You forgot to mention that the saxons have a unique shrine that improves ranged attacks, giving hunters the gold weapon upgrade

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

ahh thats a good point, thanks for reminding me!

@TomatoFettuccini

2 жыл бұрын

Adding on to this, if you focus the capital on ranged and the blacksmith/forge, build the experience shrine in Campus Frisii, and land-bridgewith two of your ships, you can have a very hard-hitting archer-based force pretty early on by bouncing units back-and-forth between those cities. Get a third city that's close (like Colonia Agrippa or Campus Chattii) and build the Morale shrine there and good-golly, your opponents have a lot to worry about from you.

@NinjaSushi2

Жыл бұрын

So they get an experience shrine, range attack shrine, and morale shrine? Dang. Well played. Shield wall and hide the archers.

the Saxons in this game has a really hilarious unit roster, but it still feels good sailing to Britannia and invading

@DaDunge

3 жыл бұрын

Because like all english speaking people CA seems to have the misconception that all saxons ended up in England.

@hannibalburgers477

2 жыл бұрын

You speak like roman britannia don't have only 2 settlements. Where's the fun in conquering two lonely settlements?

@GAMER123GAMING

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaDunge They had the balls to portray Arthur as a romano briton (English are deeply terrified of actual history and facts)

@DaDunge

2 жыл бұрын

@@GAMER123GAMING not really seeing your point here.

These faction guides are becoming a nice little suprise to see on my subscription feed. Keep it up, they're really enjoyable.

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

Than you, glad you're enjoying them!

"The franks doesnt have great options in cavalry" wait thats illegal

@hernanreipp6983

3 жыл бұрын

I will said heresy or pagans. If your choice is pagan the Frank have average cavalry but if you choice christianism you will have Paladins.

@hannibalburgers477

2 жыл бұрын

I just finished my ERE campaign, Franks attacked me near Mediolanium, a city that I was sieging. (Heavy forrest map) I had an army of 3 archers, 4 lanciarii, 2 veteranii,and rest was Hippo-Toxotai. I all I did was dividing Army into three forces, Infantry group with archers up front, horse archer divided into two on far/extreme flanks. Let me tell you, Franks had the weakest cavalry units. They immediately charced on the archers, got annihilated on the first contact, routed ane I sent Horse archers slowly (forrest map) to pick up lonely infantry. And one time I bridge camped on Franks, lured frankish infantey encircled it with lanciatii, and still immediately lost somehow

The only downside to going to Britain is that the Romano British spawn in once the WRE has lost it's settlements in the region. So you'll end up facing them very early on if you go this route. So, I'd suggest taking Londinum at the start and building up a bit of a presence before capturing Eburacum.

@NinjaSushi2

Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@napoleon6221

6 ай бұрын

Wish I read this comment before getting myself into a sticky situation just now lol

Limited units but you have shield wall + ranged bonus. Add flanking cavalry and you could easily obliterate all the factions around you and take a big chunk of western Rome early in game

When I played Saxons, I mostly ended up using hordes of levy spearmen, keels, hunters, and the odd sea raider, and supported by a general.

Hunters are surprisingly competent at melee, not much worse than levy spearmen. In a crisis you can use em fairly effectively as light shock infantry against weaker units

I remember the Saxon family members in the campaign map wear a battle mask. Really cool detail, I think only the Vandals wore such a garment as well.

Happy to see someone making content for one of my favorite factions in the series. Saxon's are a ton of fun especially with the Saxon Hearth Troops. One of the best infantry in the game.

@NinjaSushi2

Жыл бұрын

How does shield wall work? Extra defense?

@nybethobdilord6912

Жыл бұрын

@@NinjaSushi2 extra defense in the front and less likely to have units die from arrows but it'll make the units more vulnerable to flanking and

Just started saxon campaign thanks brp

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, happy to help!

Yesss i have been waiting for this one

Hell yeah! I love Barbarian Invasion!

