BRUTII ROMAN CAMPAIGN - Rome Total War #1

[@mrbrasga]

Vanilla Rome Total War, ah the good old days. Love playing it to this day.

[@PsychoticSpartan]

+MRB I grew up on it. Playing as the Seleucids and the Greeks were my favorite as a kid.

[@Humanlink1]

its so hard though, dont get me wrong ive had my life changed by the game (interest in history) but the graphics are painful at best now days. They(soldiers) are just clones after playing all the newer games. :(

[@150booyadragon]

+Humanlink1 I still look at Rome 1 and I like the graphics, they're still very good. There's games that come out nowadays with worse grpahics. And I'd rather them be clones than with say, Rome II's logic of "this dude has heavy armour, this dude is almost naked"

[@Humanlink1]

+150booyadragon yeah I half agree there, but I reccomend a re skin mod for those units that annoy you. I know people hate how some hastati and prinicipes men in a unit sport a 'pot' like helmet but...its historically accurate. some men were poor and some had more money, thus the marius reforms.

[@PsychoticSpartan]

Humanlink1 Yeah. Marian reforms stuffed the Roman army to capacity allowing the Roman Republic to expand the way it did.

[@Hidole555]

I always loved playing as the Brutii because their faction color blends well with most mercenary units.

[@TheOldBearTime]

We Brutii are the only true romans.

[@Freedom-kl2no]

Scipii Africanus are true romans

[@tihanyidani3862]

@@Freedom-kl2no brutus was the father of the republic. Brutii is rome

[@SunnyD420]

@@tihanyidani3862 go Gallic family forever! For a little explanation, I completed my first game earlier as Gaul of all factions

[@Fopalope]

It's funny how a standard rome campaign is more interesting to me than the SUPER CHALLENGING REFORMATION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

[@AussieBakester]

Rome: Total War, hands down my favourite game of all time! Nothing comes close to the amount of time I've sunk into this game. Graphics may age, but the gameplay is timeless. Thanks for doing the campaign +LegendofTotalWar :)

[@louisdemm1758]

Gotta be one of my top favorite games of all time. There's actually a lot of little subtleties about this game that put it above the newer titles in my opinion. One of my favorites is the retinue system. Really feels like a passing of the torch.

[@jacksonrogers7542]

The fact that mercenaries are green and the brutii are green makes mercenaries fit so well in brutii armies

[@AlextheRambler]

Brutii are the Sons of Rome!

[@yourethatmantis5178]

+Alex The Rambler! - Total War how goes your conquest of Canada?

[@danielwiltse8816]

Yes however the Scipii is blue

[@oofman2153]

#BrutiiBestIi

[@MsSirAndy]

I'm the Son of Bitch

[@sergeantarchdornan6244]

@@danielwiltse8816 it's Scipiones*

[@endersgameover]

This music is much better than anything I've heard Rome 2. Rome 1's soundtrack is a really popular mod for both R2/Attila for a reason. I guess. Decided to watch a Rome 1 LP just to see how it differs from Rome 2 /Attila. Comparisons about depth are apparently not exaggerations.

[@kaisermoneybags4450]

rome 2 still has a great soundtrack.

[@sauromatae9728]

@@kaisermoneybags4450 it's annoying somehow. too heavy maybe. I can just get tired of it, while this never happened in rome1

[@kaisermoneybags4450]

i got tired of rome 1's soundtrack after around 400 hours, but the rome 2 soundtrack just never gets old. (i have well over 400 hours on rome 2)

[@blurgalsklech2929]

Why the heck did this pop up for me now in Nov. 2022? Not that I’m complaining. Just an interesting choice by the algorithm.

[@KOTORstudios]

Legend, please please please, just open a Patreon. I'd rather give you 10 or 20 dollars a month of my income instead of watching ads. Its more efficient.

[@firehawk8521]

Lol.

