Backstabbers Paradise as Armenia - SYDC - R1

[@ssb64channel]

oh shit! my campaign! Haven't finished watching it all but I did send some context in the email which I haven't heard mentioned yet. I was playing this a few months ago now so I don't remember everything perfectly but... I wasn't trying to turtle at the start but Parthia, having its own horse archers, caused me a fair few casualties. After I took Susa a rebel army with a general in it besieged Artaxarta and with only peasants in there I lost my captial to rebels D=. I tried to take it back too early and that same general unit slaughtered many a eastern infantry and some horse archers. Finally got it back after forever when pontus stabbed in the back and besieged Kotais. Meanwhile I had taken Seleucia but stupidly went for Dumatha before I continued to push west. I took it from the rebels but as soon as my army left Egypt showed up and took it from me. I was pretty salty at this point and as I went for Hatra the Seleucids bribed Seleucia off me >:( My army got pretty rekt on its way back by an army with some elephants and then I had to save Susa from egyptians. My expedition north to turn back the pontics encountered a stack and a half with plenty of chariots that wouldnt quit holding each other's dicks so I eventually got frustrated and fought them on the field. I won but my army was decimated. had to run back to susa. Bunch of assassins from the Seleucids and egyptians showed up so I hired my own to kill theirs since my youngest family member had -2 to personal security or something. I was pretty frustrated and ready to give up, being in debt and unable to leave susa without it coming under siege again. Then I found this channel doing these disaster campaigns >=D. Can't wait to make any Seleucids, Egyptians and Pontics Legend doesn't kill suffer the most horrible deaths! Thanks Legend! edit: I also lost several generals to elephants and chariots. Including one where my general was crushed by a routing elephant just like Legend talks about 17:20 . Man I was so angry lol

[@jazzyboy3742]

ssb64channel You're in luck! The Armenian Empire will rise up by the time Legend hands you back your save! And beat up Egypt! God, playing as the Seleucids on VH difficulty with these bastards around is a pain in the ass!

[@KampsKnows]

I stopped watching your channel for a while, but man this series got me hooked back in. Such a good original idea, and always a different situation

[@jabloko992]

38:23 Outnumbered 4:1 Enemy has elephants, heavy cav, missile cav, chariots There is no retreat, your entire faction wipes if you lose 'We'll manage' WOW

[@Bramarth]

Nice qoute for the loading screen hehe

[@connorbecz3036]

Too right...Legend reverses situations almost regardless of the odds

[@georgesboulanger7938]

@bored20024 No, not really, Spartan by that time were already pretty weak. They never been very energetic in aggression/ empire building, even before getting wreck by Thebans, because of their conservative worldview.

[@khorps4756]

bored20024 if Philip marched on Sparta the Spartans wouldn't have stood a chance. but everyone in Greece hated the Spartans so it was a good guy to keep around as a unifying kind of thing

[@tscchope]

@@khorps4756 Yeah right. Pyrrhus of Epirus who'd given Rome such a hard time decided to march on Sparta whilst its army was away. He fought Sparta's old men, boys and woman and got severely trounced. He ran off to Argos, but they caught up to him and killed him. Might have been a better fate for Philip than being killed by his own son (though there are doubts as to whom the father of Alexander really was).

[@Ye-Hu]

48:30 & 53:04 Apparently, legend was a witness, of the death of the Legendary Biggus Dickus May he rest in peace...

[@twistedblast5253]

This is a good joke

[@Ye-Hu]

Armenian King: Alright legend, what's the plan to save our asses? Legend: *G E N O C I D E* Armenians: 😬

[@MegaAliveli]

yesu alejandro Turkish people:What genocide?

[@ArthaxtaDaVince777]

@@SoghomonTehlirian1915 What are you talking about? Protected Turks in BC? Huh?

[@ArthaxtaDaVince777]

@@SoghomonTehlirian1915 No, I live in USA bro. I'll check out the links.

