I want a small ballista and a Brian Blessed for Christmas 😀

wtf non

Cybermat47 Can you believe the guy's 80?

R. Lee Ermey did not die... his spirit just takes over Brian Blessed's body! XD

The man is now Gotrek the Slayer! His insanity has allowed him to reach the pinnacle of war!

Some things never change

huh

The air was filled with smoke and blood...

more like Yemen

Haha

That looked like a five year old throwing a stick.

Looked like a gaul lmao

*_Y E E T_*

So pathetic.

Bodhi Dharma Eeyup.

Right into their Scrotums. Lol

I'm not even mad.

He is satanic 😈

Savage!

+Matt Dean Damn, I'm from Poland, but my sister is near Leeds. I may as well check this out.

Cool. Do you mean he showed you the basics one day you were at the museum, or he was teaching a course?

rivolinho Just the absolute basics. The proper way to hold it and a few techniques from Talhoffer's manuscript. I don't claim to be a master swordsman

Fake Name Nice. Always wanted to try something like that. Will try to swing by when Im next in Leeds!

The trick was to stick em with the points end right?

They should make Brian a general, beast out his stats and give his legionaries a sling each, lol

Badger, you magical, magical beast.

Fox I agree even after three years

Ardisson S I agree even after 6

Because majority of young man these days have problem with testosterone level and he does not. And young girls spend all day making themselves beautiful, trying at least.

what are your specs? Im running a i7 4790K @4.4GHz, 16GB ddr3 1600, GTX 970 w/ 4GB GDDR5 VRAM with full settings, and mine looks just like it lol. All the coverage in commercials is done with an uber machine. Juyst expect to pay about 1500 USD to make the game look that good and run that well

I am running an identical rig as yours. I was being sarcastic about how the pre game footage was made up to get the game even more hyped.

I got ya - yeah when i first played the game on an older rig I wanted a refund for the game...I really do think CA is a good company, despite what a lot of people say

Mmmm, they are in the business to make money period. Whether that makes them bad or good idk, I am sure there are some people there who genuinely love making great video games but I think Sega is causing most of the problems. They seem to have taken creative assemblies "creative" license and handed them a streamlined "do it this way or else" license. The game is very arcade like, the graphical polish on ultra and extreme almost make up for it.

The footage doesn't make by the game engine you play, it made on something like movie engine, which render only the scene, so they can make it look more beautiful, with better model and textures.

it´s in the game but you are blind!

Not my point...

haha

That was exactly your point...

Art V. Or he’d get smashed more likely. He’s a historian playing with toys essentially. Not a soldier.

Wrong - he was a soldier. He did his national service with the parachute regiment.

I was reading this and by the time I finished @9:14 played

An English treasure you mean

@@cyberbird451 No. International. England may have spawned him, but fortunately, they couldnt keep him contained.

I don't think they found anyone dumb enough to stand their but I could name a couple of 'volunteers'.

More like a watermelon or a pumpkin. Shoot one with an ordinary slingshot and a lead round ball of .50 cal, and you'll get the idea. Those ancient slings were deadly and accurate, launching lead pills of up to 1500 grains weight. Slam you right off a horse and dead before you hit the ground, or rip off your face, hitting the guy next to you as well.

Good point. Lets try your head, and see what happens. OK???

You can avoid the projectiles, twat.

I've been playing tw extensively since rtw 2004, the only one worse than rome 2 is empire

@@patrickbateman312 This was posted 4 years ago.

@@user-oo3oi9ki2j Who cares, once a dumbass always a dumbass

+Evan Demas they probably had a cough

Probably some hairy Gauls being salty that they're the targets.

Actually, we are the barbarians, since our ancestors invaded and destroyed Roman Empire =))

Roman Empire used to pay tribute to Russia, and never in history advanced in that direction. Slavs ran circles around Romans in all aspects.

Gaul, is the present france, germany and spain. Romans are Latins and has brown skins some are white skins.

The problem is purely programming right? I mean, there weren't huge historically incorrect things, or bad gameplay, just... a mafunction of an otherwise good system? I heard a lot of bad critic about the game, so I didn't get it yet.

Well, the AI was bad, unit models looked odd (alien faces ect) Sparta was grossly underpowered, horrible unit cards, clunky UI, family trees were missing, the way hoplites held their shields was not by just a handle but forearm strap and handle, some pretty horrible siege AI for both attackers and defenders, wrong height siege equipment for the walls it was attacking, suicidal generals charges, weak general bodyguard units for most cavalry bodyguards (legatus mainly) broken formations (testuedo, phalanx and shieldwall were useless at launch) no bonuses for holding the high ground at the start, no guard mode and unit AI blobbing. The list was huge but a lot of these points have been fixed now since the release of patch 15 and the game is now fun to play for th first time ever.

Voieux, I suggest you try DEI it makes the game really great.

Voieux Sparta was hardly a force at all in real life at the time

I would say the game is in a much better state now

We should be able to use them but with limited ammo I would assume. Hope they add it.

It would of made rome even more overpowered I love it

@@leonfinnen5051 slings were something like situational weapons for legionaries (or last resort, depended really on circumstances,) not the one they were using always gladius, pilum and scutum. For example they had daggers all the time and loved them but main weapons were gladius and pilum.

I reckon they’d be too powerful, or too expensive, to actually be worth buying

Exactly

sadly, I had to give your comment a thumbs up...

Whoops, here comes a new DLC for Rome 2, four years later. :/

Well at least the videos are good

I’d say it’s money well spent

It's possible to do actualy, i made a mod for sagitarii in ATTILA that you can switch from bow to shield+gladius.

probably they did, soldiers probably improvised and put their own gold into improving the gear they already were handed out. just like modern soldiers do. American soldiers added all kinda stuff to their humvees, look at the shermans in ww2. wooden logs strapped to the sides of the tanks, and sandbags piled on top of the front armor. Anything to give and edge was useful. I dont think soldiers thinking has changed much in that regard.

Gabo Derflinger Well, the fact that they had a SCUTUM, kind helped

If an enemy reached down to stab your leg you could easily dodge or just reach over your shield and stab their face lol.

Scrub, greeks and romans had crossbows, and the byzantines(ROMANS!!!) had even another type of crossbow later on that was crazy.

Yes, but weren't they inferior to central europes medieval crossbows? If they were effective against steel armor Anna Komnena wouldn't be astounded with their perfomance during the crusades as in Alexiad.

Slowly? ))

fight me

You ain't from our region are you? If you now say you don't like David Attenborough then you're effectively at war with us ;) He's a panto-type man. Loud, but extremely talented. He is the oldest man to attempt climbing Everest, and the only reason he didn't do it was because he had to save someone's life.

But He's Brian Blessed... Legend. You can't think he's annoying.. He's a Legend.

wow ...

You do realise this man is the TRUE King of England; not that lazy old fat-arsed cow Lizzy.

Playing Romans helped make him even more rich and famous (I, Claudius, etc) 'Forgive and forget"....and cash your paychecks....