Napoleon turn 1609

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[@anonnymousperson]

Napoleon is looking pretty good for being 103 years old in this battle.

[@faketheo3432]

103 years old, but still looking like 36

[@apolakigamingandmore6376]

💀

[@apolakigamingandmore6376]

I love your pfp, @anonnymousperson, LEGO!!!!

[@TheWebsOfCorruptionNeverFail]

Its 1872. That must be Napoleon the 3rd, getting his shit kicked in by the Italians instead of the Prussians.

[@warlordofbritannia]

So this campaign went until 1872…that’s past the Franco-Prussian War, the Second Empire, the Second Republic, the July Monarchy, the restored Bourbons, and the American Civil War. Gotta respect the determination

[@hobowithashotgun48]

So its really just Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon the 3rd rolled into one Mega-Napoleon. Napoleons, assemble!

[@keira8466]

The great Irish famine of 1846 to 1852 would have happened too 😮

[@Mago.-]

@@keira8466 Who gives a fuck bout irish?

[@Timmytiger18]

I feel like some of these disaster campaigns are just people end turning and sending them into Legend. Surely there cant be people who get this far gone in a campaign lol

[@faketheo3432]

Napoleon is 103 years old 💀

[@lewishand3531]

So if I remember correctly each turn in napoleon is equivalent to two weeks. So if this guy has been playing for 1609 turns that works out to 61 years! Damn Napoleon’s like 90 years old and still shooting folk. That’s dedication

[@TheVoodooMaker]

He is 103, he was born in 1769

[@lewishand3531]

@@TheVoodooMaker Well that just makes it all even more impressive!

[@drazarkabalblade9486]

I think at this point they are parading his balmed corpse and telling everyone that he is still alive and giving orders XD

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

​@@drazarkabalblade9486 They put Napoleon on the Golden Throne 🗿

[@tillbuschmann7222]

Napoleon really a generational level hater in this one

[@AB-bg7os]

Ah yes the napoleonic wars (1803-1872)

[@user-jq1mg2mz7o]

well IRL 1871 **is** when the Second empire fell...

[@yari4046]

napoleon: "this is a dire situation indeed, i guess the only choice left is to request help from my most valuable general" legendoftw: "got you fam"

[@pallandoromestamo8861]

If only Legend had been born before Waterloo...

[@Jesse-xg8rk]

Davout who?? Legend is all you need (as long as your battle operates on Total War mechanics)

[@Shadow.24772]

@@pallandoromestamo8861 why? so he would be a common soldier in a Australian inf. regiment? he would still be on the enemy side of Napoleon and rejoice when Waterloo happens xD

[@lg1studios945]

theres something we can do

[@Rynewulf]

⁠@@Shadow.24772had Britain even colonised Australia by then? And regardless he would have been kept out of command by being born a commoner

[@voltgar7895]

"That was fun, kind of, but the bugs were really annoying." Napoleon and Empire TW summed up in one sentence.

[@user-up5zl5es2e]

what bugs ive never had bugs in napoleon and empire

[@bradycollins]

I've played both for 900+ hours and never encountered a bug...

[@colonelarmfeldt8572]

Empire was buggy on launch, but Napoleon was always good, mostly for battles over campaign of course.

[@Glory264]

@@user-up5zl5es2e Line inf is buggy with their regrouping after every losses, cav is dumb and in empire shock cav is useless, ships in empire are cluncky as hell. There are more.

[@user-up5zl5es2e]

play modded@@Glory264

[@pacocheung1864]

This man was playing for the 30 minutes of Hel achievement but loaded up the wrong game, and fought until the 30th coalition

[@gustafmannerheim9720]

As Napoleon, I can confirm that using enemies' dead corpses to block the way of thier reinforcement so they bug out is a genuine tactic back in the days.

[@pallandoromestamo8861]

As well as the classic Italian superdense line for maximum firepower

[@diazinth]

@@pallandoromestamo8861 it was called whatever bulletsponge is in italian

[@jordinagel1184]

@@diazinthspugna da proiettile…?

[@tastycookie94]

I can't believe Napoleon himself is asking Legend for help.

[@jodofe4879]

With 1609 turns having passed, he is well over 100 years old here. It is a miracle he can still ride a horse. Can't fault him for requiring a little bit of help with managing his affairs every now and then at his age.

