Fun fact: this video was originally going to be about how easy East Rome is compared to the WRE. Boy was I wrong. Music is the Infernal Galop (Can Can) by Offenbach.
The worst part about playing as the Sassanids is that if you go to war with the Eastern Roman Empire, your game ends there because then half the map allies with you and you have nowhere else left to fight.
@@elel2017 Terrible solution. I just roleplay a bit. With the Sassanids lets say, i'd like to secure access to the meditteranian for trade purposes, and conquer the main coastal points neccesary for uninterupted trade to the Atlantic... But only those key cities and the seas to the left and right of the gibraltan straight. No conquering inland allowed. Maybe set up a "colony" on the British Isles. Boom you got yourself a more difficult and interesting game, whic would provide problems you had easily solved before but now must figure out. I like to try to occupy every city which in our modern world is a capital of a country, without capturing any others. Also let your initial cities that arent capitals decay into rebels, or abandon the settlements.
Well, I did defeated the Roman Empire with my allies, that should be the end there since there's no one to fight. But, of course, it's Total War, so I betrayed my allies and go to war against them, and guess what? *I GOT OBLITERATED.*
They actually build up 4 at a time, so in 5 turns they could take a settlement easily unless you wipe them out within the first few turns of the rebellion
@@vogel2077 with the WRE the idea is that foreign threats are secondary. First stabilize your empire, crush any rebellion when they appear with a single general and recruting mercenaries, or hire a 5 - 6 units army to hold the twon rebels will attack later, that way public order returns to zero
It is one of the most strategic locations in the world but yes it could also be because the Greeks have one of the most extensive record collections throughout history. I believe only the Chinese have more.
The Huns punish Christian Factions (-10 morale) . If you start with any Roman Empire you must convert the faction to roman paganism as fast as possible
I felt the same pain until I killed their emperor and his army with my 3 garrison units on the first turn which they attacked me. East Rome still too op. ( Was playing on very hard difficulty by the way.)
@@amp8295 I'm two months late, but the term you're looking for is "Shahanshahs" (King of Kings) or "Šāhān šāh ī Ērān ud Anērān" (King of Kings of Iranians and Non-Iranians) in Middle Persian.
Literally what historically happened to the Eastern Roman Empire. They just were too strong to fall in one go and so went through phases of waxing and waning until 1204. After which they were pretty much gone for good.
I still think Legend's "let's just relocate to Egypt and exploit the 5% treasury buff until the economy has a stack overflow" is my favorite method, even if the setup for it is absurd... but hey it works.
Hey everyone, thanks for being so patient with me. I know I promised this like two months ago but a mix of over-ambitious video plans, self-doubt and real-world obligations meant that it ended up taking much longer than I thought it would. I'm about to be on break from uni for about 3 months, so that should mean some more frequent uploads, probably a big one (like my current "how to play..."s) about once month and a few little ones here and there in between. Also got plans for a sub special at 200 so get hype for that!
Y'all, when you make these Chad X vs Virgin Y, you gotta actually back it up. For instance, Chad East vs Virgin West Eastern Rome: Survived for around a thousand years longer than the Western Roman Empire, succeeded by either Russia or the Ottomans, both highly successful empires. Had badass Viking Bodyguards protecting their Emperor, who remained ferociously loyal even in the face of overwhelming opposition. Had the actual capital of Rome in their borders, I.E Constantinople. Had fucking flamethrowers. Western Rome: Capital was sacked twice, succeeded by the cancerous "HRE" which was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Had Praetorian guards, who spent most of their time doing political scheming rather than actually protecting their Emperor. Only had the former capital of Rome, which got dumped for the superior Constantinople. Did not have fucking flamethrowers.
Playing Rome I Total War: at war with all factions Playing Medieval II Total War: at war with all factions Playing Napoleon: at war with all factions Playing Shogun II: at war with all factions Even in the fvckin' mods... Total War is masochism.
The trick is to spend the first few dozen turns maintaining your territory, trying to avoid unnecessary conflict, and spending the absolute bare minimum. Once you've saved up enough money, the interest really starts to become noticeable, to the point where it will exceed your normal income. At that point, don't start spending. Spend another few turns saving money until your interest payments are about triple what you spend on unit upkeep. Then, and only then, you can start spending, but even then, make sure that you only ever spend the amount you gained in interest. Keep your normal interest going back into savings, so that you get more and more interest each turn. Before long, you'll have more income than you know what to do with. Attila Total War is actually an investment simulator.
I never played this game nor am I planning to do in the near future, but you just did a great job with combining the music with the video. Not everybody does that and it's especially nice to see it so well executed. Deserves a thumbs up!
Also, for playing Easter Rome, in addition to paying off all attackers, try breaking all non-trade treaties with the west when it's visibly disintegrating. The boost in diplomatic relations with everyone else you get for this can set you up pretty well for enough time to prepare better defence
I know it's the right thing to do, but it just feels so wrong to betray them like that... On the other hand, whenever I play the Last Roman DLC I always backstab East Rome as soon as I can so that's a bit hypocritical of me
Exactly the same reason why I didn't invade ERE in my first WRE playthrough, despite the fact that I dislike ERE. In fact, I would even send my navies to blockade ports that the Sassanids captured before I could actually afford to send full armies down there. My reward for this? ERE offered itself as a puppet state to me :p
@@Yrridian you're doing the historically correct playthrough as well. Eastern Rome tried very hard and spent a lot of resources and manpower to save Western Rome till the very end. But it was too corrupt to be saved by that point. Even after 476 they tried to reconquer the Western Empire's territories under Justinian the Great and Maurice wanted to officially restore the Western Roman Empire but it wasn't meant to be as he was killed in a coup.
