9 Life Hacks in Total War Rome 2 I Wish I knew Earlier!

[@FightMeTotalWar]

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[@arnoldshmitt4969]

LOSING familly dog hurts a lot especially when they have been their for you for so many ups and downs in life .

[@ReeceIsPieces]

My tip, dont quit a match early just because you're losing. Ive seen some of the greatest come backs in this game so its never over till the very end. Leaving early screws over any team mates and generally makes everyone else feel that you were wasting their time. Its also ok to lose, its the best way to learn and get better.

[@William_Verdun]

My full army was 3/10 chance of winning against the enemies coastal town defense. They crushed my Perioikoi phalanx lines due to their insane amount of archers but their archers used most of their ammo and they only had a shit ton of full militia infantry and archer mobs. My last unit was a full general Royal spartans and I was completely circled. Still was victorious and verbal survived.

[@Quin_BNK]

Gotta go down with gloooryy

[@ReeceIsPieces]

@@derk3933 i understand the logic and I know rule breakers fucking suck, but honestly I've found rule breakers usually just are bad at the game hence why they break rules and are still easy to beat. Makes it more satisfying to defeat them anyways lol

[@ReeceIsPieces]

@@derk3933 it's definitely made things more difficult, and oddly enough I kinda miss the crazy trash talking from the rome 2 chat days

[@AndrewGrey-o2h]

Team mates? You must have friends.

[@FINGOLFIN525]

Tip for artillery crews : When you select your Artillery, hold ALT, the game will give you an exact AOE of where the rocks/boulders will land, helping you better aim for choke points and big blobs. That one trick almost doubled the amount of kills my artillery gets per battle, its insane.

[@ghs57]

Dude, just hit 500 hours and have been beyond frantic to attack ground with artillery! This is a huge tip. Thank you for sharing for the knuckleheads.

[@northernleigonare]

My tip is to always use Balista ships in your navy. If you manually aim them, you are usually garunteed to win battles even with massive odds. Best for dealing with armies at sea as they have big, unarmoured boats.

[@tadeaspekar9043]

Exactly. Most of the ships ballistas in the back, few of velites and infantry in the front to be the wall and to taran enemies. Total horse of death to transport ships

[@jonaswielandt6731]

How do you aim them manually??

[@SmallPotato2313]

​@@jonaswielandt6731i think it should be same as siege. INSERT key

[@raembes]

Bit late, but a whole ballista stack fleet with manual aiming will win over a two enemy fleets. Unless they are all heavy ships which I haven't encountered yet, from AI at least. When they reach you about 2/3 or 3/4 of their ships are gone, and the rest of them are easily destroyed by ramming.

[@gvn010]

@@raembeshow do you ram effectively? my ships always get shit on

[@imperator732]

I have 750 hours on Rome 2 and i Always hated fighting in the forests because of the f4cking trees. This control F trick saved my Life. Thank You Brother, from Italy❤🇮🇹

[@FightMeTotalWar]

Im half Italian! Greetings✨

[@giuliogallino2363]

Bro perché a me non va dio can, non capisco 😭😭😭 Dimmi che c'è qualche altro modo per farlo

[@Stinkyremy]

750 hours and you never checked the in game controls. I think this is a you issue....

[@smoke12785]

I never understood how others did their cavalry charges through their own infantry so well, mine always moved slow and never worked .Thanks a lot!

[@mingtasong9465]

My biggest problem is when I charge cavalry into the infantry i just eat a mouthful of javelins which will kill half my unit

[@Alexander-pf4ne]

Be alert to this and use the classic bait and switch if you have two cav units use one to trick them firing at your bait cav which you can pull away for the javs to miss and land in the ground. While you use the other with a slight delay to commit to the charge while the enemy rank “reload their jav”. Alternatively if you see that they can punish you for making a frontal charge better to move around and go for a rear charge. Just make sure you can win the cav fight.

[@yourdadsotherfamily3530]

Good way to fix that is using elevation but I agree frontal charges are never good even with the best cav units and the cheapest of levy can wreck them sometimes if formed correctly. Best to just use elevation so they cannot get fire at will javelins off

[@mysterioushassan3522]

@@Alexander-pf4ne bro do you have insta ?

[@mickethegoblin7167]

​@mysterioushassan3522 hey now, no flirting in the comment section

[@Troglodytarum]

Stop eating glue and flank.

