Saving Your Disaster Total War Campaigns - Fall of Byzantium

[@ragerancher]

"Right so I'm facing 5 armies of elite soldiers and all I have is a peasant and a sharpened bit of cucumber. I think we can win this"

[@UCeagle79]

I laughed so hard when he said this. he has confidence

[@chickentendies5215]

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[@gulmaraz5931]

Istanbul is a stupid name for a city

[@darthceasar3690]

@@gulmaraz5931 form what i hear greec call constantinopel "the city" and that is what they tell ottoman i can't remember if it istanbul sound like greec"the city" or it was ottoman "the city"

[@VitorEmanuelOliver]

Gul Maraz they used to call it Konstantinyie or something. Istanbul is post ottoman bullshit, Turkish nationalism and anti Greek shit

[@tomaszlosinski875]

27:04 "only intervention from the almighty...PRAISE THE ALMIGHTY!"

[@OblivionKisame]

Tomasz Losinski yes praise Legendoftotalwar lol

[@Avidire]

Tomasz Losinski lmao lost it right there

[@shiroineko13]

I love the voice actor behind that line. After one of the lines he speaks in this game, you can hear him laugh at the end for a bit which the sound recording guy forgot to edit out.

[@mackmasters325]

@@shiroineko13 "...our spy has opened the gates! ...hehaha"

[@lucidtheming3190]

"Only God, or a military genius." Well, I don't know about the former, but the latter appears self evident. What a first battle.

[@valrossenOliver]

I must missunderstand something... English isn't mu mother tongue so excuse me... You're saying Legend is, NOT, a god?

[@akinji1299]

"He is a man not a God" :D

[@StarRider253]

C1h4d I get the reference LOL

[@laitilulu]

He's a total war genius. But he's not even close to the genius of Hannibal Barca, Juilius Caesar, Alexander the great and Napoleon Boneparte.

[@StarRider253]

Golden Denarii When you take the comment seriously...

[@SaradominRecksYou]

I think some people are purposely putting these campaigns into these situations just to get you to try it out.

[@iwantcrawfish6110]

And keep them coming!!!

[@jaxinthebox718]

I mean I wouldn't mind a shit-ton of those scripted Fucked Campaigns. They are hella enjoyable as they are because you see Legend deploying his skill

[@SaradominRecksYou]

I definitely am not complaining, just pointing out what I think is happening. The most fun part of any total war game is the feeling of desperately trying to fight from behind to stabilize. I can guarantee legend is having more fun playing these than if his job was to finish the steam rolling part of a campaign.

[@danielwiltse8816]

I don’t think so, a lot are from older games that aren’t played as much and also the positions seem genuine

[@Rexal_The_Saltiest_Brit]

How in the hell is this a genuine position? How can someone be this bad to lose all that territory? :| You'd realise the game was lost way before this. He's only 34 turns in. You can't lose that badly in 34 turns unless you do literally -nothing-...

[@SereglothIV]

Legend speaking to his general in Medieval 2: "I want to let you know that every man that dies in this battle, dies because you didn't capture the enemy general last time." Legend in Warhammer 2: "Now you die-die!" - casts a spell on his own clanrats and warp-bombs them

[@artv.9989]

Wow, All of Christiandome would be awed by your performance in this video.

[@malekiththeeternityking5433]

You really are the legend of Total war and In not even trying to flatter you I'm legit impressed

[@WinterPhoenixForestKirin]

Wow. I'm impressed at those elite skills. Specifically, knowing so subtle a way as the exact number of a population boom bonus to figure out the campaign difficulty setting. That's certainly a connoiseur's attention to detail!

[@Canaris3]

>takes two units of archers and a general >against two heavy cavs and two spearmens >wins Im starting to see why you are called LegendOfTotalWar...

[@yuriimarshal1866]

But take attention on general health. That's just a little bit tactics

[@esclavodelsistema9783]

Well, considering that archers and generals r OP in this game, it is not that much

[@Encovelicus]

The Slav general was to busy listening to hard bass.

