I am not saying these are things you don't know. I am just saying that they are a little bit unknown, and I it would have helped me, as a beginner, if I knew them earlier. : ) Also, feel free to leave in the comments any of your own, unknown, in-game knowledge, that others could possibly do with.

670 hours... didnt know you can send diplomats :D

@stylller100

3 жыл бұрын

Dumb detected

@michiel8003

3 жыл бұрын

Played this for quite a long time too, this was shocking to me XD

@morasia7976

3 жыл бұрын

First time learned about it too 😂

@cannibalisticvegan8461

3 жыл бұрын

nearly 800 hours, why am I dumb

@louisramos2473

3 жыл бұрын

Same

Hey, don't feel bad about the equipment thing. I have 2500 hours in Rome 2 and just found out about sending the family members as diplomats thanks to this video. Turns out I'm not big on diplomacy. Guess that's why it's not called Total Diplomat.

@patricianoftheplebs6015

2 жыл бұрын

Me when I read you comment. “Well I guess I do put war in total war”

@agentone8511

2 жыл бұрын

RIP automanage

@marioskegro9854

Жыл бұрын

me too i play from 2007 rome 1 and 2 ,f,.,

@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025

Жыл бұрын

Me Managing Politics To The Point Of Breaking The Balance Of The Game And Getting A Family Tree Bigger Than A City With Infinite Influence And Broken Buffs: *Impossible*

@karlarmstrong2474

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 total diplomat

As the graphics quality of games has increased over the years, so the quality of game manuals has correspondingly decreased.

@nicholasthuya7683

3 жыл бұрын

I think they wanted players to experiment with certain new mechanics

@madaranotsoanonymousnowuch1539

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasthuya7683 can't experiment when you can't understand shiet

@Qladstone

3 жыл бұрын

​@@nicholasthuya7683 Make it hard to understand so that people think it's deep. Easy.

Before the video: I know everything 18 Sec in: wtf i didn't know.

I find Left click unit drag incredibly useful, i was hoping for such a thing since Rome 1. Then you can hold Ctrl while still having left click held, and you can rotate the formation. Very useful if you don't want to create a locked selection group. One thing I wish i knew earlier, is that the cinematic view can be used to manually aim your artillery. That alone made me think of artillery as the new king of the battlefield, while in Rome 1 that role was reserved for heavy cavalry.

@RedContingency

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed I don’t understand how you can hate that. Having to press alt + drag in the newer games is incredibly annoying

@motoistic5954

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know about the drag at all and was looking for such a feature.. One man's problem is another man's solution I guess.

@hashbrownz1999

2 жыл бұрын

Manually aimed artillery can wipe out a good third of the opposition before the first clash (in single player, multiplayer people aren't as stupid)

@totskaart

Жыл бұрын

@@kylerleader5201 just deselect your units

@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025

Жыл бұрын

@@kylerleader5201 I Never Did That And I Played Too Many Campaigns For My Own Good.

I took 3 provinces from the etruscans in Rise of the republic today, just with one of my sons's (assuming i play as my family leader) wife. This mechanic can be very OP. The only Problem: The more you use the mechanic, the more expensiv it gets. The cost will get lower over time when you don't use it constantly. It can get up to 7000 Talents, when you use it 4 times every turn for 2 turns in a row...did this today, wasted around 50.000 talents in Rise of the Republic in 5 rounds for 3 settlements. ^^

Actually keeping your pikes farther back is better because when you push them too close, the enemy gets close enough to engage in melee and kill your pikemen. If you play enough multiplayer you will realize this. Keep them at a distance so they can make a maximum use of their melee attack and defense

@weeboftheleft5113

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's the whole point of Pikes.....they have reach. You don't have to be within sword range of your enemy to kill them. Don't ever push them in like this, it's dumb and you will just take more casualties.

