Total War Mod Review - Stainless Steel 6.4

[@Dreadknight_Gaming]

It was an honour serving as a dev for the mod. Hundreds of hours spend modding and making 6.4. I miss gracul and bane_tw. Gracul was the mod leader and bane took care of mod support and bug reports. Glorious team all around.

[@GerNiels]

still playing it from time to time after all these years, thanks for all your work!

[@ufopg]

A great mod sir. Only the speed is too slow, for my taste at least.

[@Dan-Martin]

Great mod thanks.

[@rohandanielisaac8107]

Thank you for your work

[@mertarican5456]

magnificent work.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

Yes a great idea, next do it on Europa Barbarom

[@totalwar1793]

And EB II

[@sanyaskillpro]

@@totalwar1793 EB 2 is straight up better, no need to review the first one. EB 2 has better engine, better rosters and historical accuracy, and better overall gameplay(no stack spam from seleucids or any major faction, almost no CTD's compared to a CTD fiesta that was EB1, etc)

[@eoinocnaimhsi2598]

EB 2 is definitely better and more in depth than EB 1, however it doesnt mean that EB 1 is not worth playing, it most certainly is.

[@LechuZcechu]

I hope he will finally get 1.2 instead of 1.1...

[@Narvaljodchik]

Review Lanjane's Barbarian Empires?

[@salokin3087]

After playing SS, it's really hard to go back to vanilla

[@dusk6159]

Salokin You mean when one plays Bellum Crucis

[@alexanderthegreat1356]

Dusk TheHunter bellum crucis would’ve been good if it hadn’t crashed all the time making it virtually unplayable however maybe it just doesn’t work well with steam idk

[@Narvaljodchik]

The SA is another group of Germans mate. SS - Schutzstaffel SA - Sturmabteilung

[@Crymson1]

It's hard to play vanilla in any TW game.

[@arthegor]

Bellum Crucis is a very unstable mod. I won't recommend it and very bad translated from Italian if I remember. @@dusk6159

[@phunkracy]

Fourth Age Total War / Third Age Total War with DaC

[@numberboxgamer]

Absolutely with DaC. TATW is horrible on its own, at least to me.

[@arnefriedrich5818]

Yes, you should definitely do Third Age: Dac!!!

[@KingOfRotterdam16]

hes already done that

[@gumbyshrimp2606]

Ask him about third age on a stream. Or the 1212 AD mod campaign. He’ll have a mental breakdown talking about how he isn’t interested in playing it.

[@stoopid6036]

I love dac, I know it isn't the most balanced or well designed mod but its beautiful and a hell of a lot of fun to play

[@smiler2673]

Third Age TW or Third Age TW Divide and Conquer

[@stephenhartley2853]

he doesn't like it

[@stephenhartley2853]

@Lana Paige because its slow as fuck. it takes about 14 turns on average to recruit one elven unit. dwarf and human units also take ages to muster

[@MotRi1986]

Well the Elven units also happens to be overpowered as fuck, it gives balance but more importantly variation. The Elven factions plays vastly different compared to the orcish, do you want low number of armies of few extremely good but expensive units, do you prefer to spam out lower quality troops in huge numbers or do you prefer something in the middle? If you cant find a faction with a play style that fit you almost perfectly you have simply not been looking hard enough. All the human factions is simular too the normal Medival total war factions. But even there it is huge variations when it comes units types, quality vs quantity, hard or easy start locations etc.

[@notquebec2564]

@@MotRi1986 damn right, i'm not even dare to send those Eldar into battle unless fucking Sauron come out of his nest and thank god for those op quendi elves, they solve pretty much every problem

[@arthurdaffos1490]

@@notquebec2564 when your militia tier unit can trash out elite tier orcs...

[@darkfireslide]

I love the series concept but I would love to see and hear more about how things like game balance, campaign pacing, and other gameplay bits work in the mod and I think there's plenty of time to talk about those subjects when doing the example battles. As a player I hate when I get into a mod but it turns out there is some glaring flaw in how it works or in the unit balance that is worth noting when thinking of trying a mod out.

