Player in desperation: "Legend, you see those stacks of armies?" Legend: "I see them." Player with confidence: "I don't want to see them anymore." Legend: "You're not ready for this. But okay." (proceed to annihilate everything while admiring the hills)

@isaacalves97

6 ай бұрын

wait i think you are refering to that prussian war film vs the danes right? i think i heard those lines before

@RTEducators

6 ай бұрын

😁@@isaacalves97

@Ap0lIon

6 ай бұрын

I´m hoping for a "Legends Top 10 favourite hills to (not) die on" video

@rixx9285

6 ай бұрын

While admiring the hills, hilarious

@RTEducators

6 ай бұрын

@@rixx9285 yes while admiring those voluptuous big hills…

These battles always make me laugh because like the entire war only had something like 8000 dead irl

@righteousham

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, the actual Boshin war was relatively bloodless. So much so that one of the "historical" battles you can fight--the fall Osaka castle--is mostly fictions. The castle was burned but the defenders surrendered it without resistance after the Shogun fled.

@NathanCassidy721

6 ай бұрын

Is that from actual battles or does that account for peopl that died from disease. This is not an area of history I’m familiar with, but I know a vast majority of deaths in wars are not on the battlefield but the hospital. Mostly due to post-battle inflections and malnutrition if you cut off supply lines.

@magnus4945

6 ай бұрын

that death count from wikipedia is misleading because it leaves out some big battles like the ezo and satsuma rebellions

@oliverhughes610

6 ай бұрын

@magnus4945 it doesn't leave out the Ezo republic afaik and the Satsuma rebellion was 8 years later so why would it be included lol

@thedon9247

6 ай бұрын

The total casualties (Recorded ones at any rate) were about 13200. These are military casualties, keep in mind. The satsuma rebellion was a direct result of the Boshin war, so including it is a reasonable choice imo, even if it was about 8 years after the boshin war. The satsuma rebellion was quite a bit bloodier, with about 36k soldiers killed and wounded in under a year before the leader of the Rebellion was killed.

Legend at 16:56 : You see those Red Bear infantry? Artillery officer: Yes Legend: I don't want to see them anymore

@juncheok8579

6 ай бұрын

That spread was so good

@nvelsen1975

6 ай бұрын

Opposing officer: Our troops are flying all over the battlefield! A shameful dispray!

@b3njiflareon354

6 ай бұрын

@@nvelsen1975 flying in pieces 😭

@TheBigManWithTheBiggerPlan

6 ай бұрын

I knew exactly what moment this was about that was beautiful

@Bluemangrup

6 ай бұрын

what is that quote from?

These battles are slowly becoming more and more impossible... What can possibly get worse than this...? lol

@ikmalkamal5830

6 ай бұрын

One general and two Gatling guns against two full stacked armies?

@spit782

6 ай бұрын

1 levy infantry vs whole army

@RTEducators

6 ай бұрын

I'm going to upload an old impossible battle that I had years ago in Total War Shogun 2. ALL EUROPEAN CANNON vs 2.5 full stacks of samurais + others. Do not ask WHY I have a full stack of European Cannons... it just happened.

@VanguardDeezNutz

6 ай бұрын

Garrison levy and some line infantry vs 8000 units

@Pilvenuga

6 ай бұрын

Naval battles. FOTS naval battles can be cheesy but they are also brutal.

One day, one day you will have someone edit and compile all parts of the video and stream of you saying “hill” and it will be an hour long.

@YourBoyJohn817

6 ай бұрын

One long video but it speeds up every time Legend says "hill" it speeds up 1x

@YellowSnow

6 ай бұрын

i love the smoke effects in this game

Hearing Legend go "its cause there not on gaurd mode" in his little voice absolutely sent me

@kubli365

6 ай бұрын

oh he noticed good xD

@w0lf667

2 ай бұрын

Why is he so allergic to it though

@LRMRULES

2 ай бұрын

@@w0lf667 ???

@w0lf667

2 ай бұрын

@@LRMRULES I meant whenever he uses it's when he does that or just because people tell him to rather than his own incentive

@LRMRULES

2 ай бұрын

@@w0lf667 I have no idea wtf your talking about

Reminds me of mrsmartdonkeys otomo legendary campaign, everything is going sweet, he's all the way east by Kyoto, waaay into the campaign. After his enemies rout in a battle, his general just barely rides in front of otomo blunderbuss cav right as they fire a volley. The volley obliterates his Daimyo and a handful of others. This causes a big drop in loyalty etc, instant civil war, campaign wrecked lol

@pisuoxide

6 ай бұрын

Wasn't those tercios instead of blunderbuss? I remember that moment lol

@Laucron

6 ай бұрын

Do you have the link to that episode? Thanks in advance!