Here's a good way to Ruin enemy Port cities via exploit: Hire a fleet of artillery ships, send them off to an enemy port: Destroy their fleet first, then attack their artillery. When you run out of ammo, have them retreat. For some odd reason, you can continuously attack an infinite number of times in the same round with fleets: So just keep attacking them until they lose. I wouldn't recommend razing/occupying their settlement unless your ground army has secured inland because of counter attacks, and also because you can bait a portion of the enemy's armies toward those ports when you besiege them thus making it easier for your inland armies to destroy them piecemeal. So just sack them repeatedly every turn to prevent growth, until your inland armies secure the area around the port city.
I actually used a similar exploit with the Saxons to slowly wear down a settlement, I believe it was Camulodunum (Colchester) - be careful not to use high-ranking admirals for this though as they lose Influence Points every time they withdraw from a settlement without actual fighting.
East Rome was the only faction I tried to play as in this game. I played on Hard as I was very good at Rome 2... Now I see I am not the only one. Literally impossible and extremely time-consuming. As you have to fight every single engagement and you usually lose anyway, or if you do win 2 more armies are on the way the next turn.
The north African desert factions are pretty easy, so long as you expand mainly in Africa and later into sassanid territory. You are basically playing a different game than the Roman’s or barbicans. It’s more like other traditional total war games.
@@aethylwulfeiii6502 In my best ERE campaign, I became best buds with the Sassanids and helped them fight the White Huns while I go the absolute limit defending Greece from the Northern Hordes. I only came back to kill Sassanids after I have taken Italy, Spain and Germania like the old Romans lol. Was quite a trip since I even parked an army in Edessa expecting the Sassanids to attack.
The best part is if you do the math you notice upgrading town for income is even pointless mainly because you just can safe money that will have 5 percent interest rate per season. Playing ERE is like playing at some point with infinite money
I like Rome 2 more, now. Attila has that stupid mechanic that makes all the land useless after a few dozen years. You'd think it was Total War: Snowball Earth.
I played ERE, i focused on economy. Legions defended Capital. Amassed tons of money, then kept gifting it to Sassanids. Eventually they became my puppet kingdom. I then made western rome my 2nd puppet state. Then it was easy to conquer the map.
I saw some of your earlier videos 'by accident' (checking out other strategy games videos) and now I stumbled upon this one, and it is absolutely hilarious. Subscribing! :3
>get the upgrade for desert pikes to tanhukid pikes asap >siege settlements >line up your pikes and onagers behind them >let the enemy charge you head on >win.exe
Quick question, every-time i play Attila and no matter what faction i take, all of my dreams are crushed and shat on. Tons of enemies, diseases, outbreaks. Do i have to be a masochist to play this game or do i just need to git gud? The only game i won is with the vandals and following history with them (top notch faction btw). I love to hate Attila, this game is brutal
Git gud :P But seriously, Attila is one of the hardest total wars (in my experience at least), so it's normal to find it challenging. My biggest tips are: 1. Play a faction that starts far from the Huns and near to the Romans, capture your starting province and then just start tearing into Roman territory and don't stop until you have to. Good starters include the Garamantians, Celts, Himyar and Aksum (assuming you have those DLCs) 2. Maintain momentum. It takes ages to properly consolidate a province in Attila (especially if you're one of the Great Migrators), and sometimes the best course of action is to just keep pushing forward even if it means leaving some stuff vulnerable to invasion/rebellion. This is especially important if you're at war with several factions, as if you play defensively they'll just keep sending stack after stack to fight you. Make time to send an army their way and get razing. 3. Git gud at town defences, you can win some completely bullshit victories once you learn how and it makes everything so much easier if you don't have to spend so much time worrying about defence. 4. On the civic planning side, for the most part focus on making as much cash as possible whilst keeping public order stable. Disease outbreaks suck, but in my experience it's worth just letting sanitation go to shit until at least 400AD while you focus on more important infrastructure. Finally, if you're having problems with battles, make sure that your army composition isn't just good, but good for you. A well-rounded force that you find difficult to command is much worse than a stack of like 2 unit types that you actually know how to use together properly (this is why my Alans armies were literally just the one unit type, and why I used so much artillery as West Rome). I could legitimately write about this stuff for days (particularly the civic planning side), so if you got any more questions don't hesitate to ask.
Man I would love to find a total war community, teamspeak or discord. I feel like such a noob playing the games even though I started from Shogun and the only one I haven't bought was Napoleon. (I really liked the older ones better.. I felt Diplomacy was better, being able to sell my daughters for stable alliances and before Medieval, you could split your armies and send 4 units of calvarly ahead on the map to wreck the enemy army by the time they met your main force, without having to designate a 'general'.
Papadragon18 I remember when the Sassanids brought their 20 fucking client states to war with me, I lost all my armies and was pushed back to Constantinople and I realized o was fucked, becuase my shitty half stack garrisoning wouldn't be able to stand up against the three full stacks. I suppose that's what happens when the Sassanids declare war on you on turn 15.
Holy shet. Yeah, I didn't have it that bad in my first playthrough, but holy hell, the entire eastern warfront was a grind worthy of the trenches of WW1. I think it to me 30 in-game years or something like that to finally squash them, and I still had all their fucking client states to contend with. Still, I've had great fun with the ERE in Attila. Doubt I'll start up a new campaign with them in the foreseeable future, mostly because of how much of a slog it is in the beginning...
