Battle of Waterloo - Total War: Napoleon

[@mexicoball2529]

Waterloo as the Brits: EZ Waterloo as France: ITS A WHOLE OTHER COMPANY

[@saladedefruit2529]

Prussia…

[@The_Dino_With_Moustache]

It's the prussians that made it ez

[@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870]

The friendly fire is intense on this one

[@elitemation]

Things that are crucial in waterloo: -Cavalry is important, always have a reserve, do not send them towards spikes -Make your lines long but not too long -Flanking is key -Dont pointlessly charge -Counter attacks!!

[@welporajackwelp4899]

I played normal and then very hard and just focused on pushing the left side with most of my infantry and artillery. Then I carefully walked my cav behind their spikes and setup a firing line.

[@welporajackwelp4899]

Oh and if you see cav form a square and keep 1-2 infantry near the arty for anti cav work.

[@Fw190A]

"Give me night, or give me Blücher" -Arthur Wellesley, Waterloo 1815

[@That-Belgian-Guy]

Wellington said that not Napoleon

[@Fw190A]

@@That-Belgian-Guy thx for reminding me, Emperor

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

"Truly a Triumph, my Excellency! Now all we have to do is destroy 2 Russian, 2 Austrian, 1 Spanish and another Prussian/German army to defeat the Coalition." FM Ney, after Bruxelles is captured.

[@fernhausluv44]

Even if Napoleon won Waterloo, he would have had to fight 3 or 4 more different Waterloos in order to triumph.

[@peasantfarmerr8917]

@@fernhausluv44 It is possible that he could pull it off if he could relieve his >80,000 veteran troops besieged all over central Europe, but it would be highly unlikely for napoleon to win with his conscripted force through sheer force alone. All his chance is, is to intimidate other nations to agree to a ceasefire or threaten an attack to the likes of Waterloo.

[@MrHnm92]

So in the end you have uploaded a Napoleon Total War battle. Since I saw Epic History TV a few months ago and all its series on Napoleon I have been hooked on the Napoleonic Wars. It is simply magnificent.

[@napoleoncake3514]

I have to point out that Epic TV made quite a few historical mistakes in their videos. But as a "fastfood" video, they are doing really great

[@michaelbelcher8805]

@@napoleoncake3514 do tell what you noticed

[@napoleoncake3514]

@@michaelbelcher8805 1) For Waterloo, Napoleon delayed his attack not for easier movement of his troops. He expected dry earth so that his cannon balls could bound up and down in the dry land and give a huge lethality. A cannon ball does not bound on muddy land. Another reason was that after each cannon fire, the cannon itself mired into mud. It needed 4-6 soldiers to pull it out. Artillerymen got easily exhausted repeating this process.

[@napoleoncake3514]

@@michaelbelcher8805 2) At 4pm, Ney considered Wellington was retreating. He sent 1st and 4th battalion of cuirassiers led by Count Mihaud around 2000 horsemen to attack. This was only a tentative attack. But several cavalry commander ignoring orders charged together with General Mihaud. (For example Guard heavy cavalry commander Guyot) Around 4000 French horsemen rushed towards the British. Napoleon saw the defective cavalry charge. But He would gamble his victory on this charge. He called out his cavalry commander Kellermann Jr. to gather all the reserve horses they had. General Kellermann strongly opposed it. But Napoleon insisted this cavalry charge. So Kellermann led around 6000-7000 French horsemen to support Marshal Ney.

[@napoleoncake3514]

@@michaelbelcher8805 3) Therefore, Ney's cavalry attack was not an unauthorized move. It was authorized by Napoleon himself although he refused to admit it after the war. Most his cavalry generals claimed that Napoleon permited this great cavalry charge.

[@arc1419]

It drives me crazy how he sees cavalry and it doesn't form square

[@ricardodoesguidesandvlogs5404]

I feel like many oversimplified fans will be here.