[@bhromorrahman8513]

4:27 "Only a military genius can bring us victory..." Is med 2 breaking the fourth wall🤔🤔🤔

[@dart763]

lol

[@GooseGumlizzard]

Wish you were still doing these I had Dacia campaign in R:TW remastered that became a disaster very quickly, I eliminated Thrace in like 5 turns and thought it was going to be smooth sailing, then i got triple gangbaned by Macedon, Germania, and Scythia , Macedon especially hit me with like 4 doomstacks and I only had 2 armies and no money. Got my first ever R:TW game over. Sad times. Would have liked to see you get out of that pickle.

[@LegendofTotalWar]

nobody sends in these kinds of save files any more. happy to take a look at your save file.

[@matthewcarman9483]

​@@LegendofTotalWarI enjoy watching these old classic games. More M2TW or RTW would be awesome.

[@JPPambo]

Send it!

[@iwantcrawfish6110]

Legend I've never seen you drop content so fast.....you probably have but still I can't get enough of this mate

[@ejnaygfantzcg]

I love how 90% of a battle result is based on how good you are at exploiting the terrible Total War AI 😁

[@haydn1425]

I think these campaigns are some of your best content so far! It's super interesting to see how you turn these around in only a short period of time.

[@JSparo-TotalWarMachinima]

The concept of these campagins is brilliant, well done both for your skills and this great idea. Can we expect some content on Empire/Napoléon or Fall of the Samouraï ?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

Empire or Napoleon is unlikely because I don't enjoy those games, but I'm willing to do FOTS

[@Robin-kp1nv]

+LegendOfTotalWar I assume you'd also nope the fuck out of a fucked and destroyed Western Roman Empire in Atilla too? Since you don't really like Attila to begin with?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

I'd make a judgement call on it after i took a look.

[@furudoboi4774]

Why Legend doesn't like Attila btw? Did he explain his dislike of the game on some of his videos?

[@daevious_]

As far as I can recall, he doesn't like how it limits the number of armies you can make and he doesn't like that it emphasises defensive play, when his style is to play one trigger-finger shy of a "This is Total War" run. Also pre-patched corruption, which would get so bad you'd start LOSING money from taking settlements.

[@amarsofiane]

each one of these is so different it really gives breath of fresh air to your content, really enjoying these

[@punypunic2224]

Save Jackie Fish’s Rise of the Republic campaign.

[@iwantcrawfish6110]

Lmfao. I would pay to see this. Its so bad man bless his fishy heart

[@LegendofTotalWar]

Well it'd be rude of me to offer to fix it. If Jackie wants me to fix it I'd happily give it ago. I took a look at the campaign and things don't look good for him but I reckon I could turn it around. Personally I think he'll manage on his own, it's just a matter of how many hours does he want to spend with 2-3 cities until he gets out of the shit.

[@punypunic2224]

LegendofTotalWar I say you give him an ask, jokingly. I assume he’s not so thin skinned that he’d actually take offense to it. Just an idea.

[@LegendofTotalWar]

I don't like the latest rome 2 dlc so I don't really want to. I've got no shortage of other campaigns to fix. I'm just saying if and only if Jackie wants me to fix it I will. I personally don't want to.

[@dannyjames9986]

It would be entertaining and I'm sure it would get a ton of views but I doubt he wants to go out like that...lol, but after I saw his campaign I couldn't help but think of this series. Maybe it would be enough for a mfing nerf to the bs in that dlc but that game is so far behind Attila in so many ways I'll never play Rome 2 again. I have lighting mods, raze=sack, and about 5 other mods going and it's far from perfect but I enjoy attila so much more (minus the huns but you basically squash what makes them so annoying with the raze=sack gem...just wish they would adopt the new family tree UI from Thrones.

[@danielwiltse8816]

You could use the vanilla Thrones of Brittania campaign. That whole games is f*cked

[@firesidemusings5045]

Shhhh Byzantium never fell

[@bugragdf8985]

felled down

[@cosairfps]

I'm glad this series is doing so amazingly well!

[@EpicAMV911]

I would've liked to see this on late era campaign when most of the surrounding settlements are full stack rebel castles, that'd be a real challenge.

