Exploring the NEW FACTIONS of Total War: PHARAOH's HUGE map update!
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- We're getting a HUGE content update,and with a bigger map come new factions and kings.... Now that 4 new cultures have been revealed,it's time to take a look at which factions and historical figures
are most likely to end up becoming playable in Pharaoh's biggest update yet! Based off of both historical significance AND potential for fun gameplay!
As always,grateful for your continued support ! Timestamps :
Egypt: (0:00)
Greece: (2:44)
Anatolia: (5:28)
Canaan: (8:32)
Mesopotamia: (10:09)
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#Egypt #troy #mycenae #ancient greece #bronzeage #history #hittites #canaanites #babylon #assyria #pharaoh
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Considering they also said they are going to add the Dynasty system (mortality and successions), then I could see them merging Setnakhte and Ramesses to make one faction
Good point,curious what kind of CK3 mess we'll get with the family tree and succession of Seti and Tausret ( and well,ol' Merneptah)
@@ReptilicusTV I pointed this out on the official TW discord server and asked it as a question on the Q&A. Like they could have can do it this way, if Setnakhte doesn't have any more children or surviving children besides Ramesses then when Setnakhte dies than Ramesses inherits his territory and if Ramesses dies before Setnakhte and doesn't have children than Setnakhte inherits Ramesses's territory. With Seti and Tausret their eldest child will take the territory of the first one to die and the second one will take the others but if they have one child than that child gets both. Then I guess Seti can inherit Merneptah's territory unless there could be winning Merneptah's favor in which Tausret, Merneptah, and Amenmesse competes to win over Menerptah to become his official heir with Seti having a slight advantage over the other two, with Ramesses and Setnakhte can buy their way into this since they are distant kin I believe. If your faction doesn't have an heir than when your faction leader dies the best general character becomes the faction leader and you take a 50% reduction in your legitimacy points, which could mean Civil War if you barely hold the throne. Then on the death of Merneptah have it a choice for AI or human player if they are not Merneptah's chosen heir to take on the heir apparent in a Civil War.
Honestly somehow missed that this isn't a thing anymore. That was half the fun of playing shogun, you'd defeat someone and then all their sons
Assyria and Babylon are the factions i was waiting for since day one.
Thanks for the vid, mate! Keep em coming.
Same,way too hyped for Babylon in particular tbh. More to come,don't you worry ,glad you enjoyed it!
Ya'll remember that there was supposed to be 3 faction packs dlcs, we got one already as a free update (the high tide update), and a campaign dlc (which could be this map expansion). So there is a possibility if we only get 4 factions with this update that we could see more factions added later by free updates or by paid DLC this depends how ever on how the games does after this update.
Reptilicus is finally back! And with a lot of good history info, glad to hear&learn
Necromancy exists,I raise from the dead
CA should avoid m shape composite bows with siyahs, and stick to D shape or gullwing bows or deflex reflex bows. During this time we have no evidence of “Hunnic style” bows yet
Just found your channel. Awesome to see Pharaoh-focused content. Subbed!
Thanks,I'm glad you enjoyed it ! I remember your content from ages ago,used to watch - why'd you stop YT ?
@@ReptilicusTV wow what a small world. I stumbled across your channel a week ago looking for Pharaoh videos and loved your content, and now you tell me that you have watched my videos in the past? I'm honored! Your knowledge of the era is really engaging to listen to.
I quit CZcams because of a combination of school and Total War burnout. We've been in a historical Total War drought for years now, but this Pharaoh update has my undivided attention.
@@happycompy This is what we call a lovely small world. Thank you ! And i'm happy to see you back,I understand the pain of RL and....the lack of quality historicals for a long ass time. Hopefully you'll stick around and we can do some games or smth on Pharaoh!
I really hope that the Myceneans get more than one ruler since Mycenean Greece wasn't exactly a united land. I really hope they put Setnakhte (the dad of Ramses III, one of my favorite pharaohs).
p.s. Welcome back, dude.
Thanks bro ! And yeah,having Agamemnon only would make for a stale campaign...
@@AngryHistorian87 Elamites were fascinating tbh,they had a huge impact in the previous and the later era until they were conquered,I'm REALLY hoping to see them done justice. As far as I'm aware no game did Elam,or.... did it correctly.
i think if mycene and troy get added they will get the original names such as Wilusa instead of troy . they would be no amazonian tribes south but Lukka tribes instead who were seapeoples . so they will be real change at the identity factions but i think they will keep the look of the greeks and trojans from troy total war
Yeah I agree,so far they used accurate city names like Mennefer and Waset so we're gonna see Wilusa 100 %
9:00 "you know nothing, Jon Snow. May you know it! May you know it!"