[@Zhongda95]

The only glaring flow of this mod is the crashing, and it's extremely sad to win a very intense and critical campaign battle and have it crash at the end. As he said though it doesn't happen too often compared to other mods. The design of this mod is perfect, and Legend didn't even talk about many different campaign options with more detailed, complex and historically accurate recruitment systems you can choose, as well as different codes of campaign ai and other features that you can turn on or off depending on how much you want to stay at the roots of the basic game or overhaul it. Additionally, troops have been completely rebalanced, with elite professional units being much more durable and javelins much stronger. All in all, it's an extremely stylish, detailed and fun mod that makes vanilla seem completely outdated and inaccurate in comparison.

[@OlafJorigson]

@@Zhongda95 I agree. Its way more balanced than the base game. Besides what you mentioned, there are also more playable religions. Well only one more, pagan, but its still very nice. Also Units advance with age. Its possible to lose the ability to recruit some units, but you get new ones. New Inventions in warfare change war. Edit: Btw. do you know the second mod he mentioned at the ending for stability?

[@Zhongda95]

@@OlafJorigson No I heard it for the first time since you mentioned, he doesn't seem to give a link or say much about it, but it would be awesome if it could fix the crashing. My pc has 8GB RAM and still struggles a lot with stainless steel, it would be great if I could actually play it as my computer is supposed to play it.

[@OlafJorigson]

@@Zhongda95 Yeah...I was wondering as well. Couldn't make the name out.

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

@@Zhongda95 The reason it crashes is because Medieval 2 is limited to 2 GB of memory, so it runs out of memory easily. To fix this you need to get the 4 GB "Patch" installed, but it's literally just editing the executable with a program to make it use 4 GB of memory. 4 GB is the maximum amount of memory 32-Bit programs can use, but for whatever reason they decided against using the full 4 GB when they released the game. There's a tutorial online on how to do it along with the free tool. Now because this is editing the executable, which is proprietary, CA doesn't allow modders to tell people to do it, but commentators do it all the time. Ever since I installed it, the mod works great and I have massive 6 army sieges with no crashes.

[@poorman7850]

third age.

[@hothoploink1509]

specifically the divide and conquer submod :)

[@sebastianpecnik810]

^this

[@JW-jd6sn]

why when you have arachair the lead developer of the mod on KZbin? check him out his content his quite amazing and all focused on divide and conquer

[@SilverSoulxd]

Just watch the video,look at min 14:00 forward he says he cant play it because of copyright reasons.

[@reyrey72]

@@SilverSoulxd Third Age DaC comes with a music pack for streamers/content creators, so that they can play the game and avoid copyright issues.

[@ryanhinrichs7353]

Darthmod for empire

[@ShantanuSuchil]

Darthmod is the worst mod for Empire lol.

[@ryanhinrichs7353]

Viridis exactly

[@franzbauer1367]

Name a better one please

[@ShantanuSuchil]

@@franzbauer1367 Imperial Splendour, Minor Factions Revenge, Empire Total Factions

[@franzbauer1367]

@@ShantanuSuchil how are they better?

[@slavemperor9581]

Roma Surrectum for Rome 1.

[@alexanderthegreat1356]

Slav Emperor it’s now steam compatible as well

[@monarchist1633]

@@alexanderthegreat1356 are you z hellenas or meme account

[@kralbadang]

@@monarchist1633 meme

[@JagerFrostTroll]

Best mod for Rome 1 hands down.

[@ひろゆき二十一]

If somehow EB and Roma Surrectum combined that would be the best thing ever

[@Ppanos423]

It would be cool if the Latin empire was a faction in stainless steel.

[@menel1227]

Yeah and in early era campain it would invade the ere

[@Wo0dGlue]

then byzzies be'd fcked in 1220

[@Zhongda95]

@@menel1227 No it wouldn't, it would only make sense to have them as a late era faction, just like the mongols and the teutonic order.

[@filewulfe]

@@Zhongda95 both the mongols and teutons invade in the early era campaign

[@Zhongda95]

Yeah I misunderstood, I'm just saying they shouldn't be playable in early era, just like the Teutons and Mongols aren't.

[@Aidsking]

Medieval 2: warhammer, beginning of the end times, please

[@Aidsking]

@heathenhurst yes it is, there are a few ways, you can use a launcher (forget what it's called) some mods have it's own exe and the other way is to replace, americas, crusades, English isles, and the fourth one with the mod and launch through those, you can find tutorials online by googling it.

[@Aidsking]

@heathenhurst No worries, I was wrong with one of my directions, don't replace the contents of the America, British(englush) Isles, Crusade or Teutonic, Rename them, so if you use warhammer end times, rename the folder to America and call America something else, for example.

