Saving Your Disaster Campaigns - France's CRUSHING debt -495,000gold

[@gre8]

Just for the sake of it, wipe the debt. This was very fun to watch.

[@LinkinMcOwnage]

Agreed, Do It!

[@bob1268205]

It is way to intressting to watch when you do not regenerate any form of manpower. So this is basicly a "war of attrition" with more risk into it with a faster phase combat. Enjoyable to watch. Its like you got 20 000 k soliders, and you won't get any of them back or money to replenish or get new one. Its basicly a Hearts of Iron game (3 and 4) when you have a limited manpower for conquest .

[@smartalec2001]

Turn 66. The men dream of the long ago days of turn 25 or so when they had boots and hats to eat. Now all that keeps them going is the hope of fighting some Spanish or Germans, and taking their boots to eat. But I have higher aspirations. The histories tell of the times before my father’s reign. I swear it - France shall have baguettes once again.

[@typicaledgar7920]

This has been the best campaign I've ever watched. I'm so used to Legend just steam rolling, but every victory he wins seams like a drop in the bucket to the inevitable collapse that's coming. I wish this was an actual campaign

[@OldTotalWarrior]

I think this has to be one of Legend's greatest TW achievements.

[@Floris_VI]

Seriously, his biggest display of raw skill and game knowledge i yhing ive ever seen from.him or anyone for that matter

[@FF-qv8en]

This is extremely hypothetical and very inaccurate but I thought I'd do it anyway... Assuming the 'Florin' used in M2TW refers to the Florentine Florins used in Western Europe from 1252 onwards, each coin has 3.5g of 'pure gold' in it. The current price of gold per gram is £31.61. Therefore a single Florin would be worth £110.63GBP equivalent. Taking this into consideration, the modern equivalent debt of France in this campaign when it was sent to LOTW was £64,869,449.32 (64 million, or approximately $82.5M USD for my American fellows.) By the end of the campaign LOTW cut this debt to approximately £36.7M GBP/$46.7M USD. Again, I reiterate this is highly ahistorical and totally inaccurate but I could only work with the little and ambiguous information I was given regarding florins.

[@douglassalerno8970]

FerrariFreak7 thank you for this info. Your smart

[@philipprovencher2622]

Basically we should get Legend to get elected as President so he can fix America's debt

[@nickkepley9294]

Considering the GDP of the world was a lot lower back then, $82.5 M USD is a crazy amount of money.

[@FF-qv8en]

@@nickkepley9294 Yeah I was gonna say, if you took into consideration thing like GDP, price of bread now vs then, an average wage back then, inflation etc, the modern equivalent would probably be well into the billions.

[@Art210495]

@@philipprovencher2622 Seems that he would just sack everything and kill everyone else for it, though...

[@luccathelyon5632]

Would love to see one more episode. This is definitely one of your bigger achievements in total war. You're a madman

[@PostRobcore]

This mini-series has just been "BE AGGRESSIVE, B-E AGGRESSIVE". Amazing cavalry charges though, and only 1? general lost the entire time. Well done, dude! 😸

[@qwertyuiopdan1]

Really frustrating you didn't finish this campaign off.. These have been the best videos you've done in ages. Would just have liked to see you get 'into the black'. Thanks for the videos, though.

[@qwertyuiopdan1]

Spoke too soon haha! I was more excited to see part 4 than most things I’ve watched

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Even 4 years later, watching Legend in massive debt and saying stuff like "we need to get to Brabant, but we have to deal with the Spanish first" fills my heart with pride.

[@sippe5535]

Fancy seeing you here. I remember you from legends laatest stream

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@sippe5535 haha yeah ive been binging his old medieval 2 content, its really good. i think he would cringe at it now but i love it.

[@sippe5535]

@@TheSuperappelflap doing the same thing myself, respect

[@TheDebilana]

One of better disasters by far, proper tense and uniqe!

[@TheDAWinz]

conquer the whole map, still in debt!!!

[@mrbubbles8214]

I imagine legend could plan a really good budget holiday through Europe...

[@lithpylarry2019]

Mr Bubbles Holiday? What about a campaign?

[@shorewall]

Yeah, he'd just have to sack a few cities along the way. :D

[@mrbubbles8214]

@@shorewall I mean the French are doing that to Paris already.

[@sikkableeat5614]

@@mrbubbles8214 Thank God Legend is not commanding the rebels attacking Paris.

[@shorewall]

In the current EU, he could probably lead his subscriber base on a swath through Europe. :D

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

It really is amazing to see an empire come back to life like this.

[@roblaquiere8220]

Need to change channel name: MadmanOfTotalWar

[@connordavis3984]

MadladofTotalWar

[@ArdaUnhail]

Watching this years later, and watching it gave me fun much more than latest wh3 videos. I guess that is just me but maybe this game needs a new major historical medieval game. Not just historical, but medieval. Heavy knights, battle lines, generals, agents, tactics instead of winds of magic, strategy instead of trying to have more monsters... yeah yeah, i know that is just not a popular opinion and it is just me but anyway.

[@patrickholt2270]

It occurs to me that the French situation here is a bit like the end of the Western Roman Empire - massive debts* , a shrinking population and economy, a competent army but stretched thin, and if you suffer one stack wipe, it's all over and the eastern neighbours can overun and annex at will. *Technically they could still find money to pay mercenaries and bribe Visgoths not to sack Rome, for a while, but the habits of corruption and tax avoidance by the Roman elite meant that they were usually in debt to their Germanic mercenaries, who had to be promised land instead, because the Roman generals and governors kept stiffing them - which was obviously bad for the defense situation, when they needed the mercenaries to defend the borders and not go raiding into the interior for their back pay.

[@TheKeyser94]

Basically what is happening to the U. S. right now.

