Rome: Total War Remastered - The Peasant Revolution

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  • Rome: Total War Remastered returns for a one-off launch day special that asks one crucial question - can you take on the rest of the world using only an endless horde of utterly useless peasants?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 306

  • @seanmcloughlin5983
    @seanmcloughlin5983 3 роки тому +326

    Jon Brannigan using the tactic of “they’ll be defenseless once their so exauhsted from stabbing our men.”

    • @shotgunshells2
      @shotgunshells2 3 роки тому +41

      Romans have a preset kill limit, so I bravely sent in wave after wave of my own men!

    • @jeremylaynerogers
      @jeremylaynerogers 3 роки тому +26

      Jon Brannegan: “If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.”

    • @anthropod888
      @anthropod888 3 роки тому +3

      Works for Russia...

    • @EGRJ
      @EGRJ 3 роки тому +7

      Wasn't that his Skaven strategy?

    • @johnmudd6453
      @johnmudd6453 3 роки тому +1

      @@jeremylaynerogers game set and match !

  • @joseph9342
    @joseph9342 3 роки тому +285

    I like to think that when he was breaking the units down, the same people got rehired as peasants and were super confused and upset by the demotion 😂

    • @tSp289
      @tSp289 3 роки тому +44

      Yes Crassus you're allowed to fight, but you have to do it without any of those nice weapons and armour, and your shield-mate is going to be don the baker's son, who can't remember which shoe goes on which foot. Also, I called him a shield-mate, but he doesn't have a shield. More of a kind of... you know... well, a spatula.

    • @lt.walrus8382
      @lt.walrus8382 3 роки тому +21

      @@tSp289 I don't know who I am
      or why I'm here.
      All I know is that I must kill.
      -Don, probably

  • @PotatoMcWhiskey
    @PotatoMcWhiskey 3 роки тому +303

    I love this idea, I thought of doing this but I'm not confident enough with the game!

    • @jbbyebye
      @jbbyebye 3 роки тому +12

      Just watched your Carthage peasants yesterday. Iberian infantry, not a good unit.

    • @PotatoMcWhiskey
      @PotatoMcWhiskey 3 роки тому +13

      @@jbbyebye Iberian Infantry are indeed pretty terrible

    • @Monksy1337
      @Monksy1337 3 роки тому +12

      I love the idea that you're here to teach MATN civ VI in exchange for the secrets of Rome Total War

    • @5Andysalive
      @5Andysalive 3 роки тому +2

      @@Monksy1337 Not even he can force Jon off Mali.

    • @simpicusmaximus
      @simpicusmaximus 3 роки тому

      Iberian infantry feel a lot better with rebalance. Actually can hold a line now if you position your general near. I really appreciate the changes made to Carthage

  • @macroglossumstellatarum5932
    @macroglossumstellatarum5932 3 роки тому +180

    How about a Rebel playthrough?
    They're actually quite an interesting faction, since they start with a massive but weak empire at war with everyone. They can't really train anything good, but you can theoretically get any unit if someone else's army goes rebel, which you can engineer to happen.

    • @ze_rubenator
      @ze_rubenator 3 роки тому +27

      Actually Rebels were always banned online because they were ridiculously overpowered. At least in 15k CWB which was the most popular format. They essentially have the best units from every faction in the game (bar urban cohorts), and their roster is so big and so varied that they can't be countered, while they can counter everyone else. Egypt was overpowered too, but at least it had certain weaknesses.

    • @athath2010
      @athath2010 3 роки тому +22

      @@ze_rubenator When Marco said "They can't really train anything good", he was probably referring to the fact that the Rebels go deep, DEEP into the negatives money-wise very early into the campaign, IIRC. IIARC, they also have some jank when it comes to what they can build where.

    • @ze_rubenator
      @ze_rubenator 3 роки тому +6

      @@athath2010 That's true I don't actually know how their economy is on the map. But feels like it shouldn't be too hard to fix up. You don't happen to know how to start a Rebel campaign without crashing the game, do you? It could be fun to try.

