A channel about Medieval II Total War mods and submods with a slight emphasis on pike and shot warfare. There are also some battles and campaign videoclips from other games in the total war series, especially Shogun 2, Rome 2 and Attila, which are my favourite games. I will not be branching out to Warhammer Total War but Napoleon and Empire are possibilities. If you have any mod-related news or future ideas, you can email me on my youtube "business address" or at twcenter. There I show up as "Geoffrey of Villehardouin" and you can contact me any time. If you have any saves from online battles that Pixelated Apollo has no time for or because he no longer does Medieval II Total War battles, if you want you can post them my way. I am not looking for anything in particular except that the battle was not too one-sided, that it ends properly, and that it did not become desynchronised. Sieges would be better than open battles.
Also some World of Tanks videos now and then.
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how did i take this long to find this gameplay? Amazing format my dude.
all of you get it wrong it is so obvious when you fail by adding modern day borders as the ancient ones did not fit where current border are realize this fact.
Audio would have been better
Trident at the Principality of Kyiv ❤
Well done! I will subscribe. Thank you. Nice visuals and verbal descriptions!
hey, got another question. so I've been playing this off and on, and i decided to try a Sweden campaign myself. at some point an event fired, something along the lines of "Sweden regains control of Riga" which spawned in a Swedish army near Riga. the problem is that Riga is held by the Protestant Union, and they had no intention of giving Riga away for any amount of money. did this happen in your campaign? If it did, how did you deal with it? i'm thinking i'll probably have to just disband the army. also, why is Riga not part of either Poland-Lithuania or Sweden to begin with? that seems strangely unhistorical but maybe there's something i don't know...
The war of troy was for the Achaeans probably the most important event ever, and it's not for nothing. Probably the father of Agamemnon started the war, but died or something. Then as peace treaties were being established, Paris kidnaped Helen and the war became even bigger. They raided the Mediterranean coast, and as it became lucrative other minor allies joint. No ship no soldiers to protect your cities ? Haha Crazy times. 10 year of total war from the Achaeans weakened their ennemies but also them self. Dorians came to fill the void, the rest is history.
My feeling is that comes close to what has happened. If Priam was Piyamaradhu, at some point when he was ousted by the Hittites, it is said in a tablet that he took refuge with the Ahiyawa across the sea, which may be how his son Paris became a guest of Menelaus in Sparta. The vassal king the Hittites put in place of Piyamaradhu was murdered, at which point probably Priam returned to Troy as king, with Paris probably eloping with Helen of Sparta to Troy sometime after.
Could the sea people have been Ionians and Dorians?
how have i not know about this sub-mod until now T^T???..... wait seriously? the difficulty setting doesn't effect how smart the ai is? it only effects how aggressive it is at attacking other nations??... so does that mean that easy ai difficulty will still be equally as challenging to play against just in a different way because they will have larger and or more powerful forces built up to defend their settlements?.... WHAT?! THEY REMOVED THE SPECIFIC UNIT TYPE RETRAINING LIMITATION? WHYYYYYYYY that may make me want to stick with 2.4 then , can't i still have the new 2.5 buff and shine scripts added to the campaign for variety while keeping the base broken crescent mechanics??.... also there's since been an update patch made that fixes the mongol ai being broken "Hi All, Just a small patch for the 2.5 release. Fixes the Mongol invasion Crash and Elephant Mercenaries crash that can occur. " >what's going on with the units here? are they using diamond tipped spears and shooting golden arrows??? hahahahah yeah it does feel like that sometimes at least XD
This video is as ancient as the renaissance itself
Was this a real battle?
And I thought Hitler was a Hittite.
well ....i you want to learn about Ancient History first you have to forget the word "greece" !
This mod is the Total War game we have wanted for years! Who needs CA when excellent modders exists! Have had me many a battles in this mod, extremely good work!
There any book of this history?
It seems incredible and nearly impossible for a group like the "sea peoples" to sack all of those powerful cities
What city is at 22:02?
I favour the hypothesis that the Achaeans attacked Troy in order to control the Strait of the Dardanelles - stupidly not realising that the Trojans had developed a large network of allies, familial connections, and trade relations across the region, upon which control relied. Once the Trojans were defeated, the Achaeans plundered the wealth of the city, which didn't give them enough capital to maintain the same kind of military force to guard the Strait - at which point, the peoples around the Black Sea who were being displaced by drought advanced southwards, easily overwhelming the Achaean guard on the Strait, and pushed into Asia Minor and Mycenae. This in turn destabilised all those kingdoms, causing many of them to collapse and be overrun. Some Achaean city-states may have already committed much of their resources in alliances with other Mediterranean states to assault and then resettle parts of Egypt and Canaan - and with their ships and warriors absent, their ports may have been easily taken by the Dorian invaders. Or the Dorians contributed pressure that motivated a mass relocation. Probably both in many cases.
