tbh I'd probably hide myself in a castle and surround myself with priests if all my family members kept getting constantly and inevitably assassinated too

@MrEshah

4 жыл бұрын

I think the AI was holding a lovely coronation for the new king. Probably thought it to be nice to give the poor bastard a nice send off party.

@endo4137

4 жыл бұрын

But the assassin would be disguised as a priest!

@BlueVegasCourier

4 жыл бұрын

Granted, one out of 20 priests protecting you is an assassin

@spynyi

4 жыл бұрын

But what if the one being protected is the assassin?

@elysium7242

4 жыл бұрын

*Confused Milanese noises*

"My lord, the King has died. You are to become King." "No, no, oh god, no!"

@bruhdude2725

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry you will have to pay tax

@dattilo1

Жыл бұрын

duke*

Advisor: Every noble is being assassinated when they go out, what should we do? The King: You're right, a brisk walk through the market does sound nice

@jimijokela6053

4 жыл бұрын

Advisor: Doesn't that make you easier to assassinate The King: Don't be silly. It's the nobles that are being assassinated, not kings.

@whoareyouyouareclearlylost323

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimijokela6053 lol

@dk-sky3820

4 жыл бұрын

The King: Don't worry about my protection, that's what 100 ballistas are for.

Spiff: "I'm going to assassinate the entire royal family of the Milanese" Milan: *aggressively makes so many babies so that spiff can never assassinate them all*

@slashshooter003

4 жыл бұрын

Well, I guess the Milanese (AI) is... "Productively" aggresive. =)

@bruhdude2725

4 жыл бұрын

Hello there citizen of the mighty British empire I need u to assassinate a milanese head of state

@Elyseon

4 жыл бұрын

Fuckers...

@hetecks1385

4 жыл бұрын

@@bruhdude2725 oh I'm from a time that there's a thing called "peace" in the world

@Drebolaskan

4 жыл бұрын

@@hetecks1385 Don't make me send my assassin in after you

If your on a boat and that somehow makes you IMMUME to assassins they obviously haven’t played Skyrim...

@TheMordpheus

4 жыл бұрын

or watched the Trailer from Witcher II Assassins of Kings .... Spoiler Kings are dying!

@Pienimusta

4 жыл бұрын

or Witcher 2

@fatrobin72

4 жыл бұрын

well since Skyrim was barely a twinkle in Todd Howards eye when this came out... the same year as Oblivion... as for the "what about Witcher 2" peeps... well since the staff of CD Project Red were possibly playing this game when polishing the gem (or was it PC stress test) that was The Witcher (1) I am sure those Tim travelling masters of CA had seen that scene and disagreed heavily with it when deciding that this game would have the glorious feature (technical term) that boats were not places for assassinations

@teaappreciationindividual505

4 жыл бұрын

Someone clearly should have told Titus Mede that the tactics that he played were for the wrong game

@TheArklyte

4 жыл бұрын

Boat? Assassins? *[Laughs in P-38G]* The only place we have not assassinated anyone is space. _Yet..._

"The opening move is just stealing things from France" Ah, the time old English strategy

@tiacat11

4 жыл бұрын

Don't look now but you need just one more like.

@KillerofGods

3 жыл бұрын

Why just have one more like?

@Mygg_Jeager

3 жыл бұрын

And German. ;)

@JohnSmith-kg2rt

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mygg_Jeager and anyone else

He clearly thought the nobility was cursed with all the random accidental deaths and weird timeline issues so he surrounded himself with priests to try and ward the evil spirits. Didn't work but good effort anyway.

@bensoncheung2801

2 жыл бұрын

69 👍

@PeterMartyrVermigli_is_cool

Жыл бұрын

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13

This game is worthy of a remaster. We need it upgraded.

@bakersmileyface

4 жыл бұрын

Medieval 3 would be great too.

@JARiS1005

3 жыл бұрын

@Crawling Chaos it's heavily outdated and unoptimized. I'm sure you can appreciate a more polished experience with the same mechanics.

