A friend told me that playing as the Western Roman Empire on the hardest difficulty must be what it's like to be the Imperium of Man in Warhammer 40,000.
It is literally Imperium. Shit fucked economy, carpet sieging is too expensive until endgame and your military is too thinly spread to either deal with enemy incursions or your own rebellions.
When you get bored of playing west Rome after literally 14 turns because of the endless siege battles that you win by sitting in a testudo until the enemy dies of boredom And then you catch the plague
Be prepared to reload a lot, abandon Britain if you must, but otherwise fight desparately and hold onto everything because they other factions will never have enough. When you have your boot on their throat be sure to raze their settlements to the ground, make sure nothing but the Huns can come out of there.
*raises hand* i do it by doing what i call the murder tactic i abandon britain and and tha gaul but still keep a line to my capitial start back capping my cities back and making it a game of cat and mouse making the ais armyies weak and if they reach rome they will have 5 armies waiting for em
@@Meade556 on legendary you don't get to reload mistakes are permanent. You were right about most things but actually affording to fortify every front is unrealistic. On high difficulties it's best to retreat from Britain and the Balkans then fortify Venetia Africa and northeastern France. In my experience puppet states are highly unreliable and at some point if you actually count on them they gonna betray you so they are best used sparingly. 1 army in hispania 2 in Africa and the rest split between Venetia and northeastern France is ideal. By turn 30 you should be adequately fortified and public order should be solidified in your important areas allowing you to reexpand rapidly from that point is super easy even on legendary
"Now, you must aquire a taste for... THE BURDEN OF MILITARY AND CIVIL MAINTENANCE." *A dozen disease/rebellion/"bad shit happening" notifications pop up.* ...this slew me.
@Michael Maeva @ Kevin Wilson , I would sure hope that you would be able to beat an AI of a certain faction with any other faction, otherwise the game wouldn't be fun if it was impossible. I wiped out Himyar and the Garamantians as the Sassanids, but you don't see me bragging about it. I defeated Alexander the Great as Darius III in the Alexander the Great mod for Rome II. The Total War games (and any RTS or turn based strategy for that matter) is meant for history to be changed from your playstyle (or random events). If you couldn't beat a faction, then what's the point of playing?
Actually I am pretty sure spongebobicus Augustus took power in the eastern Roman empire. It was Patrickus valerianus that was in charge of the western Roman Empire
Step 1: adopt a young noble Step 2: make him ur heir Step 3: make honorius a general in dalmatia Step 4: precede to yeet honorius into the ostrogothic horde Step 5: no more political problems :D
You start with Stilicho as your heir, keep him within Italy or at least send him no further than Dalmatia, pray to the old gods and the new that he produces a male heir and you're laughing.
Honorius is actually powerful after he survives few battles. He will lose his weak traits and get some new, better ones. He's also really young, so unless killed in battle, he will stick around for a long time.
I love how it's either the pinnacle of the Empire where you're the best on the map or the bane of mankind where everything goes wrong. That's Rome for you.
@@caiawlodarski5339 si ya de que los gringos se enojan, pero como dije, parece que no le molesto, aunque si capaz estemos molestando al dueño del comentario jajaja
This version of Honorius: "Acquires the taste for *BURDEN OF MILITARY AND CIVIL MAINTENANCE!"* Real life Honorius: "I don't care that the Visigoths sacked Rome, I have a more pressing matter......tending for my chicken!"
@@user-cs4su3ng9lwhen honorius heard that the visigoths destroyed Rome, he was worried that his pet chicken, named Roma, had been killed. After learning it was fine. He went back to not caring, even when one of his family members had been captured in the sack.
I see that many people chose to abandon the border regions and turtle up. Maybe it is good advice, but for me it worked a LOT better to just go on the offensive. Solve region after region, using the money you gain by dismantling churches and level 2 and 3 settlements. Subjugate/raze the Celts in Britain, then the desert assholes in Africa. Britannia and Africa are your most important strategic positions. As long as you can hold them, the rest of the empire is completely safe. No annoying Celts and Vikings in Spain. If you see a horde passing through your territory, GIFT them a region. In 2-3 turns, they usually accept trade and military alliance AND will take care of your rebellions in regions close to them. Pretty sweet deal. When your economy gets back on its feet and borders are secure, you can destroy them at your pleasure. It´s even easier, since their entire faction is concentrated into that one region. Fish in a barrel. Build farms and non-religious public order stuff, industry is mostly not worth it. You can maintain religion with the "Ecumenical Matters" Edict. It´s AMAZING for province conversion.
