Perfect way to get my mandatory Roman Empire thoughts in.

Please make a part 2. Leaving on the same turn that the end game disaster begins is such a tease. I want to see you frustratingly fight off endless tier 3 hunnic armies

WRE tends to be more of an IRL morale issue rather than strictly a challenge issue: *surviving* isn't that hard, having the will to play that long is.

You can hold Italy, the islands and spain easily.

Bitersteel playing Total War: Attila is such a bliss.

Holding Octodorum (minor settlement on the north west of Mediolanum) and Aqua Sextia (Major province on the south west of Octodorum) is a good idea. You need Iron for some of your army techs and the Eastern Roman tends to lose theirs and Aqua Sextia has the grape resource so you can keep it taxed and fed and use both of them to gather growth points for when you do your inevitable reexpansion for their respective provinces. Remember the fewer settlements you hold per province the quicker they gather growth. CA logic there. :P PS: The Warhammer strategy where you can bait barbarian stacks by sitting in high success chance ambush spots can work, since they get a campaign map movement bonus. You sit outside your settlements in a forest and reinforce range, they rush in for an easy settlement sack and you can attack them on your turn when they get close.

Since you had no disaster saves, you'd to go for the in-game one. Should be fun!

As a Roman Empire fan, I see this as an absolute win!

I once did a run as the WRE without giving up a single province... it was gruesome.

I've always loved just how bleak and foreboding and dour Attila's atmosphere feels, particularly when playing as Rome. Like you can really tell the way the world was for hundreds of years was burning down rapidly and violently and there was no way of stopping it.

Ah yes, the ultimate disaster save experience. Really glad to see you on TW: Attila Bitter!

Imperium Romanum disaster save's lookin' different 😂

Bro you definitely are entertaining enough of a presenter to branch out in to any grand strategy game and have your content be excellent and fun to watch

I did the same strategy BUT: I held and built up in Africa, instead of Italy. More building slots and way more defendable since your south and east, and west are safe

Long awaited video. It's fascinating that we have very similar taste for strategy games. Also, seeing you play such difficult games is really entertaining. Keep up the good work Bitt3r!

Makes me happy to see more diverse content on your channel. Just good old paradox and total war games are amazing. Love to see more of these.

We needed a person like you for this kind of challenges ! It's always good to see you play total war , i wouldn't be against more uploads related to total war games , thanks for this video bud

Shoutout to Legend of Total War! Im glad you decided to switch it up and play some total war in the mix of HOI4 i think strategy games are just your bread and butter in general.

When I saw you in LegendofTotalWar's stream recently, I never thought you'd dab into Attila, of all places - a welcome surprise

Great video mate :) Had a fun time watching!

I LOVE this game man! Thanks for uploading a vid on it! 😃

The last time I played WRE in Attila was with the Radious mod and some misc mods added aswell. I held the Germanic border from north to south (there's some really good defensive cities like Colonia and Argentoratum) and left an army garrisoning Camulodunum. I also left two or three armies in Northern Africa and defended Aquileia and the Augusta north of the Alps (Vindelicorum?)I liked the mod because in vanilla, the more you research, your public order and sanitation buildings get "forgotten" and in the late game the garrisons get like Tier 3 units. The trick (and the hustle) is to take advantage of the braindead AI to defeat invasions to cities (many Roman settlemens west and east have unbreakable walls near the town center and cavalry can do a lot of damage in this game) and have your emperor lead an army to fight tribes that migrate through your lands and try to settle. The more battles your monarch win, the more his influence will rise.

Yo tw historical are the best. Keep it up man, can you make some legendary companies with challenges as montages ?

SOLVM INVICTA! Great video! Suggestion, try to survive as West Rome while not abandoning any settlement.

I just finished the WRE campaign! I used the same strategy but I retreated to Spain and I kept Mauretania, everything else burns. The first 50 turns were crazy as endless armies show up on the Northern border, but I managed to hold on and built up a decent economy in Southern Spain and Mauritania, and later went on to restore the Empire :D Most fun campaign I had, it was intense of course. I feel that Italy, being at the center of the map, is more vulnerable than Spain. Even when I played Barbarian tribes, I tended to migrate to Spain and build up my Kingdom there. Also I've never seen Huns venture that far west into Spain.

wow first time seeing total war from you, and i love it! hope to see more of it ❤❤

loved this one, looking forward to see more attila on this channel!

omg I was waiting for that video so much

love this video!! thank you for it!

I definitely do enjoy watching you play other games as well as HOI4. Great content mate keep it up!

Nice vid. It's really refreshing new content❤

Im litterally doing a World conquest a Rome on attila right now this game is my favorite TW so glad to see you playing it

This was great seeing just how mad Atilla can get, specially in comparison to how I remember Barbarian Invasion in years gone by

This was a great video i really enjoyed it and i hope you start including total war games more often to you"re channel along with hoi4.

Loved the video! And love watching Attila Total War gameplay!

Oo Bittersteel diversifying thats awesome. I'd love to see some EU4 videos, ive been getting back into that game since the new patch. It's better than ever somehow.

Excited to see something new!

I really enjoyed this, i only really consume total war for strategu tho. Hope to see more

Lets go, More of this

Love your content 😊😊😊❤❤❤

New bitt3rsteel video. Yay

Great video. I need MORE

Love the total war content. Not surprising that you know what your doing lol

When you realize you'll watch anything this guy puts out and love it...

I always wished you would venture into total war, I'm so glad you are and hope to see more.

Holy moly, the combo of the century! 🥳

Exactly the same way I am currently tackling my Eastern Roman empire campaign.. scorched earth tactics and consolidation around the unbreakable Constantinople and it's surrounding areas.. good luck man, Roma Invicta!