@ahappybadger302

3 жыл бұрын

@@JARiS1005 If CA just optimizes it better and just add better grahphics then it will be perfect. I don't want anyting fancy new to be added tbh

@Axelerati0n

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahappybadger302 Yeah, the AI could use a serious revamp as well. Their diplomatic behaviour is sometimes outright nonsensical. Like Denmark sieging my english cities when my empire is the entirety of the British Isles and the whole atlantic/north sea coastline from Antwerp to Leon, with marriage alliances with France, HRE and Poland, perfect relations with the pope and my cardinal in the papal throne. You could have taken the trade rights and thrived, Danes, but no, you had to expand west and now you get excommunicated, have a crusade called on your capital and now you get gang-raped from every direction by all christian nations at once, good job AI! Other than that I have always loved the game, there are just so many viable strategies and unpredictable events which guarantee that no two campaigns are ever the same. I still enjoy it to this day.

@theanglo-lithuanian1768

3 жыл бұрын

1212 ad mos is pretty good

"Its as easy as that" says Sir Spiff after save scumming throughout the entire episode...🤣

@Da_Shark

4 жыл бұрын

Perfectly balanced time travel you mean

@benangell1403

4 жыл бұрын

Roberts though the almighty power of Yorkshire Tea!

@aidenpons9584

4 жыл бұрын

The really fun part is lategame when you have 20 assassins you don't even need to savescum, your chances are just so high and you can take the occasional loss!

@lynarisevershadeshadowfall1684

4 жыл бұрын

Worst part is you can just go to the files and unlock the factions, it's super easy, but longer videos more revenue I guess. :3

@aidenpons9584

4 жыл бұрын

@@lynarisevershadeshadowfall1684 Well, if you were watching Spiff for the actual technical exploits you're possibly watching the wrong channel or should watch at 2x speed. I watch Spiff for THE GLORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, the shameless plugs of the blessing that is Yorkshire Tea, and generall Spifcrackery. :P

The only thing I like to do in this game is create gigantic armies led by bots and watch them fight with the Lord of the rings music playing ominously in the background

@ThePiranha77

4 жыл бұрын

May I introduce you to a mod called Third Age total war? Its literally that but with fully changed map and units to the whole middle earth :D and if you want even better go for the divide and conquer submod of third age which is developed still and expands game so much

@h0llygh0st

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePiranha77 This is one of the best mods I've ever played, shame no big KZreadrs have picked up on it yet.

@AraAraMedia

4 жыл бұрын

@@h0llygh0st Big total war youtubers play the 3rd age mod a lot?

@colleyflower7408

4 жыл бұрын

@@h0llygh0st Pixelated Apollo and LegendOfTotalWar dont count?

@kchgamer1788

4 жыл бұрын

h0llygh0st look into the total war KZreadr community. Pixelated Apollo, JackiFish, lion heart, they all play Third age.

Spiff: ‘You can unlock a faction just by killing all their family members!’ M2TW: ‘nah’

@PeterMartyrVermigli_is_cool

Жыл бұрын

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13

18:40 Loading screen: "No one conquers who doesn't fight." Spiff: Hold my tea.

Enemy lord: why, why do I feel like this man has tried to kill me before Spiffing: this... is requiem

@ChosenInvisiball

4 жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit That's what she said

@imperialguardsmen9491

4 жыл бұрын

Oh how the turn tables

@madafaka2666

4 жыл бұрын

He also said Venice instead of Venezia, I hear angry ice noises coming this way!

@oliverjones1000

4 жыл бұрын

@@madafaka2666 WRRRRYYYY

@PobortzaPl

4 жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit Milanese should had been spawning with "paranoid" trait.

"Sorry, we missed the target, you had a 95% chance to hit him" Sorry, when did we go back to playing XCom? Edit: *psst* guys we're only 200 ish likes away from spiffs comment, you should totally like this so we can take over :3c

@aidangame

4 жыл бұрын

*PTSD INTENSIFIES*

@lawrencecole6527

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha =D

@sithlord5149

4 жыл бұрын

XCOM be like that you stand right next to the alien and you still miss

@singleplayermoments

4 жыл бұрын

Oh dear, looks like XCOM isn’t the only game that punishes Spiff for exploiting them.

@Force2reckonVods

4 жыл бұрын

@@sithlord5149 Over 500 hours in New XCom/Xcom 2 and as much in old XCom's. It do be like that.

France - France Germany - Germany Balkans - that region over there

Royal guards: "You there!" Peasant farmer: "Me, sir?" Royal guard: "Yes, you. You're the King now. Congratulations." Spiff's assassin: Poison dart! Royal guards: "Oh no! The King is dead! Quick, find his son!" Spiff's assassin: "New target acquired."

