I completed the Colchis campaign in August. The hardest early game I have had so far. I had to play with some mods that gave them some extra units tho, I couldn't have thrived merely with pijama men.
CA really squandered their chance with this civilization. The Thracians have an awesome history, and would’ve made for an even cooler barbarian-Greek hybrid faction than Cimmeria, using hoplites and pikes, as well as horse archers and lancer cavalry. They put a ton of effort into the Getae and Ardiaei and then completely neglected these guys. I’ve thought for a while about modding in the new units myself.
Tylis: u waged war on us.... to make ur borders more aesthetically pleasin? Dinios Stanius: look man, this faction is pain, I gotta get what little joy I can out of it
This faction needs some heavy spears just so you can keep the enemy in place, so that you can charge forward with the falx men and swing around with your cavalry. Also I love the idea that some king that’s raiding a city and is like “why’d y’all build your city so far away this is terrible customer service”.
In Rome 2 that would be the Getae as they are the Dacian faction, the Odyrissian Kingdom is Thracian. They have some weapon overlap in game and real life, but they are two completely different unrelated people.
@@howitzer551Both are Indo-European peoples. Their language family is believed to be Daco-Thracian and, as the game states in the introduction, Dacians and Thracians are related ethnic groups.
@@De_Futura Lol Indo-European is the largest, by type, language group on the planet so that isn't saying much. As far as I learned you have to go all the way back to Proto-Thracians before you can find a so-called common ancestor. That is where the split comes from. Depending on which historian/geneticist you believe the Thracians in Rome 2 are like 3 ethnic groups away from that. Remember the Persians, Greeks, Celts and even some early Steppe peoples get all up in Thrace. The Dacians for the most part resisted the Celts and had some Steppe interactions, but no one really messes with them until the Romans at least ethnically speaking. Their similarities come much more from them living right next to each other and cultural exchange than a common ancestor. I mean hell some western European languages and some languages from Punjab have the exact same (or very similar) grammar even though they have been removed from each other for a long ass time just because they are both Indo-European languages. So, by that logic, the Portuguese and Indo-Arryan Cultures are closely related, I don't think so.
@@howitzer551 No, by that logic no. Because the Indo Aryan cultures speak a language that diverged from other Indo European languages in Europe at least 4500 years ago. Modern Portuguese and Indo-Aryans are related in a way but because of the time frame is impossible to say closely. It seems that Dacian and Thracian split at the beginning of the Iron Age (1000 BC), so by the beginning of Rome 2, the would have been more closely related than modern Germans and English. Anglo Saxons and the Norse had languages with mutual inteligibility, even though Old English and Old Norse split from Proto germanic at least 1300 years prior 800 AD. And also the Dacians were not inmune to being mixed with Celts or Scythians, but that's beyond the point.
@@howitzer551 The Dacians very likely didnt resist the Celts... Lots of evidence pointing towards that slovenia region being celtic or atleast mixed. and even farther perhaps into Ukraine
The Thracians, the Mysians, the Getae, the Paeonians, the Pelasgians, and many more, are the descendants of the Odrisians. Zeus was originally called Pelasgian Zeus. We call him Zevs.
You did this Campaing as I recommended!!! i love it, is painful I wish I could see more of the map to see how you managed with their negative money start but I understand it is a pain in the ass
@@Dino_Stan I played it and had some interesting success one time but when I was reaching to kill macedon half of my provinces rebeled due to my faction dividing into 2 for not taking care of politics, so I immediately deleted that file, trash units, trash economy, trash political situation literally nighmare, I wouldn’t want to play it on legendary never
I think the point of playing as Raiders and Pirates factions is using mercenaries to make up for your poor roster, and have an agressive start in order to sustain your economy with sack and loot. You can do some advanced mechanics such as hide your money, embezzlement and such in order to have units upkeep for free. It would be interesting for Odrysians to hire some hoplites who could absorb the enemy missiles and reserve the thracians for cyclo charging once the hoplites are starting to lose. But most importantly, the Odrysians really need long range missiles, so hiring some archers or slingers is mandatory. This is just a wild idea, but perhaps it would be interesting to migrate to a province early game where you can hire mercenaries who can complete your roster, otherwise these factions' early game is hell-like.
Hey man, dont doo doo on the Falx- it's unironically one of the best weapons of the classical era. TBH thinking about it- I wonder how it would have fared if taken past them getting conquered by the Romans. Like, its just a spiked sword, sounds pretty effective to me.
It is weird how shit they are in the game, considering how famous Thrakians were for their fighters irl to the point that Greeks and Romans were heavily employing their services.
