Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai Trailer

[@sushimuncher282]

No samurais were injured in the making of this commercial.

[@jananonlertvilai9212]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@captaintorchman1046]

A: So, how many samurai got injured in this commercial? B: zero A: how many died? B: yes BTW, if this is Battle of Shiroyama, the samurai got killed is 500

[@sleepingturtle32]

@@captaintorchman1046 that’s actually not too bad, for what it could have been

[@Wet_Sandwich]

Get 15% Off your Own Gatling gun during 4th of July.

[@k3x7z]

They can't be injured if they're dead

[@melikechoc0]

200 rounds of freedom per minute.

[@Cybermat47]

The GAU-8 has depleted uranium freedom.

[@theanglo-lithuanian1768]

Lol

[@amandag.6186]

Shut up and take my money

[@charmingdog2987]

hahaha

[@darreltembak4043]

It costs 400,000 yen to fire this weapon, for 12 seconds.

[@MrStrikecentral]

Have to come back to this every once in a while. It's funny, and yet sad in a way.

[@marfin4325]

I think I remember this about once a year and watch it. The animation where they shoot the banner to reveal the title is really cool too.

[@dutchafrikaner1204]

How the USA f*cked up Japan, yes.

[@II.Justinian]

Same every month I watch again.

[@jollypoppers9691]

I love the soundtrack that plays when the gatling gun opens up, great trailer

[@TikkaQrow]

I STILL think this is one of the BEST game trailers of all time.

[@wel.ington]

yeah but NTW still better

[@Uncle228]

@@wel.ington”My enemies are many, my equals are none.”

[@maozedong69420]

This is a close second, the best in my opinion is NTW and Hannibal at the Gates

[@benlubbers4943]

Suddenly there's a bald eagle in my room and I feel a burning desire to declare independence.

[@sleepingturtle32]

Lol

[@PrestonGarvey-j3g]

@@sleepingturtle32 LOL replying to a 3 years comment

[@sleepingturtle32]

@@PrestonGarvey-j3g imagine replying to a 20 hour old comment lmao

[@davhot4107]

@@sleepingturtle32 I have people that reply to a 10 yrs old comment of me commenting about a gorilla grabbing a tourist leg lol.

[@parlyramyar]

@@davhot4107 haha

[@badfoody]

Fall of the Samurai was total chaos. once youve advanced to breech loaded rifles, your enemies would be stuck with muzzle loaded weapons and battles would be laughably one sided all the time. in fact your samurai cav seem real bloodthirsty when all you use them is for cutting down stragglers

[@Cybermat47]

Well, that sounds accurate to be honest.

[@machaiping]

It's all random, sometimes the AI keep cutting each other down without any clan gaining real ground, thus the map still divided by multiple clans. But sometimes one clan will rose to dominance, and only then that you'll see high-tech stuffs from AI. The latter scenario is more likely to happen if you play on Hard or above. I once faced an AI fleet composed entirely of Kotetsu Ironclads, and AI full stack army that has 8 Armstrong guns with Imperial Infantry! I'm not joking on the last one. I just bribed the hell out of them instead of facing them head-on though. Not worth it at all.

[@ElZilchoYo]

It is but is that a complaint? It's just how it was, the real challenge is when you come against another modernised force.

[@d2vid5]

When I played on legendary, I did see some fairly advanced armies, either modern or samurai, which both have their strengths. What bothered me though was that when the AI had a samurai army and I modern, they didnt try to close distance as quickly as possible in order to get into melee asap. They would literally WALK their katana samurai at my line infantry, which made it too easy to shoot them to pieces :/

[@Wasserkaktus]

Yari Ki was still an extremely effective unit in this game.

[@Althemor]

1:27 : Oh, the humanity! 1:35 : Yup yup yup, this is pretty neat.

[@TheKersey475]

Peasant (likely hasn't seen combat before): There is no honor in this! Officer (has seen combat before and just wants to get it over with): Honor schmonor, where the hell do I sign?

[@t.wcharles2171]

@@TheKersey475 American industrialist: tick the box here sign your name here and number the amount of stock you wish to purchase underneath we will deliver your your purchase in 6-8 months .

