Total War: Rome 2 - Roman Campaign #1

[@LegendofTotalWar]

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[@1001themaster]

Adverts are completely OK with everyone But with this game? Big no-no lol In any event I do hope that the 60fps works OK with the upload schedule, I think it'll be a help to growing the channel.

[@El_sweep]

LegendofTotalWar You Got A Comment War About Semen For Some Reason Just Thought I Would Let You Know

[@khorps4756]

Prophet Of the spaghetti cool story

[@cliffburton-jy6iq]

LegendofTotalWar lol

[@HansChucrute88]

Hey Legend what you think about DEI mod?

[@mrasheed8655]

I might be the only one , but i like the campaign map more than battles. I am ok with auto resolve.

[@Yeagerbonebone]

M Jordan i do aswell in the total war games that i have played

[@jamesgray2701]

M Jordan yeah

[@nugget22gil39]

I am ok with it

[@Xboxlove1]

there are too many battles in a campaign over and over, it gets tedious

[@arbesterrebereb]

Agree

[@elliottforan1386]

Really like the new channel direction legend, it makes a big difference when the video creator is enjoying what they do and makes for a more enjoyable experience all-round. Just thought I'd say keep it up mate. 👍

[@hastalavictoriasiempre2730]

Elliott Foran fuck you

[@ddandymann]

@@hastalavictoriasiempre2730 Suck a fat one.

[@thedukeofladner]

It is my personal hope that the challenge campaigns become more of a special feature than a default, you see to have more fun when you relax with the game and personally I enjoy watching them more.

[@Martiger434]

Just auto-resolve the obvious battles. There is no point in watching a battle that you cant lose.

[@quimble2177]

Martiger434 what's wrong watching a good slaughter? They did it with criminals and gladiators.

[@TheZakanater]

Maybe just do it for the interesting ones, first couple of turns are not very entertaining anyway

[@doggo206]

Anonnymouse Hacker I once had 4 pike fallanks (can’t remember how it’s spelled) a 12 unit army, i made a square and took out half the ai’s army before i lost.

[@kriminalinspektorwolff5154]

@@doggo206 phalanx

[@soulasylum1909]

I never auto-resolve. Ever.

[@Kabcr]

I love the aesthetic and artsyle in Rome 2. The unit cards bring it all together. Really wonderful game.

[@YO-hz2dk]

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[@darksatan877]

I played as the family that gets 50% less upkeep for auxiliary units and made armies strictly of auxiliary. It honestly kinda changed how I played Rome for a while and was super fun.

[@XxXGockeBearXxX]

Glad to see a Rome 2 playthrough as Rome, also loving the new channel format, both the video length and the emphasis on fun. keep up the good work legend

[@mufurcify]

I know a lot of ppl hate rome II but i think it was awesome playing as Rome. With DeI I did a playthrough when i just tried to recreate the roman empire, the direction of conquest was given for every period, and i had to stop a lot of times with the conquest, it was really good, had to constantly watch my back, not just steamroll, it was the best campaign i ever played with a tw game. It took me like 500 turns to conquer everything i wanted. It was really enjoyable.

[@GavinTheFifer]

It’s really anti-climatic how Hannibal gets killed in your first manual battle, AND he outnumbered you

[@Veizuh5.0]

You are very

[@liandario7450]

InstaBlaster...

[@killian5570]

@@ToadStool125 Yes this Hannibal was Hannibal Gisco: Commanding the Carthaginian army and fleet during the first punic war; not the Hannibal Barca of the second punic war.

[@hebber1961]

As a novice in comparison, I'd like to see this in slow motion with more explanation as to why you do some things.

[@edburt9067]

cry about it

[@LannisterGI]

This is the best Total War channel imo, is fast and to the point and you are a pro in this games, and yes don't fight battles that you can't lose.

[@MSouscolline]

1:18:50 first manual battle...

[@Tony333Aye]

TonQar thanks!!!

[@ffproductions7697]

TonQar thanks

[@mrpink-1]

TonQar and? You want this guy to do manual battles all the time? The video would be way to long and most of the battles would be so Fucking boring that’s why autoresolve exists.

[@le0shadow]

@@mrpink-1 chill out lol, he's just pointing to us who are interested in the battles when it begins

[@Mahmoud_ahmed03]

@@mrpink-1 calm down sugar tits 😂

[@misterinadequate3518]

Just started playing this again... mostly to get myself ready to get and play Attila. I love your videos and use them to set up my own campaigns. Currently just starting as Cornelius - so this will help I am sure. Thanks again.

