it's cool to see people that still play this game, it's one of a kind even the newest total war won't be as good as this one

@klassehkhornate9636

6 жыл бұрын

Only med 2 in atmosphere and shogun 2 in graphics

@TheEmanExperience

6 жыл бұрын

Delian Ylli I love this game and thanks to many of true nerd I bought it and playing it

@gatraf4002

6 жыл бұрын

Kennan Hottinget I totally agree with you.

@johnhenderson4833

6 жыл бұрын

The only thing that I would ever want with new Total War is upgraded ai. That feature alone would warrant me buying the new games.

@gigijr2883

5 жыл бұрын

Best game ever

Two more important factors: Enemy spies in a city increase unrest by 5% for every subterfuge "eye". So it's good to keep spies and governors with high influence in your border cities. This will give you a better chance of discovering a spy. Unrest is also high after conquering a city and it decreases by 5% by turn, until it reaches a certain value (set by other factors)

@maharlika9809

5 жыл бұрын

pucek691, how about recruiting an assasin.

@MachinegunnerMugZ

5 жыл бұрын

@@maharlika9809 it doesn't work against enemy spies invading the city.

@Casketkrusher_

11 ай бұрын

I also think having rebels spawn in your territory also gives a negative bonus, I think its classified as corruption.

December 2020, still sit and play a couple nights a week. It’s like therapy from the stresses of everyday life.

@BlueMatona

3 жыл бұрын

It's often my sit back and relax game too

@mscapeh4451

3 жыл бұрын

especially from the leftists

@GrandChupon

Жыл бұрын

It's July 2023 and I'm playing a h/vh Julii campaign

Law is the best temple attribute. It reduces unrest and corruption while giving good governor traits. Happiness give you a population growth boost.

@arcjason9765

7 жыл бұрын

Dougal83 the Truth has been spoken!

@frisianmouve

5 жыл бұрын

Happiness gives population growth in Med2, it's health that gives population growth in Rome1

@Skow8333

4 жыл бұрын

Law also counteracts income loss from Corruption.

@jeanfonssedeporte3158

3 жыл бұрын

Happiness doesn't improve population growth, it's the opposite : pop growth can give happiness bonus (population boom). But I agree with you, overall law temples are the best : they can make you earn a lot of money and improve happiness a lot

Thank you verst much for these vids, they really helped me out. I think you’re channel is very underrated!!!

One really mean way to adjust public order is if a city is in the red despite all the above is to remove garrison, let it rebel, take back the city, exterminate (which also gives you gold), and then reoccupy. Rinse and repeat. But also, don't build up farms in high pop areas except for revenue.

Great series mate, watching them all, keep up the good quality

Great video. Thank you! I saw this in my recommended and it got me back into the game :)))

I didn't know the stuff about the culture penalty. I always come back and play this game. :D

I actually modded some buildings like barracks to give law bonus, walls happiness bonus and Barbarian factions being able to build stone walls. Makes the game so much better.

@andrejhabajec5471

3 күн бұрын

Planning to try that, it may enhance the game significantly 🙂

Great video, love this game, so thanks for the guidance

I love that you upload multiple times a week.

the city of Patavium is a notable exception. It has a high natural pop growth (think 7,5% without any buildings) and enables a Julii player to "settle" gaul and get some nice recruitment centers up there in the northwest courner of the map.

Awesome video!

Still here 2022 ! Thanks for this , was really bloody helpful . Happy new year ! Yarrrrgh !!

My strategy is pretty simple; I never assault a city without at least a half banner on a small-large town or full banner on a city and once I take it I leave the garrison in the city. I then proceed to destroy the religious or purely cultural buildings of the other civilization and build my own because they do not help and in fact hurt your public order in the long run due to culture penalty. Overtime I slowly phase out my garrison and if I can remove the whole army (also having taken the time to retrain the units) and the city stays at least yellow then I move it forward. This works incredibly well on the frontier especially if the enemy has lots of army's or is aggressive.

Trip down memory lane

My favorite game. I'll always play it.

@wapper-man5448

2 жыл бұрын

Still do? :)

Anything that grants public order but not growth is good. Anything that grants growth but not public order is at best dangerous, or even really bad. Anything that grants both public order and growth is pretty much treading water in terms of public order, long term. At least that's always been my rule of thumb for handling particularly unhappy cities.

I never kill civilians. I train troops (including peasants to move to disband in smaller settlements) to reduce population.

Thanks!!!

THANKS.