    • @mango4554
      @mango4554 3 роки тому +9

      Multiplayer shouldn’t really be considered when it comes to how good a faction is in a campaign, rebels can’t even train most of those units even if they have the cash laying around iirc

    • @ze_rubenator
      @ze_rubenator 3 роки тому +7

      @@mango4554 In general I've found that online performance tracks very well to campaign performance in this game. Scythia and Egypt are excellent skirmishers, Rome is the most well balanced, Parthia have decent skirmishers but all you really need are cataphracts and some siege equipment, the barbarians are all terrible (with the exception of Germania which is tailor-made to destroy Rome). Cretan archers and Rhodian slingers are the bomb, and really worth getting unless you're Egypt. All of this is true both online and offline.
      The exception I suppose is the Rebels because they aren't really a proper faction and were never intended to be played.

  • @koganusan
    @koganusan 3 роки тому +226

    claire truly outdoes herself with the thumbnails everytime.

    • @ClaireRousseau
      @ClaireRousseau 3 роки тому +72

      Thank you!! It was a lot of fun to make :D

    • @MrJChristianz
      @MrJChristianz 3 роки тому +6

      @@ClaireRousseauno thank you, it was even more fun to click on!

    • @orana03
      @orana03 3 роки тому +7

      @@ClaireRousseau Such well placed cute hedgehogs!!!!
      Random question, how long does it take to make a thumbnail?

    • @ClaireRousseau
      @ClaireRousseau 3 роки тому +10

      @@orana03 it really depends! This one took a while because the brief was a little vague and we wanted it to be really fun. Usually it's about 30min each, but the YOLO series thumbnail was DAYS of iterating.

    • @vladdrakul7851
      @vladdrakul7851 3 роки тому

      @@ClaireRousseau Oh Claire your voice and laughter are SO attractive! I have a crush on you sadly are you a philosopher??J'adore!

  • @kylevernon
    @kylevernon 3 роки тому +266

    “This was new for the tribes, you see. They played at war, raiding each other, a little rape and pillage here, a little ransoming there. I showed them total warfare.” - Caesar, the American one.

    • @Lowco5
      @Lowco5 3 роки тому +23

      Ave, true to american Caesar

  • @conspiracyman8353
    @conspiracyman8353 3 роки тому +34

    It's like every battle is like the 300 Spartans- except you're the Persian army.

  • @Elonquin
    @Elonquin 3 роки тому +17

    Jon. Keep up with these weird challenges/concepts. This type of content has been rather entertaining as of late.

  • @macroglossumstellatarum5932
    @macroglossumstellatarum5932 3 роки тому +25

    Incidentally, I love how all of the steam achievements are faction puns. Very fitting for one of Jon's favourite games :)

  • @raulrisksitall
    @raulrisksitall 3 роки тому +12

    It's pretty amazing how the seleucids usually get wrecked super fast, but if you give them a slight fighting chance by taking pontus out of the ecuation they thrive

  • @anumeon
    @anumeon 3 роки тому +30

    "Quite right sir, give them a pitchfork and they think they own the bloody place" - Igor.
    Terry Pratchett

    • @mattd6085
      @mattd6085 3 роки тому +1

      I read that with a lisp

    • @anumeon
      @anumeon 3 роки тому

      @@mattd6085 I wanted to write it with one, but i couldn't find the exact quote to copy, so i had to do it from memory.. :D

  • @_Hofnarr
    @_Hofnarr 3 роки тому +31

    Peasantwerp reborn! In the past.... Peasantwerp the Ancient Beginnings!

  • @JB-xl2jc
    @JB-xl2jc 3 роки тому +94

    • @METALFREAK03
      @METALFREAK03 3 роки тому +5

      Or all French Republic rebellions (of which there has been six I believe). They basically protest every other week, if the wind changes the french haha

    • @andymiller277
      @andymiller277 3 роки тому +8

      Ah yes. The pubic wars, the sexiest of all wars

    • @derekskelton4187
      @derekskelton4187 3 роки тому +9

      @@METALFREAK03 Better than licking fascist boots...