[@ImperialDiecast]

@Frederik Nielsen are you talking about Warhammer or Third Age? Because I can tell you everything you said applies to Third Age, but I played BoTET a year ago and it was actually much easier than Third Age. Did a Reikland Campaign and ended up conquering half of the world on VH. Without late game units like steam tanks. The only faction I really struggled against was ogre kingdoms and the chaos invasion full stacks, but honestly, you have so many allies as Empire that the foe has to grind through them all before being able to reach you.

[@scholaepalatinae7304]

Technically speaking it shouldn't even be called "The Byzantine Empire" as its an anachronistic term created by historians to differentiate between the Eastern Roman Empire and the West. Until the day Constantinople fell in 1453 it's citizens and the world knew it as the Roman Empire.

[@cseijifja]

it literally shoudl be the roman empire, the turks called them romans, the arabs called them romans, the bulgarians, the hungarians, fuckign everyone called them romans, they were roman. "Byzantine " was a name some german stuck o them to give creidbility to his non holy, nor roman, nor empire.

[@torinjones3221]

@@cseijifja eastern roman scholars themselves referred to the region as Byzantium in reference to the original city before Constantinople called Byzantium. The people of Constantinople and the surround area even called themselves Byzantine. The west refered to them as Greeks not Byzantines or Romans because the people were Greeks since Rome was totally independent from the eastern empire for much of its history.

[@KaiserToons]

@@torinjones3221 The region of thrace yes. However not the empire. It wasn't until ~1800 that the greeks stopped calling themselves as heirs of byzantium 'Romiaon'

[@hoarder1919]

Technically speaking many countries shouldn't be called this and that. Germans don't call their county "Germany", they call it Deutchland, Chinese aren't Chinese, they're the Han and their country is Zhonggua, but should we call them that way? Or, if we go all historical here, then there were no Kingdom of Spain till about 1716, there were Castile and Aragon and Navarre and others that just happen to be united under one crown. Should we stop calling it "Spain", at least for the period of XVI-XVII centuries? "Byzantine Empire" is a useful term to separate ancient Roman Empire from East-oriented Greek Roman Empire.

[@KaiserToons]

@@hoarder1919 If referring to after the Empire of Nicaea reconquered Constantinople, yes I agree. It was not a direct continuation of the Roman imperial throne at that point but a new reconstructed entity using it for legitimacy. Especially if you ask Trebizond rulers around the same time. However your examples given are besides the point. Duetchland is the literal Germanic word for Germany, as would be Alemania for some Romances. Same goes for China. The old word Cathay is also the case as mentioned before. They originate from legitimate etymological sources that originated from at-the-time contacts. "Byzantine" was made up on the spot. Medieval Roman is a fine term to distinguish the time periods. Even the most famous "Byzantine" emperor was as much a Roman as Diocesan and Constantine. (His family hails from the Latin Danube communities that would become the Romanians in time). The law structure was very much Roman. Al-be-it the culture was very much Greco-Roman.

[@wallace8637]

I love the fact that in medieval 2 battles, units dont look like a swarm of ants.

[@emre30489]

in which game they look like that?

[@wallace8637]

@@emre30489 rome 2 and after primarily.

[@MrWeenuk21]

i think they made the units smaller and scaled the maps a bit to make it seem bigger.

[@schwanzuslongus9424]

Napoleonic Total War 3 Mod for NTW

[@thattonnatoguywithafez8246]

@@baliandeibelin7640 Its more opinion based. I mean im curently playing trough Empire [which is aperently worst in series] and im having ton of fun, tough seeing a heroic victory, every battle is, annoying.

[@thattonnatoguywithafez8246]

@@baliandeibelin7640 Yes campaing is quite bit, diferent, im still not used to farms being outside of cities and that stuff, tough i like multiple map thing

[@martinzaksauskas4739]

Napoleon is one of my favorite games it’s really well done I thinkz

[@martinzaksauskas4739]

William Wallace what makes it so bad? I know lots of people don’t like gunpowder, but I love how slow infantry mixes with lightning fast cav combat

[@123apacino]

Great War Mod!

[@ΣταύροςΧρήστου-ο6υ]

third age total war dac

[@jonoldham9877]

This expansion in your content (top fives and this video ect) would kill most content creators but your charisma pulls your channel forward and keeps people coming back for more.