[@thebenevolentsun6575]

The cavalry move through the units smoother when theyre facing eachother because the infantry can the see the horses and move out the way more easily.

[@tadeaspekar9043]

+the time they are among themselves is much shorter Bcs they have opposite directions

[@AN-nt3uv]

About the dog unit: Are they also effective vs camel cataphracts? My condolences for your good buddy.

[@Decebal_of_the_Getae]

Yes. You just need to bring the dog breed called "Elephants"! :)) Hope your well AN?

[@AN-nt3uv]

@@Decebal_of_the_Getae Hey decebal, yeah, i am fine, i hope that applies to you and your family as well.

[@Dolfy]

My tip is to install a stat mod that shows all the hidden stats of units so anything subtle like falxmen ignoring shield armour or cataphract armour being weak to missiles gets shown. I don't play Rome 2 multiplayer myself but knowing all the quirks have helped me in other games.

[@frankpurvis9189]

I actually didn't know that but the falx does make sense that was one of the reasons the falx was designed that way, to go around or more preferably over the shield and punching into the old brain pan, this actually made the Romans increase their helmet standards.

[@lazydk2654]

Does it show speed stat as well? In a tactical battlefield sim, i find it crazy that speed is not shown in base game. Its honestly shockingly bad, considering how important it can be

[@ldtxelidwnis8445]

My tip to everyone is to most of the time take out the formation from units like hoplites or legionaries in open battles when you want kills and not to defence

[@yourdadsotherfamily3530]

Yeah exactly they will slowly envelope an enemy unit if formationed wider than them or if the enemy unit is in formation attack and you aren’t your units can get flanking values on one singular unit or again envelope them. Well said man

[@tadeaspekar9043]

@@yourdadsotherfamily3530bro What? Some interpunction would Really help

[@Stinkyremy]

The hold formation is for defence, you put every unit out of formation when you want them to actually kill the enemy unit rather than hold ground. This is pretty basic function of TW.

[@lukasvoracek1503]

When you are using balista or catapult pres Alt. It will allow you to shoot at place not on unit. Maybe somebody find that useful

[@FightMeTotalWar]

Good one!

[@battronairsoft1864]

6:03 Damn bro ate that spear.

[@FightMeTotalWar]

FACTS

[@gamejunkie4035]

*My tip* If your playing a strong missile faction like Seleucid, Cimmeria, Kush or even Scythia (vanilla Scythia is shit unless you have mods), make sure you shoot at a spear or sword units on their *Sword Side,* (right hands) it deals much more damage compared to shooting their *Shield Side* (left hands).

[@danielcaruso5155]

Towers can't reveal troops. When using guerillia units (e.g. illyrian raiders) in a siege of a walled city, get them inside the city. This way you can capture points and towers as long as they are hidden (cheers to silly AI)... already won battles mainly by just moving 4 guys to the main plaza, picking out the general and just wait until timer runs out.

[@tonymaloney7096]

I have a theory about why horses go through your own men easy when facing each other....because the infantry can see them coming so they obviously politely step left / right to let them pass.....but if your cavalry go through them from behind, the men advancing on foot can't see them so horsemen have to slow down and say "excuse me, excuse me, pardon me, coming through," and the infantry obviously can't see them from behind so take longer to make way for them

[@tadeaspekar9043]

Also the time Where they are passing is shorter when they have opposite directions. Its like on a highway, which car will pass you faster. The one in faster lane overtaking you or the one in opposite direction at the same speed

[@jhkcrandallwin]

Rest in peace to Stippy. Good video, subscribed.

[@peacet3a811]

The infantry needing to turn around to let the cav through just makes realistic sense if your facing your ally it’s easier to allow them through if they are behind you you can’t see them and can’t move out of the way for them

[@thelofted]

Good tips, didn't know you could move to control different arty pieces. Gonna help me a ton, thank you!

[@trevor8726]

fun tip for custom battling with your friends: if you load a setup with a different faction and atleast 1 empty unit slot and spam click a unit on your screen from the faction you are currently and it will select that unit into your new setup right before it loads in.

[@rileyxbell]

This also works for bringing field artillery on defense. In the lobby start on attacking team, click switch teams then spam click the field arty quick before it switches you and then you get field arty on defense.

