West Rome Legendary Part 2 (Total War: Attila)

[@Yrridian]

NO NEW VIDEOS UNTIL MARCH, READ BELOW FOR WHY So the latest Shadowplay update completely fucked up the program, and although I've managed to fix it, anything recorded post-update and pre-fix is either highly fragmented or broken. Unfortunately I didn't realise the problem until I recorded 200+ files covering more than 30 turns, which I can't replay/re-record without restarting the whole campaign because legendary difficulty. I'm still making a part 3 covering that part of the campaign, but it's going to take a lot of extra work and time to try and piece together something coherent. I'm also going to Europe for a 2-month-long holiday (starting this evening!) and I won't be able to work on it again until I get back. I was hoping to have another "How to play..." video finished before I left on holiday, but I also lost some of that footage to the same bug, so it's only about 80% done. So sorry for the content drought, but I'll have something to post pretty soon after I get back. Expect the next upload to be in early March. Here's the fix I used for the Shadowplay bug, in case you're having the same issues: reddit.com/r/GeForceExperience/comments/a1jjgk/fix_shadowplay_recordings_blurry_pixelated_buggy/

[@aLukepop]

Thank you for your videos dude. This one in particular is a masterpiece. They convinced me to get total war atilla and after blundering through it for a few hours I love it. Thank you for your work.

[@BearOldcastle]

Sorry to hear that man/women/the last roman, don't stop, your doing Jupiter's work.

[@bookerdewittesqire7727]

Thanks man. We will be waiting anxiously. Your videos really do make this world a better place.

[@spacedoke449]

Have a good time in Europe brother! And don’t raze too many cities...

[@Volcano4981]

No worries Yrrid, like one commenter was saying on the Eastern Roman Empire vid, we're always gonna be here for the meme-y goodness anyway. Shame about that Shadowplay program thingy. Wishing a fantastic holiday wherever in Europe you might be! :)

[@mr2octavio]

Beats entire 3000 men army with 200 militia. RTW2: *phyrric victory*

[@adiutrixpiafidelis]

even the game are siding with filty dirty barbarian >:C

[@janglenutter3820]

Game has no judgement. None of the total wars ever had.

[@Velkan1396]

The other day I won with 2000 men, losing about 500 against a split army of 4500, killing 4000. Close victory. Noice.

[@Mago.-]

@@Velkan1396 Just yesterday was playing rome 2, got a legion surrounded (1980 mens +-) against something like 5k enemys in 2 big armies and 1 smaller, lost about 500 mens too, close victory, thats akward right?.

[@playaboutpatforms2709]

its total war atilla

[@bipedleek241]

Barbarians: We’ve got you surrounded! Wre: All I’m surrounded by is fear and dead men

[@Memedude_L1]

Welp this gives me another reason to tell my friends as to why i play as ERE

[@Volcano4981]

*All They Fear Is You, Aetius* *DOOM Eternal soundtrack intensifies*

[@joshuasnow6430]

Roman soldier: sir they have us surrounded Roman commander with strange name: good, we don’t need to aim

[@giacomoromano8842]

How dare you? He is obviously the famous Magister Militum Biggus Dickus!

[@matthew4712]

I snorted.

[@18Hongo]

Basically Napoleon at Rivoli.

[@vladstrutzu]

Push it to the limiiieeeeeeeeet....

[@HatTheFatCat]

pump up those LIMITani borderguards

[@ReviveHF]

@@HatTheFatCat Only Oda clan's peasants bois with pointy sticks can do that.

[@oleksijm]

To the limes

[@tomasmb816]

Those horses were blessed by god

[@lexex2550]

the god patted the head one by one of both horses and the horseman personally.

[@Misieq145]

By godS you heathen

[@grimaldus1523]

By God pagans.

[@0205-z9y]

*Mars

[@Mrkabrat]

By none other than Jupiter

[@Fitzkrieg]

Scout Equites were what saved Rome and her territories in my WRE Legend campaign. Well done.

[@fanaticpharaoh6689]

999 kills.