@@Jose-xh5qb I did it on Very Hard and it worked quite well. Of course, you need to be careful about their personalities. If you give land to a Devious/Agressive leader, they will betray you as soon as you turn your back on them. But that´s basic gameplay stuff.
Absolutely Brilliant. Thank you so much. Wandering hordes were a huge stress factor in my first Atilla game as WRE. Gifting them less valuable territory on the frontier is a wonderful way that I can satiate their need to settle and buy myself time to economically develop the heartlands.
Lord Of Cheese I would argue that ERE is even harder, despite the fact that the WRE will most likely have a lot more factions attacking it, because they only start with 28-30 regions or something as opposed to the WRE's 68. Granted, those are likely impoverished ones, but at least you can cede a few regions until you get a large enough army to make the barbarians pay for it. Or, if going Graeco-Roman pagan, demolish all churches and get additional income. And the ever present threat of the Sassanids, should they beat the White Huns and declare war on ERE. What you get in return, are powerful units that aren't even unlocked until you are either destroyed, or 120-odd turns have passed, as well as additional trade income. Not that the WRE doesn't - namely Herculiani or Cornuti. Matiarii and Noble Foederati are solid, too. Feel free to disagree. But I hope I've made a solid point :p Edit: Sorry I just realised the ERE starts with 37 regions...
Surprisingly, I thought taking down Carthage and its client states was a bit tougher than the rest. But once they're dealt with, Rome is pretty much on the steamroller imo. (I much prefer playing on the Carthaginian side instead, but that's for another time.) You're so right about it being the complete opposite in Attila with ERE and WRE though. It was a constant circle of getting destroyed for 90-odd turns, especially if you choose to keep the Christian churches in there XD
I hate to be that guy but I found ERE very manageable. Once you realize what treasury interest means, all you have to do is smash visigoths and fend off sassanids until your unlimited cash rolls in.
Just abandon the Empire and pull back to Italy. Factions will die off rapidly and you can slowly reconquer the Empire. Take Spain, then France, the Britain, then march into Africa. You should be fine from then on.
Most of the food is in Italy, and unless you go pagan you really don't need the food anyway. If you're struggling with money then you really need to build more ports, as trade ports will give around 750 each as a flat rate at level 2. Don't go through the construction tree and you'll be able to build fully levelled aqueducts and your ports will become the mainstay of your economy. They're safe as well because the AI is dumber than anything on the water and if you ever get attacked navally just snipe off the enemy commander with your garrison ships, you'll win almost all naval combats as marines are very very strong against land units. Also Spain is easy af to re-take but it's a drain on your early game expenses. You really want to just build up Italy beyond any level of sense because if you do then you'll never ever struggle to hold it.
I don't lose the Empire, nor do I ever lose a single army. I also massively reduce my total casualties and efficiently ensure that the enemy gets overstretched. Only someone who is an utter fool would refuse to take a step back if that step placed them in a position of guaranteed victory.
@Claystead and you got lots of soldiers killed due to your foolishness instead of applying the scorched earth strategy. You are a terrible leader and im surprised the people didn't rise up against you.
Just copy Napoleon's (actual person) battle movement, and then Alexander the greats. I did that after almost rage quiting and the game was a breeze. These guys were geniuses!
I'll give u the only tactic i was able to use to actually survive. 1-Build Garrisons no matter what. 2-Fight EVERY single battle and do as MUCH damage as possible. 3-Focuse on food production. 4-Upgrade your troops and create well prepared Armies 5-VERY important. Seek peace and trade. Gift gold to the factions they hate you the most. This will prevent early attacks. 6-You can play this on easy or medium, in any of the cases, this campaign is indeed hard.
