Pontus!! - Faction Overview - Divide Et Impera (1.2.6) - Total War Rome 2
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- Today, we do a Faction Overview for Pontus, for Divide Et Impera!!
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TIME STAMPS below for your viewing pleasure! Terribly sorry for such a long video but Pontus has so military units to talk about that I struggled to shut up haha. I ended up cutting out as much as I could but originally this video was around 1 hour 20 minutes or so.
Part 1 - Campaign Overview: 3:07
Part 2 - Military Overview: 19:10
Part 3 - Verdict: 57:40
Something to consider for you all, this is for the 1.2.6 DEI build. I realize 1.2.7 has almost been made official but I won't be updating until I finish my current campaign in order to avoid causing issues. I will still keep doing Faction Overview videos on the 1.2.6 build but I will avoid factions that have been altered heavily by the new update, such as the Nervii. Generally speaking though, the update did not affect too many factions in a dramatic fashion (See my update video if you like).
This is my fave vanilla faction. Great to see this faction is getting some love here and DEI.
Love playing as Pontos.. and forming the Mithridatic Kingdom
I never really learned a lot about Pontus historically besides how they eventually fell to Rome, is there a particular resource or media that got you really interested?
@@Immersaholic maaan. I am a big history, military history buff. When i was a kid i used to play civilization on PC..thrn got into the age of discovery and the new world. I just soaked it all up. When rome I came out i was overjoyed. I watched ROME tv series, spartucus, alexander..shows and movies like that tend to give you historic quick hits on whats going on in the Greco-Roman world. It was video games that got me interested in history to be honest. I would start with alexander the great..read about his conquests, issues, politic sqables..then movie into how Rome became a powehouse, with its fight with Veii that capitol of the Estruceans(sp?)..then roll into carthage.
@@Immersaholic Pontus specifically is covered with Mithridatis. And so start with books about him( i havent seen any movies on him specifically). Just remember in this game to create the mithridatix empire requires pontus to annex the 2 other countries( to the left and right) diplomatically..going to war to take it wont change the name, you will still be Pontus. What i did, i was able to annex( join confederation) by offering ALOT of gold..and the other was getting pressed in his own war and i offered annexation with very little gold..hope this helps
@@Immersaholic the "same blood" blue handshake icon on those provences i think is why the diplomatic approach triggers the name change.
@@shatteredcitizn7489 Wow thanks so much for the input and comments mate! I always love to see who are just as passionate about games and history as I am.
I'll definitely have to try a Pontus campaign one day!
Great video.
Pontus is one of my favourite factions - both in the grand campaign where they are hellenic and the Augustus campaign where they are an Eastern culture 🙂
Another great factions are Massalia and Syracuse in the west. Possibly Atropatkan in the east.
Thanks mate! I also love those factions! I'd love to do a Syracuse playthrough at some point since it would be extremely hard.
I did a Massalia playthrough on Divide et Impera on Normal and it was extremely fun. Massalia being a Helennic state in a Gallic-celtic land means they have the hoplites that the celts don't have... and they also can AoR Gallic/Celtic cavalry and swordsman in early game. In late game they get greek army reforms and cloned Roman-Style legionnairies which makes for some insane craziness where you can combine heavy hoplites, with amazing swordsman and good-enough cavalry.
@@virusguy5611 I definitely want to do a Massalian campaign, I think they were also listed as a potential faction for getting a unit visual makeover at some point. Not 100% sure though.
@@Immersaholic Oooh. Well I guess I better form the Massalian Empire again. Strongly suggest you go realllllyyy aggressive as you can early game on the gallic factions and take over modern France ASAP as that gives you a very strong base to push into whatever direction you want. Hoplites and greek cav will let you do that.
@@virusguy5611 Great advice mate! I always thought about changing capital to Bibracte as well. Apparently its a very unique settlement once its developed.
Wow. Excellent videos. Many thanks.
I hope you keep on with this kind of content.
I really love DEI. Honestly the only reason why I still enjoy to play Rome 2.
And Pontus is a very nice challenge in this game.
I'm the same mate, its the only mod that bring me back!
Ever tried a multi player game?
Please make a review for Bactria. Nice challenge. Playing this faction currently and it took me 80 turns to capture the east and finally kill Maurya. Now with the elite cavalry and amoured elephants I prepare my attack on the Seleucid Empire.
@@andresalphie5400 I've done a few online battles and posted them in the last couple weeks mate :)
Also working on more online battles and staff I won't reveal just yet ;) But yes I'm working on online stuff for sure!