[@trevor8726]

@@rileyxbellcool

[@AdamSchadow]

As for my life hack the regular shot on the bigger arty is insane against cav like 1 shot kills 5 or more riders thats many times more damage than what you could do to infantry. The camera thing is not cheesy everyone does it in warhammer and there are many guides on how to do it simply a case of something that people did not realize in the past but then quickly picked up. The spaghetti lines are mostly so powerful because you can still form multiple ranks behind each other but when cavalry hits them the units at the back will continue throwing their pila and obliterate the cav it also makes it easier to charge thru such a thin line with your cav. They are still much weaker than what they used to be because you can only do them with legionary type units and they dont have high charge bonus which was the main thing why everyone used them since a wider unit means more dudes can hit with the charge bonus still active. Don't use dogs a competent enemy will just put a infantry unit or a melee cav inbetween the horse skirmishers and the dogs and you wont get your money back.

[@ВалерійПермяков-г5и]

I am really appreciate you for that life hack with the camera. I just want to say thank you

[@simenakre1672]

Hey man, i just recently started playing total war and your vids has teached me a LOT thank you . This was a very helpfull video aswell thanky you agian. Im so sorry to hear about your dog. May she rest in peace.

[@jaronjaja4942]

I played this game more than 2000 hours but the tips with the artillery are new to me, Thanks a lot. Sorry to hear about your dog, my condolence

[@tryndaweniger8788]

So sorry for your dog bro :( She looks so sweet! I bet she's in dog heaven now getting lots of treats (horse archers) :( Thanks for the tips! I've played rome for like 1000 hours but most of it was campaign. I keep getting clapped in mp. I'm trying to improve and these tips are great!

[@shadownight848]

Hey, could you do a tier list video for missile cavalry units and maybe tips for them? I learned a lot from your previous tier videos.

[@Raddosseuss]

My tip is , in siege battles when u are in defensive and the enemy have siege towers is to abandon the walls and just protect the places from where the enemy will come down, reason 1 is u will keep the machine gun like tower to help u kill the enemy faster and u will keep many enemy troops in the walls just using 1 unit , reason number 2 since the IA is kinda noob it will try to protect its troops from the tower fire facing it with their shield leaving their flank without shield and since they are in side of the wall without cover and they are a mass off enemies is easy win kill for u archers :D

[@Dillo48]

My tip is in a siege battle on attack, make sure your area is clear and then move your army forward as one and keep a steady supply of troops going forward

[@Reznov141]

I laughed so hard from the transition of your dog dying to dogs unit hack

[@chrisbergonzi7977]

Great stuff...thanks man...sorry for your loss...

[@genluk]

May your dog rest in peace, I hope she's running around and happy wherever she may be, maybe she met my dog and now they are both playing together ❤. Thanks for the tips too. I don't have a tip sadly.

[@jebersonrodrigues2903]

My condolences to your dog, they are part of the family. Continue with the videos, when I started playing I had a lot of difficulty, because I learned by myself, I'm still learning a lot. The language was a big barrier. But I'm still a Noob. But I don't mind, total war is a great escape from everyday problems, it helps me relax and I have a lot of fun. Meus sentimentos pelo seu cachorro, eles são parte da família. Continue com os vídeos, quando comecei a jogar tive muita dificuldade, pois aprendi sozinho, ainda continuo aprendendo muito. A língua foi uma grande barreira. Mas ainda sou Noob. Mas não me importo, total war é um grande escape para os problemas do cotidiano, me ajuda a relaxar e me diverte muito.

[@rikhenry9701]

When moving a unit into an enemy's flank, disable the "formation attack" button (it looks like a square with an X through it) so that your units will crowd in and attack unimpeded by where they were in the formation.

[@MrDavidLenard]

As always just good rome2 content. Help the community grow!

[@FightMeTotalWar]

Always!

[@tadeaspekar9043]

More like not to die

[@seanblevins4888]

My tip is when invading from sea and you have artillery ships, don’t waste ammo on a pre invasion barrage, instead use it as a creeping barrage placing them behind your infantry units you are sending to disembark, that way you have a wall of artillery between the enemy and your beach head, just be careful if enemy charges through it not to bombard friendlies

[@tadeaspekar9043]

So you will waste it to the ground. Idk if its better

[@centurybreakdownth21]

May your blessed dog rest in peace my friend.