[@CaptainFalkorm]

I don't know, this campaign looks kinda off to me. I mean 35 turns in and most of the AI's don't even have a full stack? The turks have a larger army yeah, but that's not a full stack. Then all the cities were guarded poorly and the jihad attacking Constantinople was a joke. Is this particular campiagn on a lower difficulty? How can then someone be in such a f'd up situation, especially playing as the Byzantines and counting in the poor and very forgiving AI behaviour? Oh well, Legend saved the day that's what counts and watching these videos I learned some things I never even tried. Very good video.

[@GreenGhostx]

I second this

[@tequillaaa]

best thing about medieval 2 is the loading times... in every newer total war game I end up auto resolving as much as possible because it takes about 5 minutes to load a battle and back to campaign

[@shamalamadingdongminecraft5602]

Artillery only

[@zerosuitsamus2340]

shamalamadingdong Minecraft oh come on not on total war tooo. Hoi4 already fool of madness

[@cohortConnor]

Right from the beginning of the vid I just thought “oh crap”

[@selder_7]

39:45 you even reunited the Roman Empire, what a run!

[@danielwiltse8816]

Could I send you a f*cked Rome 1 campaign?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

yes

[@danielwiltse8816]

LegendofTotalWar How do I send saves? And to what email?

[@Korianne75]

read the video description and look into your game files for the save.

[@Shadec1]

Wow! You're damn epic. looks like i'm re-downloading this game!

[@bobfrank9267]

Artillery Only

[@brydenholley1904]

What a great campaign. I really enjoyed that. Byzantines are my favourite faction. :D I would have liked to see Smyrna conquered (complete the Aegean) but this is a pretty impressive effort!

[@robertomartins1329]

Hey Legend, big fan here since I have found your channel. I love your videos and I have learned a lot from you. I wonder If someday you could do a Portugal campaign for Medieval II. Since I'm portuguese I would love to see you play with my fellow countrymen. Best of luck for you and your channel. CHEERS!

[@420thlegioner8]

I love how happy he is for having at least good merchant

[@enrixosjjdjd187]

Back when you still were the legend of total war, good times

[@WarPigstheHun]

@1:15 "Be ready to be AWED for GOD and KINGDOM, men! POOP!"

[@Thessaloz]

I think with 4 towers shooting flaming arrows and 1 squad of archers using flaming arrows you can burn it before they hit the gate. Especially from this position they will always hit the ram even when it reaches the gate

[@davidziol2564]

honestly i come back to this vid just to hear the merchant hate, you should do a "Legend Roasts Merchants" video lol love your content man always gonna be a fan !

[@PhilippeWaxweiler]

Your spearmen at minute 10:00 routed because they were exhausted. What should a soldier do when charging into the enemy when out of breath? ^^

[@apersonontheinternet595]

Legend I am a casual watcher of total war and this series is amazing! This type of thing really shows of your skill in the game.

[@475818]

Anyone can say what they want but there's something special about saving the Byzantines!

[@Midironica]

Honestly, Forced Drawouts shouldn't be considered exploits. They should be features. There are loads of examples of medieval sieges being resolved through feints intended to trick an enemy into leaving their defenses. I would just limit yourself to using a drawout once per faction, simulating the faction getting wise to your tricks (and maybe any ally of a faction you've used a drawout on is "aware" of the trick as well)

[@y.z.6517]

Actually, writings were dear and rare in the Middle Age. You see Medieval generals fell into the same simple traps again and again and again. Hard to imagine in the age of internet and universal education.

[@Midironica]

I know, but if you don't limit your use of cheats somehow it just saps the fun out of the game. If I ever use cheat codes in a game I always limit their use somehow. One thing I really like to do is having "mentors." Basically you give one general maxed out governor traits (Good_Administrator 3, Good_Farmer 3, etc.) and if you have another general sit in the same city or army as that general for a few turns they can get all of the same skills but one rank lower. Also, I give all of my generals a few basic ancillaries that are just common sense like "overseer" for governors and "drillmaster" for combat generals.

