Saving Your Disaster Total War Campaigns - When The Teutonic Order Had Nothing

[@datalink7]

What some people don't realize, is that some situations are truly disasters for new players even if more experienced players can see an easy way out of it.

[@07jaworski07]

You gotta be somewhat forgiving, it is incredibly hard to see that with so many cocks in these kind of peoples' mouths.

[@Redfield199]

what

[@northernleigonare]

Because they are ignorant fucks who believe they are the best at everything without actually taking the time to watch any of Legend's videos!

[@Lithane97]

I feel like there are very few "New Players" to this 12 year old game...

[@epicfail5473]

@@Lithane97 I have a friend who's playing Icewind Dale for the first time.. icewind dale was released in 2000

[@TheFlashdr1ve]

Just wanna say I really enjoy these scenarios for this series.

[@skush9146]

I am really glad that the changes you made to your channel are working out. About a year ago I watched all kinds of Total War KZbinrs, but they all kind of blend in together and I don't really enjoy that kind of content anymore. "EXTREME HARDCORE BATTLE" there, only Warhammer stuff there, etc. But your channel is better than ever before and I really enjoy it. Thank you for the great content.

[@TheDerkMeiser]

Lithuanian prisoners: “NO! NO! ASK FOR A RANSOM!” Legend: “Nahhhhhh...”

[@aachherrle]

Hey man I've been watching your videos for quite some time now and feel like you're a lot happier today, compared to like 6 months ago, when you seemed to be just bitter and cantankerous and so on. Glad you aren't like this anymore:)

[@HagalSkrymir999]

Teutonic Order campaign is one of the hardest in all of the Total War games in my opinion. My first try was bad as well, but i lost no starting position. On the other hand, i couldn't effectively push forward, because i tried to conquer Poland fast, but had to withdraw because Lithuania was pushing me to hard in the east. I underestimated Lithuania. In my second try, i focused everything on Lithuania and used Armies composed of heavy spears with big shields, because of all of the missile units Lithuania had, combined with as many foot archers i could get and a smaller, heavy cav contingent. Worked quite well. Pikes aren't bad as well, if you put them in the same spot as the Order Spearmen, so they can benefit from the shields of the latter. Otherwise Lithuania just shot them to pieces before their small amounts of infantry engaged me. Samogitian Axemen are hell, the Prussian Archers are very good against them though. This campaign though is still very dangerous. But more because of the diplomatic relations. Novgorod is allied with Denmark. Teutonic Order is at war with Novgorod, thus Denmark might join, especially if the Holy Roman Empire is weak in this campaign. But Denmark is also allied to Poland. And if Denmark goes to war against the Teutonic Order and Poland decides to join as well against the Teutonic Order, the latter is totally fucked. Especially if Poland decides to ally with Lithuania, as they did in both my campaigns. This could become an even larger fuck up if is plays out like this, compared to the start of the video.

[@die1mayer]

I squished Lithuania right at the start and finished the campaign with mostly halbbruders. Only polish nobles gave me trouble.

[@masonworker2670]

Yeah,they all allied up and fucked me

[@blasty137]

Are you kidding me, the Teutonic Order has one of the best unit rosters in all of M2TW and starts with a very strong army. If you want a real challenge try playing that same campaign with the Mongols (preferably on Very Hard difficulty). Basically you start without any useful troops while everyone else is strong as fuck so you can't attack anyone, you can only capture a bunch of villages and towns, it takes forever to get any sort of decent units while the Teutonic Order is already loaded with late-game super heavy troops, and your king's purse is -3000 per turn. On the other hand, it was definitely my favorite campaign (and I played about 30).

[@shaokhan2845]

Here before you hit 100k. I congratulate you Legend.

[@lorenzocattaneo8984]

I'm the 100k, lol

[@orbitalsummer]

+ Lorenzo Cattaneo proof or it didn't happen ;)

[@lorenzocattaneo8984]

@@orbitalsummer why should i lie? I'm telling the truth, believe it or not doesn't change my life so i really don't care

[@Anand70707]

When the Teutonic Order had nothing - pretty much how it is with the Teutons this latest patch on EU4

[@LordVader1094]

Historically accurate too. Lol

[@AstalDLyon]

teutonic has always been a easy kill for poland.

