JULII STARTING POSITION GUIDE - Game Guides - Rome: Total War

A complete guide to the Julii starting position in Rome: Total War.
In this episode of Game Guides, I will be talking about the precise set up of the Julii faction at the start of the game, city and general characteristics, armies and navies, spies, diplomats, potential enemies, and strategy moving forward.
I will also be talking about theaters of war, and which potential lands would be the best to invade.
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[@thomasclifford6123]

Gods... I hate Gauls

[@delivertilidie8356]

My Grandfather hated them too. Even before they took his eyes out

[@rush4in]

Do you think I'd be out here on the frontier without good reason?

[@LoneWolf.5326]

Yes Rome needs a strong frontier … No Rome doesn’t need unwashed barbarians at her gates.

[@PizzamuraProject]

Yes, Rome needs a strong frontier

[@ladyklyshna2066]

No, Rome doesn't need unwashed barbarians at her gates! So, that's why I'm here, the leader of the Julii: to bring Roman order to stinking Gauls.

[@starmada105]

I find that one of the best strategies for the Julii is combining basically all your units, attacking segesta while you build a few more biremes, then try to capture Carthage, which is surprisingly easy and that gives you another very powerful city.

[@nasabluebeam6654]

Es un viejo truco 😏

[@tptallen4498]

I just did this and it opens up invasions from Dacia, Thrace, and Gauls or Britons. Basically anyone from the north wants a slice of Roman cake. Personally, I attacked Carthage simply because I wanted triarii.

[@Secret12_6]

Bro how do you travel army in sea

[@lutskinu1491]

@@Secret12_6 bro just your army into the fleet

[@BaBillyOuily]

this the first game i played in my life i love it ans i'm realy happy to sea that someone still playing this game

[@draigevykhait6141]

I have just picked it up and I love it. The gameplay is so fun and the soundtrack is one of the best I've heard in a while. But it has a real bad effect on my RTS skills because I'm getting used to pausing battles xD

[@coreymicallef365]

Taking the area to immediately to the east (dalmatia, illyria and pannonia)are easy enough to defend using the river crossings and forts. Out of those three dalmatia and illyria are gold producing provinces so their trade income can be fairly significant once they can start building decent ports and roads.

[@connorbiddle4703]

Every problem people have with the Julii can be fixed if you take Carthage. You basically can lock the scipii out of getting territory. I even took Sparta after Carthage and got a good foothold in each of the other Roman territories and it made fighting them pretty easy

[@Charles-ve2yy]

Thank you so much for this clear and inspirating guide, so hyped for my next try on replaying this game!!

[@BlackAngusReviews]

This is such satisfying content

[@Robbi_]

I see two ways to play the julii, go west and take gaul, spain and than take out the britons and germania, by this time marian reforms will have happened and civil war is going to be close.... The other way would be to still fight the barbarians but also trying to expand in africa and greece because there's richer cities and also to weaken the other romans.... altough it kind of makes the civil war very easy and anti climatic

[@MrJoao0980]

Yeah I agree, if you go for the Greek and African expansion by the time of the Civil War you are so powerful that it becomes a steamroll, it also leaves the other Roman AI mindless because they don't know where to expand

[@abrahamreese7318]

i know Im pretty randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to watch newly released tv shows online?

[@elijahjadiel1524]

@Abraham Reese i watch on flixzone. Just google for it :)

[@zahirallen8883]

@Elijah Jadiel yup, have been watching on Flixzone for since april myself :)

[@abrahamreese7318]

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[@arnoldancog5711]

Your videos are great dude..adding more tips and info on the game..i used to play rome total war in my pc years years ago on my PENTIUM IV..but now its obsolete..so i play rome total war on my android fone still great till now...especially now i got additional info on your videos that i didnt know before since i play on my pc..awesome dude.👌👍

[@patrickma3522]

In my VH/VH difficulty Julii campaign, I found that it's entirely possible to cut off both the Scipii and Brutii factions' expansion paths. The first thing you do is load Flavius, Lucius and their armies onto your starting fleet and ship them towards Caralis and Lilybaeum. If you're fast enough, you can snatch Syracuse from the Greeks before the Scipii show up. After that, North Africa is yours to take. You also have to immediately build a port in Ariminum and ship Vibius and Quintus off to take all of Greece starting with Salona and Thermon. I wasn't able to take Appolonia because the Brutii got there first. The one problem with the plan is that I had delay my expansion into Gaul for until I could train up another force in Northern Italy. It does pay off though because it makes the civil war later on much easier.

[@Robbi_]

Yea.... I did that, but the civil war feels very anti climatic

[@keizoxd5623]

but... why would you like to have a much easier civil war?

