I remember in Rome: Total war my favourite defensive tactic was to attack an enemy army which sieged my city with garrisoned troops, then get a single light cavalry unit outside the city and proceed to run around it in circles. Of course enemy army could not stand such provocative actions, and as they had no siege equipment built yet, they just swarmed the cavalry. But alas, light cavalry can outrun pretty much anything. Meanwhile my towers used their infinite supply of arrows to rain them down upon enemies, which suddenly walked into their range. Best thing, it did not cost much movement points to make such an attack, so i could make about 10 glorious battles per turn. By the time enemy had the siege equipment ready, they usually had a sudden change of mind, but alas it was too late...
My offensive siege strategy was essentially the opposite. I would walk my army randomly outside their town just out of range of the towers. Eventually their constant repositioning would both wear their soldiers out (mine are walking not running and stopping so they're fine) and open up a gap in their line somewhere. At this point I will run a disposable unit to the wall, climb it, and race the ai to the town square. As soon as the capture timer pops up, I run away and try to escape the city with the unit. The AI then determines I am on the edge of capturing their town square and winning so the move all of their troops to defend the center. I block all the exits with heavy infantry and then begin hammering their blob with missile units and artillery. I have won 10 to 1 odds on sieges with this though it does require a fairly specifically tailored army.
Dearest Spiff, today I learned that if you press backspace during the turn of the AI on the campaign map, you can skip their entire turn rendering them unable to do anything. This also works in Warhammer II. God save the Queen.
Drink tea and you will soon have your sense of reason back my friend. Joining spiff's invisible yeet stick squad is the calling of everyone in existence.
Ah, yes. The broken mechanic from rome 2 when you could have 2-3 agents and they destroyed armies by poisoning food that was later removed due to the cheese, let's add it again to the new game with no changes whatsoever
This game is basically "Yall remember how we badly fucked up Rome 2 on launched and had to spend a ton of resources to fix it to make it a good game" "Lets do it again"
Exciting development. I've ordered some Yorkshire Gold tea (over 200 bags of it), some mugs and an electric kettle (still quarantined). They will be here in two days. I will now be enjoying Spiff as he embarks on his game breaking adventures with tea in hand. Can't wait.
For anyone wanting to break the game easier - build temples of Apollo before recruiting spies. With those and a few other buffs, you can recruit agents at max level, meaning they can pick the guaranteed poison well success perk right from the start. Game balance at its finest!
@@dynomar11 Brilliant! I was worried we would never discover how this man's amazing feat was made possible. If only he had taken this opportunity to make a joke about having already seen the original post. What a waste.
@@tastycookiechip Omg what lies has that terrible movie Troy taught you? Achilles and Patroclus were not related at all and they were very much boyfriends. Actually the only reason Achilles went into a berserker rage and ended up dying is because he knew living life wasn't worth it after Patroclus died
The developers: surely nobody will be able to exploit this bug it’s too hard to reach! Spiff sitting in a dark corner drinking tea: hello ladies and gentlemen!
@@jesspayne5548 they're not fine at all. You can basically win entire sieges on WH using only artillery or archers. The latter is available from turn one. If you're taking more than 0 casualties in a siege battle on WH, you're doing it wrong.
literally any game developer: "is our game balanced? Guy working in QA: "no" Manager: "did spiff make a video about it yet?" QA: "no?" manager: "then leave it like that"
Well given that fact it was released on the 13th and it has been less than a week. I say he did it in about 3-4 days? Perfectly balanced Spiff with no exploits - utter destruction and full meme status.
Spiff is a youtuber who has burried himself deep into my heart. With him i enjoy exploring games that i dont normally give a crap about. Easily my favorite subscribtion.
You know how games have things like spellblades? Wells this is the brand new Archerblade. They fire swords instead of arrows from their bow. Just don't ask where they keep the extra swords, it's a....sore subject.
Never got to actually comment here, I don't know why, but I wanna say thank you for your vids and the entertainment provided. It's always a pleasure to watch you utterly destroy a game's balance, especially when I play it as well and laugh at myself for not finding out about most of this stuff sooner.