[@chitzkoi]

Surely this is a setup or a meme run - there's a thing i've seen and done where you basically conquer the map and then reduce public order til all the factions re-emerge - I feel like this guy made a fortress france intentionally

[@bavarianpotato]

Still, the dedication - even if you have a map completion campaign and then just keep skipping 1500 more turns, that'll take ages

[@chitzkoi]

@@bavarianpotato it looks like a lot of that was passive time given the income that built up. I wonder if he used a script and just left it running overnight when the map was just him (no turn time resolution)

[@nemlas85]

​@@chitzkoithis was probably the case. then he just sent in the last turn before total defeat.

[@Tr33ba1t]

this battle really makes you FEEL like a Napoleon

[@hrotha]

Like Napoleon III specifically

[@dalmacietis]

Yeah, he probably did like cheese...

[@doctorbeardy]

The way to unlock the formation in Napoleon would be to put them in a control group and then use the formation button to put them in a line formation. This way, the units can be dragged out over a larger or smaller area, just like in the newer titles, while using control groups.

[@redcrown5154]

based pfp

[@MrRadik94]

I think Alt + 2 works best for infantry/artillery and Alt + 4 for cavalry

[@imakedamoney420smokeweed]

You probably like kids

[@mikehawk6918]

@@MrRadik94 It's actually alt + f4 by default.

[@kargalith7026]

How in the holy fuck has someone played 1,609 turns of a total war campaign. How many hours has gone in to this? How has it not been beaten by this point? I have so many other questions.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

i know right

[@Mago.-]

I mean.... i got over 10k hs of csgo, and over 6k hs of league plus campaigns of rome 2 that went well over 300ad.... Dont really know how many turns that would be tho

[@HenriqueRJchiki]

Probably sit around for ages just building stuff trying to roleplay "empire building" 😂😂😂 lots of people tend to fall into this trap

[@drake1896]

@@Mago.- 300AD??? jesus thats 2000 turns or something

[@Mago.-]

@@drake1896 yup, i role played the shit out of rome 2, tho it was with a greensteam rome 2, sadly those saves wont work anymore now that i got it on steam for real

[@nokedlih9141]

We should be starting to call these videos "Legend goes on a tour trough history"

[@josyhavik]

a tour of duty

[@KazeKoichi]

Legend solving mystery and rewriting history.

[@jmmh2472]

Fun fact: 1600 minutes is the equivalent of 26'67 hours. And I highly doubt he has spent only a minute per turn.

[@jackcanox4015]

Jesu christ.

[@ZZuluZ]

That’s insane ..

[@Dexusaz]

Wtf... this guys has been playing this failure of a campaign for hundreds of hours...

[@volatile100]

​@@Dexusazwhat? No. Its 26.6 hours (repeating) or just over a day. Hes provably been on this save for a full 2 days, countingbtikenit takes to do stuff in each turn.

[@Dexusaz]

@@volatile100 You're forgetting all the battles he played and settlement / army management.....

[@KALLAX-]

55:37 the men are running because they ran through a minefield (not get shot by your cannons), which can be placed at the start of a battle. It's visible as a red cone-shaped area as in 37:43 in front of the cav unit. Just writing this because in one of your lets plays you seemingly didn't know this and i feel it's the same here

[@BittermanAndy]

I did not know or notice this!

[@KALLAX-]

Though the trigger seems a little bit buggy because in 57:05 (watch a little bit earlier to see the movement command) he must have run through a minefield again, but this time it didn't go off.. so yeah But the explosion is kinda beautiful

[@Rynewulf]

@@KALLAX-it could be the misfire mechanic, Empire and Napoleon simulated just about everything having a chance to not work.

[@TheVoodooMaker]

21:50 yes you are absolutely right, it wasn't Louen at that moment but Louen DOES appear in Napoleon, he is in fact Napoleon. He also appears in Med 2 as the French general

[@TheNetherlandDwarf]

The boyars are also voiced by someone from medieval 2. I think the Italian merchants?

[@TheVoodooMaker]

@@TheNetherlandDwarf omg now I har it too

[@roostangarar]

@@TheVoodooMaker The Roman units in Rome II are voiced by the same guy who does Franz in Warhammer

[@TheVoodooMaker]

@@roostangarar yup knew that

[@abandonator]

1600 turns, this campaign is the Real deal " No, I can fix this" sigma mentality.

