Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion - The Last Days of Rome

[@MWSin1]

"Many of your cities are better off if you literally just take the governor and make him go stand in the middle of nowhere where he can't mess it up any more." That's also true in the game.

[@tyjhw0164]

This also applies very well to modern politicians.

[@windblownleaf6450]

That was the original joke.

[@NinjaSushi2]

"Clever girl."

[@JacobGresham-g8u]

lol

[@treeshakertucker5840]

And thus the spirit of Julianus Vatinius looked upon the state of the empire he had helped create with this capture of Rome and he wept bitter tears.

[@manueltellez9460]

Was he Watching from his Space throne?

[@musicaldave2244]

Space Rome endures!

[@CommissarMitch]

Space Rome turned to real Rome; Battered and beaten.

[@publiusthehandsome2314]

This crap would never have happened if my beautiful face were still in charge

[@loneberserker4642]

oh no he is back ruuuuun

[@downnice95]

Long time no see Rome Total War! The Brutii campaign is easily a top 5 series you ever did on this channel and finally seeing Barbarian Invasion is going to be a treat!

[@Novasky2007]

Happy with that start- loses 50% of empire and ends in 10k debt while entertaining his population monthly and enforcing Christianity on pagans. Indeed thats just how Rome operates est Lvl C Bulla

[@solemnarcturus]

"Oh John you saucy slag" - My genuine reaction to a new Total War Video

[@McNubbys]

I don't English English...but this sounds amazing!

[@beno1874]

*Jon

[@tommyevans5843]

“About a third of my entire tax base just decided to join a new empire.” -England 1776

[@reddeaddude2187]

Get yeeted lobster backs!

[@legionxiii8055]

This gives me Sack of Rome flashbacks, the columns, they are speaking germanic...

[@elephantandwine9867]

I don't think there's anything wrong with training peasants to drop revolt risk. You're essentially paying the locals to help you with your problems. Making the queue far too long to decrease population... that's a bit dodgy

[@YoshiTheyosh123]

"If you enjoy the sensation of a boot stomping on your face, forever" Nice 1984 reference.

[@nacholibre4516]

Back then it wasn't a DLC. You had to buy a hard copy. You know on a "cd-rom", remember? Yeah that's how old it is. Back then it was called an "expansion".😁

[@NinjaSushi2]

_"Pepperidge Farm remembers."_

[@pauldavison3426]

"I have no spearmen of any kind" Limitanei: "am I a joke to you" ... Yes...yes you are

[@annoyance.2583]

Yes you have* and also, fun fact: Limitanei are the spearman, but their weapon type is MISSILE somehow

[@nathanwilcut3360]

@@annoyance.2583 historical were spearman armed with 3 to 5 throwing darts

[@tejshah6083]

Who else is just waiting for the characters to appear in the comments?

[@Kaarl_Mills]

I missed them

[@davidray8123]

Dreading

[@enzoalmirante6169]

I’m waiting for the Brutii generals to see the fruits of their labors be turned to ash and weep...

[@publiusthehandsome2314]

Well well well, what do we have here

[@Alexthe360Great]

The ghosts are gonna haunt someone.

[@lugotorix6173]

I'm so hyped for this haha

[@justsammy2023]

Are we going to get an over-view of Jon's -1 perception moments in total war games? lol

[@datlzrd2729]

@Lugotorix Does this mean we might some BI soon?

[@partizanlegis]

hey man, will you do a new campaign?

[@allium2718]

Hey, I like your channel!

[@dominusduodecimustabellari2855]

Greetings Lugotorix! Is your name derived from the triune pagan deity Lugus? If so, do I have a better triune God for you!

[@wodensol5000]

I just burst out laughing at 46:25 for a straight 30 seconds. I really didn't think you'd be that screwed by turn 2 😂

[@wow-roblox8370]

There is a reason why we don’t discuss the western Roman empire

[@HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

0:25 Objection! Barbarian Invasion isn't a "DLC pack", it's an expansion pack! A proper, fleshed-out, fully-featured expansion that you bought at the store, in a big cardboard box, on its own disc. The sort of expansion pack you don't get anymore because they're trying to sell you armour sets and reskinned guns for 5€ a pop instead. (And it wasn't Downloadable, so *DL*C is a misnomer in any case)

[@KingMswatiIII]

Yeah, I can understand the confusion though as it's currently sold on steam. I remember buying this in a store and having hours of fun all summer. The last Total War expansion was Medieval 2's Kingdoms. Empire Total War began the dreaded practice of DLC just like Civ V did for Civilization.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

You can download it and it's content so it's DLC. It's very good DLC but still DLC nonetheless.

