The unofficial Roman campaign (AoE2)

[@stalwartarjuna]

It's genuinely awesome to see how much you've kept working on your scenario over the years, even before the DE days.

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I've designed 2 roman scenarios, "Roman Border Wall" And "Roman Britannia" Check them out for more Roman fun!

[@mongopoju]

growl

[@alex0083g]

Wow SoTL actually updated this for ROR. Amazing!

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I've designed 2 roman scenarios, "Roman Border Assault" And "Roman Britannia" Check them out for more Roman fun!

[@MegaMaster1021]

I think the devs should focus on making official campaigns for all the civs that don't have any because OG civs still not having one is just insane to me I know there is Historical Battles but I argue it doesn't do them enough justice.

[@Tiberium10332]

Yeah, I would love a Japanese campaign! I would be interested in campaign only DLC too.

[@SkreltNL]

Doesnt make money quickly enough Extra civ reskin is way easier milking such a loyal community

[@Steve-mx9rr]

Lords of the West finally gave the English their own campaign after 22 years. after that, Lithuanians got theirs with Dawn of the Dukes. Dynasties of India and Return of Rome naturally had none for an older civ. I'm pretty sure that this year's DLC for AoE2DE, 1 old civ will have a campaign. I think it will be about East Asia: China, Korea, Japan would definitely be within the realms of possibility.

[@LotsOfS]

Doesn't need to be full campaigns. Even an additional set of historical battles would please me

[@ariisee]

@@Steve-mx9rr Chinese would be welcome. Such a big, historically and in-game, civilisation, and still no campaign :(

[@CaptainThemerica]

Just beat it with a buddy! It’s nice to put the less experienced player as the Eastern Empire and it can keep both people plenty busy.

[@drakesilmore3760]

Would be fun if yellow spawned a huge army ~1 minute after you declare war, as it's a huge empire as well that can send reenforcements.

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

I might have rigged it to the destruction of the town center or any castle. So raiding is neglected, but any landgrab triggers the war. I'd also add 5 villagers worth of wood, stone and food trickle, and spawn a new villager every few minutes if none exist to rebuild the frontier and then repair it's possessions. So stripping the settlement of it's villagers will not actually disable the settlement, despite the raiding and ongoing hostility. It also means you can stop the harassment without facing the army.

[@ursleiter5611]

This sounds like a lot of work went into this. And also absolutely commendable. Kudos for the immense effort and determination. Maybe one day we'll have a community coop campaign made up from different creator's scenario maps?

[@michaeltaylor8698]

I actually have my own version of a large scale Roman scenario called "The Eagle Spreads its Wings". Its all single player and has you as the romans expand out and conquer Carthage (persians), Egypt (Ethiopians), Gaul (celts) and Britannia (britons). Theres also the goths in Germania, the huns who spawn in from the east later in the scenario, and Greek States (byzantines). Once you defeat the Greeks they become your ally as the eastern empire. When i first made the scenario i had the romans set as italians (minus gunpowder) which i then switched to Sicilians as the serjeant worked well as a legionary stand in. Now i just have to update my scenario with the new Roman civ and change some of the triggers

[@CormacHolland]

SoTL, you should feature this in a video.

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I've designed 2 roman scenarios, "Roman Border Assault" And "Roman Britannia" Check them out for more Roman fun!

[@rorriruiz5336]

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[@filthyfinancials1622]

@@rorriruiz5336 can't blame a boi for tryin, 12

[@dov6341]

Imo, a good choice of roman campaign would be Stilicho. Already appearing in Alaric's campaign as ally/enemy, he participated in many battles (notably against Alaric and Eastern Roman Empire) to maintain order and peace in what remained of the Western Roman Empire.

[@llSuperSnivyll]

Or Majorian, the last legitimate effort to save the Western Empire from falling apart.

[@MadArcherJr]

The Hannibal meme killed me. ;)))) 1111 It's awesome that you keep up with updating this map. It's very well made.

[@princeimrahil6557]

Yo! This campaign is a classic! So good to see it updated

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I've designed 2 roman scenarios, "Roman Border Assault" And "Roman Britannia" Check them out for more Roman fun!

[@AnimeFan-dl4qd]

1:45 Majorian was pretty close to save the western Roman Empire, even without Carthage. Obiviously, after he got backstabbed, the dream was other.

[@DosCaracteres]

At first I thought the dlc would have a romans campaign for aoe2. I think would have been great to now be on the roman side against goths and huns, similar to what they did with wallace and joan of arc in lords of the west.

[@filthyfinancials1622]

Check out my scenario "Roman Britannia" I'm super proud of it.