[@Adam_3126e]

The lined seem to be very stretched out, that might effect the morale, and some lines were that disorganized that they were straight behind others, and the cavalry charged on spikes, those kill horses.

[@AFGuidesHD]

>some lines were that disorganized that they were straight behind others Uh no, having 2 or even 3 lines is better than one, more bullets to spray than a single line. Since artillery is crap in this game and misses 90% of the time, it's worth the risk to quickly route enemy units with this focused fire.

[@tarifaoropezaignaciojosue973]

@@AFGuidesHD no es fuego concentrado si tienes unas unidades detrás de otras es es solo fuego amigo , fuego concentrado es cuando rodeas a la unidad enemiga y le haces una media luna al rededor , y otra cosa que es una imprudencia es permitir que el enemigo te cargue con su caballería para eso están la formas en cuadro que la destruyen más rápido y sin sufrir bajás

[@heinzlilio4612]

Total War Napoleon has the best soundtrack for the Total War games for me

[@theexiledcactus3735]

I did the calculation, the user lost 528 men to friendly fire during the battle. A quarter of his force.

[@XLEDI]

Some say if he had replaces Grouchy with the under appreciated but excellent Marshal David “The Iron Marshal”, the outcome of the battle may have been different.

[@baylent6975]

Use the square fomation against the cavallary, more better than firing after they chrased your infantry.

[@Neal_Flores]

As someone else said, Waterloo is where your total war skills are put to the test because your main goal is to win the battle the greatest general of all time couldn’t.

[@typicalperson6389]

Holy Jesus the timing I was playing Napoleon Total War just now

[@Perskk]

Grouchy Grouchy! He tries my patience.

[@Adam_3126e]

You have also put your men to squares when prussian cavalry charged.

[@AFGuidesHD]

do the squares still do anything if they have no ammo ?

[@ivvan497]

@@AFGuidesHD yes

[@captainbroady]

@@AFGuidesHD I think it basically prevents the cavalry from trampling over your men

[@ynigodomagas]

@@AFGuidesHD the purpose of square formation isnt only for the gun shots, it would make your troops act like anti cavalry spikes and they would be braced

[@Adam_3126e]

@@AFGuidesHD yea

[@mapoleo]

7:18 don’t use the cav to engage the bri'ish infantry up with barricade like ney did, full send to hougoumont, let them come down and charge in with the cav, after that, carefully have the cav moving between the barricades to prevent losses from the horses jumping from the barricade and finish off the bri'ish artillery then off to the prussians

[@CPLBenKerry2035]

Michel Ney Reference

[@fred5406]

Easiest way to win this battle is to funnel infantry round to the left take the farmhouse and then sweep down the ridge. Keep 3 brigades if cav free to engage blucher which destroys him. Then the remainder of your cavalry can be used to destroy the British which try to advance off the ridge. BTW taking any building in this battle means that british artillary will fire on that building so you can keep infantry safe.

[@Saitamachannel]

The second saddest thing to losing a battle is winning a battle. Arthur Wellesley or wellington

[@That-Belgian-Guy]

MORE!!!!!!!!! also don't overlap your lines of infantry

[@itstotallynotconnuh]

Sire, The Swedish have requested of me to become crowned prince, under the name of Karl Johan.

[@AFGuidesHD]

well its certainly difficult to keep a straight line when attacking entrenched infantry on a hill with massive chokepoints what was Napoleon thinking!?

[@That-Belgian-Guy]

@@AFGuidesHD could you please do all the battles?

[@itstotallynotconnuh]

@@AFGuidesHD do you know why they fought in lines? :)

[@AFGuidesHD]

@@itstotallynotconnuh no

[@anomalyp8584]

Did you turn off friendly fire?! If i put my units in front of each other just a TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENSY weensy bit, they should each other to bits

[@jesse8381]

thats a lot of friendly fire

[@Radetzky25]

Man i did not know you played Napoleon total war, can you make some more NTW videos in the future?