[@shaynemc7533]

Tim D same but currently, using the Auxiliary troops as Cornelius is great. Support the cheap but effective troops with decent artillery and you can support many more armies.

[@ianpopp446]

You have to do it in a squeaky annoying voice like your first Rome campaign

[@Fanofou82]

Awesome, I'd been hoping for the past few months for just such a gameplay series as this from you Legend. THANK YOU!

[@jasonm4458]

Hey Legend, liking the longer videos and great seeing you play these campaigns for fun. For autoresolve, I'd vote for autoresolving the stomp fights for the most part unless you end up going a long time (30-45 mins maybe) without any fight since it'll break up the strategy map monotony, and definitely fight the real fights. Thanks for the series and look forward to watching.

[@strongerthangokusupermanba9981]

"I dont trust the Gauls." Spoken like a true Roman.

[@xxxyyy-wc1fd]

Hello Legend, first of all (critism at the end of my comment), thank you very much for your videos! Although I do not enjoy all of your campaign - mostly because I have played a lot with Rome1 and Medieval2 as well, so I prefer the new games above the old ones, but I agree with you that the old ones are better designed, and developed. So it is a catch-22 for me, but I recently do not play, because of the time issues. I only watch, and I chose your channel, because I like your style of playing. This is the closest to the 'ideal' style - as far as I know - which I like, and try use, when I played, which is winning the camping with all cost. If the AI is dumb, then the developers have to do a better job, so abusing it is not a big deal for me, rather a good feedback for them. This is not your problem,when they did a bad job. You adapt yourself to their work. If they made a better game, you would have chosen another method to play. Sadly to say, a lof of viewers do not understand this. I have no problem with the new formats either. Rather this one with 90 min per episode as the other one with the cut scenes, but I understand the necessarily both of them to help to maintain your channel. I like also your enthusiam, it can be felt through the screen when you enjoy playing, and also when you hate the finish the campaign, because the difficulty is dropped after halfway. So these paragraphs were ass licking feedback. I have really watched a huge amount of your campaign (I recently watch the Total War Rome2 Carthage series among the recent ones) so I can compare the old ones and the new ones format. Constructive critisim: I know you brought a new computer, and you change the quality type of videos. I have an old one, so I can not watch with 720p60 because of the buffering issues. The max is 720HD or as in this one I can not choose this option (I do not know why), so I had to change back to 480p. My problem is, and if you use glasses, or lens you will understand, that you are playing the game with - as I imagine - in front of a huge screen with big screen resolution. It results in a smudginess image, same if I do not use my lens. I uploaded two pictures to show you the difference, one is this one, other one is from your Carthage campaign imgur.com/a/vRMz2 imgur.com/a/aV0Bm I know you prerecord your series, but in the future could you please solve this problem somehow with the screen resolution? It really burdens my eyes to watch this video. Thank you very much, and keep playing! Best wishes ps. sorry I am from Europe and my native language is not English, so it could have been difficult to understand my problem, but I hope I could describe it well.

[@franzralphuy6826]

Veryo good.

[@johnnyd3387]

Legend I got this last weekend Rome 2. I have to say I'm loving it. The battles are excellent, the Politics is very interesting but hard to understand that's why I'm watching this again. I'm half way through and Im learning a shit load of information. Great show you Incredible Bastard

[@Blxz]

Please have more fun. It is fun to watch you have fun. Your newer Rome 1 Scipii was great and this Rome 2 episode is a shit tonne more enjoyable than some of your content the past few months.

[@unholyrebel1408]

Thank fuck you're doing this. Having done this campaign myself on your favorite difficulty, I'm interested in seeing as to what you think like outside the 'pro' box and just being yourself.

[@Krogzaxants]

Funny how total war rome 2 looks so much better then total war attila!

[@KnjazGromowladny]

eeee.... what? :)

[@kokagamer854]

No l thinck total war rome is a better

[@DvOli_]

Krogzax Ants the graphics are not as good but I much prefer the simpler style of buildings

[@Nubsauce]

Well Attila is a different engine. Allowed razing and random flaming arrows could set fire to buildings. The Physics also was changed a lot as well.

[@Wickwok]

That’s what it’s all about..Having fun! You have already established you are a legend. With most things in life the more you enjoy it the better you will get.

[@RGCHolyKnight]

I love the new format! Your the best youtuber because you don't baby us and you do what YOU want to do! You're the best in Total War and that can't be denied.

