Just a quick edit - people have pointed out that Jupiter is in fact better because the law bonus actually decreases corruption as well, making it the better pantheon to go for, despite not being able to see that stat
Actually you can see how money your losing to corruption in a settlement by opening up the details scroll for the settlement. And if you build a temple to law you can see how much money lost to corruption will be reduced by when the temple is completed. I also use this scroll to assess if building certain economic upgrades are worthwhile such as temples to mercury or some of the higher tier roads.
@@thesacredlobo Ya I just mean it's not a stat that is told on the description of the temple as it only says it increases happiness -- you have to do exactly what you just mentioned above to look at the money gained :)
Im a 32 year old dad. Last time i played i was 29 and childless. Doing a Julii campaign on H/H to shake off the rust but this time i decided to conquer Gaul, Spain and Briton for a more roleplay feel. I then nabbed a few greek cities before the Bruuti took the rest before smashing through Asia Minor and Egypt. Now both the Bruuti and Sciipi are massive empires making the civil war ao brutal. I get maybe half an hour to play at night and Im having such a fun challenege against stacked Roman armies full of elite infantry and cavalry.
I highly recommend getting the remastered version of the game. I pulled the trigger and currently doing the Carthage campaign. Such a trip down nostalgia lane.
@@enigma5112 infrastructure refers to the buildings within the city. You can’t build any buildings if you’re constantly letting the enemy besiege your cities and waiting for them to attack
I had a campaign where I fought and killed all their stacks and claimed Rome with a general named Maxientus Victor, who after defeating all those armies claimed Emperorship it was epic. He even looked like Russel Crow a little bit from Gladiator. It was the best campaign I ever had. As long as you develop Medio, Patavium, Arrettium, Arriminum and Segesta. You can use those to pump out your legionary armies. It's crazy, but you can fight those armies out in the field and win, because we can use better strategy than the AI. You need a solid general though. The army comp I recall was all legionary first cohort with four legion cav and the general with upgrades of course. I also used forts to help contain their movements. I can't re-call if I actually lost any battles or not. I also took on the Romans late game with the Parthians, the second-best campaign I had where I conquered over half the map. All horse archers/cavalry. Peppered them down and charged them with cataphracts. For both of these styles to work though, your training units and logistics game needs to be on point, because you will take losses, you just need to be able to replace them. It actually replicates real war, rather well.
Great strategy but cutting off Brutii and Scipii from expanding makes mid and late game easy even in VH. I like to be faithful to history as the Julii and take the challenge to go after Gaul.
Love this game...been playing it since it came out. Every 6-12 months I play a campaign.... Currently I'm playing as Julii, the year is 192 BC....Brits are exterminated just recently, I'm at war w/ Gaul(one city remained) in spain, Im at war w/ Spain, I'm at war with Germania, and at war w/ Macedonia.... I have to keep moving armies from Spain to Germania to protect my borders. LOVE IT. Ps I did edit the game files to make all Roman families start the campaign iwatch against each other & stay like that for ever… That way I didn’t have to wait for the senate to betray me….I exterminated the other faction n the senate inside of 10 turns.
I remember reconsidering my choices about Julii path after seeing in one game that they've went for Corinth for some reason. Who needs Gauls anyway? The rest of the territory was taken by Brutii so it didn't mattered in the end.
Love your strategy! I would like to see you do a playthrough as the Julii in the campaign! I noticed that the unit size for Hastati is 160 instead of 80 in my game. Is that because you are playing the Short Campaign? Great stuff, I will be following your play with Rome Total War!
@@jonnyo1999 Thanks for the tip I did not know that. I am going to try your strategy and see how it works out. One problem I see is how may turns it takes to get your army south and to take the first 2-3 objectives by then Scipii are likely to take Syracuse. If that is the case, I may try to take Syracuse first.
Velites are one of the better skirmishers in the game. They have good stamina and fast movement. Ofc range and ammo amount suck, but to demolish some barbarians or greeks from rears or flanks, they are good enough.
Doesn't one of the Julii starting characters have an ability to lower cost? It might have been more useful to have him queue up a few buildings on the cheap.
You can if you want to, but it’s really just saving you a couple hundred denarii. When you load in, you can que up a building or 2 from where they spawn in, but they are much more valuable in the field conquering cities starting from turn 1
@@jonnyo1999 - I'm not denying that they are more useful in the field. It just seems like it would have made more sense to queue up a few buildings before moving them. After all, a few hundred denarii is quite useful in the early game in my experience. Of course by the midgame that seems like a rounding error.
Unfortunately I haven’t played much of medieval 2 and would very much be under qualified to release guides on ‘em I will be releasing some more rtw guides in the future though
Just a quick edit - people have pointed out that Jupiter is in fact better because the law bonus actually decreases corruption as well, making it the better pantheon to go for, despite not being able to see that stat
Actually you can see how money your losing to corruption in a settlement by opening up the details scroll for the settlement. And if you build a temple to law you can see how much money lost to corruption will be reduced by when the temple is completed.
I also use this scroll to assess if building certain economic upgrades are worthwhile such as temples to mercury or some of the higher tier roads.
