping army of them, and use it to massacre people! It would be so cool!
the sun is shining valentine's just ended for me and a rome total war video for me to recover with this will be a good day it seems.
you were about to say something about the Arcani, something about it being an orginasation, I've looked it up but it was verry vague. I'm just sad that he didn't finish his own sentence. Keep up the great work tho, I realy love this series.
I love arcani, even though it's so dramatic how they did it in Rome: Total War, lol!
They may be few in number but they're honestly SO fun to use!
If you had just dropped all your siege equipment as soon as the battle started the Scipii would have sent their entire army around to get it. You could've taken the entire city without a single soldier lost.
if I ever have a kid I'm going to name him or her either Augustus or Octavian.
Jon, your guys were being slaughtered on that wall because they were bottle necked. They went in one by one and were being attacked by multiple enemies at once before they could do much damage, rather than all attacking at once to spread out the damage among them and last longer.
I like how Aulus Augustus is at the same time frugal and a gourmand....
Just dropped off flowers, teddy bear, and card over at my girlfriend's house and i'm so happy she loved it. It's a good time to relax and watch Jon do what he does best.
~Ring-ring~
~Ring-ring~
Hello, Captain Quintis? Scipii HQ here. Just wanted to check in and see how your first big command went. Everything alright?
When I started watching this playthrough I really didn't anticipate how hilarious it would frequently be.
My Valentines Day right here!! Pax Romana!!!
I do believe Chariots is treated like War Beats. Aka spearmen has a minor bonus with them.
Those Desert Infantry need their own lore regarding their strength XD
In my game of rome total war, I basically inverted your strategy. Which is fitting, as I started it after yours.
I started as the Julii in a "quick" game to unlock the Iceni because head-throwing is awesome. It has devolved into an epic slugfest between me and usually 3 other factions at a time, usually in 3 different fronts (stupid senate) while the Scipii and Brutii work together to fight the great empires of the east. Temples to Jupiter everywhere, lots of mercenaries, and half of House Julii are Cato Incarnate. Literally everything west of Rome is mine, most of what's north & south, and so far north-east I've got a dedicated anti-Amazon front. I'm playing nice with the senate to play for time to finish my wars and expand as much as possible, but the Scipii have a lot of populist support and are hated by the senate while I'm considered tolerable (perks of putting temples to Jupiter literally everywhere). Considering the number of stacks in Rome proper while they are at war, they seem to be preparing to try and over-throw the republic. Yes, the Ai appears to be going for the victory condition.
Other fun things of note:
I've made a city in the Saharrah. Not a town, a full city that my faction leader is hiding out in for RP reasons. Rome has taken a worthless pile of sand and made it into a (small) metropolis. Why? Because they could.
I have two units of war elephants. I have no idea where the senate got the first unit, but the second were Saharan Mercs.
Carthage holed up on the same Island they did in this game, because I didn't realize it was it's own settlement.
Southern Iberia has had more rebellions than anywhere, 3. Two were Carthaginian, the other was Spartacus. The last was the most dangerous army I have every faced on the field of battle.
I've only used enslave once, just after Spartacus's rebellion. I just couldn't deal with the revolts for the first time in the game. Jupiter is that good a god.
This is so entertaining!
your best series since Deadly Premontion.... ah, since Fallout 3 Kill everything :D
Thank you for this marvelous gift every week!
Bless you good sir! I shall sacrifice many lives in my own campaign for your glory!
The Britons are attacking me in Campus Iazyges and I just retook Alesia from them. My game is going weird.
Had probably my closest ever (victorious) battle outside of Alesia when at one point about 2/3rds of my army was running away, with a +2 moral general on the field no less. Said general has a -1hp trait (yay...) but was just about able to turn it around with the help of 3 units of Archer Auxilia and a couple of mauled units that held their ground.
Love this series
Those Numidian spearmen would be a subject of a Sabaton song in our timeline
Thanks John for the great video! you're the bestestest!! Happy Valentine's day everyone!
Valerius the Killer has had quite the life.
This vid is the Only Valentine i need
Those desert infantry just be the ancestors of the Peasants of Peasantwerp.
Jon, you know your lore perfectly, but you are as flexible as those Scipii stiffs in battle.
You can actually still get elephants as Rome using the oliphaunt cheat that spawns Yubtseb Elephants.
Their description in the game is: "These mysterious creatures from the middle principalities of farthest Terra Nova are the children of G'nitek'ram, the God of Shiny Things That Man Does Not Need But Desires Anyway. Dark and foul are the ceremonies that summon them; great and scary are their tusks; terrible is their gaze; unwashed are their riders; cruel and unforgiving their masters! Flee in terror! Run for the hills!"
Hint: Read Yubtseb and G'nitek'ram backwards :D
That Valentines Day pun title...
