Rome Total War - Alexander || Speedrun ||

Speedrunning Rome Total War - Alexander is a unique experience. I some sence it feels like it's true to Alexander the greats legacy. After all he conquered the then known world in with great swiftness.
Happy to hear that Rome Total War - Alexander recently has been released to mobile. Hopefully it will bring new players to the game.
Took a few tries, but finally managed to get a time that I was satisfied with.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

A brief unstructured poem: "Yes!" "Sal?" "Yes, StrateGOS?!" "My lord?" "Your orders?" "Yes, StrateGOS?" "Sal?" "Your orders?" "Yes!" "We OUR BESEIGED!" "We OUR SURROUNDED!" "Leaving the army!" "Splitting the troops!" "Leaving the army!" "Splitting the troops!"

[@ОттоГагеншплянген]

ORDERS?

[@tundra5171]

I read that shit like a song.. that was hilarious lmao 10/10

[@laszlokiss483]

Ready to sail !

[@skinny9089]

VICTORY AND HONOOORRRRR

[@khadajhin5130]

„Marc, no more moves sir”

[@qwidium]

2019? RTW Alexander? Really?

[@vladkapitsa4791]

If you don't know, that is very realistic speedrun. Alexander conquer all Asia by 15 years)

[@hefik8689]

If i'm not wrong it's 10 years not 15, but still an impressive achievement

[@vladkapitsa4791]

@@hefik8689 maybe.

[@oliverhughes610]

Not 'all Asia' - what is considered Asia today he did not touch, only barely expanding into the Indian subcontinent briefly. We think of Asia as India and the Far East. Alexander conquered Asia Minor, the Middle East, Egypt, Persia etc.

[@vladkapitsa4791]

@@oliverhughes610 i know, but Greeks don't know another countries in Asia.

[@oliverhughes610]

@Brian Barlow Correct, my point was that it is incorrect to use the term 'all Asia' since that implies conquest of everything from India to Korea as well.

[@ENn0ble]

Alexander the Great : 10 years *SnabbChris the Legendary* : *23 minutes*

[@cherrydashzero5619]

Wouldn't it make more sense to make speed runs based on the number of turns?

[@akshatharora2161]

I think some are

[@branofilipovic9608]

way more sense, but you would get lot of games with the same WR number of turns

[@erfgtdsfsdf6993]

Wasnt this video actually about it?

[@Kitties_are_pretty]

There are different types of speedruns. There are real time speed runs and turn speed runs. I don't think one is any more logical than the other, but they both exist so you can be happy.

[@abrokenvuvuzela834]

That's called a blitz campaign

[@NogaRuka2987]

that is the most innacurate greek map I've ever seen

[@maxdecphoenix]

the more meditteranean centric map for Rome Total War is more accurate.. somewhat. Alexander was just an expansion pack for RTW, and they had to make some sacrafices i guess.

[@rikhenry9701]

yeah it was an eye sore but you learn to live with it tbh. it's a fun game :)

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

15:35 The advisor's in the corner, like: "You know what? I think you've got this. I'll just leave it to you, then."

[@lionelhutz5137]

When Alexander gazed upon the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer

[@idontlikerome2744]

He just need to pay for the DLCs of Europe and India to unlock more of the map

[@maxdecphoenix]

*except, you know, India, Arabia, virtually all of Africa, the Malaysian islands, Mongolian Steppes and modern day China and the Orient, literally all of Northern Europe (like all of it, from Ireland to the balkans to Eastern most Russia), then, like, all of north and south america.

[@hamyzschidenfeld3215]

@@maxdecphoenix We know that, just let us be poetic.

[@scockery]

The Oxford English dictionary defines "no" as "​a thing or a way of behaving that is not acceptable in a particular situation." That is not acceptable in a particular situation. May I use your bathroom?

[@georgegabriel7766]

Hans Gruber

[@mickeymisogynist955]

How many times did Alexander die in previous attempts?

[@diranbodossian6061]

@adolphus stalingrad don't think so, unless it's been patched since, but I definitely remember killing Alexander as the Persians and getting the Game Over message!