[@ArthaxtaDaVince777]

@@SoghomonTehlirian1915 Also your comment made it seem like there were Turks in BC Anatolia.

[@ArthaxtaDaVince777]

@@SoghomonTehlirian1915 I live in Glendale California. The Turks have nothing to do with Anatolia, they came from east Asia from around 500 CE.

[@ChevyChase301]

My favorite disaster so far

[@gregball6069]

I agree

[@SNAKEpphair]

The thumbnail made me completely ignore this at first and I've only now realised this was a Legend video

[@Alucard6297]

Legend is the kinda guy that sees a impossible situation and comes off with statements like this.. " Ok.. I'm going to need some bubble gum, string, and some paper clips..."

[@aaronmutch1883]

I love the way the towers sound like machine guns on triple speed. So much death rained down on Pontus

[@antthegord9411]

I was just thinking to myself: you know what would be a pretty cool RTW faction to see Legend play for awhile, Armenia. Thanks for delivering mate :)

[@crownedpleb9747]

How is the old rome/medieval campaign map still so much more comfy than modern tws?

[@johnnyd3387]

This is extraordinary Legend. Brilliant.

[@arazeth5562]

45:38 "It's just coming in too hard and fast" - That's what she said...

[@garethr4138]

Balance of power is 2:1. "Balance of power is looking pretty good"

[@sonofskeletor33]

My first non-Roman campaign for this was as Parthia, which is nearly identical to playing as Armenia. Basically had the same thing happening, sandwiched between Egypt and Pontus and constantly under siege. Could win 100 defensive victories without achieving anything. It's really tough to play these factions initially, because unlike on the Italian peninsula your starting territories make bugger all money. The other disadvantage is that you have a vast desert between you and the the major cities of the Near East. If Egypt in particular comes after you you're boxed right in, and thanks to the tyranny of distance and a weak economy it's so hard to take the fight to them. As Parthia or Armenia you really need to blitz the first ten turns, or else you're screwed.

[@wushudrank6723]

The hopelessness of this situation makes me sick to my stomach

[@jarogniewtheconqueror2804]

YES! More Rome tw!

[@Dragonball123Roxette]

I'm just proud that the Seleicids survived

[@bigbobwalker5527]

Damn brother this is one fked campaign

[@jaspervanheycop9722]

I always lose a lot of generals as the Britons, their Chariots are made of balsa wood, spit and dreams. I've seen them die charging peasants and archers...

[@n00bforever]

Hella yeah! Rome 1!

[@Mushele]

This is my favourite total war :D, wish ai was little more entertaining

[@wongnigel1158]

Always found you funny as fuck, but recently you just turned up the funny scale and is completely hilarious, lovely content man

[@MESOHIPPUS]

Good job! I think this is the most "hard core" one that i have find untill now.

[@vicentgalvan70]

26:31 a e s t h e t i c s

[@boganubis7566]

Best so far!

[@ak6427]

Hey thanks for naming the game as well!

[@hughgpauwels]

I find that going after Parthia as a first move as Armenia is not the play, having played a few campaigns as Armenia. Just remarking as I see this disaster campaign. Reminds me of my first one with Armenia. Debt issues, Egypt gets too strong and you have a hard time controlling them with a large amount of full stacks coming your way. Pontus gets too strong at that point, having most of or all of Anatolia by the time you get around to them. The better play is to hit the Seleucids or Pontus when they are weak. If you hit the Seleucids right out of the gate, you could take Hatra, Antioch, and Tarsus in that order in 10 turns. You could probably eliminate Pontus in the same amount of time (maybe, you would have to build a port in Kotais and then build a ship, but a stables (I forget if it has one or not at the start) is the most practical building you can build early on. I don't concern myself with Parthia until I've mostly neutralized the Seleucids.