[@exantiuse497]

How is it different this patch? Haven't Teutonics always been shit in EU4?

[@emperorcaesar4311]

Yeah, but you could have a pretty easy game with them. Now Pol/Lith are really strong, and I expect them to DOW you pretty quickly. Haven't tried them yet this patch, but I'm assuming the problems are all basically "Pol/Lith did that"

[@AstalDLyon]

@@emperorcaesar4311 the prob this patch, is danzig spawn and declare war on TO and poland get a event where they can help danzig. making TO life harder.

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

I've been playing a campaign as Novgorod on VH/VH. Lithuania , in my opinion, is the hardest faction to fight in Medieval 2, perhaps after the Mongols in vanilla. No other faction has given me grief, well more precisely, no other faction has actually managed to capture any of my settlements. Their campaign AI is noticeably different than any other campaign AI, preferring guerrilla warfare over just attacking you randomly, they'd draw your army out into their territory, then once it's isolated, completely surround you with smaller stacks until they outnumber you and you're unable to defeat them. They also prefer outsmarting the enemy by using spies to open gates over besieging. Their armies likewise are mostly horse archers and skirmishers, which are the hardest things in the game to fight. They are way harder to beat than the Teutonic Order.

[@gamegod273]

Seems legit to how they fight irl, pretty sure Lithuania was well renowned for it's highly effective skirmishers.

[@ozisponas1593]

indeed lithuanians fought allot of mongols and tartars and learned skirmish and cavalry tactics from them heavily armoured teutons were always getting ambushed and picked apart from range

[@thenut55555]

i play lithuania on VH/VH and beat it and yes is hardest - first they got surround by other faction which is suck -second they seem lack a technology compare to other faction because they can't build any high tier city/castle and also gunpowder (until they covert to catolic ) yeah that mean i need to beat a campaign as earliest as possible i tend to make allies with novgorod first and then crush teutonic asap also poland (which way more harder because they got better missile cavalry) tbh i like lithuania unit better than teutonic because they lack a missile cav in a early game.

[@MarkWTK]

playing as denmark, lithuania was a pain in the ass. after i took reval from them, they kept attacking my armies around the area. being denmark, most of my armies are made of heavy infantry, which was terrible against Lithuania's skirmishers. i lost 5 generals to them over 30 years. but after 20 years of planning, i wanted to take psykov from them with 1800 men, because they had 1000. everything was going well, my army was on the way there, camping by the lake side. when suddenly a storm came out of nowhere and killed 600 of my men. bloody hell. nonetheless, i had a draw with Lithuania, but was forced to leave early because the Teutonic order wanted to capture Riga. in the end, Novgorod took Psykov from me, after all my hard work. :(

[@MadHashashin]

I love it that, even though you're a beast in this game, you are pretty humble about it. You get an absolute fuckup, or even a deliberate one, and you still say "I can see how this might have happened, and hopefully the guy can get a second chance. Even if the second chance fails, it's all about practice, trial and error, and keep moving on and having fun with the game.". It's pretty inspiring for a beginner to intermediate player, such as myself, or for someone that just bought the game. Keep it up!

[@howardhardardt815]

Teutonic campaign might be my favorite. Playing an interesting HRE (vh/vh) campaign currently. Short objective is to defeat Denmark. I immediately began invading the northern rebel provinces and made an alliance with Norway. Denmark responded to my actions and we fought a couple of battles against them. I then began hitting their lightly defended settlements using spies and ships. This threw their armies into disarray. I took the capital and their last settlement in the immediate area. The Danish armies began retreating to their northern provinces up by Finland and Novgorod. Three almost full stacks began the long march back through my territories, Poland, Lithuania and the Teutonic order lands. I figured they were as good as dead when I got the message they were at war with Lithuania. A half stack even retreated into Sweden to wait in vain for the Danish Navy. About 10 settlements short of the victory goal I choose to not destroy them. I began involving myself financially in the Teutonic Orders wars. Buying settlements from Poland and Novgorod.