[@AFGuidesHD]

maybe ;)

[@Radetzky25]

Ok thaaanks :D

[@johnreed2278]

"Infantrey DiD it"!

[@russeljamestangaroestrella9734]

Napoleon's last campaign of 1815

[@thegamerman1097]

I would like to see you try the Operation Flashpoint Games from Codemaster Dragon Rising was pretty good it’s like Battlefield Bad Company a little bit while Red River is just some Generic Shooter but it’s still worth checking those out when you have a chance

[@AFGuidesHD]

I played dragon rising when it came out, but I just thought it was too slow of a game, kinda boring lol

[@udel-jury388]

Bro never heard of a squar XD

[@arganelichens1713]

Ngl I would love to see Activision create COD games based on Napoleon era war with Modern Warfare 2019 engine😂

[@Bikavin]

Please not activision,just please

[@soirsko2934]

Bravo six we are going past

[@mybrotherdied227]

Marcon, Call in the AC1-NAPOLEON!

[@TruetoCaesar]

Cant wait for black people on the Prussian team

[@trollege9618]

Arcade line battles?

[@stavrosriz3660]

theres something that has been happening with my total war napoleon. whenever i try to play campaign its just crashes

[@Elsannalita_99]

530 friendly fire casualties,OMG

[@minhdo1728]

Do you know how to construct those gabionades and earthworks in single player battle? I tried to find it but haven't found it yet!

[@osther-aspiraproject9957]

Napoleon total war? Well this is new ... nice!

[@ryandelasilva9362]

I wish there was a third person game about the napoleonic wars

[@BakerYTB]

There is Holdfast: Nations at War and Mount and Blade: Napoleonic wars

[@Sshika63]

Mount and Blade with L'Aigle mod and between empires mod though it's not specifically Napoleonic era but close enough

[@frederickii8007]

Hmph France You shall see in in about 55 years >:(

[@rpgsgamer7850]

What's Napoleon doing to attack the british?

[@AFGuidesHD]

to defeat them before they're reinforced by prussia

[@hazeish3137]

Must be on easy, for cinematic battles 3 rank lines, don't overlap an use dam square on anti cav keep practicing tho

[@AFGuidesHD]

no, normal.

[@Cogito-540antigone]

I never played Napoleon total war, but in this situation I prefer attack first prussian in moving, then I see the english army, who is sleeping in hill. A front battle with english army is a real mistake in the first phase of this game. History of battle: The prussian army went to Right flank of french army but they attacked always behind the army of Napoleon during the battle (not at the end) and it was real fight, a carnage of prussian and french soldier. The french reserve fought the Prussians.

[@Joaosantos22114]

Really poor usage of artillery, artillery is much more useful than people think and its simply underperforming because they utilize it for the wrong targets or simply forget about it entirely and let it be charged. My tip is to utilize it to destroy buildings or to prioritize killing cavalry which it does pretty well (it is also an excellent tool for assassinating generals). I only recommend using solid shot against infantry when they're bunched up or when closing up with scatter shot (although even this might not be enough, hence the importance of assassinating their general early for the demoralizing effect). Lastly, howitzers do a really ok job at dealing with infantry and they can really thin out strong enemy infantry units which lets you save the lives of many line infantry units. My advice is to sacrifice at least 1 of your infantry or cavalry units to protect your rear and that precious artillery. This might actually be a good lure because enemy cavalry will usually try to outflank you and target your artillery, you can use this to your advantage if you know what you're doing. I usually have a unit of light cavalry or militia (something cheap) solely dedicated to protecting that artillery as even one militia unit can really put a big dent on any nasty cavalrymen that try to rush your guns.