    • @METALFREAK03
      @METALFREAK03 3 роки тому +1

      @@derekskelton4187 Yet each French president is one...interesting take :)

  • @Gokes93
    @Gokes93 3 роки тому +27

    *Sun Tzu says* : 'We must appear strong when we are weak, and appear weak when we are strong'
    I think the peasants have that covered nicely

  • @sotnosen95
    @sotnosen95 3 роки тому +5

    "Bring enough peasants, they can support each other!"
    Now I'm just imagining the peasants patting each other on the shoulders and being all, "You can do this, mate!"

  • @FonVegen
    @FonVegen 3 роки тому +17

    Ah yes, for when you want your only advantage on the battlefield to be numbers, and if you want to be sure that the number of casualties will be squarely on your side.

  • @Dudbun
    @Dudbun 3 роки тому +21

    I love how much Rome content we've been getting so much

  • @tacticalnuke5673
    @tacticalnuke5673 3 роки тому +160

    Spiffing Brit: *eyes glow red; Rule Britannia starts playing; tea and crumpets in hand*

  • @patrickfuller6132
    @patrickfuller6132 3 роки тому +23

    Jon you playing these Rome Total war epics is one of the most entertaining things I've ever seen in my life hahahaha

  • @Roscoso
    @Roscoso 3 роки тому +40

    I do hope we can see you return to Barbarian Invasion sometime. Perhaps playing as the Romano British and try to survive the randomness of the faction?

  • @mreko2174
    @mreko2174 3 роки тому +36

    Request for Jon to do a full Egyptian campaign

    • @EGRJ
      @EGRJ 3 роки тому +1

      Probably take a lot of walking.

  • @lavendervonstaro4004
    @lavendervonstaro4004 3 роки тому +29

    *There's some lovely filth over here Dennis!*

  • @captain-chair
    @captain-chair 3 роки тому +6

    16:16 Jon you killed 1/3 of your tax payers.

  • @The_Laughing_Cavalier
    @The_Laughing_Cavalier 3 роки тому +38

    "Dennis-ius, there's some lovely filth down here!"

  • @vyrtarion115
    @vyrtarion115 3 роки тому +6

    the AI actually responding to being flanked and boxing in is actually pretty nice, good change to the ai in the remaster

  • @thenobletaco4232
    @thenobletaco4232 3 роки тому +4

    I love how far you can zoom out in the battle map, the original game was way too restrictive with the camera.

  • @blakeiutzi3344
    @blakeiutzi3344 3 роки тому +3

    If you get a prompt for a peasant to become a general and join the family it should be allowed! Because they were originally a peasant

  • @markallen6284
    @markallen6284 3 роки тому +13

    10/10 thumbnail. You know it'll be a good time when the hedgehogs get rolled out

  • @TheCountZopolai
    @TheCountZopolai 3 роки тому +2

    @7:42 Ah, but Pontus *wasn't* Hellenistic in 270BC. It was a surviving Achaemenid satrapy closely connected to, but distinct from, the Hellenistic world. It became increasingly Hellenistic with time, but only from about 200BC onwards. Love your stuff by the way- from a long-term lurker and fellow history nerd

  • @EvelynNdenial
    @EvelynNdenial 3 роки тому +21

    please continue the mercenary only challenge, it's just gotten to the good part.

    • @Zenturio331
      @Zenturio331 3 роки тому +1

      This is just a one off to celebrate launch day

  • @seanodonoghue116
    @seanodonoghue116 3 роки тому +6

    Vive la Commune! Man the barricades! Rossel and Delescluze would be proud

  • @jacksonheichel2318
    @jacksonheichel2318 3 роки тому +7

    Haven't watched the video yet, but congrats to Claire on an amazing thumbnail.

  • @nessesaryschoolthing
    @nessesaryschoolthing 3 роки тому +4

    We interrupt your regularly scheduled ridiculous challenge run to bring you an even MORE ridiculous challenge run.

  • @iain.sm.c
    @iain.sm.c 3 роки тому +1

    Also, watching the peasants move whenever Jon speeds up time is like watching a school of fish swim around a shark in a David Attenborough documentary.

  • @pennyc7833
    @pennyc7833 3 роки тому +2

    This reminds me of the last time I played Egypt in original Rome. my cities kept getting overcrowded so I started making peasant armies and just kept throwing them into auto resolve combat with opponents. Eventually I wore them down on numbers alone and it helped with the crowding in the cities. :D

  • @snowisthebestweather
    @snowisthebestweather 3 роки тому +1

    Pretty sure the Eastern General is actually one of the better bodyguards in melee. It just happens to *also* have javelins.

