Saving Your Disaster Total War Campaigns - Barbarian Failvasion of Sarmatia

[@doncarlo3861]

This series will eventually get to the point that all Legend starts with is a peasant unit in the late game. -100,000.

[@iiXalexXii]

And 200 merchants.

[@plutarchvonpluto6439]

And in the late era campaign.

[@mariuszcos534]

good idea

[@snowisthebestweather]

And locked camera

[@kingbyrd.1512]

And all the exploits have been patched.

[@AndrewTheFrank]

I know the graphs are super accurate but they do say he was without a settlement from turn 128 to 192. That is about 64 turns on the move. From turn 128 to 192 his military strength does go down. From about its highest point to about nothing. The only other high point in military power was the first time he lost all his settlements. His finances hit 0 about halfway between turn 64 to 128. This would have been about when he was at his biggest. To me it looks like he spent most of this campaign on migration, mostly avoided fights, and the few fights he did get into were bad ones. Without money or settlements you can't replenish troops. Also explains why he was using mercenaries instead of faction troops. If he was able to get money, he would need to spend it on mercenaries to quickly replenish his forces. To me this does not look like sabotage. It looks like a cautious player playing on a difficulty a little above his pay grade.

[@kingmike07]

Andrew Frank Wow you sound like you hit the nail on the head. Very good analysis

[@AndrewTheFrank]

I would also like to point out that since his finances hit 0 before his settlement count he likely couldn't pay for his army's upkeep. But when he got sent packing he kept all of those troops rather than relying on the free horde troops. This means he'd get further into debt. Then if he accidentally sacks a settlement instead of occupying he can get out of debt (maybe) for a turn but doesn't fix his income long term. Sacking also doesn't repair his army. And the units with upkeep (mercs more costly than normal troops) put an unnecessary burden on finances than horde units. For advice if he bails on last settlement to save troops I'd suggest he already have a place in mind. Can always catch up with horde units later. If in fights to use the units with upkeep first since the upkeep becomes more of a problem as time drags on. -Have migration planned out -Bail on upkeep units before horde units.

[@franbelavic2315]

Legend: haha I tricked the goths and byzantines by becoming a protectorate of both *The goths and byzantines besiege legends only region together a few turns later*

[@LegendofTotalWar]

*Legend then proceeds to kill every last one of them*

[@franbelavic2315]

If it was any other way your name wouldn't be Legend of Total War

[@Magyar_Huszar]

someone needs to send him a save where he doesnt have any cav units now THAT would be a real disaster

[@patrickholt2270]

Are you implying that Legend of Cav Spam relies on Cav to do everything? How very dare you!

[@stephenhartley2853]

not possible in rome 1 or med 2 without mods

[@thearmoredidiot4828]

@@stephenhartley2853 I raise you one America's expansion. I want someone to send him an Apache disaster

[@Happymoron11]

You did a good job my only recommendation is you need more merchants

[@JacobMarleySellsFish]

51:54 when you bump into the dark edgy kids from school at an EDM rave

[@davidnavratil5349]

I just finished BI campaign few days ago as Eastern Roman Empire and was disappointed. The barbarian factions never did anything. I played on VH/VH and they just stayed in their starting towns. Huns and Vandals just kept running around sacking until they were the richest factions, never settling down and once they ran out of troops they started running away from fights around map randomly. The Western Romans had some towns go rebel but apart from British isles they remained hold of everything and what went rebel didnt stay rebel long. Saxons, Lombards and whatever all had one, max 2 towns. They always marched troops around their territory before getting back to their town. Never fought anyone or expand. This was the most boring TW game session I ever had and was quite envious seeing the minimap in this Total Disaster. Before seeing this I just thought the game was not properly balanced.

[@stoottroeper3423]

Maybe this ''mod'' will make the campaign less boring: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHi8f2ell92nqbM :)

[@jacobusmarch9524]

Same experience here in BI

[@alexanderthegreat1356]

David Navrátil in mine the huns have been attacking me but I defended against them on one of the bridges and the western empire also attacked me and actually have a better economy and infantry to mine. I’m enjoying the campaign but obviously not as much as I enjoyed the western empire.

[@lewisyeadon4046]

Bit of a necro, but my experience in BI is typically one of immense dynamism and chaos. The Huns typically act like a sweeping horde, never splitting up too far. Most of the battles I fought as the Romans were either in the Levant against the Sassanids or in Dalmatia and Lombardy against the Huns/Vandals/Sarmatians. It takes time, but eventually enough factions are roaming hordes and they typically go for the rich cities in Italy. The West typically can't afford an army to both prevent/defeat revolts in Gaul and Iberia, and also defend Italy. You have to choose, but even then you're going to be losing a few cities. Most if the time you get it back the next turn because you destroyed most of the 4 stacks that took it on the defense, but it hurts when Ravenna or Milan lose half their population and all the buildings are damaged.

[@Theocook1]

It would be pretty cool if this was a sort of game mode. Maybe you choose a faction and a difficulty and the game generates a catastrophic situation for you to bail yourself out of.

[@LegendofTotalWar]

I believe it's called Total War Attila.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

I have a feeling that whoever did this playthrough intentionally exterminated Salona before giving the save to Legend because he knew Legend would instantly win once he can pay his debt with the lives of the Illyrian Romans in one go

[@puck9306]

Wouldn't the city be Rebel controlled then?

[@vallergergo737]

Also he was at peace with the Eastern Romans

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

@@vallergergo737 Damn I forgot about that...I still call conspiracy!! Alex Jones prepared me for such a moment

[@vallergergo737]

@@totalwartimelapses6359 With how unreasonable the AI is in total war games (just look at the -oh yes, sure we will pay for you to became our vassal AND A TURN LATER WE WILL ATTACK YOU-) is, it wouldn't surprise me if it was something else. There was also a plague in southern Italy, so how knows, maybe it wasn't even war, just a disease eradicated the city.

[@daft676]

Total War Timelapseslo P

[@videosteward]

I've been watching this channel for years and never usually comment but man do i love this series. It's the best series you've ever done and that's definitely saying something

[@u6pinap]

Best comeback for now! Incredible!

[@neutralfellow9736]

Sallyout: Total War

[@TheDAWinz]

Wow make you protectorate then immediately attack.

[@PainSquared]

Cheeky AI being even more of a scumbag than most players

[@Shrapnel57]

Free 5k cash. Being a protectorate costs 25% of your income per turn.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

He Attac He make enemy Protec(torate) but most importantly he backsteb

[@awonoto]

In the defense of the Goths, when offered to make Legend protectorate, firstly legend asked for a hefty sum of 5,000 gold, which they complied. Soon, the Vandals attacked the Goths, so they would naturally asked their protectorate to come to their aid, right? After 5,000 gold and Legend's refusal, it's no wonder the Goths would be pissed.

[@donutmaster7820]

TheDAWinz today I started a Julii and peaced with the Germans to take on the Gauls and Spanish and then they immediately attacked my settlement on the same turn so trust me the ai can be total assholes

[@redbeard5939]

1:07:20 I seem to remember the rome 1 grand campaign having a settlement in the north east that had amazonian warriors that could wreck early tier units. A few times I would send a diplomat to try and brine them into joining me. They were a real boon for factions without horse archers.

[@grahamcoombe5461]

It’s pretty cool to watch legend absolutely wreck enemy armies with a couple of generals.

[@jackharrington6854]

"Well at least we've got the sarmatian armored archers here so all we have to do is take out any of the- aoh god damnit..." don't know why, but this had me laughing everytime I watched it.

[@Albukhshi]

40 battles in a century? Weak! I had a particularly destructive campaign in IBFD, that lasted ~37 years (2 tpy: I didn't use the script), and it had 511 battles--nearly all of which I won. By God was that my finest campaign! Those were the days before cheat codes were known, so yeah, every last victory was earned. I stopped playing when one of my rare defeats sank a fleet carrying my best general, and his entire army. But I'd won the campaign by then, and Asparus (the general), had conquered nearly all of Italy, pretty much on a shoestring budget. Still, the best single military operation I've every played in any total war mod (or vanilla). Belisarius would (I hope) be proud! EDIT: for those wondering: Asparus and his gang were to land in Narbonne, to bypass the Burgundian and Lombard Settlements. He was then to proceed to Arles, and from thence, conquer all Gaul.

[@snowisthebestweather]

Kept hoping he would use the bucelarii against the heavy infantry, especially the one where his faction leader got killed. They're armor piercing if I remember right. I know there are only 12 of them, but that's still 12 x 30 armor piercing bolts.

[@tuffelmann]

In Medieval 2 experience also slightly increases melee attack and defense, not only moral

[@unwisegamer9043]

just attack every 3 exp points, +1 in bronze +2 at silver and +3 gold

[@Dragoonoar]

51:54 when you go to a jazz concert and see a bunch of people with dark clothes and eyeshadow

[@stephenhartley2853]

the exp bonus in med 2 gives attack and defence bonuses also. it just gives less bonus to attack and defence. if im not mistaken every second chevron gives +1 attack and every third chevron gives melee defence +1 for example 2 bronze chevrons gives +1 attack 3 bronze gives +1 melee defence. 2 silver chevrons gives +2 attack 3 silver gives +2 melee defence, same for gold +3

[@07jaworski07]

they changed it to chevrons only give attack and it's for every third chevron gives +1 attack it gives morale too now these changes are from the steam version of the game, I remember that my disc medieval 2 game gives attack and defence with every few chevrons, but that game was way less balanced than what we have now

[@saeedbarkhordar5244]

King ARTHUR was most properly Sarmatian ; the only unit of heavy cav in Britain in 5th c.

[@ravenstrategist1325]

no, the figure known as Artorius was a roman-briton,probably from the roman-briton aristocracy, hence the position of command. He was made Riotamus,king of britannia. The sarmatians only had a few cavalry turmes in britannia and with the roman withdrawing from the island century before they probably left too.

[@armchaircivilian3076]

It takes some effort to push west as Sarmatia rather than doing the obvious thing that i always do, and fending off the Huns as we push into and usurp Sassanid lands before crushiing the ERE... whatever, this is a nicely different appraoch to watch! GG as ever Legend ^^

[@VonKrauzer]

Umm, actually this sounds as very unintuitive thing to do. You have to go all the way around Black sea to reach Sassanids which will take a lot of turns to do, when you can just become a horde and go south at day 1. Take European part of ERE in one blow, crush Goths and pick up on WRE as well. You'll have 6-7 fairly build up cities, tons of money and means to create a huge HA army to ROFL stomp anyone on sight. And it all can be made in first 10-12 turns, tops.

[@keizervanenerc5180]

Whahaha this video has a game called "Merchant" as its advertisement!

[@jaspervanheycop9722]

53:50 If you are struggling with Barbarian Invasion, here you'll hear how you'll beat it ;)

[@karelspinka3031]

Also 1:21:44 moment won me my entire WRE playthrough. Never had to keep large garrisons and I needed a moderate relief army for mopping up the remnants.

[@eliasredlich4231]

Exactly a few seconds before you started talking about how your fighting your battles at 6× speed I thought how hard this must be .... thats creepy

[@lennydale92]

Once you are in the black I would delete the mercenaries and horde the settlement so I have a fairly decent army to go around sacking with little to no cost

[@michaelbiri6676]

Well Well clearly one can see at 1:42:04 one can see that the guy way basically giving all sorts of money away to bribe various factions, including the Goths.

[@Shrapnel57]

That graph tells so much lol. You don't lose all of your cash that fast without giving it away.

[@sbain844]

1:28:06 "Is that a daughter or a son"......... maybe it's a zee, or a zir, - did you consider that - did you??? Get with the program Legend :)

[@marksargeant1019]

If only these saving campaigns were in the base game

[@theunknownpersonism]

They were. The Seleucids in RTW and the WRE in RTW:BI are essentially saving disaster campaigns.

[@Dd5yr5g]

The Seleucids really arent that bad you just have to abandon east and just rush west@@theunknownpersonism

[@theunknownpersonism]

@@Dd5yr5g what I do is: 1. defend the North 2. destroy the Ptolemies 3. secure Armenia and Anatolia 4. Invade Greece

[@Dd5yr5g]

on VH/VH?@@theunknownpersonism

[@theunknownpersonism]

@@Dd5yr5g yes, though having trouble with the expanded map in darthmod applying that strategy.

[@mraurelianbme]

You could have left Salona to become a horde... problem solved...

[@karelspinka3031]

Exactly my thoughts.

[@philbruhweiler154]

And where s the income?

[@WortWortWortHog]

Wouldn't the correct opening move be to capture a city then immediately intentionally lose it? That'd give you a bunch more free horde units right? Then from there you have a bunch of units you can use to take more prosperous cities you'd actually want to establish a new homeland in. Not 100% on horde mechanics for BI tbh. Kick too much ass to get to that point.

[@thebabylonian109]

Yes, this would have been easier; just click the horde button on the settlement screen (no battle needed). Imagine Legend is more used to newer titles than the BI horde mechanic, which is fair enough. The Sarmatian horde AI actually did that once to an AI neighbor of mine, super annoying!

[@TheDAWinz]

LOL failvasion

[@chiefvercingetorix3662]

Man this episode is masterful. Insane.

[@BrumEldar]

i wish i could play this save games, awesome work man and thanks for uploading these

[@tomdenorre1008]

is there any way we could play those disasters ourselves? i think it would be really nice to try to match your campaigning level

[@yourethehippopotamus9266]

Vanilla RTW is hard for me to watch, but this video was excellent all the same. I hate that this is even possible because of how broken the AI is, but still, it was only barely possible so very well played!

[@raglanheuser1162]

after that one campaign when he had only one man left nothing seems so bad as a start

[@xiaoqiuzheng3216]

28 minutes, you have a 12 men crossbow, might as well use them against the heavy inf.

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

Legend is the definition of the boast 'give me a long enough lever, and I will move the earth.'

[@sarmatiancougar7556]

A small broke scythian community conquering a Greek speaking empire. Literally the second rise of Parthia.

[@Vijay-1111]

TIL Goats make good eating

[@SpartaN_The_WarrioR]

Realy you're the legend of campaign hahaha.

[@patrickholt2270]

Cowards live to fight another day. When they aren't ridden down.

[@TheStormfury]

At this point im wondering if their is anything you cannot do, especially in the medieval 2 or older games. At this point i'm more curious on how/if you fail to recover a campaign. That being said, if you cannot save a campaign would be interesting to see if its possible at all.

[@DanielAstorias]

And I tough I was good on this. Really a legend.

[@_Gandalf_The_White]

The virgin horse archer vs the chad cohort.

[@JerkyMurky]

You should have seen the face i made when i saw the troops in your army at the start of the campaign...

[@boganubis7566]

Good one!!

[@djswag5930]

Do more i like these

[@frammo5896]

No idea what you were doing at 20:30. Move the army to the docks, build the ship and next turn send them across. Instead, you leave the army in the settlement to be besieged and try to recruit some horse archers that require 2 turns. Also, only high tax rate when public order is at 130? Are you supposed to be saving this campaign or fking it harder.

[@stephenhartley2853]

i think rome 1 disasters are kind of redundant. the ai is too braindead to take on a player who has 1 single general unit

[@TheGreatBonus]

Holy shit that was amazing.

[@literallynothinghere9089]

He is so lip crunching finger lickingly good at this that if the time machine was invented one day, we would have a dozen requests for making him an adviser from past kings. Like if you agree.

[@Cba409]

First horde capital does not suffer culture penalty.

[@ericmolloy2319]

Didn't realize that the Gothics had female soldiers to be honest

[@tomasmb816]

I come here only to hear your comments about the fucked it is

[@philbruhweiler154]

It s so impressive!!!

[@krakraen343]

How can you pass up on the virgin horse archers????

[@Tanakun09]

Wow, how the f did this player screw up so bad

[@ChevyChase301]

Great Khan24 he is 200 turns in...

[@Tanakun09]

@@ChevyChase301 200! Why I would off taken my horde to Germany and wipe out the saxons instead

[@ПавелПонарин-э1п]

Am I the only one who thinks that AI acts strangely in battle?

[@mello36942]

you look so much like Haley Joel Osment

[@mello36942]

I see dead people!

[@yacinebenchoubane3645]

Hey,can u please tell me where did u download it from ?

[@crownedpleb9747]

I wish Rome 1 and Medieval 2 didn't run like shit :

[@IIIIIFlY]

1:08:00 legend

[@missinvisible9660]

fucking nice

[@marcoguerra4479]

Have you one of the west Roman Empire?

[@swiftelbow2743]

Can you do another rome 1 please!

[@atlerthedark3639]

31:35 It's like a fucking amoeba

[@maxmagnus777]

33:45 LOL

[@patrickvan6038]

Is there any disadvantage in retraining your general? I see you don't do it

[@colonelburton2923]

Generals auto-retrain. You can't retrain them manually in a city

[@pastorofmuppets9346]

Often expensive as hell and not worth it unless you have a foundry since they cant regain men that way or get shrine bonuses

[@iwantcrawfish6110]

WHAT WOMEN IN ROME ONE!!! IM NEVER PLAYING IT AGAIN BECAUSE IM A MAN WIT A PHENIS!! RRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREREREEEEEEE!!!!! Lol. I know right! No one gave a shit. I used to make entire armies of the screaming warriors from the Germanic factions (at least I think they were called that) they tore shit up!

[@stephenhartley2853]

legend must not play bi very much. if im not mistaken all factions can build christian shrines except the huns and the sassanids. the franks even have a very powerful cav unit that is only available if you build christian buildings called paladins. they are tanky as fuck for bi

[@kaiserfrisky1727]

DAD?

[@henry7696]

wow lotw totally got spasticated in this one. dang. maybe if he fought with a bit more honor eh bud? might not get so ricky rekt up town spacker.

[@TheRagaz]

virgins are best warriors

[@ThePoeticPariah]

Wouldn't "Infailsion" be better than "Failvasion?"

[@heartfeltgiftideas8559]

The problem with the game is the AI is so bad. All his strategies rely on the stupidity of the AI.

[@herewegoagain1140]

Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!

[@theprezydent6250]

Will you make videos with your wife?

[@nielsifly]

B

[@yourethatmantis5178]

I can't believe Legend stole this idea from Zlewikk TV

[@guillaumepinson9781]

You'reThatMantis good trolling m8