[@KingMswatiIII]

@@randomlyentertaining8287 Yes, but it was originally something you bought at the store as an expansion.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

Oh god, one of you people.

[@Rynewulf]

@@KingMswatiIII Don't forget Fall of the Samuai! It doesn't need Shogun 2 as a base to play in the same way BI and Alexander don't need Rome 1, and like BI comes with new time period and mechanics

[@hermanPla]

Lmao you're actually doing the Rome Total War Barbarian Invasion Western Roman Empire campaign *_you absolute madman_*

[@willnash7907]

What's up with the valkist icon though?

[@leighton5608]

@@willnash7907 the valknut? What about it?

[@ohhellyeah2878]

On VH/VH, at that.

[@jacobarcher1097]

​@@leighton5608probably the fact it's a symbol used by ethno nationalists since the late 19th century including the Nazis

[@gunther4150]

​@@jacobarcher1097aww, you poor baby...

[@ollyclass]

"you just spammed another family member out of your arse" I don't think Jon knows how babies work.

[@Mike0193Azul]

Love and appreciate you telling us the historical backstory while playing the game 🧠⚔️

[@PrivateSlacker]

"London is doing pretty good, except for the fact that we lost it."

[@christopherarkwright4738]

Hippo Hype - Hippos have to breath about every 4mins, tho they do this automatically, even while they are asleep underwater they will automatically rise to the surface and breathe without waking, before re-submerging.

[@Northstar1989]

45:35 "My only decent army." NO. Look in ROME. It has a HUGE army just sitting there, doing nothing at the beginning. A smart thing to do is to pull that army north as soon as you can train some Peasants to fill in as garrison while you're gone... (also a potential reason NOT to move the capital- so you can keep Rome happy when you pull that army...)

[@criticalmess34]

“My Emperor! What is your pan to save Rome from the approaching barbarian hordes?” “Move the capitol to Southern Gaul.” “...run that by me again?”

[@LeonNFG]

The emperors did later abandon Rome as a capitol for more strategically located cities

[@cocaccount6336]

Constantine moved the capital to Constantinople

[@szymonpajak4102]

@@cocaccount6336 You know, but since the Wandalic's sackof Roe, Capital of WEsterm Roman Empire was in Rawenna, city defended by rasches and Canales, located on many islands.

[@nekogaming5300]

@@szymonpajak4102 wow you butchered every bit of that moron

[@oliverking2809]

I better not see this on the one off playlist or i swear to christ jon

[@mitchellbenbrook2041]

I'm sure somebody has already mentioned it, but my favorite strategy with the western empire is to immediately christianise basically everything on turn one and pull armies from everywhere that's a lost cause, but only destroy military buildings in cities with public order above 40 or 50. This is because you can get cities which have revolted into the imperial rebel faction to pull a counter-revolt and flip back to your empire, with all their troops and commanders, meaning you can get huge armies and solid commanders for free. Once I'm relatively stable I also like to run commander balls through Germania and eastern Europe to capture cities with no intent to hold them, just to forcibly christianise them and let them go to imperial rebels which will likely result in them coming back to me eventually through the revolt cycle.

[@KingofBlades113]

Ooh Barbarian Invasion. My favourite Rome Total war expansion

[@Novasky2007]

I loved Alexander just cause Bonkers

[@unissay3530]

*waiting for the new characters we'll see in this serie commenting every future videos of Barbarian Invasion by MATN just like every others series*

[@Kaarl_Mills]

I missed them

[@publiusthehandsome2314]

As you kids say, Where we droppin boys?

[@youngstrategistgaming]

@@publiusthehandsome2314 I’m a kid and I prefer total war to fortnite

[@Bufoferrata]

Damn! I can't wait until episode 2! If someone had told me years ago I could enjoy someone else playing a PC game I'd have told them they were crazy. But this guy's play-throughs are INSANELY FANTASTIC!