Man I beated the grand campaign with literally every Rome Cartago and Greek faction... and I never knew how to place the fucking equipment holy shit man god bless you for this video

total war rome 3 Better quality, more option to trade, treat or threat enemies, more fighting animation, more fluid animation Im waiting

Had no idea of the character/ politics system in any of the total wars. I always thought it was just a background thing for a bit of immersion.. I never realised you could actually do stuff lol

I have been using this mechanic and it's possible that you get a settlement gifted even though it's the first time you send diplomat or you hadn't sent a diplomat to that faction the turn before. It seems that it's more probable to trigger the higher relationships are with that faction. I can't confirm this, but it seems that it doesn't happen when you play in Legendary. In my last two campaigns I couldn't obtain a settlement which I needed to complete a province from a ally even though I sent diplomats during a lot of turns.

I love how he felt the need to mention that it was his IN-GAME wife

Oh your wife, uh, sorry about that

Didn't know the first one, i knew the rest, and the left click thing, i never experienced. Thanks for video Mel!

Wait there are more total war games? Not just total war Rome. That's crazy

@tasuja1827

2 жыл бұрын

There are about 21 Total War games at the moment lol

Is there a way to disable clouds on the campaign map? Or reduce them? Not being able to see anything unless you zoom way in is the worst design ever.

Dude I can't tell ya how many times I nearly smashed my laptop due to the left click drag thing cheers brother

@RLuke103

2 жыл бұрын

I've just started playing Rome 2 after playing Medieval 2. What's the issue with left click drag?

Your accent is fantastic. Love the way you speak clearly. Great video, so much I didn’t know about Rome 2.

@vladimirgorbik5366

2 жыл бұрын

the sarcasm here.

@jackglossop4859

2 жыл бұрын

@@vladimirgorbik5366 I was serious. I like the way he talks

If you take Pikes off of formation attack while in pike formation, they'll continuously attack the enemy and deal massive damage. Try it against AI one on one.

I thought it was a great video!!!! Brand new to Total war 2 very helpful. Hilarious about the Carthage comment!!! Keep up the great videos!!!

Here's the deal with sending politicians on diplomatic missions: There's only three reasons to do this, really. The main one is you're trying to get a free region. Second, you automatically increase the loyalty of a political party by sending their politicians on missions. (The missions that give your provinces extra food and happiness have the same effect). Three, you can get annoying politicians killed on purpose by sending them as ambassadors to nations that hate you. If you get such politicians killed in battle, you'll take a big loyalty hit, but no one cares if they get killed playing politics in foreign countries. The downsides are: 1) it's quite expensive, so until you reach the point where your income is essentially unlimited, it's probably not worth the money. 2) With the exception of getting a free region, the benefits are quite modest. The penalties can get pretty annoying. It's not a very cost effective way to score a region. But it's very useful if you want to expand against a powerful neighbor, or a neighbor who has powerful friends, without having to suffer all the downsides of going to war against them. Oh, and it does have to neighbor. You have to have at least one region adjacent to one of theirs, and it can't be their capital. You don't have to send the same politician each time, as stated in the video, though it helps for reasons that should become clear. To have any reasonable chance of success you need to send a diplomat who has a high gravitas. The higher the better. The most effective diplomats have a gravitas of 500 or more. So don't send that 15 year old wunderkind, unless you're trying to get him killed on purpose. Going on a mission also raises the politician's gravitas, which is why you're more likely to have success if you use the same ambassador multiple times. Ignore the part where it says "your ambassador has betrayed you". A given politician is no more or less likely to succeed if you send them back to the same country on the next turn, except insofar as your relationship with that country will be worse (which also affects odds of getting a positive result). The other factor that matters is ambition, which runs from 1 to 3 and appears fixed- I don't know of any factor or event that raises ambition. Ambition acts as a multiplier for gravitas, so politicians that have a 1 ambition are pretty much useless as diplomats, no matter how much gravitas they accumulate. So if you want effective diplomats, assign any household staff or objects that grant gravitas per turn to politicians that have a high ambition, and wait a few years for them to build their gravitas. You can give them promotions or have them lead troops in battle to speed things up. The better your relation with the foreign country, the more likely they are to give you good stuff, and the less likely they are to outright kill your ambassador. If you're lucky, you can create a positive feedback loop where each mission gives your ambassador gravitas and each successful mission improves your relationship, so that the foreign country will give away region after region. There may be a slight risk that the ambassador accumulates so much gravitas she leaves your political party to form their own. That's only happened to me once, when I played Egypt, after an 80-year old princess had charmed the entire Arabian peninsula away from the Arabs. If the whole process bugs you, don't think of it as foreign rulers gifting you entire cities. Think of it more as your country becoming so dominant over their politics and culture entire cities are defecting to your hegemony.

