The Worst & Most Historically Inaccurate Faction In Any Total War - Rome Total War

Today we are venturing back to Rome total war and looking at one of the laziest and horrendous factions in any game I've ever seen. Enjoy!
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[@tylerlambert8400]

Their offer: Accept or we will attack. Their demand: Please do not attack. 8:22

[@griddy922]

Lmao

[@anthonyromanelli1392]

Well obviously. They needed a head start.

[@Stefanius058]

If i got a denar for every time that happend to me

[@logan8638]

@@dabbingsquidward5748 it really doesn't... if they didnt want to be attacked then why would they threaten to attack them.

[@jonathanlynch8089]

@@Stefanius058 I would be greek

[@thomasturner6980]

When the Galatic Empire allies with the Mayans to defeat the British Empire on Mars

[@grandadmiralthrawn5962]

Wait a second

[@ShadowMinnie]

I think it was in pluton actually

[@theaxgame]

As Victoriam!

[@doctoroctopus2620]

Hahahahaha so funny so hilarious

[@ShadowMinnie]

@@doctoroctopus2620 hahaha so sarcastic

[@RandomPerson-jo7cw]

Egyptian names described by Isorrowproductions Someone: you're gonna get a name kid Kid: yay Someone: *slams his face on the keyboard* Someone: you're name is Ptahhotep from now

[@RandomPerson-jo7cw]

@Eusko Gudariak oh shit, I realized that. Probably because I erased the first version and got lazy or something.

[@christofferthorsson607]

If only it was that easy

[@Dover939]

Ptolemy I Ptolemy II Ptolemy III

[@damianjblack]

"Egyptian" names in RTW: Khasekhem Neos Dionysos Egyptian names in reality: Ameny son of Ip

[@Longshanks1690]

Rome: Total War tells us there were once Italians with a competent military. What greater fiction could there be?

[@mrwri]

I was going to post a comment but there's no point it wouldn't be nearly as good as this.

[@TheArklyte]

>Implying Italians weren't competent in military matters. >Implying Rome was:D

[@armannsteinn2736]

@@TheArklyte ​ TheArklyte Rome conquered the mediterranean and won tons of battles through strategical genius and tactics. Mussolini couldn't conquer greece by himself and he had to cry to hitler for help. The only thing mussolini sucessfully conquered was ethiopia and most of their have troops didn't have any guns. He also had to use poison gas to conquer ethiopia. They only thing the italians conquered successfully was themselves when they reunited the peninsula.

[@narcick1018]

@@armannsteinn2736 you didnt get the joke you are soo dumb :)

[@jeck988]

Ehh romans were more Greek an Trojan don’t shackle them with the Italian “war machine”

[@olisko3484]

Please make more explaining history things. It was hilarious

[@piotrwegrzyniak5798]

Yeah, i kinda thought that his knowledge its just stuff like "Italian army sucks", "Stalin had gulags" but now id love to see something a bit more towards history than just a game

[@theangryaustralian7624]

History test 500k

[@r.j.lombardi111]

Well ISorrow, please do

[@JeevesAnthrozaurUS]

Just realized that the picture of Alexander The Great everyone uses gives him big ol' anime eyes With how hellbent Alexander was in heading east, we might have just figured out who the first weaboo was

[@garrett9451]

We need an anime where the Protagonist is Alexander The Great and the Plot is his conquest.

[@SentientTrafficConeMan]

@@garrett9451 No shit, I'd watch that as long as it's tasteful

[@theazureknight9399]

@@garrett9451 Well, Alexander shows up in the anime Fate/Zero, although he's not the protagonist.

[@garrett9451]

@@theazureknight9399 I am a fan of Fate/Zero and that is not what I seek.

