How Auxilia Palatina Fare Against Seleucid Cavalry Roster in OG Rome: Total War?

[@squishymusic9723]

Chokes on Cigar after witnessing the Cataphracts 😅

[@qualityoldgames7721]

:D Thanks for the comment.

[@Xander77Ru]

That was a weirdly fast rout.

[@bryanwrites8290]

Auxilia Palatina are the unsung heroes of the Western Rome campaign. They can absorb all the horde archer arrows with minimal casualties and tear them to pieces in the melee. Plus they actually have good morale, which is more than you can say for most of the Roman infantry in BI.

[@hammer3721]

Perhaps they are the unsung heroes because they take high tier barracks to build and are expensive as hell to recruit and maintain.

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Agreed. Imo the spear vs infantry penalty is clearly their weakness but the special formation mitigates that a bit :) Thanks for the comment.

[@qualityoldgames7721]

@@hammer3721 Imo all Roman units are rather expensive in BI :) Thanks for the comment.

[@timgrant9021]

In addition to being expensive as hell, they are ridiculously hard to achieve because of the insanely difficult position WRE are in.

[@hammer3721]

Whenever I don't control WRE units: Immortal gods who will fight until the last man. Whenever I play as the WRE: Mommy, I am scared! Please give me a hug or I will run away!

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Yea, especially VH hits quite hard :D Thanks for the comment.

[@racingfan880]

Didn't think the Cataphracts would flee that quickly. I thought it would be a fight that would go either way, not a rout.

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Thanks for the comment. Yea, that was quite impressive vs. Horse cav :D

[@Zanator1]

Strange how often the middle elephants do better than the top tier armores ones.

[@squishymusic9723]

I'm curious if they are bugged

[@hammer3721]

War Elephants have a smaller hitbox.

[@squishymusic9723]

@@hammer3721 👀

[@hammer3721]

@@squishymusic9723 Yep, armoured elephants have a larger hitbox, so they are more eady to hit and take more damage as a result, despite their better stats.

[@squishymusic9723]

@@hammer3721 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! *Flips chariot*

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

Can't help but be slightly smug about the cataphracts. I am surprised how badly they did against the elephants; auxilia palatina have similar stats to war elephants. All the war elephants have going for them is their extra HP and their special AOE attack. Could you do auxilia palatina versus cliblinarii immortals at some point?

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Thanks for the comment. Sure, I will add that to To_Do list :)

[@JonnyReaper]

Barbarian invasion units seem a lot stronger then og units

[@A.Guy10000]

They are. They tend to have much higher armour stats

[@hammer3721]

That is true, but their morale is... Lacking. Especially when you play as the Romans yourself against the AI, the morale is dogwater.

[@pastorofmuppets9346]

Yeah, coulda been a balancing decision so the flat unit bonuses arent as influential. But its annoying hiw shit morale is in bi pretty much across the board

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Thanks for the comment. Well, these are Elite and Triarii actually did outperform them :)

[@SSR2902]

​@@A.Guy10000not really armor as in og legionary, praetorians and urbans have 12 armor but in bi all Roman infantery except the early ones have 10 but the difference is 9 or 10 defence skill as oppose to 5 6 or 7 for each respectably

[@themosticonicscenesinmovie8737]

I wish to play mod when base game and BI is mixed together, when on map for example you have Scythians and Sarmatians, Numidians and Berbers. That would be epic!

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Thanks for the comment. That kind of mod would be really cool. Imo in the OG game, the limitations are too severe for that but my guess is that it could be done in Remastered :)

[@tldr7159]

The cataphracts almost seemed as weak as Greek Cavalry haha

[@qualityoldgames7721]

That is quite rare :D Thanks for the comment.

[@rorschach1985ify]

Basically, a Spear unit so good it performs as good against Cavalry as the average Pike Phalanx unit did in OG while being so armored that even when not using shield wall (which you can't because that formation is specific to the BI engine) it takes virtually zero damage. Its only fault is that it is not as good at stopping Elephants, and even Chariots on the charge, like Phalanx units can which was always Spearmen's big weakness in OG Rome.

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Well put :) Thanks for the comment

[@rorschach1985ify]

@@qualityoldgames7721 It's a good thing Chariots and Elephants are rare in the BI timeline.

[@Warmaker01]

The only part I was interested in seeing was the Cataphracts. Unlike the RTW Urban Cohorts, the Auxilia Palatina have Anti-Cav bonus. But they're well armored and Catphracts have Armour Piercing. But the Anti-Cav bonus overrode that advantage big time. It wasn't even close. For sure the Catphracts still did damage, but they were losing units rapidly that there was simply no doubt how it was going to go anymore, real quick.

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Agreed :) Thanks for the comment :)

[@phillip_iv_planetking6354]

Impressive

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Indeed :) Thanks for the comment.

[@Zantides]

Before watching: Probaly fine until elephant.

[@Zantides]

I was wrong, it was the scound Elephant.

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Well predicted :) Thanks for the comment.

[@jpkim-dv2um]

They are not any damaged at cavalry chargjing, cataphract even run at 3/4 alived 😢

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Thanks for the comment. Yea, it seems they took casualties so fast that they broke rather easily :)

[@gabimartinovici4585]

Can legionary cohort beat comitanteses??? Please make dis as fast as you can !

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Released tomorrow ;) Thanks for the comment.

[@rajyavardhan8593]

Mah i still think if catapharct et theirs maces out its over

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Thanks for the comment. They did use them :)

[@gabimartinovici4585]

How did you combined bi troups with rtw trop?

[@qualityoldgames7721]

There is a link to a video guide in this video's description :) Thanks for the comment.

[@jonathanle9841]

How did you get the barbarian invasion units to play with the OG role units???

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Thanks for the question. A link to the video describing this can be found in this video's description :)

[@Manschier-0816]

The youtuber - To The Nerf Is To Human TNH

[@PoddyPeaPea]

Stout unit

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Agreed :) Thanks for the comment.