Vandals at the gates of Rome

[@SmoughTown]

It's crazy how much better the UI in the original is compared to the remaster

[@seifeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Pasion vs money

[@lucasbogea]

Remaster version looks like an UI made for mobile games, it's awful.

[@MasterhpIke]

Everything after warhammer 2 is shit

[@MasterhpIke]

Pharaoh looks like a todler did the UI art, and the warhammer 3 campaign map

[@jebreggie4225]

The remaster UI is dogshit

[@leolinguini260]

"Makes me nervous being surrounded by peasants." - LegendofTotalWar, October 2023. A quote that will live on in the ages.

[@thearcadiusproject3500]

I missed this sort of content. Good to see you back in form

[@mikeymy1603]

My first stream I watched of his was the 1453 Byzantine Stream. We have almost gone full circle

[@MrTurnBased]

His own western Roman campaign from years back is probably my favourite legend content.

[@Kilen_BE]

The best of LoTW yeah, his SYDC from good old times was awesome. I wish he does more long ones like here as well. And Rome 1 is pleasant to watch, mediaeval 2 I don’t like that much watching it (although I enjoyed played it back in the days), but Rome, Warhammer obviously, and Attila SYDCs are really interesting. Hopefully enough people send more.

[@mikeymy1603]

Looks Like Rome is Back on the Menu

[@aklolobololok6908]

…boys!

[@Trapsarentgay133]

Roars

[@judebox1185]

That was fast. Thanks! As you might have figured out, it was in fact in very hard/very hard difficulty and it was my first time playing it on RTW years ago. I'm a lot better at the game now but back then I didn't really know how punishing vh/vh can be in RTW. It seemed a lot harder than M2. I also relied too much on comitatenses thinking they were solid infantry because they have great stats but they just shit the bed basically instantly whenever I used them (why dont they have good morale??) and little things like not knowing how culture penalty worked. I did make an effort to go Christian though. Also wasted a bunch of time with those stupid endless saxon armies.Thanks for fixing it.

[@anon2034]

Use more Sarmatian Cavalry. It is the most cost efficient unit for WRE. Also you can retrain them easily because they are midway on the unit tree. Also get the blacksmith upgrades. The Comitatenses First Cohort are rather expensive but get a few for a killer stack!

[@frozenlimemix]

BI is such a good expansion pack, it (and kingdoms) really set the bar for what expansions to total war games could be. It's just too bad that only Fall of the Samurai lived up to it in the years since.

[@JayvH]

Well Napoleon was also a great expansion pack that was labelled as a main title.

[@partizanlegis]

Medieval 2 Kingdoms was also a great expansion

[@LiewLmao]

@@JayvHwhich was the beginning of the end Ie atilla pharaoh and literally 3 warhammer games lmao

[@ivvan497]

@@JayvH Napoleon was actually an improvement over the empire though.

[@InfiniteDesign91]

@@ivvan497 Hmm it's an oversimplification of the original, not a proper fix. One of the biggest bug is the fortress siege stutter-lag. They didn't fix that, only made fortresses extremely expensive to build.

[@saitampoldog1517]

Even Heisenberg had some issues taking over Salamanca's territories yet this guy took it easily

[@chickennugget6654]

Enjoying seeing you cover these old games again. Always loved seeing these empires get turned round.

[@HansWurst1569]

Love these older games. Never played WH games so for me these are more fun to watch :D

[@B4rry16]

The series that introduced me to your channel was the Barbarian Invasion Western Rome campaign from nearly a decade ago at this point, love to see you back in the historical.

[@partizanlegis]

YES! Saving your Disasters campaigns for Rome 1! We really missed this kind of content. Thank you and hope you're doing well Legend

[@sarmatiancougar7556]

Barbarian Invasion is by far the most chaotic and snappy Total War game. The models are real whacky but the gameplay is top tier mayhem in a good way I absolutely recommend it to everyone who overlooked this rather obscure dlc

[@Splicer87]

I will continue to watch ALL of these, Legend! I’ve gotten back into OG Rome and Medieval 2 as well!

[@trowachess]

Here for the OG soundtrack

[@CountsDigGraves]

WRE with Barbarian Invasion was a really cool campaign. A nail-biter. Really felt like the deck was stacked against me, which is a cool contrast with the original RTW Roman campaign(s). Once the hordes are beaten and the rebellions and religions are under control, though? That empire can wreck stuff.

[@kaladinstormblessed5427]

oh ffs... now i'm going to have to go install Rome again. this made me realize how much i loved this game and want to play it again. thanks for the new video Legend. love seeing you get back into the older historical versions.

[@wangtheory]

Me too

[@BubbaNZ]

All time personal favourite TW campaign ever - Western Roman Empire in Barbarian Invasion. Such a fascinating start and rescuing it from collapse was a great game. Thanks for this nostalgia trip!

