Western Roman Empire Legendary First 10 Turn Guide for Total War: Attila

Total War: Attila Legendary Difficulty Guide for the first 10 turns playing as Western Roman Empire. Following this guide anyone should be able to handle this campaign.
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[@The_Custos]

"First things first, do not panic." *Roman soldier sweats profusely*

[@mason9806]

1 Hour for 10 turns. Seems about accurate.

[@BRAMB0SSS]

and a lot is sped up too

[@t3hgraemek]

one hour for 1-3 turns in attila isn't uncommon if you are playing as the romans

[@Wubbeyman]

t3hgraemek 1 hour for 1-3 turns isn’t uncommon for any factions with Attila’s turn times. I really wish they went back and optimized Attila like they did for Rome 2.

[@the_rover1]

no battle though :D

[@cc0767]

Sometimes during end turn the huns take 2 minutes. Idk what they are doing, but they are doing something

[@orseonovakovic8521]

Note: the guide won't work if you don't play the music when demolishing everything

[@doktarr]

Total War: Benny Hill

[@Andartan21]

Push it to the limit!

[@theovertaker40]

what is the song called?

[@the_rover1]

@@theovertaker40 *Benny Hills Theme Song* somewhat like that. user 'doktarr' already mentioned that, though.

[@alack3879]

Best comment

[@DiviAugusti]

99% of what I learned in Total War was from his 100+ episode WRE master class.

[@horatiussonofrome812]

"too many churches around the place" Tips fedora

[@jaynsilentboom]

lol glad im not the only one who noticed that lol

[@michanycz7166]

I love it. Apart from being legit in terms of the actual game it is also a very good case study of a restructure. He started with a bloated corpse of an inefficient organisation. He downsized it, streamlined it, balanced the books. What stands out is that the success of this approach comes directly from the ruthlessly efficient SWOT analysis of the situation and SMART goal setting. You could actually show this clip to a a group of mid tier managers and they would recognise these points straight away. Also, massive props for the editing.

[@janehrahan5116]

I liked it too, however it goes to show how poorly the game reflects the ancient economics of west rome. As inaccurate as rome 1 was in many ways, the Barbarian Invasion campaign reflects it quite well, sacrificing everything but Italy there would cripple the economy, the key in that case is not so much a restructure as an infrastructure development and internal conflict resolution. (converting mostly to christian or pagan)

[@Cipher993]

This is easily the most nerdy thing I've read on youtube

[@michanycz7166]

@@Cipher993 Thank you

[@hadisemsmeni1059]

Lol what’s up with these hate comments

[@ingold1470]

I wonder if CA, when designing the game, viewed the latter-day Western Roman Empire as a bloated corporation in dire need of a restructure, and had the game mechanics reflect this.

[@stephenhartley2853]

first step: quit to main menu and choose medium difficulty

[@the_rover1]

second step: quit after 2 turns and go to the main menu, choose easy difficulty. start over campaign.

[@alecsis882]

Unpopular opinion: WRE with weaker huns mod and climate change mod on easy/medium is amazing and enjoyable. Disable the climate mode and get a -20% power mod for the huns, play it on hard, more than enough. Anything more than this is just pointless in my opinion. Why would you torture yourself like this

[@Madmagic]

@@alecsis882 i totally agree i hate to play games on crazy high difficulties people call me "lazy" or "not good enough". But loke bro I'd rather be gettong better in real life than on this game i play it to have FUN

[@cc0767]

@@Madmagic Well you arent good enough then, right? But its up to you how to enjoy the game. and for an emperor seeing your empire crumble on all corners is really really irritating

[@OkurkaBinLadin]

Abandoning entire provinces should be met with massive debuff on public order/opinion CK2 style. There is no way an actual imperator would get away with abandoning 2/3 of estates.

[@JustSome462]

You understand the WRE has a really rough start when the 10 turns video lasts more than any of the 20 turns videos

[@the_rover1]

30 mins are deleting towns and villages, though :D

[@ingold1470]

So transition to a smaller, more compact state with an agriculture based economy? How medieval!

[@totalwartimelapses6359]

So what you're saying is I should *not panic* ?

[@the_rover1]

yes! keep demolishing and ignoring those pesky armies knocking on your doors. they aren't real. they'll leave. eventually.