[@michaelvey0239]

Hmm, you’ve been doing a lot more reviews recently, and I personally think the videos are incredibly interesting. I love your brutally honest opinion, and the fact that if you didn’t enjoy something you would tell us, unlike other youtubers who would suck up to the developers.

[@sebastianpecnik810]

Elder Scrolls Total War. Magician artillery is crazy tho

[@MrAhnassi]

It's unbalanced an full of ESO stuff (that doesn't fit in the Third Era where the mod is set in)

[@CataciousAmogusevic]

MAGICIAN ARTILLERY ONLY

[@marioschr8181]

Do Europa Barbarorum II

[@seasnutz9741]

Ayyyy! Great vid! I vote broken crescent!

[@Random-om8rq]

Seasnutz WOWSB i love that mod

[@seasnutz9741]

@@Random-om8rq I do too, one of my favorites! It's between stainless steel and broken crescent for me.

[@Random-om8rq]

Yeah it is

[@Mikepalatianos]

Don't forget divida et impera

[@AaronM909]

Cover Broken Crescent it's the best Mod based on the crusader era

[@TheSunderingSea]

Well the map covers a hell of a lot more then just the Crusader states but yes it is great. I use a mod that balances units a bit and increases unit sizes by 70%, its great.

[@hullubaloo100]

Been replaying M2 a lot lately. Best game of the serie imo. Never tried this mod, it looks nice but my concern with roster enhancement is that too much choice kills the choice ... might try it still. Good I stumbled on your video !!

[@majorianus8055]

have you tried it ?

[@worldlyman100]

Have you tried it?

[@chrishansen456]

Have you tried it?

[@caesaraugustus3749]

Have you tried it?

[@stephengrigg5988]

Have you tried it?

[@Mynameismegalex]

Europa Barbarorum II

[@sascher7461]

What about the Historical Improvement Project submod for Stainless Steel (SSHIP)? It even tops Stainless Steel in my opinion.

[@alexanderthegreat1356]

Sascher I’ve never found that sub mod

[@King.Leonidas]

ive heard it had a lot of bullshit in it but i dunno

[@cc-bk3tx]

I really tried to like it but it just makes the mod worse with all the bullshit it adds

[@arhexirthesnake]

SSHIP is still being developed while SS isnt't.

[@chelsblue7370]

I don't know who made the mod but despite its apparent shortcomings, you people have my heartfelt gratitude. Played it for two years before Warhammer came out, it was so brilliant as Byzantium (late age) - I powerplayed at times but it was so fulfilling to re-write this particular bit of history. Byzantium from Italy to Volga and from the Tatres to Sahara! Please, excuse the lack of modesty but it was beyond brilliant!

[@lordrics]

I nominate Total vanilla beyond 3.0 SS i cool and all, but sadly it crashes too often and hadn't been able to play a single campaign to the end. Beyond however, is almost the same, but much more stable, at least for me. Check it out if you have the chance. Peace

[@asymex]

Same. I reached a point where I was besieging Jerusalem and crashes right away during loading screen when entering the siege battle. Tried loading the same save file and stuck in a loop of crashes

[@lordrics]

@@asymex Try beyond, units didn't get such a big overhaul but map is extended, also has americas with aztecs and apaches. www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?785966-Total-Vanilla-Beyond-3-0-Release-Once-more-with-feeling

[@594-d9b]

@@lordrics I'm on turn 120 or so in my Roman Empire campaign and I've had no ctd at all so far. I get some on tatw but can't remember the last time I had one on ss 6.4. Sounds like an issue on your end tbh

[@lordrics]

@@594-d9bIt honestly may be. My laptop is not the best there could be, but ran other mods and vanilla TW games smoothly. Played around with in-game settings and visual drivers alike, still got major crashes and some of the time it stopped me from continuing. Also, it was just frustrating to lose progress so many times.

[@594-d9b]

@@lordrics Yeah man, I get that. I just wouldn't say its a fault with the mod just cause your particular install is crashing. It's been one of the more stable for me. Hope you can get it fixed sometime.

[@Niscimble]

It may be pertinent to talk about the stability of the mod and it's likelihood of crashing

[@wombatzzzz8446]

Anne Isopod the ai is good depending which setting u use

[@VideoGameSlang]

Niscimble he mentions it at 16:38....

