Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion - Grand Finale

Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion - Grand Finale - The Final War

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Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion comes to an end, as Emperor Gundobad and his greatest commanders begin their war against the Slavs, including possibly the most ridiculous battle I have ever fought...
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@FwendlyMushwoom 5 жыл бұрын

You spent so much time fighting hordes full of cavalry, but you gazed too deeply into the void. By the end you became the cavalry horde.

@publiusthehandsome2314 5 жыл бұрын

Gaze ye not into the abyss, lest the abysses boyfriend get narky

@meilinchan7314 11 ай бұрын

Eh, that was what happened IRL. Byzantine cavalry was among the best.

@plzitzjustmahcheezits909 5 жыл бұрын

"Filthy Romans think they can use their rams to get in our walls?! Bah! Engineers, build a ram! They can't tear down our wall if we don't have a wall to begin with! If they think they can tear down our walls before we do they have another thing coming! Haha! Checkmate, Norbanus!" -The legend of the Slavic defensive ram, 422 Anno Domini

@publiusthehandsome2314 5 жыл бұрын

We did them a favor by wiping them out.

@WanderingRurouni92 5 жыл бұрын

This is a Rome that Julianus Vatinius can be proud of.

@spuriusvictor1538 5 жыл бұрын

All good romans can be proud of this

@OblivionOtaku 5 жыл бұрын

Roma invicta!

@publiusthehandsome2314 5 жыл бұрын

And where was the old 8 ball this whole time eh? Busy fluttering about space like a toe nail in the bath water?

@dwhitefield4348 5 жыл бұрын

In Slavic Dacia cities siege you!

@DZ-1987 5 жыл бұрын

Whatever does that mean, DZ wonders.

@joshuayeo7470 3 жыл бұрын

In another universe, dacians are now pirates!

@lunewolf479 5 жыл бұрын

Jon: always bet on the side with The cavalry Also jon: *makes Cavalry only army*

@RobBCactive 4 жыл бұрын

And breaks his Cav army, running around every unit the whole time all attacking at once in a disorganised scrum

@command_unit7792 5 жыл бұрын

No one: . . . Slavs:"We need a Ram inside the walls!"

@MrVlogman101 5 жыл бұрын

Unironically, it would be brilliant to abandon it right in front of a breach made by the other ram. But really, i think the Slavs just saw Jon building rams and figured they should do the same.

@mikkellopez8429 5 жыл бұрын

@@MrVlogman101 I imagine they'd brought that ram from their first taking the town and kept it as a memento just in case they needed to move again, as they were getting on and off of it while Jon was moving the camera past them. Also, it must have been an odd six months for the Slavs, between taking two towns, losing them immediately and being able to re-horde, subsequently assembling more troops than the combined populations of the two towns could support from... Somewhere, I don't know, and then being defeated by what can only be described as a Western Roman horde army, before their entire FACTION collapsed because some supposedly handsome Roman emperor went in and beat up their last general in a 4 v 1.

@FranciscoGomez-tv4ed 4 жыл бұрын

How's that possible? Get a ram in defense, I think it's bug or something, or maybe it has an explanation, what's that?

@user-hd7xw9jm9q 3 жыл бұрын

@@FranciscoGomez-tv4ed Jon had 5 rams built, but his army had 4 in their possession, so the fifth just bugged out and switched sides

@usbgus 3 жыл бұрын

Being a slav myself I can confirm that our leaders ARE in fact dumb enough to build a Ram inside the walls.

@ded-ceoofjar-a-tea150 5 жыл бұрын

I remember the beginning of this, and how interested I was in seeing how Jon would fix the most broken empire on the map, and after so many episodes he has turned the Western Empire from a joke into a massive military threat to all barbarians and hordes. May the greatest generals find their rest! This includes Spurius Flavius, the most christian man who ever christianed, Marcus the Gambler, who took one too many, and so many more!

@muhammadbilalkhan2916 5 жыл бұрын

DOn't forget Caius the Horde Slayer

@iain.sm.c 5 жыл бұрын

This was a better finale than Game of Thrones.

@route8178 5 жыл бұрын

Yea that's very sad u know

@gabepastel3447 5 жыл бұрын

What is a game of thrones

@route8178 5 жыл бұрын

@@gabepastel3447 it's a tv series (the most popular ever I guess)

@fibrespider4502 5 жыл бұрын

Battle of 8 armies

@damienp6375 5 жыл бұрын

You haven't seen GoT's finale yet, how can you know?