[@CatroiOz]

Hey legend ! I know you've said many times that you're pretty much done with Medieval 2 but would you ever consider doing something with Divide and Conquer ? They have a submod for KZbinrs to remove copyrighted musics and some of the campaigns can be really tough as nails (like Dol Amroth) would love to see the cheese master show middle earth how it's done !

[@maxgrozema1093]

Imagine the disaster campaigns we'll see!

[@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900]

When did he say he was done with Medieval 2? Do you just mean running his own campaign? He still seems to occasionally do SYDC when he gets them.

[@Ed-jd6wj]

@@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900he’s even played some medieval 2 campaigns from start. He a did a Milan one recently I think

[@Liimeyyy]

He literally said on the weekend to send him more saves on MTW2 so he isn’t done with it

[@matthewcarman9483]

​@@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900He just said he wanted more M2TW campaigns in a post on KZbin.

[@codyh9175]

Love seeing historical TW again!! Thanks Legend you've been spoiling us ❤

[@MadHyena42]

I really like that Legend says "It's super cheesy don't get me wrong" on the screen with a Sun Tzu quote : "All warfare is based on deception". Same idea, different times.

[@anon2034]

23:42 "You gotta do what you gotta do to save Rome" - Words to live by!

[@samrester6254]

Love this. He must have been a newer player to Rome. His faction heir's traits were horrendous. Nothing wrong with being new. That was the selling point for me, with Rome and Med 2... The mechanics. Heir had: Pagan, Wrong-Headed, Liar, Likes A Drink, Corrupt, Wildly Extravagant, Welcoming To Foreigners, Dislikes Christian Cults, Rather Lazy, Are There Gods, Gloomy. He was a walking time bomb. As soon as the Faction Leader died, this guy would have become Leader, taken up a fiddle and stood on Rome's walls while it burned. That's why this and Med 2 are so fun for me. The campaign layer was so deep and fun.

[@Quitze97ABM]

Damn bro got blacklisted to original Rome. I love legend

[@beowulfansgarX]

Great to see the classics again. The Tower cheese also worked in Medieval 2. I remember having played as Egypt once. By the time they arrived, i finished building cannon towers. So all i had to do was to sally out. I kept my units inside and the Mongols would stand in place being annihilated by the barrage the cannons unleashed. Fun times :)

[@logandaley1544]

I’m going to revisit Barbarian Invasion in the near future. When I was a kid I never won a single campaign in the expansion. It’s really cool to see it shown off again.

[@jasonsearle7832]

Love this content Legend. Keep up the great work. We appreciate your work for the community!

[@codyh9175]

I'm ngl I love how happy you've been with Warhammer but there's a part of me that's happy to be able to have your notifs on and see historical stuff

[@qualityoldgames7721]

Really nice to see some Rome content!

[@bubee8123]

Rome total war is only content I watch and I am glad you are still producing content! Thank you!

[@nopaynenoparty]

Really nice to see this and the Medieval 2 content. Hoping for more historical stuff, but accept you'll only make what you enjoy/is good for the channel!

[@codyh9175]

It's crazy Servius defected to the rebels at Salamantica. He's a great governor and he's super loyal

[@maddhatter0]

Yay!!! Legend doing more historical content!!!

[@darkguild69]

Wow hearing that music from the game in the first few minutes of the video brought back so much nostalgia for me and alot of memories of many weekends staying up late playing this game. Ah the good Ole days lol.

[@petrovepryk3786]

It's so interesting, that most of the KZbinrs, who cover TW content, usually prefer the original Rome TW instead of the Remastered version.

[@sgtbuckwheat]

Legend is in good form, producing videos on Barbarian Invasion and Medieval 2 (my two favourite TW games).

[@B31NG]

med 2, rome n shogun 2 are absolute peak

[@Anilomu]

you know whats funny, Ive been watching your Medieval 2 and Rome 1 videos yesterday and its so awesome seeing this!

[@jawsofwar]

Man strong nostalgia watching this. The music and sound effects were legendary.

[@mastems]

That music in the background hit my nostalgia bone somewhat fierce. Man I love that soundtrack so much.

[@hukutka94]

Thanks a lot that after all these months past you are making these old but gold games' videos again! Have fun! Live long!

[@galvatron0810]

I love the old Rome 1 music, it brings back memories of playing it on my dad's pc as a kid.

[@Max-rk7mw]

The music of Rome is so nostalgic to me.

[@SeymourZClevarge]

Ah yes, how I missed that AI Manipulation to stand near tower strategy. I remember on my 5th playthrough on the game, playing as Seleucid Empire, facing Egypt with 2000 men besieging Antioch, and letting the towers cleaned up 80% of them. And I only had 2 units of peasant as garrison. Good times. I'll pick up RTW as soon as possible. Thanks, Legend

[@pcgamingforevah]

I love to see Legend at his best! Keep those vids coming in mate!

