I could be wrong, but is there any mechanic that Kingdoms added that would come to be used in all future titles?

@NotFinnish

3 жыл бұрын

Not kingdoms, but Warpath campaign added in sabotaging armies, and Peninsular campaign added in Guerilla/Vanguard deployment

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

Can't speak for warpath, but yep, your right in Peninsular : )

@kingster14444

3 жыл бұрын

BI is my favorite but I do like the map areas with Kingdoms, it's just more of sexy Medieval but in more places, albeit in a bit smaller pieces. But nothing will ever beat playing as the Western Roman Empire on Hard/Hard, because I ain't sweaty enough for very hard, and like to RP a bit.

@alcoolamus4208

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, boiling oil was introduced in Kingdoms and used in Rome 2, Attila, ToB at least

@NotFinnish

3 жыл бұрын

@@alcoolamus4208 Boiling oil was in Rome

The reason I love barbarian invasion is primarily because I love this time period of late antiquity where the world was into a long and painful proces of change and set the stage for the troublesome and confusing history of Europe. When it comes to representing a time period as accurate as possible, late antiquity is the most accurate period portrayed in Total War (Barbarian Invasion and Attila).

@CynfarLP

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I`ve always felt a bit of a cringe in the back of my head, when I, as the Arverni, conquer a huge territorial empire in Rome II for example.

@bogdan3386

3 жыл бұрын

@@CynfarLP if I'm not wrong in an old documentary for history channel (back when they talked about history) about ancient warfare they also did an interview with CA developers where they said that the faction they are the most proud of is the Franks in barbarian invasion

@toReasonWhy

3 жыл бұрын

@@CynfarLP OOC, why? That’s half the fun, is seeing if you can change history.

@Frame_Late

3 жыл бұрын

@@toReasonWhy This. Historical total war is all about this. Rome and Barbarian Invasion even talks about this in the faction selection screens, where they talk about strong leaders and good tactics. Total war was always about being able to overcome great tactical and strategic challenges, even when you're playing the easier nations like the Romans or the Carthaginians.

My favorite thing to do in BI was play as the Franks and ally with the WRE serving them as mercenaries and demanding payment until they stopped and I destroyed the WRE and recreated Charlemagne’s empire, then sending an army to Jerusalem when rebels or the Sassanians take over. You should do a Franks campaign Melkor.

@lookwaticando909

3 жыл бұрын

I will try this

I love the horde factions in BI. So much replayability. Interestingly, the Roxolani were definitely added later on, and the Sarmatians used to start with their lands.

@Anaris10

3 жыл бұрын

I'm fond of the Sarmatians even though it's a pain. I usually just horde up and take a couple boats to Byzantium.

Barbarian invasion had both culture and religion. -160% public order for max forigen culture and religion. It had the most punishing public order of any total war game, sort of realistic tbh, it slowed blobbing as well and incentivized fighting your own culture/religion.

@brakonierrr7067

3 жыл бұрын

Max penalty for Culture is 50, so in total is -150% ;)

I still can't believe I have this game on my phone.... Its insane that they made it for mobile devices and it works.

I love BI to, not as much as Rome but still a phenomenal game.

I never played BI before, but considering that I'm playing Julii now, I will forge the empire, then go to BI and see it burns to the ground I guess :)

@duckman9467

Ай бұрын

Literally what I’m doing right now lol

Personally, I went with BI just because it's my favourite and I still enjoy Rome 1 more than any other Total War. Kingdoms is larger in overall content, and I have awesome memories exploring the new world in the Aztec campaign (I was a kid back then so I had no idea what America actually looked like on a map, so it literally was exploring a new world for me at the time). But I never enjoyed Medieval 2's engine as much as Rome's, so BI just beats it out for me.

