I respect heir because he actually post his defeats

For once, Heir faced an opponent in possession of multiple brain cells.

That was a great battle to watch! Lots of jostling for position, tactics & counter tactics. Very entertaining! :)

I like the seleucid empire they been my favorite faction

We need to see that elephant army in use :D

Favorite Faction Such an awesome selection of Troops.

I didn't start playing Rome II multiplayer until the Emperor Edition. For a while, I've been trying to figure out why elephants seem so absurdly powerful compared with the replays that you and Maximus played. I finally noticed the massive (and ridiculous) boost to health that CA gave elephants. Now I know why it seems to take 4 skirmishers to kill these irritants.

I've been looking forward to this one, thanks Heir!

This was an amazing battle one of the best in faction focus videos

Hey Heir. I just wanted to say that it must be a pleasure to work with you. Great video as always. Have a fantastic day.

Very interesting battle, classical succesor kingoms pairing with two strong army setups and and oh so much skirmishing... Well played from both sides.

I have waited your new video so long, is everything all right I hope? I love your vids,keep them coming please. Cheers ^^!!

I am not a Rome 2 player, I don't have a decent enough PC to play it. However, I am amazed at all the comments hating on pike formations. Everyone calls them noob boxes as if it is a terrible thing to do and not in the spirit of the game. I don't see how that can be. Standing on a hill, or right at the red line, sure. That is not sportsman like. But playing your units well and focusing on a strong pike line. That is what the period called for. If you don't want your enemy to do that, out skirmish him and outflank him. Seems like a legit strategy that is not counter to the spirit of the game.

Wow. That was a great battle. It's not often we get to see you go to war with people who share a very similar skill level.

Silver shield pikemen now have 100 armour which makes them the best now as the biggest weakness is being peppered by Archers now it's not

and the moment HoC said " lets see how or if i deal with my ... i knew it was battle lost replay, plus eminently at the start of the replay, the terrain does not favor the Seleucid tactical doctrine per say and with elephants, you do not want the elephants to stop and engage a single unit, they are at their best like chariots when continuously moving thru enemy formations since they get kills that way, not from fighting a prolong engagement in 1v1, you needed to keep the elephants moving once they hit the enemy line, click the movement button over enemy formation once you have charged to keep the elephants moving or they get bogged down and get less kills and then killed themselves , the reason why when they run a mock in your formation it is so deadly is because they keep moving thru the formation and are not stopping, thus you need this to happen when using them offensively just like repeating charges with cav but running thru the entire enemy flank of their front line that's engaged with your infantry front line, and depending on the quality of infantry you have is the timer of how long you have to use your elephants to make enough of a difference in the infantry battle before its too late

Very diverse faction that has such a large select of units both cheap and expensive, great faction

Rather like these focus videos. Total War battles most often just come down to unit quality, and it's quite nice have somebody sum up what each unit is good for or if they're even worth the time of using.

btw heir elephants are immune to scare no scare effect can get them to rout your only hope if to run them amok and/or kill them.

Badass Focus.

A tight loss is sweeter then an easy victory

Steady on silver shield pikemen! It makes it the best. I have tested.

Dude, can you please do all of these videos again cos Rome 2 is a lot different now, I'm really enjoying your videos but I would also like up-to-date stuff

How did you not see that engagement coming lol

Please fight a battle with only elephants, if only for the lol factor.

great vid

Damn...I wanted to play this game because I love the Seleucids and thought they might be powerful....

Can you try another seleucid battle heir? With the more elite units mixed in :)

FINALLY

My favourite Unit in the game is sacrend band hoplite ( carthage faction ) , best hoplite in my opinion and also best lookin👌🏼😇 i do like italian swordsmen cheap and solid good unit , reminds me of hastati with armor and the throwing Spears before Charge.

Nice

one of the Diadochi.......heirs to Alexander the Great Empire.....have to try this game.

Thought you said not to use Azat Knights in multiplayer

Lol Justin definition of prince of macadon

Heir, shouldn't onagers or scorpions counter noob boxes?

Nice vid, why didn't you try to run amok his elephants like he was doing to yours?

Silver Shields would occasionally start wining decisively against my Praetorian Guard in 1v1...was that the computer cheating or the charge bonus? I ask because Selucid had to be getting desperate as I took their territories.

They really should alter the Royal Peltasts. Change and balance the stats and actually make them PELTASTS. They should be a very capable or even powerful missile/melee unit. (I know there are probably mods for this but it really should be a core thing in the game)

what was that unit that patchy didnt use that was left in the forest

Seleucid dont always have the best of every class but they do have some very decent shit in every class

Thorax Swordsman are not "not that good", they are very cost effective for a sword unit which is accesable to most hellenic factions. Chosen Swords which cost 730 are worse than thorax swords which cost 710 and have use the whip

What does TGN stand for?

its pronounced SOL-LUK-IDS

do baktira campaign

years ago they tried to

Just wanna ask, Do you notice that arrows on bodies disappear after several seconds only?

patch 12, chariots get stuck vs cav. Cav => anti-chariot lol

Shame their cataphractoi were known to fight against Pike men And were made to fight Pike men. They sounded op They or any shock cav is dumb to not have melee defense it's like they were not trained for combat haha

no they are not the strongest pike unit i made some testing and the strongst pikeman are foot companions and after them the silver shields and after the hellenic royal guard :D

I don't understand why his African War Elephants were not scared by your Indian War Elephants.

This battle had alot of harassing in it

Its called civilization. Games 1-5

Mlg pike tactics.

you should attack the pike of his that are really depleted so that your pike can get in too it and always make a full defence and always use skirmishing units that are manier and you should use sycthe chariots instead of a dumbass elephant that keeps running amock

Dammit too early..

I disagree about your running amok point. If you run them amok near your line, at least the opponent cant spam click trample through your men anymore.

I spent half the video not knowing who was who , I was thinking "why would he charge into a phalanx and be happy about it?" And then I realized

......In you're fight you completely ignore the armor bonus which your elephants have over his which is the precise reason you use elephants in the center line for a charge using the selucids....they take much much longer to run amok than any other and when they do because of their immense armor they are much slower and thus easier to avoid with your own troops and also able to take out more of the enemy....Im just saying this whole youtube channel and video is seemingly based off of use of sound tactics and watching less than a minute of the fight and thats the first thing I see.....in conclusion.... acquaint yourself with your chose faction nub =P

How is it a draw where he literally busted your ass?

Why do you say what the crap is going on in the intro but yet you choose not to cuss? seems a bit off to me

Bro, love your channel but work on that pronunciation lol. Selukid is how it's pronounced, like Makedon. Greeks used a K, just like the Romans with Classical Latin. Keep up the good work b

Hate players that use the noob box

The egypten has a much better micro

Wow you actually lost this ^^ Well Persian light archers are really shit ^^^:D

I hate that because of all the cheap pikes and slingers it's almost impossible to rush. And that stops me from playing the game. :-/

not a good game this one, lots of mistakes and not paying enough attention

Terrible faction in campaign, getting your ass kicked all the time

This is the stupidest game. The control sucks such dumb units. U need to babysit every units.