[@flaviusaetius5701]

Except for Flavius Aetius

[@Toni_N]

@39:30 Those reinforcements came just like as it would be in a movie just in tim 😀 It had a bit of Gandalf's arrival on the morning on the fith's day xD

[@jesper504]

This is like trying to fix Greece economy. IMPOSSIBLE.

[@VenomCold]

id actually really like to see you getting out of debt completely this is very satisfying

[@SlimyMarmot]

The greatest achievement of this SYDC is all the executions turning French generals into evil laughing villains.

[@Ben-fk9ey]

I think if you just consolidated the British Isles and then just made one or two great stacks you could call it GG. In time you'd come out of debt so I'd consider that campaign saved.

[@kachnadomaci3557]

please only send him this type of campaign madly in debt its amazing I love this one :D

[@kaleidoscope3234]

dude sacked entire Europe. Somehow still in debt

[@jackwei22]

Kaleidoscope maybe because all the money is made in the east

[@sikkableeat5614]

@@jackwei22 And in Timbuktu

[@eddotron1224]

Please do another episode on this Legend, it'd be very satisfying to see you clear all of the debt

[@robkelly877]

Awesome set of episodes, well done. Absorbing and tense. Loved it. Thanks for the entertainment.

[@stephenhartley2853]

legend can beat total war with no money. lol

[@OperaLars]

Soft c-sound in ”Ajaccio” (Corsica) and the ”i” is silent ... In Latin c was pronounced as k but the decadent Italians softened it ;-)

[@supergamer93]

Even if you save this campaign, do you really think he will be able to hold out this time :P

[@Mrstilian1]

You should really do world domination, it has been really enjoyable to watch this different type of campaign survival.

[@Pedro-zu3uq]

Please please please continue this

[@TheArklyte]

Madman is planning to go to 0?

[@tscchope]

Your goal for this campaign was getting the player out of debt and doing all the military unit missions, you could. I'd have liked to see you do what you said you'd do. Don't get me wrong, you've done a magnificent job. You've paid down 200k in gold and taken a -18k a turn position into +25k a turn. This episode you've reduced the time to get out of debt from 40 turns to a mere dozen. The Moors, Poles an Hungarians appear to be a lot more of a threat than the HRE, Spain and Sicily.

[@hernandogaribaldi8627]

495,000 gold in debt, What is this? the original dude tries to do a full merchant campaing?

[@tylerdurden4080]

So is this a viable option to solve France's current crippling debt? Asking for a friend.

[@nox5555]

you should make another episode.

[@Ryan-df9bb]

honestly I would watch if he conquered the world in this scenario.

[@lucaswood2667]

1:10:05 best part of this France series

[@laoscuridad9275]

damn he is actually doing it

[@DougStewart]

Thats why they call him the Nekker of Total war

[@rocketpod1]

Keep playing I want to see how this plays out

[@koubaasofien9264]

i loved this series

[@kassy6373]

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[@snowisthebestweather]

53:13 That is an amazing road.

[@nikolamaksic4790]

57:20 Charlemagne gets revenge fir Roland

[@yeslikestarwars8824]

Situation unfucked What an absolute fucking unit

[@2SSSR2]

Here is an interesting question: If you never play the campaign and just watch ( as in - you play as rebels and never fight whoever is assaulting you ), what AI faction would eventually come on top? If not conquering the entire map then biggest chunk of it.

[@FF-qv8en]

Go check out a very small (for now) youtuber called 'Melkor'. He does AI only campaigns like this for RTW and M2TW and posts them on his channel.

[@2SSSR2]

@@FF-qv8en Thanks, his videos were nice watch. :)

[@martinlopezhowe]

In Rome 1, it's definitely one of the Roman factions.

[@frabre1810]

It's Aiaccho not Ajakkio

[@shaneboardwell1060]

LMAO I got a fucking ad about debt while watching this vid!

[@lithpylarry2019]

Let’s make this bread

[@KingofSpoons64]

Why did the captain at 7:13 have the skin of a rebel captain if he was from the HRE?

[@TheDebilana]

Caprains army was a merc unit

[@carbon1255]

This is what happens when you sign up to a pyramid scheme.

[@tubbyidiot8312]

Legend do another episode if you send it back its still fucked

[@ge3neva]

MORE EPISODES UNTIL HE’S IN THE BLACK

[@SereglothIV]

1:24:07 - 'Moneywise we're fine' xDDD

[@jacksonthesyndicalist2771]

I declare bankruptcy!

[@oilrig834]

Loved the chin talk .

[@Vekhh]

49:36 xDD

[@bobstephens5599]

I don't understand how Legend has played so many hours of TW but still doens't know about CTRL+M/I/C.

[@gigagigawoman]

Just bring them the girl and wipe away the debt.

[@ultragod1862]

very impressive !

[@SinerAthin]

If only debt worked like this in real life and any country in debt actually couldn't buy things... xD

[@adrianbundy3249]

-300k still at the end. Damn, this is a lot of debt, it boggles the mind how anyone could have made it that far in debt within 50 turns. Anyway... Subscribe to Legend - but also subscribe to PewDiePie. DOWN WITH T-SERIES.

[@pavaopavelic9740]

1:10:08 I died laughing at the weak chin part XD

[@michaelbiri6676]

Just make one more video where you just press end turn 10 times and get out of debt... :D and do NOTHING!

[@joshithegreat5303]

hey i live in florence, it is not a piece of shit

[@hernandogaribaldi8627]

Legend of Total War: The State 5000 000 debt: the free market

[@stlCkofdOom]

ez explanation. used add_money to build a vast army, fucked up, and had no dev. settlements to carry his upkeep. voila. -500.000

[@googleistdoof6656]

You switch capitals like a noob. Well, not really, a noob wouldn't change it at all.