How to play the ERE: More skirmishers, archers and javelin infantry to win all of the siege battles you'll have to fight. Stacks of spear-infantry alone cannot defend valuable towns and cities.
The only problem I have with that is that ERE is awful in the skirmish department until you can get hold of Armoured Sagittarii. Otherwise, it is a sound piece of advice, with proper positioning of the ranged units and the Comitatenses, and valid for the WRE too. Regular Sagittarii and Levis Armaturae are cheap and nice and more than hold their own - but mid-game, solid mid-tier skirmisher units like the Matiarii aren't there (which is odd considering both Roman Empires had them as an equivalent of the Palatini). I could mention the Elite Ballistarii, but they can't really be called skirmishers at that stage, can they? They'd be more like the main killers :p
Actually, that was my WRE build for pretty much most of the game (with Cohors vouching for the Legio until I unlocked them), until I could afford greater numbers of Matiarii in my armies :p
I don't think so when the bloody *Sassanids* are at your doorstep and you're at war with them pretty early in the game :p But agreed, I would like to see Yrridian's take on it all the same!
I think that's a really good shout, since even the 'regular' Huns can do it and steamroll nearly everyone else... that's lethal even against heavy infantry when paired with melee and/or shock cav and a tiny bit of infantry support actually! (goes double against Christian factions too since they get a huge morale debuff)
lol in my legendary ERE playthrough i got really friendly with armenia, they betrayed the sassanids when they declare war on me. then together with nobitia we completely ruined the sassanids in the east whilst i was killing the goths in the west. armenia now holds 3 provinces in what was once the sassanid empire and 1 turn after the sassanids were destroyed they offered me to become my puppet state :D now they are helping me kill rebel uprisings all the time, they are my best allies and i love armenia
Artur Araśniewicz so true in this game even most of the big CZcamsrs saw it as a big challenge and not that much fun, hardly any even considered remaining Christian when playing as the Romans cause it’s such huge drag on the economy without mods.
nathan meulensteen Legend has earned his name sake, so I don’t really include him in that list, I mean his channel is now pretty much dedicated to fixing royal fuck ups. But even he didn’t attempt a Christian campaign for either Roman Empire on vanilla because Greco Roman paganism is just better period in Attila without mods.
Legendoftotalwar on Legendary: Faction destroyed, faction destroyed, faction destroyed, total domination. And that's how Epirus became the Roman empire in 100 turns
ERE is easy on legendary though. The benefits at the start didn't factor in the 5% interest rate that turns into infinite money for free later on. Just do what LegendOfTotalWar did as a concept when he did his ERE attila campaign. Anyone can do that when you know what you are doing - you just will probably never do it as well as he did. But yeah, just buy time, sack buildings, sell off shit, save as much money as possible and consolidate in your most defendable region, Egypt. By the time they push you all the way back, and 40 turns later or so, you should be able to be secure just on the interest alone, and getting continually stronger with that 200-300k in the bank giving you 5% interest each turn - while if played right, still expanding in the green. Don't even worry about doing it like legend did it - he did it on This Is Total War - you can save bank even faster by doing things like keeping trading with the WRE, etc and allies while doing this slow consolidation. Despite not being as good - might still even be at the unstoppable economic level before legend was, because banking faster. Simple: remove any excess expenditure - lose all the territories outside of egypt/north africa for as much coin you can squeeze out of scorched earth, and allies and trade, etc - save, save, save, save. Got enough where your profits each turn are like 30k by itself doing nothing? Roflstomp everyone, keeping 5k still in profit each turn to keep making even more boatloads. No other faction has that broken money hack, er - faction trait that gives you infinite cash. The next best one is the 30% army upkeep reduction that can stack to like 1000 turns simply from spam sacking one settlement - and those barbarians got nothing on these ERE money hacks.
how to be the ultimate faliure with a faction that is almost IMPOSSIBLE to fail. and yet then almost win the entire game. and then fail again. you must have many skills.
playing as the roman factions in attila is acctually quite easy.. here is your simple guide: 1. Don't try to defend all your territory!!! 2. Choose same fertile and ez to defend provinces. (eg. Hispanic peninsula / northern Afrika/ isulae Okzidentalis with WRE) everything with natural defense ( water/chokepoints) & far away from the huns is good DON'T hold more than 5 Provinces, 3 or 4 is Ideal. 3.Disband all Armys, that arent close to the Choosen land. 4.Set taxes to maximum. 5. Free your choosen provinces from taxes. 6.Destroy all Buildings that have upkeep cost outside of the choosen provinces. 7.Profit. 7.1. use the money to build up the choosen land. 8.Start over as a minor faction with good Starting position, LOTS of GOLD (at least 50 k better more), and lot of enemys. 9.Reconquista. 10. Say thanks for this ez guide. Edit: often u will not be able to destroy an enemy, don't bother about conquering his land. Just weaken him. Conquer a few of his settlements for unit replenishment (but don't hold them if u don't need them). Sack some others. And Eraze his key towns. Use hit and Run, scorched earth tactics, to make your neighbours so weak they can't attack you. Edit 2: For far away enemys try to pay some of their neighbours to join war.. This way you turn the barbarians against each other.. Edit 3: if possible try to give regions you don't need to migrating factions, and try to make some rebel factions (e.g. hispania, gallia, afrika, Pontos, Asia,) Into your puppet staates. This will generate a buffer zone between your homeland and the enemys..