[@whiteslann9154]

Loving the new format of 1.5 hours

[@dwmarch]

This is a fun campaign to watch and I am so glad to see the nice bright colors of Rome II rather than the dreary dismal landscapes of Attila!

[@conorfowler]

60FPS is fucking sweet dude. Nice to see your personal approach to Rome II as well, rather than being restricted to challenge rules.

[@JustPlainRex]

Omg to think 2017 was 6 years ago doesn’t feel that long

[@berkaykoclar4953]

same man..... same

[@MasonicadaM]

this is actually my favorite total war game by far, it has so much content and the factions all seem different

[@Hugostar82]

I havent played in about 10 years and i really want to know what kind of PC should I get and what specs should it have. I am getting a pc within a month and this game is a must buy for me! Thx everyone

[@michaelmoretti9012]

This game can run on anything, with a Intel hd 4400 and a I5-4200u-both 4 yrs old from a 600$ laptop, I get almost always 30 fps on the lowest settings @1080p

[@Robin-kp1nv]

Nice choice. Gonna be an interesting campaign.

[@jeffvella9765]

True that there are no cultural difference penalty there, but the main reason you want your buildings is so you can upgrade them. If I remember correctly, you cannot upgrade other factions buildings, you have to convert them first. Unless that changed in some patch, since it has been a long time since I played Rome 2.

[@LekkerRekkenYT]

Once i played rome and conquered all of northern africa, the greece peninsula, some of france and the whole of spain... guess what?! A civil war ignited, by that time i didn’t noticed that all of those generals would betray me of the betraying party. Just thought that there would be some rebels in italy only, so that fucked up my complete experience and all my time and effort because they all had full stacks with legionarie cohorts :D

[@soulasylum1909]

I know this is super late but I'm really enjoying the Spartan campaign, ive been taking my time trying to do everything right lol no attrition dangit 😂 my Army (Prometheus Anvil) has been putting in work!!! I'm really enjoying the army traditions! Kimda skipped over rome 2 and hadnt really played it much until recently and I cant stop playing it.

[@collinp5192]

Noticed a significant improvement in video quality! Very nice!

[@grandstrategos1144]

So far, in a Rome Campaign, I have stabilized my economy by going down the economy route, instead of philosophy. I now have +4000 in revenue every single turn, and I am barely on Turn 10

[@grandstrategos1144]

Also, with luck, I have bribed everyone and succeeded, so now the political parties have one member each.

[@99IronDuke]

Always good to see a historical Total War. You should check out the new Rome 2 mod DEI 1.2

[@SkillaWillits]

Love this, it's great doing the challenge and meta games but sometimes you just gotta Total War'n'Chill. Gonna enjoy watching you take it easy!

[@87PLS]

Been hoping you would do a new Rome 2 campaign for a while now, so it's very nice to see you do this. I only got this game at Christmas and your Rome 2 vids were a massive help to me when I first started and I was learning how to play. I would love to see you do a faction we haven't seen you handle yet in the future, like Egypt for example. It would also be nice to see a bit more variety in your army compositions, I've never watched one of your campaigns past half way because it gets a bit repetitive and dull watching armies of the same composition fighting in a similar way all the time. Obviously I'm not telling you how to run your channel or anything, just offering friendly advice, feel free to ignore it. 😉

[@jahjahjah213]

Hannibal dead in a 2000 men skirmish, i'm glad that isnt our timeline

[@AvengerAtIlipa]

House of Cornelia is overpowered if you want to exploit the auto-resolve and rush through the campaign. -50% auxillary upkeep means that Auxillary Short Swords (which are slightly better than Hastati) only cost 45 talents per turn (half the price of Hastati). -50% public order penalties from foreign cultures is nice too early game, but becomes obsolete late game once you start stacking public order settlements (+90 happiness from buildings if you max out all the wine, dye, marble etc settlements), not to mention the bonuses from the legal technologies.

[@tegsheebuyan8976]

I learned many things. Especially about politics and characters. Thank you bro. I chosen the house of junia. Now i'm rulling half of full map. Rest of factions, money, public order and culture are not problem. Only problem is recession and civil war. So understood that i didnt care of own generals. Always raised from other houses. So i lost influences.

[@СтаніславМешак-ъ7ж]

Hello from the future, now this young lad is more about cheesing and less about autoresolving😂

[@ryang58]

OMG, I am SOO fucking WET for this Series!!

