"Nope" -Every Artilleryman, ever.

Proximity fuse has been unlocked~~~

Except for the infantry who have artillery support who only fight people without artillery. Also, some probably would like artillery accuracy buffed. Friendly fire *isn't!*

@@Nerdnumberone look man, it’s not my fault, I told my CoC I was dyslexic before they put me in the FDC. It’s 100% on them if destroy the mout town 1200m outside the safety box.

Infantry when they make trenches: Hehe boi

Balthasar Approves

The nightmare of HOI4 youtubers, artillery only.

WELCOME TO ESTALIA, GENTLEMEN!

The BANEBLADE !!!

but i always do

Sun Tzu would cream himself if he saw artillery

@@the_luckiest_charm The victor is decided before the battle begins - Sun Tzu We have cannons, bitch - Us

Pretty sure it was Gandhi

@@the_luckiest_charm 99% of all pre cannon generals would cream themselves

@@Borgolii No his was about nuclear bombs.

Waterloo: LMAO nope =D

French flag at 9:10

Yeah i remember something like that on total war 2

@@user-yc7rl1ip1z waterloo was nothing just look at Leipzig napoleon outnumbered 2 to one encircled the largest battle in the history of Europe at the time nearly 500,000 soldiers deployed and yet napoleon still inflicted more casualties on the enemy before he was eventually overrun.

@@spadegaming6348 it was the largest battle prior to WW1

Äh yes, it all comes together

Why not both?

Actually, the japanese only traded with the dutch and japanese.

@@thespiffingbrit export tea, then stop and ask for more money

@@cancerino666 they didn't want any christian missionaries because they saw how they were used to divide and conquer

@@thespiffingbrit go beyond YEET ULTRA!

@@thespiffingbrit That could be an overpriced shirt.

@@gamingforever9121 hello fellow Mha weeb

@@thespiffingbrit I just need to find a cannon to shove myself in it.

It's similar to things like VATS in Fallout 3, NV, and 4: the listed accuracy is limited in range and skill, but if the player skill is high, they can snipe from far greater distances than the maximum VATS range. I like games that include a way for less skilled players to survive, but that include a way for skilled players to thrive.

Historically Accurate

Actually did it, basically became trench warfare

And the soldier will get shell shocked like Jeremy from 18:04

Lmao

@@thefoxita1634 I hope that your trenches stayed dry, don’t want any trench foot going around.

I guess you could say the ghost was shelled. And no I'm not sorry.

Lovely stuff - SpiffingBrit

Underrated comment, specially when I tried this, and I bonked some Kisho Ninja units, it was brilliant. So confirmed the ghost can definetly be killed by artilery.

@@ahopefor Take my like and go

Ghost = B U S T E D

Become a knock of British Empire in these 3 simple steps

GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toe nails... NEVER! I am the feet KZfaqr. Thanks for being a fan, dear spi

...How can actual Japanese be weebs?

Can you be a weeb and a Japanese person in Japan?

Tbf, my old Japanese teacher (Japanese born and bred) referred to the kind of Japanese folk weebs try to emulate as "f*ckin-gu weeb-zu ne!". He drank a lot of whiskey and whisky... he was hilarious.

This game needs a Franco-Prussian war expansion. The mechanics are perfect for 19th century warfare. Too bad you'll have to be satisfied with Warhammer 7.

@@DrWongburger Thank you dear time traveler for confirming warhammer 7!

@@FurArmoredBear lol just planning ahead. I've already began giving up hope on the series, which hurts because it has always been my favorite.

@@DrWongburger whoaaa whoa whoa whoa whoa, this is Japan this game's focused on, get that dlc on the appropriate title

@@DrWongburger Warhammer 7? Thank god, CA has finally given up on appeasing the tight arsed "my way or the high way" historic players!

Why knights/samurai where phases out in a nutshell

The easier to use and shorter training for decent tactics (gun goes this way, firing lines, working with cavalry) made it so experience mattered less. You wanted as many guns and as many people as possible to make hailstorms of lead. AKA, what Spiff does here!

haha

Cringe

brittish?

why did you put an extra t instead removing one?