I honestly love all the different first cohort Legio names Would love a video showing all of em lol

You are going to hate me but Empire is the only one which rivals Rome innovation-wise. The game is trash don't get me wrong, but i can't deny its ambition

@The_Caledonian

3 жыл бұрын

one would expect that with a (at the time) new engine

@Sushi3477

3 жыл бұрын

People are overly dramatic saying it’s just the worst thing on earth. It really isn’t THAT bad, just worse than Rome or M2TW so it got a really bad reputation

@lookwaticando909

3 жыл бұрын

Empire has JANISARIES BRING ME BACK MY JANISARIES

You could also change religions in BI and if i recall correctly emergent factions were present in Med I

My only grip with the game is its start date: 367 is just too early. 406 would be the perfect year for a (most probably never happening) TW Attila 2

Recently, I was playing Kingdoms (Americas) and I discovered general can get a trait giving FORCED MARCH according to description ("X% movement bonus and gives armies the ability to forced march" if I remember well). It's interesting for me, although I don't know how to activate it, it was not written anywhere. I thought force march is a new idea in Rome 2, but it looks like it was introduced much earlier. So that's right, Kingdoms and Barbarian Invasion gave many important features used in current total war games.

@taowroland8697

3 жыл бұрын

In rome 1 vanilla there's a trait for forced March as well. And retinue that also do the same thing.

@Graymenn

3 жыл бұрын

i think it is just a passive bonus you dont have to activate

Because of your videos about rome 1 and BI I started playing them and they are great, I have to thank you

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy : )

The lackluster unit roster is what makes it not the best expansion for me. I actually voted for FOTS as I still play that to this day. They did so many things right with that particular stand-alone expansion, including the best gunpowder in any TW.

@AD45

3 жыл бұрын

Fots is the best

All these recent videos makes me wanna play these again! They need like a massive map mod for barbarian invasion with potential new factions and loads of other settlements

It fills us with fear because Rome is mother to us all, and no one wants to see her fall... again.

Good Expansion More Barbarians and more Invasions than the base game

@NotlostMcTwitchyrat

3 жыл бұрын

And the barbarians can actually be quite fun to play(Franks especially)

I still have Rome I just for Barbarian Invasion, which is also the first TW i used mods with;Hegemonia City States and Last Emperor are enjoyable to this day

*angry Fall of the Samurai noises*

Imagine buying a dlc to a game that adds a few hundred more hours of insanely fun campaigns that are extremely memorable. Literally a concept non-existent in modern games. Barbarian invasion in my opinion, was amazing. The WRE gives you the feeling of “I’m a huge country that is failing and facing a storm in the east.” I was absolutely terrified when I ran into my first horde… I played Rome 1 on my iPad for a couple years and thought “this expansion looks cool, I’ll role play as the western Roman Empire and secure my borders.” It was crazy chaotic at first but I was able to mobilize to the point where I could go on the offensive and as soon as I took out the last Frankish city, boom. Right back to the beginning of the game with huge panic setting in. I tried to contain them outside of my borders to the east of the Rhine, but they seemed invincible. Once I finally weakened them enough to where they permanently withdrew, I got a message saying they were destroyed. Little did I know at the time, that meant they ran into the Huns.

Another thing is the Romans compared to the normal game you no longer feel invincible and can no longer just steamrolled the barbarians you have to use tactics better

@lookwaticando909

3 жыл бұрын

U have to use the legions!

Somewhat related to this, I was so let down by MATN's new Troy playthrough. Not because he stopped the serie and made a live, rather that it lacked soul. When he made a 17 episodes long serie on BI, he put a lot of story telling in it. Newer total wars, even though I really like them, just miss something

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

Also, don't forget that 40+ episode rtw series, which inspired this channel so much. And then same for his med 2 denmark one. Many a True Nerd did great with the old titles, with that roleplay style, but I 100% agree, the ability to play like that is lacking in the newer titles. (Although I love them also, it's for differnt reasons and they miss a lot)

@alecsis882

3 жыл бұрын

@@MelkorGG The newer total wars feel... quantity made. For example, in Rome 1/Med 2 I played 1 campaign for 2-3 weeks, maybe even a month, wheter I was rushing(200). Now, I can finish a campaign in 1 week, and it gets really repetitive. There are some glimpses that change the way you play but those heavily changed since mid 2000s. Back then, you had a lot of ways to build up your regions differently, have different army composition etc. Now, not so much. Even in Troy, which I enjoy so much right now, its a situation I build X here, then I need Y there. Rarely do I go off this path, and only when there is something specific. Its even worse when I compare to older newer titles(i.e Rome 2 and Attila) in which you HAD to build specific stuff to keep going and it be profitable.