[@AFGuidesHD]

yeah artillery seems useless in this game lol it misses wildly

[@Joaosantos22114]

@@AFGuidesHD Yeah I also despised artillery but after replaying this amazing game after some years I have finally realized the potential of artillery. It does well against cavalry because cavalry are easier targets in general, the A.I is stupid enough to keep them standing still or charging directly towarda your guns. The guns miss a lot so I usually use lower caliber due to the higher accuracy and always have more than one,it helps because even one direct shot is enough to severely weaken any cavalry unit.

[@BreakingWhite]

Napoleon said that artillery is more useful against cavalry than against infantry

[@No_username26]

This was a painful watch tbh. You could have won that with so many less casualties

[@kingsalver]

Wtf i was just playing it lol

[@nguyennguyenpeacetheworld]

So about history and logic game

[@ryleeculla5570]

VIVLA EMPEROR

[@kentchristian8930]

Are you playing Napoleon Total War on Windows 10?

[@AFGuidesHD]

yes

[@kentchristian8930]

@@AFGuidesHD do you mind telling me how do you get this game running on Windows 10? I tried everything but still can't run the game

[@AFGuidesHD]

@@kentchristian8930 I just downloaded it from steam and it worked

[@kentchristian8930]

@@AFGuidesHD I got it from Steam too but it refuse to run on my device

[@jesse8381]

@@kentchristian8930 Reinstall it

[@zooke7695]

where you was when napoleon fight with british at waterloo? you must need to show for napoleon this battle and say "i am better that you "l'empereur" ahahahaa"

[@AFGuidesHD]

lol yeah I forgot to send Napoleon head first

[@Brett-uq4tz]

​@@AFGuidesHDquick question, would it be possible to have Napoleon's old guard use carolean tactics?

[@AFGuidesHD]

@@Brett-uq4tz what do you mean ? what's carolean ?

[@Brett-uq4tz]

@@AFGuidesHD the caroleans were an infantry unit in the swedish empire, the way their tactics worked was they would march double time toward the enemy army taking fire the entire time, and would only fire their muskets exactly twice, once at 50 paces, then a second and final time at 20 paces, and after that second and final musket volley, the caroleans would draw all of their weapons and charge right at the enemy and fight them in hand to hand combat until the enemy retreated or were defeated.

[@AFGuidesHD]

@@Brett-uq4tz you can form a line and have them advance in a straight line and have them hold fire, but there's nothing too precise like what you described lol

[@elvarsmar2280]

The way you make lines and organize your army disgust me

[@AFGuidesHD]

the way napoleon is attacking a bottle neck hill disgusts me

[@frengkyferdiansyah7918]

Mantep

[@faizjawer]

Is not battle warterloo😂

[@tapashchakraborty819]

Hi

[@Paul_maistre]

If you play as Britain on easy mode it’s not very hard and infact I beat it on my 4-6 gameplay and normal is easy to but that’s because you have an advantage of holding farmhouses like hougmont papelotte and la haye saint and elite units but as France it’s almost impossible for me and even though I have it on easy mode it’s hard because my units always keep wavering and becoming shattered since the British has a higher boost in morale which is not fair and you don’t even have any artillery good enough to destroy even one farmhouse and I tried to flank the British with light cavalry but the world border prevented me from doing it and also hougomont is the hardest to take with papelotte able to fall easy but the thing is it’s hard to shatter most or all of Wellington’s men and you have to defeat him quick because then the Prussians will attack behind you so honestly I feel like the units are not very balanced because the British have a huge morale boost when the French have a small one which feels very unfair and borodino was not to bad compared to this since my artillery destroy many of the Russian artillery guns but Waterloo as the French is actually very hard

[@sheynrc]

1.

[@spookered]

here's your award for being the first to comment on this video 🤏🥇.Happy?

[@Алексей-н4р9и]

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[@jacekjaco8674]

Ps4???

[@AFGuidesHD]

no

[@jacekjaco8674]

@@AFGuidesHD będzie taka gra na ps4???

[@AFGuidesHD]

@@jacekjaco8674 no

[@jacekjaco8674]

@@AFGuidesHD czyli nie