I had this glitch where my Saxon archers had infinite ammo and I would just sit back and grind the 10 stack enemy army with 2 units of archers

@thesacredlobo

3 жыл бұрын

Did you have arcade mode on?

@Luckyheraclius89

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesacredlobo no but it was on mobile and I think it’s more buggy I play pc and mobile

@NinjaSushi2

Жыл бұрын

I still can't believe they got this game to work on mobile. If you told me you could play this game on a cellphone years ago I tell you you're crazy.

@NinjaSushi2

Жыл бұрын

Somehow my laptop doesn't always want to run this game smoothly but a cellphone or tablet can?

@BlandRoamer

8 ай бұрын

​@@NinjaSushi2it's a brave new world 😂

I still wonder what the reasoning was behind giving some factions tons of units and some factions almost none.

Great video! Keep it up!

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Wow thanks! I followed ur tutorial for the early game, and now i end up getting 8k per turn. Thx!

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

Thats great! Glad I could help :)

It’s weird, the mobile version includes all factions and they fixed some of their bugs

@gordonholon

3 жыл бұрын

What mobile version?

@fuchsbrudi3107

3 жыл бұрын

@@gordonholon there's a tablet version for rtw

@-CrimsoN-

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Including the Romano-British which can only be added with mods on the PC.

Very informative, I subscribed a few videos back... will continue with the next faction and so on

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! More videos are coming soon

I wanted to play a Saxon campaign yesterday, and I found this... Good timing. RTW seems to still be played by many people. +1 subscriber, I love those kind of videos. Do you plan to make factions from others TW games ?

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot man, glad you found it useful. I've made similar faction guides for Rome Total War base game and Medieval 2 Total War. I may make faction guides for other games in the future, but I am less familiar with the other games so I'm not sure

@NinjaSushi2

Жыл бұрын

@@lugotorix6173 lol same. All I ever play is Rome and Medieval 2.

16:30 NO IT's NOT! A mere splinter faction of the saxons went to britain meanwhile pretty much all of North Germany is saxon.

nice video really enjoyed it

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Saxons: the best faction and my number one favorite faction: sailing to England, attacking WRE from England is like attacking from the sky and raining down havoc all over the dying empire.

The ultimate no nonsense faction

I love the saxons.

I started a new session of TW:BI, because earlier tries didn't work out,but with the Saxon I got it right. I succeeded in crushing bit by bit the nomad armies of the Slavs and the Huns, and then continued to aim for the richer West Roman region (France and Spain). After a while their eastern brothers became another target, and that's the actual situation. Do de Roman states also get nomadic (Western Rome only has the city of Rome left due to a revolt when they still had Salamanca as a second hub)?

@diogol5987

3 жыл бұрын

No I dont think so

I hate to disagree with Lugotorix but I have to on a couple of things here. The Levy Spearmen aren't a defensive unit at all; they're an offensive unit that has decent defense. Look at their stats: attack 7, missile 11, charge 4, defense 10. They also have light spears which gives them a bonus vs cavalry. Think of them as an oversized better-armed and armored skirmish unit that can hang in melee if need be. If you combine the level 3 barracks (and level 1 archery range) with a Sacred Circle of Ull, then retrain them in a town with a Sacred Circle of Wotan (this goes for archers, too) you end up with extremely potent ranged units quite early on (like Levy Spearmen and archers with 4 experience and gold/bronze missile attack/armour); 120 javvies will absolutely RUIN any unit's day. The shield wall formation just gives them a bit more defense but they are definitely NOT a defensive unit. The Saxon Keels on the other hand, are a defensive unit: attack 7 charge 4 defense 16. The Keels attack is the same as the Spearmen but the defense is much higher; put them in Shield Wall and that goes up higher. I suggest demolishing the Sacred Circle of Ull in Campus Saxones and replace it with one of Donar to give your units +2 morale, then pump out all your Keels, Axemen, Hearth Troops, and cavalry from here, then build Sacred Circles of Ull and Wotan in cities closer to your front so as you move your units from Vicus Saxones through Campi Chattii/Frisii and then to Augustae Treverorum/Vindelicorum, you can have most of your troops with 3 experience and at least bronze/bronze, with the increased morale bonus. Hunters are just broken under the Saxons (so are the Levy Spearmen). You can get Hunters to 4 Experience gold/bronze very early and just wreck opposing armies. The Saxon shrines are just ridiculous and they can make your armies very powerful very early. The Saxons are pretty darn potent.

