We need a "wagon" unit, that holds supplies. Then steppe units could charge back to wagon, get resupplied with arrows and continue the skirmish. this is actually historically correct, parthians well known for this. Wagon could also be used attract mercenary units, and hopfully put them in pillage mode - ignore orders and run off with booty.

@Fanboy393

9 жыл бұрын

hahahaha booty I'm 8

@Escritorez

9 жыл бұрын

Christopher Philogene Best post 2015!

@Michiamotonio

9 жыл бұрын

that could be a good idea however one wagon should be apply to supply a lot of troops so it doesn't impact the amount of skirmishers you can bring and also would mean if the enemy player snipes the wagon then you lose that advantage making it possible to counter skirmish spams

@RemusKingOfRome

9 жыл бұрын

Anthony Damiani M2TW had a large Christian Cross wagon unit, that boosted moral of nearby units. plus we already have Chariots so .. shouldn't be too much extra work.

@baileymccarthy4659

9 жыл бұрын

This is a very good idea and historically accurate, but also one man and a horse can carry quite a lot of arrows.

That was probably an eight year old who took Sparta and chose the units that look most like the guy from 300...

@DrillEntertainmentNetwork

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@godzillagus8358

3 жыл бұрын

Moi, pelaatko vielä Rome 2? Olisi kivaa pelata kaverin kanssa. Englantia on minun äidin kieli kun olen Amerikkalainen mutta pärjään hyvin Suomen kielellä.

1. Battle: Just reminded me on this weekend, when I played a guy who also dropped out because initial fight did not go his way. At first I thought, maybe a bad connection, then the same thing in the second fight. It annoys me, since it takes time to get someone in, takes time to select an army, time to load and time to set your troops. Then some bad mannered guy abandons the game just when the fight starts. I hosted the game, I had Arevaci and he could of picked whatever he liked to counter me. 2. Battle: Just goes to prove me first point. Even if your initial fight goes bad, it pays of to stick with the battle, you can turn it around. I think your opponents key mistake was, he was to worried for his slingers and forgot to micro the rest of the battlefield (key mele units just taking cheap fire and standing around). Your skirmisher Cav was some sort of MVP, it kept him completely distracted. He did not protect his slingers well when they had killing power, and then he over protected them when they were almost dead aka. they were not worth it.

In second battle it looks like that your opponent mistaken colchis for armenia and thats the reason why he pick heavy cavalry counter

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

could be

Hey Heir, you should do some videos about to use skirmishers effectively in combat as well. Because some skirmishers are amazing in combat but many don't realize that. Like my agrianian axemen yesterday, they were kicking shield bearer ass. I think it's quite interesting to see you with some skirmish heavy armies! Keep it up mate.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

If I could use skirmishers right I will try ;)

Great vids and commentary. Thanks Heir.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

thanks, glad you enjoyed it

Great vid!

Talking about having extra ammo. I think you should be able to field some "support" equipment. For example carts/camels with extra ammo... etc.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

yea that would be cool

Colchis = Laz Power 🙂

I can't be the only one who realized it wasn't a leaving of the game but the horribly short amount of time allotted to battle over.

@steeltwistercoaster

9 жыл бұрын

Oh never mind the battle was 5 minutes

@steeltwistercoaster

9 жыл бұрын

Also consider using the colchian noble hoplites they have amazing armor and melee defense on par with royal spartans. This equates to a unit that can basically hold on forever.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Wolfram You are right, they hold well, I just wanted the axemen to help grind down legionaries

Heir, for the magical shield wall ability with no formation attack on to work best is to click an attack order on an enemy unit you are engaging with immediately after you popped shield wall. In that way your guys will gain the magical extra defense and will not glitched out like they did in this video.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

good to know

@HeirofCarthage what map is this? love the open fields and small hills

great vid

Are the stats for skirmish units stats effected by range? I.e. when they are in range if they stand closer does that increase their accuracy or damage?

nice battles

Hey heir, could you please do more cinematic views and close ups? Some of this units are so detailed and the animations are so sharp, I sometimes feel potential wasted in your videos. I would realllly enjoy if you could do that. Kudos.

nice battle Heir, i love the axeman units use them more often pls :P

good battles

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

thanks, glad you enjoyed them

What lets play will you do first with Attila?

@CatnamedMittens

9 жыл бұрын

He doesn't know yet.

@CatnamedMittens

9 жыл бұрын

Western Roman Empire is supposed to be the hardest faction to play as.

@CatholicDragoon

9 жыл бұрын

Alans!

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Huns, Sassanids, or east Rome I think, but I also want to play as a migrating northern tribe at some point as well

@sunjetzu

9 жыл бұрын

Sassanids are awesome, I look forward to your lets plays :D

Maybe your first opponent just had to take a dump. No reason to assume the worst.

@MRTIM0717

9 жыл бұрын

If he needed to take a dump badly enough that he needed to leave the game you'd think he would have gone before the game started, not 5 minutes in. :P

@MVPBallingD.Rose96

9 жыл бұрын

Are you kidding me dude?! Lame excuse imo.

@Chickenhunter9

9 жыл бұрын

I've done it before. When nature calls, you listen.