Dude I can feel the resentment towards faction within your playstyle. It's funny. I do the haha... Haha. In all seriousness, yeah I can relate. There was almost nothing worth playing them for.
Oh, that makes sense. Still the mix bag faction still is pretty much useless. The Towel for Armor was probaly the only accurate description you had them. @@Dino_Stan
if you playing rome 2 now, i suggest try out Divide et Impera mod, it adds so much good stuff, like regional units for factions- new tec, and population mechanic (way better than vic3)
If i want pain i rather play EB2 Getai. At least i could become a Living God after winning difficult start and obscure requirement that require reading the forum/traits in game
Mister dino stanoshvili i give up you would rather play the worst Rome total war factions before playing Nobleman 1896 i give up i am done i will no longer be asking :(
If you want another painful Rome II campaign I recommend Colchis. It made me want to Thrones of Britannia myself.
I gotta try out every faction for the meme
@@Dino_Stan have fun with that big man, my favourite part of the game is the copy-paste Greek factions
what are you talking about? i loved playing colchis
@@AlexandruA. I mean it’s great if you love being attacked from all sides with no friends, unique units or respite
I completed the Colchis campaign in August. The hardest early game I have had so far. I had to play with some mods that gave them some extra units tho, I couldn't have thrived merely with pijama men.
Fighting an army led by Hank and John Green is the true test for any Total War gamer
We must all prepare for that fight
"Get yo raggedy ass out of the history books"
Why are you out here reading the inscription off my tombstone
I'm sorry for stealing 😔
Honestly, "Go back to your wallless city and cry" is probably a killer insult by ancient greek standards.
You know things arent good when you dont even wanna fight the last battle of ur campaign
I was considering world conquesting but then i forgot that i need to raid to win lmao
We makin it out of Bulgaria with this one 🗣️🔥
always a sight for sore eyes mr stan
bless up
CA really squandered their chance with this civilization. The Thracians have an awesome history, and would’ve made for an even cooler barbarian-Greek hybrid faction than Cimmeria, using hoplites and pikes, as well as horse archers and lancer cavalry. They put a ton of effort into the Getae and Ardiaei and then completely neglected these guys. I’ve thought for a while about modding in the new units myself.
They do have some cool mods for them
Playing as this faction made him so bored he declared it as a curse
Thracian curse
Tylis: u waged war on us.... to make ur borders more aesthetically pleasin?
Dinios Stanius: look man, this faction is pain, I gotta get what little joy I can out of it
This faction needs some heavy spears just so you can keep the enemy in place, so that you can charge forward with the falx men and swing around with your cavalry.
Also I love the idea that some king that’s raiding a city and is like “why’d y’all build your city so far away this is terrible customer service”.
Rude city placement really
civ 5 kamehameha always beefing with me and even though I never do anything to him. he just shows up in his stupid hat to shout at me in tongues
Hes the main character
Funny to imagine that the Romans struggled with these guy's falx that they had to make a whole legion with complete armor
In Rome 2 that would be the Getae as they are the Dacian faction, the Odyrissian Kingdom is Thracian. They have some weapon overlap in game and real life, but they are two completely different unrelated people.
@@howitzer551Both are Indo-European peoples. Their language family is believed to be Daco-Thracian and, as the game states in the introduction, Dacians and Thracians are related ethnic groups.
@@De_Futura Lol Indo-European is the largest, by type, language group on the planet so that isn't saying much. As far as I learned you have to go all the way back to Proto-Thracians before you can find a so-called common ancestor. That is where the split comes from. Depending on which historian/geneticist you believe the Thracians in Rome 2 are like 3 ethnic groups away from that. Remember the Persians, Greeks, Celts and even some early Steppe peoples get all up in Thrace. The Dacians for the most part resisted the Celts and had some Steppe interactions, but no one really messes with them until the Romans at least ethnically speaking. Their similarities come much more from them living right next to each other and cultural exchange than a common ancestor. I mean hell some western European languages and some languages from Punjab have the exact same (or very similar) grammar even though they have been removed from each other for a long ass time just because they are both Indo-European languages. So, by that logic, the Portuguese and Indo-Arryan Cultures are closely related, I don't think so.
@@howitzer551 No, by that logic no. Because the Indo Aryan cultures speak a language that diverged from other Indo European languages in Europe at least 4500 years ago. Modern Portuguese and Indo-Aryans are related in a way but because of the time frame is impossible to say closely.
It seems that Dacian and Thracian split at the beginning of the Iron Age (1000 BC), so by the beginning of Rome 2, the would have been more closely related than modern Germans and English. Anglo Saxons and the Norse had languages with mutual inteligibility, even though Old English and Old Norse split from Proto germanic at least 1300 years prior 800 AD.
