1. I decided to activate when I did because I was afraid they would begin to fall back from our attack and ruin it lol 2. When I began the sneak I told my team PUSH! PUSH EVERYTHING NOW! to try and keep all attentions on the front line lol, so you notice we start doing dumb things like throwing units in. 3. When it was pretty much a done deal, someone in the defenders VC is the one that informed them what was happening, right at the last like 10seconds lol. Thanks so much for covering! Knew you'd like this one

"Say the line, Apollo!" "...bend, but not break." "YAAAAAAAAY!"

When Alexander conquered Thebes, he had a small contingent go into the city behind enemy lines to burn the city down. When the Thebans watched the city burn, they were demoralized and were defeated. It's realistic tactics, at least with regards to a siege!

The fact the defenders never caught on had me busting up at the end. Why? Because I know my dumbass wouldn't have noticed.

Love to see the lower end units fight then the heavys at the end compared to last video with full heavy infantry. Good battle

16.55 You were saying 'Carthage conquered the Iberian area, that it was in the path Hannibal took to get to Rome' Hannibal's father developed much of Iberia(Spain), especially the gold, silver and iron mining. Yes, he had to unify much of the area thru conquest, actually being killed in one of these tribal unification fights, which is how Hannibal came to control his army... similar to Alexander the Great's process of inheriting Phillip's army. The path taken to get to Rome(actually Italy as Hannibal never sieged Rome) was thru southern Gaul, but north of Masillia/Marsaille and then the Transalpine region, then the Alps themselves. Carthage leadership was NOT in favor of restarting this war with Rome, and sent no reinforcements for 14 years. But Iberia was so wealthy that Hannibal's Carthagian faction could start and sustain the war by itself, using mostly African mercenaries, against the wealth of the Roman Empire. In fact, it was the encroachment of this faction, at the same time Rome showed up at Tarrasco in NE Spain, that was the real trigger for the war, the Casus Belli for both sides.

One's Libyan, the other's Iberian... Apollo: "It's all Carthage to me!"

Just scrolling through looking for something to watch while eating and get the notification that Apollo has just uploaded a new video!

Yes I saw you're video "The best army combo ever" because I am here since 2018 and I love you're channel

Apollo, Carthage had both it's own soldiers and mercenaries. its armies became very mercenary-centric during the punic wars though as they lacked their own man power after such long wars but still had alot of money.

I loved the battle, but the commentary was perfect! I laughed so hard, got confused, then mind blown. Keep up the great work Apollo!

100% I love a good close battle.... But that was absolutely golden 😂 the big brain plays! 🤣🤣

love ur vids pixelated apollo. and love the daily uploads. keep up the good work!

Bend but don’t break is definitely a football term. Heard that all the time when I played

Thank you lord Apollo your videos always come in clutch when I’m trying to sleep

12:10 Actually Carthage (Hannibal) did in fact use quite alot of gaellic mercenaries fighting against Rome

11:00 Apollo may want to read up. Carthage had a long history and used many types of troops. You might even remember one ot their generals that fought in North Italy had a very diverse army.

Love your videos brother. And I’m happy to hear you’re a falcons fan!!

A quote from Rise of the Planet of the Club Levy; "Club levy, together, strong."

I actually won my first battle kinda like that. Our opponents confused the capture point and a smaller one for bonuses, so they left the town center, defended the wrong one and we won with half our armies still intact!

The funniest rage ive ever heard: wait what, How did we lose?!, what??!

What an evenflow of club levy.

Hahahah...I saw this live. The Gen with the sneaky dink Cool to see the different coverage and wonder if Apollo is smoking his "figs"

Mannnnn all I saw was the thumbnail but I KNOW this is gonna be a banger!

Hey Apollo I love your vids I've been watching for year's an just wanna say hi love the epic battls

Brilliant video, thank you!

Ah yes... the days when victory-capture location were placed in no-where.

Get your snacks and drinks Apollo incoming

What a sneak attack! I have never seen this as well.

Hey apollo, I've been watching you since I was 10 and I just want to thank you for rasing me with this brilliant content. I love you so much!

gotta love courage man he is the bravest dog of all time

How to make pixelated Apollo happy: bring club levie

I just watched you on the Resonant deep dive podcast, have you thought about doing more of those?

GREAT 1 in a 1000 games !fantastic well done

I saw dream last night where I played against Club levy masses. I finally destroyed all of them. And enemy brought new full stack of 20 club levies. Horrid nightmare.

Hey so I’ve been really inspired by your videos and love watching you play the third age mod I’ve just went and bought a gaming laptop and really wanted to play the third age mod but unfortunately I have no clue what total war game to buy that will have the mod can you help me out???