[@haideramvs3891]

How many hastatis are you going to recruit Legend : yes

[@aslnerd4924]

Nice video I love watching your videos keep it up 😊👍🏻

[@dfredericks86]

Rome 2 with Divide Et Impera with the Faster Combat mod (otherwise battles take forever) that makes this game not only playable but highly enjoyable. The game is hard while making sense. It also slows it down with real life factors like logistics supply and seasons affecting mobility. The diplomacy also MAKES SENSE - it's actually a work of genius. If anyone wants to write off Rome 2 - play DeI first and then make your verdict. For me, DeI is how this game SHOULD have released.

[@goldeneevee4984]

Yes new rome 2 campain as the roman empire Love u legend

[@wizardcat7654]

I......HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS CAMPAIGN SINCE BEFORE TIME BEGAN

[@revoltanimation8957]

I actually love to see campaign fights

[@aeolian4143]

Really interesting! Way better than I expected!

[@rainthegenericname_7131]

I almost jumped with joy as I saw you doing this.

[@FreeSpirit985]

Found this one now. Out of curiosity if you ever read this (doubt it, but still): why no Gens Cornelia? Was the -50% upkeep to auxiliaries not in place at this time? Or... was it part of your "having fun" goal, or finally, you didn't think it was a good bonus?

[@MercenaryZack]

When your ready, I would love to see this rome 2 doing the declare war on every faction challenge. but i am super excited to see you play rome 2 again, looking forward to a good campaign. As for Auto-Resolve, I think do when its impossible to lose. Or when its say, 60 to 40. Anything below 60% win chance, might be wothwhile fighting. And maybe for the fun of it, every now and then, show off your military might by fighting a super easy battle and annilate your enemies.

[@christianparisi6472]

OOOOOOH YESSSSS Legend i will love this campaign, i know it, and with the new format, what i can say...FANTASTIC!

[@vpassanisi]

I know people didn't really like Rome 2 but I thought it was good fun, still play it from time to time

[@mulgeroinen]

29:38 "I think diplomacy in this game is very bad" Wait, is there a TW game where the diplomacy is good?

[@ruskichh]

Three Kingdoms has tried tho

[@ShoddyLegion]

Good for you, for doing what you want and just playing games to have some good ol fashioned fun.

[@elitesoldier7151]

dude your awesome because you all play and not all talk

[@shadowryu3918]

definitely like the 60fps video a lot

[@loneshadow6029]

Legend I prefer your channel's new style so keep up the awesome work

[@LukeJamesMurtaghl]

By the way, Legend, armies that have been sabotaged may still be able to attack. If you do not have a critical success, the army will only be able to move half of its usual distance. Only if your agent achieves a critical success is it not able to move at all.

[@Fanofou82]

This isn't his first rodeo...

[@LukeJamesMurtaghl]

Joseph Jones I know. I only commented that because Legend seemed surprised, that's all.

[@criosray]

Awesome LP. Instantly subbed!

[@Rexusa]

Interesting seeing this campaign along with the scipii campaign.

[@danoville423]

Finally Rome 2,thank you Legend

[@noscope7809]

“I am smarter” *SPAMS AUTO RESOLVE* Yes legendary difficulty is so ez

[@jackgose6610]

What’s up

[@acrylic1176]

Hes going for efficiency by doing that that can be considered a smart move. So he can back up what he said so

[@theepictroll5926]

legend you should make a shogun 2 total war video next... its definitely not because thats the only one i don't own and i want to get it on sale... nope. on a more serious note love watching your series, and the more laid back attitude is fun, though you winning so casually makes me feel like im terrible when i barely scrape by on legendary.

[@LeadAHorseToVodka]

The UI in this game is displeasing

[@someguy6250]

Personally It's my favorite of all the TW titles I've played, I like how sleek and simple it is, even if it's not very artistic or period-themed

[@KitnKiller]

Legend, play this game with Divide et Impera. Adds a lot of depth to a rather shallow game, and Area of Recruitment units are awesome!

[@Thermalburn]

Im still butthurt of Rome2. I love this era in history, and it could have been the best TW game to date, but instead we get a mediocre game. Great lets play either way. I love the new direction the chanel has taken

[@ninjutsugrandmaster]

Am I dreaming? This is too good to be true...

[@Havingfun0]

I did not know that I wanted to watch this series.

[@biggee316]

I wish the map were much bigger, kind of like the Rise of the Republic map, but to encompass the entire campaign regions.... with smaller and more numerous regions to conquer... I'm sure in history Romans had to fight "a lot" of barbarian villages and settlements to gain control of a region.

[@skadze_znowu2649]

YAAAAAAY, I love those two fking campaigns .