"This is a legendary epic hero of Dardania, apparently he is our rival" casually shows Aeneas, legendary father of the Roman Empire, without whom the Roman Empire would not have existed (according to the Aeneid)
That is like saying that without me the sun wouldn't rise in the morning, according to my mother. But I do like the Odyssey more than Aeneid, so I am biased.
@@aw2584 Cause one of his great-great-great-grandkids killed his other great-great-great-grandkid, and subsequently named the city they were building after the one he killed
Twice? This same bug basically goes back to at least Medieval 2 in some form. While the underflow error variant is possibly new, exploiting the AI to give you absolutely everything definitely isn't. I specifically remember finding some way to buy the entire world as both Venice and Ireland in M2, have every AI paying me basically their entire income in shogun 2, owning literally everything in Empire and having so much money as Sparta in Rome 2 that I could just hire a new general, instantly recruit an entire mercenary army, and repeat said process like 4 times every turn in order to just auto-resolve every war. Total war as a series is ridiculously exploitable if you go to look for it, and I honestly don't think I've ever seen a single game that had a "diplomacy" mechanic that WASN'T exploitable. At the very least, the AI will almost always be fine with you acting as a "International Bank" ...which when you abuse to have trade deals going with every single AI in the game, very quickly results in you making more money per turn than anything in the game is worth. (which was hilarious when playing as Venice in M2, since it's totally historically accurate lol.)
I loved medieval 1 and Rome 1 & 2, and I've always wanted to try the newer ones one day. This video, enjoyable as it was, sort of made me not even want to bother.
So you're telling me the AI exploits the weakness in the behavior of the other AI? This means the AI is capable of doing what the player is capable of doing. Perfectly balanced. As all things should be.
Thank you for making your videos Spiff, they help me get through the day. You are an amazing person and I hope you are doing well in this stressful time.
Chariots also broken in this game. I stack wiped 2 full stack with 9 chariot units & with 0 death in very hard difficulty. I hope another troy video about chariot
It's a ploy, I gave him a like commented and shared, now I liked commented and shared while drinking tea, it's a British ploy one video double the rewards. Well done.
I'm playing as Agamemnon and I have vassalized all of the Acheans and some other factions too. Ithaca (my vassal) literally owns half the map and have far more armies than anyone (including me) yet serves me faithfully. I was also able to vassalize Lycia even though they were more powerful than me. They were at war with Troy and Dardania, so I assume they wanted to vassal to escape a war they were losing. They seceded from me after 3 turns and became my first antagonist. I just finally beat them with my army of vassals (mainly my homie Odysessus of Ithaca) after a long and bloody war. I havent even started war with Troy yet. I'm on turn 184. I love this game.
Inigo Montoya for your use of Decimate, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means." Decimation was a practice of killing 1 in 10 as punishment.
This was great. I'd love to sign up for Odysseus' voyage , but if your PC struggles were something, then poor Ody's way home was much worse. Thought I always did wonder what it was the Sirens said...
Thank you Spiff. Never did an exploit before, but this is realy fun. I was laughing my ars off when I was able to get 10 vassals with that trade exploit, because the +50 points cancel out the malus of minor factions for becoming a vassal. Even got one to join my confederation.
On normal, pretty much. You’ll basically never be able to push them below 1 stack. Legendary, they are given massive bonuses to upkeep and income, so a single settlement can support a LOT of armies
You know, i actually think the economy thing isn't so much a bug as a really really genius way of portraying generous (basically hand-out) trade-deals between friendly allies. Perhaps they were offering to take a small number of your Ithacan fish off you in exchange for large numbers of grain from the mainland? Mostly as a way to help you out.
Lovely as a always Spiff, although should point out, Stalk is worse than you make it out to be, you don't have to frogleap the units, they stay invisible even while moving so long as you don't get to close.
The Spiffing Brit: "Guerrilla Stalkers" Me, who is listening and not watching: "Gorila Stalkers? Like... Men who stalk gorilas or gorilas that stalk? Gorilas that stalk... now i want that in the game..."
UA-cam auto text generator is a perfectly reliable piece of software. It told me about the negotiations with "Menopause of Sparta" and stories of "gorilla stalkers"... fascinating video in every aspect! :D
Spiff I recently heard of an exploit in total war warhammer 2 that if you can see the enemy on your screen When it's their turn to move just hit backspace and they immediately stop moving. Now this is perfectly balanced.
