One thing i find creppy About Rome Total War

[@DomWeasel]

Typically after large battles they burned the dead because the troops were too exhausted to bury them. Often enough, the enemy dead were left to rot because it was too much effort to take care of them when seeing to their own was exhausting enough. After the Battle of Borodino, there were some 50,000 dead on the field. When the French retreated from Moscow months later, they had to pass through the battlefield where the Russian dead and the corpses of thousands of horses were rotting. And where the carrion birds and animals had feasted... The British had a similar experience that year retreating past the site of their victory at Salamanca where French skulls were described as being strewn about so that every so often there would be a horrible, hollow crack as a man's foot or horse's hoof crushed them. Waterloo was worse in some ways because the battle took place in a well-populated area. As the Prussians pursued the beaten French, Wellington's troops were left on the battlefield and they tried to rescue their wounded before the locals arrived because the Belgians came to scavenge and happily murdered wounded men for trinkets. The poor from Brussels arrived during the day after the battle and that night a second battle was fought as Wellington's men tried to protect the wounded from these human vultures. A Frenchman might have survived the battle with a musketball in his leg only to have his throat cut by a Belgian woman who wanted his boots...

[@DatRiceGamer]

@@DomWeasel I know just find it creppy haha 😆

[@emrecanarduc4378]

now imagine this but WW1 , where you can definitely hear some of the wounded soldiers crying for help but cant help them then they decompose in no mans land for 4 years.

[@DatRiceGamer]

True

[@svon1]

at least they had the luxury of pulling a trigger... back in the good old days they were basically forced to cosplay as Jason for every dude :D

[@DatRiceGamer]

In bf1 they show the real of war and GTA 4 also teach us too

[@DatRiceGamer]

They died for nothing in this no man land. waking up in a pile of bodies screaming for help around just to see no one there it's just creep me out for some reason

[@Thouse_Muchachos]

Rome Total War and Medieval 2 Total War were something else that i believe it did better than any other Total War game that is the feeling of a Total War, the ambiance In this particular case you won the battle but at what cost? Was it worthy? The bodies staying in the field is an awesome feature , always love to see the aftermath of the battle and see where the bloddiest part of the battle was

[@DatRiceGamer]

@@Thouse_Muchachos this is soo true

[@DatRiceGamer]

I just love older total war it's just awesome but after that I might try out empire or Rome 2

[@DomWeasel]

Empire was for some reason less graphically impressive than Medieval 2 but I always enjoyed how you could see how a battle was fought by the spread of the dead. You'd have heaps of bodies where formations had walked into range and then been cut down by musket volleys. Of course, Rome Total War has corpses floating downriver during battles. When enemy units tried to swim across rivers in Barbarian Invasion, it was entirely possible for them to be too exhausted to make it back across when they broke and ran, and whole units would drown and hundreds of bodies would be in the water. Defeating hordes of Huns or Vandals this way always felt suitably epic.

[@DatRiceGamer]

@@DomWeasel I agreed 👍

[@Hawbitten]

Music seems so happy compared to all the hundreds dead

[@DatRiceGamer]

Thanks for watching this video guys hope you enjoy da video :D 😁

[@AdelhardtDreguth]

I like the later mechanis were some soldiers would linger on the ground,crawling or begging the gods for mercy,or just writhing in agony.Gives some immersion to how war feels

[@DatRiceGamer]

@@AdelhardtDreguth just like WW1 many soldier screaming for help in no man lands laying in a pile of dead bodies got injured in the leg couldn't move you can imagine that

[@DatRiceGamer]

@@AdelhardtDreguth wouldn't be great if there an upcoming total war games thats all about WW1 or ww2 like company of heroes but with its own mechanic

[@AdelhardtDreguth]

@@DatRiceGamer My friend you ask for silver when they wouldn't give us bronze.Let them first make Medieval 3,then we shall se what the future has in store

[@DatRiceGamer]

@@AdelhardtDreguth yeah agreed 👍

[@Lawnmower1068]

This inspired me to try and write something: There was blood on my hands. On my sword. On my Pilum. The other i saw stuck to a shield some fifty paces ahead. The man who had held it was fast, i recall. The grass, trampled, was slick with blood and viscera. I stepped over a fallen punic standard. The crescent moon was blue on the white field, yet the field was white no more... Specks of blood and a mud stain dirtied it. The hands of the bearer still clung to it. I ripped it out of his stiff fingers. His eyes, glassy already, looked at the sky in... Peace? Yes. Peace. I saw the reflection in his drying iris: a black shape overhead. Ravens, crows. Scavengers watched. It reminded me of home to see the wolf watching from the wood line. I looked down. The dead man staring at me, through me. It reminded me of myself. The Sun began to set against the tops of the pines. As I dug, I pondered the sense of it all... A war fought in Iberia, over the sea and so far away, months away, from home, against a foe I had nothing to hate. Eight hundred made up my cohort before this battle. Now? Now eighty would be too many to be counted among the living! Was it worth it? The deaths? The pain? The chase the cavalrymen who returned had conducted? Perhaps not. There were a hundred horses on the field. I saw one lean down, trying to wake its master near the top of the hill... Only three still had their masters. We finished the graves as night set. We piled the corpses of the Carthaginians into the large one. I lost my count after the nineteenth body. The Romans we threw into individual graves. For once i wished the afterlife was simpler for warriors. Yet... I saw the ravens descend on the graves. Mars was eager to stake his claim, i guessed... My hands were still stained red. The red of Rome. The red of war.

[@DatRiceGamer]

@@Lawnmower1068 That's Beautiful ❤️