Yup you were right about Agamemnon being the Achaean faction-leader.
Used up my good luck for the rest of the year with some of the predictions in this / the next vid
It would make this game awesome if tactical elements from Shogun 2 is returned along with naval battles
Bruh don't even get me started on naval battles,how I miss those aaaaaaaaaa
It is finally great to see you making videos again my lord!
thanks bro,It wasn't possible to return till now.
I see you everywhere, Medjay ;)
Everywhere wher pharaoh is
this may have saved the game. I would love to play as the Mesopotamians in the Bronze age and expand Babylon to Egypt to Greece. Hopefully they fix some of the bugs especially with the Chariots.
100% will bring a noticeable increase in player count - anything is noticeable compared to the current one so...we'll see how many people stick around.
At this point, can honestly say its gonna be a legit mediterranean bronze age total war. I love it. If Achaea and Asia minor really will be added in, followed by mesopotamia...I have no words. Just got the game and started playing after months of refusing to even look at it. Now finally, I can say hope is on the horizon.
Yeah,if it launched with this map the overall perception of the game would've been different. Now we gotta see the support after the update,which should be coming.
Now that they have started the redemption arc, can we get modding support?
we would need to move the starting date to 1540, in this way, in addition to the current factions, you would also have Hyksos, Mitanni, ancient Babylonians (Ammorian), Sealand (Akkadian-Sumerian) and Minoans (Neopalatial period)
An earlier start date would be amazing. There's so much potential in that,I'd kill for Sealand dynasty and the Minoans. Maybe a mod team will pick up that monumental task?
@@ReptilicusTV yes, it's actually something that modders can do, perhaps even better of the developers so we remove the risk of any paid faction packs. Anyone who talks to developers on discord would be better off focusing on what modders can't do: 1) request to add the area around the western area of Lake Van (the one to the south east is already planned) in order to add the Urartu faction and very slight enlargement towards the interior of the territory of the Elamite kingdom of Susa, with these two arrangements the map for me becomes 10/10 2) make creative assembly remember that their success over their rivals was possible thanks to two fields in which they have always been at the forefront: the size of the battles and the animations of the units, we must bring animations of the same quality as Attila in pharaoh 3) I've never played Pharaoh so I don't know if there is any proto cavalry unit like in Troy, if there isn't one it should be added because its animations would be fundamental in the event of the creation of a mod that brings the game into 800/600 BC (Neo-Assyrian Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire, Cimmerian and Scythian invasions etc etc)
This update may convince me to actually buy this game. Im still waiting for reviews, however. That being said, I'll never forgive CA for making this game instead of Empire 2 or Medieval 3. It saddens me to know we'll probably never get Empire 2. That game has so much potential.
Never say never,they'll surely need to cook mechanics for E2/M3 and not release it half baked,they know how badly the community wants it.
Was a while but back for good ! Which faction / area are you most excited for ? Elam fanboy here
Personally, I'm pumped for Pontus.
@@x-munk "everywhere I go....I see his face"
Mesopotamia as a whole
But honestly, I want to be Ramesses and sack the city walls of Babylon itself.
@@ReptilicusTVWere Elamites modern day Pakistani?
@@JayKahns Their language was an isolate, so far nothing shows it's relation to any other group - some parts of the population before/during the pre-elamite period certainly migrated from the east while the rest were natives to the area.
I think they missed the most obvious faction - where are the Israelites???!!!
The crazy part is there are some references already ingame with flavor text such as David's skill with the sling
@@ReptilicusTVmaybe this a clue of things to come?
As an Israeli player, I would LOVE to get more Canaanite variety, or even maybe tribe and city state model / mini campaign map. of course, if you venture a bit into the early iron age, Assyrians and an alliance of the local kings which apposed them would be fabulous.
Really can't recommend enough a book called "Samson" by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, one of the most influential modern Jewish-national thinkers and writers. it describes the biblical story with much more historical and contextual detail - for example naming one of the Philistine characters "Aktur", an echo of the legend of troy and possible origin of the sea people. amazing read.
I've read some material on the Israelite soldiers in Assyrian armies recently, and i'll add your book to my "read asap" list. Canaan was handled kinda half-baked honestly,the region has SO MUCH potential with units and tribes.
You are european settler who larp as middle eastern
Tfu khanzir
Lookin reaaallll good!
Apparently rising from the dead wasn't so bad
It’d be cool to have a chance to revive Minoan culture.
100 % . I'm gonna do a reverse Peleset campaign where I recolonise Crete,but that's about as much as we can do. Having more CK3esque decisions would be amazing.