I still love e this game despite only winning with house of juli tried Britain but constant revolts once I took slain amd rome constant attacks

Great!

@TheEmanExperience

6 жыл бұрын

TheAlex 1011 I never new how to deal with culture penalty 14 years ago but thanks to this channel I can

Subbed :)

Currently playing a vh campaign as the Western Roman Empire on Barbarian Invasion. It is absolute nuts. Literally everyone attacks you, and you have massive problems keeping control over your settlements. I actually think vh setting is too much, hard setting is prob a better option.

@BlueMatona

5 жыл бұрын

I did a few campaigns on VH and truthfully didnt enjoy them. As the Scipii, I was at war with the normal nations of Greece, Carthage, and Numidia, and then out of nowhere Gaul and the Seleucids declared war on me and started sending full stacks to my only 4 city empire. 3 turns later, spain joined the fray as well. Seems like on VH the AI prioritizes attacking the player over actually building an empire, achieving success as a faction, and playing the game in a logical way

@BlueMatona

5 жыл бұрын

From personal experience playing the game, I've found that Hard, Hard is a very fun game or Hard, VH if you want more of a challenge in the battles

@PiperTMTotalWar

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I reckon hh is definitely a more enjoyable experience than vhvh. The difference is very big on battle and campaign vh compared to just h.

@andrejhabajec5471

3 күн бұрын

Yeah, that's one of the rare campaigns in which u already have an empire in its very last phase in comparison to the other factions where u try to build an empire or u are at the very beginning phase of an empire. It is very challenging and it requires a lot of micromanagment in the very first turn already which can make for a not enjoyable experience. However, it is very rewarding to see how u succeed if u manage right and watch your empire standing on stable feet once again and fending off wave after wave of threats. 🙂

the brutii have the temple of juno which does increase growth but it also lowers the rate which squalor goes up.

@MachinegunnerMugZ

5 жыл бұрын

That's not completely true. Temple of Juno improves public health, but traits gained from it, if city is governed by a family member, lowers the squalor.

Useful tips. Anyone have any advice as to why i must have a governor in my settlement to build anything?

@maucoz6275

6 жыл бұрын

Colin Murray g hey Colin you probably have 2 boxes in a city next to construction uncheck them and you can build - Actually the smartest thing to do is just at the start of the campaign where you have 4 settings. Check manage all settlements than you don't have to change your conquered cities all the time Hoor you understand!

Does anyone know if there was ever a fix for the game breaking crashing after some battles? I have tried everything I have read on forums and multiple operating systems but no luck.

@rukiddinbro

3 жыл бұрын

You may try BUG-FIXER v3.36 - fixes some issues, including crashes from faulty game world events.

I'm still play it in 2020 currently.

Make some about corruption ...

Hi Blue. One of the problems I have in my recent Seleucid campaign is the conquered Egypt. For some reason Alexandria always have unrest. Any tips?

@Oakenlix

3 жыл бұрын

Stuff it up with peasant units

@hernanreipp6983

3 жыл бұрын

@@Oakenlix yes. I put peasant to full. But surprisly I put a family member with good retinue and I have green face with high taxes.

@wnd9434

3 жыл бұрын

If you dont conquer the piramid Egyptian town is always a headache. Once you get the piramid all Egyptian city you own will be reduced to zero culture penalty which means happy public order

Where can I shiver me timbers this game?

Wow I never knew you can delete other factions buildings and rebuild

Okay, looking at the culture issue, it seems to me (correct me if I'm wrong, because I've heard of it but I haven't tried it) that you could offset the culture penalty by moving more people in from your (Roman) settlements. For example, you raise four units of peasant soldiers in Tarantum, move them to Corinth, then release them from military service so they join the civilian population. I know this increases your population in Corinth, but the question is does it leave you with a population that is more accepting of your Roman ways?

@hernanreipp6983

3 жыл бұрын

Hi man. Listen, transfer one unit from your civilization to a new conquered city and disband inside doesnt low unrest or the culture penalty. You must remove (destroy) the buildings that you cant upgraded (temples, arenas, etc.) is the only way to reduce unrest by culture. Have more units without disband works like garrison, for a while. Soon or later you will have a riot and the only way to "reduce" the unhappy people is with your blade.

@EvilxSausage

3 жыл бұрын

@@hernanreipp6983: okay well I frequently trash the enemy's temples before I even invade, so they're often gone before my soldiers even enter the city walls. I usually place a spy inside a city I'm planning to attack, and then send one or more assassins to wreck buildings in the city. And temples are first on the list when I do this, because they break more easily and they effect happiness. Part of my strategy for going after enemy cities is to wreck every building that makes the enemy population happy and contented, because I want them to rebel, so I can take it from the rebels when I make my move (being that rebels are easier to defeat than any national faction).

