Top 5 Campaigns in Total War: Rome Remastered — Transcript

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1. 0:02total war roam remastered has a glorious
2. 0:0419 factions to play as in the imperial
3. 0:06campaign
4. 0:07this is one up from the original 18 with
5. 0:09numidia added officially in the remaster
6. 0:12without any file manipulation needed and
7. 0:14today marks the grandiose release of
8. 0:16historical grand strategy nostalgia
9. 0:18reborn
10. 0:19with rome remastered coming out today
11. 0:21but the age-old question
12. 0:23always crops up which faction do you
13. 0:25play as
14. 0:26why are the egyptians modeled after
15. 0:27their bronze age counterparts and how
16. 0:29much laundry detergent
17. 0:31is too much laundry detergent in this
18. 0:33video today we'll be answering only
19. 0:35one of those mysteries of the universe
20. 0:37in my picks for the top
21. 0:39five campaigns with two sneaky honorable
22. 0:42mentions
23. 0:43now these aren't the most overpowered
24. 0:44campaigns or the easiest
25. 0:46but rather a gathering of some of the
26. 0:48more interesting and fun campaigns in
27. 0:50the game
28. 0:50with very strong rosters awesome
29. 0:53historical implications and a sweet
30. 0:55sweet pajama pants
31. 0:57you know who i'm talking about if you'd
32. 0:58like to just simply jump ahead or see
33. 1:00what campaigns are in this list
34. 1:02i've marked them in the chapters on the
35. 1:04timeline or within the description
36. 1:06also if you have not yet picked up rome
37. 1:08remastered feel free to use my
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45. 1:20it helps out immeasurably but let's get
46. 1:23started on the top five campaigns in a
47. 1:25total war
48. 1:26rome remastered number five and the
49. 1:28first faction on our list
50. 1:30is egypt and this is a faction that i
51. 1:32think is really good if you're coming
52. 1:34back to rome
53. 1:35after not having played for a long time
54. 1:36because you can really get reacquainted
55. 1:38with all of the mechanics with pretty
56. 1:41little hurdle of entry here
57. 1:43egypt is a faction that has probably the
58. 1:45strongest economy out the gate
59. 1:47aside from the brutiah in rome now with
60. 1:50egypt you have so much farmland to take
61. 1:53advantage of because
62. 1:54of the river nile delta and in addition
63. 1:57to that your really
64. 1:58own opposition only opposition is with
65. 2:00the cyucids up here to the north
66. 2:02and their early game units are really
67. 2:05not that strong they have very terrible
68. 2:07morale
69. 2:08even though they come in 120 unit blocks
70. 2:10but your desert axe infantry can just
71. 2:12cut them
72. 2:13up in addition to that egypt has a very
73. 2:16nice ability to scale very strong
74. 2:20into the late game when you talk about
75. 2:22stuff like their chariots
76. 2:24or their phalanxes in the pharaoh's
77. 2:25guard or their arch
78. 2:27archers in the pharaohs bowman something
79. 2:29we covered in our top five range units
80. 2:32they really have got top tier units in
81. 2:34almost every single class
82. 2:36towards the end of the game and as you
83. 2:38all know chariots are very broken in the
84. 2:40total war series
85. 2:42and this is really the benchmark for
86. 2:43when that started was in that total war
87. 2:45rome
88. 2:46uh egyptian chariot spam that could just
89. 2:47crush things and as you play through
90. 2:50an egyptian campaign in the very early
91. 2:52portions you'll be able to take over the
92. 2:54saiyused empire very fast
93. 2:55especially over here into the east
94. 2:57getting a hold of the hanging gardens of
95. 2:59babylon
96. 3:00which will increase uh 20 your farming
97. 3:03income by 20
98. 3:04for all settlements that is a huge boon
99. 3:07for egypt as you will have a majority of
100. 3:10that
101. 3:10be coming from your um river nile
102. 3:14uh town generating a ton of farm income
103. 3:17so
104. 3:18while egypt is not the hardest campaign