[@dfredericks86]

I'd prefer you auto resolve battles that are completely one sided (eg unoccupied town assaults) but if there is any modicum of difficulty then do it manually. I've found that sometimes battles with trash units in the early game can be some of the hardest, most fun and memorable battles I've had in the Total War series. I know you play to win on the strategic level but watching the tactics unfold is where most of the fun is!

[@selder_7]

Always found the campaign map side of thins much more interesting than doing actual battles so I like auto resolving myself unless I really need to

[@Hotwhiskey1]

Yes please do battles were there is a chance of you loosing. My Grandad told me a story of a time when you lost a battle.

[@samtheman9002]

I like when you auto resolve just makes things a hell of a lot quicker.

[@Gaming.Labs_GL]

Damn, 7 years.

[@talynarox5690]

Yhea dam 🎉

[@TheDannyHoo]

First time here...you've got my sub, thx mate.

[@acrylic1176]

Miss that grain where it multiplies by x2 now its only bonus per region local province. Rip to the industry based provinces

[@blyatman2514]

Winter lasts for three weeks except in Tassie lol

[@xjoshlingx4660]

in a hour and a half you have completed/done so many things compared to what i have done in like a week

[@alexthedominator8443]

jesus christ if u guys don't like Rome 2 don't see it then I personally dislike medieval 2 u don't see me there talking trush about it I'll say this again u don't like something don't see it something legend says almost everytime too in 4 years I watch him, lionheart too 2 men respectful and great total war players

[@blink180heights]

i have diplomacy down to a T. 1. Non-aggression pact 2. trade agreement 3. military access 4. join war (not always necessary) 5. defensive alliance 6. military alliance . Ask for those things in that order or together. 1,2,3 usually work together 4,5,6 can work together. When trying to reach any agreement, if the possibility is high, try demanding $500 or higher until you find the thin line between moderate and high and they will always accept in Mod to High range. If its high and it changes to moderate, then to moderate again... go back to the 1st moderate agreement and it will accept 100%. Easiest way to get a client state without conquering options. 7. wait until any faction has 1 city and barely anything left of an army from being at war. offer client state and keep raising money until MOD to HIGH range agreement

[@LucaHMafra]

Even though this game was broken as fuck on release and there are some bizarre design choices they haven't addressed with the Emperor Edition, I genuinely love this game. It's not Medieval 2, but it's the one I play the most nowadays (the fact that I love this time period probably has a lot to do with it). Hope you have a good run, Legend! I'll enjoy watching it. Even though I like your challenge playthroughs, it's really cool to see you doing a campaign in a more relaxed way. Cheers!

[@cambennett8382]

Re: Should you autoresolve? The thing is if you should never enter a battle you aren't going to win, we may never see a single battle

[@blink180heights]

1st turn i like to build temple of poseidon (FOOD) in brundisium and upgrade the city main building to CIVIL (+1 CULTURE). I also like to build a farm in neopolis. I always build a farm in Capua first chance. ALWAYS SECURE PROMOTION FIRST TURN.

[@Jukrates]

4:38 In M2TW and TWR1 (the only ones I have...) I usually fight obviously ending battles manyally when I need the satisfaction of dying eastern infantries or lancer charges, just for fun.

[@snowfox-xc1qq]

Still love the Rome 2 videos man

[@kevinshaw4730]

Athens liking Sparta!? WHAT SORCERY IS THIS!?

[@BSG99]

Holy shit you made progress so quickly it took me 3 hours to just take italia and I had to share it with some other dudes...

[@HAL-cp4mt]

In My rome 2 campaign as rome i was getting a civil war every 20 turns or so, it did n't seem to have any thing with control, which was pain in the ass.

[@belisk8665]

Well, you suck

[@pride2184]

yup you only get civil war once if you pick empire..

[@pride2184]

yup you only get civil war once if you pick empire..

[@zinkgames9276]

Morning Legend, Enjoying the new video length for the campaigns, what faction do you least like in R2TW? Epirus "this is total war", legendary anytime soon? Just loved the carthage one so much. Peace , love and Gandhi from the Scots.

[@Subakna16]

I actually enjoy watching you beat the crud out of armies, even if it was a given that you would win. I don't care if it's one or two units though, my thought on the auto resolve question.

[@Arctic_Rifleman]

It sounds like Maximus narrating this.

[@nickfried9249]

great episode

[@jacobmmorales2975]

one battle per episode would be nice

[@lordpie4379]

I had hope for an Epirus campaign but this is still good :D