@@thesacredlobo Ya I just mean it's not a stat that is told on the description of the temple as it only says it increases happiness -- you have to do exactly what you just mentioned above to look at the money gained :)
Im a 32 year old dad. Last time i played i was 29 and childless. Doing a Julii campaign on H/H to shake off the rust but this time i decided to conquer Gaul, Spain and Briton for a more roleplay feel. I then nabbed a few greek cities before the Bruuti took the rest before smashing through Asia Minor and Egypt. Now both the Bruuti and Sciipi are massive empires making the civil war ao brutal. I get maybe half an hour to play at night and Im having such a fun challenege against stacked Roman armies full of elite infantry and cavalry.
Roleplaying is always a fun time 👍
I highly recommend getting the remastered version of the game. I pulled the trigger and currently doing the Carthage campaign. Such a trip down nostalgia lane.
That was extremely valuable and fun to watch. Thank you.
I will not tolerate this wall slander. Patavium + mediolanium can be held indefinitely with like 6 units each with a stone wall.
Dont come crying when you realize the infrastructure of those cities turn out to be dogshit in the mid-late game
@@jonnyo1999 Patavium is probably the highest growth city in the game, what are you on about?
@@enigma5112he hasn’t a clue he said velites throw 2 pila 😂😂
@@enigma5112 infrastructure refers to the buildings within the city. You can’t build any buildings if you’re constantly letting the enemy besiege your cities and waiting for them to attack
@@daveotoole2k7 3 at best
I had a campaign where I fought and killed all their stacks and claimed Rome with a general named Maxientus Victor, who after defeating all those armies claimed Emperorship it was epic. He even looked like Russel Crow a little bit from Gladiator. It was the best campaign I ever had. As long as you develop Medio, Patavium, Arrettium, Arriminum and Segesta. You can use those to pump out your legionary armies. It's crazy, but you can fight those armies out in the field and win, because we can use better strategy than the AI. You need a solid general though. The army comp I recall was all legionary first cohort with four legion cav and the general with upgrades of course. I also used forts to help contain their movements. I can't re-call if I actually lost any battles or not.
I also took on the Romans late game with the Parthians, the second-best campaign I had where I conquered over half the map. All horse archers/cavalry. Peppered them down and charged them with cataphracts. For both of these styles to work though, your training units and logistics game needs to be on point, because you will take losses, you just need to be able to replace them. It actually replicates real war, rather well.
Great strategy but cutting off Brutii and Scipii from expanding makes mid and late game easy even in VH. I like to be faithful to history as the Julii and take the challenge to go after Gaul.
Love this game...been playing it since it came out.
Every 6-12 months I play a campaign....
Currently I'm playing as Julii, the year is 192 BC....Brits are exterminated just recently, I'm at war w/ Gaul(one city remained) in spain, Im at war w/ Spain, I'm at war with Germania, and at war w/ Macedonia....
I have to keep moving armies from Spain to Germania to protect my borders. LOVE IT.
Ps I did edit the game files to make all Roman families start the campaign iwatch against each other & stay like that for ever…
That way I didn’t have to wait for the senate to betray me….I exterminated the other faction n the senate inside of 10 turns.
I remember reconsidering my choices about Julii path after seeing in one game that they've went for Corinth for some reason. Who needs Gauls anyway? The rest of the territory was taken by Brutii so it didn't mattered in the end.
Love your strategy! I would like to see you do a playthrough as the Julii in the campaign! I noticed that the unit size for Hastati is 160 instead of 80 in my game. Is that because you are playing the Short Campaign? Great stuff, I will be following your play with Rome Total War!
Thanks! You can actually change the unit size in the settings on the main menu screen before you start new campaigns
@@jonnyo1999 Thanks for the tip I did not know that. I am going to try your strategy and see how it works out. One problem I see is how may turns it takes to get your army south and to take the first 2-3 objectives by then Scipii are likely to take Syracuse. If that is the case, I may try to take Syracuse first.
@@jonnyo1999 AH! Now I get it, you have to go to Video, click Advanced Setting then you have options for normal, large, huge etc.
@@lenord227 good luck! And yep, you got it
Velites are one of the better skirmishers in the game. They have good stamina and fast movement. Ofc range and ammo amount suck, but to demolish some barbarians or greeks from rears or flanks, they are good enough.
Way too situational and not worth 170 upkeep when your generals can just kill barbs all the same imo
Please I need more faction guides ❤
Working on it 😅
Doesn't one of the Julii starting characters have an ability to lower cost? It might have been more useful to have him queue up a few buildings on the cheap.
You can if you want to, but it’s really just saving you a couple hundred denarii. When you load in, you can que up a building or 2 from where they spawn in, but they are much more valuable in the field conquering cities starting from turn 1
@@jonnyo1999 - I'm not denying that they are more useful in the field. It just seems like it would have made more sense to queue up a few buildings before moving them. After all, a few hundred denarii is quite useful in the early game in my experience.
Of course by the midgame that seems like a rounding error.
Can you make some guides for m2tw
Unfortunately I haven’t played much of medieval 2 and would very much be under qualified to release guides on ‘em
I will be releasing some more rtw guides in the future though
Why didn’t you get apollonia?
Brutii usually get Apollonia within the first couple turns - not much you can do about it as the Julii
Will you do a guide for scipii?
I’ll get around to it 😅