TW is an always jaw dropping games for me up until Shogun 2. From that it was just a downhill.

Agree with basically everything

Hey Melkor! Can you make a top 10 easy traits and a top 10 difficult traits, that a character can gain?

I agree on the fact that the barbarian factions were more advanced in barbarian invasion than in Rome total war and that is what made the game both balanced and challenging. ⚖️

melkor you need to do a BI campaign

@VanadzorImSirac

3 жыл бұрын

He would have a harder time playing western Rome, following matn's footsteps

@elliot6584

3 жыл бұрын

@@VanadzorImSirac yeah ive never completed a western rome campaign, i lose three or four settlements and deal with alemanni/regular barbarians and forget about the huns and vandals who just pull up and fuck me over, along with the celts

@davidcotronese6269

3 жыл бұрын

I'm in if he does a play though

I actualy tought voor a long time that barbarians invasion was Rome total war 2

BI is good but the title is a huge overstatement, if we're talking DLC we need look no further than age of charlemagne, the rosters are bigger, the map is larger (settlement wise, but it is a smaller portion of the world) and it looks better.

Attila made me scared, and also I get tense when I play Shogun 2

time to replay BI, might have to cope through playing as the romans though melkor is just so based

I love how in BI the factions are very different from each other even compared to rtw based on their starts alone. WRE and ERE are very big for a total war start and struggling, the hordes have their unique playthroughs. Persia is probably the most like a typical total war campaign. I would say that i think ERE is a little too easy even on the higher difficulties since they can get a lot of money quickly. WRE is always a fun challenge and unique campaign.

I hope someday we will get a definitive Edition of Rome Like Age of empires. I Love Rome and bi but the engine sometimes kills the immersion because of units behaving really odd. Slightly overhauled graphics, but no changes to gameplay mechanics and the engine of Shogun 2 and i would never stop playing it.

Barbarian Invasion was the first to expand beyond the box and try new things and can be seen as a separate game as Rome Total War and it will still be great

I really liked Alexander, sad they didn't recreate it for Rome 2.

The public order is nauseating though. I literally exterminate the entire city and it just riots the next turn.

You forgot about creating Kalmar Union in Teutonic Campaign or appearance historical characters like Filip II or Richard Lion Heart with unique traits in Jerusalem campaign. I think if i played it, i would find more interesting things, which for me counts for the nr 1. However, BI is great and unique dlc for Rome. Have a nice day ;)

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

I sort of agree with formable nations, although I think the new titles do it very poorly, and it is not in all of them. As for historical characters with unique that was sort of in Rome 1 tw, but it did add special abilities, which we have seen return, but sadly not in all titles, mostly just the fantasy stuff.

Barbarian Invasions primary objective: Survive

My only problem with Barbarian invasion is that it starts to regularly crash in the late game - I've failed many a campaign because clicking a city sent me to the desktop.

@lookwaticando909

3 жыл бұрын

Did u use cheats???

i want to play it but it runs slow at my pc :(

Cool

@infantilepillock1687

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow the servant of Morgoth praising his master's word. Just kidding ;) Many A True Nerd mentions in his BI campaign how they always turn out differently. I can definitely agree to that. Started the WRE campaign on vh/vh four or five times and once I got lucky and conquered the whole world. The other times I always got beaten to a bloody bulk in different stages and I have world conquests with all factions in Rome 1 (wich isn't very hard but a tedious process).

