Attackers: You are besieged! Surrender or die! *Lusitania: UNO Reverse Card*

I think many missed the Arverni archers stationed on the wall who had a nice angle on Spartans. Good teamplay. Lusitani player managed to pull off the classic tactic of making the opponent commit most of the forces into an indecisive stand off and then slowly whittling them down with a fire superiority. Maybe with more aggressive playstyle the situation could've been salvaged by the Spartans.

Lusitani is actually a pretty decent faction for a sally out usually especially if combined with another cav faction, they got javs on all their units and they are a glass cannon faction meaning high atk and melee stats and low armor which would be mostly irrelevant in a sally out

We came to the decision we we weren't satisfied with the gate selections, so we made our own back gate 🤣🤣

Seeing hastati and armoured legionaries side by side hurts my soul. How dare they cross the timelines! Also the combat in this game is so much better to watch than warhammer fights. Just actual matched combat animations.

The Lusitani are my favorite barbarian faction, for someone inexperienced it may seem like a weak civilization due to the low armor of its units (in this case the Arevacis are a more balanced faction and with more options), but at the same time they have the best melee combat statistics of the game, with an attack that surpasses most of the elite units, added to his guerrilla skills; That is why it is spectacular to see veterans like in this repetition using the Lusitani, because in expert hands it is the best faction to beat the most popular civilizations in the game. On the other hand, I think you are underestimating the Iberian Slingers, especially the Balearic ones, because they are the best slinger units in the game and there is no archer that can beat them (added to the fact that they destroy units with a lot of armor); so when you play against the Arevacis and Lusitani, the best countermeasure is to take out slingers too or even cheaper archers, so you can beat them by outnumbering them, since in a confrontation between two projectiles units against each one of Iberian slingers, you can win relatively easily (using expensive archers against them is suicide, as was shown against Sparta). =D

I like the battle replays. I hope Apollo does some gunpowder ones again soon.

The weapon used by the ranged troops is a cinquedea The cinquedea or cinqueda is a civilian short sword (or long dagger). It was developed in northern Italy and enjoyed a period of popularity during the Italian renaissance of the 15th and early 16th centuries.

At what cost? "At what cost, at what fine and sexy cost?" ~Gilthunder 7 deadly schmucks

Siege battles are the best

Damn Ellington is sending a bunch of replays to you.....good to see you're jumping back into Total War!

0:31 yea no. Greeks, whom Romans admired to no end, definitely weren't barbarians in Roman eyes, so in this match up Spartans certainly and Bactrians conditionally (leaders, soldiers of Greek origin) would be considered civilized by Romans (officers at least.) Nice to see some Dragon Court action, they really played outside the box creating that causeway for Lusitani!

I am nearing 300 hours on Rome II and I’m not gonna stop any time soon :D Thanks to Apollo and his sieges 😊😅

If romans full charged their brawlomaniac madlads to lusitani and not giving any chance to their slingers to sit back and spraying their pebbles, while sparta and baktria taking on the other two it would have much better chance for attackers

Absolutely love the content Apollo, keep it up chief😎

KZfaq's algorithm finally gave me a notification and I'm glad it did. Was an awesome battle replay being narrated by you Apollo. Been a little while since I got any notifications though and so busy I haven't been able to sit down and really watch.

The Spartans, commanded by King Mr. Bean.

Those slingers have shields - excellent anti-archers.

i love Pixie's battle analytics. "they have to win more." but seriously, great battle and Apollo's commentary made it even better. as always. glory to the barbarian defenders (i don't know the outcome yet).

Cav should always have guerilla foot - just like guagemela

Oh yeah!

Great show Apollo - i love cooky tactics

Yeah Sparta should have been the first in the city attacking and just holding defending as there ally's pored in... Sparta very hard faction to attack with especially in the cell open field... you have to rush your men in there and start fighting... crazy 4slingers Took em down 😢

Been watching for 5 years, keep it up Apollo!!!

Those balearic slingers do alot of damage. And they get rediculois with rank. In a 1v1 they have enough ammo to sling the whole battle. Yall all just witnessed proper use of high tier slingers.

Love the birds eye view

In the beginning the spartan cretan archers should have keep on shooting those slingers ! those slingers decimated the spartan hoplites . In history on one point the greek city states invested more and more on peltasts because they ruind all hoplites .

Another glorious battle!!!

Lusetani player mvp by a mile, Lol that reference of a middle earth watcher over the archers in the end 😂😂, maybe like 3 pit of shades

Greeks considered everyone else a Barbarian, we just let Romans into the club. They most definately didnt think of us as Barbarians, quite the opposite i believe.

The Roman red, absolute best color I’m glad they chose it

whoa that is crazy dude!

The successful sally out was the nail in the coffin

YES im all for Rome 2 videos please do more Apollo so relaxing and great commentary always by you!