And also the Dacians were not inmune to being mixed with Celts or Scythians, but that's beyond the point.
@@howitzer551 The Dacians very likely didnt resist the Celts... Lots of evidence pointing towards that slovenia region being celtic or atleast mixed. and even farther perhaps into Ukraine
In the begining Zeus gave all lands to Odrysia, but odrysia a nice country so it gave land to others
They are nice guys
The Thracians, the Mysians, the Getae, the Paeonians, the Pelasgians, and many more, are the descendants of the Odrisians. Zeus was originally called Pelasgian Zeus. We call him Zevs.
You know what would be a fun campaign that Dino Stan can get behind? Rupert's Land world conquest in CK III.
Soon they'll give it to us
Congrats on being the first person I've ever seen play this faction lol
I gotta keep them alive in the hearts of the people
This faction goes hard man my favorite in rome 2 their sword units even starting off so strong
they got the best looking swords
Dino's pretty fly for a Map Gamer.
😎
"It's gonna take you back to the past, to play the shitty odrysian kingdom and suck ass..." the rest of the lyrics
First time watching you and I love your fever dream esk commentary.
Lmao i try to keep it interesting
dude i hope we get like 272672y26282 episidoes of this game
the dream
You did this Campaing as I recommended!!! i love it, is painful I wish I could see more of the map to see how you managed with their negative money start but I understand it is a pain in the ass
It was a painful run
@@Dino_Stan I played it and had some interesting success one time but when I was reaching to kill macedon half of my provinces rebeled due to my faction dividing into 2 for not taking care of politics, so I immediately deleted that file, trash units, trash economy, trash political situation literally nighmare, I wouldn’t want to play it on legendary never
Dinosaur Stanley uploaded again
heck yeah
That old school TF2 Star and Jerma pirate song reference, you made me feel old lol
I forget how old it is sometimes
The Odrippian Kingdom
dripped up
I think the point of playing as Raiders and Pirates factions is using mercenaries to make up for your poor roster, and have an agressive start in order to sustain your economy with sack and loot. You can do some advanced mechanics such as hide your money, embezzlement and such in order to have units upkeep for free. It would be interesting for Odrysians to hire some hoplites who could absorb the enemy missiles and reserve the thracians for cyclo charging once the hoplites are starting to lose.
But most importantly, the Odrysians really need long range missiles, so hiring some archers or slingers is mandatory.
This is just a wild idea, but perhaps it would be interesting to migrate to a province early game where you can hire mercenaries who can complete your roster, otherwise these factions' early game is hell-like.
This is actually some really cool info, thank you
Hey man, dont doo doo on the Falx- it's unironically one of the best weapons of the classical era.
TBH thinking about it- I wonder how it would have fared if taken past them getting conquered by the Romans. Like, its just a spiked sword, sounds pretty effective to me.
Its the best looking sword in rome 2
Youre like the Bulgarian Alexander
the greatest honor
Darius is historys biggest fumbler, lmao actually made me laugh
It is weird how shit they are in the game, considering how famous Thrakians were for their fighters irl to the point that Greeks and Romans were heavily employing their services.
They are just kinda gimmicky, wish they had better abilities
Rome-yes, Byzantium-no. You are making a mistake.
thank you for blessing my day dinostan
bless up
No problem king
dino installing a total war game on an hdd: "this little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years"
Most painful loading ever
That Kamehameha impression was on point lmao
That man sticks with me forever
I could never get the hang of the three kingdoms game I didn’t keep playing
i've only played it a few times
SONS OF THRACIA!!! RISE WITH ME, DINO REPRESENTING OUR MENTAL ILLNESS
im rose up
The proto-Bulgarians
consider not saying stupid bullshit
Pretty sure the Bulgars we're a steppe tribe and the slavs don't exist yet.
@@buzter8135😊 Wrong
@@user-xc6co3ur2v arguments?
Dude I can feel the resentment towards faction within your playstyle. It's funny. I do the haha... Haha.
In all seriousness, yeah I can relate. There was almost nothing worth playing them for.
Someone pointed out her that they probably released this dlc pack to cash in on the good mods. The modders are carrying the odrysians
Oh, that makes sense. Still the mix bag faction still is pretty much useless. The Towel for Armor was probaly the only accurate description you had them.
@@Dino_Stan
at least they had new unit models@@loyalbravo_1325
Fair enough
@@Dino_Stan
Wait until this man finds out Tylis. Oh boi 😂
💀💀
"I hate you" rant sounded like Anakin in episode III.
Anakin has taken over my soul
Me who loves the odrysian kingdom and hearing the intro :”Oh….”
