I’m glad to see there are some Numidia enjoyers out there. I can see the appeal with its difficulty for sure. Getting those small islands to boost the economy is an interesting idea, I want to test that out a bit. I agree, the hardest part about Numidia is getting reliable money. Thanks for watching, and I’m glad you enjoy Numidia!

@@Widzelli Me too i like Numidia so much because Rome total war is not historically accurate to add the kingdom of Mauretania i have been fixing a lot of innacuracies by editing the game files so i can let Numidians use Elephants as they did in real life, thank you for talking about Numidia it's an honour.

Thanks for the support and for watching!

I think you're completely right, it's definitely possible to take out Carthage and use the wealth of those cities to fuel your campaign. I was too worried about the Romans at such an early stage, but you're right, I could have beaten them early and not had to deal with the Marian reforms. The defense of Siwa is really a struggle, although I think with the right amount of skill and luck it is definitely possible. The problem is sometimes it doesn't feel like it's worth it because it's so far away from your capital, so corruption hurts public order and revenue from the cities. Thanks for the feedback and for watching!

I can see why you did the javelinman spam, but I personally think the Numidian cavalry are better because of the mobility it allows you. You can lose a battle without losing many men and dish out a ton of damage because of it. But yeah, the Numidian roster is pretty pathetic. I can see the argument for Spain having a worse roster, but at least they have bull warriors. The Numidian Legionnaires are just not good at all in comparison. Makes the campaign that much more difficult (and interesting)

@@Widzelli Barbarian factions because they only have three tiers of the cities instead five, they often have really great units for their tier - barbarian warbands are better than towns guard and their top end warriors are better than same tier principes. They often have pretty great temples. Spain does not only have Bull Warriors, but Scuttari are pretty decent, round shield cavalery is something like +2attack +2defence over roman equivelent, and +1 +2 +3 experience temple can supercharge them too. If I remember properly warcry temporarily increases attack power by 10 which can close a lot of powerlevel gaps - they may not be as good as Urban Cohort, but can mop the floor with pre-reform romans when used correctly. No way spain has worse unit roaster, IIRC they actually have same round shield and long shield cavalery as carthage (and numidia), that combined with them having better infantry and better campaing map situation (better combat temples, better starting location). I have been thinking about how to make any campaing more challanging, and instead of doing things like changing difficulty that turns the combat balance upside down (battle map difficulty gives static buffs and debuffs on all units in battle - -4 for all your units and +8 to all enemy unit attack on very hard) or making mechanics like economy upside down (very hard campaing gives you something like 25% money making penalty and gives enemy +100% money generating, making many enemies effectively infinitely rich), I've been thinking about just skipping the number of first turns (20? 30? 50?) maybe with the exception of being allowed to build buildings and defend your cities if they are attacked).

That’s an awesome idea for a campaign! Although I still enjoy the harder difficulties because I think it’s easy to snowball into a juggernaut early on and make the rest of the campaign boring. Putting the turn handicap would be very interesting though. Thanks for the comments and for watching!

@li If you like longer campaing and don't like the fact that factions like numidia or parthia are wedged into the corner of the map you should try Mundus Magnus campaing map that doesn't change anything except add bigger and denser map with more room to breathe and to conquest. Downloaded it ages ago and now each time I see a regular campaing map I get confused about how tiny it is haha Edit: IIRC remastered/steam version has messy compatibility with old mods (even on regular graphics) so you may have troubles unless you switch into old pre-remaster install of the game.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Play as Scythia and rush greece and then rome haha

Thank you! I will accept that challenge, a true migration campaign sounds like a ton of fun.

Very Hard difficulty for both campaign and battle, I have played the game for too long for the lower difficulties to be challenging/fun. I'll have to go find that campaign of his, he's a great KZfaqr for Total War. He's also totally right here , they feel like a faction with no upside sometimes for sure. I have tried Spain and I think their roster with the bull warriors makes them that much better than Numidia, although they're still pretty trash. I think another thing about them that gets overlooked a lot is that Spain is really defensible because the ai is pretty unlikely to navally invade with a lot of units until later in the campaign, so you basically just focus on the mountain passes into the Gaul region once you consolidate all of Spain. Berbers sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@WidzelliYes...Spain is a nightmare for the AI to invade if controlled by a human. Saw one guy do the Berber thing a couple of years back, but he played on average difficulty, kept save scumming a LOT, and was kinda weird, lol. A good Berber stream would be worth watching... Keep up the good work.

Thanks so much! I’ll try and feel out how a Berber campaign would be, but it sounds like it would be fun and potentially a good video.

This is the newer remake of it, Rome: Remastered

@@WidzelliAhh i had a feeling it might of been .. i didn't think my memory was that bad XD