[@The_Blackshield]

What I love about this game (apart from everything) is the fact that when it came out, I thought "this isn't possible", and yet it was and the machine I had could run it reasonably well. So many great memories. Coming from the original Medieval, this was a huge leap forward and was a stand-out title back then and stands out even now as being a great game. Love it. :) As far as the replenishment goes, I quite liked how Empire handled it, as in it could happen anywhere in your territory, but you had to instigate it and pay for it and then it took two turns. Made it more of a problem to solve than just waiting.

[@calebtimes453]

They killed 3 men + They only have 4 survivors Supreme victory

[@aftershockburn]

my first campaign on this game was the scipii simply because the emblem was a Wolf and the portrait when you clicked on it had a guy with a cool helmet on :P

[@gooscarguitar]

My first was also the Scipii, but that was because they were blue.

[@mathiass1999]

I chose Julii because he gave me a boner. Roman styrle

[@Freedom-kl2no]

My first was also Scipii bucause the history... Africanus all the way

[@iceintheair]

Andrew Kyler hell yeah

[@valentinomihic3118]

@@Freedom-kl2no i bet Erwin Rommel also played as Scipii hahahahaha

[@giwrgosm785]

the game that made me love the total war series and military history

[@UrbanCohort]

12:45 - We like you too, Legend. Keep being awesome.

[@TerpstraMark]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who keeps going back to Rome Total War... Still my favorite total war of all times

[@kd3045]

I think you nailed perfectly what made this game so great. So easy to immerse yourself from running cities, family members, the music, seeing landmarks when fighting a battle (like fighting on Rhodes or the west coast of Asia Minor and seeing the wonders and nearby fleets in the water while fighting a battle? FUCKING AWESOME!) etc. Even the next game in the series Medieval 2 felt like a little bit of at step back (ex: cities are A LOT easier to keep in line). It's a pity Rome II fell flat on it's face because this game really deserved some updated loving

[@jaspervth]

I always found the Brutii to be the easiest of the 3 roman factions early game; when conquering the greek city states you get big cash real fast. You get a faster start compared to the other roman factions in that aspect. I liked the julii the most as well, because the romans are indeed supposed to be red :) I will enjoy this anyway. Just keep making great vids!

[@TsarBG]

Ah, the Brutii, the funnest Roman faction IMO.

[@ydela1961]

Funniest? You mean the easiest. Of all factions. Except for the few first turns, where you need a little bit a strategy, after that, once Athens, Sparta and Corinth are captured, it's game over.

[@lunarixis9957]

I'd say the Julii are the easiest, at least prior to the civil war, you constantly go toe-to-toe with barb units, which for the most part aren't armoured well, and are weak af to missile fire. They also will never have stone walls, so besieging settlements is a lot easier. Granted, the Julii are kind of gimped by the fact that they can't build experience or weapon/armour boosting shrines (though you can keep, say, a +3 missile attack grove from the Gauls), and the fact that, since most settlements you take are inland, you don't get much sea trade, but all in all they face easier forces in battle, in my opinion at least.

[@Sharkchill]

Rome Total War is for me the best to both play and watch! Can find myself doing 5 hour stints on this game without even realising, most addictive one of the series, great to see a new campaign on it from the legend

[@PS-sj5jg]

this does remind me from my first contact with the total war series, I immediatly think back about the first time I played te on Rome with the bruti, love this, it's awesome.

[@troyguenther7572]

Was looking for youtubers who play the original Rome. This is a great start to a new series.

[@samgroarke4482]

I saw this in my subscriptions and I threw my phone across my room in happiness. Haven't seen such a good introduction to no doubt what will be a great playthrough

[@michaellaw5308]

Happy to watch whatever you feel like putting up. Medieval II was my first Total War, but I've never been really successful in vanilla Rome. Pick and up and play around with it and the Warhammer mod for it every now and then though.

[@AMP09FH]

Hey Legend, decided I would pause AdBlock whenever I watch your videos -- you're easily my favorite TW KZbinr (you have a *lot* more personality, you're funnier, and you're absolutely amazing at the games themselves). Keep making vids, you're great!