@hernanreipp6983

3 жыл бұрын

@@EvilxSausage That is another way, but have in mind the population number, even when rebels they have certain culture and you must be either slave them or kill them. An example a large roman city become rebel, they still have roman culture that you need to destroy their temples and put yours but the people will be anger by that so you have to 'replace' the people too.

@EvilxSausage

3 жыл бұрын

@@hernanreipp6983: right well I get what you're talking about with the culture penalty, and re my question that I asked in the first place, apparently moving Roman civilians into a captured enemy city doesn't make the population more Roman, as I'd hoped it would.

@EvilxSausage

3 жыл бұрын

@@hernanreipp6983 well enslavement is preferable over killing, is it not? After all, corpses don't pay taxes. But when I conquer a city and find a red, angry face next to it after, I always exterminate, hoping to make the survivors too afraid to resist.

yo can you do a video on things like whether mines affect trade income, if the 'increase in tradeable goods' benefit at the market increases with each level or if it stacks with other buildings that say increase in tradeable goods (not sure how common that is, but the best pantheon for the macedonians has that), or does each settlement have 2 possible rosters of tradeable goods: a basic roster, and an increased roster, so that basically it's an on/off switch instead of an increasing list. does building an academy help the city at all if there is no governor there (i always thought this was part of it based on how it was worded - i viewed it like a college for the citizenry to become more self sufficient), or does it solely help to improve the stats of family members in the city? is there a way to view a unit's morale level in game? also, does morale increase with chevron experience or does it stay at whatever the unit is at when it's first trained? in naval battles is soldier count more important than ship type or experience? cuz experienced higher tier ships don't seem to do as well when compared to ground troops...maybe i just got unlucky. damn i'm sure i had some other minutiae questions i just can't remember right now. i'm not sure how you'd relate all this stuff, maybe if you can get together a list of one offs like this and do like a random faq vid?

@brainwashingdetergent4128

3 жыл бұрын

Mines are separate from trade at the end of term report you will see mining income farming income trade and taxes.

@brainwashingdetergent4128

3 жыл бұрын

Academy does nothing without a governor.

I have a question for Rome TW and also for any other TW games out there. Is the garrison value based on the number of units in the city or the number of soldiers in the city? In other words, is the garrison value the same with one unit of 120 soldiers and two units with 60 soldiers each? Thanks to anyone who knows!

@BlueMatona

5 жыл бұрын

Thats a good question and I'd actually love to know the answer as well, I'll do some testing in game and get back to you

@xenech

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sometimes adding cavalry doesn't affect the garrison bonus for me. Is it only infantry units? It'll be good to have confirmation on it. Thinking about it, I think it may be down to size of population to amount of troops? As that would make sense

@MachinegunnerMugZ

5 жыл бұрын

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@finn1475

4 жыл бұрын

it's the amount of soldiers. the quality doesnt matter, 80 peasents will give the same public order boost as 80 urban cohort. cavalery helps as well but they are smaller units so they wont help as much

Love the game, hate the citizens! Thanks for the tips. :)

I just need help with governors. I keep taking over towns but then I need another governor to control that place but then I run out of governors. If anyone has any help please tell me

@jonw3152

4 жыл бұрын

It's always a struggle to get enough family members - the best you can do is to never say no to getting new ones and try not to let them die in battle (or win heroic victories with captains which has a chance to trigger an adoption) - I always play on the setting that you can manage settlements without governors anyway which makes it a lot less of a problem :)

@AndromedaPrima

3 жыл бұрын

Just look for local rebel family member and recruit them

@69jbr69

3 жыл бұрын

Immediately from start of game get a half dozen diplomats going. Talk to everyone with them and make any small deals you can to build up their stats. They will than open up many new options for recruiting enemy family members. High influence diplomats are game changing. I have one near every army on a conquer path as they can basically part the way or double your army if you have the gold.

