So what you are basically saying is, that to overcome the aggressive AI, you have to become the agressive AI. Thank you for the video, it helped out a lot!
Yes! Exactly right, remember as the player you have a massive, bright, beacon of a target on your back, and the AI will act accordingly. So yes your right you have to beat it at its own game and out aggressive it. In some situations alliances and keeping peace might be something you want to do, but that’s normally when you’re a bit larger or start as a large nation and don’t want multiple front wars. When you’re small, maximum aggression is key. 🙌 Thanks for watching and commenting bro I really appreciate it 😁
For Athens sailing over to Crete is a viable option also, it has 7 rebel cities and makes for a good base as the other Hellenic factions fight over Greece. Then head for Rhodes and get that 40% bonus to naval trade from the Colossus!!!
Ye it is bro, always good to have a load of ports as well. I just like the attack on the nearby nations so they don’t grow to big too quickly. But ye I also tried Sparta and that works as well because they’re weak at the start but it’s just a little bit slower. Ye Rhodes is so good and tbf quite a nice little nation to play as as well 😁
Thanks for this guide, now i can just link this video every time i hear people complain about playing a 1 or 2 region faction on VH/VH whilst being bordered by bigger factions and not winning their campaign !!!
Ye I just made it so people can see that the smaller nations are playable and that the economy is fine you just need to be Uber aggressive at the start. Thanks for watching and commenting and thanks for covering the mod as well bro 😁
Starting RIS mod tonight. Discovered it only the other day after reminiscing about Rome Total Realism (for OG RTW). I think a dev from that team help build this one? Anyway, thanks for this video mate. I opened RIS last night after install and went to start as SPQR, and it was overwhelming with the number of towns and cities. You have put my mind at rest over starting as a small nation and blitzing through nearby small kingdoms and tribes to build an empire. I've been recommended Syracuse, but I think I will spin the wheel and see what comes, maybe a Gallic tribe and be the next Cingetorix...
Nice man I hope you enjoy! Yes the mod team started as an amalgamation of Rome Total Realism and Roma Surrectum teams 😊 Nice man, I would still recommend a nation that’s been remastered as they are fully finished. Syracuse is good but very difficult, Bosporans are a good one (although their Asian units aren’t done) as it’s pretty chill as a fsction, same with Bactria 😊 but whoever you choose I hope you enjoy. If it’s a small nation I have a lot of Greek guides on the channel as well in the RIS Faction Guides playlist 😊
About a week ago I downloaded the mod and choosing a "Very Hard" nation to play I chose Athens. Started a VH/VH campaign. (disband the ship). I went straight to peloponnese rebel settlements, then Antigonid attacked and I took most of their peloponnese settlements. Boeotians protected Athens. Achaian league attacked me and that was the hardest part where I had to out maneuvre them and take their cities without fighting their armies. Meanwhile Boeotians turned hostile but I secured an alliance with Sparta on my flank. Fought and won Boeotians but Aetolians attacked me, step by step I got the Island above Athens and beat Aetolians. After that Sparta attacked (took me 10 years to beat their 2 strong and armored stacks plus the last rebel city) while Epirus also wanted a piece of me. Unfortunately Sparta already had cities on Crete but I went after them after I destroyed Epirus and push Antigonids at Northern Greece. Now I have pushed Antigonids at modern day Serbia, conquered all Greece, beat a couple Roman stacks and pushing Southern Italy, Serbia and perhaps Rhodes. Building order is colonisation(greek)>tax(+500)>mine>road(move speed)>port>farm>population growth>money>>army. Some cities at border crossroads (pref large city) become recruiting points. Early game I used generals to the max, they are worse than vanilla but still pretty good, sent all almost wiped units to athens for retrain. Almost exclusively train athenian hoplite, decent, easy to train/retrain. Athenian Epilektoi, better stats, slightly costlier, not worth the trouble getting the buildings and hard to retrain on the go. Thureoforoi, not even once, I just didn't like them. Slingers good to cheese siege battles and cheap for garrison. Generals for cavalry and that's it. Fight defending sieges, fight wooden wall attacks (slingers cheese), auto resolve stone walls (turrets hurt). Even most basic Roman units have a lot better stats and that's annoying, also they almost not break. Use your generals to wear out enemies, distract them from your units, out maneuvre their melees and "assassinate" their leaders. If you have more horses and archers than your enemy, fight on open field, vice versa. In VH/VH AI gets more money per turn and since diplomatic trades worth a percentage of treasury, you can squiz quite a sum of them since early you are broke. Feel free to ask any questions
Any tips to fight the romans😂? I am playing Epirus, have most of Greece, only part of Peloponnesus Is missing. Romans Just landed 4 Doom stacks in Albania, with like 10/12 post Marian silver cohorts, 3 heavy cav, 3 good archers and generals. Of course i will wait for them to siege me but man the stats of those cohorts are frightening and i never fought against them.