@sauronmordor7494

3 жыл бұрын

@@infantilepillock1687 Yes

There is Mechanic that was introduced into kingdoms that did in fact make it through but only recently and only for one faction the colonial favour mechanic from Americas that's about it really, not even the Teutonic succession system made it through.

@FlushedNoob

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t warhammer 2 huntsmaster have something similar

@Ratich

3 жыл бұрын

@@FlushedNoob That's what I am talking about

How to manage settlements? Cuz every time I play the salary/money decreases. Plss help(I'm new in playing total war)

@tasoskoyt

3 жыл бұрын

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@tasoskoyt

3 жыл бұрын

thank me later

@jkersgrin2833

3 жыл бұрын

@@tasoskoyt thanks

Ffs these intros have always had the opposite effect on me because I've never identified with the Romans.

Well, I appreciate Barbarian Invasion way more than Kingdoms; talking about the latter, only the Crusades campaign looks really sound and gripping, to me, whereas Britannia and the Baltic setting end up losing appeal after you've won them once. But then again, I must say that playing the Kingdom of Jerusalem campaign is one of the most fascinating and fun things one can do in a Total War game...

The one thing i could not stand in BI which kinda ruined it for me is the extremely low number of settlements. Heck i would be more than happy if they just copy pasted the settlements of Rome, but for me personally they feel way to little. Every other aspect of the game however is awesome and i have had more than my fair share of fun playing this game through childhood.

And it has one of the best mods ever: SAI - Somnium Apostatae Iuliani.

Blank- is the best I’m right

Estates not states 👌🏻 AOC is amazing and the fact there are mods, just for a DLC, makes it even better. The mod that adds daneslaw and proper Vikings 👌🏻 👌🏻

My problem with barbarian invasion is how easy you can just destroy most barbarian factions early because they start most of the time with one region only, plus the barbarian ai being dumb and staying still while playing rome, the ease roman factions can stomp barbarians because of the ai cheating and the unpredictability and lack of rebel roman factions (with this i mean it would have been way more better and fair that you had iberian roman rebels, gaul roman rebels, egyptian roman rebels and so on, because having all the rebels of the roman factions globbed up doesnt make for a fun time (specially because the other factions do not interact or go to war with the roman rebels)

what about only being able to recruit troops when you have a certain percantage of religion

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

Ayy. Not in every title, but close enough : )

Who disliked this video. Did Melkor's diagnosis match them too well.

There weren't night battles in Rome 1?!

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

To the best of my knowledge, no. I think you could have night battles to stop reinforcements? But it was still daytime on the field.

Sorry I'm too late 😞😞😞😞

Rome total realism 7 is the best total ear game. Everything from vanilla buf made better :)

Religion might have been a good mechanic if the AI new how to use it.

They did the Huns better in this one In Attila their to OP

@jarskil8862

3 жыл бұрын

In Attila i just hate how its endless Horde.

Atilla 0.5...

BI is great but I think Fall of the Samurai is the best expansion

(play on 1.25 speed lol)

Sex is great and all but have you ever played barbarian invasion

Its was a better time

I love Barbarian Invasion but the art department was a bit... questionable

Medieval 2 without the annoying Mongols? Where do I buy

@helloweasel1295

3 жыл бұрын

You could try mods, cheats, or the Kingdoms expansions to play without the Mongols.

First

Dude nextime play total war rome in Mobile

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

Don't have a mobile device that can run it, otherwise i would

@orchichris628

3 жыл бұрын

O ok but can you make a video how to couter horse archers using the western roman empire?

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

@@orchichris628 Bridge battles and your own archers :) Unlucky horse archers are very difficult to deal with, that is usually the best system. Hold the archers back, they will eventaully going into the river, then push forwards and shoot at them as they try and cross.

@orchichris628

3 жыл бұрын

O so thats for the bridge defence but what if it is in the open field Just like The Battle of the Catilaunian Plains?

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

@@orchichris628 FLEEE! FLEE for you life XD You can do it with archers and cav of your own, but expect to take a lot of losses.