[@cc0767]

@@garrett9451 seems that that setting isnt appealing enough to the audience, probably because japan has its own history. the closest we get to that setting is likely Arslan Senki or Kingdom. Alexanders conquest would probably make for a goof action OVA though, you know one of those 1h short movies with little plot which were kinda common in the 80s and 90s its just too expensive now to make an anime which doesnt get paid via the source material sales. Or action figures for original shows. Sadly a proper alexander show doesnt qualify

[@alexanderthegreat445]

Ego has certainly been stroked by this video.

[@JohnDoe-or2qg]

Look how they massacred your Empire.

[@gunnerr8476]

Where's your chicken?

[@aquila4460]

I'm fairly certain he wasn't just stroking your ego.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Assault Gunner where’s his boyfriend?

[@aasmundhald7638]

0/10 no Publius the Mighty

[@RuskiFuze01]

Aasmund Hald poor Publius

[@panzerofthelake506]

And his army of FIRE PIGS!

[@MrJedroi258]

There is a Publius on this video

[@Chactemal]

No Fabio "The sword of Jesus" 0/10

[@panzerofthelake506]

@@Chactemal Fabiano 'The sword of Jesus'

[@KeeperOfTheSevenKeys.]

"I Don't want to deal with a problem that can't be solved by me slowly walking at it with pointy sticks."

[@HTPCYMC]

Wait, so it’s not Christmas? I thought it was Christmas in July... I have been tricked by the great iSorrow once again.

[@portmoneul]

Quite possibly even bamboozled. Same here mate. Snow in july wtf.

[@acerusea5156]

Its Christmas in July I'm going to hhgregg for those sweet TV sales

[@suborbitalprocess]

ISP wouldn't trick you like this

[@marileed8504]

How to properly clean your metal computer I remember you from acrylo

[@TheDarkman21]

"Accept or we will Attack" "Please do not attack" well..... i guess i will refuse then

[@sreckocuvalo8110]

Ok, I might have an interesting challenge for you. Play any Total War you want, BUT! you have to accept every AI proposal and request.

[@emperorcaesar4311]

This would be pretty funny in Three Kingdoms, you'll have no ancillaries.

[@charlesmcdonald2677]

Play Medieval 2 and instantly get vassalized by France

[@ryanszymanski2475]

I think I may try this, who knows maybe I'll upload episodes. We will see :D

[@Executor009]

Do you want to know how to go bankrupt in three easy negotiations?

[@lohfert86]

The feeling when you realize your one yeah older then Alexander the great at his death. And you haven't conquered anything...

[@alexbeck8568]

Rally the homeless

[@cynicat74]

Never too late to start some war crimes

[@amitabhakusari2304]

This game is terrible. They didnt even include the most famous Ancient Pharaoh of them all- Kahjjdjjudjfiidotephtdgssokboteph

[@EinFelsbrocken]

Huh? Which one? Kahjjdjjudjfiidotephtdgssokboteph I. the "a bit less great then Alexander"; or Kahjjdjjudjfiidotephtdgssokboteph III. the "sun king"? ;P

[@BrendenTait8858]

But what about my favorite Ptolemaic pharaoh Pehdvsiteph

[@AMMN2118]

lol, an indian commenting on weird royal Egyptian names XD XD XD XD Now I've seen everything!

[@coolthefool1]

Bdkdhemsusgevrv what about Eminem rap god or mc mental whrubwveudbwhehthdusbe

[@stol8868]

Well isorrow this isnt the worst faction in total war

[@keizervanenerc5180]

6:21 ISP proofs he is a tactical genius by using the famous ancient "pacman spike" formation.

[@swagmanjones_6948]

But what about the wor...I mean best nation in Victoria 2 #Banatat500k

[@Copperhell144]

But also play the actual best nation tho - Fascist Babylon in Vic2

[@australiananarchist480]

iSorrow taught me more ancient history in the first 2 minutes of this video than an entire semester of Year 7 ever could

[@spoopyghost8326]

I'm really happy that isp displays his love of history by being so offended when the game isn't accurate. It's charming. Isp you have given me a smile in some tough places in my life. Thank you.