Thanks for the suggestion! Bactria won't be far away now!
Locking forward to your bactia review.
Did you ever play a multi-player campaign? There are some on CZcams (like "Republic of Play" vs "Jackie Fish") and it seems bring some new flavor to Rome 2.
@@andresalphie5400 Thanks mate! And yes I have considered it. I can't go into details just yet, but I can tell you there are plans being made for the near future ;)
But i don't want to play as Pontus!
Then pontus will play you
Dad, you don't have to play as pontus!
Love it, great begging to the week.
Thanks mate, hope you have a great week!
Pontus is one of my absolute favorite factions to play in Rome II vanilla and DEI and in imperator rome
It certainly seems to be a unique faction people love! I really need to do a campaign in it some day.
@@Immersaholic yes pontus is a very interesting faction especially because of Mithridates VI arch enemy of the Romans in the last century bc. He challenged rome more than any of the diadochys or even Carthage could. He used the intern struggles to crush Romes power in Asia, he conquered most of Greece and was even able to challenge Romes naval power in Eastern Mediterranean. Rome needed three wars to finally beat Mithridates once and for all.
@@Garindo Very interesting and underrated rivalry between them. I'll have to do some online battles between Pontus and Rome :D
I would disagree with your statement that Hoplites fulfill the same role as pikes. I often use Hoplites as flank protection for pikes. Pikes are good in the center of an army but for the flanks I prefer spears and swords.
I meant when you don't have pikes hoplites fulfill the role of a main front line unit, such as for Athens, Rhodes, Syracuse, etc. Your right though when you do have pikes, hoplites or other spears are a good option for the flanks.
Cheers for watching mate, hope some of the vid was helpful for ya!
Regarding your question about the name hepteres:
This is linked to the Greek number 7
The Greeks used to name their warships by classes that are based on the numbers of roars on each side in a section cut of the ship. Similar to the classes for sailboats (three-master)
So the name combines the 2 Greek words for the number of roars and the word roar (like tworoars).
Starting with
2di
3tri
4tetra
5penta
6hexa
7hepta
A hepteres has 7 roars in one line on each sides. This means it must have been gigantic. Although mentioned by historians many naval engineers doubts that such a concept would work.
In Latin (language of the Romans) the word roar is remiges. So they called their ships e.g. trireme.
As a trireme already needs approximately 170 roarers plus 20 to 30 sailors and soldiers you can imagine how high the crew would be on a hepteres.
Thanks a lot mate that's some fascinating info! :)
@@Immersaholic my pleasure to exchange with you about ancient tactics and technology.
Locking forward to your next videos.
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Great video! That was really informative. Pontus is among my favorite Hellenistic factions and will be among to play with.
My options for a next Faction focus is either Ptolemaic Egypt or Bithynia (it was supposed to be Argead Macedonian Kingdom from the Alexander submod through I think there wouldn't be or less difference from the Antigonid Macedonian Kingdom 😅)
Thank you for enjoying it mate I appreciate your time watching! I'm not sure which faction will be next but it probably won't be Egypt just yet as they are getting new units in the next DEI update. Its not many like 2 or 3 max but I'll still give it another couple weeks to make sure I don't miss anything the modders add.
Armenia might be next? I'm not sure. Thanks again!
holy moly..
Pontos is a hard faction with D.E.I 1.3.1
If you are not fast, you pretty much can get destroyed by everyone around you.
Interesting, I may have to do more videos covering their start in the new update
@@Immersaholic Not trying to spoil that much, but it is a Guarantee that Armenia will declare war
If you just wait some turns till you have a full province I found factions paying me for trade rights and stuff
Its interesting the things you can get with a bit of patience.
Also depends largely on difficulty rating in these games :P
Good video; however, I don't think you're quite going into unit stats with a full picture of how Total War: Rome 2's mechanics work. Chiefly, armor. Armor is useful, but much less so than in previous games. Armor just takes away damage from successful hits. Also, despite it being a hidden stat, the most important anti-ranged stat is missile block chance, given from shields. So from the front or left side, units will have a certain % chance to block all hits at range. Those Spadabara spear/archer units aren't amazing, but they have a very high missile block chance, making them effective for tanking ranged fire--all thanks to their giant wicker shields. Melee stats are still trash though, and one an arrow gets past the shield it does a lot of damage.
