MIGRATION STRATEGY + 1K SUBS THANK YOU! - Game Guides - Rome: Total War

[@BlueMatona]

Thank you everyone for supporting my channel and getting it to 1000 subscribers! Also thank you to deguz109 for the video recommendation!

[@seangallagher9435]

I like to train tons of villagers. The point is to protect them as I go so it’s like I’m migrating actual people from like a famine

[@josephspruill4199]

I think u could do a video about the resources on the map and the benefits of them. I seen u did one on the seven wonders but couldn’t find one for this (resources)

[@logicalrat]

RTW will never get old

[@BlueMatona]

Such a great game

[@spectre4165]

Now it’s remastered haha

[@JoseAlmeida-oy3mq]

This dude just invaded Egypt from England. Legend :D

[@Mouseling216]

only 2000 years early

[@potatoetheking2828]

I wished they would release a remaster for Rome (performance + graphics, and maybe more units / factions / speeches / cool music / more DLCs)

[@kanal2123a]

Yeah, RTW2 isn't really RTW... It's so much different and so much worse... Old Rome was amazing, it was just old...

[@xtswarzone]

this is literally my dream remaster. Could never get along with RTW2 or the newer games.

[@Qladstone]

I would like it to have proper frame rates on modern PCs too.

[@baumapfel4463]

this aged well

[@datmexboi2121]

Wow reading this comment when it was posted a year ago I'd probably say something like "when pigs fly"

[@ajavierb2078]

A interesting campaign is to do a migration with the seleucid empire and take rome. The eased wat to do this is with a bridge battle.

[@decanusseverus8773]

Yes i like this idea

[@nathanmoore4712]

Imagine the shock of the Egyptians when the entire army of Britannia appears on their shores 10 turns into the game.

[@Nimroc]

Migration campaigns are typically among the most fun I've had with the series, and the games that are less suited for it tend to be less replayable for me.

[@RocketHarry865]

In Barbarian Invasion this is actually an encouraged playstyle especially for the factions that can horde and are in the pathway of the Huns

[@camerong3818]

Excited for 10,000!

[@tenchimuyo69]

Turning any faction into a Barbarian Invasion-esque hoard.

[@Nickdee21]

Seleucid empire to Brittania or Spain would actually sound like a lot of fun. Going to try that on my next play through !

[@BlueMatona]

Let me know how it goes!

[@michaelweston409]

I never thought about doing this before. Imagine building up peasants and just disbanding them in yours new chosen land like your Moses

[@CptEngage]

nice idea.

[@erichroddewig5851]

Dude!! You are huge! Finally I found someone on KZbin that reminds me how LegendofTotalWar ays, agressive, breaking the game...pretty cool!! Keep going with this content!!

[@eimhingalvin8864]

Love moving the selucids up too the crime and try too make a great Northern Greek empire (we all know how annoying sythia can be even as a faction with decent cavelry)

[@petarniciforovic6543]

I remember doing this with Scythia - not at the beginning. Basically, as far as I can remember, the non-existent prospherity and the economy of those vast steppes had me moved into better suited regions. I moved southwards, to the Thrace.

[@covilica]

ozb?

[@petarniciforovic6543]

@@covilica kolko se sećam tako je bilo... ništa preterano pametno, al zabavno.

[@covilica]

@@petarniciforovic6543 svidja mi se da ima nasib ljudi koji gledaju ovo i igraju ovu igricu

[@JJChWorkshop]

Invading Egypt from England? Damm that is badass :D Maybe do it again, this time other way round, Egyptians conquering ancient British Isles?

[@BlueMatona]

Fun way to start the game for sure!

[@user-lq2bs8xb8h]

So great! Here's to many more :)

[@therealoldnosey8689]

Thank you for the sick RTW videos!

[@jacksonsmithland4551]

Congrats!

[@thomasandersen2534]

Nice video big dog! You the man!

[@r4v3nh0od3]

congraxx to your 1K subs

[@ddfelix4829]

I have a friend who used to play with his brother. My friend played the Patriarch. He made all decisions on building, recruiting, diplomacy, finance... everything. And his brother played the General. He fought every skirmish, battle, and siege. The loved it! Their favorite campaign was as the Carthaginians... within two generations they were overrun by Rome, Numidia, and the Spanish. All they had was the Balearic Islands and Carthage... With stacks of Scipiones closing in, the Patriarch decided to load up his remaining troops and escape by sea. The Carthaginian refugees made it to Britannia where the General conquered Londinium. Guiding their newly exiled Carthaginian Republic (far from Roman power), they defeated the northern and western barbarians. Ultimately, they conquered Rome without having any African or Mediterranean island possessions.