[@diranbodossian6061]

This isn't a speedrun! This is more like a realistic roleplay. The real speedrun was probably how long it took the devs to make this expansion

[@turkickatapharctoi1361]

Before campaign:Alexander the Great After:Alexander the Butcher.

[@JaniHorvat1]

Wow...you absolute madman. You beat this game on less than half an hour. No matter the difficulty, props to you. Well done. It took me several hours, developing my cities and armies. You made it look like a walk in the park.

[@JaniHorvat1]

@@cnohall down to shaving minutes? Damn.

[@momchilandonov]

It's really about abusing the auto resolve option than anything else. Same thing with RTW speedrun with the difference that there are diplomacy exploits there. Also just look at 2:20 - every unit gains experience automatically for just surviving the battle...

[@sskspartan]

@@momchilandonov Look up the record, Gauls winning the game ij less than 10 minutes haha.

[@K.D.A_24]

@@sskspartan just fulfill the victory conditions and it's good to go, but speed run without auto resolve must be quite interesting

[@kambar1647]

Why bother developing your cities and armies when you can just constantly push east, dismantling Achaemenid empire and not bothering yourself with administrative matters in the aftermath of the conquest, replacing your original Graeco-Macedonian forces with locals and mercenaries, at the end being on the verge of defeat in the middle of some God-forsaken place. This man did it just like Alexander did himself :D

[@doncarlo3861]

cnhall: doesn't replenish Alexander's army Agamemnon voice: The man wants to die.

[@Maus_Indahaus]

Easy difficulty. In any other difficulty those automatic battles would often end in defeat, and in early game that would mean the end of speed run.

[@cnohall]

True, playing it through as a turn attack on medium difficulty. Thinking about doing the same on very hard

[@ellig63]

One thing I love to do on Alexander is to make the Persians and Barbarian factions playable and then march on Greece.

[@Yuki_Francisco]

ellig63 sounds like a quick game

[@yamnayaseed356]

too easy

[@Corbynmorris9]

Wait how do you do that??

[@ellig63]

@@Corbynmorris9 I think it's in the Desr_strat document. You just change Persia from non-playable --> playable. Should be lots of how to videos out there on Google.

[@Corbynmorris9]

Thank

[@justsometimber1nthelake873]

*What if Alexander was German*

[@thessop9439]

That would explain how he died so quickly too!

[@neoxxx7417]

Alexander macedonian

[@aptsag3390]

He would suicide that die of fever.

[@lephantomchickn3676]

Blitzkrieg

[@oliverhughes610]

Man, I remember thinking how vast and detailed and impressive the map was when I played this as a kid. I still play Rome Total War to this day - but obviously with a mod (using my Alexander disc, as it happens, for the Alexander AI, which is better). The maps in vanilla look pathetic in comparison.

[@cnohall]

Sounds great, what mod did you use?

[@oliverhughes610]

@@cnohall Roma Surrectum III. It's fantastic; like a whole new game. Makes 2004 graphics look far more modern and adds a wealth of historically accurate units, buildings and so on, as well as a lot of immersive gameplay options. There's a number of Greek kingdoms you can play - Sparta, Macedon, Galatia, Bosporan, Massalia, Pergamon etc, as well as the inevitable Diadochi states like Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid Empire - but I like to play as what I call the League of Greek Cities, where you inevitably end up bringing all Hellenic lands under one banner. The coolest thing is the localised recruitment for all the units, so instead of just generic 'hoplites' being recruitable from a simple barracks whereever you are, you can instead recruit Corinthian/Achaian units from Corinth, Boitian ones from Thebes, Spartans from Sparta, Athenians from Athens - even unique hoplites and units from Rhodes, Bithynia, Crete, Syracuse, Cyrene, Cyprus, etc etc. It's so cool having like a dozen hoplite units in your army where each one is from a different city with their own historically accurate armour, helmets, shield designs and so on, as opposed to just a horde of generic hoplites/pikemen and doing the usual hammer and anvil strategy with heavy cavalry every time.

