From 22:45 - 22:55, is the Ceasar thing a reference to either #HBOsROME, or #CrossingTheRubicon...?

I was genuinely a bit curious as to how your faction leader has lived so long and thought you may have broken the game a bit with when you pinned the jullii in, because you clearly broke them and you may have broke this. After googling it, I came across this article and I think you may have inadvertently done some of these things, therefore, there may be a small chance that your faction leader is immortal... I copy and pasted it and put it below because it wouldn't let me provide a link Guide on how to get your General to live to 128 years old and beyond (age resets to zero) First, I’ll explain a little bit about how the game’s age mechanics work along side the hardcoding. Age is hard coded with the amount of turns in a year. Its code is written in 8 bit, so 128 years old is the oldest any general can be, before going back to age zero. The general’s picture will become younger, and all his traits and followers will remain. (Awesome!) The game also has a hidden code with a varying percentage of chances to trigger events. These percentages are based on variables, such as followers, traits, and Influence. (Command and Management won’t effect age much, if at all) Apparently, Influence affects your standing with the Senate and your family holding as many offices as possible helps reach old age. It helps by avoiding being asked to commit suicide or accused of financial irregularities. It also helps, because the game is coded not to kill a faction leader and another family member who currently hold a Senate office. (Meaning the game won’t let you loose two Senate positions and a faction leader to natural death in one turn) The goal for reaching old age, is to maximize your chances getting a favorable outcome at the end of each turn. Once a turn is ended, the game will calculate all the variables and hopefully you’ll avoid a natural death. Ending a turn is like rolling the dice and seeing what you get. If you don’t like what you get, load the last End Turn save and roll again. There is a hidden mechanic that starts at age 60, it increases the chances of natural death. The good news is, that at age 80 (for some reason) the chances of death go back down. Other variables are security and loyalty. Security helps prevent assassins, always good for a long life. And loyalty helps with avoiding bribes. Movement points help you do more per turn. Meaning less time marching and more time conquering. My MOD list: (Using these three mods are the only time I’ve gotten to age 128) 1. Swagger’s Blood Mod 2. Recruitable Generals 3. Officers Here are some Traits that will help your chances: 1. Holding Senate offices (the more the better 2. “Austere” (300% increase to bribe) 3. “Blessed with Vitality” (25% movement, 20% construction cost, +3 man…all my old generals had this one) 4. “Great Deceiver” (+1 inf, +1 com, 15% senate election) 5. “Hale and Hearty” (+6 hit points) 6. “Virtus” ( +3 inf, 15% senate election) 7. “Consummate Politician” (+3 inf, 15% senate election) 8. “Proven Loyalties” (200% increase to bribe) 9. “Obsessed by Security” (+4 personal security) 10. “Rhetorical Expert” (+2 inf, +1 man, 15% senate election) Here are some Followers that will increase your chances: 1. Chirugeon: resurrects 15% casualties after a battle 2. Physician: Prevents disease, resurrects 10% casualties, increases chance of children. 3. Drill Master: 25% movement, 10% training 4. Honest Man: 200% increase to bribe 5. Geographer: 15% movement, 10% tax 6. Librarian: +1 inf, +1 man 7. Biographer: +1 inf 8. Pet Lion: +1 security, +1 command 9. Veteran Centurion: +1 security, +1 command 10. Priest of Bacchus: +2 inf, +1 man (really any priest is good) 11. Military Tribune: +1 com, 10% senate election To get these traits and followers, you need to build places of education and public buildings. Then leave your general with full movement points in that city for a chance to get a trait or follower. The longer you wait and the higher level the building the more likely you’ll get one. The other way is you use console commands for PC, using the give_trait or give_ancillary (follower) command prompt. Example: type it exactly as below; give_trait Flavius Julius Energetic 4 This will give the “Blessed with Vitality” trait. give_ancillary this doctor. This website will help. gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/931860-rome-total-war-gold-edition/cheats Now that you maximized your variables for old age, try to only get 1 or 2 generals at a time to really old age. Any more than that, and you’ll have to reload the last End Turn a lot. The chances of atleast one of them dying at end turn is too high. The game is also coded to not let your faction leader die again of natural causes after you reload your last End Turn save. As your general ages, remember negative traits compound. When you slaughter so many cities over the many decades it gives you a lot of negative traits. I found it beneficial to let another general or captain kill the populace. You’ll get a lot of Mad, Insane, Blood lust, negative type traits if you don’t. I hope this helps you all. Remember to load the last End Turn, whenever he dies of natural causes and roll the dice of destiny again.

"Field of Mars"? Is General Sneezes holding out on us from Europa Barbarorum gameplay? :O

Welcome back Imperator! Fun factoid; in the old R1 Cyrene had an occasional habit of revolting against Egypt, at which point it would invariably go over to Macedon. When the declaration of war happened between them many episodes ago, i assumed that was what'd happened, and from the looks of Cyrene's garrison, it looks likely. As to the random night seige battle thing, i assume it's part of a way the devs of the remaster tried to give the player more opportunity to get the Night Fighter trait, but that's just a theory :)

Oh my god your faction leader is 102?! I’ve never seen that in all my years playing this game. All hail Tiberius!

I love this content. Better that i can Binge instead of waiting for new episodes. That may be the future?

