Best Total War Easter Eggs!

[@MelkorGG]

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[@martinlopezhowe]

@@necromancer803 That would instead be a reference to the Berbers?

[@martinlopezhowe]

@@necromancer803 Actually yes, the Moors are mentioned in several files like export_bi

[@Lichtenhammer]

Wow, that tree thing is amazing. I love that the people at CA couldn't get the Egyptian faction even remotely right but had time to include this really obscure reference to Greek mythology.

[@MelkorGG]

XD

[@NotFinnish]

I thought I saw that tree pattern below Domus Dulcus Domus

[@hatimzeineddine8723]

Some of us prefer bronze age egypt

[@Vanderyn]

How the hell people still don't know this is beyond me: the developers went with bronze-age Egypt on purpose so they wouldn't have another Greek faction. It was not a mistake, but a choice.

[@AudieHolland]

@@Vanderyn That, and they used the Rome Total War engine for the first time, before the game was released, in a tv show which detailed a Bronze Age battle between Egypt and the Hittite Empire. The Battle of Kadesh, I believe.
So when they finalized the game, I guess they thought they'd kill two birds with one stone. Why not use those Bronze Age skins and models they had worked so hard to look right?
For non-historical people: the Battle of Kadesh took place in 1274 BC. or about 1000 years before the time of Rome Total War starts.
Imagine if they'd made a Total War game portraying the D-Day landings on June 1944.
Okay, so let's also use these cool Normandic units that even originated from Normandy!
Uh, I'm not sure. Archers, armoured cavalry? How's that going to work on the Normandy Invasion Beaches?
Simple. Those Norman cavalry are about as effective and as strong as any Allied WW2 medium tank!
But they also get one shot killed by German Tiger tanks.

[@Sarefsx]

Domus Dulcis Domus (Home Sweet Home) is located near St Perersburg and some of the developers (Artem Kulakov) were from that city, so I assume he was referring to his home.

[@BoTyNieMaszJAJ]

Dude, this is close to modern Lithuania

[@gintautassickus6390]

4:10 there is a myth in Lithuania that we decended from romans:
Attila besieged Venice, 500 patricians and plebs fled and eventually ended up in Lithuania, built 5 towns and became the ruling classes.

[@blazodeolireta]

you mean Aquileia?

[@soldatnr444]

@@blazodeolireta yeah must be aquilea. Because Venice didnt exist when attila raided italy. Venice was founded because of attila.

[@gintautassickus6390]

@@soldatnr444 Some versions of the myth mention Venice, some mention a different city. The city had to be on a coast because they fled by boat.

[@soldatnr444]

@@gintautassickus6390 as i said it cant be Venice as it didnt exist at attilas time. Must be another city then

[@gintautassickus6390]

@@soldatnr444 Yes

[@Roman-rz7xs]

I was playing RTW as the julii and i faced an army of carthage Lead by Hannibal, no last name just hannibal and he had silver weapons and armour and 2 chevrons despite being 19 and only being in the south of spain, a good easter egg i think

[@soldatnr444]

Yeah I'm in the video!I have never thought i would be heavy influence for a video.
Thank you guys for liking my comment. I wouldn't have made that comment without melkors geography video, because i have never seen them ingame

[@dominicperez3777]

These devs got a great sense of humor!

[@MelkorGG]

All devs back then did : )

[@NotFinnish]

The Egyptians can say "all your base belong to us" to any faction I think

[@sappypngn]

If memory serves, you're right. They came to me on a couple different playthroughs with that.

[@Dylius01]

Definitely got this as the Julii

[@bobthemexican8192]

There's another reference in Rome Total War. When as a Roman faction you declare a war on someone the Senate doesn't want you fighting against, in the Senate Policy menu there will be a comment starting with a phrase "War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing", quoting the lyrics of the song "War" by Edwin Starr.
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[@cafedelmar3792]

Gracias por el dato

[@lebell79]

there's another one in medieval2 I never seen mentioned: the robin hood archers.
I can't for the life of me remember how to do it, but in the York settlement only you can recruit special archers that look like the 1950ies/disney version of robin hood. green tights, pointy hat with a feather, etc.

[@tomaszlosinski875]

One odd thing I noticed which isn't an Easter egg but still weird is that in Rome 1, there's an area in the bottom left of the map which is always visible even if you don't have watchtowers or characters near it.

[@martinlopezhowe]

Yes I've noticed that. Anyone know what this is about?

[@enriqueguiris5873]

Once I was playing with Julii, and I unleashed war hounds against gauls in a particular battle. Then I saw something most peculiar, the animation of a small dog spawned at the edge of the battle map and it ran all across the battlefield, I couldnt attack it, couldnt command it, it was just a dog (something like a small scotish terrier) running at full speed. I won the battle and never saw that pup again. Anyone else ever saw that?