[@piglin469]

*puts dvd in dvd player *instrumental RED SUN... RED SUN Over paradise RED SUN... RED SUN over paradise [comment has been copyright claimed by Kojima]

[@d-boi9785]

It's a last samurai reference

[@sharpetutor227]

24 hundred years of cultural growth and spirit to creat one of the most revered warrior class of human history. ended by two hundred rounds of freedom by a two hundred year old country.

[@janusceasar7851]

Actually America is a hundred year old at that time. But yeah, it is what it is. A mighty nation that suffer so many brothers war and hostile neighbours for centuries, gets to enjoy temporal peace. Then, in a span of 10 years only, the Chinese was humbled by the western power. Everything they touch brought destruction, yet in the field of dead. Comes the plants of modernisation, reaping the gazing sun that has long feed them with burning lights. China must create their own light, or stay in darkness of antiquity. Japan is no exception. But hey my country can go to England for discounted price and enjoy priveleged status because they invaded us once so I think it was a fair trade.

[@janusceasar7851]

@TheBritishBulldog eh. Close enough.

[@Corncan2]

You are goddamn right baby 😎

[@CBRN-115]

Gunpowder, the great equalizer

[@Wasserkaktus]

This trailer is amusing, but it's very misleading and simplistic for the sake of amusement: The truth is, the Samurai loved firearms, and embraced and used them over 300 years before the Boshin War, and continued to adopt the newer ones: A more accurate representation of the "Fall of the Samurai" would be the ending of the Samurai as an exclusive Military Caste, above and outside the law of Commoners, and the Samurai fracturing into two factions: One who supported the Shogunate and maintaining the Samurai Caste, thus keeping Japan a feudal society ruled by the Samurai alone; and one who supported the Emperor and agreed to end their status above the Commoners, and see Japan transform into a modern Society based on models from Europe and the Americas.

[@lillith3159]

For when your local samurai wants to randomly test his new blade with you

[@noobjo.mp4196]

Knock knock... It's the united states,... With huge boats, with guns... Gunboats...

[@WhiteWolfLIT]

HAHA I GET YOUR REFERENCE

[@jackstoutamore8541]

Saaaaaame

[@jw_3d838]

open the country

[@Kez_DXX]

"Hey, we heard from the Portuguese that you guys are obsessed with firearms imports."

[@jw_3d838]

@@Kez_DXX killed it

[@holdenennis]

The message: war always changes.

[@lucasmatiasdelaguilamacdon7798]

Samurai: NOOO! You can't use the firthy gaijin gun! I folded my Katana a bajillion times! Some peasant turned into artillerist: Hahahaha Gatling go Trrrrrrrrrrrrt

[@LordVader1094]

Best not to forget that samurai had no problem using guns. :)

[@jonathanwells223]

LordVader1094 the French didn’t sell them Gatling guns

[@nikita-fm7ij]

@@jonathanwells223 who said it was the French?

[@muhammadazka9671]

@@nikita-fm7ij its the americans that sold gatlings to them huh?

[@nikita-fm7ij]

@@muhammadazka9671 yeah the Americans sold them the Gatling guns, it was an american invention and I don't think the american civil war happened too long before the boshin war so I don't think the French would have had something like that then, making it strange for the other guy to mention the french in his comment.

[@goblindvd]

wheres Tom cruise lol

[@PaulA-fp3vs]

+goblindvd Praying to Spock or something...

[@HistoryMonarch1999]

goblindvd this is the Boshin war. The movie took place during the satsuma rebellion (or one based on it)

[@DoctorDeath147]

nerfvideos96 This is battle was inspired by The Last Samurai. This kind of battle never happened in the Boshin War; both sides fielded modern armies.

[@freakrx2349]

DoctorDeath147 not to mention that the Samurai largely used guns at this point (the Samurai still used muskets which were outdated by this time). The Samurai only used swords in close combat and as a last resort.

[@iterationfackshet1990]

DoctorDeath147 no they didn’t, the samurai only had 10,000 soldiers, all of which were students or samurai, and were much better trained than the conscript army of imperial japan. They wore traditional armor and carried traditional swords in case the fighting became close quarters, but they used modern weaponry at the time.

