It would also be interesting to see how squad size affects cavalry charge

As someone who’s never played Rome 2, I really enjoyed this series! I’m hoping we’ll see your forays into Spain and Greece at some point.

I would theorize that fire arrows are also good against massed enemies troops, since the accuracy penalties wouldn't matter in that situation.

Fun fact: if SPQR gets destroyed before the marian reforms, then the reform can not happen. So if you are with for example numidia, then your first thing should be destroying SPQR.

Hey, BlueMatona I want to ask if followers of General that has repeated buff stacks? Like the one that got 15% moving bonus. If I put it with the one that got 25% moving bonus do it make it do 40% or it caculate in a different manner. I search through your tutorial and didn't seem to find a video related about followers (I actually remember seeing one before), anyway wish you well.

Great!

I think the Only exception to Not wanting Population growth temples is in Eastern and Barbarian territories. These settlements generally have really low Base-growth rates, and the factions which own them are Constantly pumping out units, and soon enough the pop is drained all the way down to 400. You need More people in these settlements so that they can start contributing to your economy and military.

I've been playing Rome Total War since 2006 and sir, this is THE BEST explanation I've ever heard in regards to garrison. Thank you tremendously for making this video

I remember migrating the Seleucids to Britain. The Romans had to face different chariots 😂

Awesome video!

I've been using spear throwing cavalries that attack those chariots then escape automatically when approached and attack them from both sides with cavalries and it pretty much work

The best work you can do is to don't upgrade the farm ... sqaulor is increase with any level of farm and the most effective thing in increasing squalor is farming so ... dont upgrade the farm and you'll be alright trust me ❤

I couldn’t find this answer anywhere. But will this reform happen if I take out all roman factions before they can build any huge city?

That capture of Carthage was madness! 😂😂

Great

Great

again, so many hidden details! ❤

Why no mention of upkeep, or no. of turns required to train, or the special buildings required to train some of them?

so many details in this game!

I almost always build freya shrines in all settlements on turn one, as Germania you really really need population, and their best units from shrines, Berserker and Gothic Cav are nearly impossible to get early enough if you don’t grow your homeland fast, or attack Rome or Greece for those huge cities! I usually switch to other shrines later in game when it’s possible or close to being ready for the Berserkers or Gothic Cav!

Just subbed today so I am watching old series. Hoping you spam elephants at some point to offset the AI morale buffs as elephants crush their morale.

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I hope you and your Family are doing well. God Bless you and your Family!!!

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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