[@sametoksuz]

I would watch any Rome I and medieval II series of yours, mods included

[@godking]

To win the brutti campaign quickly and easily do the following.1 The first city to take is Athens at the start you will be neutral/friendly with both Greece and macedon so you should be able to reach Athens by ship easily.2 after taking Athens ally/stay friendly with macedon and prepare an army to take sparta Greece should not have a large army defending it.3 After taking sparta move on to take on macedon Greece is out of the runijng with only thermon and maybe an army left.4 with macedon defeated and thermon taken you should have uncontested ownership of Greece/macedon 5 With Greece/macedon your money problems for the rest of the game are over.6 Ally with Thrace and prepare for war with pontus.7 once prepared for war with pontus cross the ocean and invade pontus with agood mix of infantry/archers and some cavalry pontus should be relatively easy to take.8 After defeating eutralizing Pontus repare for war with Egypt. Egypt will be your most difficult foe at this stage.9 use a two pronged invasion have one army besiege Alexandria by ship (should not be very well defended) and one army attack from the former lands of pontus. Alexandria should be easy to take . After Alexandria move on to Take the other two Egyptian city. Fortify the city you took from in the attack from the former land of pontus and be prepared to defend it from the large egyptian armies that will come.10 move on up to pontus with the army you deployed to Alexandria and take/sack egyptian settlements at this time Egypt will soon run out of money.11 Once you have weathered the egyptian armies and egypt runs out of money conquest should be easy.12 After egypt move on to Armenia and Parthia They will have strong armies but few settlements.13 Take one Thrace and then move on to scythia or Dacia which ever of the two is still alive at this stage. you should have 30 + settlements at this time and nearly unlimited gold.14 once you reach 50 settlements train armies to take rome .

[@hugo3627]

I opened up with Brutti by having 1 army taking Epona and then the rest of Greece. 1 army taking the Balkans then moving on to the Po valley. and 1 army sacking Syracuse and all the Carthaginian cities. After about 10 turns you basically have infinite money.

[@danefluney4213]

Interesting reading how people have their own strats, i’ve recently been grinding this game and I developed a strategy to expand north right away and have been able to take Apollonia, Salona, Segestica, and Patavium all by the end of turn 6 with the faction leader, basically the entire starting army and the spy. I think its another solid starting strategy to get quick money especially with Patavium growing at a crazy rate you’re able to pump out peasants to disband at Salona and Segestica for faster growth.

[@Radicalistco]

Danny I've been playing this game for a decade and I've never seen the path finding get THAT fucked.

[@exiletsj2570]

This was Total War! I loved this game so much, it was way ahead of its time, a truly innovative game. The music still sounds great too.

[@mrbawwsman]

My favourite game and my favourite campaign. Can't wait for this Legend mate.

[@123TheLancer]

Damn this game and Medieval 2 never get old. Never stop playing these classics!

[@kevin06289]

You get a like from me in 2020, high quality man. Hope you do videos on historical total war games though, even three kingdoms maybe would work

[@mixhpun]

this game is so awesome! was my first TW, and it still brings the feels!

[@MrMutilatedmind]

This made me lose my virginity... Thank you Legend!

[@Wubbeyman]

Wtf

[@IPFreelly604]

+AtmOfErebus ikr don't even need my hands

[@wilhelmrk]

+AtmOfErebus Legend and chill?

[@klassehkhornate9636]

Metalbram says the khornate

[@derrickbonsell]

I would just love a reworked or even opened up M2TW. It's not making much money anymore, let the fans see what they can do with it.

[@nucify9228]

Happy to know people still play this game. Now I play on iPad

[@nucify9228]

And I completely agree. The new total wars just don't have the same feeling as this truly classic, amazing game!

[@TheGmodParty]

didn't think you'd come back to rome i, i'm happy

[@andrewmells4906]

something about your play style on RTW and medieval II that's just so good and entertaining to watch

[@Xhonax568]

I love you your vids keep it up for 5 years later

[@OldTotalWarrior]

I'm deliriously happy that you're doing another RTW campaign since it's my favorite game. I agree with your comments on the game. One small point: elephant and chariot units have multiple hit points as well.