[@TheKersey475]

Hey look, buddy, I'm a Yankee Engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is honor?", because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. For instance, how am I gonna stop some lean mean sword-slinging mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer: Use a gun. And if that don't work? Use more gun. Like this multi-barrel wheel-mounted little old rotary number designed by me, built by me, and you best hope... not pointed at you.

[@JJJJJJJJJAAAAAA]

See-look, man thing. I-I am Warlock Engineer. That says-means I make problems.

[@edwardmaginot]

Perfection

[@richardgonzalez6409]

This was the most beautiful thing I've ever read.

[@captaintorchman1046]

Samurai: trained for years Imperial army: killed the samurai with gatling gun in less than a minute Samurai: "years of academic training wasted"

[@ElBoxeo1]

And then there’s you who can’t spell a four letter word

[@captaintorchman1046]

@@ElBoxeo1 ah yes... right. Thank you for that

[@LetruneInedil]

A perfect advertisement for the tone of the expansion. The old ways? They are fragile. They can break. It requires an expert warrior to defeat the new ways. An amazing strategist. A heavenly warrior who can- -not stand in the face of the modern ways. The ironclads and the machine guns will cut down the ones believing that the ancient tactics and strategies will work. The world changed. It is time you change, as well, or be pummeled into submission.

[@shuukenji6585]

"but who will be victorious? Murica have always provided for our people..."

[@captaintorchman1046]

We are the master of gunsmith. Our weapon is the envy of the whole world...

[@nicolasrusso9786]

Our ingenuity is the envy of the whole world

[@ballsacsincorp]

​@@captaintorchman1046 clan named otomo:

[@jirkazalabak1514]

Realistically, the modern guns in Japan in this period were mainly provided by Britain and France. The US mostly sold surplus Civil War equipment, most of which was outdated by the standards of the time.

[@jared5112]

*cut from the trailer* Japanese man yelling "Shut up and take my money!"

[@avalynpoe4441]

Never bring a sword to a gunfight

[@billyaepicgamer8642]

In a way, it is quite a cruel twist of fate that this same country that forcibly opened up this closed off archipelago ends up 70 years later seeing their entire battle fleet in flames due to an attack from the same country they forced to open.

[@braith117]

A few outdated battleships, only only one of which was a complete loss, being damaged is hardly what anyone would call "their entire battlefleet."

[@iparizotto]

I'd say the Japanese got the worst of that situation...

[@Its_shiki_time4876]

@@braith117 the Japanese would loss all naval capabilities bybthe end of the war. Yeah that's their whole battle fleet

[@cowbeanboi412]

@@Its_shiki_time4876 the main poster was talking about the US

[@simonnachreiner8380]

And in return the land of the rising sun received two suns brought down on their own soil. The history of Japan in the last two hundred years seems to be repeatedly being reminded just how big of a pond they’re really in.

[@KrimzonFlygon1]

S...shame...shameful...*cough*...(thud)

[@datangle77]

This comment is gold XD

[@3musketerantidbd174]

2 years noe only 2 comments

[@oniichanmk7346]

SHAMEFURR DISPRAY!!!

[@leekyungmin-t6u]

Haha gatling gun goes brrrrrrt

[@MarkSamurai5]

Execute Order 66!

[@operatorchicken1081]

Execute Order Big Macs with sides of freedom

[@theanglo-lithuanian1768]

MarkSamurai5 lol

[@johnthecrazed5679]

The funny thing is, Jedi are based on Samurais.

[@MazzaAzi]

@@johnthecrazed5679 GREAT now I can stop imagining "Star wars But it's a Joe Joe meme" JUST GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH YODA WITH KNOBI AS HIS STAND

[@literallynothinghere9089]

TNO Brain rot has also reached here it seems

[@sairaskynx2247]

And now, a commercial break.

[@princenicholasherrman2347]

I sided with the Emperor but we (Satsuma/Shimazu) went Independent in my last game Im still playing. I still sided with the Emperor but went solo taking my time and didn't rush it to capture Edo. Those of you that don't know the Shogunate Vanguard is still using the old "traditional" ways to fight on the field like with samurai and stats with line infantry (Vermillion bird infantry, Turtoise and Dragon I think) as for the Imperial Vanguard forces are using a more "modernized" up to date style more organized and technological way to play on the field (Bear Infantry).