[@Kaliayep]

This looks absolutely great - I am quite bad at AOE II (especially playing meta and specific build orders) so campaigns and scenario have always been the main incentive to play :) I really like the design of this custom scenario of yours and will surely try it soon. Thank you

[@LeftJoystick]

In the 5th Century, they really needed another Emperor Aurelian who was given the epic title: Restitutor Orbis ("Restorer of the World"). He restored the empire during the *Crisis of the Third Century* in FIVE YEARS. 5!! What an epic dude.

[@danielrusso4468]

Really they need to not kill him lol

[@mandoso8939]

Amaaaazing, just played it yesterday ❤ Thank you so much for all the effort, great work!

[@cappantwan2978]

Man, I wish I had the patience and knowledge to make levels like this. Really good work, Law.

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I just finished one called "Roman Britannia" I'm quite proud of it. Check it out if you're interested.

[@inductivegrunt94]

I was waiting for this to come out when the Romans came out. I even rewatched the old 8-player video a while back. So this will be great to watch. Although I expected that it would have been the 8-player map. But since you could pick civs in that one(I think), Blue could just pick Romans and it'll play pretty much the same.

[@FirstLast-wk3kc]

That's insane. So much references to the history. I LOVE IT

[@pepemontuenga3368]

From a purely cosmetic perspective, I would change the Colour of the Franks and Visigoths (Green and Blue) to reflect their classical Campaign Colours. And also, maybe change Franks to their namesake civilization?

[@bernard3303]

Im not sure because i didnt play this map yet as i havent heard anything of it since this video but i assume they are now goths instead of frankish which is a good gameplay decision imo as the frankish culture amd way of life was drastically different and it wouldnt make sense to give them a cavalry focused agricultural civ, plus goth armies are larger and feel more threatening

[@sneckie]

This is really cool! Good on you for keeping this updated. Great idea for a scenario too!

[@CyanMentality]

Dude this looks amazing, well done!

[@lukeciancio6195]

This was really fun! Well balanced with interesting mechanics and I love that it has co-op! Tbh, still hanging out for them to make more of the campaigns in the main game co-op

[@temporalpariah4626]

Ah man I remember the first iteration like it was yesterday. I'll have to get the gang back together to give this one a go. Funny how time flies, yeah? Thanks for the great content as always sotl!

[@conradrodearmel9499]

I've been rewatching your videos and this is exactly what I wanted. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

[@jayessaitch]

This scenario was so so so so fun. I love the thought and detail you've put into it and can't wait to try it co-op with a friend. Thanks heaps for making this and for your amazing content.

[@kgregorius8550]

Tbh I think it would cool as hell if we made a speed run tournament out of this with T90offical being the caster of the event people of cores being in teams of two.

[@rickeydeyoung9096]

This sounds awesome.

[@roanfel5950]

Had a ton of fun on the multiplayer map, and I am looking forward to this as well.

[@PablitoAndCo]

Pretty good idea to update the map. Although, as a nitpick, the last chance of the Western Roman Empire being saved/rebuilt happened with the reign of Majorianus, between 457 and 461. Honestly I think it would be cool to have another scenario where you start off with Italy, Dalmatia and northern Gaul and have to retake the WRE borders by going against the Vandals, Visigoths, Franks and Anglo-Saxons. Unfortunately, the Huns would be on the back-foot at this time, so a bit less player variety there.

[@ryankaiser2702]

I was waiting for this, I knew that this dlc would change up this popular scenario

[@nevermindmeijustinjectedaw9988]

now i wanna see someone win this all alone on max difficulty...without paying anyone off!

[@blueldrrich84]

2:05 - Hannibal had to take the alpine route during the 2nd Punic War because by this time the Roman fleet had won decisive victories and made a sea campaign impossible. Their new invention, the corvus (crow bill) had essentially made naval engagements into land battles; their strength. Thus, with an uncooperative government at home and a mostly mercenary army, he took the north then east, damaging Roman colonies in Iberia and southern Gaul, while also picking up rebels along the way (Gauls etc) who chafed under Roman control. Had Hannibal been able to besiege cities, we likely would be talking about him as the man who sacked Rome for the 2nd time (first was by Gauls). Trust me, if Hannibal didn't have to, he wouldn't have taken the alpine route as I wanna say only 2 - 4 (?) of his elephants survived.

[@AlexanderMcArthy]

Thank you so much for the attention you've given this for the enjoyment of others.