The WRE is more a matter of patience than skill, because fighting in real time is VERY useful when defending a settlement. A total game changer. But fighting every battle in real time is a tedious and absurdly long ordeal since you will be invaded on average 3 times each turn, and sometimes you might be forced to hold out a massively outnumbered siege and win due to time limit. Which again takes time and patience.
I just make my evacuations of my all forces and make a defensive positions where entrances to Italy are choke points. I just only made upgrades of all settlements in Italy alone. That burning all lands and leave nothing for the hordes will help in the end.
Ah yes, a tale as old as time: An empire that grew too large, too fast, and so it collapses from within as it tries desperately to hold what can't be held. In the earlier years of the Roman empire, the main reason that a single city could control so much of the world was specifically because of the fact that they kept their logistics firmly under control.
First Last The Roman Empire didn’t “grow too fast”, it reached its full size throughout 500 years and was comfortable for like 300 years afterwards. The collapse came from instability in political organization and the decay/exploitability of urban centers. You say in the early years they kept logistics under control but the Late Republic was already almost as big as the empire would ever get.
No, the Roman Empire doesn't fit in that category the Mongols, the Umayyads and the Alexandrines did. Like the Ottoman, Byzantine and Neo-European Empires, the Romans converted cultures, organized successful civil administration in conquered lands, founded lasting cities and were the status-quo for half a millennia in Europe. In fact, the fact the first "non-seasonal" Empire is why it's so important to history.
It's ironic, as Rome frist wanted to avoid growing to fast, so they slowly built an Empire. They learned from Alexander the Great, that if an Empire is to last. It needs time to grow. But because, of Roman Elites wanted to control the Roman Republic, it lead to Rome's downfall instead, as people like Ceaser, and Pompeii forced the Republic to grow faster then they would have liked, and it lead to Ceaser's Civil War, and to the Empire.
It's what happens when rulers die with a bunch of territory and multiple heirs. The heirs would rather go to civil war than share peacefully. Also the Praetorian assassinations of Roman Emperors certainly didn't help.
@@MK_ULTRA420 Rome's fate is like a Greek tragedy. A Republic that become, hijack by Political ambitions, from both the Elites, and Poor. As Rome grow, it's problem's grow with it, and the once mighty Republic, become a brutal conquering Empire. Even, though the Roman Empire had many good years, it evenly lead to it's own down fall, as the Empire became compatible, and overstretched. Too much land to hold, to few Soldiers to hold, and crippled Economy that never got fixed, or got much-needed attention. The Roman Empire, become Alexander's Empire.
Only played Rome II. Attila seems to be focused less on progress, and more on survival despite all the shit that's going on. Sounds cool and challenging, might play it at some point.
I just pull back to Italy with 2 or 3 armies and retake the Empire from there. I know there are better ways to do WRE without doing that, but I'm not trying to minmax and the idea of Rome rising from the ashes was too good to pass up.
Historically? The Roman Empire. Boudica's thousands of strong force lost to a rag tag Roman army quickly composed of whatever could be mustered of the Roman forces in Britannia and sent to confront the rebels.
If you can handle the early game endless siege battles, it's not that bad. I did a Western rome campaign on hard difficulty and despite the constant sieges, it wasn't that bad. the only territory i actually abandoned was Britannia. 30-40 turns in i was ready to expand romes boundaries again, Despite endless assaults on my territories in Gaul.
After playing the Western Roman Empire and brutally losing, the Eastern Roman Empire was so refreshing and much more "balanced". Like it had the perfect level of difficulty. It was especially easier to get the economy under control and actually make good money. The borders were also better although the Sassanids were a big problem. I guess with the ERE it was a race against time to get your shit together before the collapse of the WRE so you're ready when attention turns towards you.
Actually, I mopped the floor with every other faction. I ended up with such a massive income that I started transferring huge amounts of money to the Easter Empire, just to get them to do my dirty work in the East, while I was busy populating what today we know as Russia.