[@danielhughes1711]

So Rome 1 doesn’t have historical accuracy but fiction stories

[@MelkorGG]

There's a lot of accuracy in there. Many Generals are based off real people.
But yeah, there's just as many references to Fantasy in Rome Total War as we will see in Troy, just more hidden XD

[@danielhughes1711]

MELKOR I just meant the first Rome total war game also love your Carthage series can you do something like that in medieval 2 or barbarian invasion

[@Greninjia]

@@danielhughes1711 he tried to in medieval 2 but the mod or smthn stopped working

[@MelkorGG]

Medieval 2 is difficult to do. But Barbarian Invasion 100% is going to happen : )

[@danielhughes1711]

Invictus I mean like what he dose in the Carthage campaign

[@selder_7]

Starts right at Thermiskyra, great stuff

[@Plaak]

The first time i saw "domus dulcis domus" in a let's play i thought they modded the game, because in my language it's called "limes gentium". From what i remember of my latin studies, it could be translated as "border of people", meaning the limits of civilization.

[@TotaalJarne]

1:29 minecraft skyblock

[@timothyernst8812]

I don't know if you'd consider it an Easter egg per se, but in Medieval II if you invade Brittany as either England or France (I tried with Spain, Portugal, and Denmark and couldn't get it, but maybe I was just unlucky) there's a chance "Pierre Abaelard" will join your general's retinue. Abelard was a real cool cat; look him up if you don't know anything about him. As far as I know, there are no other medieval philosophers featured as auxiliaries in the game. Either that, or I'm not fulfilling the prereqs to get them.

[@maxomat4319]

What about sometimes you can adopt a Plantagenet as England

[@MelkorGG]

Really? Never knew that one, nice : )

[@damjan4435]

My number one easter egg? Well augustus' heirs disappeared, well rome two has a habit of shit DLC to represent the decline of the empire after augustus' reign

[@gaaaaaaaaaaah1]

Warhammer 2 settlement Ubersriek is from Vermintide and the special building gives the 4 heroes from that game.

[@joelmaynard5590]

That was one hell of an easteregg with those trees thanks melkor

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

3:20 years ago i was playing as the Egyptians, got my ass kicked by the Seleucids and a Seleucid Diplomat sent me the same offer! I was destroyed, so we people of Pharaoh, divine god chosen by Ra, Lord of the 2 Egypts, we accepted submission and gave them earth and water

[@AudieHolland]

Yeah well, the aqueduct Monty Python reference was impossible to miss because every big city needs an aqueduct. Never knew about the Judean zealots though, other than the historical ones.
I know you haven't played Empire Total War a lot (or at all) but I like it because I can play as the Dutch.
Anyway, the Swedish ambassador, when he dismisses your offers, replies with, "I don't want to talk about things we've gone through, Sir."
According to other players, the Swedish ambassador replies are all quotes from ABBA songs. Never heard of that band?
A Long Time Ago...

[@SteelFlesher]

Fun fact: U can get hannibal gisgo

[@360xdnox5]

the hesperides are also called the garden of atlas, atlas is a mythical king of the kingdom of mauretania or modern day morocco some people say that the hesperides exist in lixus, lixus is an ancient city in morocco near larache i visited lixus one time it's amazing

[@PortraitSeal]

I had to do a double take when I saw Egypt with that message to me. I never thought I would see that. XD

[@haruhashimoto1792]

wow I already played all total war except the three kingdom and Troy but I didn't notice and saw that easter eggs thank you for doin this video keep up the good work. Btw new sub here

[@george13156]

Has anyone else heard the English speech in mtw2 against HRE when he calls them nazis?

[@MelkorGG]

What? If that is real please send me some more info : )

[@soldatnr444]

Well. I have to test something 😂

[@george13156]

Honestly I've had it twice both steam and disc version and I don't know how. The general goes "you looking at my bird, are you looking at my bird, come and get her then you nazi." no one else I know has seen it and I was sure I'd dreamt it till the 2nd time

[@soldatnr444]

@@george13156 reading the text, are you sure he is saying nazis? Or could it be a strange pronunciation of 'not see'?

[@george13156]

I don't know I've looked online and stuff and found nothing so whether it's a play on words or I didn't hear it right

[@iceintheair]

that was a great video, why you gotta make me feel bad at the end?
*start stockpiling food. you will either be very glad or mildly disgruntled in a month that you did*

[@MajkaSrajka]

Lancelot namechange one should be searchable within scripts or game files. It could be the game of telephone with 3 sources copying from each other.