[@glenn7443]

Very nice mr Law. I remember playing it with you in the old days. It was one of the best maps I ever played in AOE. Ty for the campain. I know now what to do today :)

[@sayaksengupta4335]

Your attention to details is on a completely different level. 💕💕 Amazing. 💕

[@pandaprewmaster325]

you know what about making carthage a playable faction? the carthage player will have to tribute food to the romans in italy to fight off the enemy and maybe even train an army idk how that might work out but im impressed that you kept this map alive it will be fun to try it

[@deadeyeridge]

Please record some more gameplays of this scenario like you need about 3 years ago. Very very fun to watch

[@robmorgan1989]

Perfect timing I just finished all aoe1 campaigns

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I made a couple I'm fairly proud of. "Roman Britannia" and "Roman Border Assault" Would love it if you checked them out, especially Roman Britannia

[@vallytine]

They REALLY need to dial back the number of civs they add and just do a DLC or two focused on adding in campaigns for civs that lack them - Chinese, Koreans, Japanese have been waiting on Civs for how long? And there's SO much potential for stories there - Rise of the Ming for Chinese, Trials of the Goryeo or Joseon Dynasties for Koreans, and Three Unifiers (Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu) for Japanese. And for romans a campaign focusing on somebody like Constantine or Aurelian would be fantastic.

[@magica3526]

Super cool. I like adding the offensive element, the old one was cool, but had feelbad moments just trying to attrite your enemies. I think aoe2 in general doesn't do a great job of encouraging prolonged, widespread conflict, you generally have 1 or maybe 2 battle sites, this scenario should force you to manage multiple simultaneous offensives / skirmishes

[@bryanh666]

That is amazing! I love the historic tidbits 🤘

[@iagocasabiellgonzalez7807]

Great map, it looks wonderful. You could try a scenario I've built some years ago, in Northwest Spain, but in the year 1000 AD (600 years later), based on the 10th and 11th Century Santiago de Compostela had a huge gold treasury from the Saint James Way pilgrims. The coast was constantly being raided by Vikings, some Britons took refuge and a huge campaign by Al-Mansur atacked from Al-Andalus, destroying Astorga and in Santiago they took the bronze bells of the Cathedral to Córdoba. You can search it in the mods, it is called "Galicia anno 1000". Would love some feedback.

[@rickweijers500]

Very good! Keep up the good work SOTL!

[@avalanchas336]

Gonna download this right now! Amazing!

[@JoeLiningToolFilms]

Awesome, never even knew you me a scenario, but gonna try this one!

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

Weird to see the Franks played as the Goths, sure you'd need restricting some of their tech tree but the invasions is the perfect time for their throwing axemen to shine

[@SCCH286]

Amazing scenario! Player 1 has to build the 5 TCs tho, so it should either be clear or allow player 2 to build the TCs too. There is also a bug when selecting multiple buildings, for example double click in barracks selects also other buildings and you cannot re-select a group with shift-click in their small icons.

[@sirgodua]

Since people are mentioning their own related custom scenarios - I do have one from the point of view of Huns, "BEFORE ATTILA". There are no changes to be made for RoR, since only Eastern Romans are represented. Thanks 😊

[@Pdmc2016]

This is a really high quality scenario

[@michamalinowski8015]

Cool. Yea I was almost certain we will get Flavius Aetius Campaign, because that would just make soooo much sense.

[@Puni92TV]

Some lets play of this campaign would be great

[@alexandertoloza2038]

este mapa es tan complejo, pero en un buen sentido! hay muchas opciones y para todos los niveles! 😎✨ tremendo

[@JammyBriton]

I love this, great work. I'll have to try this out

[@Imperiused]

I was execting to see a video on your old scenario!

[@leonardo_pandaboff]

It became rven more fascinating scenario after watching your interview, after actually getting know who SotL actually is. Our friendly aoe2 neighbour really knows what he is doing. It's not like I haven't the trust for it before, but knowing the author history makes it even more solid.

[@harz632]

Remove britains capabilities of building towncenters, after killing the TC they have if you then build a Castle near the flag they are force allied to you and begin sending some of their resources periodically to you, as well as small amounts of soldiers for you to use. Making it feel more like a newly acquired province that is being ruled over by a administrator then directly by you.

[@lazyreader0814]

Masterpiece, such a wonderful scenario :)

[@MegaMarclar]

Wow dude AAAA+ for the effort

[@TheLeosMind]

I was expecting a Roman campaing for Flavius Aetius as a Roman point of view of the Attila Campaing. Guess it'll only exist in my mind.

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I've designed 2 roman scenarios, "Roman Border Assault" And "Roman Britannia" Check them out for more Roman fun!