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

"They're attacking all of our cities!" "Don't panic." "Our people are rebelling!" "Don't panic." "Rome is burning!" "Ooh, Lyre time!" -Legend of Total Nero.

[@LordWyatt]

“I’ll say a few things that seem like utter nonsense.” Dude if you said to send an entire army to Parthia I’d take my chances and do it. Also, Benny Hill is always a win.

[@Tortuga629]

"Just go ahead and siege Ctesiphon. What have you got to lose?"

[@the_rover1]

they'll never land there, actually :D they'll get torn apart by Bosporus.

[@adrianbundy3249]

@@the_rover1 Just go through allied egypt, and take the southern sea route, and when you land, THEN you declare the war :)

[@the_rover1]

@@adrianbundy3249 dude, you're cheesing the game!!1! ;)

[@MarcelJ.]

Watching this a quote from Joe Abercrombie's 'Before they are Hanged' comes to mind, I think it was something like this: "We actually lose money just holding Dagoska. The only reason we still have it, is so the nobles can point at the map and say: 'This spot there belongs to us'."

[@tonester8]

Damn good book

[@vincentdimaculangan9104]

that moment when the AI uses legends technique to level up their generals. "just sack the settlement over and over again!"

[@louisswanepoel1614]

I remember that legendary total war campaign with the Western Roman Empire(This is how I found your channel). This is the total opposite of that campaign. But, it makes sense. Good strategy, thanks

[@bingchillingsimp5811]

Louis Swanepoel that way is too hard this guide is for common players

[@ryanraymond321]

Yeah that's how I found him too. He said this way was for people trying legendary for the first time. That campaign was him trying for the this is total war achievement.

[@Finger112]

I watched it as well back in 2015.

[@rogerhill2707]

Not being in a "This is total War" situation makes things orders of magnitude easier.

[@awonoto]

That was my first exposure to LOTW also. I was watching some other KZbinrs attempting WRE campaign, and was disappointed until I found that This is Total War WRE campaign. And right now there are two KZbinrs who are doing WRE campaigns, and I feel disappointed again and proceeded to re-watch his campaign from 5 years ago.

[@ghostdog5525]

Thanks Legend, I really learnt something new! Bennius Hillius, Master of Coin, helped save the Western Roman Empire!

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

This guide was a real secret blend of herbs and spices. I've yet to try WRE at all because Attila is a bit wet. Keep it up legend!

[@Tosnoob]

There is a surprising lack of high quality Attila content on KZbin. Especially some that's semi-recent (as in, not 5+ years old). This is nice, wouldn't mind another Attila campaign as well. :)

[@silentdon40k]

Nice guide. Just a tip for keeping public order not mentioned in the video: on legendary always put your taxes on high (1 from the top) as WRE since they have constant immigration trait and high taxes reduce immigration percentage. The combined public order penalty from (normal tax + max immigration %) is higher than just (high tax) on legendary. Also: the economic effect of immigrants is easily overshadowed by having less public order buildings and more economy buildings + the higher tax percentage so high taxes basically make life a lot easier at the cost of a little growth potential.

[@Shootkicksass]

Your content this past year has been the best you've ever done. Keep up the fantastic work, Legend.

[@p2rumia]

I've been following you since 2015 because of your legendary WRE campaign. Great job as always!

[@MRB1157]

*Eastern Roman Empire Guide:* Just sit there and spam the end turn button, and watch the money stack up.

[@justmymage]

Then on turn 50 panic when you go over the money limit and hit -5000000 gold

[@The_Custos]

Did it, but I'm in a better situation financially as west rome with a huge number of theatres and sheep. 🐑

[@theDoctorwitTardis]

"With hordes - what you do is you lure them in...and then fucking kill them!" - Legend of Total War 2019

[@malekiththeeternityking5433]

10 Turns? Though you'd need a 50 turn guide haha

[@danielfraiz74]

This campaign is pretty much all about the first turns, and it's where the majority of people fail because they get overwhelmed. If you manage to hold and set up a comeback, the empire snowballs into its greatness again

[@RoulicisThe]

Yep, for the roman empire the first few turns are the most critical. I tend to try and maintain as much territory as possible when I play a Western roman campaign (for fun ^^), but I don't recommend it to new players as it's hard as hell.

[@adrianbundy3249]

This still might have been the hardest vanilla game campaign CA has put out; at least so far as when the corruption was even more ridiculous than it is now, and could take like 95% of your income to boot when starting out WRE legendary, and trying to hold onto anything.