[@andysamuel45]

Easy campaign tips Use spies to steal food from faction with only one settlement. Once the army starve to death. Release the hounds

[@primalforlorn]

Pikes go through walls and barricades, so in encampment stance, block the entrance with the barricades and put pikes behind it, as well as behind wooden walls. This way you can kill a lot of units while barely losing anything.

[@hex_1733]

The thumbnail you chose looks pretty good

[@IgorNV]

My condolences for your doggy man :/ thank you for still making this video

[@AaronCross760]

spartan pikemen and hoplites in a hoplite wall fighting on the same line = death

[@lumberpickles2254]

That’s what’s commonly known as pike stacking. And it’s outlawed in multiplayer

[@Cleeon]

Thanks so much, i just know the weakness of horse archers is the dogs of war. I'm sure, your beloved dog, she was waiting you and together in heaven, she must be proud of you as loved companion.

[@schean0078]

Thanks, I would say biggest one for me is saving ammo for the elite units

[@nargaman261]

I haven't played any total war since 5 months, let alone rome II, why am I always watching your videos?

[@dsfnlsadfljasjf2083]

Thanks

[@lightravenn]

When using shock cavalry, they are strong when they charge and hit, but then they should fall back.. is there a way to avoid lots of them being held back by any enemy soldier? Cus honestly unless is cataphract.. I lose 20/30% in every charge. But if I leave the shock cavalry in there just fighting hand to hand they get more kills and survive more. (For archers and light units I just use light cavalry)

[@edgardsuveica1517]

gesus christ 10 years of R2TW and i discover only now the control+f tip for forest battles. Won't hate them anymore

[@bigdogfilms]

I wish I knew this shit when I fought you in total war league! Smh 😂😂

[@mirce26]

No worries brother doggos will be waiting as there with that flapping tail going turbo mode ☺🤍 Like the tips btw, good stuff , cheers

[@TheIrishvolunteer]

I loved the video! Definitely subscribing. Sorry to hear about your dog

[@FightMeTotalWar]

💘

[@jansonboard1739]

The camera glitch is very nice one!

[@TheGRhys]

Great job on the video, thank you for the tips. I'm happy you're back❤🎉

[@Her01panda]

Defintely the most useful video for this game ever

[@Quintus-Total-War]

I’m sorry about your dog:( I hope time has helped heal your wound. Much love.

[@brandoncliff5653]

Sorry about your pup brother and hope he's in a better place ❤️

[@rocketshader2699]

Man Caesar wish he knew about this video! I just started game last month and its absolutely amazing...

[@FightMeTotalWar]

🤝🫶🥰

[@YourFatherTauai]

You inspire me

[@ThasisKidSamurie]

I have 500+ hrs in this game, I NEVER KNEW ABOUT CTRL F 💀💀💀

[@georgepooney6131]

Mix 1 and 2 and it would be awesome, shield stance in 2 is nice but colour in 1 is better

[@robin-fm3tz]

that comic at 3:26 is that from "vae victis" ?

[@rabbit4097]

Thx and i enjoy your tips and tricks! ;)

[@bassybgaming3388]

I just had my first overhead treetop. Battle end this video would have been really nice like an hour ago 😂😂

[@gregward7079]

Sorry to hear about your dog mate, thanks for the video.

[@chaza2458]

Good to see your making content again. Do you plan on doing Pharaoh videos?

[@samym1694]

During the encampment defence battle, have you ever try to overlap two pikemen each of 3 passages? I've tried that in a campaign only 20 units(6 Pikmen,3-4 cavalry to engage range units, 2-4 spear/melee units for flanking,2-4 archers & 1 Ballista for additional enemy kills) against 3 fully stacked (including elite units) enemies near the settlement (with reinforcing Garrison come along) The overlapped pikemen would be like a 1,2 punch as 1 pike pushed the enemy shield away, the other poked through the chest I got heroic victory with less than 120 of my units dead

[@lumberpickles2254]

Stacking pikes like that is really effective, however most players won’t fall for the same trick as the dumb AI

[@samym1694]

@@lumberpickles2254only did that on campaign against AI even on 1v3 on legendary difficulty

[@lumberpickles2254]

@@samym1694 I understand that, I personally don’t have a problem with it. But no matter the fact the AI is incompetent in most battles. I wasn’t judging, just making a statement of a fact

[@history-edits315]

If you want your pikes to not die to ranged, simply move another unit on top of them. This is called pike stacking and is often used in competitive. Also play gallic rome for easy wins

[@Quin_BNK]

I have used that tactic in Attila with visigothic pikemen, with warriors just before them, beetween the pikes. It works quite well, and locking them as formation is also an interesting option

[@nate8489]

I'm sorry for your dog. May her puppy soul rest in peace.