[@deguz109]

Awesome vid as always!!! Congrats for 1k subs, and hoping to see you reach 10k subs!!

[@BlueMatona]

10k would be insane

[@piegunman]

@@BlueMatona 100k

[@EasyGameEh]

hey, great idea, even thiugh obvious still never occurred to me in years :) anyway, i wanted to ask what's your oppinion on scorched earth tactics in our original settlements and/or on leacing some troops behind to hold our labd a bit longer? maybe even one family member to govern the capital and then bring the rest of the troops to newly established colony? i know it sounds a bit cheesy but still worth considering. planning to migrate to constantinople as england in ss type mod for m2. greek britain or united kingdom of greek states, you know.

[@BlueMatona]

Ok so for scorched earth, I don't really find it to be worth it. If you're playing a migration campaign and moving far away, the faction that takes your original settlements likely won't be an enemy until late game anyways. Also, cities start with such low building levels that it's just not a significant hinderance to demolish them. As for leaving an army behind, it's not the worst call by any means. I would definitely recommend bringing all generals with you on the migration though, since sending ships back to pick up a general that you left behind can take a ton of turns and just isnt worth it. In a situation like in this video with the Britons, leaving an army behind is not necessary since no other factions will be able to take the provinces quickly before you reestablish yourself somewhere else. If you're playing as a faction with nearby enemies at the start, leaving a few troops back to at least defend one city is probably a smart call to buy your migration a few extra turns.

[@EasyGameEh]

@@BlueMatona i mean demolishing to get some money back. in stainless steel in late campaign cities are quite developed so it is worth it money wise. anyway i failed at it already. at turn 11 i was in the middle of the sea still, already lost all my settlements but 1 and got sieged by scotts (i'm playing with the most aggressive ai) so i had to jump ship and settle to benghasi.

[@RobBCactive]

If you have M2TW then the first crusade, which is mostly to Cairo can give a paid for fast movement point opportunity for a faction migration, to escape the Pope's pacifist tendencies against fellow catholics and then get a head start on other's in later crusades. In that game, a migration strategy doesn't have the same penalties and you're very likely to hang on to the original base for a good while.

[@derrick211000]

Your videos are well developed with nice effects.

[@loopaddict4926]

Hey gratz tour fist 1k subs. And tanks for geh video. I never thought to do such game play 😊 I'll try this after I finish my Roman campaign 😊

[@roberttaylor8906]

i'm sorta doing this migration thing with the carthaginians, but it's not extremely out of the way, and it's a high payoff...but i didn't leave the original place, i just expanded further out. to take on an entirely new theater. after i overtook greece on sicily, i sent a fleet with a small army over and started conquering greece starting with rhodes and crete, meanwhile i had the scipii kicking me in the face so now everything i do is just barely enough to keep a comfortable lead on both the italian and greek fronts - i've taken out the scipii and the spqr, greece is probably limited to turkey, macedon has been wiped out, the brutii have lost their capital and been pushed out of the greek peninsula by me. but i barely cover it and am almost always broke, even with these awesome trade cities. this is much more challenging than the macedonian campaign imo, and more fun with the war elephants. nice that both have good cav and good phalanxes, but i like that carthage gets you high law when you build the temples for sacred band and even more with the police stations, that'll be helpful late game. plus if you can manage for awhile without a barracks in most cities (the long shield cav is pretty solid imo, and the lighter one has an upkeep of only 110 and way better and more useful than town watch), just by building the 25% law temple you get to make the sacred band - those are the two best benefits of any of the carthaginian temples imo. so you can skip barracks at most cities and just bring soldiers in via ship (i have 3 half stack or more fleets floating around, one in greece, one in the western mediterranean that links with ships from the spanish colony [which has made 2 sacred band that are defending it from its first attack from spain] and greece, and one in italy). the julii are currently sending easily 5+ full stacks down to rome, and i think the brutii are still recoiling from me beating them out of greece and their own capital (i used lots of spies so that i could attack on the same turn and overwhelm the garrison without giving them time to reinforce, then i'd use spearmen or ideally phalanxes to plug the entry points into the city square). i have like 6 sacred band and 4 more phalanx units in rome and a full house of other troops i think including war elephants so i feel pretty fine about it lol. i don't remember which city it was that i took but it was epic, the generals used over a thousand men to wear down my phalanxes, and they used their bodyguards as a final push...and right as the last sacred band gave way, i sent the war elephants rushing in...they killed i forget if it was 4 or 5 roman generals in that exchange lol

[@CptEngage]

Imagine migrating as Parthia to Britain? Whoever does that - will be my personal hero

[@somebody2344]

57 likes and 0 dislikes and hello from Belarus

[@BlueMatona]

Hello from the United States!