I'm glad appollo still make these videos it always a good video one my favorite KZfaq if not my number 1...like and subscribe he deserve it..

Nothing like Apollo on my birthday 💪

Unleash the hounds of hell!

Those are high tier slingers with Lusitani: shields to deflect arrows and high AP to bust through armored infantry. It would have been better for Sparta to attack the sally out and force the lesser armored Lusitani to retreat inside.

I see that apollo wraca do korzeni

One on one Balearic slingers will kick almost every archers ass in the game

Yes another Rome 2 battle

1 million soon bro 🎉

6:51 Hi PA , i dont know good mechanics of Rome2 , but in real life balearic slingers was a "legendary" units in ancient time. :)

Wow, I´m the first one seeing this video (uploaded 18s ago when I clicked it)!

I know they wins, probably 50-50, but i love hearing Lusitani as Loose A Ton

A “truly captivating” ,as my bot friend said before me, game 😅. No but really, it’s a good one, the commentary is even better though

Whoever's playing as the lusitani guy he did really good

That Spartan army got wrecked... TBH tho not much they could've done without help. They were out gunned by missiles. Honestly what I would've done is wait till the Lusitani sallied out, then gather all my cav on the far right to flank, then rush forward with the hoplite units to pin them down. The cav would be able to mop up the slingers easily. Sparta needed help. Better yet, should've swapped positions with Rome. It all went to shit once someone shot that section of wall down...

I had a game where we took on 4 Rome armies and I sallied out taking all 4 generals out but didn’t save it. Was a hell of a game

Just wanted to thanks for another awesome video and leave a comment to help the algo

How can I like do clear wether and day light when I do matches bc every time that I set the settings to day light , summer, clear wether it’s like always the opposite

Its amazing to hear you saying iberians are built diferent when you are an iberian ( besides Im from Portugal wich is where the lusitani faction was based)

Balearic Slingers must be OP

have you considered using sebidee's mod. Its such a great addition to the game

Yessir

Technically the Romans also considered the Greeks to not be barbarians.

Fus ru da!!

Que batalha incrivel

THE LUSITANIANS, i thought they werent in the game, they are the official ancestours of my people (im portuguese)

They should have pulverized the sortying army with elements from all three elements and then focused their assault along the walls after the 3rd army has been destroyed or forced back into the city

The Roman? You means Roman’s? Your title says tht

Sparta played like a potato.

Sally outs work more often in the current meta.

There was a man in Sparta long ago, He was big and strong...

Please make Cossacks gameplay video

While I like bannerlord, it is nice to see some more battle replays

Oh shit thats me playing like trash 😢

Battle replays will always have a soft spot for me

lusitani gorilas lmao

The Spartans definitely got Miss played. They should have Advanced rather than standing around play Target dummies for the stone throwers.

Always good to see the Romas losing

gosh I miss Arena

Hurts watching that sparta player, clearly never played the faction before lmao

anyone know why ? my game is crashing in multiplayer sieges i just have the time to get to the walls then boom it crashes but its not a performance problem i have put everything in low exept unit size

Dwarven dagger

what game isthis?

the scorpion kills all the spartans

You just say barbarian with a hard bar? I oughta run you through and steal your cattle!

It wasn't really like Romans considered every other nation barbaric, the word "barbarus" comes from Greek (oryginalny "barbaros") and refered to all non-greek speakers who sounded like "bar-bar" to the Greeks. Romans adopted the word and always considered Greeks as civilised, but not always the other way around, at the start Romans as an conglomerate of Latins, Samnites, Etruscans etc. were considerd barbaros up until the Roman conquest of Magna Grecia in 3rd century BC

I watched this

Burger

Its because the spartan player has no idea what he's doing he put none of his hoplites into phalanx formation so they got shredded by the archers so embarrassing

Romans did not consider Greeks to be barbarians.

Ez dub

Yep, it's official, this map is not possible to win as the attacker

Another youtuber streamed this battle he played the arvrni 😂😂😂

Apollo can you or anyone who knows how to send replays because I wanted to send one of my replays to you or a freind

The player used sparta poorly, that was the main issue

is this a moded episode

Yessir finally got here first 😂

that spartan player was absolutely awful

the attacking force looked like a complete $hit show. once Sparta got deleted they shoulda called it a day. you almost need a re replay of the sally out and crushing of the Spartans.

Hey apollo we want more Persistent empire please❤️💯

When will we see a video of a Roman player win? I feel like everytime there’s a Roman player, they lose.

non barbarians romans and greeks

First

Romans*

First😊

dude i love your videos, but sometimes you should pay more atention to the outskirts of the battles, you often miss a lot of skirimish

please stop telling who wins in your title. it's not fun to watch if you already know who wins.