[@jonhmata]

Didn't even start the video, but it's TW Rome, so that's a instalike from me

[@teoman5936]

I missed RTW content, glad to see it back! Thx Legend!

[@MisterGreenw00d]

Seeing you play the old historical games makes me want to make a comeback to TW. I haven't really played since IE released last year

[@Sam-nx9ec]

POV: You are Majorian ascending to the throne and reconquering the Western empire in 4 years

[@bobbinsgaming3028]

Very enjoyable watching someone else also use the old cheese tower tactics I was using about 15 years ago in my original playthroughs of this.

[@antoniomoreira5921]

Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's obsessed with Late Antique and Migration Era warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series which not only come from a PhD in Medieval warfare but also a TW modder

[@smartalec2001]

'TOTAL WAR GAMES I DON'T PLAY' in the steam list never fails to get a chuckle.

[@thebeardedsquirt3711]

56:00 "Get back in here, dipshits, i didn't pay you to live." Never change Legend, never change

[@edgar7556]

I miss this beautiful sound

[@JGeMcL]

Ahhh walls that actually keep the enemy out. I've played WH3 for so long I've forgotten what it was like.

[@Son_of_Mandalore]

This was great and a welcome break from TWWH, I would happily watch more of the same but it would also be nice to watch a RTW stream as we've seen you smash TWWH so many times... A little nostalgia might do us all some good.

[@CaptainFalkorm]

*making old man noises*I know the time when everyone was using fraps to record their video footage and strangely enough it worked better for RTW and Med2 than OBS nowadays. Also very nice to see so much Total War legacy content from you Legend, those were still the best historical titles (I still love Rome Remastered for the modding capabilities and better performance on newer systems though)

[@pastorofmuppets9346]

Ah yeah i remember when i was hunting for fraps cracks for my old channel back in the day, too bad i quit by the time obs came around

[@fortitude120]

WOnderful, welcome back to the REAL Total War scene

[@兄さん]

loving the medieval 2 and especially rome 1 content

[@yanickkrause2974]

Damn I love that you play the older Total War Titles again, keep up the good content!

[@TheAnon03]

Barbarian invasion has its moments. I remember when the entirety of the Frankish people decided to try and take, I think it was Arles from me. 5 or 6 stacks of Franks, epic fight in the city centre both sides nearly bled dry. And then my reinforcements decided to actually turn up. Heavy Sarmatian Cavalry army swept in and cleared them out like the ghost army at Gondor in the LoTR film. Victory was mine, and the Franks stopped existing as a faction from that one fight.

[@truxardus4331]

"I wonder how he's going to do this"...oh, the tower trick, forgot about that. Works just as well in Rome original campaign too. To be honest, with the AI spawning full cav stacks what felt like every other turn, this felt to me like it was how the devs intended you to play. One of the reasons I never really liked Rome.

[@boltonbrowne7413]

Classic LOTW giving us Classic Rome! The content we all want, but don't deserve.

[@remonvvug]

Where can I play these disaster campaigns? Can you share them somewhere?!!?

[@BogdanLarchenko]

I really like BI for some reason, feels so cozy, chilling in the wre

[@Xuerios]

I must admit, i ve come to your channel because of Warhammer 3, but right now i enjoy much more Medieval and Rome Total War. Seeing actual tactics and strategies in these games gives much better feeling than in WH3

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

Oh man, some actual tactics of rotating the enemy army around your ballista towers, insane gameplay

[@antoniodelaugger9236]

@@shmekelfreckles8157 definitely more tactical and strategic than right clicking your entire army against the enemy army so you can spam magic missiles once they blob up until you win the entire game

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

@@antoniodelaugger9236 that doesn’t work most of the time. You can’t do that with Empire. Or Bretonnia. Or Dwarfs. Or Cathay. Any kind of ranged focus army can’t do that, any kind of mobility focused army can’t do that. And magic missiles are the worst type of spells to use against infrantry.

[@gnosis940]

​@@shmekelfreckles8157 this isnt even good cope. if ur genuinely trying to argue that theres more cheese in ANY of the historical titles older than the warhammer ones ur gonna have to hook me up with whatever ur smokin. gunners that shoot through their own ranks without reloading, 19 unit doomstacks crushing balanced army comps by sheer stat weight, terrain and morale being practically irrelevant, "early game" units never seeing daylight past turn 20... the list just goes on. you can even say the exact same sentence about wh3 if you just replace "ballista tower" with "legendary lord" - applies to basically all of LoTWs one-man doomstack videos.