[@Nimno74]

Thank you so much! Of all the series you do, Total War is my absolute favorite, even more than CK2, which I adore. Total War has a special place in my heart, I started with the very first Shogun, and they have been a source of comfort/solace ever since. I started watching your channel way back with your new vegas and two brits play stuff, and I loved it. But, once you started playing things like mass effect, I was irredeemably hooked, thinking to myself "this guy loves all the stuff I love!". But, when Total War became a MATN thing..... i was genuinely ecstatic. It felt like someone made a KZbin channel just for me. In case i haven't said it often enough, Love you guys, and thank you everything you have given me/us.

[@KawaiiCanadafreememes]

"Velentianus" Unique way of spelling Vetinius but okay

[@grantaum9677]

Mandallar affect

[@iwankazlow2268]

@@grantaum9677 Mandela Effect

[@grantaum9677]

@@iwankazlow2268 thank you, I was trying to be funny but I'm not very good at it 👍

[@bry756]

Mandibular Praefect

[@kaleb2744]

I've honeslty never been happier on this channel

[@oneofmanyjames-es1643]

Whilst I am personally a much bigger fan of Attila, since it absolutely nails its time period far better than ROME:BI, I'm not gonna lie I am really looking forward to this because I WANT JON TO SUFFER!!!!!!

[@flynn659]

You dare call suffering upon the great Jon, the only person who'm brings The Vatinius upon his blessed heels?!

[@alecsis882]

Finally someone that likes attila

[@TheSunderingSea]

Yeah, Attila is much better at representing the non-roman factions then BI

[@legionary1656]

Attila sucks.

[@youngstrategistgaming]

@@TheSunderingSea yeah. The franks are better in Attila than Rome Barbarian invasion

[@olefredrikskjegstad5972]

Diocletian would be rolling in his grave if he could see how quickly things fell apart after him.

[@TheSunderingSea]

There were good emperors after Diocletian, but the 5th century except for Majorian was full of some of the worst emperors ever. And Diocletians attempts at fixing the Empire were really only temporary solutions, and indeed may have contributed to the decline. Hereditary inheritance of occupation for example.

[@slothfromthegoonies8201]

This timeline begins about 60 years after Diocletian died.

[@olefredrikskjegstad5972]

@@slothfromthegoonies8201 Doesn't make him any less likely to spin in his grave, considering plenty of these issues were already there before that point.

[@olefredrikskjegstad5972]

@@TheSunderingSea Indeed. The Tetrarchy worked great while he was there to make it work, but nobody else was up for it after he abdicated. He became a bit of a victim of his own success.

[@slothfromthegoonies8201]

@@olefredrikskjegstad5972, the fact that it fell apart immediately after Diocletian left the scene is proof that it was an imperfect system being held together by a strong character. Diocletian did his best, and should be commended for that, but his system inevitably ended as most would have predicted, with civil war. The truth is that it didn't matter what reforms were made, or how the Empire was divided, it was simply too large to maintain central control over all the territories. It worked well when the empire was expanding, gaining wealth and slaves, the troops on the borders were busy. But under fixed borders it was unsustainable. The greatest mystery of Rome isn't how it fell, but rather how it managed to survive for so long.

[@samusfan2441]

I know it's a year later, but it's Diocletian who divided the empire, Constantine unified the empire around Constantinople in 324 b.c. Diocletian divided the empire around the principle of the Tetrarchy, four co-emperor who ruled their own part.

[@UchronianKing]

A fantastic expansion to the already acclaimed Rome TW; Barbarian Invasion brought a lot of ideas to the Total War table. 'Hordes' being one of them, you had the choice of roaming around the map, a belligerent culture on the move, torching settlements - or, if you wearied of doing this, settle down and become an established people. The Huns are one of the major faction stars, but I also fondly remember the Visigoths, the Saxons, the Franks, the Sassanids. Both East and West Roman Empires were an interesting take on a civilization split, yet in a far more perilous position, assailed from all sides, often on the defensive than the campaign offensives of former times. Despite such fall from grace, the Comitatenses weren't too far off from their legionary forebears as regards skill - and the developers knew that the Eastern Roman Empire were beginning to resemble a more Greek outlook than a Roman one. And I loved how CA kept to the general style of Early Dark Age attire. This was also the first TW title to feature 'night-time' battles. Pagan/Christian factors also had to be weighed up when managing settlement contentment, something that was carried over to the later Medieval II, built upon, where the powerful Pope was a much more influential gameplay element. Again, hours and hours of fun!