[@decanusseverus8773]

Old video but congrats on 3k when it happens!

[@noscope7809]

:))) Man your are so welcome you deserve more!

[@yoseftrachtenberg4571]

Cool idea, I'll have to try this sometime :)

[@BlueMatona]

It's definitely a fun way to change up and maybe give a fresh, interesting campaign

[@daleprosser350]

Good idea, could make for a fun campaign. Imagine migrating from Asia to britannia lol

[@BlueMatona]

Ya I thought that would be the hardest move to make haha. Something absurd like Parthia to Britannia

[@daleprosser350]

BlueMatona I bet Numidia to anywhere decently far away would be quite hard, given how poor they are to begin with haha

[@Casketkrusher_]

My favorite way to play.

[@johnirby8847]

I remember migrating the Seleucids to Britain. The Romans had to face different chariots 😂

[@Michiganmayor420]

I did this a few times. I only ever used egyot and moved them to england. Maybe 3 times I think, back in rome 1

[@rosl.1048]

Great one! What campaign difficulty it is better to use for migration strategy? What about very hard, for example?

[@JoseGonzalez-lo3im]

I moved Armenia to the middle where the city states are on very hard both modes. I beat the campaign soon after

[@markosaric8376]

I did Cartage to Britain month ago

[@VonKrauzer]

Scythia to Sicily is very OP. Steppe horsemen in the middle between two great seafaring empires.

[@sheltoniousmaximus6117]

I'm thinking about taking the Scipii to Egypt....or maybe to the Seleucids. Dare I??

[@TheYomismosoyYo]

Egypt: Sea people, not again!

[@Jellyfish11996]

Seleucide empire to north east corner or Britannia should be pretty cool

[@BlueMatona]

Could be a good way to escape the craziness of an early game Seleucid campaign too

[@randommemesweekly4417]

i am going to literally move my empire

[@itsjustdewieman]

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO FIGHT THE DACIANS! me playing thrace: nah i dont really feel like it. Imma go to carthage. ciao

[@pcarnold9]

Gaul overland to the Black Sea

[@BlueMatona]

Probably about a 10 turn march depending on how far along the Black Sea you go

[@pcarnold9]

BlueMatona you have to sack/exterminate cities on the way to stay out of debt

[@theocyberskunk4815]

I suppose that would be the Galatian campaign

[@noahkinter2790]

Let’s take the empire, and PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE

[@BlueMatona]

Gotta get away from the worm lol

[@fatmanyevo6235]

I always recruit as many peasants as the population will allow and then disband them once I've settled.

[@BlueMatona]

Actually a good call

[@BlueMatona]

Just may not be worth the money especially in the early game

[@fatmanyevo6235]

@@BlueMatona in the past I've edited the game files making them recruit in 0 turns, costing 1 denarii per turn in upkeep. I made a vow to use the legit troops post migration so it's not cheating I swear xD

[@wowathena]

How to become a Vikings in Rome Total war xD lol Those brits went to egypt to find banderas to help them vs vendols hehe. insert 13th warrior theme song here ^^

[@ariacesstupidworld7729]

Hording before it was cool

[@Athanatoi]

This is how the Sea People collapsed the Bronze Age.

[@luisvieiracruz9676]

I took Germania's lads to the British isles and it was super fun. Basically I developed all those cities (and Tara) and raised an army of Berserkers. My goal was to live like a Viking (because of their appearance), so I sieged the coastal cities and then exterminated the population to get money. I used to raise the taxes and then let the city rebel or be captured, then I repeated the trick. Those raids were really funny because my army was freaking unbeatable.

[@BlueMatona]

That sounds dope haha

[@luisvieiracruz9676]

​@@BlueMatona You bet it is. According to Steam, I have almost 500 hours of RTW and it was one of the funniest campaigns I've ever played.

[@Flow86767]

Arguably, Egypt is the best place to migrate [Poor army quality, extremely rich and populous province so exterminating pop make lots of cash and the Pyramids which remove culture penalty from Egyptian culture].I had one of my best campaign migrating in Egypt as Greece. One other place is Rome. BUT, it is extremely dangerous because of the giant senate army stating next to Rome. If you can leave one peasant unit blocking the giant senate army, siege Rome than try and take it (most likely auto resolve, with your giant stack you’ll win surely.) Then the senate faction will cease to exist and the big senate army will become rebel (I tried it with Greece [Yes an other time] and it was really fun to conquer Italy.)

[@carl-os4603]

I've conquered Italy at the start as Carthage by collecting a lot of light troops, that've already been fought in Sicilia and North Africa (Iberians, Libians, Light and Skirmisher Cavalry, 2 Elephatns battalions, and Slingers with Skirmishers and all of them with 3-5 points of experience). I won one of the most interesting and hardest battles in my opinion - I destroyed 1 full stack of senate's army + their medium reinforcements including 4 bodyguard units, I lost 3/5 of my army but I won, btw samnite spearmen mercernaries aint that bad when flanking hastatis/triarii or meeting cavalry charge!

[@Flow86767]

CarL- os I’ve conquered Italy as Thrace, on normal difficulty (Any harder and it become an impossible task for me at least.)

[@carl-os4603]

@@Flow86767 ah I dont like to play on H/H or VH/VH, I always play H/N or VH/N (Hard or Very Hard campaign difficulty and Normal difficulty in battles because I dont like principe of "enemy peasant just better than yours"). I am playing as Macedon now, reuniting Alexander's Empire :D on VH/N.

[@xypxysru1976]

Я так же делал в Midieval 2 TW.

[@dubuyajay9964]

I'm lazy. I just want to to move my Capital to Sparta as the Brutii without tearing down my starting town and mix Legionnaires with Greek Phalanx mercs. :P

[@CelticSaint]

Is it possible to play this game on a Windows 10 machine? Most of the old games I had I recently threw away as none of them seemed to work.

[@BlueMatona]

I play on a 2014 Macbook, so I don't know the answer to that unfortunately. Anyone out there know?

[@041mikey]

yes it should work just fine, but if it doesnt there are many guides out there for minor fixes

[@puasami5722]

works fine for me. if you play through steam should be ok

[@TomatoFettuccini]

I disagree with not building anything in your beginning settlements. The first and probably only things you should be building are trade buildings: ports, traders, temples of trade, roads, and farms. Don't build anything else. This way, aside from the roads and farms, you can destroy the ports, temples, and traders (arguably the best structures to have anyway), not bleed cash, and arrive at your new country with more money. Then you can sell your or trade old settlements to your former neighbors (or other interested parties who would like a foothold in that area) for even more money or more settlements in or around your intended new home.

[@steffens260]

1k subs? Working up to 5k !!

[@BlueMatona]

I can't believe how much this channel has down haha. Never thought I'd even get to over 100 Thanks for being here!

[@lokkotez]

Sea people came back for round 2

[@johnirby8847]

I took Armenia to England! Now I want to take Greek cities to England!

[@BadAtRunescape]

big boi

[@ModernJagdpanther]

how to annex other region when the senate mandate it?

[@negan3417]

Money

[@insch.9547]

Imagine.. people of forest go to Desert..

[@greenacorn1151]

Irish (Brutii) Romans? :O

[@tommyortiz6623]

I mean I just use cheats move my characters and make all kinds of crazy ally wars it’s a lot more fun than standard game

[@ryanthan3595]

He who advocates extermintation...

[@johnirby8847]

Abandoning Armenia and sending everyone to Hallicarnassus makes Armenia OP.

[@aoivc3227]

Destroy their religious buildings and build your own and they'll settle down.

[@theyear750bc]

I don't see the point you get ample gold from controlling the British isles..

[@thesacredlobo]

I think the point is to change things up from the usual campaign where you usually face the same enemies over and over and over again due to their proximity to your starting location. The point of this strategy is to change things up a little. Though, I'll admit that I really don't see the appeal. After all, you can always test armies in quick battles against each other. And while the AI may be willing to ignore boats. The human player isn't under an obligation to do so. It's why I managed to beat the Scipii to Africa while playing as the Brutii.

[@josephzanes7334]

So you have o sacrifice your starter cities, which for Roman factions are pretty good, for anhandful of second or third rate settlements? That sounds incredibly stupid

[@niebieskikocur2490]

I remember how I played like that 🥲 a long time ago