[@HaloFTW55]

Wait what?! The Shogunate Vanguard for me all modernized. In almost all my playthroughs as both Imperial and Shotgunate. I’ve always fought modernized enemies in line battles where we shot each other to pieces.

[@mikeangelo2886]

the only "traditional" unit in shogunate roster is Shogunate Guard Cavalry using lances, but still being categorized as modern unit. Also, historically, it was Shogunate first who was open to western trade, while the imperialist motto, at least in the initial months of war, was "restore the emperor, expel the barbarians"

[@bigjim2times]

A wise philosopher once said “Where is your senpai now?”

[@F_Fetch_]

capable of firing at a rate of over 200 rounds for a minute with its rotating barrel and hand crank automatic reloading system. this gentleman, it's a Gatling machine gun! created by renowned inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling his gun is the finest weapon to provide a continuous high rate of fire without pause for reloading. Gatling guns in your arsenal a crew of just four can do the job of four squards trained riflemen. reducing the cost of your army and at the same time, increasing its effectiveness and all through American ingenuity. well, gentlemen. are you ready to sign?

[@parlyramyar]

Right except it's "with* Gatling guns" and also it's "four score* trained riflemen" not four squards. Rest was on point 👍🏻

[@Scow2]

And now you can recreate this in Warhammer 2 as Clan Skryre vs. Bretonnia.

[@bukinlev95]

Luckily, there were no flamethrowers and nukes during the Boshin war)))

[@HaloFTW55]

I rather do it with Empire. Gotta show those damned Bretonnians than their chivalry means nothing when a handgunner is staring down at them with a loaded gun.

[@jonathanwells223]

Unfortunately shields can still block bullets in that game, which is bullshit

[@am8776]

@@jonathanwells223 knock knock, helblaster volley gun here

[@Kalenz1234]

Or dwarfs or empire

[@richardgonzalez6409]

That "are you ready to sign" is so ironic, imagine being asked that to purchase weapons to modernized and strengthen your country, only for just a few decades later being asked the same question, but at the negotiating tables behind the smoldering ruins of a once bustling city.

[@iamsinistar8971]

By the same country no less.

[@mrqmrq-cr2hq]

Still the best game trailer ever

[@mikewatkinson1996]

Best Total War trailer. Shows the split between tradition and industrialism. Brilliant. It's a shame Japan had to go down that road.

[@GeassEnabler]

Mike Watkinson Their other choice was to get dunked on by some contemporary power. Until the US finally came in with that Double Dunk in 1945, Japan was the dominant power in the East

[@mikewatkinson1996]

GeassEnabler lol @ "that double dunk".

[@Asraeks]

Japan major conquest were after industrialization. Before they mostly fought eachother.

[@everfree4175]

a shame but necessary.

[@vidmizz]

Look up at what happened to China in the late 19th early 20th centuries. They held onto their traditions and failed to industrialise, they got buttraped by pretty much every Great Power country as a result

[@sicklendhammerstudio]

Are you ready to sign?

[@captaintorchman1046]

Yes!, I! Am! *Mohammad Avdol Noise*

[@rchetype7029]

Swords will fucking cut you. Swords are bad, m'kay.

[@totallynoteverything1.]

and all of a sudden, the Samurai documentary turns into a Gun history documentary

[@MrRay568]

You can more or less recreate this scene in medieval 2 via substituting the Gatling guns with monster Ribaults

[@d2vid5]

haha ribaults were good, but their rate of fire was nowhere near as high as gatlings :D

[@madmarvshighwaywarrior2870]

Or in Empire by using the Puckle gun against Indian swordsmen.

[@postwar142]

Hi! Billy Mayes here with samurai be gone!

[@SergeantPsycho]

LMAO!!!!!

[@D8W2P4]

I miss Billy Mays.

[@dulio12385]

Now that is how you deliver a punchline.

