Please, don’t stop posting Rome total war videos. I’ve always been a big fan of total war, but never had a pc until it came out for mobile. You’re one of the only people who still makes Rome Total War videos and guides. Without you, I’ll be left to old posts from 2008 online. 😢

- Horde factions experience no culture penalty for the first city they settle in so long as it remains the capital. Generally you want to settle in a huge city as the government building contributes the most culture penalty, and you can't upgrade or demolish the government building in a huge city. Usually this will mean you should settle in Rome or Constantinople. Rome has better military buildings. - The Roxolani, Sarmatians, and Goths can be destroyed early on if you corner all their family members in one settlement, kill the family members in the battle, and then withdraw before achieving victory. Your general might gain a rank of "coward" for this, but losing the battle to win the war against three horde factions in the first 15 or so turns will pay real dividends for the Huns. - The Huns CANNOT BUILD PORTS! You depend on trade income in BI even more than in vanilla. Be careful about what settlements you take early, as you want them to have a port and to trade with each other. - Spend your first turn reorganizing your armies. All cavalry armies with two or three generals will be more effective than a "combined arms" approach, as lolCA was terrible at unit balance in this period of their game development and horde spearmen are a slightly more effective peasant unit for all intents and purposes. - The difficulty that CA assigned the factions is primarily related to how many settlements the faction needs to declare victory. Fewer = easier. This, however, doesn't correlate to actual campaign difficulty well at all. - The runaway slave spearmen and herdesmen units are considered "untrained" and thus use the same garbage formation as peasants. Though this makes them less likely to be hit by missiles, it also makes them less effective in melee, so their stats don't tell the whole story about their effectiveness.

I love seeing people still post new videos about RTW and Barbarian Invasion.

Best plan is to just recreate history and attack every hoard faction, raking mass chaos across the world.

-steppe bois sacking a mighty empire-

Whenever I play the Huns, my goal is to sack all of the ERE in Europe and Northern Italy. This weakens the ERE severely, and, eventually, the Sassanids will either take over or the ERE will recover. If the Sassanids take over, then that is great, because they lack heavy units to counter my cavalry. They do have Clibinarii and Cataphracts, but those units do not have the speed to keep up with my cavalry. The Sassanids AI seems to barely recruit camels and elephants, so it is an easy conquest.

Glad to see this game still getting some love. I use this and medieval 2 as my relaxing games since I try to play shooters competitively. Im just glad these masterpiece games are still popular. Great work by the way!

These vids Seriously helped me get back into RTW pretty hard. Though a lot of my play time is with a mod I still play Vanilla a lot

Love the Rome videos. The game was elite, the clips are elite

YO LUG THANK YOU SO MUCH. literally comment you need to make this guide and you did you are god

*LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS*

I'm pretty sure Goths are horde able. Also any faction that is capable of hordeing can be turned into a horde if they only have 1 settlement when controlled by the player

Another satisfying video

Out of curiosity Lugotorix, will you make a factions guide for Rome Total War: Alexander?

Keep up the vids man

Having just won a campaign with the huns, I’ll stress that I’d amassed 100000 gold before settling Rome, and even with only having about half my starting force by then (bloody Vandals picked a fight trying to get into Italy) and then losing most of that to settling, I was haemorrhaging money when trying to rebuild an army to go take more. So do make sure you go and sack a lot of places because you really will need the money

I suppose a third potential option would be to go around the Black Sea and sack the Sassanid Empire before taking up residence in Anatolia.

I know it’s kinda the point, but fighting Hordes, especially the Huns, as Western Roman Empire will always be one of the least fun experiences in a Total War game. And it wouldn’t be so bad if they did have so many god dam horse archers!

Chaos campaign, cause every faction that can horde to horde and then go settle in the top left corner and leave them to wreak havoc

A very important fact about Huns and Vandals, as they start as hordes, is that even if they settle and then lose their last city, they became a horde again with 5 armies at full capacity. They are really annoying to beat as the Romans.

I started campain very fast taking out Roxalani and obtaining their gold. I did my next steps with a hurry - I have sacked Colonia Dacia and some ERE city and established my permanent home in Mediolanum quickly, to be ahead of the Vandals. Suddenly they came and sacked some my cities in nothern Italy, but I recovered because of my new holdings in South Gaul and Tarentum. I have entered Rome and I decided to rebuild Hippodrome to get best units - Hunnic Heavy Cavalry and Hunnic Elite Warriors. Meanwhile I Have pushed my amies to Spain and northern Gaul. The Vandals took their new land in Campus Jazyges (Pannonia) My Elie force marches east to conquer the balkans. When best cities of Rome and Constantinopole arewill be mine, I will have enouch manpower to chrush some hording germanic factions in the north.

Hi Lugo there its any chance you will do a hunnic campaign?

I thought they were easy until I fought the Visigoths and realised I have no idea how to fight another hoarde

Just wondering when youll make a Romano British guid ghh

I'm really curious if CA really put White Huns in this game. Curious that will its gonna have same roster like Huns, just like Sarmatian and Roxolani most likely?

The "peasants" for huns are the "herdsmen". Runaway slave spearmen is not the peasants for Huns. It was always chrystal clear for me who live in Hungary haha. Also I think the main settlement building gives herdsmen and they are cheap like peasants. I find Huns to be hard. Love Scythia and pretty much like all nomads in all Rome1 games, but when going with Huns I always prefer trying to do things either in Historical order of actions (like going for Pannonia to settle, then unsettle and attack around and such and destroying Roman empire so that other Barbarians can conquer back their lands from the empire with widespread slavery and such civilism) or trying to go for fun like occupying Saxon just because they have temple for +3 missle attack which give awsome boost to already cool horse archers... But problem is this way I can barely ever transform into properly settling down... So hard to get economy going and you immediately become so weak after settling. It kind of works, but I enjoy Scythians much more in original... Vandals usually make Sarmatians to go horde too and I always make goths go horde too and they usually make at least one more faction horde which might not help my case... Always attacking goths as they should end up in the west historically and ally with sarmatians because they are also Scythian nation... Never tried to go directly for Constantinople or Rome, but might be good idea.

I accidentally saved the eastern Romans by kicking them out of Europe, by turn 76 the had control of east tern Russia and Asia

İf i rün out of army how do I build em

This faction seems powerful but for some reason they'd crash the game every time I started a battle with them. I wonder if there was some Hun related file that was never properly installing, because it happened both on my Steam version and disc copy and it happened on multiple computers. Weird faction.

I know runaway slave spearmen and hunters!

My strat is to spread across Europe and get the Saxons and all to hoard (alliances of course) and then take Europe then take Spain take Greece take Rome...

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6:49 execute order 66. Lol

Fine but too late, I've finished the hun campain by myself :v

So there like the mongols

love the game but Guess what its fucking dead