This faction has been done by some people and it's a pretty good and fun camping, but if u where to start a lets play what faction would u choose?

@soldatnr444

4 жыл бұрын

Franks and Alemanni are easier due to their very good infantry roster

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not currently doing lets plays (livestreams instead), I would probably leave it to vote but I do enjoy playing as the Romans a lot, but to be honest I enjoy all the factions in this game

Got rtw now I’m gonna get rtw bi like the content I’m gonna start a Saxon campaign

Nice

I need this right now! How'd you know?

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

haha I'm psychic :)

@camerong3818

4 жыл бұрын

@@lugotorix6173 spooky. Thanks for the video!

A few basic saxon keel can beat the crap out of most higher tech infantry. Once you get chosen axemen you can take over western Europe.

How does shieldwall work? Can't find anything on the internet.

I thought something like this was coming

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy!

@BraydenLondon88

4 жыл бұрын

@@lugotorix6173 oh I love it I was trying to play them but would die as soon as I tried to fight the celts this should help thank you

@kevin06289

3 жыл бұрын

@@BraydenLondon88 should be hard to die as the saxons right? franks,saxons,and goths are like the 3 top barbarian factions. they have good late game troops. I think the saxons are not as competent as the franks but they are still strong

Got a good corner

Lugotorix So I decided to play as the Saxons in Barbarian Invasion Rome Total War and I am kinda a noob but in my other campaigns I have been pretty successful but I played the Saxons made a Army early on and invaded Britain but then early on the Romano British spawned as a horde and destroyed my British armies and settlements so now I am broke so I need help, Have any advice?

@SpaceMarine500

4 жыл бұрын

I found it a better strategy to fight the Romans in continental Europe with the aim of raiding their large cities (population extermination) and then holding on to them. Better not do this right away either though. Wait several turns and use that time to build up a sufficient force and take rebel settlements. By the time you invade Roman territory with your forces, the Romans would be facing corruption and even rebellion.

@carl-os4603

3 жыл бұрын

@Otto Von Litmarck stupid question but how exactly to sell/buy cities with 100% success?

I’m at war with goths west romans and huns lmao

Can you make shogun 2 faction guides?

assonance was the word you were looking for

Idk why, but I only enjoy the WRE in BI and no one else.

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

I think that WRE is definitely the most exciting faction, but I do enjoy the others as well

@flarek9686

4 жыл бұрын

I usually pick Franks because of their AP units and ofcourse - Badass Paladins.

Your advice for the saxon is go Britain not South as you end up with a vertical empire yet with the franks you say go south to control Italy, why the difference?

U should do a goths guid

Can U do barbarians next

I got normal Rome total war I want to get that one more than napoleon

May I say if your going to play barbarian invasion don’t play the huns No Romans’ play either Saxons celts or franks.

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

If I do a livestream for BI i'd probably leave it to vote :)

@thecrazytophatman7304

4 жыл бұрын

Fair enough :D

This game is still good

With Roxolani I did opposite in very hard. Instead of going to Sassanids, sacking sarmatians, till Greece completely sacked. Get my horde to Rome, with boat (Adrian sea), sacked till I came back to Constantinople. So I had a huge wallet and was so easy I didn't had to battle, only auto resolve 🤣. Main thing is: wait first couple of turns in beginning, upgrade my 3 horses and 2 Spearman, then left Roxolani campus. Watch where huns, sarmatians and vandals walking. If they are 1 or 2 turns further, then they will leave you. Just don't come to close to sarmatians in the west of you in first turns, avoid those hordes. Then trade rights with northern factions.