[@harryainsworth6923]

i have nothing to, can you fix my life?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

Too hard. I lose.

[@alecsis882]

Oh god:)

[@bloodyemerald572]

Savage!

[@sineupp]

disband your parents, evacuate your apartment after demolishing everything in there for some cash, and go live under a bridge and construct a fort on either side. Then go invade other peoples' houses when there's no garrison inside.

[@virescens1000]

It sounds like a plan to me.

[@mr.fisher3379]

This is defo one of my favourite series you've got. Even as a seasoned TW player (About 600 hours in Medieval Total War II and Rome Total War combined) You teach me new stuff, and I usually play on VH/VH.

[@mr.fisher3379]

@hazman232 Damn man - I really thought I was up there haha

[@TheSunderingSea]

I LOOK FORWARD TO FIGHTING YOU

[@sineupp]

I WILL DRINK FROM YOUR SK- sorry, wrong game.

[@LiezAllLiez]

Gotta love these character comments on the campaign map right? My favorite is (again) from the eastern factions: "If it is a fight you wish, come closer..."

[@johnlogan2396]

"You're not supposed to see me..."

[@rentabullet4048]

@@LiezAllLiez mine favorite is mongolian one "Was it your brother i killed, you all look alike to me" yeah all europeans are theme same arent they my asian fellow

[@thenut55555]

SURRENDER YOU LAND TO ME IT WILL BE EASY YES!!.

[@Elsneakakaze]

Teutonic is probably my favorite of the kingdoms expansion because its so fuckin rough, all the factions have good units and lithuania just eats up troops and spits them out. Top content.

[@Troubleshooter11]

Legend of TW: solving overpopulation by executing everyone he captures.

[@Peterquince321]

Really miss those M2 castles and fortresses. The double walls making attacking that much harder

[@Zantides]

Double, even triple

[@madijeis4320]

I think the people who are new to TW and send you the save files din just want to have an unfucked campaign to play, rather they also want to learn more about the game by watching the vid. I sure learned a lot from this series.

[@Mazing400]

Legend playing as Teutons, good old days

[@thevikingking4558]

nothing like waiting till morning on a night battle

[@mjdouglas9665]

I am so happy i finally found a youtuber that stands up against total wars shit excuse for new titles. Really enjoying your vids.

[@sineupp]

Shogun 2 was decent fun, but anything after that was too far off what makes TW enjoyable for me.

[@07jaworski07]

It was the only title that immediately did not make me wanna vomit because of the warscape engine or whateverthefuckingenginenameisitstillsucksballs After that the games are just a bunch of one dimensional gimmicks thrown into the basket not making too much sense.

[@x999uuu1]

dunno man legend doesnt complain about the new titles

[@LuciusSeptamus]

Since I've watched you play my own game play has become better. Your an amazing player and teacher. Thank you for making these videos.

[@sagittarius5466]

76 subscribers to go and you're on 100.000!! Congrats in advance Legend! You deserve it 😊

[@ArtanisOwns]

LOL when u slew the general at 16:18 ill never forget this strategy

[@matsnaxxusson6022]

47:00 were those spearmen dancing? lol

[@DamnItHeadJedi]

I nerded out and swilled some coffee on this to the max. Well done dude. Also learned a few thangs.

[@midshipman8654]

that cat and mouse with the capture zone was pretty hilarious.

[@DrakeHunter324]

Ah those moments when I was praying for a Crusader army to come and assist. Took me a while to win as the Teutonics.

[@northernleigonare]

Medieval 2 was on sale yesterday (at the time of writing this!)

[@lockretvids]

47:10 "Just a bit closer..." "Hans, stop that." "Here I go... nope!" "Hans! Stop!" "Catch me if you... OH SHIT!" "GOD DAMNIT HANS!"