@pisuoxide

6 ай бұрын

@@Laucron The moment itself is in the first 3 minutes of episode "A VERY ROUGH START - Otomo (Legendary Challenge: Gunpowder Only) - Total War: Shogun 2 - Ep.01!" Btw. It was Blunderbuss

@Laucron

6 ай бұрын

@@pisuoxide Thanks a bunch man!

The soundtrack when a battle is declared has to be one of the most beatiful compositions CA has made for a total war ever, it gives me lots of different emotions together, brilliant OST.

@antoniodelaugger9236

6 ай бұрын

Duty calls!

@zarakdurrani7584

6 ай бұрын

I still get nightmares from when playing as Tosa on Very hard, i was surrounded by Obama clan on every side and almost every turn they'd send stacks after stacks to attack my only able fully marshalled army led by the Daimyo himself.

@Hadrexus

4 ай бұрын

Shogun 2's Duty Calls and that Warhammer ambient background music both give me the chills

Legend sure showed those traitors why they shouldn't have defected. Rule Number 1 of FOTS: Never let Legend get the hill, you'll never win.

@luzhang2982

6 ай бұрын

Its a classic napolean move. Get there first, setup first. He was an artillery man first and foremost too.

I've..never seen this happen. The things you find out every day...

@benceklock4831

6 ай бұрын

I didn't even know this could happen

@robert23456789

6 ай бұрын

​@@benceklock4831if things really go to hell it dos at times

@jzerf5329

6 ай бұрын

I had it happen a couple weeks ago. Lost my daimyo of all things, and rage quit the campaign

@Pilvenuga

6 ай бұрын

this is why looting settlements is a bad idea in shogun 2, as that reduces your daimyos honor and in turn, affects the loyalty of your generals

@proudhellene5874

6 ай бұрын

Daimyos cannot join the enemy@@jzerf5329

"... So its treason then."

@SoraTheHappyEmo

6 ай бұрын

SHAMEFUR DISPRAY

Yesterday a Tosa army defected to my side, the surprises this game still throws at you!

@sup1602

6 ай бұрын

Hope that army had their riflemen. Repeater rifles < Flintlock garbage.

@undrgrnd734

6 ай бұрын

this game doesn't have flintlocks lol you mean muzzleloaders. Muzzleloaders honestly... don't really have as much of an impact. The animation might matter a bit but reload skill matters way more in this game if you are looking at shots per minute

@PillarOfWamuu

Ай бұрын

@@undrgrnd734 Muzzle Loaders are how the weapon was loaded. Flint lock is how the weapon is fired. Muzzle Loading flintlocks are definitely a thing

I've been following you for 11 years and I love seeing you cover FOTS. Keep it up Legend!

What fascinated me the most is that, even a experienced TW player who really know how to build their army super strong, and familiar with the game (since they chose republic) can still struggle with general honours (which is the reason why defection happens). Who could have thought that such an old game can still be this challenging, and you can learn new thing from it (I'm pretty sure there are quite a few people who don't know defection is a thing in shogun 2 and FOTS). Such excellent game tbh.

@Gitsmasher

6 ай бұрын

so.. are defections happens because the Clan leader is honourless/low honour? Never seen this happen before.. any imperial/shogunate speacial troops just disband when go Republic

@VictorrineAurum

6 ай бұрын

@@Gitsmasher Daimyo traits + Daimyo honor and General's loyalty (Usually because of envy of other generals, wife or traits)

@StavrosKing

6 ай бұрын

​@@VictorrineAurumcan it also factor the number/type of units that defect too?

@UnknownLord711

6 ай бұрын

What can happen too is if you use a general too much they become less loyal because they gain a trait called vision of grandeur or something and they become very disloyal, I actually had that happen and lost my main army during a republic campaign

@VictorrineAurum

6 ай бұрын

@@StavrosKing I think it's random? Unless there's factors that affect it like the longer the units are with the general, the more loyal they are to the general than to the daimyo over newly recruited regiments/battalions? I guess.

you gotta love how Legend is holding the total war community together through the disintegration of Warhammer 3.

Imagine if that experienced general who defected saw his previous man leading the army and obliterating those unit stacks. I bet that guy is having deep contemplation in the aftermath.