[@alexzhao9990]

I swear to god if I have to go another Day without and Isorrowproductions production I will sorrow everywhere.

[@Tsuruchi_420]

I like your way to explain history, way better than drew...

[@ciaranjamiesonfamily-frien5144]

João Felipe B. Lopes i’d accept you more but you have not only a dead meme as your pfp but an lgbtq flag

[@mulan-jinglesemusicas1513]

Crucify him.

[@suborbitalprocess]

0:09 ISP is a way better dad than you are! He lets me stay up past 8 and let me taste beer one time at Christmas! You're not my real dad!

[@austinreed5805]

3:01 Shaka Zulu is coming for you.

[@user-xw5xo3bv1n]

"Zulus attack, Fight back to back Show them no mercy and Fire at will!" (c)

[@FriendlyArchpriest]

If you ever go back to HOI4 plz play the Equestria At War mod!

[@mkevhne]

^

[@jelleschoenmaker3956]

That would actually be hilarious

[@memeexp1103]

He did play it, however he snuck it under a different video which he later unlisted/deleted for reasons unknown. Daddy Soros is mildly disappointing

[@memeexp1103]

@Kostas anagno It hasn't ended. They are also only 1/3rd of their peak population.

[@thezipcreator]

ew no

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

_Thrones of Britannia_ *Ruuuule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves*

[@nathanburnett9529]

Avery The Cuban-American why do you always watch the same videos as me

[@brutebane5542]

ISP:its not Christmas KZbin recommending this to me on Christmas day:oh I don't think so

[@lashx4080]

Play the 1942 mod for rome total war plez

[@shinsenshogun900]

Yes

[@Gia1911Logous]

Alexander was literally a better Jesus... he even lived to 33

[@darkfang1221]

Honestly this was one of your best videos you’ve ever made

[@HammerspaceCreature]

I can only dream of being so great a man that I become known as 'The Lewd'.

[@hotdogfingerz9674]

ISP please play Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. I've already sacrificed enough children

[@theduchyofmilanball3157]

@Colonel Leviathan I liked it tbh, its basically a space shooter on rails

[@mr.voidroy6869]

There is an explanation for this. Egypt built the pyramids to time travel around earths history. The Egyptians time traveled to this period of history from the bronze age.

[@andreasottohansen7338]

Most of the units are Bronze Age, except the Zulu who are from around the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

[@caydenmccormick1659]

"I found an actual civilized nation, the romans" The greeks: am I a joke to you?

[@090giver090]

Some random centurion: Well... yes... You kinda is.

[@ceyboard4296]

There's a guy called ISP that you need to Report. He's uploading a bunch of your unreleased content.

[@michaelbates8571]

I loved the crash course through history segment.

[@eVeNmOrEiNsAnItY]

You should play Nabatea in Rome 2 (desert kingdoms dlc) and thrash the Egyptians and Seleucids as a followup to this.

[@evertenplaza3673]

8:30 69 and 1776 in the same battle report end screen

[@CleverChina]

Love to see these old strategy games I played when I was a kid being brought to attention to such a big audience 🥰🥰🥰

[@gr9g]

You should do history videos like that Alexander thingy, that was amazing

[@sampatterson8986]

Energizer Total War: Revenge of the Duracell

[@luculus8781]

The sound of my phone doesn't work, so I watched the first few minutes without sound and it's even funnier than with

[@tomblake189]

I think this may be your best ever episode courtesy of the starting history lesson

[@HaydenPlaysGames]

Jokes on you. I started watching this video on christmas and finished it on boxing day

[@jimtalbott9535]

Idea: when you’re done with your games, save them and offer up the saved games for us to mess up, and send back to you for further pain.