[@TalabAlSahra]

We REALLY need an official Roman campaign.

[@tH4ttUs]

Phyrrus and sargon campaigns were very nice!

[@codycasey4906]

Awesome capaign. Though Moderate difficulty is still surprisingly easy. (Enemy AIs take a while to get teched up to be a threat). The Goths in particular were complete pushovers despite spamming countless Barracks. 11 It's as if they were selling ALL of their res just to spam them and didn't even have enough for the military spam they were intending to use.

[@SpiritOfTheLaw]

Yeah, I find Moderate difficulty especially they act weird. The Huns also only use like 10 of their pop space on Moderate for some reason. I tested it primarily with Standard and Extreme difficulties, which seemed to work better. Appreciate the feedback!

[@filthyfinancials1622]

​@@SpiritOfTheLaw Hey dude, I made a scenario called "Roman Britannia" and would love to know what you think of it. Perhaps you could make a video about all the community Roman scenarios seems how there is no official campaign.

[@redryan20000]

This looks great, I just wish the map size was bigger so Spain isn't just one screen's width.

[@noxious8]

I played it on very hard and it felt hard (without the triggers) when orange, green and grey came for me. I held the line for 1 1/2 hours when the Eastern Romans attacked from behind the enemy lines and together me and the AI saved the Roman Empire :)

[@SpiritOfTheLaw]

Sounds like an epic game!

[@noxious8]

@@SpiritOfTheLaw Yes it was! I was struggling and thought about giving up - didn't expected my AI-Teammate to push. That gave me motivation to hold. Great map/triggers! I hope you are planning to upload a playthrough on Extreme!?

[@ntnima]

This looks fantastic. I'd love to be able to run this in 3 people. Maybe the third player is one of the factions that make sense to ally with the Romans. Or maybe (and this is def scope creeping things, but) there could be another outpost to fragment some part of the west or east (or something between both) to create a thrid roman actor. Maybe something central that can work a little more like the Huns - I recall there is a historical precedent for a mobile Roman cavalry force.

[@ntnima]

Or maybe the mercenaries that can be bought are placed under the control of the third player. I don't know - something flavorful that would make interesting immersive coordination challenges for three players against the AIs. Thanks for the inspirational work!

[@CJ00014]

Thanks man, this is something I really really wanted.

[@dolanuscaesar1326]

My suggestions for Roman campaigns: Constantine the Gr8 - interesting story Emperir Aurelian - Chadus Maximus, but with tragic end Stilicho - I havent even play this campaign but I am sure the outro of last mission would make me cry like a bitch

[@cian2741]

my god 7 years ago since you first worked on this mod, times weird

[@GarkKahn]

1:25 From the eastern perspective: They're the same picture

[@md.fahim-ul-islamsourav495]

When King of AOE 2, meets with AOE 1 Villager with wheel upgrade, "Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle(run) shall be legendary."

[@floppa9415]

Wow this is so cool. Imagine if AoE 2 would offer a System similar to the Focus Tree for HOI 4 in these custom scenarios which could allow you fire of scripted sequences.

[@KroM234]

I am the author of Alexander Nevski or Mehmed the Conqueror (Manu La Capuche) and I been willing to work on a AOE2 DE Roman campaign but so far all the bugs in the scenario editor kept me from keeping working on any content until they are fixed for good. The most game breaking issue right now is the Replace Object effect not scaling the HP values between the previous object to the replacing object, which is totally crippling a lot of scenarios, official and custom alike. If you want more custom content, I highly advise you to bring this up to the devs time and time again so that they start to care. Because right now solo player doesn't seem one of their priorities, and it has been months already with the scenario editor bugged at various levels.

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

Not sure if this would happen very often, but one thing that might go wrong is purple building on the area you need to build the town centre on in Ctesiphon. You might want a failsafe for that scenario.

[@brasilballs]

as he said in the video you can delete the outpost to take over everything the ERE has if you want to

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

@@brasilballs Oh of course. That would do it.

[@MrShadowThief]

I wish FE would make more historical battles.

[@KingoftheWelsh]

@SpiritoftheLaw would love to watch you play this scenario on the channel!

[@Muenni]

This is better than the entire DLC!

[@nafnaf0]

This would epic as a Ludicrous sized map

[@Freestyle80]

New coop mod is awesome i wish all dlc campaigns was coopable, it’d be so easy to make for the devs…

[@gastonberasateguipasman2773]

Hey Spirit! Thanks for all your amazing work! I really enjoy whatching videos about this scenario. Where can I found a video or any info about the other Roman Scenario you created appart from Romans vs Barbarians, please? (I read in some of your comments you created another one but i could not find it)

[@aperturefixtures7469]

Is there a chance of getting a updated multiplayer version? That was so fun in HD.