Carriots are listed as heavy cavalry so I assume normal spear men do get a bonus against them. However, the the reason carriots tend to survive attacking groups of infantry is because they simply kill most infantry in their surroundings before the infantry can hurt them, thus I don't think that bonus actually matters anyway. What does help the normal spear men is that their range is slightly longer than normal infantry, so that might just swing an encounter in their favour.
There is also something about Eastern Spearmen, namely that running a campaign or mini campaign were you use only them for combat would be brave and daring fun!
Man things are looking to get deep! See you Thursday!
22:38 The Scipii must have had hundreds of recovered casualties; the kills vs remaining number is off by 594.
is the Marius reform a random event that can or can't happen or does it just happen eventually?
Once you have the highest city level in one of the Italian territories and build the proper governor's building it automatically triggers the Reforms. This is almost always Patavium due to its growth.
Reign Thank you
@@nolongeraperson👍👍👍 never knew that. Always thought it was random within a certain time frame.
man i just wana watch next ep already argrh the battles will be amazing
13:33 Do you mean to say;
"A trail of .... *Dead crumbs*"? *YEEEEEAAAAH!!*
Apparently spearmen are strong against chariots, as chariots still count as cavalry in that case, a head-on charge against spearmen will stop the chariots in their tracks, just not as effectively as a phalanx
In order to become "virtus" in RTW, a character has to consistantly complete missions for the Senate or bribe a bunch of people.
Which is funny since it's a requirement for the, "Augustus," honorific.
There is one infantry level above the Pretorian Cohort, and that is the Urban Cohort. I think they come in either from the top tier barracks, or from a specialist building
Maxed out barracks.
I don't play a lot of Rome total war but I do play Medieval 2 and the one thing that I realised is that siege towers are a great way to funnel your units into a small area to die while the ladders allow units to spread out more evenly and gives a more steady stream of units, while the siege towers lets you have a nice first strike by grouping up at first if that fails it just becomes a slow weak stream only allowing 1 to 2 units coming out of the tower at the same time in the same place surrounded by the enemy but I do believe the ladders in Rome TW let your units fall off the wall so that is also a downside.
Jon, three spearmen attacked for every single Hastati that tried to hop down onto the walls. Three spearmen means 24 damage cumulative (assuming all three hit, which a staggered opponent would be easy to hit).
Yeah, it's a shredder.
have you ever encountered the issue where the enemy will just sit there? i get it especially on bridge battles. set one up where i had 300 spartan hoplites (yes, 300.) against a whole army of fully upgraded heavy cavalry. the cavalry sat on the other side of the bridge, and refused to cross. until i moved across they didnt do anything. i even trid leaving it running for a while, on full time speed, nothing.
"Brutus Africanus"
AYY LMAO
"Hey guys, what if we actually had some spearmen that didn't suck and didn't take fifty seven years of constant building upgrades to make?"
And thus, the Marius Reforms.
finally some legionaries, no more hastati for you jon.. god
Are so afraid of the endgame that you absolutely have to use every available cheap trick to weaken the other two families?
Strategy has more forms than just war tactics. Also the game cheats in favor of the factions in the auto- resolve for other territories, all Jon does is even the playing field. Which on Very Hard still might not be enough. He could've done much much more to sabotage them. Like quitting out of battle to cause autolosses to both factions and having a spy open the gates meaning he'd gain the city instead of the faction. etc etc.
Well, since he feels the need to do what he does for whatever reason, maybe he shouldn't play on Very Hard.
He also likes showing off different things. This is an entertainment channel after all. He explained the reason he does all of this in the early videos.
Perhaps you shouldn't be watching and should go elsewhere instead? Go play the game on your own so you'll be happy that someone is playing the game exactly how you want, hmmm?
Why are you defending someone who you don't know personally?
Are you aware that your second response contains aggression towards me despite me being neutral towards you?
Because I find it amusing to chide unwarranted pricks who come onto UA-cam to make snide passive aggressive comments that serve no purpose in general nor critical in nature. At first, I gave you reason and then you popped off yet another smarmy remark of faux elitism so I responded in kind because that's all the reason I need. :)
I think the sacred band of Carthage was incognito there.
Send a boat to Palma? It might come of use in the war against the romans, being smack in the middle of them and all.
26:57 Just think of all that glue, those Greeks will be rich!
23:55 wrong, all cities growth rate depends on their size, for example a large city will have the same growth rate as a tiny town but if it drops far below the population required for its upgrade (12000 for large city) then growth will go up depending on how far it drops.
carthage starts off as a city so it will get to the requirements sooner than other cities
How do you solve a problem like Marius?
You need to flank with ladders, so you can catch them in the rear with the siege tower troops :D