I wish they had better stuff in base game, they look the coolest
@@Dino_Stan yeah I can see why people don’t like them for that reason
Bulge-aryan empire
It makes me sad, having recently played TW Warhammer, then watching you play Rome 2, then firing up Shogun 2.
I try to play all of the games, tho i play the older ones more
they don't have units or map powers... but they got the drip. the odripian kingdom fr.
Thats the best part
Odrysian? I hardly know her!
Oh yeah, my favorite Total War faction, the o'driscolls
5:21 this song has been stuck in my head for weeks and it jumpscared the shit out of me
Its stuck with me
Thrace go crazy
Starring Genghis Khan as THE PIRATE SPY
The legend
Yep, play until you get bored and declare victory, just like a Roman Emperor!
thats how the Thracian history books will remember it
Creative Assembly putting out dogshit DLC is something of a tradition as you can see.
Coin maker enables the coin boy
2:18 "My enemies are around me .... But my allies are none" 😂
You could have said this here 😂
My thugs are many my bitches are none. Real napoleon QUOTE
Holy shit a total war channel that edits their videos with funny commentary. Say it ain't so.
Be the change you wanna see
Give them some Spartans
Heresy to play anyone other than the sigma romans
3:12 I'm fucking dead xD I can't stop replaying
I gotta stop saying that in real life
Not enough Nobles!
I tried this faction after trying the Illyrians. I felt better.
lmao
do the mega campaign with the first game of each series, you gotta do it, you gotta
That's a scary challenge, eu1 haunts me
Falx you dude. They are great, though they should have some hoplite units given this is post Alexander and they would have adopted them
Their king was was of alexander's officers so you'd think he would have greek units
I had a lot of fun playing them because I like shock infantry and obliterating hoplites with rhomphaias along with confederating with dacians.
I like their units just wish they had more
bulgaria 2 faction
Wow this was such an Odrysian moment
As THE Odyrsian Kingdom guy.... It's a really sad time you have in the campaign.
But they have really cool big sword guys...
Trueee
This is literally my favourite faction in this game
Everyone has their favs no worries
Profound, we were the real clowns all along
I understood that thumbnail reference ;)
based reference enjoyer
I still don’t understand how you do the Throat singing while just being silly and I can’t trying it seriously 😢
Throat singing become addictive
if you playing rome 2 now, i suggest try out Divide et Impera mod, it adds so much good stuff, like regional units for factions- new tec, and population mechanic (way better than vic3)
I played it a little bit, but i dont think my pc can handle the turn times sadly
I have been playing to much dei I forgot what vanilla looks like
If only you could customize army equipment and training...
Odrippian Kingdom
One a side note, I think every barbarian faction is pretty underwhelming.
At least some have units
Yeah, Schopenhauer was Odrysian btw
Real lore
I remember on my first ever total war campaign I was playing as Rome on domination and these b#stards *would not* stop rebelling.
I think they made this and the pirates because some mods made them good so they put a pay wall up to stop people from paying for free
Yo I think you're right
Funny video
Best ww2 Bulgarian campaign
Don't mind me here
What would Doug Walker think about this?
Let's ask him 😎
normal difficulty ☠️💀
O'Driscoll kingdom?
Dutch we gotta invade the O'Driscoll kingdom
Jerma reference
Pt. 2 world conquest when?
I was so close to considering it here
@@Dino_Stan Damn here's hoping 😂😂.
Much love from North Macedonia.
🦖🤝🇲🇰
Us Bulgarians are so proud CA made our ancestors so crap 💪💪🔥🔥🇧🇬🇧🇬😮💨😮💨😤😤
Shout out to Bulgaria
please sing more prince of egypt songs in your videos
Can do
Sorry you might have mentioned it in the video already but, I was wondering what you thought of this faction?
They are kinda boring because they have like 8 units I feel
play a good faction like boii next
I gotta play them fr
now try illyria there's more pain to experience
Evillll
If i want pain i rather play EB2 Getai. At least i could become a Living God after winning difficult start and obscure requirement that require reading the forum/traits in game
the truth
cool
where is the DEI come on man its very fun
I'm probably gonna play it soon
I think the only worse faction than the thracians are the Dalmatian ones, they have fuck all for units.
I think their best one is just a hoplite.
That's gonna be pain
Idk anything bout campaign... Why is odrysion bad?
They just have no units and a weird campaign ability
Mister dino stanoshvili i give up you would rather play the worst Rome total war factions before playing Nobleman 1896 i give up i am done i will no longer be asking :(
Noblemen must collab with rome 2
🎉
Greek bioweapon 😂
Normal level?😂😂😂😂