@quno5174 5 жыл бұрын

But... we will get an epilogue, right??? ...right?

@jenniferkhatchaturian8319 5 жыл бұрын

One can only hope.

@ManyATrueNerd 5 жыл бұрын

I think it would be a bit of a short epilogue, really - many of our favourites died of old age during the wait for the Slavs, Licianus has a terrible beard, Zeno and Gundobad are Big Damn Heroes, and Vetranio gets a small flogging, but we forgive him quickly...

@quno5174 5 жыл бұрын

Many A True Nerd indeed. Would be nice to see though. All the best to you.

@mattevans4377 5 жыл бұрын

I just want to see the map all red. That's all.

@MrChaosBones 5 жыл бұрын

@@ManyATrueNerd Why don't you just release the save to your audience and let whoever wants to wrap it up tight go at it themselves?

@xyldkefyi 5 жыл бұрын

Arise, arise, Riders of Vatranio! spear shall be shaken, shield shall be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!

@oivanurminen8946 5 жыл бұрын

DEEAAAAAATH

@bry756 4 жыл бұрын

DEAAAAAAAAAAAAATH

@theemeraldepiphone644 3 жыл бұрын

The Ride of the Roman-hirrim.

@colmoe 5 жыл бұрын

No, Jon, you see, in Slavic Dacia, ram is used inside wall to break down walls of the Iron Curtain These *are* Slavs afterall.

@DoNotSubscribeToMePleaseTechzz 5 жыл бұрын

Ah, the famous battle of 7,000 Romans vs 11,000 slavs. Truly a great battle in Roman history

@alexdinculeasa7803 5 жыл бұрын

5k romans and 2k dothraki against 11k slavs

@OblivionOtaku 5 жыл бұрын

In the end, the most dangerous horde was the Western Roman Horde then... All hail Emperor Gundobad, slayer of the Slavs and damn sexy devil! And it has been an honor to watch my first MATN RTW series as a subscriber! I binge watched the others. Roma invicta!

@MrDJ2105 5 жыл бұрын

Jon i love all your videos but your total war series are always my favorites, perfectly paced editing, great commentary, small history lessons thrown into it and just overall interesting storytelling. hence why i am pleading PLEASE do another rome total or medieval total war playthrough!

@rasmusvendel9142 5 жыл бұрын

Jon: "U know what, I think that's enough for this video" Me: No it's nottttt!

@carlhoellein6672 5 жыл бұрын

Ah, parting is such sweet sorrow... I'm genuinely going to miss this series. Having not played a second of this game myself, I still find myself loving this game, and I can only point to your...infectious affection, if you will, the love and joy that you have playing this game. It shines through in all the bizarre idiosyncrasies that pop up and the wild stories you make up to canonize them. With every episode of this, it felt like I got to live in your imagination, and let me just say that it wasn't a bad place to be at all.

@andrew-yk6xw 5 жыл бұрын

grand finale...😭 please do more rome total war on your channel!! and we NEED an epilogue!

@jashanjeetsingh5388 5 жыл бұрын

He said he will be doing three kingdoms on release

@DoNotSubscribeToMePleaseTechzz 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this series Jon. It has been so good to watch.

@publiusthehandsome2314 5 жыл бұрын

Oh, I'm gunna subscribe to ya

@ChrisStroud1 5 жыл бұрын

I never thought I'd see the day where Jon uses the CavBlob strategy *wipes tear* I'm so proud

@just_me6482 3 жыл бұрын

Me: see's the massive cav charge Also me: *then the winged hussars arrived*

@HaixThePro 5 жыл бұрын

All the great things have to end... Like me

@franciscoromero5122 5 жыл бұрын

Holy Roman Empire It was neither holy nor an empire-Voltaire

@partizanlegis 5 жыл бұрын

@@franciscoromero5122 Nor it was effing Roman

@jeefpeef5983 5 жыл бұрын

@Holy Roman Empire Thats actually kinda wrong. The Holy Roman Emperor was appointed by the Pope for a while, making it holy. It was ruled by an emperor making it, by definition, an empire. Being Roman is the only thing I can see being mostly incorrect, but it was basically Rome's successor so idk.

@s.k.t.1945 5 жыл бұрын

You? Great? Pfffff

@HighAdmiral 5 жыл бұрын

@@franciscoromero5122 Gah. What does François-Marie know? I've never trusted a Frenchman in a woman's wig.