[@sineupp]

This is gonna be fun. Vanilla Teutonic Order is my favorite faction since each of its mid- to end-tier units counts for 3-4 of the enemy when autoresolving, so it forces you to manually fight because autoresolving usually guarantees defeat as you're utterly outnumbered.

[@Jukrates]

This series never gets old!

[@dudeofvalor9294]

'No! Please pay the ransom'... 'nah' lmao! Side note I found when I started MTW 2 that you could expand and get big armies really quick but then it always bit you in the backside.

[@AndrewSMi95]

That first battle is the gamiest thing I have ever seen. I'm annoyed and pleased at the same time.

[@srteoh]

I have a thousand hour on watching Legend play total war am I a pro now? XD

[@R3GARnator]

I always chuckle at the execute messages.

[@andy_NQ]

I always like before watching Legend's video, and after finish one, i double-check if i liked or not, then move to next one. I love this series, it's become my 1st thing i watch on youtube each evening :)

[@TheGwydion777]

I usually just sit, watch and like your videos. Glad you found a way to continue that was new and entertaining to you. Not very good at the game myself. Still stuck in the very first one. But I'm not too proud to play on easier modes to make it at least enjoyable to play without feeling a total loser. Anyway, nice to hear you take it up for the little guy. That's a feather up your arse, not my tongue, btw. Cheers!

[@brootalbap]

It's really cool how you turn those campaigns around! On the other side it's kinda sad that the solution is usually to use cheesy tactics the ai can't properly deal with. Feels like the best way to beat the enemy is to abuse some bugs in the ai.

[@עמיתויינר-נ3ס]

17:00 sounds like the general says ''A FUCKING VICTORY''

[@bsolutions525]

Legend's calvary flanking maneuvres are a work of art.

[@The_Blackshield]

I just like that you're seeming to enjoy these more Legend. Makes it a much better viewing experience. :)

[@Ilikeham1000]

Legend I have a campaign that I think is about to become a disaster but it's past the 200 turn mark on Stainless Steel and I'm not entirely sure about the settings. Is this something you'd want to look at or is the fact that the campaign is beyond victory conditions (in terms of turns) a non-starter for you?

[@datalink7]

By the way, loving this series. It actually got me to reinstall Medieval II. Haven't played that in years but seeing you save some campaigns got me the itch.

[@arcticmoon1429]

Congrats on 100k fuckers Legend!

[@Vince-tt1uj]

I think those videos from Medieval 2 are the most enjoyable out of all games Legend makes.

[@tommytommysak7195]

Thank you Legend for great Saving disaster series. I love it

[@KrMaHo]

damn, 101 subs left till 100k! gratz bud! keep up the good work! :D

[@matthewdavis5530]

That moment when the prisoners start begging for their lives and Legend just chuckles and executes them.........

[@stahliboi6249]

Honestly i don't care how fucked up the campaign seems, i enjoy watching all of these because im interested in how well you turn around a fucked situation. And in turn it helps me to improve my game by thinking a little differently than i would.

[@northernleigonare]

I only really played medieval 2 because I saw someone else play it. I'm at war with almost everyone who's left and I still haven't killed the Mongols and it's already the late campaign.. lmao it annoyed me so much.

[@samhlr8590]

I would be shite if I played Rome 2 never bothered to play it. M2tw though I'm a boss at. It's funny to see how people get there campaigns in such a mess. keep them coming legend 👍

[@th3dool]

dude you do those things so quicly, I can't keep up with those series. Good work tho!

[@godofwarhammer7655]

I'm probably going to do a disaster campaign

[@lordgulok500]

Fun fact: reinforcements arrive relative to where you engage them from.

[@thedude731]

Awww memories of the multiseat you powned as Mongolia

[@DerpDerpDerpDerp]

Lovley to wake up with a coffee before lecture and see this video 7 min after upload!

[@Mitchmeow]

You know you play too much Total War when you're watching this video and try to move the camera with your mouse

[@vargyr1040]

Really enjoy these games, whether it is via skill or cheese you are good at making something out of nothing. Keep it up.