[@stefciok]

@@BringDHouseDown yes. It's nothing special. Hilarious though.

[@marcus4046]

*breaths in * RIDERS! FORWARD!

[@James-sk4db]

Lots of mercs saved my WRE

[@ragnerschwarzmane3412]

James so roman battle tactics in a nut shell?

[@MagicBiber]

I think we can all agree on granting this beautiful madman a few triumphs, right?

[@zhouwu]

Just a few. For each battle.

[@Badbrix_]

I know your channel and you were the last person I'd have expected here. I had to make sure it was really you, but yeah... Just a few for him, otherwise he'll get cocky :D

[@bullettime13]

If a commander actually managed to win battles like these back in they day, they would have ascended into the realm of myth. One victory is a miracle. The rest just show that maybe western rome is God's chosen people.

[@jasperlim8319]

Automatically dismissed as fairytales by historians

[@gildoringlorion3093]

@@jasperlim8319 "The actual casualty counts were probably heavily exaggerated by the Romans"

[@juhopitkaranta6883]

West Rome would have abandoned Christianity in favour of the Cult of the Magister.

[@olakosaurus2233]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_V%C3%ADtkov_Hill not the same period but it's a similar battle to what you're seeing here Žižka was a commander who did shit like this

[@eball2k9]

Where are the romans now dumbass

[@Identitools]

I came, i saw, i pushed the like button

[@koobyboy4304]

I came, I saw, I came

[@pewienpanzmiasta6292]

I came, i saw, i died

[@FRIETHERICVS55]

I believe, you mean, you pushed to the limit?

[@Sir_Bucket]

WE CAME! WE SAW! WE RECKT IT! Hum... sorry I played too much Battlefleet gothic 2 this week

[@fatesworn3138]

My vision is augmented

[@TheIntox23]

PUSH IT TO THE LIMITANEI

[@alfielp307]

genius

[@JioPilgrim]

Well done

[@nicolas.p331]

Nice one!

[@georgemorley1029]

Only a couple hundred likes for that? Shame.

[@josue.ortega]

Underrated comment

[@jimsuters5216]

These video’s give me will to live

[@adrianziecik6280]

Me your profile pic

[@martinmlakar5093]

There goes my No Nut November.

[@brom1277]

Congratulations on you-know-what

[@martinmlakar5093]

@@brom1277 Thanks, have just seen it. Definitely one of my greatest achievements.

[@martinmlakar5093]

@Heberth Ryan I never left

[@yungsouichi2317]

The air was filled with smoke & memes.

[@stelleverde4589]

Rome was lit

[@sniperbullet6453]

And behold the red account, and power was given to him to tske stress from life

[@alexanderthegreat1356]

They made ready for memes

[@herbivorethecarnivore8447]

Phyrrus moans in the distance

[@SyndicateLive]

haha

[@iratepirate3896]

[Intense Gothic Screeching[

[@Mrkabrat]

@@iratepirate3896 *[Sound of galloping intensifies]*

[@HUNTERKILLER20001]

lmao, "welcome to the limit" and the army is 80% Limitanei xDDD

[@z54964380]

making it look easy again my man

[@x0lopossum]

Nice to see a fellow Ironbreaker on the web.

[@Yay4IamCute]

West Meme Legendary

[@lordinquisitorpeter8221]

Black Templar what are you doing here?

[@Moorbote]

I knew clicking the bell was a good idea.

[@GermanOlle]

LoL.. At first time I read "I knew licking the balls was a good idea." I don't know why...