This is what I do: 1. Abandon all your territories except Hispania, Italy and the Mediterranean Islands 2. Form a defensive perimeter in the Alps roads and the Pyrenees, and build a garrison in Aquilea 3. Covert to paganism, so you won't have the Christianity penalties against the Huns 4. Defeat the barbarian hordes trying to enter in your territories 5. After stabilizing the situation, get a legion and conquer one province in Denmark/North Germany 6. Start making military buildings there, and use it as a base to spam legions and raze the barbarians' provinces 7. Never reseach the civilian technologies that block you certain technologies, as you will need to build aqueducts, libraries and stuff
"Is this the krusty krab?" "No, this is flavius honorius Augustus"
calm down, its a joke.
I have a friend in the gold Coast trading company called "Biggus Dickus"
Terentius Moonborn is there something funny about ‘Biggus Dickus’?
KRVSTY KRAB
@@MoonbornUwU "I'M DIRTYUS DANNUS!"
A friend told me that playing as the Western Roman Empire on the hardest difficulty must be what it's like to be the Imperium of Man in Warhammer 40,000.
That's a pretty good comparison. You just need honorius to go into a coma or something and your there.
It is literally Imperium. Shit fucked economy, carpet sieging is too expensive until endgame and your military is too thinly spread to either deal with enemy incursions or your own rebellions.
However, it becomes much easier if you reject the false Jesus and swear your loyalty to the DARK *cough* ROMAN GODS!
I will guide you all to victory
Oh and what? every province rebels?
*[MILITARY AND CIVIL MAINTENANCE INTENSIFIES]*
*[MAXIMUM OVER-MAINTENANCE]*
Hey i know you from civ5
@@ariellubonja7856 Civ 5: Just...one...more...turn!
Call of Duty: Just one more DLC
Total War: Just another Crisis.
And, if, after that, you still have a will to live - you're doing it wrong
When you get bored of playing west Rome after literally 14 turns because of the endless siege battles that you win by sitting in a testudo until the enemy dies of boredom
And then you catch the plague
#JustRomanThings
jajajajajjajajaj
But wait, there's more plague.
Nope I would I go on the offensive
@@Taospark that's a lot of plague
At this point, being a master at playing as the WRE is pretty much the rarest skill in the world.
Alexander the Great Delete churches, fortify fronts with good armies and garrisons. Puppet states across the Rhine. Success
Be prepared to reload a lot, abandon Britain if you must, but otherwise fight desparately and hold onto everything because they other factions will never have enough. When you have your boot on their throat be sure to raze their settlements to the ground, make sure nothing but the Huns can come out of there.
*raises hand* i do it by doing what i call the murder tactic i abandon britain and and tha gaul but still keep a line to my capitial start back capping my cities back and making it a game of cat and mouse making the ais armyies weak and if they reach rome they will have 5 armies waiting for em
@@Meade556 on legendary you don't get to reload mistakes are permanent. You were right about most things but actually affording to fortify every front is unrealistic. On high difficulties it's best to retreat from Britain and the Balkans then fortify Venetia Africa and northeastern France. In my experience puppet states are highly unreliable and at some point if you actually count on them they gonna betray you so they are best used sparingly. 1 army in hispania 2 in Africa and the rest split between Venetia and northeastern France is ideal. By turn 30 you should be adequately fortified and public order should be solidified in your important areas allowing you to reexpand rapidly from that point is super easy even on legendary
My bad tagged wrong person saying to puppet 😂 still tho a decent guide on how to play them
"Now, you must aquire a taste for... THE BURDEN OF MILITARY AND CIVIL MAINTENANCE." *A dozen disease/rebellion/"bad shit happening" notifications pop up.*
...this slew me.
Slew a lot of those Romans too
Ayyyyyyy
Skylar Gayton That part is where I lost it! XD
Well..what did ya think?! That keeping an empire together was done through fairy dust and unicorn wishes...?! Ha! If only...
@@BullocK1495 the empire?
*Moments later*
*Goths are at Rome*
Patrick: FINLAND
Attila needs more memes.
Atilla memes are a viable investment.
Bear Oldcastle attila is just a big meme tbh and i love it
476 likes hehe
Here's what I do:
1: Play as the Sassanids instead.
2: Laugh in Persian.