105. 3:20it's definitely deserves a place on this
106. 3:21list especially if you're coming back to
107. 3:23the series
108. 3:23after a very long hiatus number four on
109. 3:26our list goes to carthage and this one
110. 3:28is a pretty interesting one i don't
111. 3:30think a lot of people choose carthage
112. 3:32as one of the factions to play as but
113. 3:34they are a very strong
114. 3:35faction their infantry has a nice scale
115. 3:38to them
116. 3:38they do start off with some nice
117. 3:40swordsmen and then some roman style
118. 3:43spearmen and then progress to sacred
119. 3:45band hoplites which
120. 3:46are very strong phalanx units in
121. 3:49addition to that they actually have a
122. 3:50very durable
123. 3:51and solid cavalry core and they get
124. 3:54access to elephants and that is always
125. 3:56awesome to crush the romans
126. 3:58what's interesting too about carthage is
127. 4:00that since your main opposition
128. 4:02is going to be rome you can actually
129. 4:05benefit from that in a big way
130. 4:07because you're this empire that is
131. 4:10strategically placed in the
132. 4:11mediterranean you can create a very
133. 4:13strong
134. 4:14economy by being aggressive with rome
135. 4:17that's going to build your relations
136. 4:18with a lot of other locations that do
137. 4:20have that aggression with rome namely
138. 4:21gaul
139. 4:22which is just north of your iberian
140. 4:24holdings over here
141. 4:25in addition to that once you've built
142. 4:27all those religious relations
143. 4:29you can then have a very strong trade
144. 4:32alliance with
145. 4:33say gaul and then over here with uh
146. 4:36the greeks almost the egyptians but you
147. 4:38can actually do the egyptians too
148. 4:40and it's a really nice and different
149. 4:42spin on the game because most people
150. 4:44play as rome
151. 4:45attacking carthage playing carthage and
152. 4:47attacking rome and kind of
153. 4:48recreating one of antiquity's most
154. 4:51famous
155. 4:52wars is a lot of fun and it is a huge
156. 4:55challenge this is not an easy thing to
157. 4:57do
158. 4:58taking out rome or at least taking care
159. 5:00of some of the sub-factions of rome
160. 5:02and once you do that the nice thing
161. 5:04about carthage is that it is one of the
162. 5:06only other
163. 5:07factions that benefits from having a
164. 5:09strong naval presence
165. 5:10if you have a strong navy then you can
166. 5:13put troops anywhere across the
167. 5:15mediterranean even invading
168. 5:16up to portions like crimea up here in
169. 5:18the in the black sea
170. 5:19or all the way up into the british isles
171. 5:22over here if you so wish
172. 5:23in addition to that this navy is going
173. 5:25to allow you to keep a lot of pressure
174. 5:27on
175. 5:28rome so it's a different way to play the
176. 5:30game and it allows you to role play a
177. 5:32lot of different angles
178. 5:33with a lot of really fun and diverse
179. 5:35units that i think don't get enough
180. 5:37credit
181. 5:38in the grand imperial campaign of
182. 5:41rome total war we're reaching that
183. 5:43midway point here at number three
184. 5:45with the greek cities and this is a
185. 5:47really interesting start point because
186. 5:49when you take a look at
187. 5:50the majority of the factions on the map
188. 5:53or the campaigns in the map
189. 5:55you're growing an empire but with the
190. 5:57greek cities this is
191. 5:58some 50 years after the death of
192. 6:01alexander the great
193. 6:02so you were trying to band the greek
194. 6:04cities together for the first time in
195. 6:06like history for the most part minus
196. 6:07alexander great and
197. 6:09it's a pretty interesting campaign
198. 6:11because there is a particularly big
199. 6:13challenge in both mastodon in the early
200. 6:15game
201. 6:16and rome as they start to pick up a
202. 6:18little speed off of your west coast
203. 6:21but you have so many great things
204. 6:23working for you so for one
205. 6:25greece obviously gets access to the best