@danielkneale1888

9 жыл бұрын

Every reason to assume the worst, heir's opponent was arse and an idiot but not a complete idiot because he could see he had lost and bailed out early.

@patmos09

9 жыл бұрын

combat2thearms I think that's the joke.

Sweet new word Heir...." underdogedness "....( or is that with two g's...? ).....either way i'm loving " Underdog Week "

Nice

Heir love your videos anytime you want to play a match I'll be there.

nice vid

What map was this played on? It looked amazing and looked like it would make for a good use of the line of sight mechanics.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

I think it was Medhlan or something

@shogunlewis8901

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks, might have a match on it now. :)

Heir you played a noob that raged quit we see it in all games we play, no big deal bro! But you put him on blast gj ;)

Colchis

Could you possibly do a video on countering nomads and horse archers in particular

@abhinandanbanerjee5471

3 жыл бұрын

If you still haven't figured it out, slings+ thureos spears.

i like the way you think heir :D

I can't remember the last time you played, much less mentioned the Nervii. Could you try playing, or even just talk about where they stand in the current game?

boxing up at the start of a game is bad, but when you fight nomads the other guy will natural box up as you have no real center with your all cav army, what you would call your center could move around very fast and suddenly be a flanking force. So you have to put units on all sides due to the very high mobility of a cav army. its just if you pick the counter to nomad (which is greek, athens sparta, syracuse, due to affordability of high armor hoplites) your not going to bring your own cav thinking your going to support your flanks so well that your just going to crush nomad cav with citizen cav and the merc cav is limited and overpriced to fight the cost-effective lancer nomad cav. i think the hoplite can hold out you just need to cover the rear of them with other hoplites against nomad cav in hoplite wall

Does magical shield wall still benefit the unit when attacked from the sides or rear?

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Yes, but the unit suffers morale penalties from flank or rear attacks regardless of shield wall

@AlJohnstone88

9 жыл бұрын

Ok, well that makes no sense either then.

Shame to see your opponent quit the game with Massagatae. I hate those kind of people who run from a skirmish fight. It's the only type of fight I usually win :(

I don't think heir realizes that not everyone has all of the DLC's. Maybe he didn't know what type of faction the Messegatae were.

*{Veni,Vidi,Vici}* Rome forever!

Dude, why are you hating on the Steppe people? I used to be a beast when playing with them, you just have to know to use them really. They are basically light mobile tanks. Your completely underrating them. I've destroyed entire Roman legions with hails of arrows and encircling my enemies. Seriously once you seriously know to use these guys, you won't regret it.

Sparta vs Massagetae, chalk up another video for The Good The Bad and the Ugly.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

lol I love that series

Hey heir, do you upload your defeats? We could learn a lot from those.

@CatnamedMittens

9 жыл бұрын

He does.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Yea I put them up as well. I got killed as Ardiaei the other day

U teach me so much but i don't play the game

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

lol well still good to learn I guess :)

Hey Heir, are you excited for Attila's multiplayer?

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

I am, I will miss the era in this game, but always fun to try something new

Waiting for Sparta.

I think most of these are only underdogs because of the idea of 'picking x faction to counter y faction', if both sides just brought an army, they would work out fine.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

They each have some strength, some are just more useful in general than others I think

If I create a alias on steam will I still have all my names? Also how would I also go about doing this? Thank you

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Go to settings, and under Friends I think, it won't change your friends or settings to change your alias

@corbinellsworth9216

9 жыл бұрын

HeirofCarthage Thank you very much. :)

Is a all cav build still recommended?

@rush4in

9 жыл бұрын

If you're going to play competitively no but otherwise it's a lot of fun to use nomads.

You ain't rude brother

COLCHIS

Hey everybody! I am thinking of buying this game but do you think it's worth it? how fun is the game play? Thanks!

@CatnamedMittens

9 жыл бұрын

It's very fun now that it's relatively fixed. You could also wait for Atilla.

@Rubblifity

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Yea Rome 2 is certainly worth it in its current state, especially if you get it on sale. It isn't perfect, but what game is these days?

@SuperCompany007

9 жыл бұрын

Buy it on sale.

@Rubblifity

9 жыл бұрын

Well if it's a steam sale I probobaly won't buy it because for Christmas I got a £50 GAME gift card that i don't know what i want to spend on. I think i might preorder Atilla maybe. Thanks for the help though.

Since Heir won't do it, I will. Kyl032, that was a dick move. Don't join a battle that you don't have the balls to finish!

People still think that spears always beats cavalry; it's refreshing to hear that this isn't necessarily true.

Hey, are you always choosing to play underdogs?If so why?

I'm colchi!!!

@Iraklius9

8 жыл бұрын

+COLCHI(GEORGIA)IBERIA Kartli>Colchis

@DrillEntertainmentNetwork

4 жыл бұрын

nice

I stopped playing quick battles because of people would leave the game and they would get the win do you know why that is when they quit they win??

Cretan archer = gg ez. But he was an idiot, I never used Tarantine except when I needed some fast mercs.

did the spartans really fight in phalanx or is that just the game?