[@ebannaw]

Once I patched the .exes with large address aware, I haven't had a single crash.

[@lineasevenadam5009]

@@ebannaw how did you do it ?

[@hyper_5pace902]

Game of thrones mod for m2tw? I know there are a few but do the highest quality one.

[@rayravernous4376]

Which is the highest quality mod?

[@jamescollins275]

Ray Ravernous game of thrones total war enhanced 4.9 is the best

[@gavinminty4974]

@@jamescollins275 age of petty kings

[@WeebFox69]

First view ....love from India...big fan of your work😃

[@Lankyblankman]

tgay alert Just kidding

[@WeebFox69]

@@Lankyblankman sorry dude ....no need of 9 year army..🤣

[@WeebFox69]

@@narathzularantheal3602 people like you are not the true pew fan he already said he his against the racial discrimination....and here are you....look pal not every Indian ask for things like that pls stop this shit.... peace and love from india😊😊

[@narathzularantheal3602]

What's wrong with asking for Bobs?

[@MrWattu]

@@WeebFox69 go back to your shitting street.

[@Ratich]

I have personally found that SS6.4 fixes some of the pathfinding issues of cavalry and makes them more responsive to commands but also making them slower

[@jimishimo855]

This is cool, you should do more man

[@maladroit5376]

Pleased to see someone reviewing Stainless Steel after all this time. Apologies to everyone for the bugs, it was released before it was fully tested. I recommend installing the bug fixer compilation to correct most of the errors. There's plenty of additional sub-mods which add features to the game. Due to limitations of the game engine really big mods can crash after a few hours playing due to memory issues, so save frequently.

[@gronndar]

Any specific bug fixes? Melloo's Fix?

[@maladroit5376]

@@gronndar Meloo''s 1.27 bug fix compilation. Also a good idea to disable the file caching.

[@ArsacesOfParthiaI]

@@maladroit5376 File Caching?

[@paulolopes5939]

Divide Et impera Rome 2!

[@Anik501]

Roma Surrectum vs Europa Barbarorum would be nice to compare. I've seen others opinion on the subject but I'm interested in your take on it.

[@Jinny-Wa]

Too bad EB uses some lame movie horn sounds. Like Iberian tribes have some LOTR High Elven fall back screams from the Two Tower

[@6TypoS9]

I FOUND IT, took me a god damn week: Medieval Total War Soundtrack: Arab Battle 1 - KZbin

[@itsup2peety]

Bellum crusis - for me best mod for med 2

[@alexanderthegreat1356]

itsup2peety It seemed good however it crashed constantly which made it unplayable for me, did it work for you? I’m using steam so maybe that could be why and I was using English translation

[@itsup2peety]

@@alexanderthegreat1356 I'm using polish translation of the mod and non-steam med2. For me it crashes only on faction selection screen of the campaign. It isn very stable but still playable

[@deumevet]

Its well made but a very hard mode, alliances are worthless and everybody attacks you with infinite stacks since turn 10

[@TheStrossicro]

To be honest, the one most impressive thing in this whole video was the battlefield. Never before have I seen such a interesting battlefield in a random Medieval 2 skirmish battle. Those plateaues are cool, as are the escarpments.

[@midshipman8654]

that may have something to to with med ii’s janky relationship with map geometry. glad the team got around it a bit and provided some interesting map layouts.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Another nice touch is tech progression is more important than in M2. In M2, it's just everyone gets gunpowder then ocean-going ships. Here, better types of armor is unlocked with time so having a huge city or citadel isn't enough to get advanced plate.

[@1992zorro]

Has anybody been able to fix all crashes? I have S6.4 with the Bug fix compilation V1.27 which is supposed to solve them all but still it crashes before and after most battles (especially big battles). Have you guys been able to fix them? If so, please share. Thanks

[@elkhaqelfida5972]

I experienced the same problem. some says it because the game think it already using max ram available (2gb), I still searching the method to increase ram usage

[@butterysalmon3774]

Hey lotw, I’ve been watching for a while. I just wanted to say thanks for putting these videos out. I really love them. Can’t wait to see what you do next!

[@MrSwallyLP]

1648 total war for Medieval 2

[@salsaniggas8544]

Potop

[@thenortherncampaign6474]

Love the review. Never really bothered with mods for Total War but starting to consider it. Definitely going to start with this mod I think. Could you please review Steel Faith Overhaul for Warhammer 2?

