FALL OF ROME BUT I USE UNO REVERSE CARD - Western Rome Empire Part 1 - Total War: Attila

[@patrickphilbin5739]

Literally every Roman emperor during the decline of Rome: “alright, I don’t need your advice, I got this.”

[@MrMarsh263]

And the ones who did take their advice. The advice was a dagger in the ribs.

[@patrickphilbin5739]

@@MrMarsh263 don’t forget a side helping of cyanide for their meals.

[@b1indmailman]

This is historically accurate. Stilicho and Flavius Aetius agree.

[@ingold1470]

Honorius took advice, and it got Stilicho killed.

[@b1indmailman]

Then it got Rome killed.

[@marcelobali]

What will last longer: Apollo's moving or the campaign?

[@roguenugget242]

Moving... Apollo is gonna get smashed by the barbs

[@Arcantropolo]

@@roguenugget242 Gonna get nailed by throbbing Pila

[@Fungus8mycrab]

Yes.

[@sandychen1381]

O

[@lionheartx10]

Good Luck Man! I've heard this Campaign is Challenging! :P

[@canadianknight9278]

Hello m’lord

[@bragelyderhusom6098]

Lionhartx10 and pixelated Apollo are the best KZbinrs in the world😁

[@hsarver13]

Pog champ

[@redcapetimetraveler7688]

yup but with a big difference....no bremain but a brexit ....more historical xD

[@ethanvenola5320]

wonder where he got the idea?

[@blackwatertv7018]

Apollo: “I’m going to play as the WRE in Attila total war!” Me: “so you’ve chosen death”

[@nutellamonsta5602]

I'M LITERALLY WATCHING LIONHEARTS WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE RIGHT NOW!

[@Jake-hd7lt]

I was just watching that too

[@nutellamonsta5602]

@Aatrox If you don't care just ignore, I just thought it was a wild coincidence

[@Orgil.]

I'M LITERALLY WATCHING LEGEND OF TOTAL WARS WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE RIGHT NOW!!

[@lionheartx10]

Nice! :P

[@roycejames789]

Bro same

[@marktaylor7127]

New Campaign? Yes! Will it last long? Probably not :(

[@flouy7430]

😔✊ Spain without S

[@thisisgamelord2421]

let us hope that this will be the start of more campaigns comming

[@thisisgamelord2421]

@øranuto husband well he already did a lot of Bannerlord, so other games are weclome as well

[@thisisgamelord2421]

@øranuto husband really?

[@thisisgamelord2421]

@øranuto husband really?

[@stc3145]

The question is. Will Apollo actually finish this campaign?

[@billwourell8976]

I dont have high hopes

[@Litany_of_Fury]

That will probably take weeks unless he cheeses it.

[@thisisgamelord2421]

probably, he will be defeated before we know

[@Litany_of_Fury]

@@thisisgamelord2421 yeah he's doing pretty bad

[@s.p.q.r.5102]

GLUG STILL LIVES

[@pablom6847]

Love the fact that you try to play it a bit more historically by trying to hold most of the provinces (with the exception of the non-savable ones) and not just destroying everything and campering in Italy. Also the defensive siege battles when you have a decent army (first battle) you set up to hold a big part of the city and just retreat when things get bad, instead of having everyone cramped in the town center from the beginning (the "easy" way to win a defensive siege).. Kudos, makes the whole thing feel more realistic which is something really enjoyable!! Fyi the battle settings, I have a feeling they are also on "very hard", don't know if that was intended.

[@wow-roblox8370]

Everything else was super hard so why not make the battles even harder?

[@sandychen1381]

Hi

[@gioelesnider9402]

Apollo: Playing with the romans Defensive Testudo: Am I a joke to you?

[@rizalalbar]

apollo : *play western rome campaign in attila.* Some of viewer : *instant PTSD*

[@fedda9999]

*this is total war ptsd*

[@cpp3221]

Currently playing WRE campaign with Europa Perdita and FotE mod, I can relate... *cries in constant uprising*

[@oggeman1606]

Feels so good to see some attila campaign again after all these years. Brings me back to the good days. I know I'm going to get butchered for this but attila is actually me favorite total war game

[@ICaligvla]

My favorite thing of all time about Attila is the almost biblical "and behold a _____ horse and on that Horse..." Line it just sounds so epic

[@douglasblowe805]

In the early campaign as Rome your troops are depleted, your cities pissed off, you lose a lot. When you disbanded all those armies you made money but you lose all your forces too early then you burn all the money you made trying to recruit cheap troops. You need some military research early on as well to get better troops.