[@milkbaologist5610]

Judging from the length, I thought legend may have made a full “therapy” for the campaign, it turns out to be only one typical napoleon tw battle

[@jasondoherty7497]

I feel like after turn 100 if it hasn’t turned around just start a new one honestly

[@Steelwall44]

Mama ain't raised no quitter

[@joshbignell8891]

Never back down never what?

[@DB-ku7vu]

That is why no one will remember your name

[@Pikilloification]

100? If after 20 turns your campaign isn't goin well, you're doing it wrong

[@michaelweber87]

never surrender dude - don’t let that AI win. Love the commitment from the player

[@TheEagle171]

“Oh man, maybe Legend will enjoy this battle so much he plays more Napoleon!” The bugs: Hold my beer

[@topy706]

1600 turns is quite insane. I had a empire campaign in warhammer that went on for like 400 rounds and that was like a eternity for me. I got wiped from the old world and barely held on with a colony in the new world and slowly built back my strength. It was quite fun

[@zill_e9038]

we need a Livestream to fix this Campaign. Would be really interesting to see Legend recovering this.

[@Wolflkin]

You wouldn't wish that kind of campaign on your worst enemies XD

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

This man took "Never give up" a bit too well

[@stalhandske9649]

Say what you will of Napoleon TW, That artillery exchange around 46:00-50:00 gives a real good showcase of how horrendous it must have been to weather an artillery barrage of the era - amplified by the fact that major battles could involve hundreds of pieces on both sides. Tough going marching through that.

[@pallandoromestamo8861]

As well as the infantry encounter: marching through enemy volleys taking great casualties, only to eventually face each other in a massive bayonet charge. Even despite all these bugs, this shows how realistic Napoleon and Empire were

[@winndypops]

Italians! The Italians are the threat!? The year 1872, that is crazy. I was really hoping for some Napoleon/Empire disasters but this one was unexpected.

[@hawke1502]

Loving seeing all the older total wars getting some time on the channel. Keep up the great work Legend

[@bunch1]

I admit, I do like the slower pace of empire and napoleon. It feels like their is more time to think then just react.

[@yemannwaiphyo8817]

Turn 1609?????? Truly a Total War Player. I take off my Tricorne and Press "F" for him.

[@VitorEmanuelOliver]

If each year takes 24 turns, that means 67 years have passed. Napoleon is probably more than 107 years old

[@Shepherd492]

Playing til turn 1609, having one province left, and being surrounded by Italians is truly sicko mode. I am in awe of whoever shared this with Legend!

[@nonesuch6833]

In 1872, Napoleon faces his most devilish opponent yet: invincible cannons.

[@Hashashin_97]

nice to see you back on Napoleon/Empire Legend!! yesterday's BI stream was awesome!!

[@friedipar]

Seeing Legend play a Napoleon disaster battle, what a time to be alive!

[@dragoshhh8138]

We need morea empire or napoleon videos. Great video!

[@ctg4818]

99% of the time in these era of games you can just draw a straight line of infantry with howitzers behind it and always win.

[@mrpancakes17]

Love the historical vids legend. Keep ‘em coming!!!!

[@HansWurst1569]

Legend you are killing it with the conent lately!!! Love it man!

[@scholaepalatinae4988]

I really like how artillery works in this game, second to Shogun2. Just a few weeks ago I played Napoleon as Prussia and lost one of my best generals due to the bouncing lol.

[@nemlas85]

this game is actually the best I felt roleplaying napoleon. artillery angles are super important, and if you meticulously plan the shooting trajectory of each battery, just like the real napoleon, then you can get awesome results. I like the history of the napoleonic wars, and this is one of my favorite TW games.

[@The_Seeker]

Napoleon has my favorite battles of any total war game I think. I just like the slow and methodical pacing.

[@campermortey]

Man I've been waiting for Napoleon content. Thanks Legend

[@nisibonum7634]

I am beyond happy to see legend playing so many of the total war games again!

[@fr4ct1v09]

My favourite total war game. I think it was not only a disaster battle, but a disaster campaign. Would love to see continuation. Unfortunately limitations of that old engine are noticeable. I never encountered those bug where enemy is stuck on the edge of map, only some crushes or sound glitches. As far as battle goes, I thought it would be better to replace cavalry with infantry while stopping reinforcements, but it turned out well when they came from the opposite directions. And killing enymy with artillery before they enter, it was just magnificent.