[@jefbord]

Armenian genocide takes on a new meaning when Legend plays them

[@krakraen343]

Also a thing you can do with catas vs chariots; if you box the cataprachts (as in stack them right ontop of eahcother) and put them in D stance they will crush scythed chariots even while being outnumbered. No room for the chariots to move in between the unit (chariots only attacks from the sides) so they cant really hurt you. Slightly cheesy and highly immobile, so has limited use; but remains quite effecive. That or just break their morale early ( as in charge in from the sides). Wedge helps quite abit at that in r1 esspecially when you have lots of cavalry and are taking on infantry; (wedge + charge a unit behind the unit in the front is very much a thing; so you charge attack but through other units, and have the cav charge all the way).

[@LinkinMcOwnage]

Eagerly awaiting the next installment

[@hughgpauwels]

I should also add if you do decide to "bum rush" the Seleucids, you can create quite the economy for yourself early on that otherwise Armenia might not enjoy so much in the early game, which is your biggest weakness as Armenia or Parthia in the early game. IMO it is the best play to do that if you know how to use Horse Archers well (you won't get Cat Archers, which are worth the expense, until you take Antioch, which {Cat Archers} are significantly better than anything else you have once you are able to get them, essentially Eastern Archers on Horseback that are even more ludicrously Armoured). You'll have to wrestle the Egyptian bull afterwards, but they won't be as powerful (once you clear out their initial stacks, then they are pretty much on the defensive). Try to minimize the weaknesses over maximizing the strengths and that is a great idea for the long term. (Just remarking, I'm sure Legend knows this :) I'm just a mark for Armenia, my favorite faction in vanilla Rome Total War. I love amassing late game armies with 10-14 Cat Archers in them and the rest being a general or two and or 4-6 Cat Lancers. You will be untouchable once you get to that point. Post Marian Rome? No problem, your infantry is far better than Parthia's in the late game.

[@kingyellowwolf5256]

Thumbnail reminds me of American physco lol and keep the Rome 1 coming brother I fucking love that game.

[@ricardoperez5498]

Legend that 1st fight caused me anxiety lol

[@BlackSabbath628]

Why don't you try making the elephants miss by moving the units of cavalry around? I don't remember arrows in Rome 1 auto-hitting, so that should reduce casualties.

[@heysup8889]

loving this series !! :D also no early vampire coast?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

Blacklisted

[@literallynothinghere9089]

Legend of total war. We are not fuckers . You are the fucker, you fucked and destroyed your enemies and defeated them all !!!!!! You are really a legend.

[@Zarastro54]

It always astounded me how utterly untrustworthy AI diplomacy was in older Total Wars. I thought Shogun II AI was bad but Medieval II and back the AI literally just doesn’t seem to care about honoring any agreements.

[@hazenoki628]

Going into Warhammer III after not really playing any TW after Medieval II I had the same realisation from the opposite side. "The AI cares about me breaking agreements now? And they don't break alliances at the drop of a hat?!"

[@_tartaros_1138]

a bit like charge of the rohirim against the mumakils

[@snowisthebestweather]

Crazy. Just finished my own campaign as Armenia. I actually started it ages ago, but it started to go south and I stopped playing it. This is easily how my campaign could have ended up. Really fun and interesting faction (Love cataphract archers), but their starting location is awful, and you kinda need to break out fast or else you get sandwiched between the Seleucids, who have better infantry, and the Pontics and Scythians, who have better early-game cavalry.

[@kingmike07]

36:34 legend copied the sound of the assassin’s death sound

[@SaurianSavior]

1:28:15 "I used to be a general like you, but then I took an arrow to the..."

[@MereDusty]

It is blasphemous you did not get early access to The Vampire Coast. BLASPHEMY, I SAY!

[@LegendofTotalWar]

Don't worry about it. I don't want early access. I'll play it when it comes out just like everyone else. Even if I wasn't blacklisted I do NOT want early access.