[@dabo5078]

nah cheap conscript spears is where they at. the only other thing u need is scout equites

[@douglasblowe805]

@@dabo5078 Mostly but it is always better if you have 2-3, maybe even 4 slightly better spear units and as many javelins or slingers as you can get as well. The cheap spears never last too long unless u can cram them into narrow streets. I like to just defend the center, putting my cheap spears in front backed by javelins and then better spears that are rested when the enemy breaks thru. . I also always use the mobs by putting them as far away from the center and oncming troops as possible. They get ignored 95%+ of the time and then u charge them into the back of the engaged enemy when they are exhausted. Many times you can break the enemy just by using worthless troops in a rear/flank attack while they are locked with your spears.. I also try and keep all mounted units outside the battle area so they can charge in and hit enemy missile troops and maybe even make a few rear charges.

[@dabo5078]

@@douglasblowe805 for 4 slightly better spears you get 2 more conscripts. Since flanking is so powerful in attila I would rather go for more conscripts than professional spears/swords at least in early game. Especially as the Romans since all your conscripts have heavy armor and defensive testuedo making enemy missile troops and calvary basically worthless. The only threat u will face is mercenary axes and other spears which your scout equites could wreck easily.

[@douglasblowe805]

@@dabo5078 ok we agree mostly lol. I usually let the cities that revolt go, and then wait for an enemy to take them and I take it right after before their troops regen.. Most of the time I use a couple good spears, 6-8 sword, 2-3 cav and as many slingers/archers/javelins as I can. Then I can usually get the city back on track fast . Always build max # of armies/navys but most only have 3-5 units in them except for my 2 strikers until I go for an enemy. If I can I try to finish them off fast. If they only have 1-3 cities I hold them, if more I destroy the 1st couple and rebuild later.

[@dabo5078]

@@douglasblowe805 ​ @Douglas Blowe As the Roman I conduct a pre-emptive genocide against the Germans along my border, especially the Quadianis (you can kill them off on turn 1). I do the same in Britannia and tear down any buildings of worth near the border and invest them in Hispania and Italia. I usually ally and settle the Suebians but, on some of my campaigns killing them is also viable just expect more setbacks. By the time I can afford real professional armies the game is pretty much over lol all i have to deal with is the camping huns who set outside of my walled and garrisoned cities raiding.

[@lucashemmings1228]

i wouldn't get your hopes up I love watching Apollo but he has a tendency to stop campaigns

[@maxwhite4177]

Lets face it. He's playing western rome and isn't particularly good at campaigns in general. Apollo'll lose way before he loses interest in the campaign.

[@lucashemmings1228]

@@maxwhite4177 idk if it is that he isn't good at them par say id say he knows what he needs to do but ends up saying f it and not doing it

[@mounibj4586]

@@lucashemmings1228 to be fair I also end campaigns before getting too deep into them. It gets boring I feel or at least I get bored of it, as well for KZbin if you look at people like lionheart the views on campaigns aren’t that good the longer a certain campaign drags on.

[@heavybolter6396]

@@mounibj4586 how far is that though? Turn 50? Turn 100?

[@maxwhite4177]

@@lucashemmings1228 Didn't he end up losing an Ardei (idk how its spelled) campaign in a few hours a few months ago?

[@nelsondeleon5331]

I know this campaign might not be finished but I can’t wait to watch as many episodes as he puts out

[@dicegoblin6484]

Anything about the Roman Empire is awesome, and anything on this channel is awesome! Keep up the good work Apollo, love this channel for all of the historic strategy going on here!

[@qdroga4979]

Pix- "alright I don't need your advice" The way he cut that man off 😂😂😂 Bro had me dead!!!

[@faris6512]

Hell yeah, excited for the new campaign. Hoping this series will go on and finish on a high note. Keep it up!

[@_finny_]

3:17 Him: "Why are we doing this instead of walking around?" His Brain: "...u gotta"

[@ned9542]

Oh wow I literally started playing attila yesterday after a while, perfect timing!

[@3420undertaker]

Just bought the game. THANK YOU!

[@SteveSmith-ty8ko]

Barbarians: *exist* Apollo: no u

[@vickygayming]

Aw hell yeah, another total war campaign!!! I’m super excited!!!