[@cnohall]

Sounds like a cool mod, I'll check it out

[@aleaiactaest6503]

Alexander the Butcher Also a huge timesave would be if you took Sinope faster. Also you could move all of your candidates for adoption into Anatolia by moving your capital

[@cnohall]

Great ideas, I'll incorporate that into my next run :)

[@cammrose]

Speedrunning a strategy game based on the original strategy speedrunner

[@spacelover9635]

Hi man how could you get 240 troops? Why i never get 240 troops? I dont understand. i have played in easy difficulty but i never got so many troops

[@cnohall]

It has to do with the graphic settings

[@cnohall]

You need to set the unit scale to huge

[@spacelover9635]

@@cnohall ah thanks man. Thank you. Finally found it. Thank you

[@cnohall]

@@spacelover9635 happy to be of assistance :)

[@spacelover9635]

@@cnohall why in rome total war 1 the senate wants that my faction leader needs to suicide?

[@curtain9842]

How op is Alexander in this game

[@curtain9842]

cnohall basically what I’m asking is does he get a special boost or is he the same as another general with the same command rating

[@pastorofmuppets9346]

Autoresolve is op on easy difficulty

[@goodaccountname2018]

He gets a special generals cav unit that’s busted

[@misaka3468]

At the start of the campaign he is pretty bad, but as you progress he will get some special op traits

[@liammorris6412]

Well, Alexander was OP in real life

[@kingjimmycraftofcalderonia2017]

I wish total War makes a separate game about Alexander’s conquest

[@jarskil8862]

It would be Reskinned rome 2 that would be able to be done by modders, if that scale modding was possible anymore. I rather see Medieval 3 or Empire 2

[@orseonovakovic8521]

It does exist for rome 2. Theres a submod for DeI

[@kingjimmycraftofcalderonia2017]

How sad, I don’t have Rome 2. In fact, I never played Total War games. Unless you count Total War Battles: KINGDOMS.

[@diggusbickus445]

Bro wiped out entire bloodlines and recruited the survivors

[@seboyce0409]

Legend.

[@antisooner9678]

I won everything to India for 17 courses. Top-level difficulties, at the minimum money and losses in troops and the ships.

[@aldoisaimendozavazquez9546]

Try hard difficulty

[@cnohall]

Good idea, will do

[@ilianaghdifar1018]

Like history of conqueror but before attack capital you must attack Egypt and then attack capital if you want history

[@rzahoca1539]

no defeat.(!) nice cheating

[@insertgoodchannelnamehere]

Love how this is just a constant stream of the Rome TW sound effects. Love those so much.

[@imLidan]

yes stripey horse

[@johnroscoe2406]

Turks mad. Turks mad.

[@Zazou_96]

I will never get the point of speedruns.. such a waste of joy

[@chopdoublenine6946]

Is that on easy? Lol

[@NotFinnish]

Mods the game to overpower Macedonian Troops

[@willsmith6946]

...Is that the voice of Brian Blessed?!

[@СовокДерьмо]

красава

[@S-BOTZ]

bros acutally alexander the great

[@Corbynmorris9]

Was this even on very hard mode???

[@mainulislam2977]

Can play for free?

[@windsorhanish1771]

Good job on really easy lol

[@alexomastoras]

how the fuck

[@chandan100]

How to download it sir

[@cnohall]

I bought it on steam

[@Corbynmorris9]

Wen I tried to do this it took me two rather twenty five mins

[@cnohall]

With the Macedonians?

[@Corbynmorris9]

Yes

[@cnohall]

@@Corbynmorris9 two minutes?

[@Corbynmorris9]

No I meant two hours sorry

[@cnohall]

@@Corbynmorris9 Continue to play it. You'll be able to get down the time :)

[@jackmanatawa5212]

Blitzkrieg!!!

[@cnohall]

Just like Alexander in real life :)

[@hoiblobvis]

first?

[@ЯковН-ю9х]

awesome bro

[@cnohall]

Thanks

[@61totalwar]

easy ? wtf easy de oyun kazanıp hava atıyor vay arkadaş..