[@suborbitalprocess]

1:04:30 _"You just spawned an extra family member out of your arse!"_ Um, Jon? My Biology is a bit rusty, but I don't think that's where family members spawn from...

[@caualongshanks]

But the 👌 is in the ass!

[@hamzahsajjad7952]

Fellow character roleplayers! *it's time*

[@randomguy3849]

*YES*

[@Novasky2007]

Paratos gladiatores!

[@Kaarl_Mills]

I missed them, shame about the whole Christian thing Jons pushing

[@Novasky2007]

Jon just like Trump has a plan. Trust the plan

[@jazzyboy3742]

*I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THESE ROLEPLAYERS*

[@LordEdmund1973]

I've just started rewatching your Rome Total War series. And now I see this. And I've just reinstalled RTW. Today is a good day

[@brainwashingdetergent4128]

Today is a good day to die... But yet still better to live and tell our grandchildren of brave battles and even braver men! Yeahhh clank clank clank START BATTLE

[@samgroarke4482]

I literally finished watching the Rome series like last week

[@ryancouchman-sawyer2355]

Have you tried to play as England in M2TW Britannia. That is very hard with a huge empire that is frail and in revolt and constant threats from Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Norway. Events such as the arrival of William Wallace is hard to manage if you are at war with Scotland. The only consolidation is you have a few good cities and Edward's Crusading Army.

[@richardiv385]

Ryan Couchman-Sawyer I played on hard as Wales and took Oxford and everywhere in England west of there in 10 turns. It was like they didn’t want to fight back

[@Alexthe360Great]

I want him to play as Ireland, I just think that would be funny for some reason

[@ryancouchman-sawyer2355]

@@richardiv385 That's because they are in a very bad way. They have too many troops, rebelling cities, a poor economy and are at war with pretty much everyone on the field at the start. The end goal is also very hard to achieve as you have to claim every single territory to win the Long Campaign. And then you also have the Barons revolt against you like 10 turns into the game meaning you have more enemies and lose several good cities (Normally London, Oxford, Nottingham or Arundel). Wales despite starting on only three territories can be pretty easy to start off as the bordering territories (Cardiff, Gloucester, Chester and Shrewsbury) are all highly Welsh in Culture meaning that England often loses them to rebels. Also when you claim one of the four bordering territories, you gain a load of troops and the relatively high English Culture in places like Oxford mean that you can train some of the English troops which are decent (like Billmen) and use them against the English.

[@danhankee]

Rome Total war is back! Thank you Jon! 🙂

[@kaleb2744]

YES JON!!!!! I've been commenting begging for this foreverrrrrr

[@80ki68]

JON*

[@yaroslavdanilchenko3722]

Damn its been three years. I remember waiting for each episode every week, time flies too fast.

[@walnzell9328]

Most of Rome's territory during this time period: We will never be Christians! Hail Jupiter! A few hundred years later: DEUS VULT HEATHENS!

[@Bloodlyshiva]

Which Deus?

[@yezzy77g71]

The flying tea pot in the sky obviously

[@scponyoutube313]

yezzy77 g shut up nigga

[@caualongshanks]

@@scponyoutube313 y u angery?