[@adam6759]

Absolutely love the mod. The only problem I have is frequent crashes to the desktop. Tried different graphics etc all the way down to low. Such a shame. Never had this problem with Roma Surrectum and huge battles with Ultra settings….

[@Jim-fi4dc]

1212 atilla mod.(when you get it)

[@najssiness]

well the byzantine empire was never called the byzantine empire technically

[@ulrichvonhermann2548]

Nerd

[@Xandy743]

Fuck me, I never knew about the Large Address Aware mod. I've always loved this Stainless Steel, but hated how it kept crashing on me in the lategame. Thank you!

[@bryanfury6833]

hey buddy did the large address aware mod work?

[@blockkid8629]

@@bryanfury6833 I tried called 4g patch but is the same I think and it works hopefully you will read my comment.

[@bryanfury6833]

@@blockkid8629 My dude thanks for trying to reassure me. But I've played with the 4gb patch up till last year, until I stopped playing Medi 2 entirely.

[@blockkid8629]

@@bryanfury6833 So it keep crashing for you? In that case either play vanilla or if you can't like it afterplaying Stainless Steel I recomend you, if you can, buy Attila or other kind of modern total wars. Or download the LOTR mod for medieval total war II, I cannot remember the names though.

[@MFShro0m]

What’s that ‘large address(?)’ thing you recommended for increasing the amount of RAM the game can use?

[@MAXBERTE]

I vote for a review of Bellum Crucis 7.0 or maybe The Italian Wars mod, both are mods for medieval 2

[@r21hoobastank]

does it still crush after turn: 121 or something? or is it playable? please answer fellow Medievalholic here

[@HenrikML]

Divide et imperia for rome 2??

[@missing_5_7_89]

I dont like this mod cuz it doestt include Kingdom of Georgia. I prefer bulat steel instead.

[@henkkoonstra4014]

Europa barbarorum 2 please

[@shadoze97]

SFO (Steelfaith Overhaul) for Total War Warhammer 2 would be a great mod to see you review!

[@blazodeolireta]

Somnium Apostatae Iuliani. 9:05 like it was a bad thing.

[@tbone2646]

When you mentioned that they used music from medieval one I was in the process of already saying to myself "Hey isn't that music from Medieval one?" :D

[@mocho4110]

U should go more in details about this mod especially on mechanics and all the options u can on/off for the mod, that really blasts the full mod and make the mod itself the most complex mod ever created for a total war game. However, it's great to see people still play and advertise this mod in 2019, so congrats for that. I still play this mod too, and I never ever play vanilla coz of the incoherencies of the history and campaign on that.

[@TheHellleader]

Please mod review Deus lo Vult mod for medieval II, I think it's still the best rpg mod for every total war ever

[@jadek6273]

This mod is absolutely amazing. But he is also incredibly bugged. Never been able to finish a campaign. Sadly.

[@kolonkacity001]

use some sub mods, like bug fix compilation 1.27, read about it and try it out, maybe it will work, its just some text files that you need to coppy and paste. i had crashes at 1040ad and now im in about 1085 and it holds up for now. Good luck

[@sambog9t]