0:03 They defected not because of general loyalty here but because, they had a geisha who enchanted a part of his army. (In the timestamp; There's a fan symbol ((representing the embedded Geisha here)) up above the banner of the Tosa daimyo's army). Enchanting is really op (alongside the Ishin/Shinsengumi agent bribe option), while the chance is relatively very low for a general to defect if he has high loyalty. It can still happen (quite a bit, actually) if the Geisha is high level.

@shubhabrataray1313

6 ай бұрын

THOT GOT THE MEN ACTING UNWISE.

@nagrom1003

6 ай бұрын

Na, this was my battle, it was a defection. The thumbnail highlights the defection. When this happened I selected my full army, attacked the enemy, and then had half an army. Those geisha events are cause there’s agents all over the place up to some mischief

@tzardnickolasthelitromanov

6 ай бұрын

@@nagrom1003 I've personally never had that happen to me like that with my almost 1,500+ hours in STW2/FOTS. The only times I've had defections; Was either Bribes and Enchants. If so here; do you remember what that General's loyalty level was?

@nagrom1003

6 ай бұрын

@@tzardnickolasthelitromanovI didn’t know it could happen either. Loaded up an old save to see his loyalty and it was 1

@gonavygonavy1193

6 ай бұрын

​@@tzardnickolasthelitromanov This could happen when you order a low loyalty general to attack an enemy. In my personal mod I've removed the sources of easy loyalty so switching sides could happen more often, cause I find it interesting.

Got to love that legend gave him back an army with more units in it then what he started with.

The smoke is so great in this game. Always amazing to watch the troops become entirely invisible and hope that they survive longer than the enemy

You got no kills on the armstrong guns because they were limbered up. For some reason in this game if the artillery isn't deployed, the crew are immortal. They still take damage though, all the horses and men will die in unison with the gun they are attached to.

@marcusflutist1230

6 ай бұрын

I've seen poor horsies tank entire gunlines

@g00dguy23

6 ай бұрын

I have had SHATTERED artillery crews massacre entire cavalry units trying to run them down while retreating. It's kind of bonkers really.

>"close victory" >look inside >5:1 casualty rate

I've had this happen with Saigo Takamori, which is crazy considering him as a person

>forgets to toggle guard mode >also him "WHY ARE YOU CHASING!?" 😂

Seeing those cannons just make holes appear in their lines just impresses how terrifying it must have been.

I feel like Satsuma is everyones favourite faction, coz of the fact you can get gold rated accuracy on infantry units and artillery, and decent armour stats, along with foreign veterans and train time. You can literally just print Satsuma Infantry and stomp factions. The AI never seemed to take advantage of this properly. I feel if FotS got a second look at and some minor tweaks is all it needs, it would be the best TW game ever imo. lol.

@sup1602

6 ай бұрын

The tosa are my favourite due to their riflemen just putting out so many shots in such a short time period. No other unit in the game can match their dps. Only crappy thing is the island they start on is dogcrap other than the silk resource that can be used to make a lower unhappyness industry chain building (a minus 1 instead of 3).

"Have you got a moment to admire our friend and saviour - the hill?"

You cannot issue movement orders to units in kneel fire mode, but they will still chase after units that fought them in melee unless you also have guard mode on.

“It’s cause you’re not in guard mode” Yes, exactly 🤣

Defections that'll make the Skaven proud!

I love FOTS and after your recent videos i came back to play it, now i know more about thanks to your video i like it even more! Also can you do a video about naval warfare? i fund they are REALLY hard even if they are so incredible

@NMvapa

6 ай бұрын

Hey, here are some general tips if you're interested: - Bigger ships mean more base morale, which is really important. Many ships will route before they burn down/get destroyed. They are also generally better, 1 frigate can destroy a few corvettes. - Researching at least explosive rounds will give you the ability to win every battle until mid to late game, as they start fires on wooden ships and the enemy either burns or has to go for repairs. - You can manually control a ship if you need some tricky maneuver that the pathing can't manage - Generally setting a ship's position and facing is more reliable than giving the attack order - If an enemy retreats hit continue and try to sink them/let them burn down, so they don't keep it on the campaign map

@Diego000793

6 ай бұрын

There's really only 1 tip for naval warfare: get explosive rounds. Later on try to get the armour piercing explosive rounds for an guaranteed win. You can win naval battles 1:4 only because of the ammo type . In the campaign map, bigger ships are great, but a prefer the biggest one that you can recruit in one turn, since the AI can be annoying and is hard to keep track of all of the enemy navies, especially after RD

@KimmoKM

6 ай бұрын

To add to the other post, "crossing the T"/raking fire (since the guns are placed at sides of the ship, bringing your broadside against enemy bow or stern allows you to put your full firepower to bear while they can't retaliate) is pretty much the most powerful tactic you can do, but it's difficult to perform in practice, especially considering the AI is actually pretty good at facing their broadside against your approaching ships and likes to turtle. However, this behavior is also exploitable: since "turtling" is such a high priority for them, you can use first-person fire mode to fire at enemy ships without them reacting, since the AI doesn't react until you are actually at range, but because shots have some deviation in terms of their length, you can hit perhaps half of your broadside from just beyond the listed max range of the ships. It's extremely cheesy, but then, if you are playing on higher campaign difficulties, I think everything is fair game.