I love the smell of war crimes in the morning..... Smells like Victory

@@thespiffingbrit :^D

Spiff then how do you explain the oil canisters

And pirchforks

Too be "cannon" in French actually mean to be super sexy . It's confirmed Spiff is super sexy ! *o*

😂

That's 18th century tho. Who knows what he would've thought about it after a century or two. Cuz artillery became overpowering.

Refined by Spiff the Brit.

"God fights on the side with the best artillery" - Napoleon

That's modern Latinisation in a nutshell, my friend. Take something foreign, make it sound okay in english, and then try to spell it. Then ignore all that, and give it your own name.

Hufff now it wont be funny since you commented

*O B A M A*

@@jazermano latinisation is a dumb word. Just like latinist. Roman time period has way too much bias. High key the existence of that name makes me feel ashamed for being a history buff. Just so childish and gimmicky. There's no such thing as a latinist, you're either historian or your not, specializing in one time period doesn't turn you into a sub cat historian. It's dumb.

it's required for the exploit to grow exponentially

Thank you!

Reminds me of WoWS's complaints about Aircraft Carriers.

Agincourt but it explodes

@@Just_A_DudeIn this case it's a little more justified because yes Aircraft Carriers are incredibly powerful but this was due to the fact that you would be attacked by a massive wave of aircraft from 10's of kilometers away and you'd never get a chance to shoot at them. And (unlike in WoWS) when they did get attacked they had a habit of going up in flames and are incredibly fragile to this day. lots of things that go boom on board. Meanwhile in WoWS you can shoot at them with a 406mm HE salvo and barely scratch the paint, where as historically that would have disabled the ship for the battle if it didn't completely destroy it. anyways this has been my presentation on why I shouldn't read the comments on youtube. goodbye

@@thespiffingbrit lol

@@thespiffingbrit Can't wait for Wii Waterboarding

@@nontowfoo don’t they already have that?

I couldn't let pass a video with such a starting.

radio was required when a ship can't even see the target area. But,in this game most beach battles are open n ships can calculate how far they need to shoot without radio.

@@rikrishshrestha5421 500 meters is maximum you can get with those cannons

I know it's not 100% accurate, but the game is set in the late 1860s and the first spark-gap radios were being used around 1896, which were basically wireless telegraph machines, which were used later ship-to-shore and shore-to-ship transmissions.. so with a little imagination you could apply the knowledge to a playthrough of your own neglecting to use the naval bombardment until 1896, though you would have probably finished the campaign by this time.. lol

Flag relays maybe?

@@Twizted86 You can see them deploy a torch marker to the designated target area, so assume the naval crew observed that being launched and has a rough guesstimate where it went down.

i don't think napoleon is a great example of God's favor

@@Jamie-st6of he said it just to express the importance of artillery

@@Jamie-st6of how so?

@@greatandmightykevin the underlying information is that napoleon and his regime were very much atheistic, and I'm sure you can imagine somebody equating "God's Favor" (finger quotes and all) with victory. Hence, more artillery is the key factor says napoleon.

@@jasonisbored6679 ah, i see

@@thespiffingbrit the miracles of rifling

Pilps would have words with thee

Well, they suck when they are on land. European ships in vanilla Shogun 2 are so OP you can destroy almost any fleet with just one Nanban trade ship. Then, there is the almighty Black ship thats even more OP, but there is only one and you must capture it. Its so powerful that facing it with a japanese fleet feels like a bossfight.

Lmao same here.

@@igorokinamujika2073 sounds fun

They explode with dignity.

@@sirbill_greebi3811 Chunky salsa, now with added dignity.

I just wish it did not have the audio bugs. Decking out the entire line with musket armed troops only for them to fire and you barely hearing any firing sounds.. it really takes away the "oomph" that a battle should have.

@@DutchGuyMike You have plenty of oomph when you do naval bombardment. You'll have the mother of all oomphs.

I cant believe the devs have let the cannon meta go unchecked for this long

@@freakymoejoe2 they've kinda been phased out now, missiles are the only real strategy at the moment

@@FriskyD. misiles are just further up the cannon tech tree

@@freakymoejoe2 ah, I see

@@freakymoejoe2 that's why we have warhammer where the cannons get shed by flying units

I mean, it's not entirely wrong. Imagine if there were few more regiments of the troops to deal with but you had no more ammo to deliver the artillery abuse any more, it might have been just enough critical mass to overwhelm your troops.