Alternatively search for the export_descr_buildings file in the data folder and add a bunch of law_bonus bonus 1 Happiness_bonus bonus 1 health_bonus bonus 1 to a bunch of buildings of your choosing. Each value of 1 corresponds to 5% public order in game, so 4 would be 20%. Don't worry about cheating, the AI will get these bonuses as well. In my setup the AI doesn't have to worry nearly as much about rebellions as well so they can send more armies to the front instead of sitting in a city keeping the population happy. In this way I buffed government buildings, health buildings, culture specific buildings(arenas, theatre's, taverns and secret police), academies and walls so you can always build your way out of low public order even when you have the highest temple. Also I gave public baths and paved roads to all factions for a bit of balance. Only having crappy dirt roads when playing barbarians or easterners I always found annoying. You can do this by simple adding factions after requires in the curly brackets, or the culture(barbarian, eastern, egyptian, carthaginian, roman, greek). I don't know the way to import the building icons from BI to the base game though so they have the picture of a barracks when the game can't find the building icon. Word of caution: make sure you save the original file as even a minor fuck up can crash the game and then you'll have to reinstall the game if you can't discover the fuck up.

@MachinegunnerMugZ

5 жыл бұрын

AI will get those bonuses only if you're playing on very hard difficulty, so it is an obvious cheating on your part ;) Just lower the difficulty level if you can't manage big empire :P

@frisianmouve

5 жыл бұрын

@@MachinegunnerMugZ I don't think you read my comment, AI builds the buffed buildings as well

@MachinegunnerMugZ

5 жыл бұрын

@@frisianmouve I don't think you know what are you talking about.

@frisianmouve

5 жыл бұрын

@@MachinegunnerMugZ Let me get this clear, you said "AI will get those bonuses only if you're playing on very hard difficulty". They always get the buffed buildings since they count for all factions

@MachinegunnerMugZ

5 жыл бұрын

@@frisianmouve nope, only on very hard campaign difficulty. If a human player choose easy difficulty, he receives those bonuses, not AI factions.

Anyone noticed the fewer troops and the lack of a governor in the British Isles makes the citizens more happy and obedient? Everywhere else it's the opposite.

@caveymoley

2 жыл бұрын

"Anarchy in the UK"

Which are the differences between having 120% public order and let's say 80-90%? I mean, as far as I know, the only things that change are the public order's icon color and a slight demographic bonus. Is there any else? May be benefitial traits for the ruler of the specific settlement? In Rome's case, faster popular acceptance? Thank you!

@MachinegunnerMugZ

5 жыл бұрын

You guessed it right. The traits gained by a governor from green or blue face settlement are quiet different, but blue face icon can be useful as well but only on very high tax rate. Plus the higher is public order in all of your settlements, the more popular with the plebs you are.

@BoboDeTurno

5 жыл бұрын

@@MachinegunnerMugZ Thank you roe your reply!

All we wanted was better pathfinding in the a.i and improved graphics

Have you ever actually play ed this game before?

0:48 How can you make a guide and not even have the % and colors right for the basic stuff? 60% public order is a revolt soon not yellow.

@MachinegunnerMugZ

5 жыл бұрын

60% is rioting, not revolt :P

how can i hange my capital city?

@grandstrategos1144

3 жыл бұрын

@Lorenz Avon yoke Open settlement details, click the middle button on the bottom left

@kneidlOutlet

3 жыл бұрын

@@grandstrategos1144 thanks

lol I keep on going into dept my denari is like -30000

@martijn0797

2 ай бұрын

You have way 2 many units on the map.. the more you disband, the more money every settlement will make

How to keep city happy?? add_population (Name city) 4000

@martijn0797

2 ай бұрын

You mean -4000

Hm

This is why I failed my last game. I believed that cultural issue was due to education, so I kept building academia and stuff like that lol

@majormarketing6552

4 жыл бұрын

That just makes your governors skill up to great levels of influence and management

I think the garrison's not helping the citizens. They're rather some kind of military force, the citizens have fear of, so the won't have the balls to riot.

A large garrison increases public order, because the soldiers help out the citizens 🤣 Dude a garrison increases public order because citizens know that they dont stand a chance in an uprising if there are too many soldiers in the city. Also a governor could use a large army to immediately suppress any kind of civil unrest before it turns into an uprising.

We need another high quality rome goal war update again

PSSHT. You use B R U T I I?!

So for anyone that want the truth.... It's actually a bug. The dynamics of the game will never allow for you to have a smooth running city. Between your capital being to far away, squalor and culture penalty.... You literally have to get to a point where you exterminate. Word to the ways. Make dame sure they are peasants because when they over throw the city... The armies are decent if you have any upgraded soldiers

@azumarzi6305

3 жыл бұрын

Welp, is there any mods you know that erase this effect?

Glad there is no squalor in empire total war.

@MachinegunnerMugZ

5 жыл бұрын

There is hardly any strategy in Empire at all ;(