@@gabrielepopa6870 Yeah, those are their doomstacks, a mix of everything and everyone has silver chevrons and silver weapons/shield. Most stacks actually don't have a general but a generals bodyguard unit, so atleast they don't get the command stars. Right now I have conquered the whole of Italy, balkans and modern day Turkey and the game became a grind after Romes fall, so I halted the campaign. The best way I found to counter romans was to outmaneuver their armies and take their cities (destroy their army making/replenishing capabilities while promoting your culture). As long as they have no nearby cities to protect they will either siege yours for a couple of turns (you can keep taking more of theirs) or fall back even northern in Italy. As it concerns the actual fight, I found out that having two stacks of athenian hoplites (I suppose an easy to recruit [phalanx if possible] unit would be your go-to unit) with a good leader with the night fighter ability works wonders. You just 2v1 them and even if they have nearby reinforcements you can deny them by fighting at night. The trick is not to play both armies but leave the 2nd be played by the AI. AI is not good, but you have double the army size from the start and you can overwhelm them. You will take casualties, about the same as the romans but if you play it well, the romans will disband while you won't lose a single unit. Then you run back, replenish in 2-3 turns and go get the 2nd stack. it take some time but they won't be able to out recruit you. The thing is, you have to have a nearby city ready to replenish your units every time, having two, reduce the time by half. That's why the armies should have decent, but easy to recruit units, so to replenish them even near the frontier. As you invade italy, get the 2 south-eastern cities, defend them while you make them able to replenish your units, and THEN try fighting the romans and expanding north. TIP: If they siege one of your cities, by placing and army near both the city and the enemy, sometimes make the enemies stop the siege and leave or fight the outside army (you can still run away) TIP2: Your general MAY be able to kill one unit of roman archers, but it doesnt really worth the risk you put him through TIP3: If you have some developed cities nearby, you can put some horses in the army for the charge bonus, but you have such a numerical advantage that it's hard to find an open flank anyway TIP4: After romans, everyone else will be a piece of cake
@@Ahkofd thanks for the tips, i was really puzzled by the Roman Ai behaviour, 3 doomstacks on the city they want, 1 doomstack wandering the Seas, disembarking and besieging One of my cities for Just a couple of turns. Until they got the city they wanted from the Ardiaei faction. We were allies, then i got backstabbed, i weakened their empire and the romans came to Rob me of my glory. I Just wanted to know if pikes behave well vs Roman heavy infantry, cause i want to try and lure them in the streets so numerical advantage isnt a huge issue. Saying this cause i still am campaigning in the Peloponnesus and torwards Istanbul so i cant really afford a 2x numerical advantage
@@gabrielepopa6870 I haven't used any pikes since athens doesn't have any, but they still do very well against front attacks in this mod. You will still have losses but try holding the city center while flanking with more pikes to lower morale
As a casual gamer who likes a challenge but not too much of a challenge i wish it wasnt so unforgiving. From what i can tell even on easy too many factions wouldnt be fun to play without huge hurdles to overcome. Which in general is totally fine, but without options for casual players like me its really disappointing, especially consdiering i really love the idea and scale of this mod. In the future i hope a difficulty rebalance is done or simply more difficulty options added if possible. And thanks for the video Red Zed!
