Where are you man, you ok ?

Hoping to see you back for the next big historical TW game.

Playing Armenia... showing up to Galitia spamming fucking Levy Freemans tfw

Hi maximus We make a mod for Rome 2 and going to upload it on steam but before that We will be very happy if you like to test our beta version

Oh my god, you make it look so easy. I had to replay this mission like 5 times to get a win. I could never finish those heavy spear units at the end, it was agony. After watching this video, I had to replay that mission once more. I got a better result, but still Pyrrhic. You are a true general! Well done!

Old but gold

Still usable, every faction can now even bring long sword cohorts

Minor issue with the (admittedly 10 year old) test: the hoplites ran all the way there. You can see by the middle of the fight the hoplites were winded, and the principes still fresh. Winded = 20% reduction to attack. By the end, the hoplites were tired (30% reduction), and the principes active (no effect).

After watching this video and finding out how archers and crossbowmen work, i am starting to think total war is more a sandbox than rts Reaisticlaly elite or amateur shouldn't matter, whilst archer do have better fire rate, it should be crossbows with both more damage and range. So elite archers having range of 200 and elite crossbowmen range of 125 i said is utter bullshit in regard of logic. As string pull on a bow is physicla where as string pul on crossbow is mechanical (mechanical>physical) that said realistically it is crossbows who should have 200 range and bows 175 at most. Also in games like empire, napoleon or warhammer, why do muskets have same range as archers and crossbows. same being slingshots vs javelinment, with javelins neing the superior range as slingshots are pretty much random at when the projectile is released.

How do I build abode is shams Champions

Is this a lifetime access?

I fought the Armenians with the steppe lancers and got 750 kills with one unit. They are very vulnerable though.

This is not how you play, you do not have a stretched out thin pike wall. What are you 12?

ON THE WATCH

pikes are for defending cities/towns and block a road/gateway they work wonders and are a force multiplier, in open field battles I'd rather take decent spearmen.

In campaign always have a champion with your attacking barbarian armies. Frenzy makes a big difference.

3.0/3.0 settings in kv_rules keeps FF tame.

And now that everyone has complained about the spaghetti effect, you can't get units to spread out as far as you want. The devs at CA and the community always prove how they just never have any real perspective. So we end up with arcadey games based on the level of 1st world problems and so much whining.

Thank you 👍👍👍

Alans for life! 👊

So basically, you need to face a pike formation that won't act like a pike formation

Is running away from shock cavalry charge and attack on when shock cavalry lost momentum is effective?

Seeing the cavalry gallop right into the enemy is very satisfying.

Rome 1 pikes comming at you like you fucked their wifes wtf

Even the AI does this. I just finished a Caesar in Gaul campaign as the Romans on very hard and in many battles the AI attacked my front line head on and then pulled its units straight through my legionaries (still mostly intact) and demolished my skirmishers. Drove me mad. It especially liked doing this when having more infantry than me. Charged my front line with a superior amount of units, then pulled half of them through and attacked my skirmishers or my front line from behind. I've been playing this game for more than a thousand hours and for some reason this mostly seems to happen in Caesar in Gaul. That's my impression at least.

Ebdanians have some fairly good elite level cav (ranged with low ammo but good in melee too), nicely armoured infantry and some decent skirmisher units. Pretty mid faction overall though. I think Caledonians are the standout faction cos of their excellent anti-cav spearmen that scare horses along with their elite archers and they even have some pretty good axemen. With a bit of tactics you can be unstoppable with them and I'd actually consider them to be a fair bit above average overall. Picts just have an awful roster though. The only thing they have going for them is their infantry which really isn't great especially with their poor armour and lack of quality spearmen like the Caledonians have.

no new videos Maximus??? where the hell are you all this years

The Settlement Recruitment Beacon DOES broadcast on your Pip-Boy, you just gotta wait like two minutes and then you'll hear the message and music. Just tune it in and walk around for a while. You will hear it broadcast every so often.

the hand for the female look so bad and gross

Tiw Is an earlier name for "Tyr" the god of war, much less prevalent God in the scandinavian peninsula, no place-names etc of him in here Sweden or Norway however there are findings related to him in Denmark and mainland Northern Europe. Tor is not however a God of war, the gods of war has mainly been tyr in mainland Europe and odin in scandinavia, Reading up on these two gods and how they replaced one another in different parts and evolved is really interesting! About Göteborg! We also have 3 regions(as all countries) and one of them is called "Götaland"(land of geats), "svealand"(land of svear), "norrland"(land of the north)

Du är svensk eller hur?🤔

really helpful thanks!!!

Can’t believe he died of Ligma 😔

I know this is an old video but "I made Rome great again" by playing as the Western Roman Empire, I happened to beat the campaign as them way back then. Oh yeah and I brought back paganism.

Bro, this is the most useful video I've found since I started playing a couple of months ago. Thanks!

Thanks for the advice. By the way, I also always place a phalanx of pikemen with gaps 2 squads wide. By the way, I don’t understand why you grabbed the lone phalanx units from the sides, if you could just attack in the back, and there would be even fewer losses. What a genius the author is, low bow. I will ask the enemy not to line up in a wall, but to line up in checkers.

Im playing as dalmati now and best logic to use this: if enemy have higher charge bonus than yours then you hold your ground

The issue with Rome 2’s depiction of pikes is that it attempts to adopt a rock paper scissors approach with unit counters. Pikes basically beat, or seriously degrade, anything charging frontally, but are in turn vulnerable to rear charges and missile fire and get messed up when caught out of formation. The historical reality was that pike units were in fact much more flexible - meaning they could be used as a massed wall of spears but also as more flexible infantry. The other reality is that they were not the insta-death, mass-killing machines as depicted in game. They were excellent at pinning enemy forces to enable supporting units (cav or other infantry) to flank or exploit weakness in the enemy line. Vanilla, IMO, does a poor job at showcasing this nuance. DEI mod, by comparison, does a decent job of depicting pike units - their killing speed is slowed to a crawl, but they can hold out nearly indefinitely from frontal attacks. Combined arms tactics have much more relevance in this mod.

I hate that they never bothered to make the behaviors for actually getting past the pikes smoother. Like sometimes some do get there but they bumble around like goldfish forgetting what to do next. Also none of them even try to finesse their way between the pikes. Makes for a poor show that gets old fast.

1:25 lol

10 is Grognak

you dont use pikes like that. You put a unit of crap infantry right in the pike formation, a little bit in front of them, the pike can attack through the allied units and are in no danger to get into 1v1 combat. Works exceptionally in sieges. I have seen 1k kills+ on germanic pike units. if you ask me, they are the best units for sieges. If you are attacking a breach in the wall, send your offensive infantry in and then walk your pikemen into the friendly blob, so that their pikes can reach the enemy, but they are not in direct contact with the unit. This way the pikes do damange but receive none themselves.

thats why you use mods

The chariot's unit card looks like someone on wheelchair with swords

wtf.. so this is the reason why my nice and deep spear collumns are getting totally wrecked by some light raider cavalry :D fuck the logic :D

worst unit ever! :D i wouldnt be mad if they werent featured at all :D

Which reskin mod did you use?

Play Europa barbaroum 2 not in this shit vanilla game. :P

To this day, no one comes close to Maximus, a pioneer for the community

Watching in 2024 and man I do wonder if will he ever return I don't wanna be pessimistic but what if something bad has happened to him? He disappeared all of a sudden from youtube for no appearant reason