AGE OF JUSTINIAN: ONE OF THE BEST TOTAL WAR MODS I'VE EVER PLAYED! - Total War Mod Spotlights

One of my favourite things about Total War games in general is that there is an absolutely massive super passionate modding community consistently reinventing how we experience and enjoy these games.
The other day my good friend the Medjay of Faiyoum covered one such Total War mod that I’ll be running through with you today: The Attila mod Age of Justinian 555 AD.
Medjay by the way is a fantastic content creator on KZbin who has such a positive character and makes brilliant Total War videos from ambience to mod spotlights. So do me a favour and definitely check him out. I’ve linked his channel below.
So in this video we’re going to take a look at Age of Justinian, a Total War mod that totally converts Attila Total War into 555 AD and gives the player a huge variety of factions to try out, hundreds of new units to recruit and battle and fantastic gameplay to enjoy. It’s honestly one of my favourite mods for Attila and that’s saying a lot guys so hopefully by the end of this spotlight you get in there and check it out as well!
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[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Hope you enjoyed the video guys, subscribe for more! & check out the mod below! TheTerminator Discord - discord.gg/eHVBpAC6U2 Age of Justinian Steam Page - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1836928957

[@jaden3416]

The mods for Attila are just *chef's kiss*

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Soooo many good mods dude, so much to spotlight!

[@9pmInTokyo]

Shame Attila runs like shit.

[@DutchGuyMike]

If only Attila didn't ran like total crap.

[@RosaMelano-yo4ei]

Attilas lack of India (at least its northern part) is sepcially sad on cases like this. This timespan corresponds with the fall of the Later Guptas and the collapse of classical India which would fit the themes of the game perfectly.

[@parthiaball]

Absolutely agreed. The only reason games like Crusader Kings 3 look enticing to me is because they offer more of North and some Central Africa, more Central Asia, India, and even areas like Myanmar/ Burma at the map's edge. This is especially big for me as I like playing these Arab, Indian, etc. factions above all others. I know the monetary value isn't there, but a TW game set in India with Attila's engine would be the absolute coolest thing ever!

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

Now let's have a Total War on Classical India or what comes after the Guptas!

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

@@Sirvalian of course

[@nachoviteriletamendia3887]

@@parthiaball Maybe there is room for hope if the map's moddification tools from Rise of Mordor team can be used to expand also the vanilla map. Not only India but also Tarim Basin so you could play with the Sogdian kingdoms and the glorious Tang empire.

[@65stang98]

@@MedjayofFaiyum i would like that just bc idk much abt their history so i wouldnt be faction biased like i am in most games always playing the same few factions lol

[@0zaree100]

I'm glad you covered this. This is one of my favorite Historical overhaul mods in the TW series. We get unique factions that vanilla and other mods (to my knowledge) do not have because of the starting date. Factions like the Gokturk Khaganate in the steppe, the Kingdom of Moors & Romans in the Maghreb, A 'Roman holdout' city of Cordoba, The Romano-Briitanni remains in the British Isles, Axumite general controlled Himyarite Kingdom in south Arabia and so on. It will get juicier with each update!

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Oh man soooo many great factions so much potential for great total war campaigns. Such a great mod!

[@happycompy]

Wow. This mod looks incredible. Great video Term!

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Thanks bud :)

[@Juel92]

It's kinda funny how a not-very-well-received game that didn't receive much attention or hype is almost the sole source for new good historical Total War content.

[@SonKunSama]

Petition to call Vanilla Atilla "Vatilla" from now on

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

DONE!

[@sleepysteve111]

I tried firing up some R2 DEI today and started a a campaign and just felt like I didn't want to play. I have thousands of hours in TW games, almost all modded. At this point I NEED in depth campaign mechanics and choices. Fancy unit on the battle map don't do it for me anymore. I wish CA would do what so many of us yearn for, a cross between TW and grand strategy titles. It will never happen because it requires too much thought and effort on the part of the player and much of the TW player base is super casual at this point. I guess maybe my time being a TW player has come to an end; it feels sad I have been playing these games for 20 yrs!

[@nwahnerevar9398]

you sound really lame

[@cuentaparacomentar8737]

I wouldn't call myself a Romanophile(nothing to do with my profile pic haha) but i don't believe Justinian "lost" the gothic wars, they were just waaaaay harsher than Constantinople expected, probabaly due to believing it would be a North Africa 2.0. And the romans were very unlucky in suffering a Lombard invation pretty much the moment Italy was fully pacified.