I have to admit i stumbled across your videos years ago as i was younger and dumber and didnt really get sarcasm and thought why does this fella name every video the same. And man am i glad i get it now your videos is gold!
i mean they did say Odysseus was sliver-tongued...
must have had a good cup of tea
Yet he had mostly man rivals, except Helen
He is grandson of Hermes afterall
"I've heard about you and your honeyed words" - random skyrim guard
Terrible uber driver though 😀😀
*Unit gets decimated by a barrage of throwing spears*
Surviving Soldiers: "Must have been the wind."
Metal gear solid status, "where did this box come from? Oh well, just a box"
When’s the last time the wind whispered hostiles to you?
OutbackNinja yesterday actually, ‘‘twas a tragic day
I hear the wind whisper daily. Last time it got my wife pregnant. But she can't be blamed. Was only the wind.
"Must've run off."
Spiff, cheesing the entire game this way is honestly the most on-brand Odysseus move ever
Can confirm, Odysseus breaking the economy is in character.
He couldn't find his way home for 10 years. I think Odysseus claiming being smart is one of the greatest PR successes ever.
@@5Andysalive To be fair.. the gods was doing a pretty good effort to prevent him from it.
Canon
@@TheDanishDelight iirc my mythology correctly, only Athena was on his side and everyone else was either indifferent or actively against him
I remember in Rome: Total war my favourite defensive tactic was to attack an enemy army which sieged my city with garrisoned troops, then get a single light cavalry unit outside the city and proceed to run around it in circles. Of course enemy army could not stand such provocative actions, and as they had no siege equipment built yet, they just swarmed the cavalry. But alas, light cavalry can outrun pretty much anything. Meanwhile my towers used their infinite supply of arrows to rain them down upon enemies, which suddenly walked into their range. Best thing, it did not cost much movement points to make such an attack, so i could make about 10 glorious battles per turn. By the time enemy had the siege equipment ready, they usually had a sudden change of mind, but alas it was too late...
oi you bloody horse gits! Stop prancing about like a bunch o jokers, it ain't sportsmanlike!
My offensive siege strategy was essentially the opposite. I would walk my army randomly outside their town just out of range of the towers. Eventually their constant repositioning would both wear their soldiers out (mine are walking not running and stopping so they're fine) and open up a gap in their line somewhere. At this point I will run a disposable unit to the wall, climb it, and race the ai to the town square. As soon as the capture timer pops up, I run away and try to escape the city with the unit. The AI then determines I am on the edge of capturing their town square and winning so the move all of their troops to defend the center. I block all the exits with heavy infantry and then begin hammering their blob with missile units and artillery. I have won 10 to 1 odds on sieges with this though it does require a fairly specifically tailored army.
I request for the spiffing brit to do a guide on how to exploit the U.S stock market. It'll be great.
Yes wonderful idea
I am from germany... i can tell you money exploits dont go well on a long term thinking... there are some side effects...
or the election
@@badlawyer4342 time for round 3 i guess
The US Stock market is a perfectly balanced stock market with no exploits.
Dearest Spiff, today I learned that if you press backspace during the turn of the AI on the campaign map, you can skip their entire turn rendering them unable to do anything. This also works in Warhammer II. God save the Queen.
That is just beautiful
Hail Balance
whaaat? really? hahaha wtf
@Markus Tanbeck well for some reason it doesnt work in my game xD
seriously cheddar
Spiff: Re-releases video with major changes. Still doesn't realize the typo in the thumbnail.
I'm sure he noticed.
No....his spelling (and pronunciation) is a bit atrocious at times, see his minecraft single death video when he types in chat.
@@thespiffingbrit See, he realizes. I'm just from the future.
John Delaney TELL ME WHEN THE BRITISH EMPIRE PART 2 IS COMING OUT FUTURE MAN
John Delaney Nice save lol
"Nothing is balanced, everything is broken."
-Perfectly Balanced Creed
This Video Is A Perfectly Balanced Audio Experience with No Exploits
Yes, perfectly balanced....
_i wish_ :(
This I have to agree
Unless ur using the cheat 100% speaker volume.