@a5-806

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

@bruhdude2725

4 жыл бұрын

Soory I'm going to have to stop you now you should go and pay tax

@joshuablackmon939

3 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh

@conan2096

2 жыл бұрын

poor hugh is getting some serious tennis elbow from all that stabbing.

"Why do they have so many family members? Where do they keep coming from?" Well, you see Spiffing, when a mommy and a daddy love each very much, the wrestle naked, and nine months later a bird gives them a baby. I don't know where the birds get the babies, that is just one of life's great mysteries.

@Greninjia

4 жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit I think they teleported into the nether tbh

@atocanboi409

4 жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit they have such an overpowered nation they could spawn in family members through a time portal

@maxhutto3056

4 жыл бұрын

Actually their reproduction rate is normal, the mothers just give birth to full grown adults.

@atocanboi409

4 жыл бұрын

@@maxhutto3056 I'm not going to think about it too much

@Fopalope

4 жыл бұрын

So medieval 2 for both the player and the AI attempts to give factions as many family members as you have cities, so the game gives you adoption offers to bring new generals into the family, though the AI will go past this cap because ya know AI cheats

Total war be like : Im going to send a big army to destroy you!!! Meanwhile Spiffing : here have a knife in your back

@AfferbeckBeats

4 жыл бұрын

Also works the other way around. Mwahaha I have my doom stacks all ready to go. Next ten turns surrounded by three different factions agents: general wounded, army halted, general assassinated, army poisoned, can't move because it's winter and you'll lose half your men...

@bruhdude2725

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Im going to have to tax you unless you serve the empire by assassinating a Iranian general

6:55 "If you are on a boat, you're immortal to assassins" Letho from The Witcher 2 would like a word with you

Actually, if you just reload the same savegame again and again, the second assination attempt will lead to the same result all the time, i.e. if you fail at the second try, all susequent attempts at the particular target will fail as well (except you have multiple assassins and try a defferent order of attempts). In order to balance this unfair glitch, you have to save the game again right after reloading, but before trying again. That way, the random number generator will generate different values next time and lead to yet another new chance, in case the second attempt fails as well. In that manner, you can have infinitely many attempts.

"Making gold as Milan is about as easy as trying to get Denmark to capitulate" *Bokoen wants to know your location*

@esbech

4 жыл бұрын

As a Dane I do not appreciate that joke, we do not capitulate that easi... Well okay we do, but still!

@xshadow2042

4 жыл бұрын

the snakey sneaky way

@bubbasbigblast8563

4 жыл бұрын

@@esbech What you should really be ashamed of is losing the race to form the first viable Scandinavian kingdom to bloody Norway of all places. Norway! Did you all get lost looking at the fjords or something?

@lucasbeck1391

4 жыл бұрын

@@bubbasbigblast8563 no we were busy farming with our flat plains and rivers

@FrobergDK

4 жыл бұрын

@098765 Craper 4. And years of resistance.

As a rule-follower who feels bound to play fairly and with historical accuracy in this kind of game, it's an absolute delight to hear you say things like "It's going to take a lot of attempts and a large amount of reloading but we ARE going to murder this man". I've also realized through watching your videos of Total War and older RTS games that there was a reason that I, an internet-less peasant, was always destroyed at LAN parties by my friends who had internet access at home. There was no way any of us would have been able to figure out some of these exploits without outside help.

Spiffing Brit: I'm going to assassinate all of the Milan nobility! Milan: Jokes on you, we're Catholic!

Ah yes, I've done the assassin exploit many times myself. I surrounded Rome with assassins who proceeded to take out the Pope, then his replacement, then the next replacement, and so on. Must've gone through about 30 popes just for the hell of it.

@tigerwarrior1787

2 жыл бұрын

Papal Guard: "YOU THERE! YOU'RE THE EMERGENCY NEW POPE!" Assassin: *Rock* Papal Guard: "Ah crapbaskets..." *Sees Cardinal* "YOU THERE!!!" Assassin: "Aren't I supposed to be getting paid to do this?"

Only after watching Spiff on the Yogs streams so much have I realized just how much deeper he pushes his voice for these videos XD

@jacobellinger8027

4 жыл бұрын

It's post editing that does this

@bl4cksp1d3r

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacobellinger8027 that's.... that's not how editing works. You can clearly hear when he's doing deeper voice and higher voice. People can deepen their voice you know

@KingofJ95

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacobellinger8027 That's... One of the dumber things I've heard today...

