Would be lovely to see the actual gameplay, just to see the struggle

did u play with the remaster's rebalancing options?

How would you feel about testing out Total Conquest 3.0? I'm looking for some alpha testers :)

You know what? Numidia might well be the best in-game faction, game-design wise. Let me explain what I mean. The whole spirit of early TW games (and especially RTW) is 'rush, rush, rush', it's high risk-high reward gameplay. You gotta be aggressive and capitalize on every opportunity. In many other games (like Civ or smth) you can take your time, slowly develop your cities and technologies before you feel like prepared for war (if at all). But not here. Just about everything about Numidia further exacerbates the value of this approach: 1) Position. On the outskirts of the map, with terrible distances between the settlements (which aren't well developed except for the capital). You better be careful with how you move your unirs to save as many movement points as possible. But, on the other hand, if you start in the corner that means NOTHING can even theoretically attack you from at least 2 sides. So you rush to more densely located provinces (which lie in front of you). Not OP, but actually advantageous in some ways. Balanced. 2) Economy. Again, no well developed cities, no ports, nothing. You need some good money for whatever you're planning on doing so you rush into more prosperous provinces (which lie in front of you). If I remember correctly, Numidia can only reach 4 level settlements (correct me if I'm wrong please) but you're never supposed to fight late game Romans/Greeks/Egypt, so you do it earlier. And as for any of your barbarian rivals, you still have an advantage. Not OP, but actually advantageous in some ways. Balanced. 3) Unit roster. Many people consider it to be the worst or among the worst in the game. But just like with the points above, it's actually more balanced. Yes, you don't get any cheesy late game units. But you have a decent roster with all the basic unit classes: cavalry, missiles (both archers and javelinmen), regular infantry, pike infantry, and missile cav. It's mostly 1 type of unit per class, but it's not about mindlessly spamming 1 unit type unlike many other factions (fellow Greek Cities enthusiasts, I'm looking straight at you), it's about a good army composition. You actually have lots of missile units available pretty early on, one of the fastest missile cavalry units in the game, good heavy cavalry later, and decent pikemen/heavy infantry. None of them are OP, and all of them are good enough, used wisely on a battlefield. Just a couple of examples. You're not supposed to slice through principes with your desert infantry, but you can always hold just long enough to wear them down with your missiles and for your cavalry to rear attack them, while your Numidian cav distracts the enemy cavalary. Or, Egypt has ridiculously OP chariots, and that's why you don't auto-resolve battles with them. Your mediocre desert infantry will be more than enough to deal with them. You can make use of your roster to its full advantage early on, being able to take your mightiest opponents (Carthage, the Roman factions and Egypt) before they get OP. So, all in all, Numidia is hard to play as, but it really rewards skill and awareness, and that's why I actually think it's far the worst faction in the game.

Scythians are easterners with barbarian setup, the things one can do with that wide choice of cavalry is insane, want to arrow down an enemy? You can choose, cheap light horse archers or armored ones to go on en melee; want to chop down heavy units? Here, this girls eat cataphracts for dinner. Want to crush through? You have light cataphracts. You can't not love them. Ps: waiting for the eastern factions review, campaign with armenia was my favorite thing back in the day Ps 2: you called the thracians pushovers TWICE, don't be surprised if a blue haired screaming barbarian tries to cut off your head

Just play Spain next time, much worse

I never tried the numibians but i think I would try to outnumber the enemies ..

britainia when you play it are rough, but as soon that you leave them alone with the Ai, one minute you are fighting carthege the next Britannia has taking most of the map and is number 1 faction.

Would be cool to see another start, maybe rush down numidia, could try and restrict to like 3 infantry allowed per army with elephants

great battle.

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hey i kinda want to play as Numidia now, i exclusively play the game with mods on BI expansion as i really love the era more than the other 2 sadly the mod is no longer available on the workshop. i really love their 500+ cities and it took me a month just to restabilize the Western Romans. Also i think there is a github repo somewhere by modders or the devs that would allow you to easily tweak turn per year as i would like to build some RP for my generals.

I'm surprised you had so much trouble against Spain. Numidia actually has a good early game roster (especially if you stay in the desert), their main problem is that they fall off so hard in the late game that they might as well fall off the edge of the world altogether. I still think that while it's the hardest campaign in RTW for sure, there are quite a few others in Total War that are a LOT harder. The Hattori in Shogun 2, the Western Roman Empire in Attila (also not easy in Barbarian Invasion), the Ottomans in Empire, the Aztecs in Medieval II etc. come to mind.