Infinite Volume + High-end Clipping Dupe Exploit
:/
After seeing the "exemplary ambushes" in action I can safely assume that Odysseus and Ho Chi Minh were friends at some point
"Why wouldn't you want to press the like button?" - I don't want to spend the next ten years trying to get home, thanks!
Drink tea and you will soon have your sense of reason back my friend. Joining spiff's invisible yeet stick squad is the calling of everyone in existence.
@@thespiffingbrit that you can never come home from until all of the known universe has been yeeted by invisible sticks, right?
What home? *One of homeless settlers after liking Civ6 video*
The best part of all of this is that if you read about Odysseus’ tactics in the epics, this is exactly how he would play the game!
Ah, yes. The broken mechanic from rome 2 when you could have 2-3 agents and they destroyed armies by poisoning food that was later removed due to the cheese, let's add it again to the new game with no changes whatsoever
This game is basically
"Yall remember how we badly fucked up Rome 2 on launched and had to spend a ton of resources to fix it to make it a good game"
"Lets do it again"
Seems like CA fired all rome 2 ppl and hired completely oblivious ones as replacement
@@Romczy haven't you heard Roman tradition says every tenth man will be killed. Who knows maybe the guys behind Rome 2 were the tent man
HATE IT when you're at war and you get 3 or 4 agents following your army around killing your general every turn. Cheesy, cheesy, cheesy.
@@Le-eu4bf its called decimation and was used as a military punishment - not often though.
Exciting development. I've ordered some Yorkshire Gold tea (over 200 bags of it), some mugs and an electric kettle (still quarantined). They will be here in two days. I will now be enjoying Spiff as he embarks on his game breaking adventures with tea in hand. Can't wait.
Due to the reupload I am now a part of the invisible and invincible army!
and somehow I am part of it twice, I wonder how that works.
@@Kalleosini reality is perfectly balanced with no exploits at all.
@@Kalleosini Dual wielding invisible laser boy!
U arent cool until you become INIVISIBLE AND INIVINCIBLE.
Am I part of it? Because originally, I was 5.1, but now I'm 13k....
I want a lazer
Not sure why but I felt super great during this video. Troy seems like a cool place.
" Odysseus is completely broken "
that's just how Sean Bean rolls.
At least he was alive at the end of that movie!
@@jb111082 And technically alive at the end of his journey
@@Mrkabrat 1 of few
Spiffing Brit's gameplay is literally the very definition of all is fair in love and war.
Given how much the AI cheats in TW games(to compensate for its stupidity), it's definitely fair.
"To understand the gorilla, you must become the gorilla"
- Sun Tzu, 20 AD, Madrid, Sweden.
No that was Vader in minas tirith.
As a swede i can confirm, madrid is real.
Guerilla*
@@Rwdphotos r/woooosh
@@engr_qt7093 You give him too much credit
For anyone wanting to break the game easier - build temples of Apollo before recruiting spies. With those and a few other buffs, you can recruit agents at max level, meaning they can pick the guaranteed poison well success perk right from the start. Game balance at its finest!
I have watched you for so long I broke the algorithm and saw this last night... and as it was soooo good will watch the full video again :)
He reposted
wow
@@dynomar11 Brilliant! I was worried we would never discover how this man's amazing feat was made possible. If only he had taken this opportunity to make a joke about having already seen the original post. What a waste.
I bet "Trusted Friends" is meant to be the same kind of "friendship" Achilles and Patroclus had
The greeks invented gayness
That's definitely a take on it
Weren't they related? I don't think they were fucking each other bro
@@tastycookiechip Omg what lies has that terrible movie Troy taught you? Achilles and Patroclus were not related at all and they were very much boyfriends. Actually the only reason Achilles went into a berserker rage and ended up dying is because he knew living life wasn't worth it after Patroclus died
Every time I laugh hard when somebody can't even imagine the real friendship and translate everything on gay situation
*I CAN HEAR YOU NOW*
The tea is warm today gentlemen!
The developers: surely nobody will be able to exploit this bug it’s too hard to reach!
Spiff sitting in a dark corner drinking tea: hello ladies and gentlemen!
LMAO! Im just picturing this in my head and its hilarious!