Thanks for watching mate! I appreciate your comment but due to the ambiguity of the nature of block chance I generally prefer having high armored units. A large shield means you have just a chance of the shot being blocked. Albeit a good chance but then that chance goes up or down depending entirely on the engagement (Such as direction from the shooter, wind speed, weather, trajectory, elevation, etc). Then if you have a unit with no armor the potential for that unit to die becomes even more magnified. Whereas armor, although still gives a chance of protection, it is not influenced by so many potential factors. If a unit gets shot by a skirmisher from behind, they will still have the chance to take less damage; however, a unit like what you mentioned would almost definitely be killed since their shield is on the front. Hence in theory the chance for less damage to occur should be higher for the more heavily armored unit.
Perhaps I shouldn't be so harsh on units with low armor but again, without knowing hard stats of shield block chance and the insane amount of factors that can go into projectiles being fired, I generally will still value high armor units greater.
Idk the sparabara seem to do fine for me and I used them against the Romans
Just tried a campaign with them, it's almost impossible now because Armenia is too strong and attacks you quickly. And you already start at war with someone else.
I conquered some Armenian regions but they're not that rich, they're barely Hellenic and are difficult to defend and keep.
All I can do now is plot my revenge against Armenia with a more powerful faction :)
I find Armenia can be quite hard because their neighbors have very similar rosters but also can spam some strong stacks at you. I think its the Kartli who are very strong and can hit you real hard with their medium and elite spears! They were terrible to deal with in my Parthian campaign lol :D
You give the bad general units to generals with low loyalty.
I play for the objectives but I hate how the game forces you to take some random province thousands of miles away from everything around you.
at war with Seleucids, dunno what to do
Just beat them mate ;P
Lol. I'd suggest trying to get good relations with Egypt who should be fighting them any anyone else who is.
Then.. Do not go out of your way to invade the Seleucids until your ready, so use the mountains of Anatolia to ambush their armies easily until your ready.
@@Immersaholic well their armies rn are at Armenia so a blitzkrieg through their undefended territories and kind off just made alot of profit to bargain for peace
@@itshenry8977 That's always a good call too if their armies are busy. Typically fighting them is quite easy because they have enemies in all directions, just gotta get your timing right.
@@Immersaholic everything is going quite well i destroyed 2 Cappadocian armies and took their capital with that steel resource, however Seleucids are massing on a border city near Amesia so i'm rushing my troops there, but can i somehow get pikes? as i understand reforms gonna come, but when? if you know please tell me! thanks
@@itshenry8977 Reforms for all factions here: divideetimperamod.com/reforms/
So yes you should get them eventually, or you could recruit them as mercenaries from Greece and send a general your way. I think the province of Pergamon also has pikemen.
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armenia next then
Thanks for the suggestion mate, I'll see what others suggest and see if we go with it!
I know this is an older video but I hate pontus. Their roster is garbage. One of the worst in the entire game in my opinion.
Interesting, what do you think Pontus needs then?
Personally, I think that their main roster is just a lot of light infantry and cav. If you play campaign you'll notice pontus is surrounded by enemies including Armenia which I view as having a better roster than pontus. Like pontus heavy infantry and cav are beaten out by some of their enemies around them. I just feel like pontus doesn't have one set of units that they specialize in and so it's hard to build a solid army for the long-term game. I find myself hunting for mercenaries in a lot of my games. And it's kind of sucks because pontus has a robust history. A history that includes the leaders you start with on turn one who lead a rebellion against the Romans and really gave them a run for their money. But if you try to compete in game with Rome and other factions you are definitely an underdog. But, in fact I believe that most of the Greco factions have weak rosters. Rhodes, Athens, and even Sparta have terrible rosters in my opinion and they aren't suitable after the early game. Epirus has a better roster than most of them and after Pyrrhus dies Epirus largely fades from history for a while, yet they have one of the best Greek rosters in my opinion. They start with some really freaking good heavy infantry right off the bat and war elephants which are very useful if you know how to use them.
@@Immersaholic in conclusion I think pontus is nothing to write home about, mediocre roster and lackluster. There isn't like one specific unit I can say I really like or is really reliable on their roster. Like their best infantry unit is a generals body guard but it's useless if it's the only one you have. Meanwhile Armenia has legionnaires and nahakaar warriors who's AP damage is out of this world. Along with their even more extensive calvary options.
Armenia is absolutely trash before their reforms in terms of infantry, Pontus has extreme variety in terms of units. Pre reform they have hoplites as a mainline, then you get pikes and a lot of useful units.
Masesyli have a trash roster mate 😅