[@MrIronhat]

The american gatling gun might be neat, but true connoisseur know that the british armstrong guns are the best

[@braith117]

Broken just doesn't cover those things. I had a fight where my general turned coat to the enemy, along with half my infantry, and joined a samurai force, so I took my 2 Armstrong guns, sat in a corner behind my 3 infantry squads, and laughed as the guns killed everything before the infantry could do anything.

[@CountScarlioni]

@@braith117 You say broken, but real life Armstrong guns were doing that to most of Asia in the 19th century!!

[@googleandsusansucks]

The first person aim also made you able to snipe the general just as the battles start.

[@undrgrnd734]

An man of culture knows that the neo armstrong cyclone jet armstrong cannon is the best

[@bandithyena4089]

@@undrgrnd734 a true man of culture indeed

[@Grabacr-pl3wy]

“Reducing costs of army”

[@theredbaron8896]

I like how this vid came out of my birthday And I love the intro for the samurai then the Americans come in and rekt the day.

[@austinhuber3131]

Perfect... They're all perfect...

[@d-boi9785]

The last samurai reference at 1:25 is hilarious

[@aeroprime3322]

The wheel of history turns and advances. Take care you don't get caught and ground beneath it.

[@LightMusicK]

@NingaAssassin1 Yes, more than you know, the trailer is identical to the last battle of the movie.

[@crazyize1864]

This felt originally like it was a history channel description of a Gatling gun that was shitpost added onto the trailer. I soon realized it wasn’t, and I am thoroughly ready to sign 😎

[@chaimrothberg5367]

The samurai knew Ted Kazcinski was right.

[@suzerain_k]

"played the video with CC turned on...... then laughs"XD

[@utahraptor4729874]

Peak Japanese to Peak American in half a second.

[@spartandud3]

"It fires $200 custom tooled cartridges at 10,000 rounds per minute. It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds."

[@kaungmyathan7552]

The ancestors might be pissed about this if they know what had Japan happened.

[@devinhallsworth5531]

This is where the industrial age was born. And chivalry died in a ditch.

[@guardiadecivil6777]

nothing more chilvarious than samurais using gun themselves before america was even a nation

[@danielomar9712]

Chivalry never died , it only refined itself with modern rifles

[@zecorezecron]

You know, I once saw a gatling gun in a pawn shop.

[@comradebear9477]

What stopped you from creating your own country?

[@zecorezecron]

@@comradebear9477 It cost about thirty thousand bucks.b It was an antique you see.

[@zecorezecron]

@Ryder Steel It was a while back and I am no expert, but it looked well kept. But honestly, my actual knowledge of that subject begins and ends with "it's shiny looking".

[@bryanjacla1068]

Ah, the IJA's and IJN's humble beginnings, only to be ended by the same country that forced them to open to the rest of the world

[@Connor.SG-1Ring]

Never bring a sword to a gun fight.

[@soni555ful]

never played this game but it was realy great trailer

[@ZetsubouGintama]

No one can out smart my bullet...

[@terminallumbago0781]

those captions though lmao

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

American Ingenuity. Murica 🇺🇸🎆🗽

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

@Zoomer Waffen *joke*

[@Patrickyang100]

when you are watching naruto on TV but suddenly an AT&T advertisement comes in

[@glurgbarble7268]

who would win? 1000 years of samurai tradition and a lifetime of training as a warrior? or one gatling boy?

[@articusramos808]

*Me who keeps katana katchi as melee guards for flanks* I love to combine old and new for a hybrid from of combat.

[@muhammaddarwishmohammadyus1962]

Last samurai all over again

[@DiscothecaImperialis]

That sown the seed of a new Asian Empire that eventually challenged the Whites in the next half decade. But did Itou Hirobumi shown up in this game too?

[@SimCityEA1989]

Seeing the curret state of total war... where did we go so wrong...

[@seanrose5363]

Anybody else press esc when the SEGA thing popped up?

[@mares3048]

The last Samurai

[@teanimate2328]

Like they said Never bring samurais to the Gatling gun battle

[@thomashaynes9487]

Murica

[@toddkes5890]

I have the "Team America: World Police" theme going through my head right now

[@ToothSIayer]

Can you play as Nathan Algren?