  • @ordo_draigo_assault_ham
    @ordo_draigo_assault_ham 3 роки тому +28

    When you decide that Rome:TW needed Ork hordes to be perfect...

  • @Gspi1005
    @Gspi1005 3 роки тому +5

    Totally accurate battle simulator but its actually Rome: Total War Remastered

  • @kotzpenner
    @kotzpenner 3 роки тому +3

    I started my campaign right now and you also uploaded, can't decide what to do. Probably watch in bed later as always, so comfy.

  • @lucaspina9041
    @lucaspina9041 3 роки тому +3

    Pontus: The First Commune

  • @juliuszondag5515
    @juliuszondag5515 3 роки тому +1

    To be fair, the Seleucids often get dogpiled because they rarely have a weak Pontus to take their attention

  • @fletcherjones3931
    @fletcherjones3931 3 роки тому +2

    Jon: *Expects to dogpile on the Seleucids*
    Jon: *Becomes the Seleucids*

  • @williammiller79
    @williammiller79 3 роки тому +12

    If you wanted to fix their morale, then go for Thrace. Ares gives them a bonus to morale, which on certain units, is goddamn broken(Christ help you if you’re on a bridge and the opponent is a group of fully upgraded Spartans with max temple of ares)

    • @mikewatts8441
      @mikewatts8441 3 роки тому +1

      Are the moral bonus's from buildings working in remastered? I seem to recall they never worked correctly in the original.

  • @Rush2201
    @Rush2201 3 роки тому +1

    "Deploy my most elite peasants!" Words I never thought I'd hear...

  • @wolfer1000
    @wolfer1000 3 роки тому +2

    I'd love to see a Barbarian Invasion campaign, playing as some of the barbarian factions. A saxon playthrough, or the celts if they've been made playable, would be fun.

  • @athatcher9367
    @athatcher9367 3 роки тому +2

    Another idea for a campaign:
    General units only (just generals/family members/whatever they’re called)

  • @highjumpstudios2384
    @highjumpstudios2384 3 роки тому +1

    Glory to the Proletariat! Seize the means of production!

  • @Kodasa_Sinclair
    @Kodasa_Sinclair 3 роки тому +1

    This is like.. The Imperial Guard of 40k going up against superior foes.
    "Incoming tanks... Affix bayonets!"

  • @ilikecheese8131
    @ilikecheese8131 3 роки тому +1

    Today is my step dad’s birthday and he loved the original and it is being released on the same day.

  • @barnwellmattfenn
    @barnwellmattfenn 3 роки тому +2

    "Peasants aren't infrastructure; they're kind of the opposite." feels like a kind of sublime turn of phrase somehow.

  • @catchasmurf762
    @catchasmurf762 3 роки тому +3

    Many A True Nerd: Warcrimes Edition

  • @trygveplaustrum4634
    @trygveplaustrum4634 3 роки тому +2

    Oh no, Jon!
    You chose *PONTUS!*
    *Do you know what you've DONE?!*

  • @joelsweeney4024
    @joelsweeney4024 3 роки тому

    I want to see a full series of this, this was one of the most entertaining challenges you've ever done Jon!

  • @boffinboy100
    @boffinboy100 3 роки тому +4

    You should have gone for Julii for this - could have recreated the BC version of the 'Worker-Peasant Red Army'... missed opportunity :)

  • @CharlieCookeActor
    @CharlieCookeActor 3 роки тому +6

    I feel like there's a fitting Blackadder quote for this situation, but I cannot for the life of me remember it

    • @Ma_Zhongying
      @Ma_Zhongying 3 роки тому +2

      "Oh, Mithridates, you really are a beginner - you're not even wearing a pair of comedy hedgehogs!

    • @rosscairns7574
      @rosscairns7574 3 роки тому +3

      "Ah yes! Arrow fodder!"

  • @jediknight1294
    @jediknight1294 3 роки тому +2

    This is the reality of a larp battle in an RTS

  • @Redassassin53
    @Redassassin53 3 роки тому

    I was looking forward to more of the mercenary challenge but... but this... this is truly something that must be seen and enjoyed.

