Empire: Total War World Domination Campaign #1 - Prussia (Very Hard)

[@VulcanTotalWar]

And so it begins! If you see me forgetting anything throughout the campaign, feel free to let me know!

[@mintz9782]

"No, now it ends" - Ned Stark

[@loremasterxp3635]

The tabs seem very small in this playthrough, i've really got to squint to read things even then it's tough.

[@MrBobbyz24]

12 years later and we're still playing and watching people play this game. A game full of bugs and bad AI. And yet it's probably in my top 3 favorite games ever and I have more hours logged in this game than I care to mention. So can you imagine how amazing this game would be if CA fixed it, remastered it, or better yet...EMPIRE II

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Empire II with a longer time span, from pike and shot of the entire renaissance to the late Victorian era with smokeless powder, breech loading artillery, rifles and early machineguns while the tactics and strategy has not yet developed to make full use of the emerging military industrial complex.

[@Rob_The_Zombie]

Man I’ve been praying for empires 2 for 10 years this is hands down the best one or at least it’s my favorite even if they just remastered it with shogun 2 engine I would be happy

[@jonash3406]

@@SonsOfLorgar idk with that big a time frame and features they would have to install, you are asking for bugs. I'd rather they have done to early 1700s to Napoleon, and perhaps try to expand the map a bit/break up or create more provinces

[@shakes.dontknowwhatyergettin]

@@SonsOfLorgar Shorter time span but more detailed feels like a better way to go to me.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Never seen it till manyatruenerd started playing, this is the game I wanted but never got...how many total war games are there?

[@HilarityBribo]

Empire definitely still stands out in the TW series...I guess the musket battles really draw us in.... And then they didnt skimp on the naval battles. Let's hope we get Empire II next.

[@ItsSamHussey]

We need a truly global map with the turns of Napoleon Total War, plus the abilities like puppet governments and looting etc, I think peace deals should also be introduced as well as more ideologies

[@EoinJoyceMapping]

Prussia is probably my favourite or second favourite campaign. Love a good Prussia game!

[@Robin-sf3gk]

Austria and Spain are the most fascinating in my opinion

[@TKainZero]

Prussia and the Dutch campaign are my two favorite campaigns in ETW. They are in the same part of Europe, but the campaigns unfold in an entirely different way. Prussia being a TOTAL WAR scenario in Europe surrounded by enemies in a perpetual war with everyone, and the Dutch campaign being friendly with everyone, expanding their overseas colonies in the Americas and India while keeping great relations with most of Europe.

[@joshhill4903]

Hey India here and I'll give back Europe if you leave the America's, Spain and France are gone, Mexico may stay tacos for all.

[@jacobpgood724]

Another neat thing about playing as Prussia or any other faction that is a total monarchy, you can fire and replace your ministers as many as you have replacements. Their accolades determine what department they should take charge of. Early on prussia's weak point is having just one trading port. All it takes is one blockade to really screw with your income

[@moiseszurita4365]

Thats good but you should revolt to CM once you get rid of Poland and Austria to begin a massive industrialization to boost your income. For the port issue, just dont mess with the big naval boys and you should be fine

[@jacobpgood724]

@moiseszurita4365 that's why I try and take Vienna as soon as possible, and keep taxes low to develop the undeveloped ports in Brandenburg and west Prussia as quickly as possible

[@FrAvatar]

Prussia turn 1 tip, You can get military ally and give military access to Hannover and they will pay 5500 for it too. And they always say yes to every early game war that I invited them to. If you don't ally with them they instead will go to war with you eventually if they see the chance to do so.

[@RicegumNeverBrokeAgain]

Denmark got them

[@HrHaakon]

One of the things I really love about Empire is that if you compare it to Shogun 2: Yari cavalry will have cavalrymen in armour that's beautiful works of art. His lance is magnificently crafted with beautiful intricate details. Meanwhile the Uhlans... They look like a guy with a fancy robe, and he's carrying a long stick with an iron spike on it. It looks like actual people lining up to kill other actual people. It doesn't look so gamey or fairy-tale-ish. It looks real in a way Shogun doesn't.

[@Zeitparadoxon]

Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau (Der Alte Dessauer) died right at the beginning... :( That dude died of old age in 1747 partipating in battles until 2nd silesian war (~50 years of service), beeing a siege expert also.