Trojan war never happened, it was actually a tale about the wrath of Achilles that was later on enriched with ficticious hollow horses and stuff but miracusly Hittites were involved.
@mukan9 " the sea people" is a generic term for a loose coalition of many different origins, and egyptian Reliefs show them often with ox carts carrying women and children. They were part of a major Migration movement , not some raiders or pirates like the vikings much later. (And even the vikings turned to settlement fairly soon...) . The bronze age collapse was akin to the migrations of germanic tribes 1500 years later that put an end ti the roman Empire.
I never knew the Hittites participated in the Trojan war. All I knew of them has always been tied to their conflicts with Egypt. But now I see how the Trojans would have been a pretty important trade partner for them.
The Sea Peoples were one of the Main factors. They not only were looking for New Lands to start over on, but they were looking wealth as well.
An old name for Troy was Illios, the reason Homer's story is called the Illiad. An alternate name for Paris of Troy was Alexandros. We actually have a copy from one of the royal libraries of a treaty of friendship between the Hittites and a prince Alaksandus of Wilusa. It is an interesting coincidence at the least.
Friendship ha?Their women must ve been ugly then
you leave out the united kingdom of Israel on your maps Egyptian sources of the time use that name....
So, in just 10 years whole civilizations collapse?. I fear that we are in modern times in even more precarious Situations than them, our ability to recover from a targe scale collapse is probably not the same as theirs with more simpler societies.
From what game/mod is the video from
The archaeological , historical, *and* literary problem with your theory is that the Achaeans/Mycenaean Culture end up appearing as *both* the perpetrators of the great Bronze Age Collapse *and* as *victims* of that collapse…For in Homer, for example, Nestor, an Achaean helping besiege the Hittite vassal-state of Ilium, is the king of *Pylos,* an Achaean/Mycenaean citadel/port/city we know from archaeology to have been sacked during the Bronze Age Collapse (like *every* major Mycenaean site). Perhaps you should not be so dismissive of the idea that the so-called “Sea Peoples” were at least partially responsible for the Collapse. We know there had been drought and famine throughout the Mediterranean basin in the last yrs of the Bronze Age; we also know from Egyptian texts from the reign of Pharaoh Rameses III (who defeated the Sea Peoples in the Nile Delta) that the “Sea Peoples” were actually a loose confederacy of *many* different ethnic groups from throughout the Mediterranean who had been displaced by the threat of starvation brought on by climate change. The account in THE ILIAD is doubtlessly a mythopoetic attempt to explain the convulsive and widespread socioeconomic and political changes and migrations of peoples at the end of the Bronze Age, but the text invariably represents Achaea (Mycenaean Greece) as a peaceful, *stable* place from which the ten-yr assault on Asia Minor had been launched, and we *know* this was not true. THE ILIAD additionally claims that Classical-Age Greek city-states not yet in existence in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE (such as Athens and Sparta) sent troops to aid in the attack on Asia Minor and the siege of Ilium, yet this is obviously the fancy of a later traveling rhapsode that was recorded in a later written Classical-Greek literary culture preserving random pieces of a largely lost oral-tradition in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE. It is unwise and folly to try to disentangle fact from fiction in a mythopoetic text such as the ILIAD or from the even later *nostoi* such as THE ODYSSEY. Your etymological and linguistic analyses *are*--it must be conceded--intriguing.
4:31 You lose a lot of crediblity when you refer to "the Hammurabi of biblical texts". Hammurabi is not found in Biblical texts, nor was he the author of any flood myth.
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Homeros doesn't mention Hittites isn't it interesting ?
You shoud read David Gemmill's Trojan series ,fantastic read.
I get the impression that perhaps the Sea People were pillaging Achilles and his ilk.
The hitties are ancient greeks from Crete !
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The collapse of all the empires at about the same time points to plague.
It’s also said that the return of Odysseus back to Ithaca from his Odyssey coincided with a solar eclipse around 1178 BC.
I had no idea the high titties were in the war
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What qualifies a nation as being an empire? The so called Hittite Empire is about the size of Bulgaria. Let's just call it a country.
Is there not a Hittite stella in central Syria near the battlefield of Kadesh where Egyptians and Hittites clashed? The high kingdoms of Egypt and the Hittites were equals yet we remember Egypt pirmarily bacause they built in stone and the Hittites built in clay bricks. 3500 years has not been kind to the memory of the Hittites. Thank the storm god that the Hittite library was burned and the clay tablets were baked into ceramic.
Its nice to know that the Hittites had Greek names so they were consequently Greeks !
Back then there were no Greeks, only the people(Aheans etc) that were yet to mix with the locals and become Greeks. Therfore the correct affirmation would be: Greeks have Hitit names therefore Hitit culture must have had a huge influence.