@bl4cksp1d3r

4 жыл бұрын

@S F "looks like". Ask Spiff if you want to know. Give me a proof please ^_^

@andrewstepanek8933

4 жыл бұрын

@@bl4cksp1d3r Do you think he narrates everything live?

The Spifing Brit is a perfectly balanced channel.

@METALFREAK03

4 жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit this is a perfectly balanced reply

@wesleycowan363

4 жыл бұрын

This is a perfectly balanced comment chain.

@michaelmaclean9739

4 жыл бұрын

@@wesleycowan363 that was a perfectly balanced observation

@mitsvanmitsvanio6106

4 жыл бұрын

that was a perfectly balanced opinion

@blunderingfool

4 жыл бұрын

@@mitsvanmitsvanio6106 That was a horrendously balanced statement.

Spiffing Brit: Give peace a chance. Dark brotherhood: We gonna need more blades aren't we?

@tigerwarrior1787

2 жыл бұрын

RE4 Merchant: "Eheheheheh..."

I get the feeling that the game had been fighting back against all the assassinations. Tug of war between them and the game populating new heirs. Other than changing the file, I do feel like the game came out as the victor.

@rubenheymans1988

10 ай бұрын

that's by default , at least a faction heir and leader , you have to kill them both

After watching this...I'd LOVE to see Spiff play Fire Emblem xD "How do you miss a 95%?" *resets*

@baseballjustin5

4 жыл бұрын

Or Xcom...

@asuragaming6671

4 жыл бұрын

@@baseballjustin5 hes done xcom. One of his more recent videos actually

@frknspacewizardbrett6044

4 жыл бұрын

_Gets blank level up_ "How did you even manage that?" *restarts chapter*

@bruhdude2725

4 жыл бұрын

After seeing you I would love to see you pay tax

@skeletonwar4445

4 жыл бұрын

@@frknspacewizardbrett6044 At least in Three Houses you can just go back in time and do a different action to change the rng.

> Am into 20 minutes of this video > Realizes: "Hey, shouldn't you formally declare war on Milan and then do the assassinations?" 🤔 > This happens: 21:02

@KGPeiper

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the same thing with Scotland

Milanese king: you over there! you're my son now, I'm going to adopt you! Nonono, please have mercy my lord, I still have so much to live for. King gets stabbed, congratulations you're the king! Alright as my first decree I'm going to adopt that random peasant over there because I don't like the way he looks at me, king sips on poisoned wine, guards get that peasant that's running away he's the king now!

When this started I was like, "Im just boring I'd just unlock in the game files" so after watching the glorious downfall of Milan and Scotland Im glad to see that the game didnt let me down and required the stupid unlock anyways. Anyways, next, play as the Papal States!

@Damo2690

4 жыл бұрын

Papal states are legit broken for a player

TW: If someone is on a boat they are immune to assassins. Edward Kenway wishes to know your location.

@lucasbeck1391

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't you play ac3? Haytham survived

@HandsomeGamerGuy

4 жыл бұрын

@@lucasbeck1391 And yet Edward died. And Haythem died too

@MechWarrior894

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, it's kind of hard to sneak up on a boat at sea.

@sekliley7587

4 жыл бұрын

I forget, but was Edward an assassin?

@joltyjivs1518

2 жыл бұрын

@@sekliley7587 no he was not he just worked with them.

"38% of the time, it works every time..."

@bruhdude2725

4 жыл бұрын

Shhhh don't worry take tea... He knows to much activate 28% chance

And this is why game developers started developing anti-save scum mechanics.

@Rookiebatman

4 жыл бұрын

I've only watched a few videos from this channel so far, so I don't know if the savespamming is a regular thing, but I kinda feel like it defeats the whole purpose. Wouldn't practically every game be completely broken if you just used save scum?

@dmyt58

4 жыл бұрын

@@Rookiebatman this game is kinda broken anyway. As milan you can get 30 cities by turns 30 without using any exploits. Turn 1 capture Venice, buy bologna, capture Florence. turn 2 was Marseille and the Island fortress. For Venice just send 1 general, 1 spear and 1 mailed knight and besiege. AI will attack since their force is stronger but you can simply defeat them. and get the city. Similar tactics in use for other cities. Bologna only cost like 2-3 grand so its pretty cheap + free units.