Thanks for the feedback bro, I hope the video helped you out. Unfortunately they built this mod with difficulty in mind. There are a few easier factions tho, the Belgae, Ptolemies and Bosporans are all good choices. But once you learn the strategies to make money etc then you should be ok, main thing is just to go ham conquering early on and then you’ll be set ;)
Similar experience here playing as the Achaean League. I manage to take about 2-3 rebel cities but then get steamrolled by Sparta before I'm able to generate enough money to replenish my depleted army. Super annoying
Acheaen league is a difficult nation, not all nations are borne equally like any total war, some are much harder than others and the Achaeans are an OPM on the middle of loads of hostile factions, so goes without saying they will likely be difficult :)
@@Red_Zed gonna try take out Sparta first and then come back for the rebel cities after. The rebels (or free peoples) don't seem as aggressive as the proper factions. Failing that, might hurl my PC through the window 😂
Haha ye Sparta first, like the guide says the AI doesn’t care about agreements and just wants to kill the AI especially on difficulties above medium so taking the factions out first is always a good idea :)
you have my thanks for this. the mod dev himself offered little when explaining their own strategy guide. It was...a bit vague imo. yours is superior to his. difficulty ain't *bad*, but fake difficulty (giving AI advantages in terms of e.g. money) has always done my head in; I greatly appreciate this guide!
@@alanmike6883 Sorry Alan, when I get a lot of comments I don't get a notification for every one so I missed this one :( But yes definitely I will do Rome, they are doing Rome after the Greek update so I can't wait to start showcasing that :D
I wish you had shown us that one battle against Aetolia in normal speed because it was such a close call that it would have been great to see how intense you were during it.
No worries hopefully this helps bro, I’m assuming that’s a bigger nation like the Seleucids? If so watch my Seleucid campaign and/or Seleucid guide and you can see the practical ways to reduce that for a large empire 😁
Sparta!!!! How did this happen haha you must have a huge army?? But I hope you manage to figure it out bro haha, if you’re struggling try restart and use these tips and see if it helps 😁
ive been brutally slaying as rome, and in my experience my allies fear me. massilia, myssyli and masaesyli (gauls and numidians) have remained allies after me beating the following factions: Sicily Carthage Spain Gaul Greece Illyria Brittain however as soon as i set foot into greece my ally the boetian league declared war on me so maybe some allies arent as loyal? or maybe its because i set foot into their territory as i never set foot in massilia, or numidia
Ye some allies don’t stab you in the back but I think you just need to go about things as if they will, especially on harder difficulty. There’s multiple factors for the AI when attacking, the difficulty you’re playing on, whether they can expand elsewhere (so basically if you’re cornering an Ally they will attack you) and how strong they think you are vs them 😁
Anyone else having problems with this mod taking forever to start? I mean, when I start the game, it takes a really long time for the game to start. It sits there and loads. I have a decent gaming laptop, and once the games starts it runs just fine. I just wish it wouldn't take 30 mins or more to start.
For anyone else having this problem I figured out the solution. I had too many versions of Microsoft visual c++ installed so I uninstall them all and reinstalled the latest version. I also updated all of my drivers. Now it opens just fine.
With CA never failing to downgrade new TW titles, it had me wondering what would it take for a team of mods to turn into a small studio? finally make a game that could challenge CA.
Ye that would be amazing! I believe Rampaned is looking to try to do that as well. I think it would take a hell of a lot of funding tbh but it would be awesome 😁
what is the most fun faction to play ? and what faction got the most fun roster :)? I really wanna try the old schoool times again :D just cant figure out what is most fun to play. Really good tips in the video even more hyped! keep it op.
Fun faction is very subjective of course but my favourite is the Seleucids, you just need to do a lot of campaign management which is something I love haha In terms of fun and easier you’re looking at Ptolomies. Smaller fun factions atm with the current updates are Epirus, Belgae for the Celts and Bosporans! Thanks bro I’m glad you enjoyed 😁
@@Red_Zed i once tried the macedons (they are called something else) What about fun units ? I like cool units :D! Never tried any of the factions.. do you think there is alot of varity when playing the different factions ?