I was able to play as the ERE without losing any territories by 1. eliminating all barbarian hordes operating in my western territories in the first 3 turns 2. Constantly issuing diplomatic tribute to the Sassanid's (one per turn) until I was able to eventually get a trade and non-aggression pact with them. At that point my diplomatic relations were so high that they never declared war on me. I basically enjoyed 100 turns of peace by which time I could field maximum armies of the best units my faction could recruit whilst still earning cash out the wazoo. I think I was playing on normal so that strategy might not be possible on other difficulties.
Spear* :p Can't see any Menaulatoi, they were mostly Comitatensis Spears haha Besides, early game, Comitatenses and Cohors are probably the way to go to form the backbone of an independent army, with some Levis Armaturae or Sagittarii backing them up
The worst part about playing as the Sassanids is that if you go to war with the Eastern Roman Empire, your game ends there because then half the map allies with you and you have nowhere else left to fight.
al Mamlūk I decided to challenge myself and allied with the Eastern Roman Empire. God it was painful to keep maintain my expedition army and economy.
Just declare war on everyone afterwards
Install mod called sarzamine javid , the white hund respawn every 10 rounds if you destroyed them, well still not that hart hahah
@@elel2017 Terrible solution.
I just roleplay a bit. With the Sassanids lets say, i'd like to secure access to the meditteranian for trade purposes, and conquer the main coastal points neccesary for uninterupted trade to the Atlantic... But only those key cities and the seas to the left and right of the gibraltan straight. No conquering inland allowed. Maybe set up a "colony" on the British Isles.
Boom you got yourself a more difficult and interesting game, whic would provide problems you had easily solved before but now must figure out.
I like to try to occupy every city which in our modern world is a capital of a country, without capturing any others. Also let your initial cities that arent capitals decay into rebels, or abandon the settlements.
Well, I did defeated the Roman Empire with my allies, that should be the end there since there's no one to fight. But, of course, it's Total War, so I betrayed my allies and go to war against them, and guess what? *I GOT OBLITERATED.*
*I am just curious how the rebels can "create" and maintain such amount of great troops*
They get 20 units right away with no upkeep xD Rebellion is OP!
They actually build up 4 at a time, so in 5 turns they could take a settlement easily unless you wipe them out within the first few turns of the rebellion
JJ P Yeah but why do they get professional troops? I had that issue with WRE, it was nigh impossible to survive
I suppose the rebel leaders are very convincing people xD Being able to get even professional troops into their merry bands.
@@vogel2077 with the WRE the idea is that foreign threats are secondary. First stabilize your empire, crush any rebellion when they appear with a single general and recruting mercenaries, or hire a 5 - 6 units army to hold the twon rebels will attack later, that way public order returns to zero
How to Play as the Sassanids:
1. Destroy the White Huns
Fin.
the clay carl I can confirm, yeah. Once I took care of them, I was basically already on a spree of world domination by the first 30 to 40 turns 😂
Yes, continue. What do you to with the Finnish?
Haha :p
No, they meant the French 'Fin' that appeared at the end of some old movies - meaning 'The End Of...' or 'Finish'. Notice the singular n.
Nah, it's more likely to have something to do with the Finnish
Scorpion20012001 I fell for the same, don't worry XD
Fun fact - Adrianople has more recorded battles then anywhere else in the world.
isn't it Jerusalem has more?
* if so, it’s probably cause they bothered to record it every time.
It is one of the most strategic locations in the world but yes it could also be because the Greeks have one of the most extensive record collections throughout history. I believe only the Chinese have more.
Jerusalem is not in as a strategic location as Constantinople is. It is pretty much impossible to siege Constantinople without holding Adrianople.
How about mestopotamia and Syria?
Yrridan:"actually good religion"
Also yrridan *Destroys the religious buildnings
The Huns punish Christian Factions (-10 morale) . If you start with any Roman Empire you must convert the faction to roman paganism as fast as possible
@@Daniel-kx3zz no
@@Daniel-kx3zz but if i don't want to become a homosexual?
@@grigorov1914 You don't have to, it's roman not greek.
@@manamark4754 but the point is, paganism is gae
Total war needs shitposters like you. This is great.
I felt your pain when the sassanids declared war...
Jek Tono Porkins yep
I felt the same pain until I killed their emperor and his army with my 3 garrison units on the first turn which they attacked me. East Rome still too op. ( Was playing on very hard difficulty by the way.)
Me too lad, me too
Lutting dude It's technically shah I think, I'm not too sure bout that
@@amp8295 I'm two months late, but the term you're looking for is "Shahanshahs" (King of Kings) or "Šāhān šāh ī Ērān ud Anērān" (King of Kings of Iranians and Non-Iranians) in Middle Persian.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king...
... But in the darkness, the man holding a candle is a target.
@Semaj samaj
Amazing
Literally what historically happened to the Eastern Roman Empire. They just were too strong to fall in one go and so went through phases of waxing and waning until 1204. After which they were pretty much gone for good.
I still think Legend's "let's just relocate to Egypt and exploit the 5% treasury buff until the economy has a stack overflow" is my favorite method, even if the setup for it is absurd... but hey it works.
Hell it's what I did. Still wasn't easy. It was a tough slog but attained total victory in the end. Good fun.
That was the best Total War video I'v ever seen! So funny and creative. Nice job!
Then I strongly reccomend you watch: This is Archeon
whats the name of this game again?
@@Farneze1990 Total war Attila
Hilariously impressive as always!
What game is this?