This is also one of my favourite mods, period. Some things that weren't mentioned that interested people should take note of: 1) There are two recruitment systems in this game. Legend had "Real Recruitment" turned off, this is a system that limits your army diversity quite a bit in the early game, by forcing you to unlock units at the right time. So, a unit like Lancers isn't even unlocked until the 15th century or so. In the beginning of the early campaign, you can't even recruit feudal knights! I personally love the system, but a lot of people don't. Still, it's another really cool option, and the only other TW experience that comes close to this is Attila's tech tree that sees units replaced over time. It keeps your unit diversity constantly evolving, which keeps the game interesting over time. There is real significance to early vs. high vs. late units. 2) Pike and Shot actually works! You might have noticed in the video that the Janissary musketeers were actually shooting steadily. Stainless Steel incorporates a fire by rank system that works very well, and it makes gunpowder much more fun (and much more effective) to use. Similarly, pikemen are far more effective, because they no longer have swords that they'll pull out constantly. Because pikemen and gunpowder units are fixed, and especially if you have real recruitment turned on, campaigns can stay really interesting late into the game, because of how much warfare will evolve over time. This is especially true for the European nations, who have the most complete and diverse rosters. 3) Unit rebalance is really good in this mod. Legend touched on this. Cavalry get speeds reworked, and get much higher charge bonuses with weaker base stats. Archers can still lob arrows over the heads of their units, but crossbows need a more direct trajectory, meaning they need to be positioned with more care. Archers have much weaker missile damage to make up for this, which gives you a really interesting tradeoff. Two hander infantry get a much-needed buff, making them much tougher, and making Gothic Foot Knights finally the kings of the battlefield! 4) Campaign fluff makes the campaign side of the game is just more interesting in general. Growth rates are reduced, so that you can only even reach the highest tier settlements on the most fertile parts of the map. Good luck turning Aarhus into a huge city, or Oslo into a Citadel - without some insanely good governors it just won't happen. There is an interesting system of titles, so putting governors in different cities will give them different bonuses. It makes the micromanagement side more flavourful. There are probably a couple hundred mercenary units, and they evolve over the course of the campaign too, so that late game mercenary armies are completely viable. If you have the money, you can create an army of Swiss pikemen and Italian Condotierri that can take on anything thrown against them. Once again, it just gives the campaign more flavour. 5) On the topic of crashing: Yes, this game can be unstable, but there are ways to help this. In addition to the LAA patch, you should also look up the Stainless Steel bugfix compilation. For me, this fixed almost all of the CTD's I encountered. 6) There are two submods for this game that are both fairly popular, the Historical Improvement Project and Titanium. Both mix up the gameplay quite a bit, though I prefer regular Stainless Steel. Point is, there is a lot for you to experience here. 7) The Muslim rosters suck. They get almost no attention. If you love the Muslim nations it's something to think about. They're still relatively fun to play, but the experience is much more complete with the European nations.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

My only issue is that Citadels are far too difficult to upgrade needing a 10 Chivalry Governor with Pop increasing traits (even then there is no telling it would reach the minimum requirement) while I agree it should be difficult so as you can't spam your best units at least decrease the required pop from 22500 to 20000 or 21000.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

Even by the 1400s your still using your Fortress level troops

[@Wolowizard-k3t]

Attila Radious Total War

[@andrews.5212]

Hey this is the space background music in KSP! I guess must be some royalty free music =D

[@wewliusevola]

Glad somebody else noticed lol

[@Turmoilfeed]

ROTK - Rise of the three kingdoms mod for Medieval 2. It's fun and right in time for the release, should give you alot of views before CA release. Like you did the Warhammer mod for Medieval 2 before CA release.

[@Lord_Imrahil]

Third age total war divide and conquer submod for the next mod review, as it is a activly developed mod and has a big playerbase. Or the italian war as it covers the Renaissance very well and that isn't really covered in any total war so far. It works well with the rarely played pike and shot/crosshow units with gunpower artillery, with is normally not available in mod or only in the very late game.

[@_Gandalf_The_White]

Italians have the coolest armour, they need their own game or at least DLC like Britannia.

[@chickenhunt5163]

"Albion total war" for med2 is showing much promise.

[@alcoolamus4208]

Indeed !

[@Lemmonjuice-wt6zu]

The last kingdom total war for medieval 2. A small mod about the viking invasions of England including a map of Norway, Denmark, northern France and Great Brittain.

[@vincere4790]

Call of Warhammer: Beginning of the End Times!!!

[@oinanikekemarenisare4470]

Great review man. Can you gimme the link to download the additional mod to enhance pc RAM performance like you said in the video?

[@adem2049]

Elder Scrolls or Europa Barbarorum 2 for M2TW next if you want.

[@HighlanderJosh]

Yes! I like this series! I really want to hear about The Last Kingdom mod. I'm currently having a hard time getting it running as well lol... I've read some comments on "how to", but it doesn't help. Anyone know how they got it to work? :)

[@andresdiaz5663]

(clap) mod... (clap) review...

[@citylightsish]

Cringe

[@carbon21111]

SS without bugfix is unplayable

[@folkbeer9170]

do: Medieval Kingdoms 1212 AD Models fore Total war Attila :)

[@izzitfs2311]

Total FotS V1 and V2 (Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai). Fantastic Legend that you do mod reviews. I love it.