[@y.z.6517]

Midironica I think the main problem for a realistic game lies in AI and hardware limitations. Hitherto, TW AI are far too simple to match with any experienced player, so they have to increase difficulty through artificial constraints. Then these constraints break the immersion, such as infinitely respawnable hoards, or every AI hates the player. Ideally, it should be like what chess had done: at level 10 no one can beat AI, average people are defeated about 50% of times by level 4-5 AI. Then people can have fun, without AI having unrealistic advantages that force players to exploit AI stupidity.

[@y.z.6517]

Maybe average garrisons easily fall trap to drawout and the like. While Caesar, Attila and the like always outmanoeuvre the player in their own styles, but have their own vulnerabilities... Hannibel, Napoleon and the like are basically invincible, until overwhelmed by their enemies. Obviously, this optimal solution is not currently possible due to dumb AI.

[@NukeCola1988]

I love this series. kep up the good work.also loving the byzantium

[@kaungmyathan7552]

Legend,spreading out is the best way of hunting down routing enemies.

[@holyse7en]

0:29 is that Imam T-posing on Constantinople? lmao

[@cristi-kh3sh]

Thats some amazing content keep up the good work

[@williamsuarez4130]

That little general running away from you in the Ragusa battle 💀

[@daumoro]

Just imagine what would’ve been happening if AI had played as good as legend!

[@halomanet1]

Man the new eu4 start date looks a lot different.

[@esclavodelsistema9783]

Ikr and it is not RNG based

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

I don't think Skantarios started in a position this bad!

[@dannyjames9986]

I've got one for you....Jackie Fish seems to be having a rough time and some might even call it a disaster.

[@1000Hejsan]

I wonder if someone actually can mess up so bad not even legend can fix it

[@saprophycs950]

Where there's a will, there's a way

[@82fire28]

Oh wow, I have like 2 pain campaigns I gave up on. subbed.

[@manfredkemper1936]

i play on normal unit scale because they dont upscale the number of artillery. its kind of a nerf for them to still have only 2 pieces of artillery per unit while the rest of all units got double the numbers

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Imagine teleporting LGOTW to Constantinople the 6th of 1453 and telling how to win the siege « Ok here, take that Greek Flamethrower on this angle to burn these fuckers, be sure every gate is really closed »

[@markuswil-fart1901]

Any game before Warhammer 2: "Huge Unit Scale!!" Warhammer 2's Laboratory mode: "Hold my beer"

[@iwantcrawfish6110]

Good quick work! He should now bring back the glory of the western Roman empire!!!

[@kzang386]

the western roman empire fell so badly that not even legend could bring it back sadly

[@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214]

This is the first SYDC I’ve seen in a while that is in the black for finances

[@mustafacanguvercin]

The video Concept is unique and very fun.

[@MrDanno2]

i really need to figure out the mechanics of this game, somehow you know everything by instinct.

[@dmyt58]

MrDanno2 instinct or playing thousands of hours of most total war games. You can also get very good if you spend thousands of hours ;)

[@theunknownpersonism]

I really like this series legend. Though, I would have to say, that the Byzantine units suck in contrast to Western European units due to lack of easy access to heavy infantry and heavy cavalry.

[@breaden4381]

They do have those horse archers that are as good as mailed knights and the Byzantine infantry is cheaper and better than armored sergeants.

[@RocketHarry865]

wish thant creative assembly did a proper research on the Eastern Roman Empire army during the Kommenoi peroid I would loved many units to be renamed and rebalanced also there should be new units from both the kingdoms expansion pack and various mods.

[@m.l.5230]

Accurate reenactment of the Mehmed the Conqueror's defeat at Constantinople

[@freppie_]

lol sofia is an upgraded castle in Middle- eastern style same as upgraded Thessaloniki, at turn 34? now did my guy just gave the regions at start for an alliance or something? Just saying...

[@TheLiam14141]

I just realized that Legend is the Gordon Ramsay of total war

[@emil3657]

bro i love to see you getting those views again, and i dont play with huge unit scale, just normal

[@Justinian43]

I feel like the original player sold all his regions to the turks, then waited for constantinople jihad. Durazzo is a village, that’s how you know this campaign was basically untouched

[@tujek3909]

The Turks: ok we are facin them with the best army in the world against 6 peasants. It will be an easy win! LegendOfTotalWar: you dare oppose me mortal

[@IconiaAngelos]

Ah, the famous Emperor John of the Byzantine Empire. What a legend.