[@sturmgewer44]

And also they had the covid ...i mean the justinian plague. As more urbanized empire, it suffered a lot more than the gothics .

[@Diogolindir]

@@sturmgewer44 I think the plague is what ended up making the dream end

[@GooseGumlizzard]

@@sturmgewer44 it was actually Ancient Monkeypox

[@calelliott1599]

God damn, I keep getting sucked back in. Looks incredible, can't wait to dive in!

[@willnox1]

Freaking incredible can't wait to dive into this mod

[@Flicky669]

Thanks again for a great video. I also appreciate the little details, such as how the battles play, what the mod added in terms of features, how it differs from other similar mods, etc. All of that is much appreciated. I'd rather play a mod that is well balanced with good features than a mod that adds a million units without as much attention to the base play of the game.

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

You are very welcome ❤️

[@SonKunSama]

Also FYI, no criticism just a heads-up: "fledgling" means start-up, the beginning stage of an entity.

[@marcelogarciagonzalez9984]

For me, this mod is my favorite along with divide et impera, although I think that in terms of unit reskin, it is the best of all.

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

It's quickly become one of my favourites too :)

[@marcelogarciagonzalez9984]

@@TheTerminatorGaming I recommend you to make a campaing with Britanni, that campaing is just amazing and fun!

[@giorgoskatsarakis9652]

Damn right it is, I have been screaming to people about this mod for so long

[@drengr7210]

I know what I’m doing once I get off of work today. Looking forwards to this.

[@majorianus8055]

Kinda weird, by the time of Justinina 80% of the Empire is already Christian and the Pagans are confined in the msot remotest area or thru the educated few.

[@carlocappello67]

I am now considering buying attila just for the mods

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

On a cheap deal you should!

[@lordofthetrident9582]

Played this one back in the day and must say that your review is spot on

[@giordanocolonna2297]

Downloading now..really a intresting period to play...thanks for the spotlight mate!

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

You should! Some lovely brilliantly done factions I cannot get enough of man :)

[@giordanocolonna2297]

@@TheTerminatorGaming hoping you might be interested, this time I recommend a mod that amazed me, it's called Bulat steel for Medieval 2, a must try

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Oh I’ve played loads of it! Excellent mod :)

[@leonkatakalon3676]

I love you Terminator!!! I hope that my advice to preview this WONDERFUL mod played some role!!! :-))))))

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

It did indeed :)

[@user-po3ss3vk5b]

damn, i never expected you to make a vid about this excellent mod!

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

My ambition is to make a video for all of them mate! All of the great mods out there! 🙏

[@fressicoldessi5402]

There's another Age of Justinian set in 527 set just before the Vandalic war

[@calion7643]

Pretty good, i will try it out, when the time comes.

[@90Rush]

Rome's superpower status is truly coming to an end ... Tsardoms: shall we introduce ourselves? I mean, we can still call ourselves Roman Empire, unlike those guys in 1212, right?

[@oilslick7010]

Vocabulary nazi here.....'Fledgling' is the opposite of the state the Roman Empire is in during this time period. The Roman Republic at the end of the Samnite Wars is fledgling (Young and immature, but slowly coming into power) 'waning' would be a more accurate description of the Empire in 555, or 'resurgent' if you want to emphasize the temporary comeback

[@NagyGergely0012]

The more you know

[@albogypsy2842]

Good mod, but it would be even better if starts at the the beginning of Justinian rule, not at the end.

[@cassaojig]

I played this a while back as the Alans and it was great except the huns (under a different faction name) constantly respawned in my territory, id beat them every time but it was boring.

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

5:30 - I pointed out specifically in my video that you love visual variety within units :P Knew you'd love it already

[@barrysworld640]

Yet another awesome mod review! Thanks so much Term! If I may, I do have couple of general "modding" questions as I am still pretty new to this world of mods. First of all, when I subscribe and then download a mod from the Steam Workshop, will the mod automatically update on my computer via Steam when the moders add new content to the mod OR do I have to search for and download the newer version of the mod from Steam. Second, if I use a mod that changes the base game, say reskins all the units, if I play a DLC for the base game will the units in the DLC also be reskinned or remain as in the vanilla version? Thanks in advance for answering these two questions, Terminator. I really appreciate your time, being the busy person you are doing all these excellent mod reviews. :)

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Thank you! And no worries at all I’m happy to help :) 1. A mod will either automatically update OR the modder will upload an additional mod/submod that you have to subscribe to as well (though this generally doesnt happen as much) 2. Reskin mods usually specify which campaign they’re for so check the mod description. If its for GC only for example it will state that in which case the DLCs will stay the same ❤️🙏

[@ScaniaVikings]

I hope your channel grows, you deserve 100k subs!

