ULTIMATE Guide to Total War Pharaoh Dynasties - COMPLETE Tutorial with Timestamps

[@starzgarden5553]

I was rude about Pharaoh but right now, with dynasties, I’m eating my hat. Thoroughly enjoying it so far!

[@Smenkhaare]

Dynasties is a great addition. It is much better than Napoleon was for Empire... which was revolutionary. Dynasties is the next best Total War game right now. Now its time to take Amenesse through Babylon and lets take those Hittite lands for Egypt.

[@starzgarden5553]

@@Smenkhaare having played through. I’ve changed opinion a bit. It’s a great game for the first 70 turns but once you’re established it became a repetitive grind after that, so much so I gave up on the campaign. Plagues all TW games but they need to make mid and end game more challenging/ interesting

[@jinhunterslay1638]

would you like some ketchup or mustard at least? I can't imagine it tasting good without any condiments

[@joshmaverick6692]

Finally, a Tutorial with Timestamps. Some other content creators don't.

[@finrod2732]

Finally, a proper tutorial that's clear on all fronts. Thank you so much @Andy's Take!

[@Agony9877]

Christ how beautiful Dynasties looks i play mostly Rome 2 DEI and this is breathtaking by visuals,music, thank you for tutorial i buying Dynasties, and you have a Sub

[@kt5505]

okay same tell me if you like it haha

[@Agony9877]

@@kt5505 I do man 36 hour on steam of playing and i have a blast :)

[@Smenkhaare]

I love DEI for Rome 2, Attila 1212 AD, Empire Pirates Uber Alles, and Shogun 2 and Fall of the Samurai. Those along with Dynasties are my go to Total War games with requisite mods.

[@texastwostepgaming]

13 days late, but you have convinced me to finally purchase Pharoah and i gotta say thanks! Awesome tutorial as always and love the content as always. Glad to see the channel grow so much over the years amigo. Cheers sir!

[@Atomic_Chef]

I have been playing Total War since the Rome 1 days and this is the first game since Attila to suck me in! Loving it! Thanks for the tutorial, it helped make some things more clear for my Babylon playthrough :) Just became King of the Universe after the former one died. Everyone hates me and invaders are everywhere haha. It's a blast! Wish me luck!

[@AC-hj9tv]

Good luck!

[@Smenkhaare]

I will send Amenesse to say hi and lift up your population. 👍

[@thantonousneil]

Great video, I have been looking for an in-depth tutorial for all the different mechanics in Pharaoh Dynasties! This was an excellent explanation of all of them and the best out there! Hope you do more content on Pharaoh!

[@rtfdssdafasdf]

What an awesome and thorough breakdown! I didn't realize how much depth this game had wow

[@DavidSmith-rb8fp]

Been waiting for a good tutorial video on the new mechanics. Thanks for this!

[@Nigel1Powers]

I hope some guys get the game. Played for arround 20 hours now. My Charakter gets old. He united the tribes in the east. His beard gets grey. My Son will take the torch and take the throne from assyria. Maybe my grand child will take the nile. For the first time in arround 10 years I'm really immersed in a total war game. Lethality is a game changer for me. But I'm also using the slower battles mod.

[@chpc6217]

Is the slower battles mod worth it? I have a hard time zooming in and enjoying the spectacle of battles because I stress about constantly giving commands. This might be what I need

[@dannygld23]

​@@chpc6217 yes. The battles usually last about 10 mins with the mod. And grab the "better camera" mod. Gamechanger

[@chpc6217]

@@dannygld23 Awesome I'll pick those up then appreciate it!

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

@@chpc6217I usually save replays of cool battles and watch them afterwards

[@bernard3303]

Is it a fantasy game like troy and warhammer or does it follow the old historical totalwar gameplay ?​@dannygld23

[@kenc9236]

Nice to see you Andy.

[@AndysTake]

Nice to see *you*, Kenc.

[@HotelVice]

This is my first total war game. Thanks for this

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

Finally A great tutorial!

[@AndysTake]

Thank you, Medjay!

[@Smenkhaare]

Medjay is the man just like Andy and the Terminator as well. The Middle Eastern content creator whose name escapes me is good as well. Hats off to all of you.