[@RiderofRiddermark]

He truly was, wasn't he? Beating back the Hungarians, crushing the rebellious Serbs and fighting the Seldjuks in Asia minor. He forced the norther Crusader States and Armenia to become byzantine vassals, forged an alliance with the HRE and brought the empire's finances in order. He did his best to bring back morals into byzantine society as well. In the end he died of an arrow wound he had sustained when hunting boars.

[@hmpdahak714]

Fuck me this was an edge of my seat experience.

[@johannmauleon9047]

"Oh the Byzantines managed to save themselves, lets trade"

[@DettmersNate]

I play on regular unit size, because anything larger and the units barely fit in areas of the castle, it’s very annoying!

[@redtsun67]

I wish Legend was in command of Constantinople IRL

[@MisteryGanz]

Merchants can make >500 per turn if you send them far away enough... Why would you keep them next to your capital?

[@Vanderyn]

This does not look like a genuine save file. Turks own only their starting provinces, provinces of Byzantium, and Sofia - no rebel settlements were taken?. All originally Byzantine cities have buildings in the oriental style - even basic roads.

[@DanyloSyrotynskyy]

Oh in 2012 i had even more disaster campaign. Sad, i've lost the save game.

[@MrNeosantana]

Dude, your spearmen broke in the first battle because you left them in loose formation

[@Alexiosization]

hello Legend love your channel, and I mean love your mtw2 videos, im already subscribed. Over here you said "cause if you hire units in a fort, they get full...." what. They get full what legend? 20:10

[@lorf9303]

16:45 pretty much my entire m2tw experience summed up

[@Mazaveli]

Doesn’t huge unit scale fuck with pathfinding in cities? Was always why I stayed on large.

[@realworld7215]

I love these vids by the way. Quick comment though. Sometimes I feel like you set them up for failure because they never come back to any real army and if they don't have your skills in battle they are kindof fucked again. Good shit tho

[@strenghtbracer1826]

4:13 it's almost like he's about to laugh when he said it

[@Zarastro54]

The most historically accurate Byzantine campaign…

[@alexisskye6900]

You can take ladders off of the wall? I didn't realize that.

[@frabre1810]

Why not just destroying the ram using your spearmen?

[@sunshower6560]

Hey Legend, thanks for making me wanna fucking reinstall MTW2 for hour number 6000!

[@MonteKristof]

Those videos are awesome! But could you please mention the difficulty settings at the beginning of the videos? Or write it in the descriptions?

[@pedrodeeg3893]

Legend of total wars motto, “even if they do not deserve it, I will give the infidels a fair fight

[@noexitnoproblem6037]

Legends Merchant = MVP. Well played. lol.

[@HansLemurson]

46:22 "We will engage them honorably, my lord!" HAHAHAHA....they know not to whom they speak.

[@Submersed24]

I never want to see what this guy looks like because I want to pretend it's chris hemsworth playing total war

[@ginlennon4834]

This series is just great

[@SpaceTalon]

26:45 a surprise to be sure but a welcome one

[@mantas6565]

Even KZbin gods do not recommend warhammer videos anymore. "Here you go, 5 year old video, instead of WH crap".

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

Yeah lmao I'm not complaining, I must have missed this one back in the day

[@DIY_Miracle]

I purposely don't play on huge unit scale on Rome and Medieval because of the awful path finding in cities. Amazing games but they can be clunky.

[@Greninjia]

This person was done for till legend saved it

[@TheChallengerXX]

May as well call this series MacGyver of Total War

[@jackcanox4015]

this series is awesome! is it medieval only or other total war games are allowed? cause i have a very hard Tylis campaign that is...oh boy it's screwed

[@dmyt58]

jack canox all total wars are fine, i think atleast We saw shogun, medieval and legend commented rome was also good.

[@PHILTente]

u use merchants wrong. i always send a general w like 5 troops to timbukto early on when the moorse havent taken it yet. then keep recruting merchants there and u get to like 5-6k gold per turn there

[@jasoncutuli4819]

Legend loves his merchants

[@maltefrling3000]

Best disaster campaign yet