@@killer-ll4pn same but i think scarier
ManyATrueNerd: Oh, I love Classics, this game is going to be great.
Spiffing Brit: Oh, I love release builds, this game is going to be great.
I think my favorite part is that Odysseus was portrayed as a sneaky genius just like this.
So this was some excellent roleplay.
That thumbnail is a perfectly balanced image with no typos 👌 👏
"The siege maps are way better than warhammer"
Yeah, that's not exactly a high bar you set there xD
They are fine imo not medieval 2 but it’s atleast as good Rome 2s maps.
@@jesspayne5548 they're not fine at all. You can basically win entire sieges on WH using only artillery or archers. The latter is available from turn one. If you're taking more than 0 casualties in a siege battle on WH, you're doing it wrong.
@@jesspayne5548 Isn't it kinda sad it's not as good as a 14 year old game's siege maps. Like come on they have made multiple games since then lol.
Derunzz I was talking about Troy.
RuiRuichi well to be fair no other game comes close for me except maybe shogun, but that’s a different setting.
Deja Vu...
I've just been in this time before...
Higher on the streets...
Déjà vu
Jamais entendu
But who was doing any drifting, or even driving quickly for that matter?
@@ApocolypseChild No one , except those fast exemplary snipping bois that move as fast as a horse-drawn chariot...
literally any game developer: "is our game balanced?
Guy working in QA: "no"
Manager: "did spiff make a video about it yet?"
QA: "no?"
manager: "then leave it like that"
Spiff: makes video
Manager: "Write that down!"
QA: "But we were going to patch this before release-"
Manager: "WRITE THAT DOWN!!!"
creative assembly: hey look we have this cool game
spiff: give me a week to completely and utterly destroy it
not fair they made a game with exploits spiff is just playing the game the way it surely must be intended!
Well given that fact it was released on the 13th and it has been less than a week. I say he did it in about 3-4 days? Perfectly balanced Spiff with no exploits - utter destruction and full meme status.
its not even a full game lmao, its so much smaller than their regular titles because they want to test things before their next release
@@MisterDudeydan77 And yet they charge you for their "testing things."
Watching Spiffingbrit videos
Every gamers: turn off Steam update
0:13 General Kenobi!!!
“I see only advantages” brilliant.
"Won't someone *please* think of the game balance?"
'Balanced' game devs: *confused, broken dev sounds.*
HUZZAH I AM A SOLDIER OF ODYSSEUS!
THE OLIVE TREES ARE SPEAKING GREEK!
HECTOR DON'T SURF
Spiff is a youtuber who has burried himself deep into my heart. With him i enjoy exploring games that i dont normally give a crap about. Easily my favorite subscribtion.
UA-cam : something seems off
Spiff : I'm gonna show you how break UA-cam with a single game
UA-cam : he's at it again
I just imagine the spy peeing in the enemy well and every time you upgrade him he gets sicker and sicker.
3:52 Wielding a sword and a bow at the same time? Well, that does seem perfectly balanced indeed.
You know how games have things like spellblades? Wells this is the brand new Archerblade. They fire swords instead of arrows from their bow. Just don't ask where they keep the extra swords, it's a....sore subject.
Thank you for the re-upload. It's nice that I can actually hear what is being said without using headphones.
Never got to actually comment here, I don't know why, but I wanna say thank you for your vids and the entertainment provided. It's always a pleasure to watch you utterly destroy a game's balance, especially when I play it as well and laugh at myself for not finding out about most of this stuff sooner.
"This is a legendary epic hero of Dardania, apparently he is our rival" casually shows Aeneas, legendary father of the Roman Empire, without whom the Roman Empire would not have existed (according to the Aeneid)
That is like saying that without me the sun wouldn't rise in the morning, according to my mother. But I do like the Odyssey more than Aeneid, so I am biased.
If he's so legendary, then why is it called Roman Empire, and not Aneneas' Empire?
@@anzacwashington7050 that was a joke
@@aw2584 Cause one of his great-great-great-grandkids killed his other great-great-great-grandkid, and subsequently named the city they were building after the one he killed
I did a shot every time Spiff used alternative pronunciation. 15 minutes in and I'm buggered.
When you started talking about resources I just couldn't believe they made the same mistake twice.
Twice?