@MerlynCooper 5 жыл бұрын

"We're gonna learn together today!" This is my favourite side of you, John.

@spuriusvictor1538 5 жыл бұрын

This is what an empire of a Spurius can reach! *under breath "if only i wasn't disinherited for Julianus Vatinius"*

@publiusthehandsome2314 5 жыл бұрын

There there old friend, he did us all dirty.

@theemeraldepiphone644 3 жыл бұрын

6:57 Imagine getting baked in the sun in 420 AD in Dimmidi when an earthquake comes out of nowhere.

@nikewilly8404 5 жыл бұрын

The slavs just wanted to be your neighbour they would bring you some vodka, make a party but NOOOOO we need a big battle ba ba ba

@Some_Really_Random_Dude. 5 жыл бұрын

John, your computer might be able to handle that, I think I can hear the game engine cry.

@m.a.t.a.s 5 жыл бұрын

34:09 WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED! (Roman edition)

@gerardmagos3608 5 жыл бұрын

ironically they arrived against slavs

@andreimorar5249 5 жыл бұрын

I was also thinking on the battle of the Pellenor Fields from Return of the King

@Gorbz 5 жыл бұрын

Gaius: "Hey, who did we just kill?" Lennius: "Dunno" Gaius: "Was he Roman?" Lennius "Don't think so" Gaius: "Must have been the enemy then! Great!"

@dominusduodecimustabellari2855 5 жыл бұрын

You should try Europa Barbarorum (a mod that improves historical accuracy in RTW, adds 2 more military reforms to Rome, increases the number of factions, adds a robust auxiliary system, etc.) or Invasio Barbarorum (a mod that moves Barbarian Invasions to the 5th Century, adds playable factions, makes previously unplayable factions playable, and expands the unit rosters of preexisting factions)

@orana03 5 жыл бұрын

Yesss he defo needs to try this.

@exantiuse497 5 жыл бұрын

Europa Barbarosum is such a slow campaign though. He could try it, sure, but I doubt he'd be willing to do a 100+ episode playthrough that would really do the mod justice

@danielstewart9036 5 жыл бұрын

This was easily my favorite series. I thank you for a good time that had me on the edge of my bed.

@RobBCactive 4 жыл бұрын

Well said! This is my 3rd time watching it and it's by far the most interesting of any of the TW play throughs. I suspect to match it, he'll need to go for one of the mods for a later TW engine.

@jackeccleston9841 5 жыл бұрын

The Last Video... NOOOO

@BattleUnit3 5 жыл бұрын

That Devouring Swarm of Horses is probably the most terrifying thing anyone has ever seen. Also Incredible series, Jon! 10/10 Would watch again! And will watch Three Kingdoms.

@jejeakle 5 жыл бұрын

“The ai seems to be doing a good job” it literally just engaged at that point. Up to then, it was all you lol

@publiusthehandsome2314 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic series as always great Imperator. We look ever forward to the next one. Ave, True to Jon!

@spuriusvictor1538 5 жыл бұрын

Ave, all Romans rejoice with another fantastic campaign!

@OblivionOtaku 5 жыл бұрын

A true campaign for true Romans!

@Noah_AWICB 5 жыл бұрын

What a fantastic send off for the series, this is like the Endgame of the MATNCU

@polishenglish8356 5 жыл бұрын

What an amazing epic victory and a stunning end to a thrilling campaign!

@maybemaeb 5 жыл бұрын

*Gundobad is leading the battle* "...Who is going to be on the frontlines but Zeno Flavus..." -1 perception strikes again!

@sharkofjoy 5 жыл бұрын

Zeno was commanding one of the other armies on the field.

@juliuszondag5515 5 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the Slavs for trying something new like having a ram in their own settlement

@Kaiodenic 5 жыл бұрын

So today we witnessed the formation of an Archaeologist's wet dream.

@rolandgunslinger37 5 жыл бұрын

You should have named this one the death of a Motherboard and Graphics card.

@jeremylpcollier 5 жыл бұрын

This was the series that brought me to your channel, and I've watched each episode with great pleasure! thank you very much!

@jwstrock22 5 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed that series. Thank you so much for taking the time to put it together! You can easily see the replayability here...you could play WRE a dozen times and never have the same thing happen with all the hordes.