[@dgmetaxa]

Man, I would like to see a passage in history books that went something like this: "Tigranes II, also known as Tigranes the Great, the King of Kings, the Devastator of Parthia, the Subjucator of the Atropatenians and the Goryaeans, and the Conqueror of Mesopotamia, of Syria and Phoeniciea, on October 6, 68 BC, at the age of 72, whilst charging into the Roman formation, tripped over his own dick and died."

[@littlekuribohimposte]

I wish there was a way to get advice as my Venice campaign is imploding in on me. It's not a disaster, as I'm doing okay in most fronts, but I need a way to deal with the Mongols. It seems after I destroy their army, they just come back with more.

[@EtienneDuchesne]

just build canon towers and sally out when they besiege you. AI cannot handle canon towers so you'll destroy all of their armies

[@littlekuribohimposte]

@@EtienneDuchesne Just got gunpowder. Will be sure to do that as soon as I can. I just need to get Antioch back.

[@n543576]

"If you cant get quality get numbers, if you cant get numbers get quality, if you cant get eithee get fucked". LMAO!

[@Brich1]

At 11:51 two of his generals recovered another man as he initiated the battle. Is that a designed thing or a bug?

[@martinlopezhowe]

No, in Rome 1 when you start a battle, your general unit gains 1 soldier at the start. It's to represent the family member integrating the unit or a captain being created.

[@Brich1]

Martin Lopez Howe Fair enough. It has been years since I played Rome 1. Thank you sir.

[@tombo9277]

Where is Mrs Legend?

[@barker505]

Legend Eastern infantry are actually quite good against elephants and horsemen provided you can control for their terrible morale. If you keep them in the town square of the forts and manually fight the battle you'd have a good chance of winning it

[@Palladium1010]

Wondering if he still wasn't using ALT attack

[@Mitch93]

"Damn daniel" well, we'll be expecting a copyright notice soon legend!

[@kaiserfrisky1727]

I love ur vids m8

[@rlanger3108]

Letting your generals just sit and get shot by the elephants was painful.

[@leodumoncel9061]

Why would you recruit horse archers over cataphract horse archers ? They are better everywhere but for the speed and youre not really using the average horse archers to moove that fast

[@ravenstrategist1325]

do you really have to ask? Because they are cheap and require only tier 1 cavarly buildings to recruit.

[@07jaworski07]

Cataphract horse archers suck balls their armour ain't that great on this difficulty anyway he has enough generals to soak up damage while the cheap horse archers just spam the shit out of the enemy.

[@Tiger2071-e6f]

why didnt you use the peasants as cannon fodder in those first 2 sieges? Sure its men but they are only good for 2 things, garrisoning and taking arrows. Also, why not just let the elephants rout/go insane and wait to get some jav cav or better horse archers? You'll end up whittling them down anyway in the process and brake the siege sooner.

[@tregtersovtregtersov5335]

Sorry but i am a bit new in the Rome Total war games but how do you choose which faction you play as in Total war Rome 1

[@jarogniewtheconqueror2804]

TregTerSov TregTerSov, You have to first win as one of the three Roman houses(Juli, Scipi, Bruti). Best to win on SHORT campaign if you want all factions, or you can get a mod that unlocks all factions. (Writing your name was a nightmare)

[@lifprasir01]

You can unlock every faction by finishing the campaign once.

[@Siegberg91]

Some can be unlocked via mods or Scripts www.twcenter.net/wiki/HowTo:Unlock_All_Factions

[@tregtersovtregtersov5335]

Thanks !

[@wisp6826]

50:10 It reminds me of first crusade when they did the same under Jerusalem. Muslim commander was like wtf. I am not kidding. Night procession under the walls od Jerusalem.

[@ABODA1988]

Really wished you would keep the videos name as before, (Saving Your Disaster )

[@canadian__ninja]

It made the videos too samey by title when everything was "Saving Your Disaster Campaign - Blah Blah Blah"

[@codyh9175]

For constructive criticism, your heavy spears would've destroyed the elephants since they're technically cavalry. But it's all good 👍

[@ThePoeticPariah]

Seleucids. Oh. I thought the first settlement was under siege by rebels at first. :o

[@ravenstrategist1325]

wierd to see them alive that long in the game XD

[@count487]

And with all their settlements too. They even kept Antioch!