Defenders: We're doing well we're holding them back Attackers: Sneaks troops into capture point Defenders: Yurete yuganda sekai ni dandan boku wa

I love ur vids keep it Apollo

Honestly the reason they fell back from it is a couple reasons 1. We had 3 artilleries staring them down and that area would've been a death trap 2. That gate area is attacker archer heaven, you get plenty of cross shots

3:26 HE SAID IT GUYS!!!!!! WOOOOOO!!!! *takes shot*

Biggest club levy question: Why are the club levy holding axes?

Bend but don’t break came from Ron Rivera when he coached the Panthers. Mostly talking about his defense.But yeah remember super bowl they blew a 25 point lead lol

Your litterly the best I know that you Watch this more then 1 time😂

General sniping seems to be more and more common nowadays...

Hi, Carthaginians used mercenary cavalry during the second Punic War. Have a good one

Think you could do more empire divided content? 😁 love that period of history

Yay another video!!!!!!

I know the Closed Captioning sucks on youtube but you gotta enable it Apollo there are deaf bois who cant enjoy the show without it 😩

I haven't even finished but it's gonna be a banger

Love the content .anyone remember holdfast and war of rights ?

The soldier on the battlefield be like:sir why are we retreating we can still fight The commander in charge:its over soldier we lost our town square to vietcongs hiding in trees The soldier:but we can still retake our town square and even if we don't we can use our archers to skirmish them The commander:nah that's just absolutely mental we can't take back our town square anymore The soldier:why not The commander:this is what you signed up for in the war and you will go with it or you will be sent to a re-education camp so you shan't question these logics

Bro I love this battle

well time to get my snacks and drinks

I miss when there used to be polls and you could vote on who you thought was gonna win the battle

Hahahaja bend but don’t break I love it

My football coach woud tell us all the time, bend but not break.

Hello, great video !! From : Portugal ⚡

You let one club levy stand up against us then they ALL might stand up against us.

What reskin pack do you use apollo?

I have found out that pixilated Apollo was a falcon fan, as a patriots fan I find that funny

Bro in the historical cratagene army the guals soldiers where one of the most important of Hannibal army

That's why always save 2 unit on the final stand XD

Good stuff.

I completely dig the style of the Lybian infantry. Does anyone know where I can buy an armor like that irl ??

Hey apollo have ever heard about the battle of Fornovo there is a video related to kings and general looks like a good battle .

Appolo can you use the square cav defense

I have a love hate relationship with Apollo 🤣

and on that beautiful day, sneak did in fact increased to 100

"Oh my the barbarians are slaughtering each other..." "Eh its okay that's just Europe for most of history" what a subtle yet destructive burn

5:15 this should be the thumbnail

Mind blowing siege hahaha, they probably got so cofused and feeling so dumb to let this happen. Missing some old but gold medieval 2

Battle of shiny turds ~ pixelated apollo

10:10 "You let one puny little ant stand up to us then they all might stand up to us! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out THERE GOES OUR WAY OF LIFE!!!! It's not about food, it's about keeping those ants in line".

Carthage used mercenaries quite a bit. In fact, mercenaries made up the core of their armies.

I love your vids

He gotten werde over the years but he got the spirit.

What was that sound on 23:10?😂😂

The 'other faction' is Arevaci

gg. love it

would u consider doin a campaghn playthrough for rome 2 dei

I love that sneaky shit

I got the notification one minute after the video was out, why not immediately???

omg he said it! he said the line!

I always cheer for the falcons even though they aren’t good their just my underdogs

Apollo you must read more books ! there was a nobel gallic tribesmen who united the gallic tribes and he fought ceasar. Never heard about Vincengetorix ??? Alesia , Gergovia ??? he beated ceasar in Gergovia ;-) . And annother coalition of 4 tribes fought the romans on the battle of the selle . Where ceasar himself had to fight to against the nerviers and coalition. The nerviers where the wildest gallic tribe ! They made a big scale ambush for the romans and almost suceeded ;-) . The romans didnt even had the chanse to remove there shieldcovers....

A suebi Sally out.....that's new

Carthage used mostly mercenaries for their land armies. But their navy was native Carthaginian. Thaaaanks

Apollo for your next NTW3 can you do the Battle of Leipzig or commonly known as the battle of the Nations it took place in 1813 with the countries France Russia Austria and Prussia

yo nice vide and all but shogun 2

I haven't seen this yet but my moneys on the attackers

Did it occur to apollo that the defenders never saw the siege tower

It's a baby move to be onest

Notif gang

Which city map is this?

Nice.

35:57 God had forsaken him and the dark side had choose him to battle!

8:45 I think you mean hydra the immortals had 1 for replacement not 2

This is why each player on the defense should keep a unit or general at the capture point. And for the love of god don’t get tunnel vision. It was a good tactic nonetheless. Always use what you have to win even if it’s sneaky tactics like this. Had I been attacking and seen them focusing on my Allies I would have done the same.

Apollo how can i send u a vid?

ive send you a battle replay some weeks ago where i did exactly this - i snkeaked in behind the enemy, used the backdoor and conquered the victory point. may be the replay i sent u was sent to the wrong adress by me? i dunno... :/