Yes the Antigonids are great, lots of settlements so make sure you do some good campaign management for them! Yes there’s loads of variety and each faction has a best way to play them, some skirmish some cavalry some heavy infantry. In terms of cool units the Thracian factions of Bithynia and Odryssia have some awesome Falx wielding Boyos but I’m not sure how big their roster is pre the 0.6 update. Other rosters that are cool are the Seleucids and Ptolomies again as they have very large and varied rosters, the Achean league also has a great Phalanx based roster, and I like the eastern rosters because I love horse archers and deadly cataphracts! 😁
Why don't they add some new portraits of generals to this mod ? i have in my modded rome total war vanila 500 -600 portraits of generals in every culture.
They are working on it, maybe you could help out, the discords down below. For now they’re working on all the things that matter more like gameplay and factions, but I’m sure more will come with time :)
Ye it is amazing. The whole history of the time period was backstabbing and conquest tho, so I would disagree it’s not historical. And of course you can play it however you like this is just the best way with the game engine and mechanics of RTW to make money quickly early on 😁
The game is too hard? 5 turns in and i always get around 30-40k surplus every turn as Rome. If people find it a bit to rough and hard on new players. Always start with the powerhouses, Rome preferably. And the greece factions is a nice way to learn. Especially if you choose one of the crete factions. This mod must have been THE mod of the century. The amount of progress they have made is out of this world.
Yes some people find it very hard, but ye the romans are probably the easiest faction apart from maybe the Belgae. Ye Crete is like beginner island in CK playing as one of the Ireland Kings. 😊 Lots more coming soon as well, and then romans afterwards! 👌
@@Red_Zed Absolutely correct that the Romans are one of the easiest factions. Can you recommend some faction that is not too hard or to easy? Because it's usually goes Rome, Carthage and perhaps short plays with the Ptolemy. Want to try something different 😎
I will always recommend ones that are fully remastered for the full experience so just bear that in mind with these, I’m just covering those areas 😊 Epirus is a good middle ground, at war with Macedon but if you’re not on extreme mode it’s a good middle of the road difficulty. Aitolian League too if you like skirmish based rosters, they are a small but powerful nation in the middle of Greece with easily defensible land. Odryssia is more on the hard side but only with the economy, you get some great Thracian units but important to be aggressive otherwise you’re economy will tank! Antigonids too seem easy however on the harder difficulties they border so many nations that you can find yourself getting chipped away steadily, so key to not get too distracted by losing one city or two and take out your much smaller enemies one by one! Hopefully this helps bro :)
Yes it’s difficult but extending at the start is really the only way to set yourself up for winning later down the line, even if you lose a few of the settlements taken at least you have the money from them and they’re not besieging Athens 😊
EARN 1000 per turn with this weird trick (AI HATES HIM) 💸💸💰
For Me and the AI, the feelings mutual 🙄🤣
So what you are basically saying is, that to overcome the aggressive AI, you have to become the agressive AI.
Thank you for the video, it helped out a lot!
Yes! Exactly right, remember as the player you have a massive, bright, beacon of a target on your back, and the AI will act accordingly. So yes your right you have to beat it at its own game and out aggressive it.
In some situations alliances and keeping peace might be something you want to do, but that’s normally when you’re a bit larger or start as a large nation and don’t want multiple front wars. When you’re small, maximum aggression is key. 🙌
Thanks for watching and commenting bro I really appreciate it 😁
For Athens sailing over to Crete is a viable option also, it has 7 rebel cities and makes for a good base as the other Hellenic factions fight over Greece. Then head for Rhodes and get that 40% bonus to naval trade from the Colossus!!!
Ye it is bro, always good to have a load of ports as well.
I just like the attack on the nearby nations so they don’t grow to big too quickly. But ye I also tried Sparta and that works as well because they’re weak at the start but it’s just a little bit slower.
Ye Rhodes is so good and tbf quite a nice little nation to play as as well 😁
Thanks for this guide, now i can just link this video every time i hear people complain about playing a 1 or 2 region faction on VH/VH whilst being bordered by bigger factions and not winning their campaign !!!
Ye I just made it so people can see that the smaller nations are playable and that the economy is fine you just need to be Uber aggressive at the start.
Thanks for watching and commenting and thanks for covering the mod as well bro 😁
Great guide man, was struggling with RIS and always wanted a guide for this mod!