@ilari90

6 ай бұрын

You can cheese the naval battles when attacking, you need to manually shoot, just outside firing range, that way few of your shots hit the enemy, sometimes. You can take out whole fleets with one ship. It's freaking slow and tedious, but yeah, I do it that way.

@emanueledimatteo2052

6 ай бұрын

Thank you all i will try to follow your tips

The hill cameo is my favorite part of those videos!

Love that legend can put out quality and entertaining content so quickly. Love that i can have your content to relax to. Love your work!

Achieving victory with army of 1740 using the terrain, interlocking fields of fire, ans perfectly timed naval barrages against a massive force of 8393. What a legend...of total war!

Haven’t enjoyed KZread this much in a while, great FOTS and general historical TW coverage legend

Wait.. did Sir “Horse Sandwich” Legend just utter the words “Cavalry are the least important units we got!”?? 😂 I thought I’d never live to see the day!!

I sort of imagine that if Legend ever got a time machine he'd go around telling famous generals that [insert military unit here] are garbage this patch and they shouldn't recruit them

@clefsan

6 ай бұрын

If Legend ever got a time machine, suddenly the Australian Empire ruling the world would become a thing. 😇

@carrahignett1643

6 ай бұрын

​@clefsan How do you think the nation state of Australia came to exist? It was called the British empire.

@clefsan

6 ай бұрын

@@carrahignett1643please note that I spoke of the AUSTRALIAN Empire, though, not the british one. I was implying that a LegendofTotalWar who travelled into the past and became a proper Warlord/National Ruler could have created an alternate history in which Australia conquered the world.

@carrahignett1643

6 ай бұрын

@clefsan Aside from the fact Australians (founding stock) are ethnically British, if he travelled back in time he'd just be expanding the British empire from British owned Australia. However, my initial comment was supposed to be taken in humour. It isn't that deep.

@tristandell

5 ай бұрын

@@carrahignett1643☝️🤓

I like the whole video, the part at 12:50 however is the GOAT. Just looking at all the lead flying over , smoke everywhere, soldiers running, officers shouting orders. All while the mountain turns grey with smoke. Another terrifying sight for the attacking soldiers where it seems like the whole hill is shooting at them.

Hill stonks after Legend's recent videos 📈

If there's one thing I've learned from watching Legend play Fall of the Samurai it's that hills win campaigns.

New to your channel, started watching you since you started posting this type of content, am I happy this was recommended to me, keep it up!

Absolutely insane performance. Bravo again, Legend!

Goddamn, that first battle was so expertly handled, phenomenal stuff mate

Wow that was an really tense battle. and the best performance i have ever saw in such an dire situation. good job! you got my sub and of course a like :D

My FOTS gameplay really improved. Thank you for the series :)

This was insane. It was like watching Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.

Artillery share healthpools between 10 men at a time. This means it takes a lot of damage to kill, but they die in groups of 10.

This is the first disaster battle I've seen where you actually gained 2 units and didn't lose any

That first battle was insane. Great job

I don't know about you guys but I feel like Legend is about to do a Fall of the Samurai livestream very soon.

I wish the save file would be uploaded by legend so everyone else can try as well.

"I really wish I had a hill..." LegendofTotalWar 2023

loving the fall of the samurai vids legend keep them up

I gotta say, I really wish wathammer had visuals like this. Watching all the smoke billowing across the battlefield is just gorgeous.

@danielhall6354

6 ай бұрын

i wish that empire handgunners were as responsive as line infantry in fots

i like this fall of the samurai videos, thanks Legend

Imagine being that general that defected, lol

Nice to see you're still uploading and everything. I was just randomly reminded of your channel when I was thinking to myself that Scipio was a better general than Hannibal, and then atarted thinking back on why I thought that way. I remember you talking about it with us, the chat, back in TW Warhams2 days, before your channel blew up and you got thousands of people in streams. Good times.

It literally was because your units weren't on guard mode. I've played a bunch of FOTS, and I can confirm: if you put them on guard mode, they will not end up way out of position because they won't just continue to chase the units you right-clicked on until they've routed (or your unit has routed).