[@shmekelfreckles8157]

@@gnosis940 gunners can’t shoot through their own ranks and they do need to reload even if there is no animation. Doomstacks existed in every TW game and entire point of doomstacks is to crush defeat multiple stacks at once. It’s just more prevalent in WH because of supply line penalties. Terrain is very much relevant for both ranged and melee units and super relevant for cavalry, because charging uphill just doesn’t work. Morale is vitally important for undead factions and demons. And you can abuse it against low morale factions like skaven, who break if somebody looks at them funny. Early game units are usually the most cost effective options you have, look at high elf archers or dark elf darkshards. And because of supply lines your secondary armies will be filled with low tier units for a while. And comparing one-man doomstack to AI exploits is something I don’t have mental dexterity for, some next level gymnastics.

[@OldMayt]

i've missed these long form videos from you

[@AROSP]

LegendofBlessedContent. Loving the return to older titles, great video.

[@loivern8015]

The background music in this game 🤌

[@leecoffill8425]

Player: "Help, I got attacked by a crazy huge army!" Legend: "Dances around behind the walls" Vandals: "We were overwhelmed!"

[@BradHann]

"leg toal War here" - KZbin subtitles.

[@EVANGELOSS54]

Whaaaaat ? Legend is back with saving your disaster ? I trully missed this !

[@strigoi_guhlqueen8355]

Love the historical disaster campaigns. Some them are just really tricky.

[@FerdiadTheRabbit]

Nothing better than a classic RTW disaster campaign.

[@maeror1022]

"Using a big dumb cavalry blob works really well in this game" I vividly remember my Macedonian cav only armies mowing everything down in Rome 1 all those many, many years ago. Good times!

[@sanjnamous]

The flood of memories is INSANE, it’s like I’m back being 14

[@lukas081559]

Great to have some old school content

[@GondzolFùahèrâ]

Hell yeach!! Another rome episode

[@michaelbiancone7691]

Legend is back baby!!! I'm here for it!

[@0301aris]

The nostalgia. The music. So great.

[@davidring681]

Just started my first DEI Rome 2 campaign. It’s been really nice and feels authentic idk. Skill shows and you can pull out some awesome victories if you use solid tactics

[@Vince-tt1uj]

What faction?

[@EvoraGT430]

DEI is a fantastic mod.

[@blebcat]

Awesome that you're doing more RTW and M2. Love it.

[@thebridgevids2782]

Absolutely loving the RTW content. I've got nothing against Warhammer, but IMHO I think some of your best work is on the older games.

[@DJ-1Q84]

"Babe wake up. Legend just posted another Rome Total War video."

[@CountPatchy]

I've never played TW Rome but I wish they had kept AI armies retreating from battle. That seems sooo much better than AI armies constantly trying to avoid battle altogether

[@majorkhajiit]

I forgot how much I love the Rome aesthetic.

[@nobo3196]

This feels like an old school video, hell yeah

[@sim.frischh9781]

And Sandals BEHIND the gates of Rome. Living life the roman style.

[@Gingerfox23]

I do have an actual use for peasants in battle, if you are up against a particularly archer heavy faction eg scythia then they work quite well as arrow fodder cause of how spread out they are they do quite well in absorbing arrow fire. thus protecting your real troops. it is a bit finnicky to use them like this though as you have to keep them reasonably close to other troops to keep their morale up long enough and keep them safe from melee troops until they are finished taking arrows. then its a bit of a challenge to clear them from your main troops so they dont get the proximity morale penalty

[@JocksRu]

Always was under the impression that enemy missile and artillery units had unlimited ammo spawn.

[@flgrown]

Love your channel. Love your content. Please don't stop

[@666stonewall]

Woooo! The classic music is a nostalgic experience.

[@Amadourrr]

THE VANDALS ARE HERE !!!!!!!!!!!

[@Aethelhald]

R:TW - Barbarian Invasion. What a blast. I'm going to install it right now. Absolutely loved this when it came out.

[@AxelRichardson]

This video reminded me how superior Rome I battle music is compared to "next gen" total wars

[@loogieee]

I’m at the gates of the subscribe button

[@12345DJay]

when i saw OG Rome , i creamed myself I can't believe this game is almost 20 years old. Damn

[@DC-77]

Utilizing Cav was satisfying in this game. I might actually start playing a campaign after seeing these vids lately.

[@alexeybulatov3547]

I didn't know that old Rome had machineguns and sniper rifles! The more you know!

[@TheKorggen]

Always love your Rome Total War stuff

[@Silent-Samurai]

Because i don't own the Rome titles, i'll play Civilation as Rome know just to honor this "save the Disaster Campaign"

[@Flow86767]

Great!!! I love saving disaster in historical titles!

[@JosephGaming]

3:04 Bro’s been watching too much breaking bad 💀