[@DragonHustler]

ALRIGHT! Time to watch a campaign in topical Pixilated Apollo fashion, he won't finish it...HELL YEAH...

[@antonyview5975]

This campaign will finish before you even ended packing up 😂😂

[@firstname4476]

That first battle was brutal to watch , a lot of errors for an experienced player . Please put the infantry into there defensive formation they hold a lot longer .

[@chadtv3960]

Pix knight of Apollo here, put men into larger groups, convert them. all of your men on the border are in groups of 120 but only have 80 in them, it costs you more money to hold more cohors with less men in them

[@MCshadr217]

Little tip for the scout equities the next time you play through this campaign: Keep them moving. Literally the best unit you have for this campaign in terms of garrison, so long as you can keep the anvil and move troops where you need them, the scout equities will kill hundreds, if not upto a thousdand, with half their unit size, each. So long as you keep them moving and using them as a hammer constantly. Even if a unit doesn't break, it doesn't matter, the morale damage is done from the charge.

[@Yuuzer_]

Happy New Year to everyone!!!! May your 2021 be as kind and blessed as you have been to the people around you the past year. Lots of love from a random fan.

[@TwoKnowingRavens]

Great content as always Pixie, good luck in the campaign and do your best to finish, but if you don't - just play to have fun!

[@Maxmillion77]

Apollo you can gift regions but only to horde factions. It can help prevent them from attacking you like the Suebi. Also not sure you noticed but your light cav do have vanguard (the small symbol above their unit card)

[@alechurst3505]

You let your enemies divide and conquer. You should have recruited units or unified armies and chose your defensive position. You armies were too week alone. Love the vids keep up the work. Good to see you doing a campaign

[@constantinexi6489]

Ah yes Siege: Total War, my favorite in the franchise

[@crazycar4015]

Pixelated Apollo back again with some quality content. I really like the Western Empire but even after 5 years of being a player of four of them I'm not very good at any of them. So playing Rome in Attila is rough for me. But I look forward to seeing what you do.

[@godlovesyou1995]

Put ur spearmen in testudo to hold. It makes them actually useable and they are incincible to arrows etc. from the front. Do the same with swords after they have thrown their javelins. :)

[@pickleinspector5948]

Awesome Series! There are so many great mods for Attila. I've always liked your campaign vids, especially when they are challenging

[@EmporerAaron]

I wouldn't mind watching you do some campaigns in between. Use those battle skills of yours to the test with some mods. Also dude you went straight for the hardest faction there was. Nice. XD

[@morganherr6621]

sir sir. your losing another city. apollo "yea yea it's all part of the plan were gonna be fine. just let me disband all the armies"

[@Centurion-ce6qj]

If you can hold Spain, north africa, Italy, and the western med, you should be able to survive long enough to rebuild and rearm the military. Use the Alps and the Pyrenees as fortresses.

[@bowenzhang2259]

Keep up the good work. And happy new year!

[@philiphughes7481]

Yes! Yes! Yes! I hope it’s a full campaign. I love Atilla Total War. Don’t abandoned cities as this will create a huge public order crisis across your territory. Instead tear down all the buildings in the settlements you don’t want. This will provide you with a great deal of money and will allow you to walk away without any penalties. It also denies a fully functioning settlements to which ever factions move to take them.

[@douglasblowe805]

The 1st real battle, you should have loaded all the infantry in the city center covered by all the traps and kept your cav outside split up and roving, one unit to threaten the pikes covering the archers with a 2nd one to circle around and you might have won.

[@uriclothbrok2682]

Glad you are back to total war. Maybe I'll start watching again

[@joshuacrowe2455]

Love watching campaigns. Hope it goes for a decent amount of time.

[@rm-1575]

First let’s fucking go I love Attila

[@benjaminvidstein6029]

me too fuck yes

[@executeorder6559]

Fuck shit fuck fuck war crimes are amazing

[@daborinkid7279]

on the left you had a huge opportunity to easily attack the enemy skirmishers, but you made the mistake of turning your cav and heading right, a few minutes later when attacking the javelins, you could of kept going forward and then left, but you decided to retreat and thats what i think lost you the battle TLDR: cav op, its extremely important to learn how to use it in TWA

[@HardBassManiac]

As the WRE you should focus on defending spain and italy

[@GAndreC]

And Africa. Fully stabilizing the south clears that one front for good and gives more maneuverability to pick north or east

[@MrAwrsomeness]

Yep I copied the heir of Carthage strategy too, basically leave gaul Britannia the Alps and the Balkans and focus on defending and building up the economy of Hispania Italia Africa and southern France

[@gs7828]

@@MrAwrsomeness Basically the actually Latin world.