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Thank you :) 🙏

[@RenovatioImperii]

Fall of the eagles next please 🥺

[@kapgam9913]

Reasons to play this mod: Flavius Belisarius

[@serpounce.]

Gonna download it right away Cant hear you btw ;)

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

You should mate :)

[@giorgoskatsarakis9652]

Another similar mod is fall of the eagles but it is less polished out. Still worth the look

[@Luckyheraclius89]

Ya both r solid although I prefer this one slightly

[@xjuliussx]

great video! was looking for an Iustinian period mod and wasn't sure which one to try.

[@VICCE103]

Thanks for your mod spotlights, we have so few channels who actively cover TW mods. Btw, what reshade are you using? Footage looks very nice with it.

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

My own! Look up my graphics guides :)

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

Nice one man :) Love to see your mod spotlight for this one :P You covered this mod so brilliantly! And thank you so much for giving me a great shoutout man - I hope I can one day return the favour to you :) Covered it much better than I did, but I try and be inspired from you :) I saw this on my feed and already I was smiling - more historical mods need attention like this and the more attention we give to these mods, the better it is for them - it's to remind the historical total war community that while we might wait for historical total war (Funny prediction what if they release it during Elder Scrolls 6's time lol in 2030, of course that won't happen ) there's a rich vibrant setting of historical total war mods from Rome 2 such as 1100 AD, and Bronze Age total war, in the meanwhile Attila has - Med 1212 - Age of Justinian - Restitutor Orbis - 634 and 642 Dark Ages - Anno Domin AD mod (Norman Conquest) - A Pike and Shot Total War in the works - Rise of Mordor - Ancient Empires - A mod for 919 AD in the works - And more mods! Only problem is Attila's lack of optimisation. Also I have to say, YOU are one the BEST KZbinrs I've seen along with Happy and so many others! I remember you giving me that shoutout on your community tab and I've not forgotten it man - I wish you the best of luck and may you grow bigger, better and do well man, that's all I can wish! And great that you're doing this mod spotlight man, there's a ton of mods to come and doing them is great I'm going to shout out great KZbinrs like you soon in my vids :P

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

No worries man it was my pleasure :) Anything I can do to support fellow Total War creators! And yes! Thats exactly why I do mostly historical mod spotlights :) Keep it up bud, loving your recent videos 🙏

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

@@TheTerminatorGaming The advice you've given me I wanted to thank you for that - so I'm taking that into account. Also got a new historical cinematic if you're interested - its the Battle of Carrhae - I also got interested in this after watching the Wolf of Iberia's Carrhae Documentary - always wanted to make more total war documentaries. Have to say: When Happy Compy first saw me doing the ambience - he told me dude you will grow. I did. When you did that shout out, and you did an epic shoutout for this - and the community tab post - awesome When Brought to Bear also did a great shoutout to me in his video....awesome. I'm really humbled (not trying to boast here.) by all of you looking at my stuff and taking an interest. I intend to make better content and work hard. That's all I can do to become better at what I do and I'll try and give you all a shoutout! And I'll be doing more mod spotlights....if that doesn't ruin Iceni's day as he needs to make sure we're not spoiling him for choice xD!

[@piracybringer4057]

i'm still on ancient empire but i'll switch to it then, when i get to -52BC i will be ready for justinian era

[@huntclanhunt9697]

I'm pretty sure Christianity was pretty much accepted by the time of Justinian.

[@kazansky22]

When I saw the thumbnail I was excited thinking we finally have a Bannerlord II Rome Overhaul mod..... watch first 10 seconds of video... sadness :(

[@cshelley5658]

Fantastic coverage! Thanks. Quick question: you mentioned Western Rome and its conversion to Christianity which was 2 centuries earlier than 555AD and Western Rome of-course ending in 476. So when does the campaign start? PS: You're campaign tips for Rome 2 had me steamroller into Russia.🙂

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

It starts at 555AD, I may have just mistaken when that conversion happens. Either way the empire is still going through loads of public order issues (mostly due to religious differences)

[@cshelley5658]

@@TheTerminatorGaming I'll look forward to the mystery! Thanks for clarification

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

16k views man, well done! :P

[@gildaherrer5131]

I know what i'm playing this weekend ;)

[@dannyalex5866]

Any new mod for ToB?