[@alecsis882]

@@GermanOlle dude 😂😂😂

[@mrvulture8981]

@@alecsis882 uncool

[@manu_spawn]

This is actually true I experienced it several times I commented long ago a tactic i used in my campaign in another video. If u wanna win or have it easier, fight EVERY battle. Rome might be in crisis, but different to history itself, u r still capable of recruiting Good type of soldiers instead of barbarians and mercs. Rome's infantry has quality even though it is economically weak. Trust your pila and sword, the thoughness of cluster formations, deployables, your general, light cavalry to hit repeteadly and fire arrows. Different to other TW games and the difficulty of the many hard factions, in Attila, EVERY soldier u have is ESSENTIAL for the survival of the cities. Make your men stand close and hold the enemy push to encircle the barbarians and secure the income! Roma Victor! Once u have an actual army, and good quality of troops, u are basically unbeatable, as Roman infantry becomes professional and super adaptable

[@nonameguy96]

Barbarians: they have just 3 units guarding the city this will be easy pickings WR : laughs in barricade

[@CsStoker]

One of the things I want back the most is promoting remarkable officers from armies or garrisons into generals like the classic total war games, specially fighting so many garrison battles in Attila would have been an extremely welcome addition. I miss the classic historical total war games.

[@philippanscheit4993]

Is it possible to learn this power?

[@everydayuntilyoulikeit1501]

Not from a Celt

[@azantysvaleri7380]

Not from a east roman

[@Supermegamanuel01]

Not from a barbarian

[@thaneofwhiterun3562]

Not from a Hun

[@jackharris1659]

But from a Magister Memeium

[@kaydos6355]

So many great memories of legendary western Rome, so many, many, many battles over small cities, and the rebellions, oh the rebellions watching your videos makes me want to do it all over again.

[@luttingdude9415]

Damn, we have some weird fetishes for pain don't we.

[@daevious_]

Is there any other motivation needed for a WRE run?

[@Chilled_]

Total War: _The Limit_

[@adeptusshitpostes7639]

Spoilers:It's pushed.And I can't believe no one made this joke.

[@saschazaaijer3110]

I came looking for pillaged copper, but found golden denarii

[@luttingdude9415]

Sasso the Sower *solidium

[@mangyminotaur30]

Virgin Herculiani Seniores vs the Chad Scout Equites

[@Volcano4981]

*Virgin Tagmata Cavalry vs the Chad Mighty Super OP Scout Equites :p

[@magisterequitum9689]

QUE THE FVCK

[@mr2octavio]

Isn't it "Quid"?

[@BigEddieGaming]

Quod phallus?

[@magisterequitum9689]

Vos malum

[@thaneofwhiterun3562]

Que is spanish for what

[@teoruas1950]

@@thaneofwhiterun3562 also portuguese

[@Chaot1kShadow5]

How... What did you... Magister Equitum Yrridian, please; *teach me*.

[@Yrridian]

Actual tutorial videos are Coming Soon. First one won't drop for at least a week though (and probably more since I need to get a new mic first).

[@Manwoker]

@@Yrridian Yesss! Thank you!

[@rebelfriend1818]

our saviour

[@lucasbeck1391]

@@Yrridian soo about that tutorial

[@Littlebob1986]

Lol, yeah I'm waiting for it as well 😂

[@phoenixedits8960]

Best way to start my day :)

[@abaddonabaddon374]

I havent seen a cavalry that powerful since Mongols steamrolled my Rus infantry in Medieval II. Yrridan is one truly blessed by the hand of almighty Tengri.

[@ReviveHF]

No, he's blessed by Mars the war god.

[@benceklock4831]

@@ReviveHF He's blessed by ALL the gods.

[@luttingdude9415]

No he slayeded the almighty tengeri I and replaced them as HVN KILLA

[@Frenzi99]

I’ve been in moments where I’ve been outnumbered 5 to 1 and still came out on top and it is always glorious. Total War is truly a gift from the gods of Rome

[@jeandes5782]

YES DADDY

[@Edgardo-nz5fm]

DONT EAT SUGAR!!!

[@lyonvensa]

Where are you now, Spear haters?

[@Volcano4981]

*keeps spamming more Comitatenses to trigger the spear haters*

[@ReviveHF]

@@Volcano4981 Oda Nobunaga would agree.