As Egyptian I am waiting for this impatiently because the game at first was a little boring
It's easy to burn out with the starting options,this will surely shake things up for the better
@@ReptilicusTV We're just waiting.
Great video.
Thanks,glad you enjoyed it !
I need the Assyrians to be in the game
100 % question is who will they choose to make the starting king
I said from the start TW Pharaoh should have been a expansion for Troy. Troy is unironically the best Modern TW game and the could have really made it into something special if they didn’t do the epic store exclusivity and marketed the game better
I really enjoyed Troy ,honestly. It's a shame it was pretty much dead on arrival for most people outside of the " hey,let's get it for free" deal.
In what universe is Troy better than 3 Kingdoms?
@@KellyBomaye this one
With the new dynasty system they might could implement a confederation system for tausret just like in 3k with meng huo and zherong
3k added so much good stuff it would be a shame to not see some of it in Pharaoh,really curious how the confederation and succession will be handled with the update.
Babylon and Assyria hype
Mesopotamia chads rise up
we get
Assyria Babylon Mycia and troy
168 settlements
see lanes
Dynasty and family mechanics
mortality
new legacys
reworked mechanics
150 new units
Yup the update is huge,but there's gotta be more than 4 playables with the new scope...think of it as different starting positions!
Looking forward to play as Sparta and go on adventures far far away
BRONZE AGE ALEXANDER THE GREAT RUN GO GO GO
sadly the end date is 100 years, or so, before Sparta was founded.
I can’t wait to play in Babylon
Same bro,if their army is modelled historically it'll be VERY strong....now Kassite generals were a different story XD
The only characters I'm here for are Reptilicus and the one who always comments on your videos asking for Aztecs.
THIS FOR THE CULTURE.
Assyria WE OUT HERE
Ninurta sound like inertia cuz once you get Assyrians going THEY DONT STOP ong frfr
Do you think we'll get the city of Babylon/palace of Knossos or Nestor's palace as a custom battle map? This is something I want so bad.
I doubt about Knossos,I think it'll be a generic Greek city , but Babylon 10000000 % has to make the cut,we have unique battle maps for some super important cities like Mennefer in the base game
who had minor factions for this game in their bingo cards?
Think I spent this year's luck with some of the faction predictions in this one
elam
i already liked pharaoh but i would love an amazigh faction
Where would they put it?
@@nothing00164 in Libia of course
From Acheans I just want a sterotype, Aryan Chad of a statuesque build. Whoever the faction leader will be, I just want him to look like Brad Pitt or a young Gigachad. Diomedes in Troy was a great fantasy.
Peak efficient warrior physique. I won't be surprised if they just end up copy pasting Agamemnon and the others straight from Troy. I'd totally do a Bronze Age Alexander the Great run with Achilles
Aryan?
We want MINOANS!!!!!!!!!!
The Minoans had already been wiped out by the Mycenaeans at that time, so it would not be historical if they appeared there.
It would be epic if there was an option to "reform" the late Minoan culture once you reoccupy Crete with the Peleset...but that'll be in the hands of the modders I'm affraid.
@@primaitalia6586 There isn't evidence of mainland Greeks settling on Crete, the strontium isotope markers from dental remains in Knossos and other tombs long suspected as being from the mainland were all definitively Cretan. Its much more the decades following the eruption and their "fall from grace" led to mainland culture spreading and eventually rebellions and new ruling family aligned with mainland culture
@@KellyBomaye It is a fact that the Mycenaeans destroyed the Minoans. And it doesn't take long to find out about it. This is thanks to the aggressiveness of the Mycenaean kings. The same thing that the Trojan culture experienced. That was far too long ago, it even happened a few centuries before the destruction of Troy. To be able to prove everything 100%. For my part, it's a shame, I would have liked to know more about the Minoans.
@@primaitalia6586 lmfao. There's no direct evidence for the Trojan war either. You say this is fact but you have no clue what youre talking about. Trojan culture? Troy was Luwian culture.
whatever happened to all the factions being playable? gotta be my favourite feature of og total war
I miss it tbh,paywalls and "modern gaming practices" happened.
my goat
we back in business 🔥
What about Achilles?
Hopefully added further north in Greece,it would make for an epic Bronze Age Alexander the Great run
This makes Troy : A Total War saga a wasted potential, I mean why play Troy when you have this fully completed Bronze age Total War game.
True,I can see people playing it IF they enjoy mythos/truth behind the myth but that's about it.
Approximate date for the update?
~ looking like a few months if the blog posts slow down
Is that concept art for Ramesses' dad in the miniature?
Yup! Datamined from the files,there's a ton of Troy stuff in there since day 1 as well.