This same bug basically goes back to at least Medieval 2 in some form. While the underflow error variant is possibly new, exploiting the AI to give you absolutely everything definitely isn't. I specifically remember finding some way to buy the entire world as both Venice and Ireland in M2, have every AI paying me basically their entire income in shogun 2, owning literally everything in Empire and having so much money as Sparta in Rome 2 that I could just hire a new general, instantly recruit an entire mercenary army, and repeat said process like 4 times every turn in order to just auto-resolve every war.
Total war as a series is ridiculously exploitable if you go to look for it, and I honestly don't think I've ever seen a single game that had a "diplomacy" mechanic that WASN'T exploitable.
At the very least, the AI will almost always be fine with you acting as a "International Bank" ...which when you abuse to have trade deals going with every single AI in the game, very quickly results in you making more money per turn than anything in the game is worth. (which was hilarious when playing as Venice in M2, since it's totally historically accurate lol.)
Oi, I've given the video a like, should I expect my immortality immediately or within 7-14 business days?
Within a day, and it may or may not arrive and you cannot sue.
Immortality kicks in at the moment of your death.
I loved medieval 1 and Rome 1 & 2, and I've always wanted to try the newer ones one day. This video, enjoyable as it was, sort of made me not even want to bother.
"These ambushers are absolute memes"
I love how the term Meme can be used like all forms of words.
Like the word Fuck
Meme the meming memers
seems to me that if you ever do a trade deal with Spiff, keep a hand on your wallet at all times.
I've never been this early, Spiff, at least give me time to make tea!
You shouldn’t need to brew tea. You should have an emergency cup by your side at all times
No no, if you can’t brew tea in 1.2 picoseconds, you need not live!
The Spiffing Brit Creed:
Nothing is Balanced, Everything is Broken
The spy keeps using coffee to poison wells. Explains why he's so effective.
love how they made a infantry focused game and chariots are so op you really don't need anything else
Worst thing is that the units and lords phasing trough walls and dying is a thing in warhammer aswell...
So you're telling me the AI exploits the weakness in the behavior of the other AI?
This means the AI is capable of doing what the player is capable of doing. Perfectly balanced. As all things should be.
"Ok, Coffee Drinker."
May tea leave grace your path
@@sarahmellinger8125 noted and added to my frequent sayings
I love how the game launched with an economy system that will inevitably destroy itself!
"Deal or no Deal?"
"Deal! Always Deal, what could possibly go wrong?"
The poor AI should not be allowed to make deals.
The phrase "my majestic sausages" unashamedly made me hit subscribe.
Companies should just hire spiff to play test to find bugs
Why do you think spiff gets sent early access to some games?
Thank you for making your videos Spiff, they help me get through the day. You are an amazing person and I hope you are doing well in this stressful time.
Chariots also broken in this game. I stack wiped 2 full stack with 9 chariot units & with 0 death in very hard difficulty. I hope another troy video about chariot
It's a ploy, I gave him a like commented and shared, now I liked commented and shared while drinking tea, it's a British ploy one video double the rewards. Well done.
So, any plans for Flightsimulator 2020? "How to land a 747 on a bungalow rooftop" 😂
@@thespiffingbrit it is i have seen it on youtube or pretty much light speed i did not focus on the video
with the hot air balloon?
I have just found out flight simulator 2020 is exactly 69,99€
Found your channel a few days ago, binge watched about 20 videos already! Loving it
*smacks spy’s hood “This bad boy can pack so much Sabotage in em”
The Vietnam war reference with the picture of the old guy hiding in the bushes... OMG... xD
"As time goes on this man will grow to love us and consequently we'll be able to exploit him for infinite financial gain."
Sounds like my marriage.
Hellll yeah watch number 2
It’s so nice you posted it twice
Words that cured my depression : "Hello there ladies and gentlemen" and "Yorkshire Tea Gold"
Legendoftotalwar: Chariots are op
Spiffing Brit: My ambushers are invisible and shooting you
His cheese is so much better than spiffing brits. Spiffing brits barely gives you any resources
@@senseihello I know that legend's resource cheese is better but I am interested to see which unit will make the campaign a lot easier.