[@giod6266]

I play mostly DEI, but mechanics are almost same, so thanks!

[@TheBenlueks]

omg the trees hahah i diddnt know that the trees pissed me off so much

[@lazydk2654]

Should honestly be defaulted to off

[@gshn9631]

God bless your dog 🐶😔🙏🏻 I feel you. And thank you for the great tips!

[@FightMeTotalWar]

❤️

[@terenceconnelly9016]

RIP to your dog Stippy. I'm sorry if I'm saying the name wrong but sincerely, RIP to your pup. ❤️

[@FightMeTotalWar]

❤

[@gkoritsas_panagiotis]

Thanks a ton for your help 🙏🏼 What about divide et impera mod?

[@William_Verdun]

I held off like 6 militia infantry units, 1 general picked hoplites and too many archers to count

[@vramosglas6224]

Great content like always

[@peterfrans1719]

Can’t imagine losing my dog, great video tho

[@awanishphilosophy5368]

Bro literraly i am to happy to see a video to early keep it up 😊😊😊💖💖

[@Steven5532psn]

I’m struggling to do the spaghetti formation, is there a tutorial video anywhere ?

[@plp50000009]

I will purposely play with a faction that has dogs so I can send them in honor of Stippy

[@FightMeTotalWar]

🥰🫡For honor and GLORY

[@ehteshamkhan4750]

Rest in peace you we're a good dog

[@lucianodotchi3504]

My tip: practise makes perfect

[@edelweiss-]

Wouldnt it be a good tactic to push forward and with double click the enemy back (with hoplites in hoplite wall) and then if they created a gap (or the enemy starts to run in your back trough the gap) you just rush trough the gap with your cav and in the back OR rush with your cav in the back from the enemys that tried to attack you in the back since you pushed other units forward and created the gap. You know what i mean? 😂

[@geraltgrey-mane695]

Keep hearing the song: "Who let the dogs out" everytime I see somebody use a dog unit :D and sorry always hard losing someone :/

[@ImprovedCameraman]

5:07 I didn't see two tricks before (or didn't see a youtubers use F to see better in the TREES!! looks like they did think about that )

[@DominaRatio]

I'm sorry for your doggie. RIP 😢

[@robertspears4822]

RIP doggo

[@jaxplaysrandomgamess-ox3sp]

the most weird thing is my dog is called stippie too and hes a jack russel (he passed away too)

[@FightMeTotalWar]

🥲

[@tajdagostino8566]

So sorry about your dog man🙏

[@eyrryds106.]

great man thanks

[@TomUtecht-hd6wx]

i have a big problem with roman armies in campaign mode the mix of cretan bowmen and pretorian guard afriend of mine uses is almost a cheat code. make a vid how to counter them

[@joshuameyer4838]

idk if anyone else had this but i have a bug where when i go fight a battle my troops/units won't show up or load into the battle like they will be there but the actual people in the units will just be ghost

[@Frank-ru5im]

more uploads please.

[@Mufireael]

Yo lets go total war rome II !!!!

[@steyn1775]

4:28 rest in peace stippy

[@Person0fColor]

Awww I lost my lifelong pet on Aug 9th 2023 at 6:30 AM, it was terrible she was 12. Ill always love her no matter what, I think about her everyday day. My little Angel. 😢

[@Ash__7]

RIP Stippy 😞❤

[@ameenomar3272]

How can I enter the attack on the castle map or the defense of the castle in the custom battle mod?

[@jbarbz959]

RIP stippy, she can be at rest with pop smoke

[@thecenturion101]

Rip

[@FightMeTotalWar]

She will!

[@peterfrans1719]

Use the cheap pikes late game when no one has ammo left

[@nigurut]

default camera type 2 , can reveal enemy behind mountain hill?

[@brianshissler3263]

Rip doggo :(