Thanks bro! Let me know how it goes 😁
God that soundtrack is so nostalgic. Brings back so many memories.
Ye my nostalgia glasses automatically come on whenever I hear it 😂😁
Starting RIS mod tonight. Discovered it only the other day after reminiscing about Rome Total Realism (for OG RTW). I think a dev from that team help build this one? Anyway, thanks for this video mate. I opened RIS last night after install and went to start as SPQR, and it was overwhelming with the number of towns and cities. You have put my mind at rest over starting as a small nation and blitzing through nearby small kingdoms and tribes to build an empire. I've been recommended Syracuse, but I think I will spin the wheel and see what comes, maybe a Gallic tribe and be the next Cingetorix...
Nice man I hope you enjoy!
Yes the mod team started as an amalgamation of Rome Total Realism and Roma Surrectum teams 😊
Nice man, I would still recommend a nation that’s been remastered as they are fully finished. Syracuse is good but very difficult, Bosporans are a good one (although their Asian units aren’t done) as it’s pretty chill as a fsction, same with Bactria 😊 but whoever you choose I hope you enjoy. If it’s a small nation I have a lot of Greek guides on the channel as well in the RIS Faction Guides playlist 😊
About a week ago I downloaded the mod and choosing a "Very Hard" nation to play I chose Athens. Started a VH/VH campaign. (disband the ship). I went straight to peloponnese rebel settlements, then Antigonid attacked and I took most of their peloponnese settlements. Boeotians protected Athens. Achaian league attacked me and that was the hardest part where I had to out maneuvre them and take their cities without fighting their armies. Meanwhile Boeotians turned hostile but I secured an alliance with Sparta on my flank. Fought and won Boeotians but Aetolians attacked me, step by step I got the Island above Athens and beat Aetolians. After that Sparta attacked (took me 10 years to beat their 2 strong and armored stacks plus the last rebel city) while Epirus also wanted a piece of me. Unfortunately Sparta already had cities on Crete but I went after them after I destroyed Epirus and push Antigonids at Northern Greece. Now I have pushed Antigonids at modern day Serbia, conquered all Greece, beat a couple Roman stacks and pushing Southern Italy, Serbia and perhaps Rhodes.
Building order is colonisation(greek)>tax(+500)>mine>road(move speed)>port>farm>population growth>money>>army. Some cities at border crossroads (pref large city) become recruiting points.
Early game I used generals to the max, they are worse than vanilla but still pretty good, sent all almost wiped units to athens for retrain. Almost exclusively train athenian hoplite, decent, easy to train/retrain. Athenian Epilektoi, better stats, slightly costlier, not worth the trouble getting the buildings and hard to retrain on the go. Thureoforoi, not even once, I just didn't like them. Slingers good to cheese siege battles and cheap for garrison. Generals for cavalry and that's it. Fight defending sieges, fight wooden wall attacks (slingers cheese), auto resolve stone walls (turrets hurt).
Even most basic Roman units have a lot better stats and that's annoying, also they almost not break. Use your generals to wear out enemies, distract them from your units, out maneuvre their melees and "assassinate" their leaders. If you have more horses and archers than your enemy, fight on open field, vice versa. In VH/VH AI gets more money per turn and since diplomatic trades worth a percentage of treasury, you can squiz quite a sum of them since early you are broke.
Feel free to ask any questions
Sounds good bro 😁
Any tips to fight the romans😂? I am playing Epirus, have most of Greece, only part of Peloponnesus Is missing. Romans Just landed 4 Doom stacks in Albania, with like 10/12 post Marian silver cohorts, 3 heavy cav, 3 good archers and generals. Of course i will wait for them to siege me but man the stats of those cohorts are frightening and i never fought against them.
@@gabrielepopa6870 Yeah, those are their doomstacks, a mix of everything and everyone has silver chevrons and silver weapons/shield. Most stacks actually don't have a general but a generals bodyguard unit, so atleast they don't get the command stars.
Right now I have conquered the whole of Italy, balkans and modern day Turkey and the game became a grind after Romes fall, so I halted the campaign.