@openquin1 5 жыл бұрын

It's always fun to watch Jon issue the same unit several orders in 30 seconds and then hear him wonder why they're not doing what he told them to do.

@michaelskillern8449 5 жыл бұрын

This was a fantastic series Jon. Thank you.

@RykersBTK 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jon ! For everything on your channel !

@Tubbs1991 Жыл бұрын

Discovered your channel a few months ago when looking for some Empire Total War videos, stumbled across your Total War playlists to see you've got loads. Taken me a few weeks to get through this series but I have really enjoyed it fair play, really well paced and a good mix of both campaign map stuff and battle content and your commentary is really good. It all combines to make it extremely watchable. I'm looking forward to watching through your Medieval TW playlist next.

@brianscoffield584 5 жыл бұрын

Probably the most entertaining channel available. Love you Rome total war series. Many thanks.

@lou1958 5 жыл бұрын

Jon your presentation is getting better and better with each new video. Not that you weren't entertaining to begin with, hence my subscription, but you are now arguably the best at what you do. Keep up the good work and I'll keep putting off my own gaming time to watch yours.

@crispymormon5977 5 жыл бұрын

What a story this crated, I wish the Total War dev team would make campaigns this hard now days. Harder games that require sacrifices make for better stories. A story is boring without defeat. Its been a great series john, I can't wait for more.

@brianscoffield584 4 жыл бұрын

Haha. You do so much so well. And then again, you focus so much on one part of the battlefield and forget the additional resources at your disposal until your front line has collapsed and then suddenly it’s “where are my spear men?” Who you left a few miles away outside the walls. But seriously, it’s all part of the fun, isn’t it? I enjoy these things so much. Thank you. Xx

@gansplay6245 5 жыл бұрын

I have been with you since you started your Rome total war series and all the series on the last episode I’m always genuinely sad and can’t wait for more total war.

@benedekkrausl7906 3 жыл бұрын

The best RTW playthrough I have and will ever see, thx a lot, it was so much fun and joy to watch

@wisp6826 5 жыл бұрын

On the end. Roma invicta. Roma eterna. That was fantastic. Thank you a lot.

@Vyril447 3 жыл бұрын

Just found this series and your channel. This was excellent, very enjoyable. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

@ZakisHereNow 3 жыл бұрын

Terrible,, horrible, disastrous mess of a battle... and yet... absolutely amazing!!! This has been a fantastic series and that was one hell of a way to end it!!!

@scorpionbird88 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely legendary series! Thank you good sir.

@the_unrealer 5 жыл бұрын

This series was amazing Jon! Looking forward to more classic Total War!

@Geekman333 4 жыл бұрын

What a great series. Watched every video, wept for Marcus the Gambler but mostly laughed at the hilarious commentary. Thank you.

@xaviervlogs1675 5 жыл бұрын

Bloody fantastic john thrilling watch start to finish great commentary, brilliant game play very funny good job old boy!

@SwordSaint550 5 жыл бұрын

Grand Finale indeed, that big fight was all sorts of epic. Thank you very much for an entertaining campaign, my good man. =)

@drakengarfinkel3133 5 жыл бұрын

Looking back on this run, it seems you've had more or less a best-case scenario with no additional hordes (minus the goths) being triggered and the hordes you had to deal with were mostly already rather battered by the time they got to you. When I tried BI, I wasn't so lucky.

@Vapor413 5 жыл бұрын

Great job and I thoroughly enjoyed this series!

@Xarestrill 5 жыл бұрын

That was well done, congratulation Jon. My favorite parts were at the start when everything was going wrong and you were panicking.

@Jadegreif 5 жыл бұрын

That was an awesome finale. Really enjoyed this series.

@whynot-tomorrow_1945 5 жыл бұрын

This is seriously bittersweet. I have loved this series like nothing else, but all hail the restoration of Rome!

@Jeffreyrun6 5 жыл бұрын

Watched this as soon as I woke up, I really loved this series Jon I'm really gonna miss it :)

@ltjsol 5 жыл бұрын

Loved watching this series, thanks.

@allium2718 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this series. I discovered your channel with it and subscribed immediately and look forward to future videos now!

@mrsandman452 3 жыл бұрын

That Second Last Battle had Around 14000 Men To Register

@Anonymaus209 5 жыл бұрын

Somewhere Augustus is smiling. Well done Jon. I've waited for this campaign since the end of your original Rome playthrough, and I'm pretty sure I'm happy with the result. While I can't say I'm particularly interested in Three Kingdoms, I'm _very_ interested in your mention of the old Kingdoms expansion. Especially if it's the America one you're talking about. In any case, I'll be looking forwards to it.