[@DraconimLt]

Er whenever I've heard/read references to the Hesperides, they've been called the ''Nymphs of evening and sunset'', the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West" found in the far west of the world. Usually located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa, sometimes in southern Iberia. Not Hyperborea.
I did just find this: ''They were usually said to live in the west beyond the sunset, but the Greek poet and grammarian Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century bc) placed them in North Africa, and the mythographer Apollodorus (2nd century bc) located them among the Hyperboreans''.
So I dunno about that Tree thing, if that IS what it stands for, then it's probably in the wrong place...

[@OneRichMofo]

That all your base belong to us thing happened to me when i was parthia by egypt. So it is not an only seleucid thing

[@jotaro2690]

Can you make medieval 2 easter eggs

[@petershampshire]

The traits in the program files for Rome reflect the ancient belief in the four humours traits "blood humour" "black bile humour" "phlegm humour" "yellow bile humour". Also a father Ted reference in the traits for alcoholism, swearing, being a minion and womanising are called "drink" feck" "arse" & "girls". Good old father Jack.

[@maxmueller9517]

I got another Easter egg if u play Spain in rome total war and u look at the barracks tree at the last one there stand "warning this text should never stand there" I hope u know what I mean.

[@martinlopezhowe]

Yeah that's a bug then

[@3musketerantidbd174]

I cannot imagine if CA make some monty python easter egg name like "Biggus Dickus" for general/captain name.

[@jacobsmith2577]

Best Buy elephants

[@centurionsword2438]

There is a LotR reference when you type Oliphant in the console

[@alinalin7379]

Hello. We were discussing earlier about 4k video. I think is worth trying film clips in 2k or 4k, even if most of the peoples watch it in full hd, as it will be future proof. ;)

[@MelkorGG]

Given OG Rome TW can only run 1080p max (and even then it's done by weirdly stretching the screen), recording in 4k will have no effect.

[@braintumourgaming1104]

Well I’ve found another Easter egg with Rome 2 total war so the Roman faction is a reference to the Roman Empire

[@grantaum9677]

Ohh? Is that where it originated, I thought base are belong to us started with the age of empires cheat

[@MelkorGG]

According to Wikipedia : )

[@grantaum9677]

@@MelkorGG that's hilarious can't believe there's a wiki for it! Even references total war on there. Apparently it was a cheat for empire earth too, everyone must've copied it....
Is this the first Internet meme?! 😂

[@timothyernst8812]

It is indeed originally from Zero Wing. This was a big internet meme back in '00 - '01, but I doubt it qualifies as the first. By '04 it was a little dated, so I was surprised when I first saw it. You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha.

[@Ryan-ij3ge]

I didn’t know that about the “home sweet home” settlement

[@sabotsscraps]

One interesting thing in Rome total war, it isn’t an Easter egg per se, but if you play as numidia, you can only build lvl 1 ports and recruit biremes, but if you take over a place with a tier 2 or 3 port, you can recruit triremes and quinqiremes

[@sappypngn]

I always meant to play as Numidia with their fake legions. Then I laugh it off and pick a Roman family.

[@polarbear8445]

No entendí nada jajajajajaja sal2

[@antonycharnock2993]

ua-cam.com/video/nX7CeTXoxyU/v-deo.html 😂

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Lancelot is of Welsh origin

[@goryanadazaghal1206]

Melkor do a Medieval II rebels campaign

[@therealquaz]

has anyone been able to see the trees of easter egg 1 on the battle map?

[@therealquaz]

The console command to move an army there doesn't work... Invalid tile ;(

[@MsSirAndy]

Waffle Waffle gnamm

[@anderu2384]

Why do you play the older games? Is it because The new games suck? or CA is being to greedy?

[@MelkorGG]

Because I don't have a PC that can both run the new games and recording software at the same time. : )
Got a new setup though now, should be covering all titles sometime next week.

[@alcerscruro6107]

Hallo MELKOR i see your videos and i want to ask you if is posible to make my own faction and put it on the game.For example i want to make a new barbaric faction with many diffrent types of units and as starting location Tara.Is some thing like that posible?

[@MelkorGG]

It is possible. But I don't know how to do it.
In Rome Total War, they are at the faction limit. Meaning, if you want to add one, you may have to remove another first. (There maybe 1 free spot left so you don't have to, but I don't know).

[@RoastCDuck]

Here is another easter egg, the Julii are poor, thats a reference to the game Rome total war, in which the Julii are poor and can only affort Auxilia.

[@zarahustrap.6594]

Der patriotische Widerstand wird leben!

[@sauronmordor7494]

gg

[@Erbatorium]

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