The best way I found to counter romans was to outmaneuver their armies and take their cities (destroy their army making/replenishing capabilities while promoting your culture). As long as they have no nearby cities to protect they will either siege yours for a couple of turns (you can keep taking more of theirs) or fall back even northern in Italy.
As it concerns the actual fight, I found out that having two stacks of athenian hoplites (I suppose an easy to recruit [phalanx if possible] unit would be your go-to unit) with a good leader with the night fighter ability works wonders. You just 2v1 them and even if they have nearby reinforcements you can deny them by fighting at night. The trick is not to play both armies but leave the 2nd be played by the AI. AI is not good, but you have double the army size from the start and you can overwhelm them. You will take casualties, about the same as the romans but if you play it well, the romans will disband while you won't lose a single unit.
Then you run back, replenish in 2-3 turns and go get the 2nd stack. it take some time but they won't be able to out recruit you. The thing is, you have to have a nearby city ready to replenish your units every time, having two, reduce the time by half. That's why the armies should have decent, but easy to recruit units, so to replenish them even near the frontier. As you invade italy, get the 2 south-eastern cities, defend them while you make them able to replenish your units, and THEN try fighting the romans and expanding north.
TIP: If they siege one of your cities, by placing and army near both the city and the enemy, sometimes make the enemies stop the siege and leave or fight the outside army (you can still run away)
TIP2: Your general MAY be able to kill one unit of roman archers, but it doesnt really worth the risk you put him through
TIP3: If you have some developed cities nearby, you can put some horses in the army for the charge bonus, but you have such a numerical advantage that it's hard to find an open flank anyway
TIP4: After romans, everyone else will be a piece of cake
@@Ahkofd thanks for the tips, i was really puzzled by the Roman Ai behaviour, 3 doomstacks on the city they want, 1 doomstack wandering the Seas, disembarking and besieging One of my cities for Just a couple of turns. Until they got the city they wanted from the Ardiaei faction. We were allies, then i got backstabbed, i weakened their empire and the romans came to Rob me of my glory. I Just wanted to know if pikes behave well vs Roman heavy infantry, cause i want to try and lure them in the streets so numerical advantage isnt a huge issue. Saying this cause i still am campaigning in the Peloponnesus and torwards Istanbul so i cant really afford a 2x numerical advantage
@@gabrielepopa6870 I haven't used any pikes since athens doesn't have any, but they still do very well against front attacks in this mod. You will still have losses but try holding the city center while flanking with more pikes to lower morale
As a casual gamer who likes a challenge but not too much of a challenge i wish it wasnt so unforgiving. From what i can tell even on easy too many factions wouldnt be fun to play without huge hurdles to overcome. Which in general is totally fine, but without options for casual players like me its really disappointing, especially consdiering i really love the idea and scale of this mod. In the future i hope a difficulty rebalance is done or simply more difficulty options added if possible. And thanks for the video Red Zed!
Thanks for the feedback bro, I hope the video helped you out. Unfortunately they built this mod with difficulty in mind. There are a few easier factions tho, the Belgae, Ptolemies and Bosporans are all good choices. But once you learn the strategies to make money etc then you should be ok, main thing is just to go ham conquering early on and then you’ll be set ;)
Similar experience here playing as the Achaean League. I manage to take about 2-3 rebel cities but then get steamrolled by Sparta before I'm able to generate enough money to replenish my depleted army. Super annoying
Acheaen league is a difficult nation, not all nations are borne equally like any total war, some are much harder than others and the Achaeans are an OPM on the middle of loads of hostile factions, so goes without saying they will likely be difficult :)
@@Red_Zed gonna try take out Sparta first and then come back for the rebel cities after. The rebels (or free peoples) don't seem as aggressive as the proper factions. Failing that, might hurl my PC through the window 😂
Haha ye Sparta first, like the guide says the AI doesn’t care about agreements and just wants to kill the AI especially on difficulties above medium so taking the factions out first is always a good idea :)
you have my thanks for this. the mod dev himself offered little when explaining their own strategy guide. It was...a bit vague imo. yours is superior to his.
difficulty ain't *bad*, but fake difficulty (giving AI advantages in terms of e.g. money) has always done my head in; I greatly appreciate this guide!