[@alcoolamus4208]

I miss this time where you actually produced other thing than Warhammer 2 videos. It broke my heart to unsub but I can't stand the WH2 flood. The real Legend I followed for years and loved was all about Medieval 2 :(

[@alcoolamus4208]

(I'm glad you enjoy your time more with you channel now than before though)

[@BronzetheGolden]

this isnt a mod this is a whole new game

[@ViktoriousDead]

Love the mod but it's so unstable on my computer

[@Zajuts149]

Great idea! I have watched few of your videos, but this made me a subscriber. May I suggest you also review Broken Crescent, and maybe Lands to Conquer or Deus Lo Vult for M2TW/Kingdoms. For NTW: Masters of Europe.

[@urgeless4329]

Schwert und Speer is the best medieval 2 mod. www.moddb.com/mods/schwert-und-speer-ultimate

[@uutarn]

Yea man totally agree, it's MTW2+ and does it perfectly. What about broken crescent mod for your next review?

[@juanjoseph]

Medieval II: Broken Crescent!!! It's like SS got a mod and it is set in the Middle East!!!

[@takeiteasy2232]

Stainless steel is amazing, really amazing, is thr divide et impera for medieval. The submods add another layer of awesomeness. If you own medieval 2 do not wait and play this mod NOW!

[@Thermalburn]

My favorite mod. Doesnt change too much where its unfamiliar, but it changes enough that it feels fresh and gives it a new challange

[@TheRussian1]

This is peak Total War.

[@ImperialDiecast]

What difficulty would you recommend for stainless steel? I played vanilla medieval on VH for most enjoyment because of how easy it was to steamroll the continent otherwise. But this mod greatly expands europe, delays recruitment, adds far more provinces, so I feel like progress will slow down to a crawl and a campaign will take MONTHS if I played on VH, does it make sense to lower the difficulty?

[@robertbaughn61]

1212 AD mode for Atilla. It would be great if you could compare it to the SS 6.4 mod and how you feel about the gameplay.

[@Leo-64DC27]

Try 1648 Mod it's set between the Hapsburg & Anti Hapsburg States,the unit roster is alot & some of them like Spanish halberds they speak on their accent even if you are playing on a Prussian/Austrian faction

[@lars9925]

I actually love this mod but I don't play it very often because it crashes from time to time and that is really frustrating...

[@athropos]

I just dont really care for unit recruitment restrictions in these games. And no replenishment in these old games compound the problem. Nobody wants to fight with shitty levies for most of the game even if its "historical". Also default looking byzantine infantry always looked terrible to me in 6.4

[@GavinTheFifer]

I thought the video was pretty good, you don’t really ramble on a specific part for too long. A Darth Mod Empire or Divide Et Impera video would be sweet

[@AleaIactaEst2009]

Were you playing KSP while recording the audio? :D

[@noodle8881]

love total war games, played from rome 1 untill rome 2 where they completely lost me vanilla medieval is good, but you have always with 1 elite army you can "rule" the world 1 elite army in SS is nothing, if you are lucky you can capture/hold only a few city's/castles you really have to plan invasions wel ahead, make sure you can retrain units/check health of general/defending army for captured ground, just way to much to explain i had a few problems with crashes, while playing on a decent machine, i just lowered the graphics to medium and the crashes seem to decreased by half playing stainless steel 6.4 bugfix 1.27 at 2 turns per year, with local units enabled, weaker heretics, pre-build watchtowers the game almost would give me a stiffy :P in all seriousness, if you like vanilla but feel there is just something missing, try SS not even to mention the great options that is included with the mod

[@phoenixcgamer4068]

I like the KSP music

[@justsometimber1nthelake873]

Third age total war

[@kman9060]

Another thing to definitely note for some people who care about it is balance of the units. For example in stainless steel two handers are now actually really powerful, if not the most powerful units cause of their armor piercing attack bonus. Overall armor piercing is the way to go since armor values have been increased, and thus your favorite units like gothic knights and the French lancers are now actually very powerful cavalry. Archers are now useful due to increased range over crossbows, while crossbows themselves are good for closer-ranged punch.

[@treyjetson5320]

Yea in vanilla MTW2 2 handed swords were way too weak.

[@not_asteky]

Medieval 2 on steroids

[@waragainstmyself1159]

i make tons of cities and have hordes of low tier waves of units. Militia and peasant archers just peppering ya rich fancy pants into the ground.

[@jackdaone6469]

Age of Petty Kings.

[@Jukrates]

Planetwar Total War sometime?

[@alex2765]

NTW3 for Napoleon