[@MasterVideoStudios]

Me in the 1880:S OH YES I AM!!!!!

[@MonguinAssassin]

I still think Creative Assembly should unite with Relic Entertainment for any strategy game that takes place in transitional eras like this one. The trouble is, how would you make a smooth transition of gameplay from Total War to Company of Heroes manifested in just one installment as turns pass and with them, completed research of new technologies? Because to best execute this idea is to accurately portray the struggle that led to thousands of devastating casualties and injuries in the American Civil War and World War 1, perhaps throughout the rest of the world during the reign of Queen Victoria.

[@Sone418]

last of the samurais anyone?

[@Maria-sr6zz]

It Cost 400,000 Thousand Dollars To Fire This Weapon For 12 Seconds

[@11Brendan41]

I think I saw Tom Cruise.

[@deamon8271]

Last music pls??

[@dogsrul1234543]

That voice at the start is so familiar...

[@khurrammazharamir1151]

Looks a damn commercial for gattling guns lol

[@riccardoa4613]

Dio porco a distanza di anni questo video ancora mi emoziona

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

I liked to refer to this, as the Hentai killer.

[@ImperialEarthEmpire]

Dont feel pity for those stinking samurai, they have been brutal to the peasants for centuries... so getting mowed down by peasant is the greatest insult...

Making Japan great again

[@Lazurath101]

I wish I could get the soundtrack by itself...

[@Supersoldier2012]

I read it like Total war: shotgun

[@danielcastaneda4975]

Yaankees . Fucking everything up since the beginning of the beginning.

[@jonathanwells223]

Someone sounds peanut butter and jealous!

[@googleandsusansucks]

Just saving Europe from the Germans twice and the world from socialism once (twice if you include the Germans the second time). But no biggie i guess...

[@kamespinosarojas9225]

Sir i am ready to sign. 😍

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

God Bless America

[@LetruneInedil]

Hire a samurai... Or just a few gattling squads.

[@bobjohnson6946]

why can't rome 2 be this cool mane.

[@darreltembak4043]

Genji vs TF2's Soldier.

[@jonathanwells223]

*TF2’s heavy

[@iustinprisacaru225]

This is how a entire history and culture has been ended by (not only tho) thid gun.

[@JunkPhuJP]

Everytime I watch “The Last Samurai”, I end up booting this up for a game. And vice versa…

[@sergiorios7931]

Somebody knows the name of the Song of the Trailer ??

[@richardlew3667]

It's their fault for refusing to modernize.

[@ivancolonna7520]

I love machine guns.

[@pendragonshall]

Movie/Televion/video games=Samurai swords, the greatest sharpest cutting instrument of allllll timee.... Reality=Samurai swords, some of the worst swords ever mass produced in history. Having to be folded sooo many times because they were sooo full of impurities.. (saving grace that there WAS a SMALL percentage made for the very wealthy/political that were VERY well made but overall , nope)

[@Winaska]

Most military historians disagree with you. The Samurai. I never learned about the katana like that from games and movies but from professors and historians. Most agree: the finest sword ever crafted by man on this planet

[@googleandsusansucks]

@@Winaska Found the weeb. Imagine trusting professors on anything these days.

[@Winaska]

@@googleandsusansucks I'm thinking of an older generation.

[@t.wcharles2171]

​@@Winaska not really for a sword to be practical especially in the early modern period of the sixteenth century what mattered was the quality, the material, and the ease of production. Now if a Japanese Swordsmith produces 50 swords it is more likely that one will be of excellent quality ten of high quality and the rest are decent to terrible whereas a European Smith would produce fifty good quality swords in a quarter of the time which is why european sword making was objectively superior.

[@Winaska]

@@t.wcharles2171 what was superior about the european method though? u failed to say why.

[@dickyarya8204]

Cool salesman

[@awonderingcoconut6881]

take my money

[@117rebel]

Years of samurai and dojo training wasted!!!

[@BigVtheVanity]

where's the NUKE???

[@GeassEnabler]

BigVtheVanity 80 years away

[@samandriaz5905]

It's with Gandhi.

[@tomimpala]

@koldingfjord ?

[@jasondouglas6755]

Ha ha my gun go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR