TOP 15 UNIQUE UNITS Pt.3/3 - Total War: Shogun 2!

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Welcome to my Top 15 Unique Units on Total War: Shogun 2! In this video I go over my personal top 15 unique units in Shogun 2.
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Total War: Shogun 2 Gameplay Information:
In the darkest age of Japan, endless war leaves a country divided. It is the middle of the 16th Century in Feudal Japan. The country, once ruled by a unified government, is now split into many warring clans. Ten legendary warlords strive for supremacy as conspiracies and conflicts wither the empire. Only one will rise above all to win the heart of a nation as the new shogun...The others will die by his sword.
Take on the role of one Daimyo, the clan leader, and use military engagements, economics and diplomacy to achieve the ultimate goal: re-unite Japan under his supreme command and become the new Shogun - the undisputed ruler of a pacified nation.
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Total War: Shogun 2 Features:
Total War: SHOGUN 2 features enhanced full 3D battles via land and sea, which made a name for the series, as well as the tactical campaign map that many refer to as the heart and soul of Total War. Featuring a brand new AI system inspired by the scriptures that influenced Japanese warfare, the millennia old Chinese “Art of War”, the Creative Assembly brings the wisdom of Master Sun Tsu to Total War: SHOGUN 2. Analysing this ancient text enabled the Creative Assembly to implement easy to understand yet deep strategical gameplay.
CONQUER the islands of Japan in the 16th century. Lead vast armies of samurai and fleets of giant warships into breathtaking real-time battles.
BUILD your kingdom on the inviting and turn-based campaign map. Wield economic, political, and military power to amass wealth, armies, and influence.
SCHEME according to the "Art of War" by Sun Tzu. Use fire and siege tactics, spies and assassins to adapt to the ever-changing conditions on the battlefield and throughout your kingdom.
BATTLE ONLINE and experience the main campaign in two-player mode. Then join epic online battles with up to 8 players and lead your online army to glory in special campaigns.
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Total War: Shogun 2 is developed by Creative Assembly.

[@randomdude2724]

Lol, "THAT WAS MY DAIMYO!!!!"

[@JustWatchingVideo56]

0:30 Poor dude got betrayed by one of his friends... then proceeded to launch his horse across the battlefield. Not as bad as the betrayal on their Daimyo though.

[@jaydaboy8471]

"got some punk ass nodachi " lol

[@isaiahalbright7072]

Yari Long = Yari + Long

[@midnightproductions3442]

I Albright (im a year late but yeah, its an accurate name. they have long, long spears

[@Kastrenzo74]

I remember playing Takeda just because I liked the color scheme and the mon... and I always suck with cavalry use in TW games... so when I did use Cavalry, they were miles better than my opponent, I loved the Fire Cavalry

[@colmoe]

I love your #1 choice! Yeah, Oda is op

[@SwordMadnessvhs]

Oda is too much OP ... ;d On very hard difficulty I've conquered entire Japan in less than 100 turns, just recruit cheap Ashigaru till you win, to boring for me ;d

[@The_Murder_Party]

LordOfTheGems it helps that you’re forced to do so because you’re beset on all sides by shit tonnes of enemies, so you never run out of opponents, and you’d better get good at sieges, because that’s the pattern you’re about to get in.

[@anonyme4881]

Thats insane how when I play Oda I keep being ennemy with the whole kingdom with realm divide because everyone hate you but I'm still kicking everyone ass while having some money to spare because Ashigaru is soooo cheap and sooo fast at recruting that you just flood them and win. Kyoto can give you a full stack army in 4 turns for 800 gold per turn....

[@thelonewolf9866]

Did a match with 4 long yari and 1 general and put the general of horse and activated stand and fight. I then put the long yari in a square formation around the bodyguards and put them into yari wall. Had an full army of katana cav to fight me. I won and barely lost any troops

[@pypy1986820]

So sad. I normally finish domination campaign or had the campaign solidly in the bag by the time Heavy Gunner hit the field. By then, they are just over kills. I did abuse the hell out of them back in the days when I play Avatar Conquest mode tho.