Total war: Attila
Hey everyone, thanks for being so patient with me. I know I promised this like two months ago but a mix of over-ambitious video plans, self-doubt and real-world obligations meant that it ended up taking much longer than I thought it would. I'm about to be on break from uni for about 3 months, so that should mean some more frequent uploads, probably a big one (like my current "how to play..."s) about once month and a few little ones here and there in between.
Also got plans for a sub special at 200 so get hype for that!
Yrridian you are genius anybody hope we get a video for tanuhkids one day
Tanukids Are the hardest campaign
Make it 300
Make it 500 then
"Special at 200."
"Self-doubt."
Stop doubting, friend, you just more than doubled your sub count in a day.
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chad east vs virgin west
Well if you've played that game, you soon realize the west ain't virgin anymore... just against its will ^^
mediterainian girl siting in couch surounded by 5 germans
The Chad east vs The Raped West
Y'all, when you make these Chad X vs Virgin Y, you gotta actually back it up. For instance, Chad East vs Virgin West
Eastern Rome: Survived for around a thousand years longer than the Western Roman Empire, succeeded by either Russia or the Ottomans, both highly successful empires. Had badass Viking Bodyguards protecting their Emperor, who remained ferociously loyal even in the face of overwhelming opposition. Had the actual capital of Rome in their borders, I.E Constantinople. Had fucking flamethrowers.
Western Rome: Capital was sacked twice, succeeded by the cancerous "HRE" which was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Had Praetorian guards, who spent most of their time doing political scheming rather than actually protecting their Emperor. Only had the former capital of Rome, which got dumped for the superior Constantinople. Did not have fucking flamethrowers.
@@archsteel7 nobody cares lmao
You are doing God's work, friend.
This is pure gold, mate. The video is funny, dynamic, colorful! I subscribe without hesitation, I want more
Your channel deserves more subs, dude. This was entertaining.
every total war round ever 0:40
Playing Rome I Total War: at war with all factions
Playing Medieval II Total War: at war with all factions
Playing Napoleon: at war with all factions
Playing Shogun II: at war with all factions
Even in the fvckin' mods... Total War is masochism.
At war with everybody. In a war that encompasses all factions. A total war, you could say.
Total War = Eternal Punishment in H3ll
I advise warhammer 2
@@GinoNL I can hear every historical total war player calling for your blood now
this is one of the best gaming memes ive seen in my life...
The trick is to spend the first few dozen turns maintaining your territory, trying to avoid unnecessary conflict, and spending the absolute bare minimum. Once you've saved up enough money, the interest really starts to become noticeable, to the point where it will exceed your normal income. At that point, don't start spending. Spend another few turns saving money until your interest payments are about triple what you spend on unit upkeep. Then, and only then, you can start spending, but even then, make sure that you only ever spend the amount you gained in interest. Keep your normal interest going back into savings, so that you get more and more interest each turn. Before long, you'll have more income than you know what to do with.
Attila Total War is actually an investment simulator.
Wre: screwed
Ere: slightly less screwed
Ey man, that was such good editing and a hilarious video with the matching music. well done!!
Any video that makes me watch it a dozen times in an hour has earned this sub.
A hearty chuckle was had, well done sir.
Liked and subscribed, I look forward to your future content and stuff!
Winged Hussars- Drake disapproves
Byzantine Cataphracts- Drake approves
Cant stop rewatching it
Excellent work
Oh my gosh, what an underrated channel. This has more work put into it. Subscribed.
I never played this game nor am I planning to do in the near future, but you just did a great job with combining the music with the video. Not everybody does that and it's especially nice to see it so well executed. Deserves a thumbs up!
This is making my day.
Extremely good content by the way. Very creative and funny
Best video I have seen for a long time.
I can't stop watching this masterpiece!
Your channel deserves to be much bigger! I need more Total war memes like this
Absolutely brilliant, well done, my initial campaign was pretty much the same deal.
EAST EMPIRE=BEST EMPIRE
Ottoman empire>Best empire
WEST EMPIRE=JEST EMPIRE
@@burakhansengonul922 East empire = *SOVIET EMPIRE!!!*
@@burakhansengonul922 shit empire>ottomans
BYZANTINE EMPIRE=GREEK EMPIRE
Yourr "How to play as" videos are really funny and well made! Keep up the good work :D
Most hilarious video on CZcams? FIrst vidoe of yours I've seen. Great stuff. Amazing editing.
Also, for playing Easter Rome, in addition to paying off all attackers, try breaking all non-trade treaties with the west when it's visibly disintegrating. The boost in diplomatic relations with everyone else you get for this can set you up pretty well for enough time to prepare better defence
I know it's the right thing to do, but it just feels so wrong to betray them like that...
On the other hand, whenever I play the Last Roman DLC I always backstab East Rome as soon as I can so that's a bit hypocritical of me
Exactly the same reason why I didn't invade ERE in my first WRE playthrough, despite the fact that I dislike ERE. In fact, I would even send my navies to blockade ports that the Sassanids captured before I could actually afford to send full armies down there.
My reward for this? ERE offered itself as a puppet state to me :p
@@Yrridian you're doing the historically correct playthrough as well. Eastern Rome tried very hard and spent a lot of resources and manpower to save Western Rome till the very end. But it was too corrupt to be saved by that point. Even after 476 they tried to reconquer the Western Empire's territories under Justinian the Great and Maurice wanted to officially restore the Western Roman Empire but it wasn't meant to be as he was killed in a coup.