Ah that explains some of my "close" but not close defensive battles as Dwarves or High Elves.

Well I mean... if there are 1000 men and 1000 bullets and you use them all, and kill them all while losing no-one. I don't think that's close.

It's really important to mind your ammunition in newer total wars if you want to inflict army losses penalty on enemies earlier. The game values archers without ammo as absolutely worthless when it comes to balance of power.

@@Oblithian but like, what if only 3/4 hit? now you've got to fight melee with literal spearmen and samurai, with what, bayonets?

mafs

Haha. It's 76

@@thespiffingbrit iirc reload caps are limited by animation speed, and animation speeds have a hard upper limit to keep it from looking janky. I used to make mods for this game.

@@conradk.3098 fun

@@thespiffingbrit No worries not many people know that. Shogun 2 is full of Mechanics and secrets I found out only slowly over time. When I heard of it I didn't believed it too, but I tested with a friend in testbattles. If you want to know another secret about cannons I discovered, here is the timebomb: Have your cannons fire at will off, activate shrapnell and use selfaiming. The cannonball will stuck in the ground and release a shrapnell explosion after multiple seconds. Its not op but very fun to use as in battles it takes alot prediction ;) In case you consider doing another video about Shogun 2 feel free to ask me for other perfectly balanced mechanics

@@conradk.3098 its the same in all total war games, you cant increase stats beyond what the animation dictates; attack/movement/reload speeds are generally capped at one point.

@@steffennilsen2132 Yeah thats true, but in most TW games you usally don't reach caps(that easy). In Shogun 2 however there are so many different skills that can boost the same thing. Like in his video he had Ganbatte that boosts reload, inspire does aswell and also skilltrees. In multiplayer there are even dojos that boost reload by 20 and not seldom I have seen player being so proud of their line infantery having over 100 reload already (cap is between 80-90 I guess) and still activating supressive fire(+20 reload -20 accuracy) so they effectively weakened their unit. In other TW games you don't really have to care about such caps thats why most people don't know caps exist in Shogun 2

YES!

And then Rome 2 came and had to fuck it up 😟

Shogun 2 was peak Total War, the high point.

@@marc0523 yes but now we need Empire 2 or total war after napeleon lost at about 1850???

Yes indeed

Against an enemy that took the most basic precautions, artillery barrages were quite slow in doing their damage, judging by Churchill's (yes, that one) 1899 book The River War. The bombardment he describes lasted 90 minutes, and the actual assault still encountered heavy resistance. "The hush of the hour and the suspense of the army were broken by the bang of a gun. Everyone on the ridge jumped up and looked towards the sound. A battery of Krupps a little to the right of the Cameron Highlanders had opened fire. Another gun further to the right was fired. Another shell burst over the straw huts among the palm-trees. The two Maxim-Nordenfeldt batteries had come into action. The officers looked at their watches. It was a quarter-past six. The bombardment had begun. Explosion followed explosion in quick succession until all four batteries were busily engaged. The cannonade grew loud and continuous. The rocket detachment began to fire, and the strange projectiles hissed and screamed as they left the troughs and jerked erratically towards the zeriba. In the air above the enclosure shell after shell flashed into existence, smote the ground with its leaden shower, and dispersed-a mere film-into the haze and smoke which still hung over the Dervish encampment. At the very first shot all the dirty-white figures disappeared, bobbing down into their pits and shelters; but a few solitary horsemen remained motionless for a while in the middle of the enclosure, watching the effect of the fire, as if it had no concern with them. The British infantry stood up on tip-toe to look at the wonderful spectacle of actual war, and at first every shell was eagerly scrutinised and its probable effect discussed. But the busy gunners multiplied the projectiles until so many were alive in the air at once that all criticism was prevented. Gradually even the strange sight became monotonous. The officers shut up their glasses. The men began to sit down again. Many of them actually went to sleep. The rest were soon tired of the amazing scene, the like of which they had never looked on before, and awaited impatiently further developments and 'some new thing.'"