[@organicunity2119]

+OldTotalWarrior yeah but one volley of fire arrows and they instantly run amok

[@suhaelraghunath4841]

Me watching this in 2023 yea loving it

[@MaslAlek]

YESSS! Something I was waiting for. Though I'm watching Venedians and Himyar at the same time, but cannot help myself not to watch this series aswel. Damn you Legend

[@generalbinks123]

the Graphics on these older Games are actually amazing, recently i just plugged my Pc into a 4k Resolution Tv, Medieval 2 looks better than Attila on that.

[@B27Zerkhan]

First video i watched on your channel was your parthia campaign even tho it was 8 years ago you played almost every battle perfectly, now i watch sparta fight i see it is total different that your parthia efforts, maybe in 2 years you became a bit different player

[@rwd76]

It is the best total war game! When I was the Brutii, I remember my brutal battles with those Macedonian lancers..

[@richardshelley143]

Fun fact: In the three odd turns it takes to take Apollonia, you can also beat the Scippi and take Syracuse at the same time. Each time I've done it has had interesting effects on the general progression of the Scippi

[@laszlobencebari8677]

Where are they expanding, then? In my campaigns, they always aim for Africa or Greece when their progression is uninterrupted

[@thesacredlobo]

@@laszlobencebari8677 - Depends. If you use Syracuse as a jump pad to take Carthage and Thapsus the computer can end up so confused that the Scipii will either expand into Spain or will just have three full army stacks sitting in Italy doing nothing. Especially if you also take Greece of the table as well. I was a bit too slow for that last one which is why in a VH/H campaign I'm working on as the Brutii the Scipii managed to claim the Statue of Zeus.

[@FretlessTree]

Point taken mate. I use adblock primarily because I use KZbin for music a lot. I will pause adblock when I watch the channels I want to support.

[@snorlaxonweed9173]

FINALLY ROME i god damn loved this game, Medieval 2 & roma1 just the best total wars ever made, no discussion about it.

[@snorlaxonweed9173]

well ye shogun 2 is very good aswell ;) u have a point

[@snorlaxonweed9173]

True true, medieval brittain is sick aswell

[@150booyadragon]

+NEVER_AGAIN Pre-alpha version of NTW? NTW is worse than ETW in some ways, and functions better in some ways. Because of the multiplayer you can call it a late beta, sure. But pre-alpha? You just sound like you're salty against it.

[@anonimo2932]

In the italian version Brutii are called Valerii, probably similar to Valor. Brutus was actually a Juli

[@GuKingGu]

Definitely agree that they should take away replenishment. Some of my best Total War memories are guarding the unit of Triarii you get with Julii, knowing that I'm not going to get any of them back.

Thank you for your all effort and series you are the best total war player ever i seen.. I really enjoying while im watching your videos. even in gym :) thanks again.. keep going..

[@raymondbenjamins5884]

I've been waiting for this! Can't fucking wait to see the rest of the series! Thanks dude!

[@saisatyendu]

started my total war games with this 7 years back

[@SimonStrohecker]

Ah nice! The Brutii: my first campaign I won on Total War! Very fu n to play with. And thanks for reminding us about the adblock, I keep forgetting to turn it off once it's on. You really should mention it a bit more often for the distracted one over here ^^ While I agree that Rome2 music was less memrable, I really dig the Attila's soundtrack. Especially the Mongol like tracks!

[@SilverSoulxd]

You just won a new suscriber man,i really likee your commentary and strategy.I hope you end this campaign conquering all!!

[@kaisertog7685]

I am so glad you have come back to rome 1! I hope you continue to still play this game lol.

[@Blue-ng1qy]

"If they're gonna release a new total war game" - Video uploaded in 2016. There is Rome II allready out, but I like the first one more

[@jeffcovington7646]

I'm so happy to see this campaign! Looking forward to the next episodes!