Is this Rome total war? Looks nothing like mine

no merc elephants? Also I won some hard battles jus by blobing all my cav

Hope you like a whole bunch of nothing

Where do I get my half bag of chips from? Amazing video as always! Very helpful!

I watched this and the barbarian faction one, very good videos king keep it up

Spain s'roster is absolute garbage except 2 units. The only faction to not have archers wtf. It was made out of mockery!

Do you have to have the card before hand, or does getting the spellement unlock that card

Should Thrace be on the barbarian list?

Amazing video as always! Very helpful :)

Those civ icons and the colours hold such a special place in my heart. A nice video analysis, thanks for sharing!

Do you play any late game? After the reforms for example

A work of art! Intimidation at its best! Great video as always!!!

I think the Spartan hoplites also inspire nearby units 🤔 making chain routing harder. Definitely right tactic to take them out 1st. Not sure in RR if units still take more damage from their unshielded side or not ?

Parthia?

Great video! I love the guide!

nice

records world record attempt, doesn't show the time and uploads a cropped edition I wouldn't expect any less from a true wiz player

The greatest general back at it again! great video as always!

you're the best RTW player i have seen, can you make a video about the best rome total war (vanilla) mods that balances the game

It's funny, but this is one of my favorite factions :) Yes, it is very difficult. They have almost no normal units. Legionnaires are available late, and they are not particularly strong. The fight with Reformed Rome is very difficult, and Egypt with its chariots is generally suicide :D I used to capture everything through Spain too. Sometimes it turned out to capture Carthage. The mercenaries helped a lot :) I also tried to capture as many small islands as possible (Sardinia, Crete, Rhodes, etc.), hoping to get more income. Money, it seems to me, is very important for Numidia. Great video! Good luck and success :)

Amazing Victory!!! Great video as always!

Amazing general skills! Best RTW player I've ever seen!

I was doing meh before. just wanted to see a good strat for king borr. was left with well wishes and good info

Charging the enemy on guard mod is not ideal if you want them to kill something fast

Well done lad! Good strategy and thinking

This might be the best video I have ever seen! Great video as always Widzelli!

Congrats!

Is this the original Rome: Total War or the newer remake of it?

Looks like a great campaign! Difficulty level? Legend of Total War has an old campaign of them up from years ago where even he spent most of it bitching about how terrible they were, lol. Ever try Spain? Another great challenge, but at least they have some solid units around which armies can be built (BULL WARRIORS). I would suggest you try Barbarian Invasion Berbers campaign - Numidia part 2, but a little bit better choice of units IMO. Little bit better...

Numidia has definetely an interesting set up of unit roaster, with javelinman being trained at default melee-barracks (T1!) meaning they are cheap javelin throwers in place of town guard. I remember using them with huge number advantage as semi-hastati, with bigger range, more ammo and fast moving at the cost being considerably worse at melee. The only difficult part about that tactic was that training them was easy and fast but they upkeep was quite high. IIRC numidia shared medicore temples with Carthage - Baal (+law), Milquart (+trade) and Tanit (+farming), with the last one being surprisingly good, giving you mix of population growth and moneymaking, and IIRC it had really good retuine members to join you from their temples - Agriculturalist (+1 farming) and Priest of Tanit (+1 farming) meant you could end up with +7 farming or more at T3. Because numidian javelinmen are at barracks, they have their long range missle unit (slingers) put down on lower tier (T1 archery building, needing T2 city) meaning you also get earlier access to actually long range units. The Numidian infantry is even worse than it looks, since all spear units (the ones that always use spears, not hoplites of falanxmen) have +8 when fighting cavalery and -4 when not, meaning they are worse than their already underwhelming stats show on infantry-v-infantry fights.

Nice effort! Will you accept a challenge? Try winning with the parthians or the British(the short camp) but migrate to Greece.

Playing a Numidian campaign right now! Personally I'd suggest the quickest way to shore up your finances if you start this again is to rush taking Carthage and Lilybaeum. If you are successful and quick then it leaves you with much better finances and it's the best time to attack the Roman factions when they are still full of relatively garbage units. Fighting off the Egyptians at Siwa is always going to be a pain, depends how long they take to look at you if you feel like hanging on to it. Good effort on the campaign to get the result still!

Since you dont have siege equipment or other means of breaking the walls, the game thinks you cant break in. The bot meanwhile doesnt do shit, while it is attacking. So the game gives you a draw as an option. As you said. A draw for the defender means defeat. As the enemy army cant retreat anywhere is is desolved.

That was sick

Amazing video! I’m loving the total war content!

Sadly wasting hundreds of hours now farming keys is way off my radar ...not happening so if this is a key boss >>>not happening.

That would be terrifying to see in person.