[@GabeOutOfOffice]

That was certainly a very Napoleonesc battle, using speed to cut off reinforcements and out maneuver the enemy

[@carlherron3110]

Napoleon TW is my guilty pleasure. I honestly never thought you'd cover this game ❤

[@dakinoytc986]

Thanks for this video, i have learned a lot :)

[@austinv7821]

It was great to see Napoleon: Total War! I put over 2,000 hours into this game and love it to pieces still. Not going to lie though… watching him play hurt my soul a little bit because there are so many little things where I was yelling “square! Use square!” Or “tell the art to shoot their artillery!” Haha great video! P.S. if you have not discovered it yet, the AI is really bad. The only time you face forces greater than 20 is when two nations enter a fight against you. For example France vs Great Britain/Prussia.

[@044-ThienangNguyen]

Fr though, how does a person play this game for 2000 hours ? I have played this game for near 400 hours and i feel like i am running out of things to do. Admittedly i don't do multiplayer because of how rarely i can get actually get into match at all, rarer even if i don't get bugs trying to do so. Do you do mods or a lot of multiplayer?

[@Cynane27]

Loving coming from work and watching Legend play these older games

[@buzter8135]

19:54 I remember doing this during a particularly tense battle as Prussia but with infantry, finding the spawn point, making a curve formation aand decimating evry unit that passes through, I've cclutched some supposedly impossible engagements with it.

[@nozero1]

I spent 55 minutes waiting for him to send the cav into the mine field, and I didn't even get to see it blow.

[@besucherritze8432]

Surprisingly entertaining to watch napoleon, id appreaciate more of it

[@ghregoryk4830]

There is nothing we can do

[@stachwel5547]

16:20 battalion of militia madly charging straight into the horde of cavalry is easily the funniest shit i've seen in this game

[@MRRJ6549]

Every single upload you've done lately is an instant click

[@JaytheEternal]

Happy to see some Napoleon content

[@boogierooster6364]

There's that sweet sweet Empire/Napoleon reinforcement jankiness I've been missing! Once killed Napoleon himself and 3 full stacks of French by killboxing a reinforcement points with canister shot artillery and line infantry. The AI is also notoriously brain dead in these two games. Line infantry warfare does not really translate very well into TW unless all you want to do is march in a straight line without manouvering. Still, I have a soft spot for these games. Watching cavalry draw sabers and charge home is amazing. In a weird way these games have my favorite cavalry gameplay. Super easy to get them killed, but it is also possible to get amazing results with them.

[@bartoszyskoh]

Love ur vids

[@Jeredriq]

Cant keep up with your great content man! It was good to change games from WH3

[@FrancescodePazzi94]

1:10:58 some serious Shell shock going on there, poor italian. Legendftotalwar u monster

[@KingofGeo]

Officer: "Napoleon What will we do" Napoleon "There Is Nothing We Can Do" Legend "I got you bro, have you ever heard of cheese"

[@aaronholland4107]

Fromage.

[@JoshuaLikesGrahamCrackers]

this is what age of war looks like in total war

[@SoraTheHappyEmo]

I wish I had half the patience some others do. I just hit a snag in a campaign and when it all went wrong I was like, "nope!" and just restarted like 160 turns in. This is insane!

[@jay212127]

This made me want to replay Napoleon, and then glad i didn't re-download it all in the same video

[@ascendant1218]

I wouldn't mind seeing a Napoleon stream sometime

[@manmallard]

Is there a reason you'd charge with all the cav every time, and not swap half and half so they're all ways at lowest fatigue?

[@melo7038]

1602 of napoleon. Taking nolife to a whole new level

[@Aurexo2]

This is the first time I've see something like this, even after so many hours playing Napoleon total war XD

[@jacobemrich1735]

Fitting that I get an ad for the new Ridley Scott movie

[@smokerise7957]

Would love to see you do full scale saving your disaster campaigns

[@SuperAerie]

Turn 1609! On vanilla too. Cant even imagine playing without some excellent overhaul-mods. Impressed

[@TacoTomtheBomb]

I have never watched a full fledged hour long pike and shot battle--it was strangely satisfying.

[@2D_SVD]

man I know It's weird but I love empire total war. This battle is basically peak empire: infinite artillery duels, reinforcement camping shenanigans, a giant blob of infantry, friendly fire removing half a unit on accident and, of course, AI plowing a field with cannonballs for an hour straight. Makes we wanna play that mess again lol

[@alexandercher2708]

Legend delivering the bug fix in a form of a canon and a lot of buckshot.