You can change the difficulty when you start a campaign, just look around a bit and you will find it. Remember, it has the initial challenge too.

It’ll be great seeing proper diplomacy in a role play campaign, I think it’ll make for rlly good role play.

I didn't know I could just click everyone and move them in one large formation rather than setting them up one by one

Also you can prevent your army from dying on sea easily. If you want to have army safe, you have to move boarded army by right clicking to your fleet. It works as an escort. Also for rome you can send your general to the senate. When you have general, open his skills tree and in right upper corner you have option to substitute for other general.

I tried to play today, and unlike every other Total War game, when I clicked and dragged a formation of skirmishers left to right to orient the correct way (facing the f*cking enemy), they would choose any other direction to face except for the one that I clearly told them to be in. Ten years later and this game still earns its reputation for being trash.

You saved my mental health with the left click drag

Unit left click drag is one of the best UI battle mechanics, all of ur units in shape not a bit left nor right, dunno why people don't like it

Great video m8!

Can’t wait for the mega campaign!!

@vexz2922

4 жыл бұрын

Wait there is a mega campaign? I mean I havent even played the normal campaign I only play multiplayer lol 300h hours

@marcusantoniuskase9770

4 жыл бұрын

What mega campaign are you talking about?

@davidwiman7850

4 жыл бұрын

Marcus Antonius Kase He plans to continue through to medieval times from his Rome 2 role play campaign

Can't wait for your role-play campaign. Can you show more close up battle scenes if you can? I love seeing the people in combat ⚔️

How do you even get equipment to deploy in battle? Is it just during ambushes or when you've fortified, or as a defender?

superb video some good tips there

500+ hours on Rome 2 and didn't know placing barricades was a thing...

I wish you didnt need to click the phalanx walls to engage so many times to make them do something this is why i tend to play more rome remastered over rome 2 since I usually pick greek cities or other Hellenic factions in my campaign

Everyone wants to be an Emperor, General, and Conquer in this game, not to be a Politician.

Should help thanks. It's been years since I played Rome 1 and Rome 2 doesn't seem to explain the changes very well. Lots of work figuring out how everything works.

Oh yes, I didn't discover that some times when you're on the defense, your settlement may have a building where you can place troops. With a Garrison force of 3-4 hundred I defeated a force of 1200

Idk about the pikemen thing with traits and toadies mod, and 4 turns per year mod I have an amazing Macedonian pike and agrarian peltast combo. They give you like 50% plus ammunition and 10% more armor and melee defense off like two levels of a General alone. That or more ammo than that even with high level tech research :3 plus with the missile damage buffs I just place peltasts behind pike and I ‘walk’ the pikes into the enemy and when have time I run them to gaps and then rears of enemy (re engaging with pike mode on last sec for hammer anvil) cav is over rated too just keep one and hide it for mopping up fleeing foes and honestly. Great vid tho!

how did you place all your of one type of units in a line like that?

Thanks--Starter.

I was sending diplomats just to evade a civil war lol...

Never knew the first one (diplomatic mission), but it seems very useful.

@rizalalbar

3 жыл бұрын

It is quite useful. You can increase your relationship with other faction, making them less hostile with you from red mask to yellow, from Yellow to green, but not instantlly, and if your relationship with the faction is quite great(green mask) you'll get lucky enough that they give you one of their settlement for you. Beware though, sometimes diplomat can be killed or wounded when the diplomat failed carrying their job or worse they can decrease your relationship the faction you send them

I bet you didn't know you didn't have to place the equipment within the yellow borders but you can actually place them in the much larger white zone

What battle difficulty changes? The stats and AI movement?