[@jeghaterdegforfaen]

If you understand how to do something, it's sometimes difficult to understand how someone else doesn't. I think that's why there's inquisitors accusing campaigns of being fake disasters, they simply can't understand how someone would be able to fuck up that bad without doing it on purpose. Or they're trolls.

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

Just do them all man, the videos are Good to watch and the teach me things.

[@malekiththeeternityking5433]

As someone who's been a sub since you had like 10K it's awesome to see you get up to 100k. Are you doing this for your secondary channel I have a really f'd up Eldar campaign in Dark Crusade if you want I could send it to you?

[@jamietrotter2690]

Yea I'd love to see some Warhammer stuff :D Keep it up mate, i thoroughly enjoy this content!

[@linkkhanato6320]

46:40 xD. What a struggle.

[@Blade57331]

Mangonel are pretty good at defence castles... just saying...

[@petrusrossouw6018]

Awsome job there on getting the dire situation turned around. Trying to learn your tactics by watching many of your totalwar medieval 2 games. Do you have a vid for the lithuania campaign? I find it hard to get the upperhand before mongols and tutonic knights wipe my arse. Problem with Lithuania is it only have light cav, those horse archers and light inf, and every faction around you hates you. Only really good unit they have is the axmen it seems.

[@lithpylarry2019]

exactly 100 subs from 100k at the time of writing this, so close Legend, (early congrats for when you hit it mate:) )

[@szathmarilambert4943]

Good content. I have something to watch at work. Keep up the good job

[@PyrrhicPax]

Ik this is 9months old atw but for anyone who likes campaigns and has trouble with overly aggressive AI, I've been able to successfully BUY OFF aggressive factions by offering tribute. By Tribute I mean , say you see an army coming up towards your land, and ur afraid they'll declare war. Which sucks if ur already fighting a war. (The AI knows this and that's y they do it). Well. Give them money. Use diplomacy to offer regular payments. I usually do anywhere from 300-500/turn for say .. 5 turns. So it totals a few thousand but paying a few hundred a turn has SAVED my campaigns, and bought me time to shuffle forces, (instead of going negative training more) win territory, and even win an entire war. And then be prepared for the invasion. What happens is the AI accepts the payments as a 'gift'. And since declaring war auto cancels tributes, they realize they won't get their money unless they leave u alone. I've had factions sometimes invade a few turns before tribute ends, but overall I've SEEN armies turn around 9\10 times (I usually use a combination of diplomatic deals to not even pay for it w my own money lol i.e Sell trade or map info to a neutral for 200/turn for 5 turns. Then Buy off an aggro faction for 200/turn for 5 turns).

[@Marco-Polo007]

I would ignore the people saying these are fake, just play the game if you want too. If it's interesting and will make a good video and you want too go for it. Don't let others tell you what to do and post on YOUR channel. Keep up the series. Hopefully you get some warhammer scenarios :)

[@AaronThePony]

Order Sargeants are so fucking good god damn.

[@herewegoagain1140]

Great defending of Thorn (25:25))!

[@totalwar1793]

But could Legend win against PSG with Olympique Lyonaisse yesterday?

[@brawnic1801]

Will you be doing any saving videos on TW Warhammer games in the future?

[@LegendofTotalWar]

Sure, if people send me any save files. Not getting anything, which is why I'm not making any content on it.

[@AndrewTheFrank]

General 1: Dies General 2: "Hold my beer"

[@TheSykoRC]

Andrew Frank the dead General shall hold the beer? ... Just kidding!

[@pawejankowski9364]

This add-on is strange AF. Lithuanians have Tartars in their ranks and the German Teutonic Order has some kind of Romanian accent or whatever that's supposed to be. It's definitely neither German nor Slav. The map also looks quite weird. Those peninsulas in today's Poland also look different IRL.

[@DRC85]

Grats on 100k my nigga

[@LegendofTotalWar]

omg you said the G word. Really offended me there.