As Legend said in his guide "you got to always be the biggest prick on the fkn block in this game!"

Great to see Total War again. Deffo bring more content.

Bitt3rsteel playing my favourite total war expansion and faction. Happy bloody days

In one of my Western Rome campaigns I kept sending gifts to the Huns, even if it jus very little gold. This made them like me enough, especially when we both had a war with the same factions (mainly germanic tribes). It was fun to bribe them into joining wars and see all those who opposed them be stomped into the dirt by Attill and his hordes.

Great vid! Thought about doing any other total war games?

Would love to see more Total War gameplay! Been on a big TW:Napoleon kick lately, maybe team up with PixelatedApollo?

I remember doing a similar strat but i turtled for quite a while in italy and held a small holdout in the province up in northwestern hispania and simply waited until i could start reconquering starting with africa then moving up into hispania, all this before attila came of age and on legendary difficulty. Also i always found the pike mercenaries to be a good investment simply because pikes are OP in settlement battles.

I enjoy watching you play Attila!

Impressive. Very nice. Now do Eastern Rome/Byzantium for 100 turns.

Can't wait to see eastern empire gameplay

Your “being more stacks” mentality makes me chuckle because I always throw more men at my problems in total war

I don't know if you've played it, but Civ V's scenario of Fall of Rome on deity would be pretty challenging as well

I managed to hold on to most of western Rome in my playthroughs. It just required excellent battle micromanagement, and fighting every battle to slow the enemy down.

Lol bribing the Huns to attack the Sassanids is honestly brilliant. "Did we mention they are rich? Yep, anyways good luck boys, give'em hell. So uhhh, send a missive to Constantinople tell them help is on the way and they're welcome. " If only Honorius was this creative.

Heroes of Might and Magic, any of the 7 games, would be amazing to watch you play. It's also turn based strategy, but it has turn based tactics as well.

Great video!

I'd love to see you play the elder kings mod. Doesn't matter if 1 or 2, both are great.

Great bid Bitter, hopefully we get more TW videos :)

Love seeing some attila. You can keep iberia usually too as western rome 3 armies for iberia 3 for rome is usually good because of towers and roman cav garrison shenanigans

I played the exact same setup and found it quite easy actually

It works, you only need to focus on Rome, and you start rebuilduing yourself. I prefer mostly, the strategy of abandoning everything, and just hold Italy, Spain and the islands of Baleric(i think they are called), Corsica and Sardinia. Both strategys worked good back in the day and they still work.

Happy to see you play some Total War 🎉

I literally just started playing Atilla again 2 days ago awesome coincidence

Nice Turn that you now look at TW - May you look in the Future at TW: Rome II?

”The world will burn” and ”atilla” is giving me brain spasms. My band ”Arcillah” is about to release our first demo ”The World Is Burning”

YOU FINALLY PLAYED TOTAL WAR LETS GOO

You don't need to burn regions any more, you can try and hold the empire with the exception of Britain, legends guide us for an older version of the game.

I love the total war games, so I’d like to see more of this.

buddy put da trailer park boys meme in there, chad move. also Ive had some disgusting heroic victories in that city siege map bro I hope I saved some of them

Rome 2 with the divide et impera mod is quite the challenge

I heard that Bitt3rSteel was suffering again. So I came to watch!

I typically don't auto resolve a guaranteed loss. You can usually do allot more damage to enemy armies if you fight the losing battles.

I think total war games aren`t all that fun to watch with challenges like "can I survive this and that", but rather with challenges like "can I achieve this and that". E. g. reconquering the entirety of all roman lands.

The video I was waiting

Great video, can’t wait to see more total war!

Great video

Ok, thats going to catch some people, like me, off guard.

7:40 I almost thought it was a massive nuke attack xD

Would love to see some Stellaris! If you do branch out to other Paradox games, maybe we could see a mega campaign in the future?

Love Attila Total War! Please give us army tutorials, I am so, so bad

I like how the strategy to survive the "fall" of the Roman Empire is to basically do a hard reset back to the Punic Wars, then expand the empire the same way it did the first time xD

Excited to hopefully see CK3

I just found your channel and I just wanted to say. Beneath the gold, the bitter steel

My actual strategy was manually winning every defensive settlement battle. Like. EVERY battle possible. From all strategy games I always perfect my defense first. And the ones that weren't possible, i still did manual and dealt like 1200 casualties with 300 troops. The tribes and barbarians quickly run out of men to push, while they regain power, I consolidate and push back. On ERE it worked even better, the Ostrogoths completely died out after attacking my level 1 settlement twice and I not only managed to hold all provinces intact, but expand into Sassanid empire ( +mesopotamia) and Italia (+ magna graecia). Of course, corruption is eating me alive (50% of my income just disappears) but the faction trait fixes it

Imagine one day the top level government comes and packs up all their toys to retreat to more valuable lands.

love this

Bittersteel, are you interested on Rome 2 total war or just Attila? I would love to see more videos like this 😅

This make me nostalgic. The only game were the save game disaster it's a feature. Ps, i never made a pagan run became i couldn't manage the food consumption. The income consumption buildings are so much easier to manage.

Any chance you could continue this? Would be cool to see you handle Attila. Also, would love some EU4!

Loved it

Best tip = Legend of total war 😂 but love vid😊

The biggest mistake you can make in Attila is to convert back to paganism. It sounds very tempting - you start with lvl 5 building tech and if you research Christianity you lose it. However Christian buildings provide very important bonuses and consume gold. Pagan buildings provide similar bonuses and consume food. With the fertility mechanic this is a no-brainer.

27:18 felt that frustration ahahahhahaahahha