That sending diplomat thing seems to be based on random chance. I have managed to get settlements from factions who hates me but not at war. And sometimes, I get 3 settlements in quick succession from non-allied factions.

Hey man, thanks for the tips. Haven't played a TW game since Medieval 2 and recently upgraded my PC so decided to delve into Rome 2. Learned a few new things from your video so thanks for that, I was just curious as to what Unit Card mod you are using at 5:35 in the video? It looks really clean compared to others I've seen and I'm finding it hard to fall in love with the "stylistic" unit card look in the vanilla game XD

@jpcofferip5325

3 жыл бұрын

I think he is using Divide et Impera. But this is not a unit card mod it does change the entire game.

How do you move multiple units over to another army ?

Great video.. I have lots of food but attritiom still gets me.

@iroh9816

Жыл бұрын

Plague? Weather conditions? There can be many ways you can get attrition, it's not all about food.

And i always thought its a placebo that the enrmy starts to die when i spam left click on them with pikemen

LOL "Murdered my in game wife"

There is any version of rome 2 with all dlc included?

Thanks for these informative tw videos. They are very useful. I always watch them.

left click drag is reason i cant play medieval 2 and rome 1 anymore, shogun also, I NEED THAT

@duress8801

3 жыл бұрын

Same brother. I wish there was a mod for shogun 2 to alt+ctrl drag and rotate. Only thing missing for a perfect tw game

@joeroganpodfantasy42

5 ай бұрын

Lol left click drag is just a combination of features already in rome 1 , you achieve it with alt and do the left click drag, also group to keep formation I thing

Can you recruit other factions unit for yourself???? Plz tell

4:31 - How do you make your unit cards that style?

@iroh9816

Жыл бұрын

That's from the mod Divide et Impera. It's a good mod although it's not quite so easy, it takes some time to get used to.

is thsi game hard to learn i keep enjoying the battles in yt videos but i have no idea how the base game works

Holy sh*t I have played 1000+ hours and I didn’t know some of these. I am stupid

Miss seeing your uploads bud

I wish I knew this about medical total was before

Nice province you got there. Shame if someone with 2000 troops swoops in to take it forcefully

I actually found the encyclopedia to be the most annoying part of the game

@hefik8689

2 жыл бұрын

Its actually useful sometimes

sending your wife to Carthage is cheaper than getting a divorce.

What UK accent is this? Sounds like every female flight attendants on the low cost flights, always loved that accent =)

@MelkorGG

Жыл бұрын

Yorkshire, northern England. A poor part of England, so that makes sense XD

knmööw ine formetino this guys accent kills me

"Rome 2 pikemen are so bad" Here i am winning every battle with little to no losses with a bad unit :D

I can’t play the base game anymore after being spoiled by Divide Et Impera. So as a “I wish I knew earlier” I wish I played Divide Et Impera way earlier. My only complaint is that I’m 90% sure that the population mechanic doesn’t affect the AI.

Weird, the left click drag seems such a huge upgrade IMO. I spend pre battle times setting things up, then just drag the formation around. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Wait you can send people as diplomats?!??!

Could you make video explaining campaign difficulty and battle difficulty effects in each total war game, or you already made a video

@MelkorGG

4 жыл бұрын

I did one for Rome 1 TOtal War and it did ok, but the issue is, the information is very difficult to find.

@golfball8418

4 жыл бұрын

@@MelkorGG 👍

man i love this game i have started over and over again on it because its just to damn hard but i will not give up i shall not give up on it never!

@andrewzevallos2454

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I see ppl talking about having to play on Legendary for a fun challenge and I've yet to beat it on Normal with Rome Julii. Heh..

@rickyboughen

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewzevallos2454 well i just play it on normal turned out i have given up

What are you talking about with Pikes? I've never heard something so stupid in regards to their usage.