[@arunlewis4416]

I love these games. Dev: So what year is this game set? Other Dev: 270 AD. Dev: Then Lets give the Egyptians chariots and Nubian Spearmen! Other Dev: Hold up, this is with the Ptolemy’s, what about the Phalanx? Dev: Screw that, who do you think i am, some nerd who makes videos about a strategy game from the 2000’s? Other Dev: But you don’t include Boi, *Prepare to be purged Heretic.*

[@Yuilen]

ItsMad Lad You’re just as idiotic as the “devs” you’re trying to portray. Who the fuck said the game starts in 270 AD?? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ That’s literally 540 years AFTER the game’s start date.

[@arunlewis4416]

Yuilen it’s a example!

[@favre4ever39]

I say the Bruti were the most inaccurate WHY CAN'T I STAB CEASER?

[@Daniel-kx3zz]

The scippi and the julii : Dafuq is Caesar?

[@BobBob-cy9cu]

This has inspired me to play RTW again as Egypt, thank you

[@russelljohnson7004]

That intro was one of the first times you've done something funny keep it up

[@Canada1994]

isorrow should do a whole series of him doing history lessons similar to the one he did about Alexander's successor Kingdoms

[@ryanrusch3976]

I always loved playing Rome total war as the Scipii Romans fighting the equivalent of Vietnam in the Desserts of Egypt as Chariots tore through my heavy infantry lines.

[@sirwilczek1813]

Not only we were promised Bactria in I:R, but also another episode of Planet War. Where are those, Daddy ISP?

[@healyalvarado4791]

Love the guitar at 1:20

[@Sarsol1989]

Man i forgot this was a thing. I remember playing vanilla egypt a bit. Do try RTR (Rome Total Realism) mod. They actually fix this, and most of my memories of RTW is with that mod installed.

[@connorw1864]

Thank you Oversimplified, great vid!

[@herbivorethecarnivore8447]

Take a drink every time ISP says 'right now' in any of his videos

[@markusrotnesaasen523]

Love the total war videos, more of this please!

[@Sovietube]

2:56 Literally the Italian army in ww2

[@magdalenaschnitzer92]

I think i'm addicted to Isp's Total war videos

[@kesorangutan6170]

Lol actually one of the devs loved the Ancient Egypt and thought including Ptolemaic Egypt would be boring since there are already fuckton of hellenic factions. So to spice the gameplay up, they added ancient Egypt. this is pretty good for gameplay reasons. Just like adding 3 playable roman factions. We all know roman republic wasn't ruled by 3 families.

[@ThatGuy53297]

I do not know of this meme you speak of but now the search is on my Google history.

[@evanmoellering981]

4:24 so moot is financing rebels 2000 years ago. nice

[@shronk-oj5iv]

hold on this isnt tabs what are you doing?

[@RC15O5]

I knew it was going to be Egypt. Its so wrong... WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!

[@damianjblack]

I can tell you exactly what they were thinking: "We already have like five factions in the game that use the same old Greek units, we gotta do something different!"

[@hosomi1833]

Watches intro on Christmas Me:Christmas is cancelled!

[@markokrstic8795]

And so, Egypt became Persia.

[@jumpjimcrow6959]

Egypt culture could be more accurate if only they were thousand years earlier

[@anubisd613]

yeah, last time when I built the Imhotep temple... an army of mummies have come and kick me

[@paulsrealm7850]

I learned more history on Alexander from Isorrow than my college professors. Hold up-

[@dnietsche-f]

Ahmose wants to be hellenistic, but his mom won't let him.

[@thomasturner6980]

*can't wait for the Justin Y artillery only comment*

[@Jefrings]

4:58 you have been banned from this Christian server for inappropriate language!

[@majorearl12]

I would love to see you play the 1942 mod for Rome Total War, its a newer mod and still pretty fresh so its not 100% stable, but im sure it will be great :D

[@jawallin8734]

Really?

[@dapperbunch5029]

Been looking for this video just because of the Alexader part.