*OHRMAZD APPROVES*
I kicked the sassanids ass playing as the Himyar
I kicked their ass with garmantians
@Michael Maeva @ Kevin Wilson , I would sure hope that you would be able to beat an AI of a certain faction with any other faction, otherwise the game wouldn't be fun if it was impossible. I wiped out Himyar and the Garamantians as the Sassanids, but you don't see me bragging about it. I defeated Alexander the Great as Darius III in the Alexander the Great mod for Rome II. The Total War games (and any RTS or turn based strategy for that matter) is meant for history to be changed from your playstyle (or random events). If you couldn't beat a faction, then what's the point of playing?
HallaHallaHallah
*_"How to play as Western Roman Empire"_*
*_*Drools in Byzantine.*_*
And historians still cannot agree why Western Empire fell after SpongeBob take over.....
Actually I am pretty sure spongebobicus Augustus took power in the eastern Roman empire. It was Patrickus valerianus that was in charge of the western Roman Empire
Step 1: adopt a young noble
Step 2: make him ur heir
Step 3: make honorius a general in dalmatia
Step 4: precede to yeet honorius into the ostrogothic horde
Step 5: no more political problems :D
You start with Stilicho as your heir, keep him within Italy or at least send him no further than Dalmatia, pray to the old gods and the new that he produces a male heir and you're laughing.
Honorius is actually powerful after he survives few battles. He will lose his weak traits and get some new, better ones. He's also really young, so unless killed in battle, he will stick around for a long time.
I love how it's either the pinnacle of the Empire where you're the best on the map or the bane of mankind where everything goes wrong. That's Rome for you.
Patrick = Flavius Stilicho?
El único que valía la pena en la parte oeste del imperio, aparte de aecio más adelante ja
@@caiawlodarski5339 no te entiendo, pero me lo tomo como un cumplido, gracias
@@caiawlodarski5339 por que mi lengua madre es el español XD además no vi que el dueño de él video se quejara, además no molesto a nadie amigo
@@caiawlodarski5339 si ya de que los gringos se enojan, pero como dije, parece que no le molesto, aunque si capaz estemos molestando al dueño del comentario jajaja
@@beermaster3359
No le entendí nada lo dijo ese wey xD
This version of Honorius: "Acquires the taste for *BURDEN OF MILITARY AND CIVIL MAINTENANCE!"*
Real life Honorius: "I don't care that the Visigoths sacked Rome, I have a more pressing matter......tending for my chicken!"
Really?
@@user-cs4su3ng9lwhen honorius heard that the visigoths destroyed Rome, he was worried that his pet chicken, named Roma, had been killed. After learning it was fine. He went back to not caring, even when one of his family members had been captured in the sack.
@@Kioley123 this is very much false
@@barrett206Unfortunately It Isn't
@@barrett206history is more worse than fiction, sometimes
Legatvs Primervs Patricvs speaking battle tactics with Emperor Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar Agvstvs Spongicvs. (Courtesy of the Smithsonian Museum)
I like that you went through the effort of using v instead of u
@@Eviltower101 Thanks for noticing.
favourite video on the internet
What game is this about
Honorius : "what sort of maniac start a seabound invasion at 3 AM?"
Hengist : "OH BOY! 3 AM!"
After watching this episode so many times as a kid, I just realized he said Tax Exemption
Now this is the type of quality content I was looking for.
Keep up the good Total War content!
Holy shit this had me rolling!
I see that many people chose to abandon the border regions and turtle up. Maybe it is good advice, but for me it worked a LOT better to just go on the offensive. Solve region after region, using the money you gain by dismantling churches and level 2 and 3 settlements. Subjugate/raze the Celts in Britain, then the desert assholes in Africa.
Britannia and Africa are your most important strategic positions. As long as you can hold them, the rest of the empire is completely safe. No annoying Celts and Vikings in Spain.
If you see a horde passing through your territory, GIFT them a region. In 2-3 turns, they usually accept trade and military alliance AND will take care of your rebellions in regions close to them. Pretty sweet deal. When your economy gets back on its feet and borders are secure, you can destroy them at your pleasure. It´s even easier, since their entire faction is concentrated into that one region. Fish in a barrel.
Build farms and non-religious public order stuff, industry is mostly not worth it. You can maintain religion with the "Ecumenical Matters" Edict. It´s AMAZING for province conversion.