No trade in Egypt could be because of plague!

Late comer! Lub it yo.🎉

Awesome Fun.

Glad to see you back, but how dare you get ill and allow things far behind your control to cause a delay. The audacity. 😂

Just got done with a shit shift, and then this drops. Man, keep it up with these clutch uploads! Welcome back by the way, we missed you. You haven’t missed a step, clearly.

Wellcome back good sirrrr

Your assault plans are a total shambles. You first actually placed your attacking units with rams at the main Gates! Where the enemy would expect you too attack. If you looked carefully to where the defending enemy where mainly congregating @ 14:31 you would haves them in a pincer and in total Arcs of fire from your Missle troops. Also you need to have Dog units! To take on Squirmisher units + and even Enemy Missle troops

You are correct in incompetence! Firstly your best units are Archer's long range, high ammo Count! Secondly! You need to get War dogs, great at ripping any unit to pieces and cause absolute shit their pants, also start giving Baths into your towns

Any ETA on when part 22 is coming out? Need my fix lol

Very curious to see the army of Doom in Italy vs. the Julii stacks

Hey brother you outnumbered the Egyptians by 1000 troops. I know this is a year old but I was looking over your army theirs you outnumbered them My bad I forgot about the reinforcements 😅. Love your series bro

how do you get a unicorn

Love your videos mate! Would you make a Greek or Macedonian campaign? Would love to see that let’s play! Thanks

my take? pull back from offensive duties leaving good garrisons behind.... one more settlement will trigger the ai, i think, so ideally culturally overbuild all the missile places in Greece for better catapults etc ;)

So, instead of going for unlimited riches and the population of Egypt, you went for three poorest villages in the north of Europe. Why? XD

I watched a clip video from HBO's Rome, and next thing I know this is in my recommended feed, so clearly this means something! Idk what it means, but something. Enjoyed watching you thrash the spartans, I'm going to go back to the first episode and catch up, so I'll see you in a bit :P

Pursuing escaping units is so annoying. Sometimes having horse units blocking the escape path of retreating forces instead of having them attack, stops enemy from getting away. They turn back into your pursuing infantry.

Have a enjoyable new year and happy your sticking to the gremans next

Hope you had a lovely Xmas, General! Two very impressive battles this episode; the second one against the Greek Cities particularly was some excellent Roman cosplaying - yummy :) Might be worth building up defensive garrisons in your border cities with the other Roman factions, in case the pre-emptively attack you once the game sees you as capable of launching your bid for power. Looking forward to next episode!

Happy Bru Year !

So glad the videos are back after the Christmas break!

Part 4 when?

difficult level ?

This is exactly the video series I needed.

The Greeks are not going down without a fight.

Good episode; I'll be looking forward to the storming of Sparta...

31:50 great battle tactics and those Greeks are tough even without there general

Try using fire arrows on elephants to make them route faster, enjoying the series just watched all the Egyptian campaign in about 2 weeks

hi mate love the series keep up the great work!

Yes foreign spies do cause unrest counter it with your own spies put them in settlement

Sorry you lost that frist battle but it's kinda of a fun and not fun challenge ( and boo night battles ) 56:52 do you have a bird in the house ? What was that noise

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Use croton to train siege, and ship them where you need. It’s in the heart of Italy. you said you don’t want to train early cohorts

You mentioned the chance for power potentially coming up soon. I understand you wouldn't go for that straight away and rightly so because as you say you need to get ready on all fronts so rival factions won't take advantage of the civil war. But I remember from your Julii campaign you wanted to do a quick assault on Rome and just take it to Wipeout to send it instantly but you couldn't do that with regular onagers because by the time you get round to that they usually have an epic stonewall or at the very least large down walls which regular cannot get through. So in a settlement that is near Rome such as Tarentum or Croton. You may want to start working toward a siege engineer now in preparation for when that opportunity occurs, because then you'll be able to put heavy onagers on the field straight away. To get the walls down and just have a reinforcing army come in to clean up.

If you see lone "rebel" generals its much better to bribe them because you "adopt" them in the family and get an extra general (best unit in the game) for a measly 5k gold or less.

:57 that was me in the last episode that suggested that ... thank you for accepting that challenge from your youtube senate !

Someone else made that point about Carthage instead of me. But that is a great idea. I was on about doing an Uber Doom stack with urban cohorts and praetorian cavalry

I like to think Titus was beaming with pride when your troops captured Alesia 😂 Gone but never forgotten…

I will take the 4th option

This question has perhaps already been asked but - If influence is gained through office, how is it attributed for the non-Roman factions?

I know it may not be feasible but out of curiosity do you think you may try and go for an Uber Doom stack with urban cohorts and praetorian cavalry in? I know the recruitment requirements for a ball ache, but you're still fairly close with some of them and once you have the buildings the units don't take any longer to recruit. Could go absolutely nuts. Especially as in some of your more advanced buildings you have the ability for some upgrades anyway.

In stead of going for the gremans take on carthage for sure I like how you move your troops when attacking the wall the battle management is impressive and gets me thinking on how i am to attack the walls in my lets play . Thanks

I still vote you send an army to Egypt or in to that side of the map and cut off the scipi...

Miss this game. It was a fantastic intro for many into the Total War franchise.