Watching just how fast the main and last enemy wave of the first battle just fell apart on contact, same for the second battle, bravo, really impressive. =D

Love these Shogun videos!!

PLEASE continue dropping these videos i cant afford shogun 2 + dlc and these videos keep me from going insane and you're also much better than me

ive never played this game but when you clicked to bombard there was an option to disembark army 2:40

@toupeiragamer8564

6 ай бұрын

He tried landing them on the beach, but probably couldn't because it was in the enemy area of influence (The red circle around them), but i wonder if he clicked to disembark army they would run straight into the enemy or not? I mean, the game was giving him the option, so maybe it would work.

@LegendofTotalWar

6 ай бұрын

I went back and tried that and what happened was the ship traveled back to the port. It was impossible to land those troops at that beach.

@toupeiragamer8564

6 ай бұрын

The legend himself doing some myth busting.@@LegendofTotalWar

Fall of he Samurai, Rıse of the Hills.

these Shogun 2 videos keeps me going man...

Can’t wait to see him do a tier list on all the maps based on how good their hills are

Could you do a whole fall of the samurai disaster campaign? The battles are great but saving a whole campaign would be cool.

@antoniodelaugger9236

6 ай бұрын

That campaign would instantly be won the moment you have 4 armstrong cannons

If Legend were to ever have an indigenous name, he'd be known as "Rolling Hills".

it’s good to see ppl playing shogun! multiplayer is going to be funnnnn

SO IT'S TREASON THEN. LegendofTW meatgrinder go brrrrr

Got back into shogun after watching your vids, forgot how fun it is to bombard silly samurai

That arty shot at 16:59 was just sublime. Every shot hit the unit at once. Yummy.

Stay hydrated Legend!

yes, this is a worthy "disaster" battle. Ah that pre battle flute thingy music... nostalgic

One thing i love about shogun 2 that the terrain can very tricky. If you don't look careful, your gunner may not shoot through it.

God the gunsmoke in this game looks majestic

all the disaster battle in a nutshell : "have you ever tried a hill ?"

Good lord that battlefield smoke.

Love the FOTS content, one of the better total war games.

14:45 artillery shell hits a bird lol

Small hills are beautiful too!

Man this is just the better Empire total war

best disaster battle so far in my opinion !

I NEVER build navies in any total war, but FoTs's naval bombardments are really a different breed

the orbital bombardment is a really nice feature

For killing the main commander general you can check the minimap for it. Commander looks as a star shape while others looks as a cavalry triangle. When you kill the commander general star becomes triangle too so you could know you killed the commander.

I forgot how amazing the smoke and explosions look in fall of the samurai

This is really making me wanna play Shogun 2. I never really played it before since I was really into medieval, Warhammer, and Rome.

@biowiener7825

6 ай бұрын

shogun is so damn awesome, this is the Fall of the Samurai DLC though, just saying before you buy the wrong game (the dlc is standalone, meaning you dont need the base game shogun 2 to play it)

@brendansaltvick5824

6 ай бұрын

@@biowiener7825 🫡

2:44 Looks like this screen might be how you would disembark your armies rather than just clicking on the campaign map.

Still remember that one game in the default campaign where my best general that conquered half of Japan for me defected to the Ashikaga shogunate and got adopted by the Ashikagas and became daimyo after I assassinated the Shogun. I was playing Otomo and they even took Tercos and a cannon with them but still beat them.

Legend of the Hill

-Sir, we have him surrounded, he only got 2 levy, 1 cannon and a block of cheese! -Good, our 5 full European stacks should get him obliterated -Sir! We lost! -How? -He had a nice looking Hill

"maybe don't shoot at shit units like spear levy" he says while targeting spear levy

Satsuma Republic?! what heresy is this??! no wonder half the army deserted. FOR THE EMPEROR!

OROPHILE.... Legend your secret is out lol

Just want to say this non-warhammer content is so refreshing and seeing you cover some other titles that you enjoy (especially FOTS) has been amazing, please do more! Would you consider doing a livestream or playthrough of FOTS?

Damn, that artillery volley instantly breaking the Red Bear infantry. Btw, do you use any mods? I might want to play this game so I want to know the must-have mods for this game.

I think you have to make sure to attack into their gun crew. If you go through the middle of their guns you won't get any kills. There's some sort of bug about this invincible artillery thing, been there for years.

The music in this game is something else.

May favorite tactic, corner camping!

Legend.

Imagine defecting to the enemy, fighting your old army and then still losing! You’ve gotta feel real bad about your ability at that point.