But heres the thing thats what wre did they paid barbs to help them then it came back and bit them
In hard and legendary it doesn't work, if you give the hordes land they immediatley declare war on you afterwards.
@@Jose-xh5qb I did it on Very Hard and it worked quite well. Of course, you need to be careful about their personalities. If you give land to a Devious/Agressive leader, they will betray you as soon as you turn your back on them. But that´s basic gameplay stuff.
@@Jose-xh5qb i was refering to irl
Absolutely Brilliant. Thank you so much. Wandering hordes were a huge stress factor in my first Atilla game as WRE. Gifting them less valuable territory on the frontier is a wonderful way that I can satiate their need to settle and buy myself time to economically develop the heartlands.
I would add some masochist stuff on Spongebob, cuz playing the ERE require some sort of love for pain
Lord Of Cheese I would argue that ERE is even harder, despite the fact that the WRE will most likely have a lot more factions attacking it, because they only start with 28-30 regions or something as opposed to the WRE's 68. Granted, those are likely impoverished ones, but at least you can cede a few regions until you get a large enough army to make the barbarians pay for it. Or, if going Graeco-Roman pagan, demolish all churches and get additional income. And the ever present threat of the Sassanids, should they beat the White Huns and declare war on ERE.
What you get in return, are powerful units that aren't even unlocked until you are either destroyed, or 120-odd turns have passed, as well as additional trade income. Not that the WRE doesn't - namely Herculiani or Cornuti. Matiarii and Noble Foederati are solid, too.
Feel free to disagree. But I hope I've made a solid point :p
Edit: Sorry I just realised the ERE starts with 37 regions...
Surprisingly, I thought taking down Carthage and its client states was a bit tougher than the rest. But once they're dealt with, Rome is pretty much on the steamroller imo. (I much prefer playing on the Carthaginian side instead, but that's for another time.)
You're so right about it being the complete opposite in Attila with ERE and WRE though. It was a constant circle of getting destroyed for 90-odd turns, especially if you choose to keep the Christian churches in there XD
Joseph Sosa In historical terms, it’s actually rather fitting, wouldn’t you say?
Joseph Sosa
And that is exactly how it should be.
I hate to be that guy but I found ERE very manageable. Once you realize what treasury interest means, all you have to do is smash visigoths and fend off sassanids until your unlimited cash rolls in.
now say tax exemption
(zero taxes)
pretty good
We need more total war memers like you
Just abandon the Empire and pull back to Italy. Factions will die off rapidly and you can slowly reconquer the Empire. Take Spain, then France, the Britain, then march into Africa. You should be fine from then on.
Laurie No don't let go of Spain. Those provinces have lots of food and make good money.
Most of the food is in Italy, and unless you go pagan you really don't need the food anyway. If you're struggling with money then you really need to build more ports, as trade ports will give around 750 each as a flat rate at level 2. Don't go through the construction tree and you'll be able to build fully levelled aqueducts and your ports will become the mainstay of your economy. They're safe as well because the AI is dumber than anything on the water and if you ever get attacked navally just snipe off the enemy commander with your garrison ships, you'll win almost all naval combats as marines are very very strong against land units.
Also Spain is easy af to re-take but it's a drain on your early game expenses. You really want to just build up Italy beyond any level of sense because if you do then you'll never ever struggle to hold it.
I don't lose the Empire, nor do I ever lose a single army. I also massively reduce my total casualties and efficiently ensure that the enemy gets overstretched. Only someone who is an utter fool would refuse to take a step back if that step placed them in a position of guaranteed victory.
Laurie But still its genocide :/
@Claystead and you got lots of soldiers killed due to your foolishness instead of applying the scorched earth strategy. You are a terrible leader and im surprised the people didn't rise up against you.
Subscribed. This was hilarious
WRE is a challenge indeed on very hard difficulty (or legendary), but not an impossible task. It requires only patience.
The music when you play as west rome really adds the sweat to your anxiety
Anytime Honorius comes up I get a little bit sick in my mouth. RIP to the boy Stilicho.
Aetius: Look at what they did. Look how they massacred my Boy.😔
This clip is the reason i got attila myself. The Music is just so epic.