[@aurelian887]

Dude, I NEED to know more about this guy’s campaign, I didn’t even know it was even possible to get where he is

[@pisuoxide]

5:48 Units started to hide a milisecond before you ordered them to move

[@Saphintosh]

"There is nothing we can do" vs "i didn't hear no bell"

[@CALIMA2000]

Napoleon could win at Waterloo if LegendofTotalWar is his advisor 😂

[@attila2246]

Just keep your cavalry camping the edge of the map for when the Prussian reinforcements arrive. So simple! That Napoleon fellow was such a dummy.

[@peplzwachr]

Damn i haven't played this in eons. Great seeing it on your channel!

[@riolkin]

Finally, a Napoleon disaster. I can't imagine playing this game that late into the campaign. NTW was fun but the NTW3 mod made this game special for me

[@fr4ct1v09]

I'm curious what happend in this campaign. Just look at the minimap at 1:11:35 Whole Europe is disjointed. A lot of nations are independent, something bad happened to the British, Germany is still divided, but Italy got unified. I guess the player did that on purpose or he tried to do the challenge with declaring war on everyone, but it didn't go well and the Spring of Nations happened in 1848 xD

[@BB-fc4dn]

First video on my recommended list today was Legend's napoleon campaign video 6 years ago. KZbin knows what's up.

[@DieGoetterdaemmerung]

The wildest thing about this is not it being on turn 1609 but that its not modded, holy shit raw Napoleon gameplay.

[@commodusleitdorf2726]

I always did enjoy Napoleon and Empire, but the AIs inability to see or understand elevation meant you could always trick their artillery to fire ineffectively into hills nullifying it and making the game pretty easy.

[@rcco4556]

fyi you can just clump your units together at the point (at the red line) the enemy reinforcements arrive, which allows your units to wear down the enemy as effectively as when they're routing before they're even usable on the field

[@Marcusmanca]

im really liking this historical disaster battles legend please some attila next ?

[@zikarisg9025]

That was fantastic, man I missed those Napoleon battles (but man I forgot how ugly those unity cards were)!

[@rogofos]

finally a return of the good old artificial disasters this person clearly set this up on purpose legend had a lot of those back in Warhammer 2 days

[@Agentcoolguy1]

Legend getting us hyped for Ridlet Scott's Napoleon film, I see 😂

[@Dwq579]

Like the variety👍

[@SGTvolcan]

I imagine Legend's reaction to seeing this for the first time. Would be Ghosts stare from the car meme.

[@toyos6969]

Would u consider making quick guides on older TW regarding how to play around the AI or how the functions of the game differ from newer games? Its been a bazillion years since we played those games and lot of ppl just didnt have the chance or the courage to get into untill nowadays and since u are revisiting a lot of this games yourself would love to see a disaster naval battle on this one or empire hope someone sends u one!

[@overlord6887]

Ngl, I would love to see you play the rest of this campaign to see if you can win it.

[@leh2012]

Holy Mother of God! In all my years of playing Napoleon I haven't seen such a cursed situation and such unnerving amount of reinforcement blues! I've been laughing and crying at the same time! Damn, I feel like I wold like to watch this campaign to be saved! It's so cursed lmao!

[@mulan-jinglesemusicas1513]

Spiritual sucessor of the Turn 1677 Denmark disaster

[@acheron16]

Artillery in this game feels sooo good. Only game I ever saw cannon shots ricochet off the ground.

[@teytreet7358]

You probably didn't need to send every cavalry units into each charge. Split 1/2 to rest while 1/2 attack and cycle probably would let them rest better.

[@mariaconcettacolombo8486]

Exactly, and also he should've always kept one unit ready to charge every new enemy unit standing near it so that the enemies wouldn't be able to shoot first. He made so many mistakes here, it's quite strange.

[@ZazeH]

Probably the most painful disaster battle i have ever watched xD

[@Skippylegrandgourou1]

Simply the best TW there is and ever will be

[@FerdiadTheRabbit]

Can't believe no one is talking about how funny this battle is. I was pissing myself at the zombi marching reinforcements

[@leonst.7471]

Wow now thats the true Napoleon returns from Elba vibe

[@DarkIlidan04]

Empire has such cool ideas. The artillery and gunpowder units. Really needs a new game with updated mechanics.

[@donpollo3154]

This is Napoleon (basically the same game) but yes I agree

[@DarkIlidan04]

@@donpollo3154 I meant empire/napoleon

[@eos6908]

Awesome new video to fall asleep to