@dmyt58

4 жыл бұрын

@Alvi Syahri Dont think so but i havent played anything except legendary in ages

@joa65

4 жыл бұрын

@@Rookiebatman Agreed.

@joa65

4 жыл бұрын

@@dmyt58 Could be, but that guy dosen't show such mechanic, just lame save scumming.

Spiff gives a new meaning to save-scumming

What you don't see: The ridiculous amount of time taken to save/load total war games. Would definitely be easier to play properly xD Great vid though.

@ironman2818

4 жыл бұрын

There's a hot key for both that you can use mid cutscene so it's actually as fast as your PC can reload the game. I don't remember what they are off the top of my head

@martincooper8289

4 жыл бұрын

@@ironman2818 Ah cool, didn't know that to be fair, but I think total war games in general are usually slower at loading than other games if the pc was kept the same kinda thing, even like more graphical games, I think probably because it has to like load like so much data, the positions of all armies, what units are in them, what everything belongs to, all unit healths/xp's, as well as all of the graphical stuff. I don't really know why actually I'm just trying to justify it on behalf of CA (for some reason?). If you have a supercomputer you can ignore my comment. But I think if you tried some side by side testing, or just played a lot of Total War (as I do) you'd know what I mean.

@martincooper8289

4 жыл бұрын

Ngl, even though I have Total War Medieval 2 collection on steam it's not actually installed so I can't compare with a high end computer using it (as to what I remember it being like) but Spiff does look like he was loading really fast, when I play TWWH2 these days it's still painful how long it takes with a good pc.

@Userius1

4 жыл бұрын

@@martincooper8289 Rome 1 and Med 2 load almost instantly on any modern pc, low or high end.

@LilithNerevarine

4 жыл бұрын

its pretty fast now, especially if installed on ssd

Next: Pikeman are perfectly balanced in Rome Total War

@bl4cksp1d3r

4 жыл бұрын

Defending towns against basically anything with militia pikemen 👌

@huckthatdish

4 жыл бұрын

Still OP but they are annoying as shit when you are on the offensive thanks to the uh... creative path finding in Rome Total War. But on the open field pikes + archers + a bit of cavalry to spice things up on the flanks is a guaranteed win.

@Jungstertag

4 жыл бұрын

Anyone seen that bridge exploit where they charge into your phalanx without even fighting and instantly die?

@radoslawpiotrpaszek3257

4 жыл бұрын

Pikemen have poor stats, what you need however are greek armoured hoplites who have ridicoulously high stats and you get very fast access to them, in I believe 5 turn. After that none of the faction can conquer your cities.

@cerdi_99

4 жыл бұрын

i remember playing as egypt and omg hoplites do be like that

Nobleman: *Exists* Assassins: "Its free real-estate."

@bruhdude2725

4 жыл бұрын

You: "exists" My empire: tax???

May I suggest taking on "Fire Emblem: Three Houses." Not only it has so many mechanics that there must be a way to exploit them, but one of the core mechanics of this game are tea parties. You can both try to break the game and have tea with all students as much as you want. It's win win.

@AtomicArtumas

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, honestly, if you want to just faceroll the game just play on normal, recruit and train Lysithea, then laugh as she solos everything as a 20/20/20. Or Catherine Or.... really anyone, technically. As far as actual exploits go though, I'd honestly be kinda amazed if you could actually find one. Only "real" exploit I know of is FE7's "take control of the enemy team via a mine" glitch and then trading Vaida's OP spear to a unit that drops their item so you can get the OP spear.

When you had few Generals, you had a chance to adopt a General, and they become a family member which is why so many kept popping up for you.

@nigredoooalgown6245

4 жыл бұрын

have not had....

@kingssorrow32

4 жыл бұрын

@@nigredoooalgown6245 technically this video was uploaded in the past, making had, not have, correct.

@kingssorrow32

4 жыл бұрын

@@nigredoooalgown6245 though he could have used a descriptive word before few, for example "when you had very few generals" To make the sentence more appealing

@bruhdude2725

4 жыл бұрын

Why attack a country when you can sell them opium now pay your opium tax

@skeletonwar4445

4 жыл бұрын

@@kingssorrow32 When talking about a book or movie (this video counting the same as a movie in this case) you use present. Also the comment was about the situation of the AI enemy, explaining why they had so many family members all the time, not Spiff's own situation.