[@trolltalwar]

Why would anybody hate spears? Theyre the back bone of any ancient military

[@ReviveHF]

@@trolltalwar In Ancient China, spears and pikes are the king of the battlefield, and it's the symbol of Chinese peasants might to resist the northern Tatar barbarians, while swords(even the Japanese katana inspired Chinese swords) are regarded as backup weapons. Currently, the Chinese martial artists are the masters of spears, while the Japanese are the masters of swords, however the Japanese sword arts gain more attention and reach a mythical status in the end.

[@j.mtherandomguy8701]

@@ReviveHF hunnic babarians* Tatars didn't exist back then, at least not in East Asia.

[@jamesf.7431]

HES BACK

[@Maksymilian62]

The use of "Push It To The Limit" was masterfully done in this video. Great job :D

[@Nachtdertoten666]

The song choice is the best! you never fail to entertain me

[@vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv]

I can't be the only one here that desperately wants to see that battle where spear stack held the barbarian tide back at the edge of the world

[@mason9806]

I love this video.

[@IMfromNYCity]

But I thought you disliked the Western Romans?

[@mason9806]

@@IMfromNYCity in the next video i plan to invade but could you not spoil it thanks

[@MichaelTheWayfarer]

@@alexxiii6380 lol

[@mason9806]

what the fuck kind of empire family reunion have i started

[@MK-ok6yp]

@@mason9806 hinga dinga dur

[@FakeAnarchist]

Holy shit you were born in the wrong century, Rome needed an commander like you

[@richardgonzalez6409]

*The Emperor when he sees a garrison defeat an entire full stack army* : qve the fvck?

[@Humanlink1]

*Barbarians come to city limits : "We will burn your city as you lie dead in the streets!" Romans: "No u"

[@eVeNmOrEiNsAnItY]

Just another ridiculous town defence... x5squillion

[@butterbean7814]

You learn to absolutely respect scout equities when playing Rome in this game.

[@PitLord777]

"Bro do you even fight?" -Western Roman Empire

[@eliassartorius2674]

I love how he times the klap sound with two armies facing of and a battle starts

[@aidanwow1593]

KZbin comments: "Spears suck." Most of history would like to disagree with that statement.

[@genericafrican]

I’m just waiting until everything goes wrong. Love these videos.

[@mason9806]

for the western half anyways

[@isaacalves97]

ROME SHALL LIVE IN OUR HEARTS!!!!!!!!! ROMA INVICTA!!!!!!!

[@eph9263]

This content is glorious. I mean you have the right amount of memes, total war showdowns and something for me to learn and use in my own battles. PLEASE MOAR

[@stefanosalvi6523]

Omg...i cry😭😭

[@anthrillienmorningstar797]

I think this is one of the best videos you've ever made. It's one thing to enjoy the funny little skink one shotting everything or Tyrion obliterating everyone with the sword of murderdeath. And I do very much love to enjoy them. But there's something uniquely beautiful about watching barely armoured peasants on horses rack up 999 kills followed by an amazing compilation that sums up just how desperate but satisfying the WRE campaign feels to play

[@reygatery]

Damn another one? Nice

[@Ivan96M]

I love your editing. Everything flows so smoothly, it's real funny. Looking forward to part III!

[@romeo-delta1954]

I Installed TW-Attila the other day, and chose the Western Roman Empire just because Latin Christianity is the faction's religion. I went in blindly and picked easy mode (don't judge me) not knowing what would happen. Suddenly, not 10 minutes in, thousands of Saxons invaded my settlement with a Garrison army of 400. It was a valiant defeat, bless those men. I'm currently struggling in making my people happy and healthy. Some major defeats, some major victories. Nonetheless I'm losing men, it's either they die fighting the enemy, or die fighting me. I just lost the British Isles. Enemies are everywhere, I'm holding to my eastern ally for dear life. God help me.

[@Arbiter22J]

This is my favourite video on KZbin, it’s perfect

[@foxdavion6865]

West Rome on Legendary, when you want to play a game of hold the line.

[@brianm37]

How can a video about Attila be so funny? Legendary!

[@ronan9948]

thank you

[@DeclinedMercy]

This is the funniest video I've seen in months, what a god. Watching this gives me life.