@@ingold1470my man just wrote an entire essay

The first task of artillery is usually to duel with the enemy artillery. Artillerymen have it worse than people think.

and that's when war has entirely stopped to be anything else than mass murder :(

@@xChitenshi War has always been, by definition, mass murder ...

@@xChitenshi it almost always has been. Fighting with swords is not more morale than fighting with artillery or guns, the only exception may be chemical warfare, fire and nuclear weaponry.

@@superwatcher456no, fight with swords is a noble which is determined by opponent’s skill. You also die from the hand of the human. Saying that industrial warfare is no different from ancient warfare is crazy

The Geneva suggestion*

"to-don't-list"*

Didn't even exist during the time of Shogun 2, apologies for ruining the joke but if it wasn't me then it would of been someone else

@@ahopefor You're good, no worries. :p I'd also be "that guy" to state the obvious. Your response still made me chuckle nevertheless. Cheers.

well, now you know where the idea to write this convention actually came from...

HAUBITZEN!

@@stndunnam Howitzer=Гаубица

@@TheArklyte 24 Pfund gezogene Hinterlader-Feldgeschütze. Sie haben eine Reichweite von 5 Kilometern und eine beispiellose Präzision. Halten Sie Ihre Ohren zu, meine Herren, nur der Lärm, den sie machen, ist tödlich! Haubitzen!

How is this comment both edited and illiterate?

I honestly thought there would me more people making references to ghost of tsushima

'spicy iron sticks' ahh yes, my favorite tool for realizing empirial ambitions!

Thats the point of Basic Training... teach them they are sacrificial but if they are REALLY good at it they may become important enough to make it worth it and more likely to survive at the same time. At least thats how it used to be.

Napoleon: Hey! I did that shit before it was cool

READY TO POUND EM

They explode with dignity

Every time. He's a mad man.

*pissed off metal bird noises*

"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Patton* for next time.

He could probably singlehandedly thwart such an invasion

@@thespiffingbrit oh no you didn't

based

Pretty sure it's a joke from one of the World Wars where it's a tank commander saying that, an artilleryman would say "removing that direction"

what

Yes fr

I DO AND YOU ALL SHOULD ITS NOT A SCAM

Maybe I will, but idk what tea to drink today

@@colewegner7576 Might I suggest Yorkshire Gold?

Is a cup of Barry's tea allowed?

I mean.... it is not wrong

I mean.... it is not wrong

Go look for a video titled *the Otomo experience* and read through the comments. One of them had that same experience as yours

Cannon in empire is useless

Correction= cannon in Empire: near useless

​@@trk1b28varianrhesa4unless you aim at the ground in front of a unit, then it shoots with laser precision

@@killme69tbf the sharpnell shot sometimes deals so much damage to line infantry(The AI sometimes confused and put blob of infantry regiments together)

Same, thank you spiffing britt! He didnt mention canons can glitch the game. This is the only game i lost in the tutorial. Cannons couldnt be selected so i had to take on a castle with ninja...i lost bad

Does the oda get the genius toyatomi hideyoshi? Granted that wasnt his name till after oda nobunaga died

@@jamesmeppler6375 No, but their standard peasant units are massively upgraded making them close in strength to samurai while having like 100 more men on large unit scale. They are also less than half the price and upkeep cost. Also they can be recruited from any city faster and at higher rank.

@@SkarScreaner oh snap, makes sense historically speaking, the oda army had a knack for flipping enemy armies and generals. Perhaps ill give the Oda a try, I was thinking of a Takeda game but they can be tricky

@@jamesmeppler6375 Takeda require excellent micro on cav.

@@nogisonoko5409 No. You can win as the Takeda ignoring cav entirely.

-Sun Tzu

As does this!

@@thespiffingbrit very much so!

We don’t talk about that shitty game here

@@nicholasthuya7683 Who hurt you?

May I suggest Ultimate General: Civil War? Although it's not a Total War game, the battle system is fairly similar.

I did in fact buy it, and FYI this is a 9.99 addon dlc, didn't know that, bought it, was confused, felt dumb later. Either way first ever RTS game I've ever played and it's pretty fun.