[@MrJedroi258]

We need more history with isp

[@yaitz3313]

The World War Two mod for Rome: Total War 2. Do it. Now.

[@warwickeng5491]

9:51 That's my new steam name now

[@bigboyron3539]

Idk what it is but for some reason I always go down the rabbit hole of you and total war games.

[@nathankingham1248]

I demand more isorrowproductions history lessons

[@Boinky8]

Rome Total War's development team apparently saw the BBC's The Cleopatras and believed 100% of it.

[@TheHowlersDen]

You still blowing up our Brains out for 400,000 subs

[@marveyzing1495]

Romans: heavy armor phalanx and other good stuff Spartans: ferocious heavy armor and phalanx and some more Saba: Normal armor camel and boats also some more stuff Egypt: NAKED MEN

[@Samio352]

Here I was somehow hoping you'd pick Numidia, who only have access to men with pointy sticks that stab, and men with pointy sticks that they don't like and throw away, sometimes hitting an enemy with it.

[@placeholder6432]

I mean if I remember correctly the Ptolemaics did call them selves Pharaohs. So technically the whole "Pharaohs Guard" thing kinda makes sense.

[@dark_fire_ice]

How about that originally Rome and Carthage couldn't recruit archers. Carthage, a city state with such effective citizen archers that the Roman's just burned down the city block by block. I'm referring to Rome 2. And the ancient era ended with the sack of Roma by the Visigoths, and Imhotep was named a God, under Ptah, for making the first known stone building, the step pyramid.

[@trentn1127]

but the first known stone building is Barnenez and it predates the step pyramid by 2200 years.

[@dark_fire_ice]

@@trentn1127 sorry meant their first, as in the people of Kahmut

[@dark_fire_ice]

@@trentn1127 and technically the oldest is Gobkeli Tepe

[@trentn1127]

@@dark_fire_ice troo

The reason why Egypt does so well in the campaign is because chariots get massive bonuses in auto-resolve. The same is true with the Britons. Both of them have chariots and both of their generals start as chariot units. By the time Egypt has its reforms to end the advantage they have already taken a quarter of the map.

[@Canada1994]

I didn't know that you could annihilate enemy forces in bridge battles until I started watching isorrow's videos (I've only played Empire and Napoleon so things are very different in those ones compared to these time periods)

[@joaogomes9405]

You should have played United Provinces on Empire then, abusing bridge battles is 90% of how you hold on to your capital because a bridge is the only way into Amsterdam. Park an army with lots of artillery there and no one can break in.

[@Canada1994]

@@joaogomes9405 well I've been meaning to play Rome II as Celtic nation's and I've been meaning to do fall of the samurai in Shogan II.

[@ASpectrethatishauntingEurope]

When did this channel turn into a channel that actually knows a little bit of history.

[@kylec6676]

More iSorrowProductions history please

[@amp8295]

History lesson at 1:08 Pretty damn accurate tbh

[@onehopeofthedoomed]

Total War Warhammer, Greenskins, wolf chariots only

[@idontnowhowtodraw4916]

Guys stop seeing that impostor and star seeing isp, he is the real ISORROWPRODUCTIONS

[@alexiossauromates7017]

Imperator Rome Cicero beta patch. they have changed the mana system. Try as Seleucids i think its one of the more challenging factions because it tends to fall apart.

[@leonoraekaterina5838]

Almost as inaccurate as when u called hwachas ’chinese katyushas’

[@orangvii3633]

The Nile spearmen are like the Philangites and Hoplites

[@joshuamaguire2260]

This was one wild ride

[@carsonbanman204]

This is just footage of the area 51 raid sent back from the future

[@CraZ_thank]

Once Isorrowproductions does a history video I will eat kale

[@benedictcase4290]

What's that song at the beginning .that was a bop.

[@Sovietube]

Italian invasion of Greece 1940 in a nutshell 5:54 The war starts 6:07 oof 7:15 Germany saves Italy (again)