[@laingram8337]

The last persian is cool aswell

[@riverblack565]

probably he's not friend with the creator,so who cares? ..... I'm wondering how 80% of the followers would play a mod if nobody wouldn't say a word about it

[@Rhaenyssupporter]

I wish you can control multiple factions on Attila

[@imperatorfurioso793]

Majoran,Justinian,Rise of Islam. Now we only need AoC ported to the MC and the full set is complete

[@AthanaSus]

Id love a video how tw atilla survived since it is almost universally disliked

[@deandarvin553]

Is it really? I feel R2TW gets a worse rap. Comparing both vanilla games Atilla is a much better performing game, though I prefer the setting of the former.

[@AthanaSus]

@@deandarvin553 it's a comparison of fandoms. Rome 2 has a bigger playerbase, while attila has one of the lowest. Despite that though, it has a dedicated modding and player community which baffles me

[@makky6239]

At this point my HD is full just from Attila mods

[@2384]

@TheTerminator Is there some sort of middle/late game crisis? I am a bit afraid to start a campaign just to be snowballing the map 30 turns in

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Well as Justinian you do go through a bit of a crisis roughly 40-50 turns in yep

[@r4rekt671]

Question: what's happening with 1212 AD late campaign? Not to sound pushy...im just new to the mod and not sure where they are.

[@moisuomi]

Have you tried the Dark ages mod? It’s also really good and it takes place during the rise of Islam

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

I’ll be spotlighting it very soon ;)

[@kopboi1170]

wish they add one indian faction too like indian gupta empire :"(

[@ihsanosaurus]

Since this mod has good reskin, I put this reskin on another overhaul mod.

[@mohamedala750]

Great content 👍

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Thank you! ❤️

[@jordinagel1184]

Widespread public order penalties? Religious difficulties due to the recent adoption of Christianity? Nearby realms poised to divide your crumbling remains between themselves? I’d say this sounds EXACTLY like the Western Roman Empire in vanilla

[@brandonavalos2718]

Do you start in the east as the Romans ? Or do you start with Italy and Africa back under your control?

[@georgeflorea9780]

When are you going to make a video about Ancient Empires?? Total war Attila

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

I actually already have 👀

[@zenith3180]

why my age of justinian dont have that complete set of faction rosters especially roman states

[@zenith3180]

mevermind i fixed it

[@ramiromen6595]

Man i love me some Attila mods, specially the rise of islam ones, there are what 75000 of them?

[@chiefmasterofdeepwarrens3208]

Shit, time to buy the last Roman dlc

[@bully2please91]

Hey Term if you want a dumb mod that offers some hours of good fun check out the Long Night

[@he4620]

Why are you telling sh.t? In this mod ERE shock cavalry is stronger than Shock cavalry of Sassanid Where the heck in the history was like that??

[@falloutnewvvergas5910]

ATTILA!

[@CptSlow89]

Is it better than 1212AD?

[@Rhaenyssupporter]

i tried playing this mod but my mounted units would spawn without horses

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Maybe try verifying your game files in Steam? Otherwise drop by the discord and speak to the dev :)

[@Rhaenyssupporter]

@@TheTerminatorGaming nvm i figured it out it was the vanilla unit size mod for Age of Justinian that caused the issue but thanks for the help

[@christianknight8480]

does this mod requires the DLC for Justinian Reconquista?

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

I’m not sure that it does mate but just check the mod page to be sure :)

[@L-058]

Wish I could enjoy attilla and it's mods but I just can't get over the collision of units. They just look ridiculous 🙄

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

I get that, lots of things about Attila is hard to get used to, but plenty also very good about it :)

[@L-058]

@@TheTerminatorGaming oh definitely I've played a good amount of attilla and I definitely know why people love it. I just can't play it for long periods of time because my issues with the game become too glaring for me. Still, I love watching videos like this that show cool mods :-)

[@user-po3ss3vk5b]

absolutely, it's something that bugs me a lot. battles just feel bland and unsatisfying compared to medieval 2 from my view :(

[@powderedwiglouis1238]

Yeah just one thing in 555 nicene christianity was already ingrained in roman society

[@kingspore5000]

Idk why everyone praise Justinian soo much, he was such a simp, basically his wife and domina Theodora ruled instead of him

[@VonPlanter]

Spania

[@grumpy2606]

Take a look at Beginning of an End. Rise of Islam mod

[@grumpy2606]

Very similar to this mod, but Arab details looking very good for units.

[@TheTerminatorGaming]

Its on my list :)

[@sturmgewer44]

Is it already finished?

[@I_hunt_lolis]

Varierty not diversity