[@patrickma3522]

@@keizoxd5623 for speedrunning

[@lewisthomas5049]

do I HAVE to take Syrcause to cut off the scipii?

[@R2jjj]

As house of jullil Beating house of buritti its not possible they are really powerful

[@williamdare9970]

I really don't see what the point is in having high taxes early game. Unless it's on one of the richest cities in the game it's probably not gonna make any difference (the 300 more gold your earning is literally nothing) and it means you have to wait longer for high tier units

[@HouseOfAlastrian]

Another reason I am uncomfortable with jacking up tax rate in a city in Italy is that the sooner you can max out the tier of one of your Italian settlements, the sooner you get the Marian Reforms. You don't really have to build every building available right away... just whatever you need to reduce squalor and raise public order, and one troop production building, specializing that city and its neighbours for different types of troop.

[@mcsmash4905]

i mean you have a choice , high pop low taxes , or relatively low pop with high taxes

[@blackmetalcumbia]

nice!

[@user-lq2bs8xb8h]

Nice vid! When is the next Germania episode coming out?

[@BlueMatona]

Thanks! Germania 2 is posting tomorrow afternoon

[@grantaum9677]

@@BlueMatona could you please do a guide on the roman civil war

[@Hoss999]

Thank you

[@BlueMatona]

Welcome!

[@furtim1]

Get those wonders that give income and cost reduction bonuses.

[@johnirby8847]

On VH I always try to beat Brutii and take Sparta, Corinth, Athens first...leave on the boats with faction leader and every unit except the other generals, one hastatii, and the town watch...you can still take Segesta and fight Gaul with Generals and one unit of Hastatii 😆 🤣

[@HouseOfAlastrian]

Another thing I like to do once I take Mediolanium and Patavium is to lower their tax rate and encourage the population to grow. Due to their naturally high population growth, I will crank out peasant armies from these cities and send them to the cities deeper into the barbarian frontier to build them up faster. This greatly alleviates one of the inherent weaknesses the natural expansion direction of the Julii has... namely the territory they conquer being so poor and sparsely populated. You'll still make more money from trade if you conquer Greece and North Africa, but at least you won't be too disadvantaged economically this way when the civil war comes if you decided to let the Brutii and Scipii expand in their natural directions. A bold move would be to lock down Africa and Greece first and then use that wealth to build up the barbarian territories you then conquer in your own direction since they will be easier pickings than Pontus and Egypt. Then the civil war will be over with pretty quickly.

[@elih9700]

You should always maximize groth by keeping taxes low, more people = more tax.

[@relampago5013]

As an absolute beginner, I don't know how to move troops. I need help on basic controls on the iPad before I can do what you describe in this video. Could you help, please?

[@fiddy9337]

Sadly the apple version is a little bugged

[@Nijlandboy]

Guide on all types of agents for rome?

[@lostarmy4075]

It's compatible with xiaomi 11T?

[@annunakim525]

Spain and Thrace tend to remain allies until LATE game, so just be a good diplomat and dont start wars but end them. and you should have a near subjugated/ allied province in the west. spain is far to take over, and alot of money will be saved in subjugating them or blocking them with a strong army at the northern entrance to spain>

[@NinjaSushi2]

I would capture all the port towns.

[@R2jjj]

Lol i started war directly with Britain's and now it's too tough to fight with them and I am playing on Android

[@gasmask7064]

Oof I went straight to the Macedonians for attacking.

[@saphyrion4257]

I occupied Gaul and Hiberia, but also Carthago, Spartha, and Athens.. I believe that Greece, Anatolic Paeninsula and the East have richer cities ans more resources for your armies.

[@fergalstackstreams]

My goals in playing as the Julii were always 1. Get Patavium, 2. Beat the Brutii to Greece. If I don't, they can very easily get out of control and take over half the map.

[@R2jjj]

@@fergalstackstreams lol I have done 3 war against brutti but they have really powerful army its not possible to beat them

[@ismailzerriq1802]

can you send me the link for download this game

[@BlueMatona]

Not sure where you would download it. I play on the Feral Interactive port for Mac available on the Mac App Store. I think it's on steam as well but I'm not 100% sure

[@Charles-ve2yy]

You can buy the game in Steam or get a steamcode for very cheap on g2a.com or kinguin.net

[@Official2Shitty]

You can get it on steam cheap or if u don’t have a computer to play on u can get it on mobile for pretty cheap

[@CaraVerde]

@@Official2Shitty Yeah, I've just downloaded it from Android Playstore. Oh man, I feel like I'm the happiest person in the world to play my favorite RTS game series again after all of these years leaving PC gaming environment 🥰😍