As ready as you can ever be for that campaign anyway
Unfortunately for History, Honorius was never ready. Hell, he was the opposite of ready
YOURE KILLING ME THIS IS SO GOOD AAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
More please :)
You forgot to aquire a taste for free form jazz
Emperor Flavour Flav my boi, you got these burden things down!
those faces fit perfectly
VAAARUUUS! WHERE. IS. MY. LEGIONS!!!
Playing as the WRE would have been easier if the loading times aren't so unbearable.
Just copy Napoleon's (actual person) battle movement, and then Alexander the greats. I did that after almost rage quiting and the game was a breeze. These guys were geniuses!
amazing.
this is fine i'm okay with the events that are unfolding currently
I thought he is gonna say INCREDIMILIS!
I'll give u the only tactic i was able to use to actually survive.
1-Build Garrisons no matter what.
2-Fight EVERY single battle and do as MUCH damage as possible.
3-Focuse on food production.
4-Upgrade your troops and create well prepared Armies
5-VERY important. Seek peace and trade. Gift gold to the factions they hate you the most. This will prevent early attacks.
6-You can play this on easy or medium, in any of the cases, this campaign is indeed hard.
The WRE is more a matter of patience than skill, because fighting in real time is VERY useful when defending a settlement.
A total game changer.
But fighting every battle in real time is a tedious and absurdly long ordeal since you will be invaded on average 3 times each turn, and sometimes you might be forced to hold out a massively outnumbered siege and win due to time limit. Which again takes time and patience.
Unpopular Opinion Guy exactly
The real best way its to destroy: Caledonians, Alamans, Suebians & Quedians on the first turn.
I love the Halo 3 ODST version of this meme
I just make my evacuations of my all forces and make a defensive positions where entrances to Italy are choke points. I just only made upgrades of all settlements in Italy alone. That burning all lands and leave nothing for the hordes will help in the end.
Eres uno de los mejores jugadores de los Total war que e visto
I was expecting there to be an ass kicking
*(in Morgan Freeman narrator voice)* Honorius was not ready.
I don't know this game at all but this is a high quality shitpost, I love it!
Ah yes, a tale as old as time: An empire that grew too large, too fast, and so it collapses from within as it tries desperately to hold what can't be held. In the earlier years of the Roman empire, the main reason that a single city could control so much of the world was specifically because of the fact that they kept their logistics firmly under control.
First Last The Roman Empire didn’t “grow too fast”, it reached its full size throughout 500 years and was comfortable for like 300 years afterwards. The collapse came from instability in political organization and the decay/exploitability of urban centers. You say in the early years they kept logistics under control but the Late Republic was already almost as big as the empire would ever get.
No, the Roman Empire doesn't fit in that category the Mongols, the Umayyads and the Alexandrines did. Like the Ottoman, Byzantine and Neo-European Empires, the Romans converted cultures, organized successful civil administration in conquered lands, founded lasting cities and were the status-quo for half a millennia in Europe. In fact, the fact the first "non-seasonal" Empire is why it's so important to history.
It's ironic, as Rome frist wanted to avoid growing to fast, so they slowly built an Empire.
They learned from Alexander the Great, that if an Empire is to last. It needs time to grow. But because, of Roman Elites wanted to control the Roman Republic, it lead to Rome's downfall instead, as people like Ceaser, and Pompeii forced the Republic to grow faster then they would have liked, and it lead to Ceaser's Civil War, and to the Empire.
It's what happens when rulers die with a bunch of territory and multiple heirs. The heirs would rather go to civil war than share peacefully. Also the Praetorian assassinations of Roman Emperors certainly didn't help.
@@MK_ULTRA420 Rome's fate is like a Greek tragedy. A Republic that become, hijack by Political ambitions, from both the Elites, and Poor. As Rome grow, it's problem's grow with it, and the once mighty Republic, become a brutal conquering Empire.
Even, though the Roman Empire had many good years, it evenly lead to it's own down fall, as the Empire became compatible, and overstretched. Too much land to hold, to few Soldiers to hold, and crippled Economy that never got fixed, or got much-needed attention.
The Roman Empire, become Alexander's Empire.
Only played Rome II. Attila seems to be focused less on progress, and more on survival despite all the shit that's going on. Sounds cool and challenging, might play it at some point.