[@morradi10000]

It’s a rare treat watching the Master himself play a Prussian campaign

[@ouzoloves]

Been looking forward to another Empire series. Remember in this game, different factions have better or worse infantry, cavalry and artillery. So whilst you may outnumber their cavalry with yours, I seem to remember Prussia having weak cavalry which might explain the loss. I believe they have one of the strongest infantry starting units. Note: Sweden is NOT an easy enemy to knock off, they also have really strong troops. Good luck in the playthrough, I have not done Prussia yet, still strugling with Ottomans on extra difficult (easily the hardest campaign in the game).

[@SonsOfLorgar]

And, Sweden is also protestant so would make a good ally vs the russians, Danes and eventually France and England.

[@bogusia65]

Hello Vulcan, the battle with the Saxons was not a heroic victory but a Pyrrhic victory...A shame that you lose your general, Leopold I van Anhalt-Dessau (nickname "the Old Dessauer"). He was a German prince and a Generalfeldmarschall in the Prussian Army. He will be remembered as a talented drillmaster who modernized the Prussian infantry. Keep up the GOOD work!!

[@07jaworski07]

youre the second guy on youtube that plays on very hard difficulty how fucking good to see

[@sensunaika3362]

Bought me the game yesterday and its really awesome. The Campaing map is the biggest ever, The map mechanics feel good and fun plus the battles really look juicy to me.

[@TheCptNutter]

Really excited for this series. Thank you and look forward to the journey!

[@LethosMarvill]

Im excited for this series! Never had contact with other total war titles then warhammer

[@LethosMarvill]

Would be nice if you could provide some infos for newbies then xd

[@SonsOfLorgar]

@@LethosMarvill as someone who love both historical and warhammer TW, I reccomend you to also watch Heir of Charthage. As for the historical games, in my oppinion: Empire and Napoleon are fun, but suffers from a lot of pathfinding bugs as well as 'hidden' AI buffs, esp. In autoresolves, economy and morale. Medieval2 has interesting siege mechanics. Shogun 2 has the most interesting tech tree system and campaigns. And Rome2 has the most epic feeling campaigns.

[@jojostwin2492]

I’ve been looking for a modern campaign like this! I’m super excited for this,

[@utewbd]

Medieval 2, Shogun 2 and Empire are such gems. I like 1212 AD a lot in Attila as well but that's a mod.

[@RicegumNeverBrokeAgain]

Ooo Napoleon too

[@erikcollins8790]

First video, and this is already a channel I see myself spending HOURS on

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Hope you enjoy!

[@nein_nein_]

Hello Vulcan, Love that series already! Just a heads up on auto resolve battles in empire: NEVER DO IT, especially siege attacks and naval battles. You're gonna make insane losses for no reason.

[@jjenkins8125]

If you watch his old campaigns he usually never does them except for small battles

[@ouzoloves]

@@jjenkins8125 Never do it, even for small battles, especially on extra hard. 240 of their men have killed twice their number before.

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Yeah I remember them being bad for naval especially. Land battles are ok if it's really one sided though.

[@maxryabokon1515]

nice to see that there are people, who plays very hard difficulty for Prussia.

[@hunterbraund8156]

One time i did and the first country that I ended up taking down was britain, the austrians didnt declare war so i sent a fleet to africa to colonize, but the british saw the opportunity and tried to take me down, but my full stack was off the coast of scotland so i crushed them first

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

Man that Prussian thumbnail is on point it makes me want to go: GLORIB PRUSSIA

[@PatriSjodin]

As Prussia I usually goes (perhaps wrongfully now when I look at your gameplay) after Austria first. I find that they are more hostile and inclined to declare war on you, even though you are at war with P-L as they often are as well where as if you attack Austria P-L usually stays quite loyal to you (even without diplomatic relations) .

[@wolkrieth2394]

I've always gone after PL first as to connect East Prussia to Brandenburg. My issue is I can have an army six times larger then Poland's, they're about to collapse and yet- won't accept a peace where the only land I keep is West Prussia.

[@samuellambe1568]

The best game produced by the total war team, if only we could get a remastered version

[@Nightmare_Gaming871]

Finally someone who doesn't mind auto-resolving some battles! Nice content there mate! 🔥

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@maxryabokon1515]

Advisor says maintain good relationship with England, when England always attacks Konigsberg first:) Regarding trade, start trading with Ottomans and England, after England attacks, switch to Maratha, they grow sufficiently by that time to bring you good profit.