[@AleksandrNevskiyu]

All barbarians: Check: "Western Roman Empire" "1 ATC, 1 DEF. Weakest enemy in the game. Looks like free lands." Western Roman Empire: "Do you really wanna have a bad time?" 1:10 1:58 3:16 3:41

[@MrPathorn]

Western Roman Empire Part 2 : The Empire Strikes Back

[@herobrineharry7698]

“Teetering on the brink, facing the abyss... a time to perform beyond one’s limits!”

[@milkman6883]

This is genuinely one of the best Total War Attila vids out there

[@joebiden9979]

What a sick editing and what a great work behind this video. AMAZING

[@BipolarMountain]

I think you are my total war idol. I never seen anyone play so skillful, be entertaining and funny as the same time. You are the definitiom of Total War thank you legend!!

[@daverou3534]

I´m pretty sure that if you were the emperor the Rome would never fell

[@rotciv1492]

The Roman Empire had the unhealthy tendency of constantly creating plots that ended with their best commanders assassinated. And that only got worse from the ending of the 2nd century onwards. Even when the Empire got divided and the West got constantly attacked... The great general Stilicho The emperor Majorian The general Flavius Aetius. All killed by weaker and pathetic men.

[@Godbless666]

The music is so fitting for the Western Romans it almost hurts XD. Excellent video, Yrridian!

[@MrProtopopescovici]

this is THE total war meme channel :)) good stuff

[@YoungTom95]

I always find myself coming back to this absolute banger every now and again. Thank you Yrr... err Magister Equitum for blessing us with this.

[@MaximeSourbeer]

Awesome as always. Loving the editing

[@ulyssesperry886]

The song and the video synced so well

[@endo4137]

Playing as western roman Empire. Current objective: survive

[@MattJunewski]

Current objective: *P U S H I T T O T H E L I M I T*

[@mojungle3054]

I just wanna let you know, that I've been coming back every day for a few weeks now just to witness this glory. It's a real religious experience.

[@weedISamazing48]

Them: “would you be interested in my religion?” Me: “what does it consist of?” Them: *Shows video* Me: *very*

[@KaneRawrhammer]

"Spears can't defend a town out right!" Tell that to the Spartans.

[@wolfsruhm]

also tell that to the countless of hundreds of years of prevelent use of spears as mainstay of military armament, only to be replaced by pikes and halberds

[@thattotalwarguy7911]

@@wolfsruhm Which were longer spears. (Actually, halberd were axe spears)

[@SimpzyTotalWar]

Ohh god he's back

[@joshuacollins9346]

God bless the algorithm. Your videos are hilariously well edited and with perfect music. Seriously entertaining.

[@Ddarth_sidious]

Legendary difficulty: *"Am I a joke to you, Roman?"*

[@ReviveHF]

Large Onagers and Scout Equites combo for the win. BEHOLD THE HVN KILLA

[@RebelHound]

Thanks!

[@8TimeTurner8]

I love how you're the only youtuber keeping TW Attila alive, you're also one of the best

[@datmexboi2121]

Hit or miss, I guess they never miss HUH.

[@redacted3557]

Dat Mex Boi SToP XD

[@IPFreelly604]

You got a Pope? I bet he doesn't bless ya!

[@redacted3557]

Kvass ThE pOWEr ChRsIT COmPelS YoU TO *SToP*

[@morton9186]

He'll go find another Rome and he won't miss ya!

[@redacted3557]

Morton boi I swear

[@Flugeo]

The only dude whose videos I like before watching! And like them even more after watching 😝

[@amp8295]

Ooof That burns

[@amp8295]

Ok I meant offensive sieges when you outnumber the enemy. I should have clarified

[@amp8295]

*Autoresolve sieges where you got numerical superiority

[@Yrridian]

@@amp8295 For the record you were right, I use all-spear armies only out of necessity in the early game and once I get cavalry I start winning a lot more battles. And about half the time I do just autoresolve battles with all spears because they can often go to complete shit when commanded manually (which is why I autoresolved a lot of the battles shown in my East Rome vid). But occasionally, under the right conditions, Roman spears can pull off some pretty crazy stuff in a manually-fought battle.