The Slough drop was so good :D

@michaelmaclean9739

4 жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit F

Still one of my favorite games ever, and I actually ran a Venetian campaign yesterday lol.

@revolutionishere

Жыл бұрын

The beginning for me is always ridiculously hard, so many rivals at home and abroad.

"Making gold as Milan is about as easy as trying to get Denmark to capitulate" I feel mildly offended now.

@aliasunknown4879

4 жыл бұрын

But is he wrong?

@christiankongsted5084

4 жыл бұрын

I feel fiercly offended. >:(

@vincentmalasawmkimajongte7489

3 жыл бұрын

Denmark has enough armour piercing to hold off an entire panzer division.

@Citiy3

3 жыл бұрын

Well as a Dane i am mildly offended but it is not like he is wrong Denmark hasn't officialy forught back since the 1900-century not counting the 2100-century

Congrats on 1M subs man! I love your content! ❤️

this reminds me of the one campaign in which the last Scottish nobleman died in a thunder storm near Edinburgh, balanced weather events xD

@timetraveller7294

4 жыл бұрын

@The Nova renaissance yeah, the game has some weather effects/events happening randomly... like erupting volcano, floods and storms. they can damage your army or in my case, kill the leader of a nation without a heir xD

Honestly, playing the game as intended would be easier and MUCH less tedious, than continuously searching for the enemy faction members and reloading the game hundreds of times.

@johntaylor8463

4 жыл бұрын

It's more fun like this. All the total war games can be beaten using exactly the same formation and tactics for every battle.

@asdasdasdora

4 жыл бұрын

@@johntaylor8463 It doesn't look like he's having much fun tho

@muglypunt968

3 жыл бұрын

Lol who plays total war for fun

8:37 - if at first you fail, reload your quicksave... and may the odds be ever in your favor.. oh no, reload quicksave again, there you go you got it! 21:40 - honestly surprised you didn't just start here, I always mess with the game files to unlock things

*public service announcement* " Remeber to be drinking your warm cup of tea everyone!"

@commandantkotin

4 жыл бұрын

Or prepare for the consequences

@Da_Shark

4 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid warm is not an option here in Canada

@bruhdude2725

4 жыл бұрын

And remember to pay your tea tax

My favorite part is when he said: “Fantastic!”

Me and my friend Swilly Gym did this once. The Pope had soooo many assasins around his city at all times. They put the crown on the new pope's head, BAM!, crossbow bolt.

My favourite TW exploit worked in Rome TW. Not sure about the others. I was struggling as a minor faction until I worked out that I could defend a huge castle with just two units of archers. A huge Roman army would lay siege and, having the cockiness of an army which outnumbered me 10 to 1, they would attack. How it works is this, you set fire to any battering rams they have, then you take your archers way off along the walls and they stop for a cup of tea. The enemy army swarm up ladders, open the main gate and flood in. Give them a minute or so to slowly march to the empty town square then move the archers back to the gate, capturing and closing it. The enemy is now completely trapped and the AI adopts the posture of a rabbit in a car's headlights. From here either the clock runs down or the towers with inexhaustible supplies of arrows cut them to shreds while they do absolutely nothing.

23:07 LOL from Denmark! Great humor and true WWII fact:-)

That assassin had a X-com training at missing with 95% chance.

Why is this better then a lot of recent games? Like, I want assassination cutscenes!

I am including this in the D&D campaign I have been planning. Just think of it: A nation that had no armies, only assassins. Rather than diverting superfluous resources into training and sustaining a war machine, they needed only to invest their efforts in a few gifted specialists. They conquered anything they put their mind to through cunning, deceit, manipulation, subterfuge, stealth, and relentless, silent strikes from the dark, without ever fighting a battle. Once all leaders and their subsequent replacements were removed from a target nation, that nation's society fell into chaos. Then, the assassin-nation (ha) would put one of their own in the seat of power. It just makes sense!

I love the fact this came out now, right after someone gets assassinated and total war nearly breaks out 🤣🤣 Spiff: *Give peace a chance*

I bought this game back in 2006 and didnt kno what was goin on and took it back and picked up the original mount and blade for the first time . Years later im now playing Rome 2 and Bannerlord bc of that one day

@owen4108

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a huge W ngl

still the best total war game... i hope there will be a medieval tw3, where only AI/visuals/diplomacy stuff is fixed,

With how fast their realities are dropping it’s no wonder he was surrounded by priests, he knew it was only a matter of time.

and thats the power of save scumming

I’ve just started watching the video and I’m so pumped to see this cause I’ve killed oh so many factions with targeted attacks and assassinations against enemy family members. Edit: I kinda object to this particular method. Save scumming is particularly egregious.

