Preorder = More cost and less completion. I agree i always wait for alpha/pre-order phase to end.

Remember rome 2 :D

Sounds like good advice

​@@Zoey--I actually like Rome 2 now

Still some one has to test it out. Me and my wallet volunteer as tribute and shall inform the rest of you how it goes

Why would upper & lower mean anything but elevation? What does a compass have to do with it?

@@liviuadrian1101 Since the 1600's north has meant up on a map, however coincidentally 'most' rivers run from north to south, so upper meant north for a lot of cultures before the 1600's made things universal. Egypt is one of the few major cultures that has upper refer to a southern region, so even though it makes perfect sense for them, it goes against what you'd historically think!

@@Campfire_Bandit I honestly can't believe you had to explain this to that other guy.....

@@Campfire_Bandit Big cap on all of that my dude. Complete bogus. Rivers run from higher elevation to lower elevation, and there is zero meaningful correlation between elevation and latitude. Certainly not between higher elevation and northerly latitudes. In fact, major European rivers like the Seine, Rhine, Elbe, Oder, and Vistula all run unambiguously south to north, as does the historically legendary Nile, and the Thames runs west to east, as do the Danube, Ganges, Orinoco, Amazon, Yangtze, and Huang He. Are you from the US by any chance? Besides Ukraine and Argentina, that's the only region I can find where rivers tend to run more from north to south than any other direction, and the US is notorious for considering itself the global default.

​@@PwnEveryBodyI'm actually referring to the river valley civilizations! But the Coriolis effect will naturally direct water to the equator, and because of our current land mass distribution has 68% of land is in the northern hemisphere, you'd expect more rivers to flow south. But even with this stat, we find that a few more civilizations were based on south flowing rivers than raw statistics would imply, so it's a weird trend in human History.

As wepp as game demos, whether it be pc or ps5 or xbox or switch

There are far better examples of not baiting consumers into buying a product by telling them what they're getting. This barely tells me much about how well the game's going to perform.

too bad its a recycled game

@@balduccioliv Just like every TW game since Empire, reusing assets is how everything in life is made, you goddamn casual.

​@@balducciolivEvery game in the world is just recycled content with tweaks. What are you smoking?

With the inbreeding among the Egyptian Pharaohs he was probably 10 and just looked like an old man. 😄

@@Ban-sidhe Still though, ya gotta hand it to him. He made it to the end before his enemies could, uh, beat him to the punch. Despite being 8, thats gotta count for something.

@@Ban-sidhe And yet, those same Pharaohs can point to the longest estimated reign in History: Pepi II rose to the throne at age 6 and his reign lasted an estimated 94 years. When the genes are good, inbreeding works differently.

@@KnightofAges Wow... I'd expect to see someone be pro-inbreeding on twitter, but not here. I was making a simple joke. But you do you banjos. XD

Outpost system was inspired by the British Isles campaign in Medieval II Kingdoms.

true and i had to buy the dynasty edition for that! one of the best soundtrack in total war.

@@parabelluminvicta8380 i agree . i was confused why they would include soundtrack as a bonus because i dont recall them selling them but now i know why . they probably knew many peoples will have a blast with this genre. i remember it being used in 300 movie , the part they show the persian fleet arriving . hot gates is one of them . Xerxes follow this style too . idk what its called but its really dark and fit so well with that "imminent doom" kind of scenario especially in antiquity

SETTRA DOES NOT SERVE!!!!!!

Sorry but, wrong Ramses

I am sure that they will never hear you I think they are deaf and blind

They weren't holding flags in this time period. Makes no sense But I do prefer if the unit icon is on a flag rather those green circles

@@liviuadrian1101but the cinematic tho :C

Damn straight!

Yes that will hopefully stop the AI from single unit spamming the map into crashing, while still letting there be more than a city and towns that is important in taking a province. Also its a lot better these outposts aren't core functionality of the city/town, but rather bonuses.

😂 good catch, drinking that goat milk

Ha, nice catch! I didn´t notice before. But makes sense, throughout history elite units, and especialy something like royal guard, had height requirements.

Also depending on the local and time period, the peasantry, or equivalent, could have been stunted due to malnutrition. Meaning only select individuals could be 6'2".

Reminds me of the joke about how Chariot Archers were "pay to win bullshit" of the time, the ancient equivalent of self-propelled rocket launcher

This is accurate since ranged units were quite OP in the Bronze Age. This is why there are so many stories of heroes dying to arrows from that period.