[@Age88]

I love this game. My favourite since high school. I wish I can still play it. I have the disc still but computers today can't run it. Most don't have disc drives.

[@Hangfire1]

Great to see you back on RTW. Always fun to play.

[@jensibowable]

brutii is my favourite campaign ever man, i mean you get right in the thick of things, you get to take the richest cities in the game besides rome within a handfull of turns

[@somalisavage3714]

I will remove ad block for u

[@IPFreelly604]

Adblock whitelisting is the best thing you can ever do.

[@HeroEnCo]

Yea I' m going to put out addblock on youtube

[@somalisavage3714]

+Kittens GWT Do you enjoy watching ads?

[@limefactory6834]

Nice video, anticipating your next hotseat...they seem to highlight some of your best tactics and most engaging battles

[@wizardcat7654]

UNDEROOS!! sry just watched the new trailer for civil war. big super hero fan. btw been waiting for another rome 1 lets play Legend!! Thanks mate your the gr8est total war youtuber/player out there

[@19haza97]

Fuck yes. Was waiting for you to come back to this game, looking forward to the series

[@marciomaiajr]

Holy Shit, those Spartans Hoplites are tough as nails. :-o

[@justderp5713]

Hoplites will kill EVERYTHING in their path if they have 3+ exp and if they are eager/fresh . Unless they face a pack of archers. Then they gonna get rekt. And if they get charged from behind or break they will also get rekt.

[@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs]

Exactly why I never could play the Brutii for long. Hoplites in this game are so fucking good against everything that is not another hoplite unit. Could never fight The Greeks or Macedonians on even footing because of it.

[@ManCheat2]

*cough* Lemme sell you something new my fellow roman! its called a SCORPION! Kill those pesky Greecians in a simple shot using our new patented by the emperor, Spring loaded javalin thrower!

[@ShoreshFathi]

Or just fuckin surround them and break their formation with some funny family fun horse riding and just charge lol

[@joshuabrant3487]

@@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs The ai is terrible at hopolites, they never go out of phalanx formation so they literally cannot run ever. They just walk in a circle never able to catch a calvary unit and then die.

[@keithhh2892]

I could never play this on anything but normal unit size. Even on that the pathfinding in cities can be cumbersome. On huge it's basically broken. I also try to do draw-outs every time I can because field battles are just way better.

[@Killer505ish]

Glad you're doing this, been a while since ive played this game

[@MyFaceIsOnBackwards]

I would agree with your choice of temples to Juno. I often enjoy playing with Arcani when playing as the Roman factions, so naturally for the Brutii I would lazily build a temple to Mars everywhere. Every family member almost always becomes "the mad" with the flaccid trait. Maybe if they could get it up they'd chill the fuck out.

[@sp0ckz0mbi3]

Good to see you going back to a classic I miss the day when CA put real effort into the actual strategy and depth. Personally I think the older games look better, just about every damn settlement in Attila looks like they pilled a bunch of shit, wood, twigs in a ugly mound and called it a city.

[@toshiroyamada2443]

I like the short series but sometimes with games like skyrim I love a nice long modded series 😁 this game was my introduction to the total war series I remember begging my dad to let my use the pc so I could play lol

[@022-e5f]

One of the rare youtubers that can fucking play Total War properly

[@seanhillman1016]

I enjoy the older games. I started playing Rome the other day because Rome II has ben problematic for me since the last update over a year ago (I think). My favorite is the original Medieval TW because of the immersion, the atmosphere of the game was incredible.

[@trooper086]

"I've always been attracted to playng as the Julii... because they're red". I'm exactly the same with the Brutii - I play as them because I like green; never done Julii or Scipii (well, never more than a few turns) XD

[@tantaylor6135]

When you talked about not giving a shit about blinking camels xD you make me laugh man.

