Nice 👍

Are usually just click on auto manage always helps me a lot for the most part. Sometimes I do you have to take things into my own hands

great video!

Got to get Corinth man...

really happy to se somebody giving some love to this amazing game!. I enjoy playing as pontus and would love to see a video on how to beat the horse archers, such a pain in the ass. Love from argentina 💞💞💞

On Turn 3, I would have let the Brutii take losses capturing the city for me, but that was an amazingly clean victory.

RTW1 is great ,nostalgic and everything but for some reason I can't play it anymore it feels so outdated and all the bugs make it even harder to play and the remake is horrible

Try using only peasant to conquer the known world. 😂 You'll get a different trait and ancillary without cheat

I like to put all the troops on the plaza for the infinite morale. I usually leave an archer unit positioned slightly further away from the main fighting but still on the wall. The moment the attacking troops come down from the wall I quickly rush to retake the gatehouse, so instantly the gatehouse starts shooting at the troops inside along with your archer's. Often by the time they actually get to the plaza well over half their army is destroyed, demolished and absolutely exhausted.

The main take from this video is how on earth has Thrace and Pontus done so well.

Man squalor is a pain in the *** in early rome total war game, it got way better with medieval 2

no intro 😭😭

Cool format, bump

BlueMatona, you taught me something new today. Thank-you! 🙋🏻‍♂️

i would say the same for RTR IMPERIUM SURRECTUM mod for remastered version, it make a cohort be 100 men exactly which is just perfect for rp

Hey I'm glad you're back! I've just been watching your videos as I've been preparing to cover RTW on my channel and your channel has been a great source of information to help me get caught up 👍 And seeing you come back and start making videos again has been a real treat! Now regarding this topic, this is something that is really interesting to me because unit size greatly effects the gameplay in both STW and MTW (both games that I've covered extensively on my channel). Even without having a population mechanic it's far more preferable to play these games on the default unit size because the unit cost increases and the economy doesn't scale to match and on the largest unit size even basic units will take two turns to train! Almost as important to me as is the playability from the players perspective is also the playability from the A.I.'s perspective. Playing on the default unit size made the A.I. more capable at building armies and teching up because it usually wasn't capable of establishing a formidable economy that's capable of keeping up on the larger units sizes. And now you have me wondering, have you experienced the A.I. as being more capable of providing a challenge or even to recover from a devastating loss on the smaller units sizes in Rome? Have you noticed the A.I. better being able to tech up and reach higher settlement levels on lower unit sizes? I prefer to play slower campaigns that allow the A.I. (to some degree) to build up and have access to more troop variety. I've only played Rome so far on the Huge unit size, I really like being able to manage population easier but if playing on normal unit size provides the A.I. with a bit on an edge then I might consider switching it up. On that note, imma jump into a campaign right now and test this out but I'd still be curious to hear your thoughts on this! Cheers! 🙏

thank god you posted again, I thought you were abandoning us for another 2 years

killed it, as always!

I never knew you could change this…

How did you get all the factions???? Plz plzzzzz telll meee

I spent like 20 minutes trying to plan around elephants in an Egypt campaign during a siege as the seleucids trained two minor elephant units. I figured they would plow through phalanxes like every other heavy cavalry does on very hard, but they just dropped like flies. It was interesting to see.

"THATS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOAT! THE GOAT!" I've been watching your RTW vids forever, it's that game you go back to, and you keep going back to and ever so often you watch some of BlueMatona's lets plays as a ritual.

I always thought extermination was the lump sum lottery option while enslavement was taking the annual payout.

Hi, can I ask you something? How do you get more generals? I don't understand how to do it since I have cities without generals/governors

Try this: How can I make Numidian army strong? Even adding units or buff the troops

Great video

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Thanks！

I wonder if there's a relation to spamming peasants in a settlement to the population effect (population lowers). How would it impact taxes for the settlement?

love these videos man

We can change the settings of the game and earn as much money as we want, so easily😁

Keeping governors in cities with trade, farming or weaponsmith temples will slowly make them develop traits & gain retinue that increase income too Eg if you have a Hephaestus or Vulcan temple, any governor there for long enough can get the "Expert Miner" trait, a relevant priest, & a Mining engineer, for a maximum of +75% mining income

Just in time. I need money 😅

Going through these old videos. I'm pretty sure the 'Arena' counts as a military building, and when the city revolts, you get a Gladiator Uprising.

Do farms make more money in a providence that has the grain resource?

Cool video. Time to make one about population!

Awesome!!

Not sure cutting off the Julii is really important - not only can they have problems expanding but they might even have the Barbarians pushing them back! Just nab Caralis so that they can't do that. Otherwise, good video.

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Why is it Scipii when the plural of Scipio is Scipiones?

I believe hastati and principes precursor weapons are not missile type. But they are either light or heavy. So, forge affects them

I just had a tough battle today to take Carthage as well as the Julia. Knocked out two Carthaginian armies that had elephants and that was very tuff. Then the city siege was pretty easy as there was only a small garrison left. Had a full army and lost a little more than half of it.

Do the ranged upgrades on archers/velites allow them to kill more models per volley? If so, how much?

BlueMatona, may I please make videoS requests of you? Just like you did for Carthage a year ago, may I ask you to make videos of you playing the Scipii in 90-minute bursts? They are my FAVORITE FACTION, and I'd LOVE to watch you play, and learn new strategies and learn new ways of playing this faction. (I low-key want to see you bribe away a band of rebels too.) 🙋🏻‍♂️ Thanks for reading!

Woooow, that was what I was looking for so long a faction starting guide for a 20+ year old game

Great video

Very tough struggle indeed. Keep up the good fight!

No comments let’s fix this, great series you truly are a great player. Watching this as I start my first Imperial campaign as the Julie.

Barbarian Invasion changed this by reducing the garrison bonus from peasants. Better to use cheap soldiers in BI than peasants.

Why are they autoenabled on night battles? More accurate at night?