[@deeznutz3712]

First 10 turns is essential. It is either die or survive. Not win but survive!

[@dYrOiUs]

Romans are always my favorite (particularly western rome) and I was discouraged when I first looked at this faction thinking it's impossible. I only just picked up Attila (played other total war titles) but now I feel confident that I can do this. Thank you so much man, excellent guide

[@ximbabwe0228]

The countryside catching on fire was not expected

[@icedcoffee8561]

yes! lmao I was watching your atilla videos the other day wishing you had a tutorial for western Rome. that play thru is ridiculously tough.. ofcourse I always try holding onto Africa and Britain lol

[@johnnyd3387]

This is Class. I've never played this, I've loaded it up but found it to big to contemplate. You have just opened the door for me. I foresee a winter campaign. Top notch Legend. Could do with one of these on Showgun.

[@gadelhudoar1184]

5:48 your editing keeps getting better Legend.

[@alpertasimov9102]

The new series are great, good job 👍🏼

[@fernandogiongo]

I think you should do more of these tutorial videos. Fantastic content. Spread the knowledge! Why not one for legendary Uesugi in Shogun 2? It's brutal.

[@oldben5363]

alright, that benny hill scene got me, wheres that support Jeff button at?

[@andrewj3372]

The editing and music was fun and a surprise from Legend. It's obnoxious if overdone but sprinkled in here and there adds a lot to the video

[@pietrocogliati9705]

If im not misteaking is ms. Legend that did the editing

[@jasonborne2521]

Imagine the Western Roman's did this shit, they might have survived

[@LucaHMafra]

Legend stepping up his editing game. 👌🏽

[@adyskzz5452]

My shit pc cant run this game but i still enjoy watching those tutorials! Nice job Legend...:)

[@josephg24]

28:13 holy negative public order batman

[@Galhardius]

Muito bom esse guia, já tinha começado minha campanha com WRE no legendário e tive vários problemas como guerras e rebeliões no início e é bem difícil segurar as pontas, dessa forma que você fez simplifica bastante a organização do império! I'am Brazilian guy!

[@marc1164]

Man slogging it through a cooperative campaign as the western (me) and eastern (my friend) Roman Empire was so rewarding in the end. It could have been easier but I went with the cheesy fuckers route lol. Held on to everything in the beginning somehow and ended up with us converting back to grecco-Roman paganism and conquering the whole map. The biggest challenge was Attila because even though we tried appeasing the ai with gifts, the Huns declared war after Attila was born. To those new players reading this know that the ai will literally cheat in this instance. If you defeat all units they will have a new 20 stack of elite late game units spawn randomly, ad infinitum until Attila comes of age and you can kill him. Just know this because avoiding this particular situation will save you so much headache. This ai cheat is simply poor design to railroad you into defeating Attila. Hold off on declaring war on them until you can actually best Attila himself about 3 times over.

[@TheFarnhem]

Thanks, love Attila content!

[@razvan-paultudose4891]

This strategy is very efficient. In addition, you can put some agents in the north where passages through Italy are, and you will see in time all the incoming attacks :D also 1 or 2 navies in North Africa is efficient to destroy any attack to Cagliari/Palma/Syracusa

[@CsStoker]

You can also try to save North Africa for the fertility it has, it pretty much become your bread basket the whole campaign. Also you should keep and defend the iron province at the north of Italy for making it your recruitment province.

[@blazodeolireta]

ADD-ON LEGEND 11:59 more diplomacy: you can call some of the barbarian neighborhood in those war. 23:02 check all your generals/statesman: some trait help

[@misaka3468]

Best thumbnail you've ever had

[@peskyquietman7593]

Legend of Total War has also become Legend of Thumbnail, the best one yet lol.

[@Quintus_Fontane]

That fucking thumbnail made me spit out my tea. You're a beast, Legend.

[@subrsubrr334]

Legend came in like a wrecking ball in this video.

[@joshbreidinger2616]

Anyone notice that Legend looks like Mac from Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

[@eduraavida2702]

I survived a Very Hard Campaing on this Faction. and actualy get to the good end gaming (domination). but is aways fun to remember the HELL and the HORROR TIMES I get in this game.

[@djordjepetrovic4941]

I think it would be cool to see a video where you show what kind of video settings you use and why, in games like attila, warhammer 2 etc...