[@noscope7809]

LOVE U

[@r.p.gevolutions3024]

What happenes at 85% enemies killed ?

[@michaelvey0239]

R.P.G Evolutions the army will get completely wiped (if the general is dead) so there is no point in chasing any more down

[@ravenstrategist1325]

stackwipe

[@TheCrimsonAtom]

What's SYDC?

[@SaurianSavior]

Saving Your Disaster Campaign

[@TheCrimsonAtom]

@@SaurianSavior I can't believe I didn't figure it out myself,thank you :D

[@heysup8889]

48:30 that is one BIG D ! LOL

[@alecsis882]

Damn, that thumbnail... also what does R1 mean?

[@pp-wo1sd]

Rome 1 total war

[@mariuszcos534]

probably first epizod

[@alecsis882]

Thank you

[@Greninjia]

rome 1

[@Greninjia]

@@alecsis882 it means rome total war 1

[@jamesdachs1201]

47:40 wait what

[@lucasdenny3585]

Are you going to play the new warhammer 2 pirate shit ?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

I was going to play it on twitch, but since I got suspended I don't know. Thinking about it.

[@lucasdenny3585]

@@LegendofTotalWar have you seen anyone play it yet shit looks fun as fuck would be cool to see you pull out some cheese on it .

[@Connor-rh9lc]

RETRAIN THE SPEAR UNIT PLZ HAHA giving me anxiety.

[@krakraen343]

Those armenian pikes are utter shit, in addition to being short pikes they are actually light weapond type; meaning all heavy weapond types get an attack bonus against them. So Levy pikes (while way cheaper and having much worse stats) crush them with longer pikes + heavy attack 1 on 1. Still can be rather useful to deter you being rushed in the rare moments where your catas are not enough (chariot factions/ scythia usually).

[@Forgotten-Gaming]

Got to be honest. I struggle to enjoy the older pre-shogun 2 TW battles because of how unbelievably dumb the AI is. I mean look at this first battle. AI with a massive number of pikeman runs away from just 3 units of cavalry the entire battle. All it had to do was form a defensive square. I know the AI isn't great even in the newer games but my god the Rome and Medieval 2 battle AI is plain broken.

[@TheDAWinz]

backstab my loce

[@probower4726]

01:22:00

[@klassehkhornate9636]

Jesus Christ, what is this modern politics? HAH!

[@davidcoelho9891]

Guys, what's the best settings for the rome total war campaign? Difficulty and stuff. I wanted to start a new one on the hardest difficulty

[@martinlopezhowe]

Well it depends. Battle difficulty works like this: easy is -4 attack and defence for the AI, medium is no modifiers, hard is +4 attack and defence for the AI and very hard is +7 attack and defence. Campaign difficulty is more difficult to grasp. It has something to do with AI funds and aggressiveness. The higher the difficulty, the richer and more aggressive the AI gets. It all depends on your playstyle. Easy difficulty in general isn't recommended because of how retarded the AI is. You'll steamroll the map without much skill. I actually prefer medium for battles, as both sides are equal. But for most people this is still too easy, although things do get quite ridiculous on higher difficulties (horsemen surviving a charge into a phalanx, etc.). Campaign-wise, medium is still quite easy. Hard and very hard, for battles and is I said, are sometimes ridiculous but enjoyable, compensating for braindead AI. However for campaigns, the AI does get massive boosts, so expect full stacks coming at you and full-on aggressive (often for no reason) actions. Then again, you could say it compensates for how retarded it is. Voilà.

[@davidcoelho9891]

@@martinlopezhowe great response. Thanks for the time you spent replying and info you gave. Hope you have a good day

[@krichardj]

Not an easy faction to play even before fucked up.