206. 6:28hoplite soldiers in spartan hoplites
207. 6:30but even the tiers below that with the
208. 6:32armored hoplites are still
209. 6:34very very good hoplites they can take
210. 6:36out quite a bit with just one unit
211. 6:38holding a choke point in addition to
212. 6:41that the very early portions of your
213. 6:43campaign
214. 6:44if i come on down here to roads i get
215. 6:46access to
216. 6:47creation archers right off the gate and
217. 6:49these are again one of
218. 6:51my favorite archer units linked in the
219. 6:53upper right corner you can find that top
220. 6:54five range video
221. 6:55and these guys are a powerhouse they do
222. 6:58have a 200 denarii
223. 6:59upkeep but they have the best or i'm
224. 7:02sorry some of the best range
225. 7:04of any archer unit in the game they
226. 7:05match that top tier archer unit
227. 7:07and you get them at turn one so this is
228. 7:09a very nice unit
229. 7:10in addition to that you're gonna get
230. 7:12access to four
231. 7:14of the seven ancient wonders one in
232. 7:17the mausoleum at hognarsis number two
233. 7:20right here
234. 7:20temple of artemis at ephesus now this
235. 7:22one is tricky because you then have to
236. 7:24go to war with the cellucid empire
237. 7:26so this one you might get a little bit
238. 7:28later in your campaign
239. 7:30because dealing with macedon and rome
240. 7:32first
241. 7:33is going to be uh paramount but then you
242. 7:35also get access
243. 7:36over here to the statue of
244. 7:40zeus at olympia so that's your three
245. 7:44um uh wonders but you also get well bam
246. 7:47you start with the colossus of rhodes
247. 7:49which increases your naval trade by
248. 7:5140 percent just like carthage you can
249. 7:54have a very strong
250. 7:55naval trade umpire for the same reason
251. 7:57reasons carthage can
252. 7:59you have a huge presence in the
253. 8:00mediterranean and you're going to have a
254. 8:02big standout war
255. 8:03with rome so this is a faction
256. 8:06that i think gets overshadowed by rome
257. 8:09and some of the other surrounding ones
258. 8:11but the nice thing is that the majority
259. 8:12of the land you want to grab
260. 8:14is either controlled by macedon or
261. 8:16rebels in the early game so expansion
262. 8:19out from sparta into athens or down here
263. 8:22into crete is a very easy thing to do
264. 8:25especially here
265. 8:26roads up into halognasis so you have a
266. 8:28lot of really cool
267. 8:29and very strong early game expansions
268. 8:31options with grease
269. 8:33and it only gets better as you take over
270. 8:35portions of anatolia
271. 8:36or go up the greek peninsula into
272. 8:39apollonia and salona
273. 8:40our second place option goes to the meme
274. 8:43team
275. 8:43pontus now the ponte campaign is pretty
276. 8:46difficult
277. 8:47this is one of alexander's deodoki and
278. 8:50his creation of the black
279. 8:51sea empire was a pretty awesome point in
280. 8:54history
281. 8:55with mithridates the first and it was
282. 8:58a struggle to achieve just in the same
283. 9:01way that the pontus campaign
284. 9:03is extremely challenging you will face a
285. 9:05lot of aggression
286. 9:06from armenia to the east a good deal of
287. 9:09aggression
288. 9:10from the seleucid empire to the south
289. 9:12and you have
290. 9:14some early expansion options to the west
291. 9:16which you'll eventually butt
292. 9:17up against the greek cities so pontus
293. 9:21does have a very difficult start to
294. 9:23begin with because
295. 9:24it has very terrible units to start out
296. 9:27you have eastern infantry which are
297. 9:29garbage you have
298. 9:31the eastern light cavalry which are
299. 9:33garbage but if you can really rush
300. 9:36to tier 2 buildings you can get out
301. 9:38phalanxes
302. 9:39pretty quick and the phalanxes that they
303. 9:41have access to are decently strong
304. 9:43but really where pontus shines is that
305. 9:46it has great
306. 9:47top tier phalanxes and really it's