@@Yrridian you mean separatist belisarius? to me that's a slog, I really like making self sustaining Roman Hordes, you become imba
Here's a good way to Ruin enemy Port cities via exploit: Hire a fleet of artillery ships, send them off to an enemy port: Destroy their fleet first, then attack their artillery. When you run out of ammo, have them retreat. For some odd reason, you can continuously attack an infinite number of times in the same round with fleets: So just keep attacking them until they lose. I wouldn't recommend razing/occupying their settlement unless your ground army has secured inland because of counter attacks, and also because you can bait a portion of the enemy's armies toward those ports when you besiege them thus making it easier for your inland armies to destroy them piecemeal.
So just sack them repeatedly every turn to prevent growth, until your inland armies secure the area around the port city.
I actually used a similar exploit with the Saxons to slowly wear down a settlement, I believe it was Camulodunum (Colchester) - be careful not to use high-ranking admirals for this though as they lose Influence Points every time they withdraw from a settlement without actual fighting.
One of the shortest but funniest video ever LOVE IT so good keep going mate hahaha
Just found your channel now and it's really good! Will watch the other videos, cheers!
Make one with the Sassanid Empire, please I WANT MORE.
But I know I shouldn’t.
East Rome was the only faction I tried to play as in this game. I played on Hard as I was very good at Rome 2... Now I see I am not the only one. Literally impossible and extremely time-consuming. As you have to fight every single engagement and you usually lose anyway, or if you do win 2 more armies are on the way the next turn.
The north African desert factions are pretty easy, so long as you expand mainly in Africa and later into sassanid territory. You are basically playing a different game than the Roman’s or barbicans. It’s more like other traditional total war games.
@@aethylwulfeiii6502 In my best ERE campaign, I became best buds with the Sassanids and helped them fight the White Huns while I go the absolute limit defending Greece from the Northern Hordes. I only came back to kill Sassanids after I have taken Italy, Spain and Germania like the old Romans lol. Was quite a trip since I even parked an army in Edessa expecting the Sassanids to attack.
This One of my favorite Total war channels and i just found out about it. thanks for the vid
It's pretty amazing you managed to put all of this in 2 minutes.
The best part is if you do the math you notice upgrading town for income is even pointless mainly because you just can safe money that will have 5 percent interest rate per season. Playing ERE is like playing at some point with infinite money
That was great and I haven't even played Atilla.
c0mmanderKeen me too!
You should play attila
Have you played Rome Total War Barbarian Invasion? Well, that's the retro Attila...
I like Rome 2 more, now. Attila has that stupid mechanic that makes all the land useless after a few dozen years. You'd think it was Total War: Snowball Earth.
manictiger dont starve together total war edition
This is the best thing I've seen in a while. Subscribed.
I like the way you put the scenes up to the music
This is truly a masterpiece, even for a Paradox Player like I am
I played ERE, i focused on economy. Legions defended Capital. Amassed tons of money, then kept gifting it to Sassanids. Eventually they became my puppet kingdom. I then made western rome my 2nd puppet state. Then it was easy to conquer the map.
Until now I had no idea I needed this in my life. Subscribed
I saw some of your earlier videos 'by accident' (checking out other strategy games videos) and now I stumbled upon this one, and it is absolutely hilarious. Subscribing! :3
Remember! you should not bring emperor Valerian into Persia. that's important
This is fucking great! :)
Simpzy Total War AYEEE :D
You mean" Fvcking Great!"
Orange Boy agreed
This video is a gem!
Please do more. I love these videos. The editing is great, the video is entertaining. Its funny too. Next do Visigoths lmao
Every thing about this video is amazing mate , thumbs up.
How to Play as the Sassanid Empire next please.
I am in no way biased.
Now play as the Tanukhids, that was much harder for me!
>get the upgrade for desert pikes to tanhukid pikes asap
>siege settlements
>line up your pikes and onagers behind them
>let the enemy charge you head on
>win.exe
>Pillage and Destroy Constantinople
The first video of yours that I watch and it is fucking amazing. Couldn't control my laughter. Insta-subscribed.
Bravo man, loved the timing to the music.
Quick question, every-time i play Attila and no matter what faction i take, all of my dreams are crushed and shat on. Tons of enemies, diseases, outbreaks. Do i have to be a masochist to play this game or do i just need to git gud? The only game i won is with the vandals and following history with them (top notch faction btw).
I love to hate Attila, this game is brutal
Git gud :P
But seriously, Attila is one of the hardest total wars (in my experience at least), so it's normal to find it challenging. My biggest tips are:
1. Play a faction that starts far from the Huns and near to the Romans, capture your starting province and then just start tearing into Roman territory and don't stop until you have to. Good starters include the Garamantians, Celts, Himyar and Aksum (assuming you have those DLCs)
2. Maintain momentum. It takes ages to properly consolidate a province in Attila (especially if you're one of the Great Migrators), and sometimes the best course of action is to just keep pushing forward even if it means leaving some stuff vulnerable to invasion/rebellion. This is especially important if you're at war with several factions, as if you play defensively they'll just keep sending stack after stack to fight you. Make time to send an army their way and get razing.
3. Git gud at town defences, you can win some completely bullshit victories once you learn how and it makes everything so much easier if you don't have to spend so much time worrying about defence.
4. On the civic planning side, for the most part focus on making as much cash as possible whilst keeping public order stable. Disease outbreaks suck, but in my experience it's worth just letting sanitation go to shit until at least 400AD while you focus on more important infrastructure.