[@piasecznik]

You could consider doing mod campaigns with more limited goals than conquering the whole map, perhaps? Generally the last half or two thirds are just snowballing/roflstomping anyway, so you could consider just setting yourself challenges like "conquer 20 settlements in 6 turns in EB" or whatever. Solves the problem with the campaign length, but it lets you play mods.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

piasecznik I second this, even this campaign should have been like either short campaign or campaign that doesn't necessarily extend all the way to the civil war

[@SamuraiMorshu]

I don't understand why people like nice looking shitty games and dislike sub-par looking good games.

[@Peter-rh1zr]

Ikr. A game like this is all about imagination.

[@tldr7159]

They can have a maximum of 8 retinues, not 6. Also I hope we get to see 3 gold chevrons again this campaign! How badass would it be to make a 3 gold chevron full urban cohort army? :D I´d always tried doing it but the campaign always ended before it was possible haha. Please do it!

[@atomicwinter7926]

lol 2023 And Legend is still doing the legend things!

[@MertOKTN]

Since when did you quit your job?

[@kolber2314]

Praiseth The Lord! A Rome Total War campaign!

[@GigglesTheGoat]

yeah, the general traits were the best. if you used one general a lot, his traits would tell his whole story. and you really felt it when a good, long-time general died of old age or from battle.

[@Acularius]

Ah classic! Rome was great. I just keep adblock off for youtube. Even before I really got into trying to create content, I just figured it was the easiest way to support the channels I subscribe to. When I have disposable income I tend to use Patreon and the like, but allowing ads is the best of both worlds in this regard.

[@Acularius]

That being said, Have fun mate!

[@JD..........]

Totally agree, one of the all time greatest games.

[@il-hamis]

I fucking love this guy, he's honest about everything

[@noisebucket8955]

Best soundtrack in the total war series period

[@ukigum0]

What they could do with replenishment is the units get 0 exp after you recruit them and get up to like 10 after a year of training. If you go to a battle with them you don't get unit exp but every person has its own exp so after you fight a battle and lose 20% of your units and replenish them you will have 80% of the units exp at 18 or something and 20% at 0 making the unit's exp 14 after the battle. Also instead of just being a modifier units with more exp could fight better visually. That'd be really cool.

[@MrUndertaker316]

It seems the pathfinding gets extra fucked when approaching the town plaza for some reason. My units always tend to go and tap the enemy on their shoulders saying "I'm here, dude, come and get me!" instead of orderly going into formation... Ah, but then again that's what makes this game so good imho xD

[@totalmadnesman]

Wow you sound so..calm and nice and friendly. *AMAZING!*

[@emiliophillips2550]

This game is like Pokemon so basic but so good and so addictive! man legend you are a decent KZbinr you actually say it how it is! I like that!👌 but keep up the good work man! Set your goals and you will succeed

[@KillerWalrus12]

Rome is my favorite Total War, and Brutii is my favorite house. Let's go!

[@ritris5165]

Getting Vibius Brutus having a son is the hardest part of a Brutii campaign.

[@yourethatmantis5178]

so I assume this will be somewhat of a blitz with legend at the helm of the big green Roman machine

[@sudarshangopinathan5904]

you should make a barbarian invasion series and play as either one of the roman empires really tough

[@Captain-Jinn]

Should try doing this with the Darth Mod. Adds a lot of great variations and "historical" changes, while not really making it last longer, just more of a challenge.

[@Tay5551]

Looking forward to this Legend. Like you I'm a bigger fan of Rome and Medieval II than Attila and Rome's sequel. Looking forward to this. As a side note, have you been considering going back and doing another "normal" M2TW game in the near future? Your HRE series was pretty cool, I think it'd be nice to see another series there. Maybe Venice or a Muslim state? Just something I'd like to see.

[@marksargeant1019]

Haven't played vanilla Rome 1 in years This has inspired me to boot it up again.

[@marksargeant1019]

+Mark Sargeant after playing for 12 hours solid I found it was 6 am in the morning....

[@Flansey]

9:27 *laughs in thrones of Britannia*