Imperator is looking good
_INCREDIBILIS_
nice
LMFAO HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH
Don’t forget the secret recipe! A classic among XCOM players.
“We won’t tell if you don’t.”
Flavius honorious augustus
Spongebob would be more of an Uncle Claudius
I thought Spongebob a Justinian
My strategy is to retreat like a bitch, abandon all the settlements but a fucking lost island at the end of the world and start all over again.
The burden of military and civil maintenance is a difficult thing to acquire a taste for. But a necessary thing.
Narrator: he was not ready
I don’t even play this game but this is a good fucking meme regardless
When I first started playing Rome Total War I razed all the cities I conquered. Ecenomy was non-existant in late game...
thought this was a barbarian invasion meme, disgusted to find out its atilla
You thought it was a barbarian invasion meme when the title is literally called “how to play as the Western Roman Empire?”
How to play as Aksum!
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I just pull back to Italy with 2 or 3 armies and retake the Empire from there. I know there are better ways to do WRE without doing that, but I'm not trying to minmax and the idea of Rome rising from the ashes was too good to pass up.
Who would win?
-The motherfucking Roman empire at the peak of their motherfucking Roman power
- An angry celt lady in warpaint
Historically? The Roman Empire. Boudica's thousands of strong force lost to a rag tag Roman army quickly composed of whatever could be mustered of the Roman forces in Britannia and sent to confront the rebels.
Please do one for Grimgor Ironhide...
0:45 spongebob turns into Timmy from Fairly Oddparents
I play Attila so much but always play east too scared
"man, fuck missile cavalry" he is the one.
Patrick is Flavius Arcadius Augustus (east rome)
FUCKING. SUBSCRIBED.
If you can handle the early game endless siege battles, it's not that bad. I did a Western rome campaign on hard difficulty and despite the constant sieges, it wasn't that bad. the only territory i actually abandoned was Britannia. 30-40 turns in i was ready to expand romes boundaries again, Despite endless assaults on my territories in Gaul.
I always end up quitting on the 4th turn, its not too hard... just too annoying.
1 general named hilarious..am not joking
As someone who has no idea what this is, I have no idea what this is
Now say tax exemption!
nOW saY tAX ExeMtIoN
So... smooth jazz?
I simply abandoned Gallia, Britannia and Africa, destroyed all the buildings and used the money to build up Italy and Spain.
Hhh man this is so fun to watch
Fun fact: Nobody is actually ready when the *HUNS* knock on your border
The burden of military and civil maintenance
People who don’t play Total War don’t understand just how based this is.
I just delete all my settlements and restart anew at roma lol
like that u can also change the capital to rome!
0:46 Vesuvius colorized
After playing the Western Roman Empire and brutally losing, the Eastern Roman Empire was so refreshing and much more "balanced". Like it had the perfect level of difficulty. It was especially easier to get the economy under control and actually make good money. The borders were also better although the Sassanids were a big problem. I guess with the ERE it was a race against time to get your shit together before the collapse of the WRE so you're ready when attention turns towards you.
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Try not to die
Good meme
I burned every settlement outside of Italy and it worked like a charm
If only Majorian had retaken Carthage 😖
blame ricimer
White Album fuck Ricimer
Actually, I mopped the floor with every other faction. I ended up with such a massive income that I started transferring huge amounts of money to the Easter Empire, just to get them to do my dirty work in the East, while I was busy populating what today we know as Russia.
Sure CZcams, why wouldn't this interest me?
yeah okey, enough youtube for today :P
This is what I do:
1. Abandon all your territories except Hispania, Italy and the Mediterranean Islands
2. Form a defensive perimeter in the Alps roads and the Pyrenees, and build a garrison in Aquilea
3. Covert to paganism, so you won't have the Christianity penalties against the Huns
4. Defeat the barbarian hordes trying to enter in your territories
5. After stabilizing the situation, get a legion and conquer one province in Denmark/North Germany
6. Start making military buildings there, and use it as a base to spam legions and raze the barbarians' provinces
7. Never reseach the civilian technologies that block you certain technologies, as you will need to build aqueducts, libraries and stuff