[@PiotrMarek1988]

Prussia can easy, at start, to have alliance with Poland-Lithuania, Saxony and Hanover. First war with Austria, and rest of neighbours are allies. To get West Prussia from Poland-Lithuania use diplomatic via.

[@AdamKlownzinger]

This game just gives me so much nostalgia…

[@Swissswoosher]

This game gets quite a bit of hate in terms of Total War I feel but it is by far my favourite (must be due to the time period) . And it really has held up well graphics wise damn!

[@ShalaJC]

I'm surprises I missed this channel. I just stumbled across it looking for empire playthroufhs but I like no cam style, MATN but unscripted

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Hope you enjoy the playthroughs, I have this and another British Empire Total War playthrough on the channel.

[@jinsakai409]

Baffles me that they haven’t made an empire 2. It’s basically risk with the world domination victory condition

[@chaptermastermarneuscalgar6926]

13:05 You can actually do this with the plug bayonet, although it's slightly more tedious because you have to order your line infantry to take out the bayonet if you wanted them to use their guns again.

[@jacobpgood724]

AWESOME been waiting for this one

[@videogamefanfilms]

Come check out Our Belgium Very Hard Grand Campaign set in Start Year 1830... The King has died ,a new King has been crowned ....King Walter I de l'Royaume del La Belgique

[@stever4128]

I usually give 🇸🇪 a state gift and technology then attack 🇩🇰 and ally with 🇸🇪. Then capture Bengal and Mysore. Next take out the ☠ in the Caribbean 🏝. All while maintaining 2 good armies in Europe to counter any threat. By the 🕐 I have accomplished this the game will have snowballed and I have a great platform to work with. Always research canister shot first. By far 1 of the most devastating military technologies in the entire game.

[@RicegumNeverBrokeAgain]

That's if you are GB, Prussia will get attacked by PL and Austria after 10 or less turns

[@chasatch]

Before commencing international relations such as trade, you should check your ministers to ensure you do not have some doofus negatively affecting the outcome!

[@XtasePrime]

The Dutch campaign is the hardest I have tried on max difficulty domination. This one is pretty tough too.

[@Jannes-pj4cd]

I still play this game, It’s one of my favourite games

[@arthurhyatt4664]

First time watching this Total War game. Normally only watch Warhammer Total War.

[@videogamefanfilms]

Come check out Our Belgium Very Hard Grand Campaign set in Start Year 1830... The King has died ,a new King has been crowned ....King Walter I de l'Royaume del La Belgique

[@bokehintheussr5033]

man.... I loved Empire for it's grand campaign, although I played Napoleon A LOT more for the epic battles (especially with Darthmod). Must download it again.

[@wizardcat7654]

It's so funny blitzing Poland like this. It feels so normal and natural somehow

[@0786RICARDO]

I really miss the endless naval skirmishes with faster long range ships.

[@bobdiedt00]

Have you tried Darthmod? I can’t play Empire without it anymore

[@juniusluriuscatalus6606]

Fastest reloading basic line inf... plug bayonets might not be my choise. ;) Cav hunting shattered in city siege? Broken, fine, but outflank those still fighting. But! Only right choise to start war by declaring war to Saxony! No way in hell you can avoid war with Pol-Lith. But you really should have taken Saxony.

[@Thecodytree]

I SAW THE NOTIFICATION FOR EPISODE THREE THIS IS AMAZING

[@videogamefanfilms]

Come check out Our Belgium Very Hard Grand Campaign set in Start Year 1830... The King has died ,a new King has been crowned ....King Walter I de l'Royaume del La Belgique

[@kellymcbright5456]

Someone playing that classic again! Was my fav. game for years. Though not Prussia.

[@RicegumNeverBrokeAgain]

Playing as Prussia is the hardest one

[@kellymcbright5456]

@@RicegumNeverBrokeAgainWhat???

[@RicegumNeverBrokeAgain]

@@kellymcbright5456 yup play it as hardest difficulty

[@kellymcbright5456]

@@RicegumNeverBrokeAgain I did. And Pr was evrything else but the hardest faction.

[@RicegumNeverBrokeAgain]

@@kellymcbright5456 cap🧢

[@ravinrabits4858]

Austria basically gave me there land when they declared war and none of their allies joined them.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Why is it that I've never heard of this game and now I'm watching one show I see it everywhere? This doesn't happen with my preferred video games, only stuff I won't actually play

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Luckily this is a great game to watch or play.