[@youngstrategistgaming]

@@caualongshanks yeah why he angry

[@legatuslegionarii2284]

This is without doubt the best Barbarian Invasion series…

[@victortachiquin4965]

Mom: "stop playing video games" Me: "Actually it's a documentary on Rome"

[@Northstar1989]

11:20 "it only has a sewer- so squalor is quite high" That's not how squalor works in Rome Total War, that's a common misconception. Squalor is PURELY determined by the size of your population (and maybe of the palace). Any minor city with 10k people would have the same squalor levels. The main problem is there aren't enough factors to keep people happy in that city- including baths (which don't reduce squalor, but do provide Health which has the exact opposite effects- increases population growth, happiness, and reduces odds of plague), large temples, or a sufficient sized garrison (garrison effects are only determined by the NUMBER of soldiers- so Peasants actually make the best garrison troops for a city not expecting to see combat: or barring them units like Town Watch in the original RTW, for at least some defensive capabilities for the garrison at a higher price... Town Watch costed the same as Peasants on a per unit basis, but were only 2/3rds the number of men, and thus 50% more expensive for the same garrison effect, as you needed 50% more units... One of the problems the Roman Empire faces in Barbarian Invasion is they have no decent garrison troops: Limitanei are far too expensive to use for garrisons, and peasants too underpowered in combat with the threat of hordes and raiders...)

[@Rynewulf]

Barbarian Invasion peasants only count as half their size for garrison happiness bonus

[@janehrahan5116]

But the upkeep is also half of Rome 1. And upkeep of limitani is higher.

[@alexkarmy]

so it's a little prequel to the future Imperator: Rome campaign nice

[@thumper8684]

No, surely Crusader Kings is next... It's alright, I can wait. I want to see the newest Paradox game too. I can wait.

[@downnice95]

@@thumper8684 I do remember him saying he wanted to play as a Byzantine vassal count and politic his way to becoming emporer in Holy Fury but Imperator Rome is also coming sooo...

[@TripleEye_Josh]

"There's no guarantee I'll win this." Steamrolls every faction in less than 10 videos.

[@ewout2763]

Triple Eye - Indie Gaming *Spoiler Alert!! ! Just because you forget to say it. :)

[@GooseGumlizzard]

spoilers

[@Jack251190]

Not gonna lie, this game put me off this era instantly. I was a kid at the time, not knowing anything about this era and having my entire basis of knowledge of Rome being them at their height i was very let down as a kid when i opened up this expansion to see the Roman army so utterly changed and degraded into nothing more than the Barbarian tribes they were fighting. Attila total war has changed this view somewhat and of course now i'm an adult i can appreciate the era more. How utterly horrifying it must have been to be a citizen of the Western Roman Empire during its collapse.

[@mini_high]

Rome total war was the reason I subscribed to this channel. Glad to see you take a look at it again

[@samhithyelchuri9683]

Same

[@claytonweyl4135]

Last time I was this early Jon was promising us some Nintendo content.

[@brothir]

It's been many, many years and Jon still calls archers "indirect fire". Archers. Aiming. Directly. At. Something. Is. Not. INDIRECT FIRE

[@whisky9075]

"Indirect fire is aiming and firing a projectile without relying on a direct line of sight between the gun and its target, as in the case of direct fire. Aiming is performed by calculating azimuth and inclination, and may include correcting aim by observing the fall of shot and calculating new angles" First answer on Google. This is exactly what archers do.

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

I forget the Total War video where Jon explains that he knows it's probably not the correct term but he likes it too much and is going to use it anyway. He knows.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Neither Whisky nor RainbowPig 007 seem to understand how you actually use a bow.

[@alexk3529]

@@randomlyentertaining8287 Bows were sometimes used that way. Archers and slingers or whatever would shoot at the enemy with indirect fire to stop them from moving, just pin them down, discourage them or possibly break up formations. Also, hitting an enemy's leg or animal with a random arrow was entirely possible.

[@Smeghead76]

8:05 And here I was thinking that it was the Crisis of the Third Century that mortally wounded the Roman Empire (in the west, at least). 37:15 Funny you should be more concerned about Ravenna than Rome, since Ravenna was actually capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402 to 476

[@fede98k54]

48:38 Charles de Gaule, June 1940, colorized.

[@dilayaydogdu2130]

Lmfao that was good

[@darrencagey1418]

Was kind of hoping for a Shogun series - but I totally sqwueeeed for this! Jon's classics knowledge makes these even more awesome! SPEAKING of classic - I say it on loads of videos but does anyone else want to see Jon play some old school strategy? Imagine his first nuke in mega lo mania, or his corporate drive-in fun in Syndicate?