I absolutely love watching you play these strategy war games that take place in Europe & the world!

Longbow men + Besiege + Woodspikes infront gate = Destroy mongols and any horsemen in whole game. That was how i cheesed the game + as you, Assassin domination! Pope excommunicated me? Kill, put my own on, repeat... Amazing game, good times

I just wanted to let you know that I had my first cup of Yorkshire tea yesterday, and it was a most excellent brew. Hats off to you good sir, and keep creating more quality content! :D

Glad to see medieval 2 here (also, rome total war would be great), but come on Spiff, you can do better! Show us some really cheesy exploits, not just quicksave&reload

I'm surprised this video didn't contain the merchant stacking glitch. You can stick multiple merchants in the same army and then park the army on top of a trade good and all of the merchants will trade it when the game is balanced around only one merchant trading for each trade good spot. This is why Moors is the most OP faction in the campaign; they have the easiest access to Timbuktu which has ridiculous amounts of Gold and Ivory, and you can pretty much grab as much money as you want. When you've got 80 merchants trading gold in an area where they expect only 4 merchants to be trading, definitely breaking game balance. Worth another video imo :P If more exploits are desired, there's also the Jihad/Crusade movement exploit... although honestly, Jihads and Crusades are already broken considering the crazy amount of mercenaries and movement you can get even without actual exploits. IIRC, Moors should be able to easily call a Jihad if they get a high level Imam, whereas Catholic nations have to curry favor with the Pope to get their chance at a Crusade, so that's another point in their favor.

I wish they had these animations in other total war games I wanna see my spy dump British tea like it's 1773

Prepares to throw dagger at the king some pesky woman sees and screams throws the dagger at the woman and run off

I feel like this isn't really an exploit and really isn't unbalanced either, all you're doing is reloading when you don't get the outcome you want. You can do that in any game.

@thelastcasualty2696

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, this video was boring and repetitive. The title says "Assassin Only Challenge", yet every single time he failed he reloaded. I don't see any "challenge" in that.

@joa65

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@joa65

4 жыл бұрын

@@thelastcasualty2696 100 % agreed!

Ah, Medival II: Total War... My first introduction to the balanced art of savescumming.

That assassin save-load is how I defeated the Mongols and Timurids in my Russia campaign. I also used it in my Venice campaign to make sure my priests always became Pope, and then those Popes died to be replaced with new Venetian popes whenever they grew to despise me. Then there was that curious circumstance where a Russian general of mine was bribed by the Portuguese, and somehow ended up as their King. When my scorned Grand Duke landed on the shores of Portugal fresh from conquering Britain, he initiated his invasion with the assassination of their traitorous Russian king. I love assassins

Haven't seen it yet, but I know my like will be well placed!

I am not even mad of all the reloading. Because I can see the amazing citations once again.

Dude I love your videos. Only a few select friends enjoyed to break games as you do. Fun stuff.

Just started watching your videos and let me just say.. top notch. It’s funny and interesting and I’ve subscribed and liked already. Please do a Rome Total war vid!

Really hope you make another medieval 2 video someday.

The only issue I had with this game is that only family members could become generals. Other than that, it was great fun! I burnt tons of hours playing this game.

@antonkrieg3708

11 ай бұрын

If a captain wins a heroic or lopsided victory he could be "man of the hour" and get promoted that way.

24:15 "The early turns are basically about stealing things from France". German world war tactics in a nutshell.

I really appreciate your stuff spiff. There are some hilarious cheesy ways to play games out there, so go get 'em all :-D

Perfect... just made a cuppa

@abramtabor7726

4 жыл бұрын

cheers

@ronanwaters4

4 жыл бұрын

Impressive I just have one on stand by

@LokisFenrir

4 жыл бұрын

Better be Yorkshire gold

Remember Legendary Geishas in Shogun TW? Now that was an overpowered unit.

Spiff, mate. If you kill a faction leader or heir WHILE there are still random family members left, then random family members get upgraded to leaders and heirs. That wouldn't be such a problem, except that being faction heir or faction leader gives them an increase in public security compared to what they had while they were just random family members.

