Thrace - Battlefield Tactics | Game Guides

Thrace - Battlefield Tactics | Game Guides | Rome Total War

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@daveingram1351 10 ай бұрын

Good video and analysis. A comment about pike phalanxes if I may. Philip and Alexander developed the Macedon pike phalanx not as the prime striking arm of their armies but simply to hold the centre, their prime striking arm was their cavalry. The hypaspists were used to turn the flanks of the enemy centre and hold of the enemy cavalry, and then the Companions, followed by other lance armed cavalry, charged in at the hinge point. All the phalanx has to do is hold up the enemy centre long enough for the flank movement to take effect. Curiously enough, the Successor generals seemed to have forgotten this and many battles between Successors turned into slugging matches between mass pike phalanxes where "superweapons" in the form of chariots or elephants were introduced to break up what was basically a battlefield stalemate. Thrace doesnt have the cavalry or the hypaspists, but the falxmen are a pretty good substitute. So my strategy is to have 5 or 6 phalanx units (backed by 4 onagers if possible to give a range advantage) and to put a mass of falxman on the left flank - the left flank because that is the shieldless side of the enemy infantry., militia skirmishing cavalry on the right flank. Maneuvering in the face of the enemy is a skill well worth developing as the morale algorithm in RTW is quite effective, see how many enemy units you can get to route as a "cascade" down the line !!

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

Great commentary and some lovely historical details. It's funny how imitations of great tactics often just water them down rather than improve on them; I see this in sports a lot too.

@richardtaylor215 10 ай бұрын

Good tips. The Bastarnae are definitely underrated.

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@hannahneal1601 10 ай бұрын

Love these guides! Germania next please

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

Coming soon!

@huw140269 8 ай бұрын

These and the campaign strategy guides are great

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 8 ай бұрын

Cheers! The next one is coming up in February so stay tuned. 😀

@windblownleaf6450 10 ай бұрын

Dang, the most hardcore RTW/M2:TW youtuber out there! Hat's off to you, man.

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

Cheers!

@cavalieredigitale 10 ай бұрын

I always wanted to start a campaign with Thrace but i was scared to face the roman urban cohorts :D your guides are very helpful, thank you!

@EDuarteVillanueva 10 ай бұрын

I'm staring a campaign with Thrace soon. I find their starting position very interesting. Would be cool if they had their equivalent of silver shields like Pontus. Of course, they would have to be Gold Shields.

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

Yeah I silver shield equivalent would be a huge boost for them. I wonder if any mods have such a unit...

@aamil93 2 ай бұрын

I think devs did not place an elite phalanx unit so the player must rely on the barbarian roster, to keep the "hellenic-barbarian flavour". What could have ben done is giving them at least a noble heavy cav unit

@johnroscoe2406 5 ай бұрын

Great video. Appreciate your channel. Glad you still have recent content on "Gold" version.

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it! Classic Rome is the only true Rome ;)

@jamespotts5853 25 күн бұрын

Dacia are actually quite a fun one to play. You need to go skirmish, archer and cav heavy but you can get really good results against the helenic factions by keeping them at arms length.

@TheMercian13 Ай бұрын

Greco-Macedon: Good old Hammer & Anvil, never fails!

@satanwithinternet2753 10 ай бұрын

Great video as always nerd, i would love to see a pontus or germany video

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

Judging by the vote, Germany is coming soon!

@satanwithinternet2753 10 ай бұрын

@@ToNerdistoHumanTNH pog

@pyrrhusthegreat2103 10 ай бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, the warcry adds +10 stats in attack during the warcry, right ? I'm not sure what it does exactly

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

I don't know the numbers but it bumps up your attack and is definitely worth it. If it is 10 then its spectacularly good!

@noraandersson7822 10 ай бұрын

The trees have eyes!

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

The snakes have eyes!

@pyrrhusthegreat2103 10 ай бұрын

Hi, sorry I'm a tad confused. Why put the falxmen in loose formation ?

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

It's something about the way they wrap around units and hack them apart. They just seem to be much more successful this way.

@billyholland5156 10 ай бұрын

do tactics guide for Apache from medieval 2 next

@ToNerdistoHumanTNH 10 ай бұрын

Oh I'd love to do those guides too one day! Apache are probably the most interesting faction in all the DLC too.

@civ-fanboy2137 9 ай бұрын

The thracian General also has better Stats than most others

@johngalt5166 6 ай бұрын

That can’t be true. I’ve been trying to play a Hard Battle Very hard campaign game as Thrace and I feel like my generals are made of paper. Maybe it’s a skill issue but I am really struggling with the campaign on such high difficulty lol. Normally I can squeeze my way out of anything.

@aamil93 2 ай бұрын

At least in older versions, the late general was a weakened barbarian warlord, but older versions also had stats like +15 in charge bonus for cataphracts and +17 for scythian nobles an sarmatians iirc, then all(by the time of expansions) were topped up in 9, except elephants (my memory may be tricking me in details, but the point is that thrqcian generals were kind of crap in the day)