[@Daedwartin2]

So Legend...I have to ask one question: Would you consider this a Rome 2 Saving your disaster campaign video? :P

[@ulch11]

In my campaign I actually managed to hold on to most of my initial territory. Settlement battles are easy enough to cheese. And then just started building up the empire from the core outwards while focusing on a couple of choice frontier provinces. Weak ass real Romans, should have gitten gud.

[@kuaichongkuaichong]

Yes of course. You could actually hold ALL of your territory.

[@jesusrebornkilledbornagain7889]

Great video legend! Kudos to your wife who has done a great job editing!

[@deltamiArt]

This is Legends ROMEXIT video JAJA!

[@Kvs-vf9nt]

Thanks for this!

[@TheDebilana]

Do an advanced guide :D i wanna see the extent at which this goes

[@Zagandemonic]

that thumbnail photo is the funniest i have seen in a while :P:P

[@truyencaothe1945]

You never let me down with your campaign. LOL

[@stefstokman3593]

Ledgend becomes a economics teacher in total war👌

[@andrewbratchell1715]

Best thumbnail yet.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

I know its kinda late, but the solution for the enemies fleeing on water its to have a small fleet, a naval patrol. I also experience these "fuckers" when playing the new total war games, i put a patrol near the nearest coastal city they will go to Its cool, very epic way of playing the WRE, starting how all began, i think il gonna try it (but not in Legendary lol) The Milites have proclaimed Legend their Emperor and raised to the Imperial Purple!

[@xeforapidy]

editing on point! gj legend wife

[@eamon821]

Just a few questions. 1. Instead of picking Italy to retreat to why not hole up in Hispania? It's further away and the provinces are as rich, I think. 2. Would it be possible to try and hold onto BOTH Hispania and Italy? 3. Would It make sense to try and hold some of the cities that border the Med, such as Aquae Sextiae and Salona on the Adriatic? Besides that thanks for the guide. Im going to try it once I have time to play video games again

[@kp-legacy-5477]

Its possible to do all those things A thing that could be done is use Africa as the bread basket instead of letting it go.

[@cl1xor]

Nice!! just one question, why didn't you start decimating armies right at the start so their integrity would be ok sooner?

[@matthewct8167]

That’s when the legend of total war part makes sense

[@deckyBWFC91]

Haven't played as WRE, but would it make sense to hand over the Britain settlements to the Britain's??? I've found them to be strong and often send forces and money. They usually take out a faction or 2 also

This is awesome.

[@cavejohnson5916]

Personally I would love to have Legend do a full length play through. I've learned a lot about how to managed this game

[@polneck]

he already did a western roman empire walkthrough

[@antoniyneykov914]

It will be awesome if we can have that for any clan in Shogun 2. Thanks!

[@philbruhweiler154]

You re my hero legend!!!

[@quinnginbey3254]

Personally I think eliminating the Quadians is quite easy. Take your army nearby, fill it with mercenaries, it will cost a couple thousand but you'll easily be able to autoresolve and mop up their remaining hordes. If they escape, they're unlikely to bother you in the rest of the campaign. Also I like to consolidate the African provinces. Get friendly with the Garamantians and the minor Africans will likely be too afraid to attack you. If you knock the Maurians (Or maybe it's the Gaetulians), you can complete your western most African province, and essentially secure a southern border. From there it's q great way to re conquer Iberia if it falls to Suebi or Hispanians, and can be the bread basket for a lot of your highly developed provinces of Italia and Liguria.

[@quinnginbey3254]

Also about the truce breaking when taking out some hordes or minor nations in your way, I honestly wouldn't worry about it. Past the first couple turns, your diplomatic reputation isn't really too important. Get that non aggression and trade with as many Africans as you can, maybe a trade deal with the Saxons if they're up for it. Then be a treacherous bastard to your hearts content. So good to move your armies to adjacent hordes and then truce break them. Able to wipe them out in a turn if you've brought enough men.