@@soiah so if that`s true what does Hellas, Pelasgos, Makedon, Eleutheria mean in the Hittite language ?
@@Morph3as Pelasgians were the locals that I am speaking of.
@@soiah your 'correct affirmation' is ludicrous! ludicrous (adjective: causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable)
It's strange the way events unfold sometimes. I speculated about the nature of the seas peoples in another KZread video several months ago. Today this video appears on my KZread stream
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Please read FROM HITTITE TO HOMER. THE ANATOLIAN BACKGROUND OF ANCIENT GREEK EPIC by Mary Bachvarova. After that and several other books u should redo this video
What a mess. Pure BS. I dont even know if i should write an explanation. The Homeric Texts are a greek rewrite redigrsted reshaping of much older texts from north syria and hitite-hurrian origins. One of them about the destruction of Ebla. Etc etc. There was no troyan war in the homeric sense at all.
Very nice. We now know from tree rings that a climate collapse occurred in 1197 BCE. This may seem speculative to you, but this climate collapse was likely brought on by an impact in the Atlantic Ocean which shut down the Atlantic Conveyor current. So not only was there a climate collapse, the tin trade no longer took place so there was no way to trade tin for food. The ship borne trade had been wiped out. A nice summary of the records. Once again, thank you for this summary.
The simple explanation, in my thinking, is the Santorini volcanic eruption that may have been more powerful than Krakatoa (Indonesia, was heard in South Africa). It caused a tsunami of some 30 meters high (98.4 feet). That wiped out coastal settlements, harbours, ships, and the people with it. It also released into the atmosphere a huge amount of dust that made the sky darker, the temperature cooler, and brought more rain. Imagine a shipwright higher up a hilly landscape along a river, above the 30 meters elevation. Call that man "Noah". We know from the Egyptian pharaohs that one of them sent his son to uncover the source of amber, because amber was an important amulet but the pharaoh felt he had to pay too much for it. That son went from Egypt to Crete, then the Balkan, Northern Italy, across the Alps (Switzerland), and proceeded through Germany (completely forested) to the Baltic region. Where he could buy loads of amber for little money because all the middle men had been cut out. In my imagination, Crete was a middle man in the sea routes before the tsunami. Copper from Spain or tin from England - trade routes already existed and ships bringing goods from England also brought goods to it. All barter trade. Crete must have been very wealthy from taking a % of that. Then the tsunami wiped it all out and the later sea peoples needed ages to build seafaring expertise again, reinvent trade and routes, and return goods. That was not a relatively peaceful trading thing any longer: sea peoples. By the way, in other Germanic languages, amber is called "burn stone". It burns when you light it. And, indeed, it's not stone. Leonard Bernstein (burn stone). In my thinking, the name of the Swiss city of Bern may have been a reference to it being an amber trade station a couple thousand years ago - the association of the city with a "bear" may just be hysterical (historically improper).
Its BC not bce
@@thomasmalacky7864Foe me BCE. Feel free to use BC for yourself.
@@thomasmalacky7864 Nah, BCE is preferable
Question: If the Trojans were vassals of the Hittites, why didn't they help Troy during the siege? My opinion is that, given a Trojan leader called Piyamaradu is mentioned as a rebel, who had fled to territory of the "Ahhayiwa" (possibly the Mycaneans/Achaeans), the Hittites may have felt they didn't owe them any help. The Hittites may have been glad that the Trojans had fallen out with the Mycaneans.
Yes, that is probably true, however, the previous attack on Teuthrania would have been an attack on another Hittite vassal in Asia and the Hittites might have been involved in that siege if they were the Ceteans mentioned in the epics and/or if the Hittite Telepinu was the Homeric Telephus defending Teuthrania. The 10 year war against Troy starts with an initial attack on Teuthrania, allegedly 9 years before the siege of Troy and the Iliad also says that Lyrnessus had been besieged among other settlements that were either belonging to Troy or were Hittite vassals. Even if the Hittites had abandoned the Trojans, they may have been involved in the broader context of those wars. My argument is that they are present in the epic cycle as opponents of the Achaeans, even if they were not strictly speaking defending the Trojans.
41 Mongol armies? How much are there now in the latest version/submods? On the twcenter forum page, I don't read that it's fixed.
Unfortunately, there is no fix. I do not know how others play. I usually end up sitting around for about 100 game turns or more guarding all northern settlements around Samarkand as the Mongols walk around devastating the desert. It is not very exciting. That's the usual problem of one-person mods with no play testing. I have started on overhauling Broken Crescent but I am too busy with actual real life work to make much progress.
@@geoffreyM2TW I see. Thank you for informing me.
Mod please?!???
Exceptionally well done. Convincing.