No offense mate, but those kopesh units have 80 armor and a shield. Unless the AP is higher than in Troy, and considering all units have a rise of around 30% HP, archers are going to have a really bad time with the medium and heavy infantry. On the other way, shielded slingers seem to be absent so far, and that might a big advantage for the bowmen.

Also very little cover in this terrain.

This showcase show basically Egyptian units that due to climate conditions use few armor, Hittite units uses a lot more armor.

They are not immune. It was a mechanic implemented in Troy. Some unit had extra dmg when attacking a unit from the flank or from behind. And there were some special/elite units that neglected that bonus dmg, but they still get lower morale when flanked

@@liviuadrian1101 So they’re immune to a feature that wasn’t good in the first place.

​@@KellyBomayehow's it bad? I think I might hurt someone more if I stabbed him in the left rib rather than the shield. Right?

@@OceanSea12 thats already accounted for with weapon damage, and the shield's melee defense and armor. A shield only provides the defense/armor to the front. So units flanking already do more damage and have a higher hit chance. no need for the increase damage.

@@liviuadrian1101 It's a stupid mechanic imo, you take 2 units with the same stats, but one of them has the "better at flanking" trait, so now they do more damage when flanking? How does that make any sense?

agreed, stepping back to historical Total wars is the way just wish it was medieval :(

And having the army system like 3 Kingdoms TW.

@@libextremist Nooooooooooooooooo

@@libextremist Exactly! The 3-commander per army system with each their retinue would actually be very historically on point. Medieval armies being very much organized into smaller subdivisions commended by this and that local/regional lord (one of them being the overall commander of course)😊👏 The duel system however...maybe not so much...

I will buy this for medieval mod

or make more money by making a new game

Yep!

Do u know that was the future for the game in old tw like rome and mtw2? Or shogun? I hate tw series due to recession of their games quality.

@@Klierowski there is no recession , you just ignored a shitload of novelty just for a small thing like that . the only regretful thing that is worth mentioning is naval battles

​​​@@LauftFafaThere is massive amount of "recession" compared to Thee Kingdoms. Tactical variety, cavalry, army organization with multiple generals, complex diplomatic treaties, administrators, court, assignments etc to name a few. These developers are also erroneously claiming titles, spreading fire and wall sapping as "new features" which were already present in Three Kingdoms. Of course there are some actual new things here as well. But there is no reason to exclude one for the other. It's like one step forward two steps back.

soooo, Nobunaga's Ambition?

@@AcZe1188 Aweful tactical battles in those games, but strategic mechanics wise they get many details close to history.

Another man who advocates the merits and innovations of Thrones of Britannia. Good day sir 🧐

@@CoffeeFiend1 Yes, absolutely! The critical hit system was the only good solution to the health pool system introduced with Rome 2, allowing units to actually kill models in a realistic fashion based on a random chance, so that models didn't consistently need 3 hits to die or something like that. But they ditched it...

in Troy (and Pharaoh) the minor settlement purpose is resource extraction. You are fighting over resource nodes, represented as camps/villages. Cities are for building armies and culture. This system actually makes more sense in this game than in Rome 2.

Because the province system gives more variety in city battles and strategic depth to province building.

@@zrize101 I honestly think the biggest innovation in Thrones was that they actually made food a meaningful mechanic. Those conscript spearmen may not cost much but they near enough eat the same volume of food as these battle-hardened fully armoured heavy infantry and we can only afford to feed X amount of people...

Fred Flintstone special

All hail, Anubis!

They made an announcement that they are working on it.

If they follow Troy design each faction have different color schemes, but this is very subtle mainly affect tunics and small details in armor.

Most of the total war games have colour coded units according to faction

I hate how the player is always set as green and the enemy red, I prefer rome 2 etc where you have banners and the battle colour is your factions colour

@@anthonyhoran3949ik it’s so much better. i can maybe get around the soldiers not holding banners or officers since i dunno if they actually did. but the flags are so nice it’s a missed opportunity

Makes me nervous, I don't play the warhammer TW franchise but apparently they are really good. I just want a fuckin empire 2 or medieval 3 ffs

@Hitmannzz Even if they are announced, without a new engine and a fresh developmental approach, those games will continue to suffer from endemic issues that have plagued total war for the better part of 10 years

This game, much like Troy and 3 kingdoms, is most likely a test release for new advanced mechanics they want to test out before implementing in more popular TW genres. Hopefully Medieval 3 is one of them.