Thanks man I’m glad it helped! 😁
Which guide was that man don’t think I’ve seen it? :)
@@Red_Zed it's on the page for the mod itself on steam, written by the author himself. it's pinned under "discussions"
Cool I’ll take a look, thanks man and I’m glad this helped 😁
Thanks for the guide. A small correction, allies do not join defensive wars in RTW
Ahh yea good point I forgot about that, thanks bro :)
That sucks :(
A Very detailed and succinct guide 👍
Thanks bro 😁
@@Red_Zed
Will you do A Rome play through one day?
@@alanmike6883 Sorry Alan, when I get a lot of comments I don't get a notification for every one so I missed this one :( But yes definitely I will do Rome, they are doing Rome after the Greek update so I can't wait to start showcasing that :D
@@Red_Zed
Don't worry. Same happens to me.
The Rome one with be good.
Like rise of a empire when you do it 😉
I wish you had shown us that one battle against Aetolia in normal speed because it was such a close call that it would have been great to see how intense you were during it.
I was so intense that I wasn’t even speaking haha 😅
Thanks im currently using the money cheat try and ifgure the mod out... so far im at -31k a turn so going well....
No worries hopefully this helps bro, I’m assuming that’s a bigger nation like the Seleucids? If so watch my Seleucid campaign and/or Seleucid guide and you can see the practical ways to reduce that for a large empire 😁
@@Red_Zed Sparta man haha
@@kjohnooo 😮🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's the problem right there ! And yeah i know Sparta is a fan favourite, good luck 👍👍
Sparta!!!! How did this happen haha you must have a huge army??
But I hope you manage to figure it out bro haha, if you’re struggling try restart and use these tips and see if it helps 😁
ive been brutally slaying as rome, and in my experience my allies fear me.
massilia, myssyli and masaesyli (gauls and numidians) have remained allies after me beating the following factions:
Sicily
Carthage
Spain
Gaul
Greece
Illyria
Brittain
however
as soon as i set foot into greece my ally the boetian league declared war on me
so maybe some allies arent as loyal?
or maybe its because i set foot into their territory
as i never set foot in massilia, or numidia
Ye some allies don’t stab you in the back but I think you just need to go about things as if they will, especially on harder difficulty.
There’s multiple factors for the AI when attacking, the difficulty you’re playing on, whether they can expand elsewhere (so basically if you’re cornering an Ally they will attack you) and how strong they think you are vs them 😁
Anyone else having problems with this mod taking forever to start? I mean, when I start the game, it takes a really long time for the game to start. It sits there and loads. I have a decent gaming laptop, and once the games starts it runs just fine. I just wish it wouldn't take 30 mins or more to start.
Install on an SSD, or even better NVME SSD
@@Red_Zed I have it on NVME. It seems like a software or maybe cloud issue. It runs fine once it starts.
For anyone else having this problem I figured out the solution. I had too many versions of Microsoft visual c++ installed so I uninstall them all and reinstalled the latest version. I also updated all of my drivers. Now it opens just fine.
Nice :)
Love ris
Yes
With CA never failing to downgrade new TW titles, it had me wondering what would it take for a team of mods to turn into a small studio? finally make a game that could challenge CA.
Ye that would be amazing! I believe Rampaned is looking to try to do that as well. I think it would take a hell of a lot of funding tbh but it would be awesome 😁
this will be insane when every city state is added.
Ye I can’t wait 😁
what is the most fun faction to play ? and what faction got the most fun roster :)?
I really wanna try the old schoool times again :D just cant figure out what is most fun to play.
Really good tips in the video even more hyped! keep it op.
Fun faction is very subjective of course but my favourite is the Seleucids, you just need to do a lot of campaign management which is something I love haha
In terms of fun and easier you’re looking at Ptolomies. Smaller fun factions atm with the current updates are Epirus, Belgae for the Celts and Bosporans!
Thanks bro I’m glad you enjoyed 😁
@@Red_Zed i once tried the macedons (they are called something else) What about fun units ? I like cool units :D! Never tried any of the factions.. do you think there is alot of varity when playing the different factions ?
Yes the Antigonids are great, lots of settlements so make sure you do some good campaign management for them!