[@thyreradim7885]

In my campaign I defended all major settlements but I gave up all minor, and I focused most of my resources on defending Britania first, then gaul.

[@GAndreC]

@@thyreradim7885 why Britania? Africa and Italy are far more profitable

[@thinkislamproductions1994]

This campaign is sick! Keep up the good work!

[@alphacypher7099]

Lol 4:20 seconds into the game. "I don't need your advice..... I got this." 😂 I absolutely loved that. Awesome video Apollo! I just don't understand why all of your armies were depleted and the enemy was coming at you with massive stacks...

[@pain5253]

Happy New Year Apollo -From🇵🇭

[@mehdibazer3573]

Am i dreaming , Apollo just continue dude ! That's so freaking great

[@NagshforPrimeMinister]

Great to see a new campaign to follow, i know i'm late to the party but gives me 26 episodes to binge watch

[@LevCallahan]

I've been waiting for an Attila video from you for years. Finally. My dream has come true.

[@jeffthemercenary]

Yay new campaign one best new year gift

[@DarjinValentine]

Pax romana! Love your vids Apollo

[@KogetoMusic]

@29:56 When the AI is finally tuned to a decent level and becomes a quality of life problem.

[@greasy8187]

Aye a campaign I’ve missed these

[@roguenugget242]

This was super entertaining! Please keep this series up Apollo!

[@hellomybaby-hellodarknessm6895]

Always hated how this game treats Stillicho like he's some kind of traitor to honorious when in fact he was basically the only thing keeping the empire together while he was in power.

[@valentinbalbinot5054]

What I did in my own campaign was to destroy all of the churches in the beginning: way too expensive to keep. Then I decided that it was too difficult to defend so many territories, decided to focus on North Africa, I abandoned France and Spain. I organised my resistance in three different parts: North Africa (cause there are tons of money to make) England, not because it's lucrative (actually far from that) but thanks to its geographical position, makes it a pretty isolated base that will help you raid and reconquer France when the time comes. Finally, Italy, back to basics. I withdrew all my armies from Germany towards South of Italy to solidify a sort of a hard core of settlements that can defend one another if needed (in combination with the armies in North Africa that are pretty close) for the rest I literally sold/burned the remaining settlements because you just cannot hold them, or at least not for long. There is no point in struggling this much while the other nations grow stronger. There are so many wrong things in the Roman Empire starting position: corruption, starvation, religious conflicts and overextension, keep it small but difficult to break. Besides, the Huns are on their way, let the other factions deal with it otherwise you'll face too many armies at the same time. Plus you'll have tons of extra cash to restart and solidify these pockets of resistance thanks to selling the buildings.

[@savvyrevolution1164]

The problem is he went in with the wrong mindset.

[@justinian-the-great]

SAVE THE ROME APOLLO! This will be great!

[@AbdulHadi-ml4xc]

FINALLYYYY A CAMPAIIGGNNNNN!! LOVE YOU APOLLO! DON'T YOU DARE LEACE IT UNFINISHED LIKE PALMYRA!!

[@hangriat9376]

I’ve never seen a Napoleon campaign. That would be awesome

[@evalationx2649]

I wish he would do another one of these. Maybe East-Rome next time.

[@s.p.q.r.5102]

Will he finish dis champagne? Not even finished me!

[@afawafa322]

I asked in one of his streams what happened to Glug. Some random guy told me he got his ship sank and you were like "glug glug glug" :(

[@Ardavan_Ashknani]

Love your work man , keep it up dadash ♥️♥️♥️💪

[@landsman420]

This campaign is really brave of you! I like it

[@ravinscriptz2513]

Finally I've been waiting for a total war play through for a while!

[@Alfietgardiner]

Apollo towards britain : I don't need it, I don't want it. Sticking to historical accuracy I see

[@insanecake2332]

Never played Attila, heck I know basically nothing about it but I would say your best bet is to hold regions you see as important or crucial or just good and hold choke points on the map to try and prevent the enemy from pushing further into your main regions.

[@Jake-hd7lt]

Id love for this to be a series!

