I’ve been enjoying your Julii campaign. I’m also doing the Julii but I’m going for world conquest since I completed the campaign a while back. Taken out Britannia and the Gauls, fighting in Spain and about to start hitting Germania. It seems they have been expanding east a good ways and the Thracians appear to be doing good as well. Have you ever done the Thracians?

Insightful!

If you don't know it bridge battle are king 3 units of mercenary pikes and all the Cretean and roman archers you can muster. Maybe a few infantry for backup and some light cav for clean up and you can trade over 300-1 with them all day

how did you manage to move the troops without leaving the formation

Como você fez para mover e manter a formação?

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Did they even stand a chance?

Looks like a fire game

keep it up :)

yeah :)

I bought the Rome Re-Mastered and am playing with a Realistic mod. It's better because a lot of the Leaders have infantry bodyguards, so they don't die as easily. I still play at VH/VH and with Iron Man rules, to keep it interesting. The UI is a bit awkward but the game is much like the original, without the Rome II 'improvements' that were so broken.

cool vid and good historical information :)

in the future you should play rome remastered with the imperium surrectum mod its way bigger and cooler than the basic game a lot more fun

In your first battle (of this video) against the Britons your reinforcements weren’t under AI command. So, when they appeared at the edge of the battlefield, as you didn’t have a full stack, it released a maximum number of units required to give you a full stack only. Had you placed the reinforcement army under AI, all units would have joined the battle.

As with your other battle, you’ve placed your range units right up front, exposed and vulnerable, and not activated fire at will on your Hastati. You may find that if you place your Hastati up front fire at will, with your range units tucked behind your front line, put guard mode on, then move this battle formation steadily towards the enemy, you’d speed up the battle, take out their infantry more quickly as you smash into their flanks with your Cav. You almost lost this battle due to a poor battle formation, didn’t use range weapons more effectively, and faffed about trying to turn the enemy.

I can understand a fort at the Pyrenees to limit Spains advance North into your territory, but not the fort by the bridge near Massilla. A decent army with range units would quite easily defend that area. The fort to the north west along the coast may also prove pointless, but moving it farther east along the coastline would be more effective. Forts positioned to your Eastern border would prove effect against the opportunist Britons. On the battle I noticed that you drew up the battle formation with three archer units exposed in the front line. As the enemy advanced you then repositioned your units but then had to pull the archers back behind infantry without getting off a single arrow. I would have used that line up of two rows of infantry with my range units tucked in behind the infantry (set to fire at will), they could start picking off the advancing army before they reached your front line. Also noticed that you hadn’t set your Principes to fire at will, meaning they didn’t get a chance to throw their pilum at oncoming charging units. Making the best of range units really does help to wear the enemy down.

Your battle formation was poor. Should have grouped both Hastati units together, with your range unit tucked in behind. Position the Cav unit near the settlement alternative entrance. Take out as many of the enemy with your range unit and the Hastati pilum before charging into the worn down enemy flank.

They broken skirmishers reduced morale. Once the first histati unit broke, the general started hitting already engaged units in the flank. He rolled your entire line.

Try building troops rather than tearing buildings down.

It is sad that they go through the effort to improve so many features, yet, the AI still charges into a massed army and commits suicide. meh Your spy opened the gats at Cirta, for your attack. Cool.

"Promo SM"

Re: The buildings destroyed in Carthage, there's an old saying: Proceed in haste, repent at leisure...heh

I have to say that the weakness and quick fall of Carthage is disappointing. It makes the game look too easy.

Ahh... Scipio is not so lethargic as I remembered. heh, They took Thapsus already! Lol... When you took the walls, I finished eating, washed the dishes, used the bathroom, and returned and the troops were still maneuvering inside the city. Surely this will turn out well! Oh, my... Bye, bye Velites Ahh... I thought you'd enslave at Carthage. You said earlier that you wanted to build up the smaller cities' population. That would have been an appreciable boost, over 7,000. It would also make the city easier to keep happy.

I missed hearing the speeches in other TW games. Glad to hear them again. Hmm... Again you treat your Generals as cavalry and then send them far from your troops. Could have been worse! That initial rout could have been disastrous. I wonder if the Sabine wives found that their condition was much improved with the Romans, thus leading them to speak for peace? My experience with Rome 1 was that the Scipio were not very aggressive after taking Sicily. Carthage was usually allowed to build up with molestation. I don't like leaving a Gaul army sitting on your border.

Does the Diplomacy permit for bribing Narbo Martius into Rome's hands? Hmm... Very ahistorical approach, but the, the game is, too. lol I agree about the UI being a bit inferior. Regarding the AI, I'm wondering if the old Darth Mod was updated for this game? It really made battles more challenging. I'm also looking at the Europa Barbarorum mod. I don't know if the latter affects the AI skill. I'm watching a horror show at the walls of Carthage! Wow! And, that unit is NOT your cavalry, it's your General! He should remain with the troops, adding his bonuses for proximity, yes? Oh, my! It's worse than I thought. Really, though, you might have expected HIS Generals' units to be strong, too, especially if you had backed them into the city square. Gah... annihilation! You may console yourself that more than one Roman army met a similar fate at the hands of Carthage.

I appreciate the historic info although, like yourself, I've been steeped in Roman history for a long time...heh. American, living in Hawaii.

Jeez... General dead immediately upon contact! I loved Rome I and am considering buying this one and getting back into the game. Can't believe your bad luck!

Nice videos! Even if you have setbacks and hard time in battles, they make the game even more interesting