You forgot to mention that the saxons have a unique shrine that improves ranged attacks, giving hunters the gold weapon upgrade

the Saxons in this game has a really hilarious unit roster, but it still feels good sailing to Britannia and invading

These faction guides are becoming a nice little suprise to see on my subscription feed. Keep it up, they're really enjoyable.

"The franks doesnt have great options in cavalry" wait thats illegal

The only downside to going to Britain is that the Romano British spawn in once the WRE has lost it's settlements in the region. So you'll end up facing them very early on if you go this route. So, I'd suggest taking Londinum at the start and building up a bit of a presence before capturing Eburacum.

When I played Saxons, I mostly ended up using hordes of levy spearmen, keels, hunters, and the odd sea raider, and supported by a general.

I remember the Saxon family members in the campaign map wear a battle mask. Really cool detail, I think only the Vandals wore such a garment as well.

Happy to see someone making content for one of my favorite factions in the series. Saxon's are a ton of fun especially with the Saxon Hearth Troops. One of the best infantry in the game.

Limited units but you have shield wall + ranged bonus. Add flanking cavalry and you could easily obliterate all the factions around you and take a big chunk of western Rome early in game

Hell yeah! I love Barbarian Invasion!

Hunters are surprisingly competent at melee, not much worse than levy spearmen. In a crisis you can use em fairly effectively as light shock infantry against weaker units

Just started saxon campaign thanks brp

I had this glitch where my Saxon archers had infinite ammo and I would just sit back and grind the 10 stack enemy army with 2 units of archers

I wanted to play a Saxon campaign yesterday, and I found this... Good timing. RTW seems to still be played by many people. +1 subscriber, I love those kind of videos. Do you plan to make factions from others TW games ?

Yesss i have been waiting for this one

Great video! Keep it up!

It’s weird, the mobile version includes all factions and they fixed some of their bugs

I love the saxons.

Wow thanks! I followed ur tutorial for the early game, and now i end up getting 8k per turn. Thx!

Very informative, I subscribed a few videos back... will continue with the next faction and so on

Saxons: the best faction and my number one favorite faction: sailing to England, attacking WRE from England is like attacking from the sky and raining down havoc all over the dying empire.

nice video really enjoyed it

16:30 NO IT's NOT! A mere splinter faction of the saxons went to britain meanwhile pretty much all of North Germany is saxon.

I still wonder what the reasoning was behind giving some factions tons of units and some factions almost none.

The ultimate no nonsense faction

I started a new session of TW:BI, because earlier tries didn't work out,but with the Saxon I got it right. I succeeded in crushing bit by bit the nomad armies of the Slavs and the Huns, and then continued to aim for the richer West Roman region (France and Spain). After a while their eastern brothers became another target, and that's the actual situation. Do de Roman states also get nomadic (Western Rome only has the city of Rome left due to a revolt when they still had Salamanca as a second hub)?

I thought something like this was coming

Got rtw now I’m gonna get rtw bi like the content I’m gonna start a Saxon campaign

assonance was the word you were looking for

This faction has been done by some people and it's a pretty good and fun camping, but if u where to start a lets play what faction would u choose?

How does shieldwall work? Can't find anything on the internet.

Nice

I hate to disagree with Lugotorix but I have to on a couple of things here. The Levy Spearmen aren't a defensive unit at all; they're an offensive unit that has decent defense. Look at their stats: attack 7, missile 11, charge 4, defense 10. They also have light spears which gives them a bonus vs cavalry. Think of them as an oversized better-armed and armored skirmish unit that can hang in melee if need be. If you combine the level 3 barracks (and level 1 archery range) with a Sacred Circle of Ull, then retrain them in a town with a Sacred Circle of Wotan (this goes for archers, too) you end up with extremely potent ranged units quite early on (like Levy Spearmen and archers with 4 experience and gold/bronze missile attack/armour); 120 javvies will absolutely RUIN any unit's day. The shield wall formation just gives them a bit more defense but they are definitely NOT a defensive unit. The Saxon Keels on the other hand, are a defensive unit: attack 7 charge 4 defense 16. The Keels attack is the same as the Spearmen but the defense is much higher; put them in Shield Wall and that goes up higher. I suggest demolishing the Sacred Circle of Ull in Campus Saxones and replace it with one of Donar to give your units +2 morale, then pump out all your Keels, Axemen, Hearth Troops, and cavalry from here, then build Sacred Circles of Ull and Wotan in cities closer to your front so as you move your units from Vicus Saxones through Campi Chattii/Frisii and then to Augustae Treverorum/Vindelicorum, you can have most of your troops with 3 experience and at least bronze/bronze, with the increased morale bonus. Hunters are just broken under the Saxons (so are the Levy Spearmen). You can get Hunters to 4 Experience gold/bronze very early and just wreck opposing armies. The Saxon shrines are just ridiculous and they can make your armies very powerful very early. The Saxons are pretty darn potent.

Lugotorix So I decided to play as the Saxons in Barbarian Invasion Rome Total War and I am kinda a noob but in my other campaigns I have been pretty successful but I played the Saxons made a Army early on and invaded Britain but then early on the Romano British spawned as a horde and destroyed my British armies and settlements so now I am broke so I need help, Have any advice?

Can you make shogun 2 faction guides?

Got a good corner

I’m at war with goths west romans and huns lmao

I need this right now! How'd you know?

A few basic saxon keel can beat the crap out of most higher tech infantry. Once you get chosen axemen you can take over western Europe.

Your advice for the saxon is go Britain not South as you end up with a vertical empire yet with the franks you say go south to control Italy, why the difference?

Idk why, but I only enjoy the WRE in BI and no one else.

This game is still good

May I say if your going to play barbarian invasion don’t play the huns No Romans’ play either Saxons celts or franks.

Can U do barbarians next

U should do a goths guid

how did u get the berbers and lombards

I got normal Rome total war I want to get that one more than napoleon

19:00 But that's what the Saxons did, they stayed outside roman territory conquered their neighbour's land and forced them to migrate into the Roman empire.

Yeahhhh anglo saxons

With Roxolani I did opposite in very hard. Instead of going to Sassanids, sacking sarmatians, till Greece completely sacked. Get my horde to Rome, with boat (Adrian sea), sacked till I came back to Constantinople. So I had a huge wallet and was so easy I didn't had to battle, only auto resolve 🤣. Main thing is: wait first couple of turns in beginning, upgrade my 3 horses and 2 Spearman, then left Roxolani campus. Watch where huns, sarmatians and vandals walking. If they are 1 or 2 turns further, then they will leave you. Just don't come to close to sarmatians in the west of you in first turns, avoid those hordes. Then trade rights with northern factions.

the thing I don't like about barbarian invasion is that the shield wall formation is not that good, sometimes heavy cavalry can charge into my shield wall and get away pretty much unharmed. phalanx on the other hand, basically pierce through cavalry like paper.

Uh yeah, horses can swim in real life.

You forgot to mention that Saxon Sea Raiders will drink from skulls.

Make aguide for west roman

Anglo Saxon anglo saxon anglo saxon anglo saxon

I hate that their goal is to go to England. only a small number of Saxons migrated to England. Most stayed in German where the dukes of Saxony became the kings of Germany and then the first dynasty of the holy roman empire.

Damn, those vanilla maps are terrible. It could have had way more settlements

What do you mean franks don't have much for cavalry? Paladins are great! I can tell you don't know enough about this game to make guides for every faction...