[@MrSmartDonkeyLP]

I know exactly what you mean. It's the main reason I have put most of the units that require the Gunsmith low on the list, personally I never get to recruit them because I finish the campaign far before I could get a Gunsmith, so they hold very little value to me, but I think the Shimazu Heavy Gunners are strong enough to be this high on the list even if I don't get to use them very often.

[@chrisleong5190]

Although there is a lot of reasons to believe only yari ashigaru gets the yari wall, I think there might also be historical reasons. (These are only speculations): In reality most of the armies are formed by ashigarus as they are easy to obtain and cheap. I mean, most of the soldiers are just recruited from the common men, you can't really expect a clan to be able to recruit a full army of equal numbers with highly trained and armoured samurais. To form a spearwall you need to be trained with others in formation, and it is probably much easier to do that with mass recruited ashigaru than samurais that most likely volunteered to join across many different places, already with their own style of fighting and also comes in unpredictable numbers and timing. Also, I think samurais comparatively used shorter polearms probably for better agility for their fighting skills, as they are mainly for fighting 1v1 than in formation. It is a little frustrating that there's almost no point in investing high tier units when the yari ashigaru already beats almost everything, but then again there's a reason why it was the main force of armies in real life, and there's nothing stopping you from recruiting a unit or two elite samurais for charging at their backs. But it just feels bad when you upgraded a military city just to field like 2 units of unique elite.

[@anonyme4881]

IA in total war battle is bad. Shogun 2 makes up for it with balanced mecanics like the diplomacy system so you cant steamroll the game like in Rome 1 or Medieval 2 Exept if yoy are playing Oda because theur peasant that are the best unit of the game are all going to gym

[@joshuabrant3487]

@Seanus Patricus The ai is bad and does not know how to play. It does not take in depth knowledge to beat it just some common sense that if you are in a tight formation u will get hit more by arrows. I have beat legendary 3 times without checking units tats even one time and just recruiting whatever I think is cool.

[@AnthroTsuneon]

About the number 1 spot, only downside is enemy archers.. For which you bring more archers, yourself~!

[@janbazuine6636]

Long yari Ashigaru can get 8 armour

[@emilmhle8346]

You should make a LP of nobunaga's ambition bro

[@guieguima]

Discovered your channel recently and I am already a fan! One thing though, you keep saying terços as in "portuguese terços" wrong. You are saying it "terco" well in reality it should sound like "terso" (basically the same but with the ssss sound). Still, awesome videos man! Edit: unless the word terco actually exists in english, but i never heard of it

[@datuputi777]

Takeda clan armies could completely field cavalry because sword cavalry despite all the negativity is still a sword samurai and can be fielded like infantry by simply dismounting them. There are so many strategy you can employ once you start seeing sword cavalry this way. Also logistically a pure cavalry army moves faster than infantry army :) that in mind sword cavalry can give chase/kill units that ran away from one of your battles that your yari/light cavalry could chase but should not because they are spear/naginata units. To some end being sword units when dismounted makes sword cavalry trump spear units and this is more evident if they had sustained casualties already. If I could remember the takeda cavalry bonus applies even when dismounted making their sword cavalry exemplary sword samurais but then this could have been fixed since I played way back then.

[@quentinthomason2287]

You're right. Yari Samurai and Katana Cavalry are sorely underrated.

[@giorgiociaravolol1998]

The long yari units seems like the macedonians pezeteri of rome 2

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

F for Otomo Yoshiaki.

[@DaSaintDemon]

Who would win? Top quiality Samurais and cavalry? Or Long pointy stick bois?

[@MrSmartDonkeyLP]

I think we all know... :D

[@SOLINVCTVS]

Who would dislike this...? I love your videos MrSmartDonkeyLP. Keep up the good work!

[@MalakianM2S]

Total Wall: Ashigaru 2.

[@haldir108]

Do you REALLY want to build a +charge building for your cav, when you could be giving them +armor instead? As soon as you face any kind of resistance, meaning archers shooting at you, or fighting in melee for even a second, armor becomes a big, and versatile boon, that gets applied on every attack against you, instead of being applied once, like charge does. Especially when looking at the big picture, where more men surviving means more XP, armor always seems to be the better choice, for every unit, with the exception of artillery and MAYBE bow monks.