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

Awesome as always

[@AkumaNoTeien]

OMG dat spamming stop at city center LOL

[@CentreSwift]

Has anyone had a problem with the archers on the walls, where you tell them to run and they just stay there for like 3 minutes before getting slaughtered? It's infuriating to have my archers die due to this bug.

[@LegendofTotalWar]

yeah its a bug. Its happens because of a conflicting order. If they're on fire at will, turn it off. Sometimes they get stuck trying to decide on whether to shoot or run. Turn it off and they'll run, and just turn it back on once they've where they need to be.

[@CentreSwift]

@@LegendofTotalWar OK thanks for the tip. I've had defending Citadels where I've lost all of my missle troops on the first wall because they think they're Rambo or something and just stand there getting skewered.

[@schlime1386]

Yo legend I've got a really fucked up campaign that i think people will enjoy watching, but i don't know how to share it with you. How do you share a save file? Maybe do a vid on it and more people like me can share it.

[@thebodyH2O]

46:30 hahaha!

[@mrmcgreg]

great series!

[@TheKeyser94]

How he could lose against the Lithuanians? They have four freaking territories, if you conquer two of them they immediately declare peace.

[@aaronlewis702]

Kingdoms' campaign rankings: 1. Crusades 2. Britannia 3. Teutonic 4. Americas CHANGE MY MIND

[@Mundiz_]

(My favorites) 1. Britannia 2. Crusades 3. Americas 4. Teutonic

[@Ronga_Xilandi]

Crusades was the easiest campaing I ever played

[@noexitnoproblem6037]

Hey. Where can I find the latest stainless steel download for MTW2?

[@DarkAnd1000]

I should send legend my parent's marriage to see if he can fix that.

[@cryptosporidium1375]

I wish the towers gain experience in this game, higher firing rate.

[@agris8859]

that Riga settlement is so inaccurate xd

[@hypnobear7908]

Hey, mr Legend, I discovered your channel yesterday, and I was watching many of your videos, you are great! Also I have a question, how you are not sick of battle music? I have played so much of Medieval 2 so I can`t listen to it without cringing.

[@LegendofTotalWar]

I think M2 has the best total war soundtrack so i rarely get sick of it.

[@nacholibre4516]

Good theme music shouldn't be bothersome. It should blend in with the whole experience. But I understand you might get annoyed. Personally I always turn off the music. But mainly because ill be playing my own tunes.

[@purpuradraco3747]

First thing I do in any game is set music to off. I don't care how good it is, it always turns into elevator music eventually, background noise you wish would stop. I can listen to it when others play but each time Legend says it's too loud and turns it down by maybe 2% I always want to think why bother and then realise, yeah, that's actually much better.

[@stephenhartley2853]

i honestly dont care if the disaster is fake. fake disasters are often the best because they are engineered to be as disastrous as possible

[@willek1335]

Can you please give us a mediafire link to the save games you're using so we can play with you? That would be really interesting.

[@mackmasters325]

47:50 lol

[@PerunsZGRevenge]

Who cares if its deliberate or organic, what matters is that i'm entertained.

[@xavierg8798]

Some People need play tutorial first, but this battle is intentional made.

[@tylerpeterson3281]

Cheese strats are the best strats

[@tristanevans4091]

What’s your favourite faction

[@purpuradraco3747]

Around 28 mins in, "We still have to take out the general's bodyguard and they don't break easily" They immediately break. Drinking game it is then, based on the universe be contrary to Legend cuz it's official he gets it wrong every single time heh. Use it to your advantage man, instead of saying you hope soandso breaks, do what you did here and say they won't break easily and cuz the universe always does the opposite... :P

[@patrickholt2270]

He was talking about the second general.

[@purpuradraco3747]

Thank you for not applying a sense of humour to your post. It's refreshing such literal people exist :P

[@patrickholt2270]

Happy to help.

[@adxma10]

Please make more Teutonic.. It's my fav dlc

[@thenut55555]

wait teutonic have a fuck up save files where lithuania fuck up save files they are hardest. ( you almost 100kSub man congratz.)