[@erikmarshall1652]

Yes yes yes it’s back baby

[@sambongi6155]

Jon, this video is a great example of how much progress you've made as a KZbinr. Your old total war videos are great but you still continue to improve!

[@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK]

Using Flanders Ludichristian McReligion to convert cities! I never realised that guy was so good!

[@MelkorGG]

YES!!!!

[@unissay3530]

oh hey!

[@oivanurminen8946]

Worshipers of Melkor UNITE!

[@andrewmieirs2322]

This brings back good memories of my own playthrough of the Western Roman empire on very hard. It was one of the funnest campaigns I have ever played. I just let everything rebel, and things got a lot more manageable by the time I reconquered it all. Fighting all the hordes was a fun challenge. It seems like the Gothic horse archers were a huge pain.

[@ohhellyeah2878]

Kudos to you for doing it. I just dont have the energy for it anymore.

[@YossarianVanDriver]

Love to see this!! This is my favourite TW campaign! I actually have managed to beat it, but that was on Normal difficulty, so I can only imagine how hard this is gonna be. For the record, my overall strategy: -Leave each region its dominant religion; a bit harder in the long run but prevents uprisings in the immediate sense which gives me more turns of not being in debt and improving infrastructure. -Rush towards having a port and stone walls in every town possible, it's incredibly important for money and happiness -Ignore all the online guides that say abandon X and Y area, bum-rush the factions who can't form hordes--Celts, Berbers, Alemanni--and cut down on the number of threats. (I tried to go for the Saxons too but that took /ages/) Anyway, look forward to watching through the playlist and seeing how you deal with a significantly harder version!

[@patrickt3681]

I've been refreshing the page for 10 minutes to wait for this

[@totesnotahipster]

Calls an expansion pack DLC Me: dies a little inside

[@0MVR_0]

Today the pack is being sold digitally, but I understand the feels.

[@Knightcommander69]

I am so happy I get to go through this entire series. Thank you Jon!

[@rollingon5566]

I'm missing an hours extra sleep before my mock exams, PRAISE VATINIUS!

[@RobBCactive]

This intro to BI is excellent, I lost interest in BI because I didn't have enough of a guide to intrigue me, away from RTW and the game updates being incompatible (DVD days) was really annoying. I enjoyed this, a touch of historical colour helps immensely!

[@malchir4036]

With a good plan of action the WRE is probably one of the easiest factions in BI. You can tear down most of your cities and let them rebel for tons of cash, delete 90% of your standing army, group up the useless bodyguards to use them as Cataphracts against now low level units and slaughter cities for more cash, and relocate to either Britain or Carthage, where the hordes usually don't go.

[@dajosh42069]

I always thought that the BI "Western Roman Rebels" and "Eastern Roman Rebels" concept was pretty cool. I was bummed out when, much later in this series, the Eastern Roman Empire sides with the Western Roman Rebels, yet YOU did not side with the Eastern Roman Rebels as well. Which I thought would have been a pretty cool concept. :P

[@cipyradutza]

I really like the way you present things. You are a very good narrator.

[@partizanlegis]

A good exploit at dealing with horde factions is, when having gathered all the remaining barbarian family members in their last settlement, attack the city, kill all their generals but don't win the battle! You must retreat after having killed the generals and after that, the faction will be destroyed and turn rebel and won't spawn a horde!

[@keithhh2892]

I was yelling at the screen when you were about to turn the three eastern settlements pagan! but luckily you discovered the ultimate human conversion weapon, spurius flavius, just in time. i always leave him in aquincum for one turn and then send him straight to carnuntum to save both settlements from revolt. and then just send him into every pagan settlement as they are conquered. the guy can single-handedly turn all of northern europe christian, at a rate of 1-2 turns per region, if you keep him alive. also, the emperor has decent conversion stats, which is useful if you move him up to northern italy for the first couple turns, until he dies.

[@FluffyKedderang]

I am so excited for this series. Barbarian Invasion was one of my favorite parts of Total War series and I failed many times as the Western Roman Empire. Flipping sweet friend and I wish you luck!

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

Super hyped for this. It was Jons first Rome series that introduced me to MATN. It remains one of my favourite lets plays by any KZbinr. This is gonna be good!