Finally, if you're having problems with battles, make sure that your army composition isn't just good, but good for you. A well-rounded force that you find difficult to command is much worse than a stack of like 2 unit types that you actually know how to use together properly (this is why my Alans armies were literally just the one unit type, and why I used so much artillery as West Rome).
I could legitimately write about this stuff for days (particularly the civic planning side), so if you got any more questions don't hesitate to ask.
Do you have time to play multiplayer? :p
Thanks for the offer but I don't really do online multi at all, sorry.
Too bad, there is nothing better in the world than hearing the pain of another player, begging to restart the campaign :D
Man I would love to find a total war community, teamspeak or discord. I feel like such a noob playing the games even though I started from Shogun and the only one I haven't bought was Napoleon. (I really liked the older ones better.. I felt Diplomacy was better, being able to sell my daughters for stable alliances and before Medieval, you could split your armies and send 4 units of calvarly ahead on the map to wreck the enemy army by the time they met your main force, without having to designate a 'general'.
This makes me wanna start a new ERE campaign...
Papadragon18 I remember when the Sassanids brought their 20 fucking client states to war with me, I lost all my armies and was pushed back to Constantinople and I realized o was fucked, becuase my shitty half stack garrisoning wouldn't be able to stand up against the three full stacks.
I suppose that's what happens when the Sassanids declare war on you on turn 15.
Holy shet.
Yeah, I didn't have it that bad in my first playthrough, but holy hell, the entire eastern warfront was a grind worthy of the trenches of WW1. I think it to me 30 in-game years or something like that to finally squash them, and I still had all their fucking client states to contend with.
Still, I've had great fun with the ERE in Attila. Doubt I'll start up a new campaign with them in the foreseeable future, mostly because of how much of a slog it is in the beginning...
Subscribed!! That was entertaining and hilarious. Keep it up :)
I didn't know I needed this until now, thanks.
The Eastern Empire is an economic powerhouse, like in history, easier to pay off enemies and get them to fight each other instead.
That 5% interest on your treasury is what turns your civil war and barbarian ravaged empire into the number 1 spot.
So fresh,is this meme?
I've been playing Total War games my entire life and this is probably one of the best videos I've ever seen
Bravo, amazing edits my dude!!
How to play the ERE: More skirmishers, archers and javelin infantry to win all of the siege battles you'll have to fight. Stacks of spear-infantry alone cannot defend valuable towns and cities.
The only problem I have with that is that ERE is awful in the skirmish department until you can get hold of Armoured Sagittarii. Otherwise, it is a sound piece of advice, with proper positioning of the ranged units and the Comitatenses, and valid for the WRE too.
Regular Sagittarii and Levis Armaturae are cheap and nice and more than hold their own - but mid-game, solid mid-tier skirmisher units like the Matiarii aren't there (which is odd considering both Roman Empires had them as an equivalent of the Palatini).
I could mention the Elite Ballistarii, but they can't really be called skirmishers at that stage, can they? They'd be more like the main killers :p
I only use mercenary skirmishers and spam conscript spears and legio comitatenses
Actually, that was my WRE build for pretty much most of the game (with Cohors vouching for the Legio until I unlocked them), until I could afford greater numbers of Matiarii in my armies :p
*posts that did not age well*
@@luttingdude9415 commitatense in stationary testudo can hold almost everything if they don't get flanked.
I am here because of the music.
said noone eva
Holy shit this is way better than I expected, great video.
Dude! Your videos are great, keep doing them :DDD
Loved this! I would love a TW:W one though!
>farm rebellions
>nuke everyone with your OP character
Do white huns and how patheticly essdy it is compared to anhything else
I don't think so when the bloody *Sassanids* are at your doorstep and you're at war with them pretty early in the game :p
But agreed, I would like to see Yrridian's take on it all the same!
just spam horse archers till the next millenium, they shrek cav, ruin archers and devour light infantry
I think that's a really good shout, since even the 'regular' Huns can do it and steamroll nearly everyone else... that's lethal even against heavy infantry when paired with melee and/or shock cav and a tiny bit of infantry support actually! (goes double against Christian factions too since they get a huge morale debuff)
My CZcams just popped this recommendation. i haven't stopped laughing. Liked and subscribed.
This was actually so amazing, had to pause because of how much I was laughing!
Damn.
lol in my legendary ERE playthrough i got really friendly with armenia, they betrayed the sassanids when they declare war on me. then together with nobitia we completely ruined the sassanids in the east whilst i was killing the goths in the west.
armenia now holds 3 provinces in what was once the sassanid empire and 1 turn after the sassanids were destroyed they offered me to become my puppet state :D
now they are helping me kill rebel uprisings all the time, they are my best allies and i love armenia
Than comes the turks....
*Armenia genocide intensifies.*
Love the editing bro well done👍
Nice I can see you blowing up rly quickly!
Hello, i'm your 400th subscriber. Remeber about me when you'll become famous.
ahahahahah now he has 10.000 XD you had right!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@DomySilv and now we're here, at 88k, the me from 3 years ago had found a hidden gem
Easy - lol noobs
Normal - normal players
Hard - for players who want rage
Very Hard - lol u are dead
Legendary - xD good luck
Artur Araśniewicz so true in this game even most of the big CZcamsrs saw it as a big challenge and not that much fun, hardly any even considered remaining Christian when playing as the Romans cause it’s such huge drag on the economy without mods.
legend of total war disagrees
nathan meulensteen Legend has earned his name sake, so I don’t really include him in that list, I mean his channel is now pretty much dedicated to fixing royal fuck ups. But even he didn’t attempt a Christian campaign for either Roman Empire on vanilla because Greco Roman paganism is just better period in Attila without mods.