Please do this with Atilla as well. Thank you

@aegir3452

4 жыл бұрын

I too would like a things you didn’t know about Attila. All of melkor’s videos made me realize how little I know about the games (like the alt button to have your missile cavalry/infantry charge your enemy. Been playing the game again as the Seleucid empire and have finally been able to a good start as this faction because of this one thing. Edit: have also been playing the total war franchise since Rome 1 in 2006.

Very helpful cheers!

i have a question, is the faction judea in de Divided et empire DLC?

What is equipment XD

Waw ❤️

I didnt know i can recruit more than 1 unit lol playing too much rome 1

i like the left-click-to-drag, it allows you to move entire armies very fast. Hold alt+leftklick. This whole thing with "it happens accidentaly" i do know aswell, but it is a glitch and that is NOT how it is supposed to work. It's supposed to only work if you press alt, but for some reason, it activates itself sometimes when only klicking left mouse.

@evanfiend

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong, it's not a glitch. It's literally an option.

@iroh9816

Жыл бұрын

That's literally how it is in Rome 2, they changed it later when they made Attila, it took me a while to figure out I had to press ALT + Left click to move, I almost thought they removed it tbh.

I had Thessalonians give me a settlement on wos and I had no idea how I did it haha thanks for that

In this game is equipment? :|

i am a total war fan for 11 years not a professional player but i can play campaign of all total war games from medieval 2 onward and know a lot about toal war but i'm always ready to learn. pike are good actually they are killing machines

@vostroyanseventeenth

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. I had a unit of pikemen who lost around 50 men and got over 600 kills.

hello

@pyrrhusthegreat2103

4 жыл бұрын

The great Hannibal Himself !

Does it work with every diplomat (members of a family which it's not mine) you can send, or only using diplomats who are members of my family (ex. Macedon, an Antigonid family member)?

@jpcofferip5325

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, as long as they are not leading an army. You can also send them to increase public order or food in a province for a few turn.

What language is this?

Melkor, Lads, Are your from Birmingham ?

@MelkorGG

2 жыл бұрын

Oof Yorkshire.

@itssebs

2 жыл бұрын

@@MelkorGG All right mate, cheers then 🍻

is the left click unit option also in empire, napoleon, shogun 2, attila, warhammer 1 and 2, and 3 kingdoms?

Have you been in Kitchen Nightmares?

I wish I knew it exsist ed earlier but shogun2 was just the stuff

How many turns did it take to get a free settlement? I used to use diplo missions to get rid of rival faction members.

I will use your Rome 2 let’s play as a guide in how to actually play that game. Bought it on release, to this day I don’t understand how to play it.

what pack you playing, i never seen that in rome version

This guy feeling dumb that he didn't know how to place equipment down and here's me not even knowing that you can get equipment, I'm glad I watched this.

i\ll tell you a secret! Many of things were not in the Rome 2 before but were added several years after release... :D

So let me get this straight, you need to capture enemy stable, with another prebuilt enemy stable inside of it to recruit Camel Archers? What camels are those, that they require two stables, one inside the other?

@MelkorGG

4 жыл бұрын

You need to capture a settlement with a pre-built stable. And then not convert that stable other to one of your buildings.

@redcomrade0088

4 жыл бұрын

@@MelkorGG Guess my joke wasn't really clear, my bad. I figured what you meant, just at around 3:17 you said "you need to capture a enemy stable, that has pre-built stable in there"

@doomguy9049

4 жыл бұрын

It’s because Egypt is two unstable

04:47 🤣

I Knew All This But The Thing I Was Actually Searching For Was How To Get Rid Of Traits. I Appreciate Your Work But This Isn't What I Was Looking For (Seriously Help Me, Half My Family Members Like Greeks And Are Culture Converting My Whole Empire To Hellenic And I'm Persian I Don't Have Enough Shrines For This Sh*t)

How do you even get deployable equipment?

@ajmalsafi13

2 жыл бұрын

After winning war you get army tradition. There read before select.

hi, im new in total war rome 2. im in rome using house of cornelia. when i check the map then political affiliation, its divided by my house of cornelia and some to house of junia. is it possible to rule the entire map using house of cornelia?