307. 9:51has awesome cataphracts the cappadocian
308. 9:54cavalry give them access to a catapult
309. 9:56that has a shield
310. 9:57which is great and in addition to that
311. 10:00they get access to both
312. 10:01sized chariots which are amazing
313. 10:04and chariot archers both of these really
314. 10:07give them some really strong staying
315. 10:09power
316. 10:09and some really good punching power when
317. 10:11it comes to dealing with
318. 10:13a lot of the phalanxes that you're going
319. 10:15to deal with with the greek cities to
320. 10:17your west
321. 10:18and with a lot of the failings you're
322. 10:19going to deal with with the um
323. 10:21cellucid empire to the south in addition
324. 10:24your strong cappadocian cavalry
325. 10:26will counter or at least match up with
326. 10:28the armenian
327. 10:30cataracts that you're going to deal with
328. 10:31on your eastern border
329. 10:33and in addition to that too with a
330. 10:35strong failings presence you'll be able
331. 10:37to actually press the line on them
332. 10:39and move further east if you so wish
333. 10:41pontus is one of those campaigns that is
334. 10:44really difficult but it is extremely
335. 10:46rewarding once you get off the ground
336. 10:47with it because you do have
337. 10:49access to a lot of those wonders in the
338. 10:51western portion of anatolia
339. 10:53just like you did for the greek cities
340. 10:55and once you can secure those
341. 10:56you can really give yourself a strong
342. 10:58power base or economy base to then move
343. 11:00either further east
344. 11:02or push further west into taking more of
345. 11:05the greek cities
346. 11:06our last entry until we get into the
347. 11:07honorable mentions and number one on our
348. 11:09list
349. 11:10is the cellucid empire the last of
350. 11:13alexander's successor kingdoms
351. 11:14to last the trial of time and become one
352. 11:17of the largest empires after his
353. 11:20death now the selucids in both rome 1
354. 11:23and rome 2 are very difficult they have
355. 11:26a lot of things working against them
356. 11:28and it's of course like i said no
357. 11:30different in rome one
358. 11:32you are spread pretty thin across the
359. 11:34majority of
360. 11:35anatolia the levant and then into the
361. 11:38east
362. 11:39and because of that since there's such a
363. 11:41huge amount of distance
364. 11:42it's hard to really centralize your
365. 11:44power but
366. 11:45once you do once you can really take
367. 11:47over palmyra here right just to the east
368. 11:49of damascus
369. 11:50and you can solidify doing a lot of
370. 11:54farms in your towns because you have
371. 11:56access to the hanging gardens of babylon
372. 11:58giving you that 20
373. 11:59bonus to farming income and all
374. 12:00settlements you'll be able to secure
375. 12:03a good amount of economy your biggest
376. 12:05hamstring though
377. 12:07with the cellucids is that you start off
378. 12:10with two
379. 12:10very terrible phalanx units i mean
380. 12:13they're phalanxes so that's great
381. 12:15but both of them have very bad morale
382. 12:18one's militia
383. 12:19the other one's levy and because of that
384. 12:20those two units which you're gonna have
385. 12:22until you get up to a higher tier
386. 12:24of an army building it's going to really
387. 12:27act to
388. 12:28hamper your army 120 soldiers in the
389. 12:31unit but they can still get crushed
390. 12:32apart pretty quickly
391. 12:33by the desert infantry of egypt so you
392. 12:36really have to find a way to
393. 12:38secure your income build up your
394. 12:41military up to the portion that your
395. 12:43your hop lights are actually serviceable
396. 12:46then you can really push against egypt
397. 12:48hard or if you want you can expand west
398. 12:50into halaknasus
399. 12:52before egypt i'm sorry before the greek
400. 12:55cities do
401. 12:56and try to secure anatolia a little bit
402. 12:58stronger
403. 12:59but the really nice thing here is once