Lord Spiff, you stupendous mad man! You’ve gone and played my favorite game! And best of all, you’ve shown us how to defeat the MONGOL HORDE instantaneously! Thank you for your service to Her Majesty’s Empire.

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT... You are telling me that i first need to beat a faction in this game, before i can play as them... Without buying them as a DLC!?

@battleshipnope3271

4 жыл бұрын

After editing files... you can play as literal REBEL faction and have war with whole world. BUT! Its highly unstable and may or may lead to some STRANGE THINGS happening.

@bogdanleshenko7149

4 жыл бұрын

he is actually wrong. You unlock all faction after gaining 1 short campaign victory as any of the starting ones. Back in the days games were made for fun, not only revenue.

"Who needs war? Give peace a chance!" - Spiff Are you sure, you're British? :D

@bl4cksp1d3r

4 жыл бұрын

*stabs you with a knife* I've named this knife "peace" :D

@Pienimusta

4 жыл бұрын

@@bl4cksp1d3r Very Florida Man of you, killing with "Kindness"

@bl4cksp1d3r

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pienimusta .... how do you know how my axe is called

As always, great video. I keep hoping to see an Anno1800 video. You did an Anno video for the previous game (16 something?) and mentioned you were thinking about doing one for Anno 1800.

This reminds me a lot of how i played shogun, ninjas were dope. And the chosokube archers combined with ninjas who had firebombs made for great guerilla forces.

LegendOfTotalWar: Hold my beer

Who else wants a medieval 3 or medieval 2 remastered??

@joevenespineli6389

4 жыл бұрын

I'd prefer if they didn't change the physics of the game if its a remaster

@battleshipnope3271

4 жыл бұрын

As long as we dont get this "new idea" of armies need to have a general with it for working like in rome2 or warhammer1\2. It was a novel experience for a while, but.... then i understood, what i simply want to throw legions upon legions of peasants onto enemy like i did in rome: total war.

@dagnabbit3002

4 жыл бұрын

@@battleshipnope3271 Agreed. I really miss being able to send out small skirmish forces to do recon or damage all the enemy structures like you could in empire

I liked the video even before it started for three reasons. 1st it's a Spiff video so it's good, there's no question, it's good. 2nd because tea is involved no matter what 3rd it's a Total War video.

These old total war videos are superb, so amusing! I'm ordering some Yorkshire tea!

I've found out about the save and load glitch myself so happy ur finally doing it xD

14:34 Correction: "Being a _________ in the _________ ages when the Spiffing Brit is playing is a very dangerous and turbulent time to exist"

Love ur vids but.. “Ur not supposed to take Bern as the Milanese” Anyone who’s ever played M2TW: *takes Bern* Since I’m here, may I recommend installing the Third Age mod of Medieval 2. It is delightfully challenging.

@mannyfresh7065

3 жыл бұрын

Hey dude I played M2TW when the game came out in 06 and thinking about revisiting it. Where can one get this mod? And what’s so good about it? Thanks!

@FreeSamich

3 жыл бұрын

Emanuel Gjoni Emanuel Gjoni Ok, so the mod has actually been expanded since then. What you wanna do is go to Mod DB and download Divide and Conquer which is an improvement to the original mod. You might also want to follow Arachir Galudirithon on yt for more info.

@mannyfresh7065

3 жыл бұрын

FreeSamich thanks!! I was able to download rise of Mordor and the got one for Attila so I’m sure this won’t be too hard. Thanks!

You can never make enough jokes about Slough.

I was like "lets watch some older balanced videos" and then i see the notification... mmmm Play supreme commander 2

@shadow-to2lc

4 жыл бұрын

Pffff it's easy all you need to do is get the nukes and you've automaticly erased your enemy's base or use like 2-3 nukes to kill their robot

@shadow-to2lc

4 жыл бұрын

While also using anti nuke to shoot down any nukes they send or as well get the long range artillerly that can shoot across the entire map

29:39 "I've been *The Spiffing Britt* and I will *_SIEGE_* each and every one of you!"

Last time I played this, I went on a crusade with the maximum army size made entirely of pilgrims. Whipped up a few siege ladders and sent wave after wave of unarmed believers until the gatehouse fell under the weight of their corpses. My general enjoyed a leisurely stroll (shielded by devout hobos) to the city center, and bob's yer uncle.