[@bigkuriboh3814]

I would love to see an English Civil Total War

[@agentzinker]

There is thrones of Britannia

[@kittykatsamurai1569]

First things first Vulcan, get rid of unnecessary troops, militia, gendarmerie cavalry, and pikemen out. Focus on your economy, the greatest economy that can build with incredible speed is Prussia. build roads, replace the coaching inn for a church in east Prussia, its cheaper and keeps the populace happy. Diplomacy of course with all possible neighbors including Saxony, remember, you want to make money not risk it. start recruiting infantry after 5-6 turns you'll turn $8000 gold into $20000 in a few turns. then there is no stopping the might of the Prussian Empire. Works on Normal Normal Difficulty, on Hard hard other nations tend to attack after 3-4 turns, on very hard very hard, other nations attack almost after 2 turns. no way to really build economy on higher difficultyquick and fast

[@proxy7863]

Looking forward to this campaign, I need to dust off this game.

[@mattware359]

You should do a world domination Australia campaign!

[@seltin1988]

always been a fan of musket and cannon in games but this map is... yea... kinda impresed that you got 98 episods of this thoug :D

[@m.a.4500]

Is there any mod that adds east asia? Like adds China?

[@raychmielowski3038]

Great series

[@videogamefanfilms]

Come check out Our Belgium Very Hard Grand Campaign set in Start Year 1830... The King has died ,a new King has been crowned ....King Walter I de l'Royaume del La Belgique

[@EDungarian]

Out of curiosity, did you turn off shadows because of the way the campaign tree shadows look when moving the camera around?

[@kellymcbright5456]

do you want a hint about how to upgrade troops to the highest XP level?

[@VulcanTotalWar]

You can tell me but I won't use it if it's an exploit.

[@kellymcbright5456]

@@VulcanTotalWar No exploit, just using the maths behind it. A unit looses an XP degree if its reinforced by 100% soldiers of at least one lower XP degree. Example: You have a unit with 2 chevrons of strength 60. If you reinforce it by 60 men of 1 chevron, it will have just 1 chevron afterwards. Thus You have to keep in mind some rules for reinforcement. If you reinforce by men of -1 XP, dont have less than 61 men in the unit. If you reinforece by -2 XP, don't have less than 91. If you reinforce by -3 XP, dont have less than 106. So make sure in battles: no high-ranked unit must fall below 61. Get them out if they come close to that. After the battle do not take auto-fill-up-buttons but do it manually: I use to have some low-ranked units just for the sake of reinforcing the good units. And then reinforce the 9 chevrons by 8 chevrons, the 8 chevrons by 7 chevron, the 7 chev. by 6 chev a.s.o. The low-ranked 0 or 1 chev may completely dissolve by that actions, since i can train them. If you have none at less than 61, all chevs are preserved and you'll finally come to an army of 8 and 9-chevron guys. Who are really strong in battle.

[@VulcanTotalWar]

@@kellymcbright5456 Oh ok this is interesting. I will keep it in mind, cheers!

[@07jaworski07]

i couldn't be fucked reading the whole thing mate

[@kellymcbright5456]

@@VulcanTotalWar enjoy the elite units fun :)

[@roundlake96]

Back when CA had some real ambition when making games.

[@indieWellie]

a little bit too much ambition judging by what content they cut

[@malee6272]

I have an old xp pc -- question-- if I were to buy a used copy of Empire that says on the back that you need a Steam account to run it can I play it on my xp pc?

[@JackL-u6o]

yes exited for this one

[@jorgen1892]

Can't believe there's an upcoming mobile version of this game, i played Total War Medieval and Rome in the Mobile version cuz i don't have a pc 😅

[@totesfleisch258]

Im still catching up on loads of other playtroughs, but i wanted to mention an idea for a future vote, basically do warhammer 2, play as a human faction that would get closest to us as humans today, and do kind of a world domination, where you leave human factions alive, maybe even ally them.

[@nj_chip9216]

Where can u participate in the votes for what Vulcan should do

[@VulcanTotalWar]

They are on the community section of my main channel page after a campaign finishes.

[@МихаилМаямсин-д1ф]

There is a global mod on the Russian server and there is a really hot passage

[@adrianm3708]

Happy Saturday to me!