@@ReptilicusTV Oh, I missed out on that. What kind of Troy stuff? Eh, realistically, who can be the Mycenaean faction leader in the Pharaoh? ;l I really want to fulfil my mythological hero fantasy.
@@AlecFortescue Everything,literally everything from faction symbols to god portraits to.....Memnon. Even the skybox turns into the Troy one if you just edit something in the files. I'm pretty sure it'll be Agamemnon just for the pop culture value tbh.
@@ReptilicusTV huh, doesn't just that prove that Pharaoh was a Troy expansion and they didn't bother cleaning up the assets before shipping?
@@AlecFortescue Yeah,literally feels like that bro
You forgot to mention Ethiopia!
Maaaaaaaaaaybe I was saving it for something :innocent:
WE ARE SO BACK
:muscle: WE PUMPIN'
maybe they won’t need named esisting characters, they will have family tree?
we'll see how it goes,we definately lack named historical characters for the west part of the map
@@ReptilicusTV yes, but the barbarians of rome 1 did as well, so….
WB!
Thanks ! Time to pump more content
we get now weekly blog post i hope you react to them
its been over 3 months since your last video. Hope such breaks wont become a habit
Unfortunately RL was VERY chaotic so I was completely unable to do videos,but now we're back on track,fulltime!
Next time we gotta hire Indiana Jones to safe your youtube career.
It's like the ark,you open it and it melts your face
Ok Reptard.
Playing Manor Lords
People forget about the records that foreign peoples translate everything into their language. There is a record about Aleksandr. That is a typical Greek name called Alexandros. You can tell from that alone that the translation is correct. Paris had two names. Not just Paris but also Aleksandros. One of the most striking pieces of evidence that Troy is Trojan-Greek. According to Greek stories, Dardanos, the progenitor of Troy, lived with his army and people in Arcadia in central Greece. And then emigrated and traveled up to the Hellespont. He is the forefather of Priam and Aeneas. Aeneas, who can also be seen in Total War Troy, was the last ruler of Dardania in Priam's time, named after the progenitor Dardanos. Then came the son Tros, after which the landscape was named when he said goodbye to his father from the city. Then came his son Ilos, who built the city and after which the original name is Ilion (Troia). Then comes the next king, Laomedon of Troy, and then we're already at Priam. Where Prince Hector is the crown prince. Everything was recorded by the Greeks. The fact that Troy is also very rich would explain why the tyrannical Agamemnon was so keen to destroy the Trojan Empire. Because of wealth. That's why I hope that we'll be able to play the crown prince Hector. I like him a lot. And I'd love to fend off the Mycenaean invasion and the waves of the Sea Peoples that are still to come. But based on the circumstances alone, I think Troy will be very difficult to play. On the left are the Mycenaeans and the Sea Peoples. On the right are the Hittites. There will be friendly relations with the Assyrians because historically the Assyrians wanted to help the Trojans against the Mycenaeans, but they came much too late. Only the Egyptians made it in time. But it is historical that Troy was taken and burned down. Traces of war were found on its ruins. And the place was exactly as the ancient Greeks described it.
Troy will be a nightmare to play for sure,there are already so many rampaging hordes of Kaskians and Phrygians in Anatolia...gonna be a full on war zone once the map is expanded with more threats.
See the subscriber at 999 , I am the 1000th subscriber :).
THE CHOSEN ONE
Hebrews! Where my Isrealites at!?
greece: Agamenomm Odysseus
Troy: Hector Sarpedon
Assyria: the Enlil-kudurrī-uṣur Aššur-nirari III.
Babylon: Adad-šuma-uṣur Hallutuš-Inšušinak(Elam)
Great choices ! If Sarpedon makes it in I'll livestream myself getting mauled by a leopard , i really want his drip
@@ReptilicusTV hahahahh iam hyped i discorverd you channel and subscribed
@@mariusbehm9874 Glad you enjoy it,and i'll make videos about the new updates don't worry
@@ReptilicusTV great iam hyped
@@mariusbehm9874 LETSGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Until they add a family tree and stop focusing on hero characters and instead factions I'm not playing this
We gett Mortality and a dynasty system
100 % understandable that the hero focus is offputting but luckily we're getting a proper family tree and dynasty mechanic in the update.
@@ReptilicusTVunrelated but you should make a rome 2 playthrough
@@Gdoug325 I'll do one soon,just need to figure out what'll be a good faction to do.
@@ReptilicusTV Rome or Guals should also try more ai armies mod with it multiple huge battles
i soo many times wanted to buy this game, but its simply doesent have quality of real total war. Still w8ing for Empire 2, Mediveal 3 and WW1!
EGYPTIANS ALL THE WAY! EGYPT WILL RISE
EGYPT CHADS RISE UP