Legendoftotalwar on Legendary: Faction destroyed, faction destroyed, faction destroyed, total domination. And that's how Epirus became the Roman empire in 100 turns
ERE is easy on legendary though. The benefits at the start didn't factor in the 5% interest rate that turns into infinite money for free later on. Just do what LegendOfTotalWar did as a concept when he did his ERE attila campaign. Anyone can do that when you know what you are doing - you just will probably never do it as well as he did. But yeah, just buy time, sack buildings, sell off shit, save as much money as possible and consolidate in your most defendable region, Egypt. By the time they push you all the way back, and 40 turns later or so, you should be able to be secure just on the interest alone, and getting continually stronger with that 200-300k in the bank giving you 5% interest each turn - while if played right, still expanding in the green. Don't even worry about doing it like legend did it - he did it on This Is Total War - you can save bank even faster by doing things like keeping trading with the WRE, etc and allies while doing this slow consolidation. Despite not being as good - might still even be at the unstoppable economic level before legend was, because banking faster. Simple: remove any excess expenditure - lose all the territories outside of egypt/north africa for as much coin you can squeeze out of scorched earth, and allies and trade, etc - save, save, save, save. Got enough where your profits each turn are like 30k by itself doing nothing? Roflstomp everyone, keeping 5k still in profit each turn to keep making even more boatloads.
No other faction has that broken money hack, er - faction trait that gives you infinite cash. The next best one is the 30% army upkeep reduction that can stack to like 1000 turns simply from spam sacking one settlement - and those barbarians got nothing on these ERE money hacks.
Get yourself some more subscribers mate - this was bloody brilliant!
One of the greatest videos in existence
how to be the ultimate faliure with a faction that is almost IMPOSSIBLE to fail.
and yet then almost win the entire game.
and then fail again.
you must have many skills.
"How to play as the Eastern Roman Empire" You don't x')
playing as the roman factions in attila is acctually quite easy.. here is your simple guide:
1. Don't try to defend all your territory!!!
2. Choose same fertile and ez to defend provinces. (eg. Hispanic peninsula / northern Afrika/ isulae Okzidentalis with WRE) everything with natural defense ( water/chokepoints) & far away from the huns is good DON'T hold more than 5 Provinces, 3 or 4 is Ideal.
3.Disband all Armys, that arent close to the Choosen land.
4.Set taxes to maximum.
5. Free your choosen provinces from taxes.
6.Destroy all Buildings that have upkeep cost outside of the choosen provinces.
7.Profit.
7.1. use the money to build up the choosen land.
8.Start over as a minor faction with good Starting position, LOTS of GOLD (at least 50 k better more), and lot of enemys.
9.Reconquista.
10. Say thanks for this ez guide.
Edit: often u will not be able to destroy an enemy, don't bother about conquering his land. Just weaken him. Conquer a few of his settlements for unit replenishment (but don't hold them if u don't need them). Sack some others. And Eraze his key towns. Use hit and Run, scorched earth tactics, to make your neighbours so weak they can't attack you.
Edit 2: For far away enemys try to pay some of their neighbours to join war.. This way you turn the barbarians against each other..
Edit 3: if possible try to give regions you don't need to migrating factions, and try to make some rebel factions (e.g. hispania, gallia, afrika, Pontos, Asia,) Into your puppet staates. This will generate a buffer zone between your homeland and the enemys..
Should make more if you can I have watched them all like 10-15 times each haha 10/10
Never post on youtube. This had me in tears boss. Good job
*"very hard"*
You probably find it hard becaus you DIDN'T PRAISE THE SUN LIKE THE ROMAN EMPIRE YOU ARE (kidding)
So amusing to watch omg😂. Love you
this is the first video i have watched of yours....subbed
I was able to play as the ERE without losing any territories by 1. eliminating all barbarian hordes operating in my western territories in the first 3 turns 2. Constantly issuing diplomatic tribute to the Sassanid's (one per turn) until I was able to eventually get a trade and non-aggression pact with them. At that point my diplomatic relations were so high that they never declared war on me. I basically enjoyed 100 turns of peace by which time I could field maximum armies of the best units my faction could recruit whilst still earning cash out the wazoo.
I think I was playing on normal so that strategy might not be possible on other difficulties.
Name of this game? Im new to this
Robert Gavrila total war: Attila
Pokemon the new generation
Dude, editing is on spot
I never laughed so much at a Total War video !
Amazing job xDD
Please fix your unit composition, an entire pike army makes me sick.
Spear* :p
Can't see any Menaulatoi, they were mostly Comitatensis Spears haha
Besides, early game, Comitatenses and Cohors are probably the way to go to form the backbone of an independent army, with some Levis Armaturae or Sagittarii backing them up
THE comment
@@lorenzooliveira1157 It was hilarious to see Yrridian call him out on this
Make Greece great again you mean in the title
Joun Warrior >Eastern ROMAN empire
GRECO-Roman empire u mean
sskspartan yes in the east roman empire they spoke greek and also the flag in the beginning of the video is ancient Greek
Joun Warrior, the empire still spoke Latin as the official language and Latin emperors still took to the throne.
Doesn't really matter, they were culturally Greek and the army was greek
One of the best Videos I saw so far lul, to be honest Eastern Empire is great fun
Definitely deserved a sub, TOO GOOD! :D