  • @TenebrousFilms
    @TenebrousFilms 3 роки тому +1

    I never checked that it needs windows 10. I finally have the impetus to put a new rig together. Farewell at last, 7... I'll miss you.

  • @iain.sm.c
    @iain.sm.c 3 роки тому

    So happy that Rome has become so prominent on this channel again.

  • @L11ghtman
    @L11ghtman 3 роки тому

    Getting nostalgic for your unit of hero peasants from your last Rome full-play

  • @rustcohle3781
    @rustcohle3781 3 роки тому +1

    Another Rome remastered video, MATN has never been better

  • @DILLIGAFgaming-c8t
    @DILLIGAFgaming-c8t 3 роки тому +1

    While watching this, I constantly found myself asking "but Jon, surely you should be playing defensively?"
    This is why my Stellaris playthroughs always begin with me playing tall, then having to engage armadas triple my entire navy capacity 😅 thank f**k for Citadels and defence platforms 😂

  • @RenaissanceManchild856
    @RenaissanceManchild856 3 роки тому

    Having a devil of a time getting my installation to work. Thanks for picking up the slack Jon! Got my morning Rome after all.

  • @5Andysalive
    @5Andysalive 3 роки тому

    Mazaka is just such an amazing name for the city, given the circumstances.

  • @TheSuperLegoMan100
    @TheSuperLegoMan100 3 роки тому

    I have done a full roman peasant playthrough on the original rome total war version. was a lot of fun seeing them swarm every city and unit in the game

  • @crispymormon5977
    @crispymormon5977 3 роки тому +1

    In today's flavor john roleplays as the imperial guard! All hail the emperor!

  • @InEpicinium
    @InEpicinium 3 роки тому +8

    Whispers say the peasants of Peasantwerp were heavily influenced by this series of events and vowed to show their modern world the power that the peasants of the ancient world carried.

  • @toaofpi
    @toaofpi 3 роки тому

    Between the mercenary's challenge and this, I'm beginning to suspect that Jon's general approach to this remaster is to avoid using as many units as possible.
    Thanks for the video!

  • @CoolStoryBro455
    @CoolStoryBro455 3 роки тому +1

    Downloaded rome remastered yesterday
    I meet all the requirements
    Even the recommended ones
    Crashed immediately
    Couldn't even start it up
    Not the only one, steam forums are cooking

  • @austinspirek2793
    @austinspirek2793 3 роки тому

    Jon I will always love you for producing fun content like this, and often in my favorite games somehow!

  • @Biscotum
    @Biscotum 3 роки тому

    I really feel like Jon just took a page out of Zapp Brannigan's strategy book here.
    "Well, you see, hoplites are a terrifying foe, to be sure. But they are only men, and men get tired. So I just sent wave after wave of troops at them until they were exhausted and too mired in bodies to move."

  • @jensroberthelland319
    @jensroberthelland319 3 роки тому

    Two words I didn't think I'd haird said together. "Elite peasants."

  • @leewmcbride
    @leewmcbride 3 роки тому

    Ah, everyone getting together to stamp out the insipient revolution. Feels very appropriate

  • @supermichelangelo5763
    @supermichelangelo5763 3 роки тому

    Consurgite, damnati mundi! Consurgite, famelici! Ratione orta moribundi, pereunt status relici! Ecce, saeculum vetustum nutat - turba servorum, surgite! Nam mundus iam penitus mutat: Qui estis nil, omnia fite!
    Hoc est proelium finale; congregemur ut cras! Sit Internationale una humanitas! Hoc est proelium finale; congregemur ut cras! Sit Internationale una humanitas!

  • @motokuchoma
    @motokuchoma 3 роки тому

    "The peasants are revolting"
    "Indeed, they are."

  • @hostergaard
    @hostergaard 3 роки тому

    Jon using the Brannigan tactics against horse archers; I knew the horse archers had a limited number of arrows. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and had to fight in melee.

  • @Maggerama
    @Maggerama 3 роки тому

    Thank you for this spectacle, Jon!