[@SuperAerie]

Ah, was waiting for this one :D But I cant bring myself to abandon territory. Im basically sitting there like Smith in the matrix shouting "This is my world! My world!!", and will fight tooth and nails to defend it. But that does require good knowledge of WRE (and cheese)

[@t3hgraemek]

love total war attila content

[@The_Custos]

Same

[@bogdancostik07]

Love the thumbnail

[@danielfraiz74]

In my campaign I somehow managed to hold also the south of France, some of Africa, and Iberia and they never were attacked, then I builded a fort in Aquilea and set up a permanent army in my capital to stop anything from coming in and to stop huns and then I just went up France again and now I basically won

[@minhnguyen5888]

I had similar run, his first guide about WRE was also like that. But this 10 turn guide makes it much easier.

[@BeeReeOee]

My man make this into a series like finish this campaign cause I am hooked

[@Sonofanoob]

Minty Minh He already did years ago lol.

[@whalelord9533]

Thumbnail 10/10

[@nickstone1167]

Will do this campaign soon. And yes, I did rewind to listen to Benny Hill again.

[@aptsag3390]

Well an alternative that I do is to wait for seperatist rebels to occupy a province and then vassalize them. Same with most nomadic people. Give them a province then vassalize. Since you are in war with 100 nations they also get dragged with 100 nations so your relations can really build up. An exploit is to sack a settlement infinite times.

[@nlforces2079]

Thanks

[@Koelebig]

As much as I like the map of Rome 2 and Atilla TW with all the details and stuff, I ffing hate how the camera sometimes rotates like 180 degrees when armies are being attacked and armies are moving. I mean, I was totally desoriented when I viewed Britain upside down in this video.

[@iamplay797]

the key is not to panic but the fast forward music on and dont panic 😁

[@vicenteguerrero5895]

Muy buena serie te sigo hace tiempo y si soy de latinoamerica y tu videos son de los mas buenos que hay . . . Viva chile la ctm 18 es para comer carne y terremotos

[@NTac_Tic]

Wanna play Attila because of the video :D

[@taxiarhis100]

Also if you can hundle destroy the quadry and the suebi . Quardy needs 2 turns to die . Just send an army to the bridge and call the army from the austria to join you with mercenaries . Then take the army from the gaul and spain and hunt the suebi . And if you are a hard player you can defeat the jutes in engalnd and make them client state with some mercenaries from their provinces . Also defend london woth a small navy in the beggin onoy just to abandond it

[@orswock3054]

Ow shit, here we go again ~opening steam

[@loveyuiz]

I almost spat on my drink when i see, the Vandals was killed by WRE in one turn on legendary difficulty

[@generalbinks123]

That -420 Public Order though ~25:30 ish

[@kjezedolan9419]

Better than demolishing all the buildings is to just demolish those that cost upkeep. Let the others be and collect the taxes until they rebel or get taken by other factions.

[@tijldevoldere8262]

Love the Thumbnail 😂🤣

[@urbanwarrior3470]

Wiping out teh Quadians is easy. Just move teh nearest stack towrds them and move the other nearest stack from Augusta Vindelicorum, recruit troops in the mid move, then mercs, and smash them and raze their settlement. It also stops all other Barbarian factions from raiding your territory

[@ryanraymond321]

What territories would you suggest conquering first when you're ready to start expanding after this point?

[@jeffvella9765]

Isn't it obvious, the opposite of where the huns are coming from. Spain/Africa in the order that you wish. Id go Africa so Spain would be a piece of cake later, but charging through Spain from France should work too. Just remember that more territory = 1 more stack holding the line = more corruption =less money. (tip: get a navy or 3 so you get control over the Mediterranean sea and thus no stacks cross from Greece and Africa to your money making territories in Italy). (You can use navies to quickly capture most of Africa coastal cities in 1 turn if you time it right)

[@ahmetokay3264]

Thumbnail:10/10

[@johnrussell701]

10/10 Thumbnail

[@bingchillingsimp5811]

The way u eliminate 3 faction first turn is actually ez and can be add to this guide

[@espatecfuet7968]

That thumbnail tho XD you're the best legend

[@henriquefujie8247]

you can recruit a navy and station them at port cities to help public order

[@Timbo6669]

So, to survive you have to forget about the people in the far reaches of the empire...IF it was realistic, then those ex roman allies would ban together and conquest Rome.. Does this happen?

[@Andrevhmachado]

“The Britain is too far away to they send armies at Italy…” Ahh they do send armies there, a lot of armies, full armies! Hahah

[@Hatchmatter]

You got your legs wrong....

[@redboy4315]

Can do 10 turns guide for Eastern Roman Empire as well ? Really need your helop