[@kingster14444]

One of my favorite memories is playing BI as Western Roman Empire while watching your play through it at the same time. Oh those were good times

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

You spent +45 minutes not even past the 1st turn yet somehow I was fully entertained...damn bro you're good

[@alexmcd378]

Jon! Jonjonjon! If you shift right click and drag to draw a path on the ground, the unit will follow that path instead of marching straight at where you clicked! I just found out about this and it changes everything! Never saw you use it in your videos, so wanted to share

[@snookiewozo]

"Interesting", "variety", "better", "different" - basically forbidden words to the latest total war games developers.

[@jenniferkhatchaturian8319]

Who watched the stream and is totally hyped?!?

[@Septimus_ii]

I'm just hyped

[@ShadowDAB0SS]

Always hype

[@jaketheberge1970]

I missed it. Whats the hype?

[@glynmorrall5978]

I was working and missed it :(( what are we hyped for?

[@aleaiactaest6503]

Me: beats WRE in 25 seconds. No I'm not kidding you can buy all the required cities from ERE on turn 2

[@Nooblettoo]

nice to see the series come back, this one seems so much more challenging and hence more exciting

[@burgerpossum24]

This is exactly why I love your Total War playthroughs. Hour long turns.

[@tenchimuyo69]

I find WRE kind of easy these days. Its economy is poor but it is still huge like the ERE and can potentially be very rich like them. Also ERE lacks spearman roster early game and has to fight against the faction with some of the harshest cataphracts in any total war game. I do tend to Christianize for long term stability, but I also do it slowly over time for short term stability. The super Flanders Christian governor you found is actually key to this as he can convert a province at a time without it rioting.

[@mahino420]

I never played the western roman empire campaign before in my life, after i tried it yesterday it gave me new love and passion for this game because u struggle so hard to make anything work in the beginning that it feels satisfying later when u stabilize everything and kill the hordes attacking you

[@MrNinn1]

Always a pleasure to see you playing total war!! Thanks Jon!!

[@katejones8705]

Lovely to watch Jon do his thing with the original games! I don't enjoy the more recent games nearly as much, I always feel like something was lost in the modernization. Looking forward to this!

[@monstersmack]

This is amazing. I never played the Barbarian Invasion because it looked very complicated after RTW. I will give it a go right away. Thank you so much!

[@tennesseetuba68]

Big fan of the job you guys are doing. Can we please get an OG Total War Shogun play-through? I would absolutely love that. Keep up the great work!!!

[@ChevyChase301]

Honestly played this more than the OG rome

[@YurielDumon]

One of my all time favorite games + one of my all time favorite KZbinrs = :) Thank you so much for this! Please make a playlist! God Bless you Jon!

[@ExarKun543]

So happy to see a Barbarian Invasion WRE run from you. Keep up the good work!

[@iain.sm.c]

Oh my fucking god yesss. Your first Rome series is my absolute favourite series on the channel, I Rewatch it every few months. Thank you!

[@kevinbrown6286]

We need another playthrough of this

[@cobaltcat9536]

I've been waiting for this since the end of your Rome campaign

[@tanku4995]

Welcome back my old friend , I do love Total War, Total war never changes

[@UthersonL]

Interesting approach. My first step would've been to have a little cry

[@Masterkavi]

My booooyyyyyy!!! I just rewatched Rome a few weeks back. Well done mane.

[@Northstar1989]

38:40 give the Emperor the Drunken 'Uncle' to look after for a turn (he won't do any harm as the Emperor isn't governing the city) and transfer the Elder Senator to the governor! That's all you had to do to stabilize public order in Ravenna!

[@kazoospew3639]

I’ve just seen the title... I want a series immediately, Jon playing Rome total war is the best thing

[@Aronre]

I recommend everyone to who has not watched the trailer / intro for barbarian invasion. it is such an awsome trailer/ intro and is perfect for this "game"

[@partizanlegis]

The Rome Total War trailer is awesome as well

[@BarneyFife1776]

Wow, letting Salona fall to the rebels to act as a buffer state to the Byzantines in hopes of remaining their allies, I never pondered that one; it really sounds like a good idea because it’ll help your economy by trading with them and make you feel better by having just one ally lol