@YDECOY8 you're being too generous, there really aren't any notable new mechanics, just repackaged older mechanics that existed in the oldest TW games

Legit, what happened over at CA the historical franchise IMO is in trouble like wtf legit just gets worse not funny for life long fans some of my greatest childhood memories were playing Napoleon with my dad and massive Anglophile abosest with that era. Very sad to grow to an adult and see my favarouite by far game franchise slowly die and morph into something TOTALLY different hahah

considering it took decades to make pyramids it probably wouldnt be realistic

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Alternatively, 1:26

it will buy few people and they will stop making historical games at all.

@@yakovlevskiyyes this game will fail , but they will only stop making historical games in your dreams

@@ismaelhossam think the game would do alright, i like the look of it rn. but it’s is a good experiment for some features that could be in a large scaled game worth the 50£

Troy 2.0

I figure the collapse system will be showcased with the Hittites, since they're the ones who got really screwed over by it.

@resileaf9501 the acheans fell first and hardest imo

@@skylerslack12 Yeah but they're not in this game.

​@@resileaf9501I'm confident they'll feature as DLC, whether they're one of the pre-order ones or will be later down the line I don't know

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What does some Arabic woman (assuming from the Arabic name Khalida) have to do with an Egyptian Pharaoh?

​@@KK-fi6msit is a reference to total War Warhammer 2 and a character of the tomb Kings faction, wich IS inspired by ancient egypt

@@yanisrigaudy5469 Oh I see. Quite disrespectful to give her an Arabic name then. Like black Cleopatra.

Very original almost like someone said this in the other video…

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cry more and dont buy total war we need no haters

@@mariusbehm9874 what you need are loot boxes and seasonal releases for their future titles

most likely, the intent is for cool imagery and marketing rather then trying to appeal to difficulty.

back in MED you could build pretty much all the building in the game in any settlement, then during empire they limited this but major settlements still had like maybe 10 building slots

Limited building slots exist to make the players decisions what to built more impactfull. Now there is a need to specialize your settlements. Imo its much better then Rome 1 and Medieval 2 in which you can just spsm every building in every settlement.

@@l.s.9095 I don't want to make decisions I just want to see my settlement full lf everything

@@communistcuphead2901 Some people would argue that making decisions is the main reason to play strategy games.

@l.s.9095 well those people are wrong

I might be wrong I haven't played Med 2 in years but I remember that being a thing back then

@@communistcuphead2901 It was only visually so, really. Bash in the first frame and the whole thing opens.

@spikem5950 sounds about right

It feels like that would just make ramming longer and not add much to the game that couldn't be represented by higher HP gates

about the only thing you could do with the gates is mod the radius of projectile attack around the gatehouse with the boiling oil. than theoretically oil will come out both in front and back. but no... mantrap gates were not in medieval 2.

It’s the same time period

I am fairly certain they have moved on from Troy, and it is no longer supported.

Ypu should pray for them tp not touch Troy b3couse they will deastoy it like Shogun 2 Check what they did to our little boy, Next-Gen update style for fuxk sake

Think there will be 4 more after release in the form of dlc, base game has around 4 or 5 with 3 playable, there aren't that many civs during this time period in the near east, dlcs will probably be assyrians, myceaneans, kassites, elamites and maybe phoenicians and playable sea peoples

@@thirdworldgamer8717 wow! As many as four!? Unbelievable! Will these be any desert factions from Rome 2 DLC?

@@yakovlevskiy maybe libyans? They allied with the sea peoples to invade egypt

​@yakovlevskiy every modern TW game I can remember has started with 4 playable factions and added more in as time goes on. We know of at least 3 planned dlcs so if each one is a new faction then that will be at least 7.

@@samuelansin8307 I don't remember the last cut tw making money. Troy was generally given away for nothing from the release. I don't know who bought it after. Britain is generally considered the worst in the series. To do a simplified something... I do not know what they are hoping for. This is the way to failure and rejection of the historical setting

As a 5 year old child I strongly disagree and must remind you that we are the primary target audience. Bright colours all around, perhaps the leaders can also break into Disney songs every time the diplomacy tab is open too.

Lol why would they put effort into this? It's a Troy reskin.

Shiteaters will definetily buy this

@@yummyimpostor2722 this videos comment section really shows how they are the majority