Yeahhhh anglo saxons

19:00 But that's what the Saxons did, they stayed outside roman territory conquered their neighbour's land and forced them to migrate into the Roman empire.

how did u get the berbers and lombards

@shorkan1000

4 жыл бұрын

You can unlock every faction in the game files

the thing I don't like about barbarian invasion is that the shield wall formation is not that good, sometimes heavy cavalry can charge into my shield wall and get away pretty much unharmed. phalanx on the other hand, basically pierce through cavalry like paper.

@v1sion_unkowngaming777

3 жыл бұрын

Shield wall is to use against infantry or help a little, and I mean a little, with archer fire.

@kevin06289

3 жыл бұрын

​@@v1sion_unkowngaming777 when I first started playing the game, I thought testudo and shield wall units are completely immuned to archer fires🤣

@v1sion_unkowngaming777

3 жыл бұрын

Kevin Xu Testudo are practically immune to archer fire, especially low damage missiles, but a shield wall helps a little on the front, but still exposed to the sides and rear. Most cavalry should be able to penetrate either formation. Hope that clarifies a little more. Please someone correct me if I’m wrong lol

@NinjaSushi2

Жыл бұрын

Shield-wall is great for a holding the enemy in place taking little damage while you flank around. It's a defensive maneuver not an offensive so don't be surprised if they don't do very much killing. You're meant to put your boys in the shield wall and then hit them from behind with the chosen axemen.

@Owlr4ider

8 ай бұрын

Shield Wall was not meant to hold off cavalry, it was meant to hold off infantry. The main reason for its existence is the tendency of the 'barbarians' to be undisciplined, as is well represented in RTW with the 'can charge without orders' clause many of the 'barbarian' units have. Shield Wall was a way to force these infantry units to stay in formation by locking their shields and preventing anyone from leaving the battle line. Of course as an added bonus it made the line very strong and tough to break by opposing infantry forces, initially the Roman infantry but later also the likes of the Viking warriors, when it was used by the Anglo-Saxons against them.

Uh yeah, horses can swim in real life.

Make aguide for west roman

@lugotorix6173

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I definitely will very soon!

You forgot to mention that Saxon Sea Raiders will drink from skulls.

@hernanreipp6983

3 жыл бұрын

Wait. They have that animation?

@toddhowardphillipslovecraf7301

3 жыл бұрын

@@hernanreipp6983 No

@hernanreipp6983

3 жыл бұрын

So why you write that about drinking on skulls? Any way that could be awesome or using skull in their lances.

@toddhowardphillipslovecraf7301

3 жыл бұрын

@@hernanreipp6983 kzread.info/dash/bejne/no1_mJiwiLqem6g.html

@POLITICUS-DANICUS

10 ай бұрын

​@@hernanreipp6983because they say it, when you press on them...

Anglo Saxon anglo saxon anglo saxon anglo saxon

@DaDunge

3 жыл бұрын

Nope the Anglosaxons are a different tribe, a splinter faction if you will. The main saxon people stayed in Germany and pretty much all of north Germany is actually saxon.

I hate that their goal is to go to England. only a small number of Saxons migrated to England. Most stayed in German where the dukes of Saxony became the kings of Germany and then the first dynasty of the holy roman empire.

Damn, those vanilla maps are terrible. It could have had way more settlements

@hannibalburgers477

3 жыл бұрын

what mods do you recommend

@iamcleaver6854

3 жыл бұрын

@@hannibalburgers477 For barbarian invasions? I am not aware of any mods that does it. As for Rome TW itself, I highly recommend the mundus magnus map. It is very easy to implement into vanilla. Not only does it greatly increase settlement "density", it also stretches the map all the way to India

@hannibalburgers477

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamcleaver6854 thx

@iamcleaver6854

3 жыл бұрын

@@hannibalburgers477 Having googled it, it seems that you can download mundus magnus for barbarian invasions as well

@gabork5055

3 жыл бұрын

It needs the Preston Garvey mod.

What do you mean franks don't have much for cavalry? Paladins are great! I can tell you don't know enough about this game to make guides for every faction...