[@rogetjose8812]

Its pretty much easy to defend those kind of settlements cause the capture base wont work and you wont lose. I think its better to hold one choke point on the bridge the AI will chunk up their forces in there and you shall have a higher chance of victory. Try using the formations to avoid their charge bonuses. Hope you notice me been watching your total war game's commentary like ever since i knew how to watch YT.

[@zachdisco4523]

Love campaigns by you!! Excited for this

[@princeofeddie4755]

Nice vid. Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[@kikireviews3390]

Let's go dude,you're the best!

[@Evan_30]

I forgot I was watching a KZbin video for a second during the intro. Hearing "hell yeah" out of nowhere caught me off guard lol

[@YooKkang]

keep up the fantastic work, Apollo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Darthvegeta8000]

@Pixelated Apollo: It is flabberghasting that like a fellow fan of Napoleon you haven't yet did some epic NTW Let's plays. If you're looking for future campaigns, go through the campaigns chronologically in Napoleon Total War with or without a mod installed (Darthmod, NTW3, La Montée de l'Empire,...) Should be an awesome longterm series project. From Tutorial to Italy, to Egypt to the Grand Campaign. And perhaps then Spain and then the Coalition Campaign.

[@pranav3867]

Yes you and Lionheart both ❤️. Attila is just too underrated and so much less covered

[@nicolaschapachnik2760]

I like how you accept your mistake and allow us to see and learnd

[@tumbleweed1551]

You need to read up on your main man Stillicho. Man is a living, er, dead legend. He was the reason Rome survived so long as it did.

[@fedda9999]

be careful using Archers or javlin behind friendly units. friendly fire can be devastating

[@clydieeplays4888]

Happy New Year Apollo🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@arjungoswami874]

New update on mount and blade 2 Rebellions will work like this: Settlements with low loyalty and security will be able to rise up against their owners. When loyalty gets low, more citizens will join the town militia to take up arms. Once they're stronger than the garrison, if their loyalty is low enough, they'll rebel. Rebelling citizens will take control of the settlement and establish a new clan, then legitimize their rule over time. Eventually, if they survive, they'll be able to initiate diplomacy with other kingdoms and become part of the game's simulation. Improvements to that simulation will help with this: AI characters will now get married to each other over time, and AI clans are going to get lots of new members. Additionally, those clans will have more children to keep their clans going longer, and the kingdoms themselves have gained some mechanics to keep them in the fight after losing a few settlements.

[@AdamOctorachmadi]

first second to the game: "ayt, i dont need your advice" 👍👍

[@CommanderTavos99]

The thing is, that very hard just means unfair bonuses to the ai, and not smarter ai, so, if u just know where they are going to attack in the very first turn, u are SO SAFE for the rest of the campaign, southern britain, a city is going to be attacked by the Quaden in the east and maybe the goths will come from the east as well, then just fortify the border and they will keep running into u and dying to your superior units, the only starter units that may cause trouble are these kind of goths warband and maybe some swordfighters from the celts, but the rest will leave u alone and also u can establish trade with the desert folks.

[@realistic-location9213]

Precedes to place his 2 Javelin units in at least eight places. I love it.

[@paulr935]

Ye nah I know better than to get invested in a campaign on this channel

[@bountyhunter1153]

I don't really care what u upload I watch for you so keep up the good work pixi 😁

[@Kanenas215]

I know am a bit late but when he said we will focus on civic with western Rome on hard I laughed 😂

[@DeclinedMercy]

Me, knowing how dependent early game Western Rome is on garrisons: NOOOOOOOOOOO

[@Wi11D]

Thank you your campaigns are why I’m here

[@pancake_plays_games9224]

Apollo, I am moving houses to. Hang in there!!!!

[@ww2expertchannel343]

You finally came back to Atilla videos. We like atilla man.

[@marwan8431]

Happy new year appolo, love this series, it's fun

[@Blueqoose]

They, double reversed, skipped, skipped, skipped, reversed and hit your ass with a draw 4 at the end. 😂

[@lordofspades9222]

I love your campaigns so much Apollo. Wish you would did more campaigns but I understand why you did not.

[@satanicfriedchicken1656]

Yeee boy, my favourite campaign and favourite total war

[@gauntlettcf5669]

I LOVE THIS YES

[@bigpp9978]

Also may you have a long and glorious campaign with triumph and honour