[@democraticrepublicofvaloria]

They should do a Empire Total War remaster

[@WW2Customs]

What graphics settings are you running at and what FPS are you achieving?

[@Slimjim2982]

How do you stop the end turn crash?

[@IceniTotalWar]

What end turn crash ? you mean where it freezes on Ottomans in the End turn cycle ?

[@Slimjim2982]

@@IceniTotalWar yes I never can get pass it I have done one map Completion since the game came out as the Sweden empire. Any Advice

[@Slimjim2982]

@@IceniTotalWar yea ottoman crash

[@IceniTotalWar]

@@Slimjim2982 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXLWgK2cipymirM Channel TotalWarNerdHD Very simple fix worked for me and many others. Basically change numerical value in 1 line of your scripts folder. Alternatively some people place a ship blocking the land route to Istanbul or capture that city/wipe out Ottomans sometimes works.

[@VulcanTotalWar]

I'm playing on the definitive edition and I believe this is fixed by default but definitely check out the help here.

[@alksoft]

there is a old trick how to avoid a war. give "open border" to all nations. The game got this glitch when someone just go around your port or territory then they just declare war instead going around.

[@Eddy.aamusic]

Just got this game

[@videogamefanfilms]

Come check out Our Belgium Very Hard Grand Campaign set in Start Year 1830... The King has died ,a new King has been crowned ....King Walter I de l'Royaume del La Belgique

[@joshua2329]

It's Danzig. :

[@videogamefanfilms]

Come check out Our Belgium Very Hard Grand Campaign set in Start Year 1830... The King has died ,a new King has been crowned ....King Walter I de l'Royaume del La Belgique

[@brendanhickey4955]

Going to war straight off the bat is crazy lol

[@MD-jv3tt]

Are there any mods used in this gameplay?

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Nope, it's as Vanilla as it gets.

[@chrismen8499]

How do you increase the size of ur unit than the standard 40

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Just do it in the options under "unit size" before you start a new campaign. Doesn't work retroactively.

[@adsumabyss]

Is that mick jagger?

[@edelweiss-]

i would take world domination as saxony lmao

[@JJ9823]

Let’s go Prussia

[@videogamefanfilms]

Croatian Campaign kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYmmkGN4pdGbqZIsi=VjYVTJEclQ4nd5y9

[@WildWolf-od4pp]

Cool video super

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Thanks!

[@TheArakan94]

No mods?

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Nope

[@videogamefanfilms]

Come check out Our Belgium Very Hard Grand Campaign set in Start Year 1830... The King has died ,a new King has been crowned ....King Walter I de l'Royaume del La Belgique

[@IceniTotalWar]

Great start to the campaign, now onto part 2. Go after the Catholics ! 😁Form a Protestant Union throughout N. Europe.

[@hohetannen4703]

Wow that nation description was bad history. Northern Poland was Germanic since Roman times.

[@generalcactus5314]

Is this campaign modded?

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Nope, no mods at all :)

[@МихаилМаямсин-д1ф]

pirates uber alles

[@edelweiss-]

why you took my beautiful saxony :(

[@ev3goddess]

0:12 😂

[@concretehippogaming]

Damn no darth mod? What an ungodly series

[@jwdeepsky]

I like

[@mxmlan-s1v]

I want empire II！

[@tedpohlman7928]

Austria is the worst ally in the game every play thru they turn on alliance and attack

[@mattymaloy3949]

Mental you don’t know the difference between Great Britain and England

[@VulcanTotalWar]

Roleplaying a Prussian

[@alirosi7381]

for me always crash

[@RangerJahu]

YESSSSSSSSS

[@mintz9782]

Why don't you do Napoleon total war? It's better optimized and the detail and graphics are overall better, all Empire has is a couple different areas, but even then it's limited. Just curious.

[@Thecodytree]

people voted on this. also, empire’s campaign is FAR more diverse to my knowledge

[@pppse434yougomegoallgo4]

Wow

[@danieldpa8484]

It would have been a great game with a full world map like EU4 without wastelands, but again some stupid executive reduced it to the 3 main regions because of costs

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

yet a decade later it's still played and making revenue for KZbinrs and the company

[@ElCarboon]

dibil

[@thereaper7665]

dude use darthmod!

[@jharrymagracia6271]

Stop with blasphemy ads