"For the purpose of balance we are going to play on normal." Ah yes BALANCE
If I took a shot for every time you said 'lovely,' I'd roughly be as lovely as this video is! Great stuff, as always!
I'm picturing javelin throwers in 21st-century ghillie suits.
When the bushes start speeking brittish
I completely forgot Odysseus was played by Sean Bean our Yorkshire boi, all comes full circle to a lovely cup of Yorkshire tea.
*sees title* "Ah, nice."
*sees thumbnail* **DROPS TEA**
I'm playing as Agamemnon and I have vassalized all of the Acheans and some other factions too. Ithaca (my vassal) literally owns half the map and have far more armies than anyone (including me) yet serves me faithfully. I was also able to vassalize Lycia even though they were more powerful than me. They were at war with Troy and Dardania, so I assume they wanted to vassal to escape a war they were losing. They seceded from me after 3 turns and became my first antagonist. I just finally beat them with my army of vassals (mainly my homie Odysessus of Ithaca) after a long and bloody war. I havent even started war with Troy yet. I'm on turn 184. I love this game.
Inigo Montoya for your use of Decimate, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."
Decimation was a practice of killing 1 in 10 as punishment.
This was great. I'd love to sign up for Odysseus' voyage , but if your PC struggles were something, then poor Ody's way home was much worse. Thought I always did wonder what it was the Sirens said...
Total war Skyrim: playing as 1000 perfectly balanced sneaky archers!
Hopefully they don't get arrow to the knee.
"Spiff will guide the way" why did that send a chill up my spine?
last I was this early keanu didn't have a cousin yet
Thank you Spiff. Never did an exploit before, but this is realy fun. I was laughing my ars off when I was able to get 10 vassals with that trade exploit, because the +50 points cancel out the malus of minor factions for becoming a vassal. Even got one to join my confederation.
Does taking the AI's resources actually weaken them or do they just keep spawning armies unimpeded?
Depends on the difficulty.
On normal, pretty much. You’ll basically never be able to push them below 1 stack.
Legendary, they are given massive bonuses to upkeep and income, so a single settlement can support a LOT of armies
I dont play a lot of games spiff plays but i just enjoy watching the videos its so entertaining
You know, i actually think the economy thing isn't so much a bug as a really really genius way of portraying generous (basically hand-out) trade-deals between friendly allies. Perhaps they were offering to take a small number of your Ithacan fish off you in exchange for large numbers of grain from the mainland? Mostly as a way to help you out.
You're joking right? It's simply something they haven't thought through. You can try to rationalize it but it's purely poor game design.
Lovely as a always Spiff, although should point out, Stalk is worse than you make it out to be, you don't have to frogleap the units, they stay invisible even while moving so long as you don't get to close.
The Spiffing Brit: "Guerrilla Stalkers"
Me, who is listening and not watching: "Gorila Stalkers? Like... Men who stalk gorilas or gorilas that stalk? Gorilas that stalk... now i want that in the game..."
"Don't worry, they'll get out of the way. I learned that one driving the Saratoga"
Hell Island bro, hell island
I need this man to play a game with Sovietwomble, drinking tea and playing Arma Dam right!
I'm drinking coffee while watching Spiff. It feels like an exploit.
UA-cam auto text generator is a perfectly reliable piece of software.
It told me about the negotiations with "Menopause of Sparta" and stories of "gorilla stalkers"... fascinating video in every aspect! :D
Forgive me Father for I have sinned I sat back and relaxed with a nice cup of coffee this morning
Unforgivable
Spiff I recently heard of an exploit in total war warhammer 2 that if you can see the enemy on your screen When it's their turn to move just hit backspace and they immediately stop moving. Now this is perfectly balanced.
Spiff explains how Odysseus'es army won the war and how brutally stealthy they were🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the reupload, Good Sir.
That’s a lot of damage!
40 hours for a video? Thanks for all the hard work and effort, Spiff. May your tea never chill and remain fresh
Odysseus, the original action hero 👍
I have to admit i stumbled across your videos years ago as i was younger and dumber and didnt really get sarcasm and thought why does this fella name every video the same. And man am i glad i get it now your videos is gold!
I've seen this one
YT : what you mean it's brand new
I saw it in a re-run.
Thank you for fixing the audio levels, Spiff.