Yes there’s loads of variety and each faction has a best way to play them, some skirmish some cavalry some heavy infantry.
In terms of cool units the Thracian factions of Bithynia and Odryssia have some awesome Falx wielding Boyos but I’m not sure how big their roster is pre the 0.6 update. Other rosters that are cool are the Seleucids and Ptolomies again as they have very large and varied rosters, the Achean league also has a great Phalanx based roster, and I like the eastern rosters because I love horse archers and deadly cataphracts! 😁
@@Red_Zed Sweet ty just what i needed ! i really like big rosters :D will try selucids and ptolomies !
@@devel-rh6hy Nice bro, how is it going? :)
How can i Download it for free?
Or i have to pay it for better experience?
Need guidance
The steam workshop bro, the link is in the description of the video. All free bro 😁
How the hell do you win as the Saka? I tried to attack the Bactrians and always end up with negative money in spite of investing in my towns
That’s because they’ve not been touched yet bro so they’re not balanced, try one of the finished factions instead :)
@@Red_Zed Ah ok. Been a real struggle! Even the rebel settlements are tough on Hard/Hard Extreme mode.
Ye the rebel areas are not yet touched in unremastered areas so go to Greece, Anatolia or Illyria :)
@@Red_Zed I gave up and went with the Bosporans.
Bosporans are a good choice, easy start with horse archers nearby which are so OP :)
Is there any way in any mod to change units names?
I don’t think so bro without going into the game files 😁
@@Red_Zed
Just for even DAC I was Just wondering 😁
@@alanmike6883 Ye unfortunately I don't think you can on the older games :(
@@Red_Zed
Damn. Not even file editing either?
Using WiFi at work.
Data doesn't renew till tomorrow so I'll watch then 😊
No worries bro I hope you enjoy 😁
Why don't they add some new portraits of generals to this mod ? i have in my modded rome total war vanila 500 -600 portraits of generals in every culture.
They are working on it, maybe you could help out, the discords down below. For now they’re working on all the things that matter more like gameplay and factions, but I’m sure more will come with time :)
For a mod trying to be historical this play style doesn’t match well imo. It’s an amazing mod nonetheless pure quality and effort
Ye it is amazing. The whole history of the time period was backstabbing and conquest tho, so I would disagree it’s not historical. And of course you can play it however you like this is just the best way with the game engine and mechanics of RTW to make money quickly early on 😁
The game is too hard? 5 turns in and i always get around 30-40k surplus every turn as Rome. If people find it a bit to rough and hard on new players. Always start with the powerhouses, Rome preferably. And the greece factions is a nice way to learn. Especially if you choose one of the crete factions. This mod must have been THE mod of the century. The amount of progress they have made is out of this world.
Yes some people find it very hard, but ye the romans are probably the easiest faction apart from maybe the Belgae. Ye Crete is like beginner island in CK playing as one of the Ireland Kings. 😊
Lots more coming soon as well, and then romans afterwards! 👌
@@Red_Zed Absolutely correct that the Romans are one of the easiest factions. Can you recommend some faction that is not too hard or to easy? Because it's usually goes Rome, Carthage and perhaps short plays with the Ptolemy. Want to try something different 😎
I will always recommend ones that are fully remastered for the full experience so just bear that in mind with these, I’m just covering those areas 😊
Epirus is a good middle ground, at war with Macedon but if you’re not on extreme mode it’s a good middle of the road difficulty.
Aitolian League too if you like skirmish based rosters, they are a small but powerful nation in the middle of Greece with easily defensible land.
Odryssia is more on the hard side but only with the economy, you get some great Thracian units but important to be aggressive otherwise you’re economy will tank!
Antigonids too seem easy however on the harder difficulties they border so many nations that you can find yourself getting chipped away steadily, so key to not get too distracted by losing one city or two and take out your much smaller enemies one by one!
Hopefully this helps bro :)
the more you advanced the worse off you are, this isnt difficult, its chinese difficult
Yes it’s difficult but extending at the start is really the only way to set yourself up for winning later down the line, even if you lose a few of the settlements taken at least you have the money from them and they’re not besieging Athens 😊