  • @BryanNolen
    @BryanNolen 3 роки тому

    Some of those fights were like if you setup the battle of 10000 chickens vs 1 T-Rex in UEBS.

  • @Icyclean6969
    @Icyclean6969 3 роки тому

    I miss last stand in the town centers so much in modern total wars it was such a cool mechanic and also made siege battles way more challenging

  • @greaterthan3689
    @greaterthan3689 3 роки тому +1

    All power to the people!

  • @elmogreen107
    @elmogreen107 3 роки тому

    They did a great job with this game. Top notch work.

  • @emperorandreas6245
    @emperorandreas6245 3 роки тому +3

    It is also my Birthday and the fact that It is rome total war remastered launch day makes me very happy :)

    • @maarchalk2840
      @maarchalk2840 3 роки тому +2

      All of Rome will be amazed at such a Happy Birthday!

    • @andergustafson6664
      @andergustafson6664 3 роки тому +1

      @@maarchalk2840 THE GIFT IS YOURS!!!!!!!!!

    • @emperorandreas6245
      @emperorandreas6245 3 роки тому +2

      @@andergustafson6664 Ahh squeaky voiced voice crack narrator man If have not heard your voice in many years

  • @DropKickVirus
    @DropKickVirus 3 роки тому

    I love these challenge run.
    Maybe you could a one-off in Barbarian Invasion, where you try to trigger the maximum numbers of hordes? And then just see, what they do 😂

  • @EriLed12
    @EriLed12 3 роки тому

    I think the biggest problem with only using presents is less that peasants are terrible fighters and more that the casualties you take even in a fight you did excellently drain your population so you just can’t sustain it

  • @MagraveOfGA
    @MagraveOfGA 3 роки тому +1

    It would be interesting to see a cheaty version of this, where you give yourself the best buildings to immediately have powerful peasants, on extreme unit scale

  • @snowman7730
    @snowman7730 3 роки тому +1

    WHOSE STREETS?

  • @TheCoal27
    @TheCoal27 3 роки тому

    "A secure start."
    Faction difficulty: HARD

  • @cheddarcheeseisgood8030
    @cheddarcheeseisgood8030 3 роки тому

    The Hedgehog with the red flag was beautiful

  • @METALFREAK03
    @METALFREAK03 3 роки тому +3

    I used to do this for fun, never thought their was an "official" challenge for it, back in the day.

    • @lunarixis9957
      @lunarixis9957 3 роки тому +1

      Those were the days, setting up custom battles of a full stack of peasants and seeing what can and can't beat it

  • @kirilldozer
    @kirilldozer 3 роки тому

    Feels like Christmas with all this new RTW content

  • @tora9915
    @tora9915 3 роки тому

    That intro stills gives me chills

  • @the_Book_778
    @the_Book_778 3 роки тому

    Watching the units run around on fast speed is pretty funny.

  • @Speedy123page
    @Speedy123page 3 роки тому

    For reason this reminds me of taking over the world as germina with spear warbands

  • @JudoMoniz
    @JudoMoniz 3 роки тому

    Got the game today, been enjoying it so much, the new UI was real easy to get a hold of as well, was expecting it would be harder to get used to it

  • @davidostashkov7752
    @davidostashkov7752 3 роки тому

    "The Great Peasant Revolution", ah yes! The peasants bleed and fight and die, while the nobility sits back and enjoys the show. So much has changed!

  • @ledzeppelin27
    @ledzeppelin27 3 роки тому

    Sir, the peasants are revolting!
    You said it, They stink on ice!

  • @craigdarling8106
    @craigdarling8106 3 роки тому

    This is such a good idea! Brilliant content as always

  • @alexanderhammil6754
    @alexanderhammil6754 3 роки тому +1

    Antwerp: *begins to sweat profusely*

  • @ASMRaphael
    @ASMRaphael 3 роки тому +1

    I think a full mini-series of this would be great, but I do not think that such an army would be viable in economic terms :D

  • @markhenderson6389
    @markhenderson6389 3 роки тому +3

    Love the impossible challenges! Will this be a worthy follow-up to the epic Crusader Kings 3 Vikings campaign?

    • @johncheng2682
      @johncheng2682 3 роки тому

      I believe it's an one off for the launch day.