[@MrSmartDonkeyLP]

I disagree. If you use your cavalry right they don't tend to get shot at much or get stuck in melee except against archers. You get extra charge bonus so you can keep charging between different units. Charge an archer unit and it'll most likely break on the charge alone, then charge infantry in the back killing dozens, likely routing it too, charge another archer, etc etc. AI archers tend to focus on your melee infantry and don't really care about your cavalry.

[@quentinthomason2287]

That's what I do as well. A cavalry charge was the most devastating weapon on the battlefield in this time period before matchlock guns. Cavalry are already fast and have good charge, why not increase their aggregate defence to survive better? There are other ways to boost charge bonus too like Cavalry Commander skill and research. I find AI missile units will actually shoot at whatever is closest. It's especially profound in siege defence battles when you use your cavalry to attack missile units or vulnerable cavalry and katana samurai. Well anyway with 1200 hours on the game I still learn new things, but that's my viewpoint on this matter.

[@jamesludlow2080]

@@quentinthomason2287 You should play to the strengths of the unit, not weaknesses. Frontline infantry are used to hold the line, therefore require extra armour. Seeing as the melee could go on for quite a long time, this means that you get more benefit from the armour as it reduces the total amount of damage more the longer the melee lasts. Cavalry are designed to swoop in, cause as much damage as possible in a short period of time, then pull out and rinse + repeat. As they're not in the thick on melee for long, the armour only has a more limited use as the total damage recieved will be limited to the shorter period in combat. Meanwhile the increased charge bonus will last the full 10s that it is useful for, vastly increasing the damage inflicted before pulling out. Also, bare in mind that with any melee unit the damage output is not reduced by losing a few men - as only the first (sometimes few) rank(s) generally gets to deal the damage, the rear ranks won't do particularly much therefore losing men from those ranks is not of much concern. You shouldn't be losing many men from a cavarly unit due to range as you should take them wide enough to not get hit before closing in as the infantry engage if used properly in a combined arms approach. Therefore armour has even less use.

[@hui-an-xin]

So there are obviously mods out there that give yari samurai the ability to go into wall formation. If one were using those mods, would you recommend fielding large yari samurai armies? Or would you still consider naginata samurai?

[@MrSmartDonkeyLP]

It's hard to say because I don't know how strong 160 Yari Samurai in Yari Wall would be compared to 200 Yari Ashigaru, the unit size is pretty important when it comes to Yari Wall. I imagine they would be a lot better, but I can't know for sure.

[@hui-an-xin]

Alright that's one thing I haven't thought about, thanks for replying.

[@archaontheeverchosen8202]

MrSmartDonkeyLP if u are looking for yari smaurai in yari wall u should download the mod oda yari samurai the yari samurai can kill katana and have 180 men

[@shinramenenjoyer]

+Hui An Xin I found a mod that makes yari samurai having long yari like the oda yari and they have 190 men

[@archaontheeverchosen8202]

***** i think i seen it before but could not remember the name

[@MasonicadaM]

the black ship?

[@neymarmessironaldo5881]

It needs repairs too often because of autoresolve

[@Mo-ir3qz]

@@neymarmessironaldo5881 also its hard to obtain (unless you have a powerful navy that can take on)

[@josemanueljimenezespejo4847]

Hello, I cant recruit Oda Long Yari Ashigaru in the campaing, any help?

[@MrSmartDonkeyLP]

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[@madizm8204]

hey happy new year :)

[@WuW0w0-m8m]

Double yari? The ai tend to recruit at least 4 bow units and they have bow samurai fetish. That is why we don’t use ashigaru whole game

[@mihawkhawkeyes4179]

most fun unit is no dachi imo. BANZAI!!!!

[@JN-ug5ky]

Well uhhh .... happy new year i guess :)

[@eligarcia4981]

Loved these top 5! Could you do some about warhammer?

[@milita6391]

It's pronuciated "tersu" not Terco

[@erikrosalen1819]

He keeps saying TerKos when it's pronounced as "terSios" (it's written as Tercios in spanish, tercos in portuguese)

[@imnotverycreative5219]

Top 5 best clans?

[@VHyuro]

oda will be on the 1st :P

[@ElDeano09]

Dude, i've been playing shogun 2 solo for ages. Every one of your videos makes me feel like a noob, but it improves my gameplay to no end. Love your work mate.