Chokes on Cigar after witnessing the Cataphracts 😅
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
:D Thanks for the comment.
@Xander77RuАй бұрын
That was a weirdly fast rout.
@bryanwrites8290Ай бұрын
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.
@hammer3721Ай бұрын
Perhaps they are the unsung heroes because they take high tier barracks to build and are expensive as hell to recruit and maintain.
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Agreed. Imo the spear vs infantry penalty is clearly their weakness but the special formation mitigates that a bit :) Thanks for the comment.
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
@@hammer3721 Imo all Roman units are rather expensive in BI :) Thanks for the comment.
@timgrant9021Ай бұрын
In addition to being expensive as hell, they are ridiculously hard to achieve because of the insanely difficult position WRE are in.
@hammer3721Ай бұрын
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!
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Yea, especially VH hits quite hard :D Thanks for the comment.
@racingfan880Ай бұрын
Didn't think the Cataphracts would flee that quickly. I thought it would be a fight that would go either way, not a rout.
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment. Yea, that was quite impressive vs. Horse cav :D
@Zanator1Ай бұрын
Strange how often the middle elephants do better than the top tier armores ones.
@squishymusic9723Ай бұрын
I'm curious if they are bugged
@hammer3721Ай бұрын
War Elephants have a smaller hitbox.
@squishymusic9723Ай бұрын
@@hammer3721 👀
@hammer3721Ай бұрын
@@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.
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?
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment. Sure, I will add that to To_Do list :)
@JonnyReaperАй бұрын
Barbarian invasion units seem a lot stronger then og units
@A.Guy10000Ай бұрын
They are. They tend to have much higher armour stats
@hammer3721Ай бұрын
That is true, but their morale is... Lacking. Especially when you play as the Romans yourself against the AI, the morale is dogwater.
@pastorofmuppets9346Ай бұрын
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
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment. Well, these are Elite and Triarii actually did outperform them :)
@SSR2902Ай бұрын
@@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
@themosticonicscenesinmovie8737Ай бұрын
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!
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
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 :)
@tldr7159Ай бұрын
The cataphracts almost seemed as weak as Greek Cavalry haha
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
That is quite rare :D Thanks for the comment.
@rorschach1985ifyАй бұрын
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.
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Well put :) Thanks for the comment
@rorschach1985ifyАй бұрын
@@qualityoldgames7721 It's a good thing Chariots and Elephants are rare in the BI timeline.
@Warmaker01Ай бұрын
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.
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Agreed :) Thanks for the comment :)
@phillip_iv_planetking6354Ай бұрын
Impressive
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Indeed :) Thanks for the comment.
@ZantidesАй бұрын
Before watching: Probaly fine until elephant.
@ZantidesАй бұрын
I was wrong, it was the scound Elephant.
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Well predicted :) Thanks for the comment.
@jpkim-dv2umАй бұрын
They are not any damaged at cavalry chargjing, cataphract even run at 3/4 alived 😢
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment. Yea, it seems they took casualties so fast that they broke rather easily :)
@gabimartinovici4585Ай бұрын
Can legionary cohort beat comitanteses??? Please make dis as fast as you can !
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Released tomorrow ;) Thanks for the comment.
@rajyavardhan8593Ай бұрын
Mah i still think if catapharct et theirs maces out its over
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment. They did use them :)
@gabimartinovici4585Ай бұрын
How did you combined bi troups with rtw trop?
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
There is a link to a video guide in this video's description :) Thanks for the comment.
@jonathanle9841Ай бұрын
How did you get the barbarian invasion units to play with the OG role units???
@qualityoldgames7721Ай бұрын
Thanks for the question. A link to the video describing this can be found in this video's description :)