@danielkjm 5 жыл бұрын

Great Work Jon ♡

@nicholasbrigis6101 5 жыл бұрын

Love the content Jon!

@will3317 5 жыл бұрын

Damn it’s over

@josephstanger6303 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant season, favourite that you've done. Spurius Flavius would have been proud of such a pagan slaughter.

@Sam-eb3uf 5 жыл бұрын

Sad to see this series has finally ended. But it couldn't have ended any better.

@rairaur2234 9 ай бұрын

Seeing you loose 1500 of the best Roman cavalry mostly due to not trying to give out individual orders and prohibiting skirmishers from skirmishing was priceless. Oh lord this is peak comedy Thanks a lot for this series!

@N0N5T0P 5 жыл бұрын

Please don't end it :( I loved this series

@x2ernal357 5 жыл бұрын

PLEASE MORE ROME TOTAL WAR

@oktanius01 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing series!!!!

@jacob7922 5 жыл бұрын

Really sad to see this series end. But with a small relief I never have to hear Jon pronounce "Slavs" as "Slarvs" again. xD Why not go a step further and call them Slarvae, which of course grow into Slarvaflies!

@mikkellopez8429 5 жыл бұрын

Similarly he could say Russian volcanoes spew slava.

@RobBCactive 4 жыл бұрын

That's English for you, vowels change a lot between different accents.

@selder_7 5 жыл бұрын

Seriously congratulations on the win here. Even on easy the start of this campaign is such a headache it’s so offputting and you can easily lose

@METALFREAK03 5 жыл бұрын

This was a great series. I would like to see another one of this.

@davidsurtees4439 3 жыл бұрын

This was just beautiful........just BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

@lordjustinian2913 5 жыл бұрын

That final battle was the cowards way out, Gundobad could've easily defeated the remaining Slav army. Every faction dropped like flies, no battles were lost basically.

@henril.7298 Жыл бұрын

Just watched this and absolutely loved the series!! One thing that bugged me though: I believe there's a small rebel settlement on the island just east of Spain, and you've never taken it, been hoping you would for the entire series :p

@majorbensonwinifredpayne2158 5 жыл бұрын

Great campaign overall but why did you leave most of the eastern roman lands in the hands of the usurper scum? Wouldn't it be better to completely reunite the empire? Also sassanids are still very powerful and may strike one day in the future.

@tobak952 3 жыл бұрын

okay.. i protest, Vetranio Flavius is NOT a coward. If anything a bit too brave getting himself overexposed like that, but he did half the bloody work and damn near sacrificed his life for it. Vetranio for emperor damnit!

@whynot-tomorrow_1945 5 жыл бұрын

40:20 "skilled cavalry commander"

@jansenart0 5 жыл бұрын

Jon, I'd be interested in seeing a challenge run: max difficulty with minimum unit size. It'd be very different.

@maxking235 5 жыл бұрын

Bravo Jon!

@partizanlegis 5 жыл бұрын

that battle was the Battle of the 8 Armies! and I lol'd so hard when Jon kinda forgot Vetranio out of formation and he was surrounded

@bod3874 5 жыл бұрын

The slavs are so used to breaking down gates they dont know how to properly open them. They just assume the ram is how you do it.

@willreaver1425 5 жыл бұрын

Every time I see Grand Finale I am as excited as I am sad.

@whynot-tomorrow_1945 3 жыл бұрын

30:26 >Conquer territory that wasn't yours to begin with >Claim the people that controlled it before you are "invaders" Naw man, that's just Rome for ya xD

@Knightcommander69 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, what a series. Love Total War.

@MrTiberiu83 5 жыл бұрын

Dudee just start another Rome Total War campaign CAUSE I FUCKING LOVE YOUR PLAY STYLE!

@pascalfarful952 5 жыл бұрын

Alexander DLC? I know it wasn't as good as the others but... it was good.

@lucasgray9846 5 жыл бұрын

“Were going to learn things together today!” *gate crashing down in background*

@ry4n813 5 жыл бұрын

very nice way to finish it and a good way to set up Rome total war for a bit of a break ( i hear a holiday in asia would be good this time of year) julianus would be proud