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

they did

@danielrunerder8800

9 жыл бұрын

HeirofCarthage pikes??!! i thought that was Philips invention

Zero dislikes ;)

How about Cimmeria?

Romans hate cold cheese

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

They do now I think

Play a stappe faction again becuse they are funny to watch

He picked a bad army because he was probably 8 years old

@_bingusnet

9 жыл бұрын

Just picked the guys who looked most like the guys in 300.

@SacredBandBoy

9 жыл бұрын

ali muminoglu Then he should have picked heroes of Sparta ;P

Cold cheese is best cheese.

@DemonSNICKER

9 жыл бұрын

Have you not had nachos? Melted cheese is pretty damn good

@nubilepro

9 жыл бұрын

Taylor Williams Nah, I eat nachos frozen. Extra crunch.

@DemonSNICKER

9 жыл бұрын

Legatus Marcus thinking about that hurts my teeth

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

indeed

Spartans didnt have cavalry

Take off formation attack units now using it will loose really hard

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Yea I usually turn it off

Wouldnt it have been better to have just sent the mass after your leader instead of playing tag with your cavalry?

@TheCrankyCow

8 жыл бұрын

+Seth Hutchinson seeing his leader was on a horse, and could walk away faster then they ran. I don't see how that would do much good.

you play again sparta, but the titel and thunmbnail says rome

@Fanboy393

9 жыл бұрын

..... did you watch the whole video before commenting?

@Thetb93

9 жыл бұрын

yes and i saw the 2nd battel

i think it is wierd there is no black guys in the roman army except for the gladiators

@TheGrouch91

9 жыл бұрын

Jake Wakley Well the regular army (Legionaries) had only Roman citizens in them and of course there were no black Roman citizens. They used a ton of mercenaries of course but you cant give them 50 different troop types. Gladiators were slaves though and thus could be of any culture or ethnicity.

@kirareilly3699

8 жыл бұрын

+The Grouch Late reply, but citizenship (in the context of the post-republic Roman empire) was a social construct that applied to people from every corner of the empire, and wasn't a birthright inherent to a certain class of peoples ala Greece.

@TheGrouch91

8 жыл бұрын

Kira Reilly Tbh I don't really know anymore what was happening in the video. What kind of units they were using. And yes the imperial Army had to use every resource they could get. But the early Roman army system only used Roman citizens in their actual professional troops. I guess calling them Legionaries wasn't really correct. But Hastati, Princeps and Triarii all had to be Roman citizens. And back then Roman citizens meant actual Romans.

Whose idea was it to not give the person who leaves the match a loss. People could have a no loss record by always leaving and getting a draw if they were going to lose.

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

I don't know, but we all wish it was there

This is not Colchis vs Rome...

Many people probably leave these, because they are annoyed and don't know how to counter :/

it shouldnt be about etiquette, the disconecting player should just loose. always

I love the video but damn do I hate seeing axemen in this game, they don't have animations for axes it looks weird

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Did they patch it recently? I can't remember

I dont think Massegetae is underdog, it is very dangerous faction, but not Ordinary one

Where's a good place to watch top players play matches against each other? Any KZreadrs that cast top player total war games similar to someone like huskystarcraft?

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Well there is no official competitive scene in Total War, but there are a group of players who host and play in Tournaments. Check out the following channels: kzread.info kzread.info kzread.info I am sure there are more, but that is a good start to be sure

looks like the Roman player had terrible micro. Not that my micro is any good.

Roman player had bad micro management, leaving troops doing nothing too far away, shows the importance of micro

2:03

luesiteni pl

@rush4in

9 жыл бұрын

They are NOT an underdog.

@CatnamedMittens

9 жыл бұрын

I think he said he might use them. I don't remember.

omg Kolxida Colchis KH Colkhis not chease everyone says cheese wtf

Should at least concede defeat if you're going to quit.

Man it suck when people leave game like that, at least stick around for a few more minutes and admits your defeat

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

Yea it is kind of a let down

It would be better if they got rid of the nomad factions in multiplayer battles because i do not think they bring anything good to the game. People get mad when you use them and they are incredibly bad just because the horse archer do not do any damage.

@Balsiefen

9 жыл бұрын

I disagree, nomad battles can be some of the most interesting asymmetric battles in the game. However, it's usually best if the non-nomad agrees not to pick a hard counter.

Your 1st opponent has no respect, you can't quit a match in a middle of a fight even that is your fault to pick the wrong units.

God I hate those flags

yea i hate when people leave games. its very annoying and shows no class.

16:42 This game is still fucked and not working properly . The Warscape engine sucks ass and you can't deny it . I love TW's but I have the power to recognize that Rome 2 has failed as a part of the Total War series . Too bad , it could have been a magnificient sequel to an excellent game .

Why don't you play as a better faction against stronger people

@HeirofCarthage

9 жыл бұрын

I can't help who I get matched against, but this week I was purposely trying to play with crappier factions just for fun

@alex-dq8br

9 жыл бұрын

K

ok look you win dnt be so docile.

No hate, but your throat clearing sounds like a weird moan...

ok look you win dnt be so docile.