[@jakzine540]

@@Yrridian Once you get them deliciously effective Cornutti spears for the WRE, or the Eastern Auxilia and their insane badassery for the ERE, you actually can do super well with spear heavy armies. I love the very balanced ERE armies and more powerful Greek Orthodox religion/better farm lands and trade, but I will always love WRE's obnoxiously powerful infantry legions.

[@Volcano4981]

@@jakzine540 Spear, archer and cavalry armies are a bit of a favourite of mine, for excellent balance between anti-cavalry, holding power, shock and mobility value and skirmish capabilities. I sometimes substitute in a few units of melee infantry and javelin troops as well. The WRE isn't bad at that army composition either, making it a good fit for the said army composition for a good portion of the mid-game. Though like you said the ERE is an even better fit because of their Armoured Sagittarii and Eastern Auxilia Palatina. And any Germanic faction with top-tier long-range archers and Spear Masters. And in actual fact in Thrones of Britannia, Gwynedd specialises in elite spear infantry (Teulu Spear Guard etc) and Longbowmen with decent cavalry and one-handed axe units to boot. Making them my second favourite faction in that title, beaten only by, ironically since they're rivals, Mierce.

[@LordWyatt]

3:15 push it to the limit! *bang* *baaaaaang* 😂gets me every time😂

[@3d-art284]

That where the best 4 minutes of my life thanks

[@Sethos_I]

best total war content on youtube !

[@Bellaexe5091]

*watches video.... thinks I can be as good at game... loses campaign in 10 turns....*

[@peter3155]

I have to say the production quality of these videos are amazing. keep it up!

[@matthewnickolas4706]

whait that roman dude has "HVN KILLA" written on his wrists...

[@Wiztygames]

Please keep making these videos. They are the only good total war videos I enjoy watching

[@rodrigovargas9944]

Well video!!!You have earned another sub :D

[@maxmagnus3793]

Love the feel of this video. I just bought Attila after watching your channel - plan to rock western rome pretty soon and push it to the limit :)

[@maxmad5089]

Это шедевр!!!!!!👌👍

[@oscarchan244]

HOW, JUST HOW I PLAYED TW GAMES FOR THOUSANDS OF HOURS AND I CAN BARELY DEFEND A SETTLEMENT IN ATTILA AS WRE IN NORMAL, AND NOW YOU ARE TELLING ME THIS GUY MANAGED TO FEND OFF A FULL STACK WITH 4 UNITS. Seriously though, brilliant work. I just bought TW: Attila and boy, is the game hard. I had a hard time even playing as the Visigoths! XD

[@_Beans_]

BORN TO *CIVILISE*

[@RustYGeaR]

Never laughed so hard about Total War videos. Your vids are pure gold

[@neko0246]

scout equites is true garbage in my hand but in your hand, hmmmm ......

[@minrominro9986]

I've played some west rome and honestly they're the only thing that can save you.

[@Volcano4981]

I can confirm. Comitatenses/Cohors + Scout Equites = Carnage for all of Rome's Enemies They're also pretty underrated for small-scale skirmishes with other cavalry or baiting the enemy into a favourable position for you, if not for the rear-charging prospect, which is frankly a bit OP in Attila :p

[@jakzine540]

They need to be used right, but those javelins of theirs early on are HUGE for saving your buttocks. They're also pretty dependable, very fast, and fantastic for running down ranged infantry.

[@minhnguyen5888]

scout equites là ngon nhất nhì WRE rồi :v, clean routing troups không ai nhanh bằng nó

[@ReviveHF]

The way Yrridian uses Scout Equites shows one of the good examples of implementing "Sun Tzu the art of war": "Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest, in raiding and plundering be like fire, is immovability like a mountain".(風林火山)

[@Geraldius66]

haha dude awesome and love the music and stuff too! its all great