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

@@Smenkhaareno worries

[@Smenkhaare]

Reptilicus is up there with Andy, Medjay and the Terminator. You four are my go to for anything Total War. Medjay and Reptilicus are my go to creators for anything Egypt, Kush and/or Auxum. Great content creators and reviewers all.

[@Griffinattack]

I got this game for Dynasties, damn, after playing things like Warhammer and recently Shogun2, these systems gave me quite the whiplash, mostly the vastly different UI menus. But this tutorial has helped me a little in understanding some of the more intricate nuances of this brave new world to. I'm sure I'll need a lot more practice campaigns to get it all learned and accepted, but this video helped immensely

[@ob1983]

Hi Andy, fantastic video..... I am brand new to the game and this tutorial is just world class. Thanks so much 🍻

[@AndysTake]

so glad to hear you enjoyed it! :)

[@Brett-uq4tz]

I don't know if you can answer these 2 questions, but in a total war saga troy, is there a shoreline near that hill that the outer wall of Troy connects to? And can armies in troy march up hills?​@@AndysTake

[@xanthe7045]

Diplomacy is my favorite part of Total war games

[@christianm1989]

The trade system is definitely different from Rome 2 which is the most recent TW i've played. Good video, thanks!

[@saulgalindo36]

This is comprehensive. Thank you!

[@mendax2251]

the administration burden mechanic seems counter productive? you literally cant field more than 2 full stack armies without crippling your economy. How are you supposed to defend your lands in the late game with 2 armies? Ive had this issue in every playthrough so far

[@kyriacostheofanous1445]

This is why I use addons. Tw games without addons aren't that good.

[@DarkAntem]

Perfect guide, thanks !

[@dhruvsanjaykumar2582]

Great video. Thank You!

[@sandsiren4840]

Nice to see you and a great tutorial!!

[@AndysTake]

Thank you, nice to see you too :)

[@fazalamin6379]

Very informative, this video helps

[@hobbieasmr]

What a good and useful video Thank you very much, I felt a little lost with the new mechanics

[@AndysTake]

glad you liked it :)

[@raspberryhats]

tysm! new player here benefitting from this video

[@Zoanodar]

About dynasties: I struggle a bit with all these board-game like mechanics. I’ll probably get into it after a while, but coming from Rome total war, the mechanics/rules feel a bit too stylized, which is probably good for clarity, but it does require me to read all these tool tips, and rules of the game which I don’t enjoy.

[@ronaldrivas4690]

Excelente el tutorial lo disfruté. Actualmente estoy jugando con Ramsés en Egipto y la verdad es que he estado a punto de dar la campaña por perdida, pero he seguido y tomo un respiro y luego otra vez quiero dejar la campaña y así voy. La verdad es que las mecánicas y la profundidad del juego lo hizo muy muy muy interesante y es difícil no engancharse con él.

[@Swaggaccino]

This is super overwhelming and I think the fanbase agrees. Current Players according to Steam Charts, Nov, 2024: Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition: 5,428 Total War: MEDIEVAL II - Definitive Edition: 4,787 Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES: 931 Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.

[@Wizard_of_Light]

Doesn't make Pharaoh a bad game. It's not because people can't understand very simple mechanics once you get into them that it's a bad game. I'll enjoy my Pharaoh thank you. Oh and Warhammer 18 000 concurrent players. So your old ways argument is not very genuine.

[@smthsmth]

Good fucking game

[@stamatiskostopoulos9178]

Will you do a campaign series?

[@AndysTake]

I will, but thinking of perhaps doing a run with the Agony mod!

[@jimboniusmaximus6018]

Does TW: Pharaoh Dynasties affect the authenticity and/or flow of the tutorial campaign where you play as Ramesses? What I'm asking is, does the tutorial still play the way it was intended in vanilla Pharaoh to learn the mechanics of the game, or would it be better to just play an actual campaign? Note: I have not played Pharaoh or Pharaoh Dynasties at all. I know that generally when developers or modders overhaul a game, like NTW3 for Total War: Napoleon for example, playing through the tutorial gets kind of broken, because it's not the same game anymore.

[@AndysTake]

@@jimboniusmaximus6018 I think the tutorial should be fine, it’s the same map as far as Rameses’ is concerned after all (Egypt hasn’t changed)

[@fresh0bm]

This is great! Do you have same thing for shogun 2?

[@JosephCarven]

Thanks for your work on that video! What is the downside of close relative marriages it terms of this game?

[@AndysTake]

only downside I think is you lose out in diplo improvements with other factions, I cant remember if there's inbreeding traits, I dont think so?

[@johnson7472]

It would be good to see the loyalty system brought in the next dlc especially now they have reworked the family tree

[@Mxgtumgoten]

Playing on very hard, while i only can field 2 Stacks every minor Nation declares war turn 8 and sent 3 Stacks over the entire mal

[@Marco_Leporatti]

Hey Andy! can you tell me why the AI wants to donate me if I do Legitimacy Support all its points? I don't understand, I lose immersiveness, why would they want to donate it to me since they used it as a means for civil war? It doesn't make sense...

[@DontKnow-hr5my]

So, it always confused me a bit with Pharaoh that melee attack can't be increased by your general, yet Melee Defense/charge can. I read through the Wiki a bit to try to learn the Game and the ingame Wiki clearly states "Presence increases melee Attack and morale at milestone points", yet it only increases morale. A bug?

[@francesco.virzi4]

It’s a really good game. They could improve the AI campaign skills, but other than that it’s very good.

[@robevans8629]

Loving the game but I'm having alot of Desyncs with co op campaigns and crashes to desktop, is this game going to get a patch? Just doesn't run great all the time on my PC

[@nobblkpraetorian5623]

Which major faction would you recommend for beginners? I heard that the difficulty rating is not accurate and some "easy" factions like Ramesses are actually hard.

[@setsunachiame]

I recommend Irsu cuz he lets you do virtually anything while having a really strong Canaanite roster

[@Frank36]

Im having a blast with amenmesse u got lots of gold in surrounding areas that you can use to buy anything.

[@Sevaekor]

I agree with Frank about Amenmesse, you start in a relatively good location with secured flanks after taking out only a few regions, you very quickly get in control of a ton of excellent gold producing provinces, and you have access to the best archer units in the entire game. Even the very early on Kushite bow mercenaries are spectacular for very early game, and are even viable all the way up into mid-late once they hit rank 9, and they're EXTREMELY forgiving in terms of resource upkeep. Once you discover "Set" as a god, if you decide to worship Set, the shrines add +3 ammunition on recruitment, so you can build 4 Set shrines in a recruitment focused province and have archers with +12 arrows for the rest of the game, it's nuts what you can do with top tier missile infantry with 35+ arrows over the course of a battle.

[@nobblkpraetorian5623]

How about the Major Aegean factions? Are they easy enough? I have played TW saga Troy.

[@setsunachiame]

@@nobblkpraetorian5623 playing as troy seems to be very easy as you start as the wanax of the aegean already and you get 3 generals at start (priam, hector , and paris) with a very robust roster while agamemnon is also pretty great so yeah go ahead

[@victricius6788]

Cheers 👍

[@KingofRome24]

Hey Andy (or somebody else) can you tell me why you have legitimacy -2 at minute 40:35? I have the same with my current amenese campaign despite the fact i build a lot of buildings to gain legitimacy and win battle it is always -3 or 4 i thought it was a bug.

[@wardzer]

Some legitimacy is temporary and that -2 is just that temporary legitimacy decaying over time. For example, legitimacy gained through battles is temporary and I think so is legitimacy from diplomacy

[@KingofRome24]

@wardzer yeay thats what i thought, but im now turn 60, and it's never went in a + or equalise i have all the -3 or 4 because of battles. What i try to say if you see what sources gives a + and only batlles give -3 decay then its weird (in my opinion) its all the time -3

[@wardzer]

@@KingofRome24 I don't think there are any sources of +legitimacy over time so you will probably only see a negative number there or 0 if you haven't gotten any temporary bonuses lately (legitimacy you get in the court is also temporary mind you)

[@naufalnaufal125]

I do random diplomacy here and there and ended up becoming the pharaoh lmao. Does anyone know why if you demand enough legitimacy that the deal would just be positive? Like some AI don't even want to become the Pharaoh or faction leader lol

[@MastaChief10]

Just got the game, played all the other TW games. Something feels off about the game cant put my finger on it. Also having issues with memory leaks

[@Bossaaditya04]

Andy please fix camera it is tilted on one side

[@robinspiekman9916]

Is it me or in every save almost every faction even across the map declares war at turn 5. I tried other settings and factions yet it keeps happening. ALSO outposts are annoying more than ever. Every time a random 1 general without army goes into your terretory and raze everything yet marches away out of reach lol

[@FlyingRazzo]

Any Sea People guide?

[@astonharrison-taylor3822]

I briefly thought Andrew Tate had made a total war video

[@dankwhiteowl]

They need to add population there’s no way some faction can have 2 full armies and it add some more realism in the game

[@linkstephanos5660]

I am disappointed still that they have not carried over a simple coop turn function like they had in Shogun 2. Being unable to do any of the rich economic and dynasty features on the off turn makes for very slow multiplayer campaigns. I did not need a repeat of Warhammer 3 but this oversight gets rid of my replay value when playing with friends.

[@RobertLee-n3b]

There is alot more depth than let's say tw warhammer cool

[@seidyn9439]

in 5 days 57 hours

[@jtoegi]

Yeeeee

[@pawelsmok9905]

I just bought Pharaoh, the campaign map is good, but the battle maps are soooooo small :/

[@AndysTake]

Hm? Battle map size seems fine to me now after the update! Are you playing OG Pharaoh or Dynasties?

[@pawelsmok9905]

@@AndysTake I am playing on Dynasties, but in unfortified settlements there is almost no place for deployment for attacker

[@lovecraftdagon]

big enough...😂😂...the battle map is..😊

[@Sevaekor]

@@pawelsmok9905 Well, you're attacking that settlement, not the surrounding lands

[@Bs-cl3qz]

Why do trojans and Achaeans share the same court . It's counterintuitive.

[@dts5302]

that's a lot

[@adamjohnson3239]

Sea Peoples are sooo weak. No danger at all. And Seti and Tausret died after 20 turns.

[@LeGarrec]

People cant fkn see that this looks like a dlc for troy and praising them because they "fixed" the game. You cant clearly see it when they added troy.

[@lp4514]

Why does it look like a DLC for Troy just because it's visually similar and because they reused some content from Troy to make the map bigger? Are Warhammer 2 and Warhammer 3 just DLC's of Warhammer 1 too then because they reuse the WH1 map and factions? What they did here was combine 2 separate games because because that's literally what people asked for, to add Greece/Troy and Mesopotamia to Pharaoh. If you played Pharaoh you would know even before this update it was way already bigger than Troy and definitely way bigger than any regular DLC in terms of size and amount of content. Sure it was more a Saga size game at release but now after the update it's a proper big historical main title and not just a "DLC".

[@LeGarrec]

@@lp4514 trust me if people didnt complain then we would pay for troy and Mesopotamia/dynasty update again, thats why they made this dlc free because it only felt like a dlc from the beginning. But you unfortunately cant still see why.

[@lp4514]

@@LeGarrec Those are two separate things though, I completely agree with you that Pharaoh at it's release felt unfinished and that we definitely would've had to pay for the map expansions that added Greece and Mesopotamia that they now added for free if people wouldn't have complained about it. I'm not denying that CA made some really bad and questionable decisions there in the past. But that still doesn't mean Pharaoh is just the size or quality of a Troy DLC, even at release it felt like it's own separate game, the problem was just that part of the content was missing that would've made it a proper main title, so it felt more like a small Saga game, but as I said now that they added Greece and Mesopotamia (even if they were most likely planned to be paid DLC's for Pharaoh in the beginning) for free to the base game it is a complete and proper main title, it just took some time.

[@AC-hj9tv]

Game good

[@zarahandrahilde9554]

Instead of reviews maybe tutorials are more your thing.

[@Pyraus]

criped this game is complicated...

[@Selkath_Tholotian]

I hope modders will make a mod that can add more formations/stances for unit in this game😢.

[@mherrj]

Seriously! I have faith it will happen.

[@Selkath_Tholotian]

@@mherrj There is only 1 right now but its not really good .