[@berndberndsen5680]

Just looking at those two maps at 1:20 hurts

[@briannaherrington949]

I'm going to play this very soon

[@dominykasbudrys1011]

Very nice update on this scenario! But this scenario sadly isn't popular enough.

[@pedrocarc]

I love you and celebrate your existence

[@chaos_dwarf]

Would love to see you play this at a very high difficulty level sotl, or better yet, you play and then cast the game.

[@zachariastsampasidis8880]

Damn that's a lot of work

[@Ugapiku]

Majority of players (including me) mainly play this game because of singleplayer and campaigns. So this DLC was a slight disappointment, a first one since release...

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I've designed 2 roman scenarios, "Roman Border Assault" And "Roman Britannia" Check them out for more Roman fun. At least the community puts in the effort.

[@andresperedo1275]

1. I really want to play this 2. I really want to see some pros playing this

[@andresperedo1275]

I just play the scenario and have some feedback, I hope you read it: 1- Being a mediocre player, I have beaten it at first try. Mostly due to how stupidly the AI acts. Building a couple of castles and a couple of towers by the Rhine was enough to stop all the attacks 2- The "Settled Goths" trigger did not work as intended. They immediately declared that we are enemies. Besides, it was quite easy to kill them. 3- The huns invasion did not really work. Most of them stayed in "their half" of the map and did nothing until I was already invading them. 4- The AI ally (Eastern Empire) killed the persians on its own. Besides it just stopped some raids, so besides providing a market for comerce, they did nothing impactful.

[@Unormalism]

God I love custom maps. I'll give this a go with a friend.

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I've designed a good 3 player scenario, called "Roman Britannia" Check it out and leave a comment on what you thought of it!

[@Unormalism]

@@filthyfinancials1622 thanks for the recommendation. I'll give it a look, but either way you're doing good work contributing to the community.

[@timbradley5562]

We weren't able to win this on coop until I deleted the outpost, assasinating my friend. Everyone else was dead, but perhaps we had to control the TCs with one civ?

[@djanderson92]

Cheers John

[@Steve-mx9rr]

The Western Romans definitely need their own campaign in the future

[@filthyfinancials1622]

I've designed 2 roman scenarios, "Roman Border Assault" And "Roman Britannia" Check them out for more Roman fun in the meantime!

[@MaximusOfTheMeadow]

We used to play the EoE1 all the time! I love this Mod! But there's one pet peeve of mine The Barbarians of then, were not uncivilized.... Words change in +2000 years Tribes were huge political unions, sometimes of 10,000+ people. With democracy at every political level And were much more humain then Romans and Greeks. Not to mention les sexist Rome was a falling state, it could not have an Emporor for mor then a few years (sometimes months) Sacking Rome is an old and proud tradition Roman Generals did. This was the first time a non-Roman did it The Goths disposed of an Emperor Yes. But they saved Rome as an institution, gave the Roman citizens and Senate more power And brought overall stability by disposing a line of nutty Emperors

[@chadasmr8304]

Don't see much point in your moralizing for the Goths victory, but otherwise you are of course completely right. Alot of Westerners are brought up with a reverence for Rome despite it being a warmongering slaver state, ruled by dictators. It was the most succsessful killer so therefore it is the best. Kill a man and your a murder, kill a thousand and your a God.

[@A.Martinez152]

shouldn't Milan be one of the capitals instead of Rome itself? and why are Franks goths rather than, well, Franks? I think that Anglo-Saxons could actually be Goths rather than Vikings, like in Hastings scenario. I'm guessing that Woad raiders are just for balance purpose, but i think actual huskarls would still fit better as mercs or "foederati". And speaking of Visigoths: if they already settled, why are there also in the north of the Eastern Roman Empire? Should't they be the Ostrogoths? Other than that, it's great you remade this map and now for singleplayer!

[@ZendikarMage42750]

I really wasn't keen on buying AoE 1 for a third time, but you're making it so hard not to, heh heh

[@suhas1602]

This is very impressive

[@michaelmcnamara3190]

This is pretty cool man 😎

[@xzimnut]

My fav series!

[@willianmiranda1370]

Amazing job!!

[@nemdoc8666]

I was waiting for this🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

[@jamesfstokes]

This is really cool and it looks like a lot of fun to play. I wasn't aware you modded aoe 2, but it looks like you did an excellent job. Have you modded any other games?