404. 13:01you really solidify some power
405. 13:03as the seleucid empire much like pontus
406. 13:06you really start to take off but the
407. 13:08difference here between pontus is that
408. 13:11not only do you get these similar style
409. 13:14of
410. 13:15strong phalanxes pontus has the bronze
411. 13:17shield phalanx you get the silver shield
412. 13:19phalanx but you also get the silver
413. 13:20shield legionnaires
414. 13:21which are essentially a roman
415. 13:23legionnaire copy and they are stupid
416. 13:25strong
417. 13:25in addition you get cataphracts they
418. 13:27don't have the shields of the
419. 13:28cappadocians
420. 13:29but you also get access to scythe
421. 13:31chariots and then
422. 13:33elephants it's really got one of the
423. 13:35strongest rosters in the entire game
424. 13:37and it is why it is such a hard
425. 13:40beginning
426. 13:41campaign once you can really get it
427. 13:42going then you really get access to all
428. 13:44these goods that just really
429. 13:46bolster and strengthen whatever
430. 13:48direction you want to go
431. 13:50that again is a really strong benefit of
432. 13:52playing as a selucid empire you can go
433. 13:54south into egypt and rip apart all of
434. 13:56egypt once you've solidified a strong
435. 13:58military base
436. 13:59you can go west and then into greece if
437. 14:01you so wish so
438. 14:02i really like this campaign and i think
439. 14:05it's probably one of the strongest ones
440. 14:07in both room one and round two
441. 14:09now for our honorable mentions the first
442. 14:11one obviously is gonna go to rome in
443. 14:13all three of its iterations i mean the
444. 14:14game is called total war rome
445. 14:16of course this is going to have a great
446. 14:18campaign if you've never really played
447. 14:20as anything other as
448. 14:21other than julie i really strongly
449. 14:23encourage either scipio or booty
450. 14:26they are my two favorite factions i
451. 14:28think julia is a little bit more of a
452. 14:29slog
453. 14:30even though you get the you know
454. 14:32standard roman red
455. 14:33i prefer the blue it's my favorite color
456. 14:35or you can go with the green and then
457. 14:37expand
458. 14:38into greece quickly and just have a
459. 14:40disgustingly strong
460. 14:42economy but it is definitely worth
461. 14:44talking about these guys as an
462. 14:46honorable mention an honorable mention
463. 14:47number two goes to germania and this is
464. 14:50because this is a barbarian faction that
465. 14:51plays
466. 14:52um very standard to some of the greek
467. 14:56style factions but different than all
468. 14:57the other barbarian factions
469. 14:59you still have access to really cool
470. 15:01strong heavy
471. 15:02infantry in stuff like the berserkers
472. 15:04but you also get access to phalanxes
473. 15:06which is really strong when you're
474. 15:08fighting against
475. 15:09rome in the northern portions of the
476. 15:11alps and some of the other
477. 15:12things to your east and to your west
478. 15:15another really good
479. 15:16option over here would have been the
480. 15:18british isles but i really like
481. 15:20the germanic tribes i think they bring a
482. 15:22lot of fun of flavor to the barbarian
483. 15:24play
484. 15:25of vanilla rome total war and
485. 15:29that it brings our video here to a close
486. 15:31so go ahead and let me know in the
487. 15:32comment section below
488. 15:33what some of the campaigns that you
489. 15:35really enjoy
490. 15:36or do you think that maybe cellucids
491. 15:38should have been lower on this list or
492. 15:40perhaps rome should have been number one
493. 15:42go ahead and let me know in the comments
494. 15:43section below if you're just jumping
495. 15:45into total war rome remastered after a
496. 15:47long time
497. 15:48it's fun to take a different approach to
498. 15:50the game than you might have when you
499. 15:52were young or maybe you want to relive
500. 15:53those glory days
501. 15:54whatever it is let me know your opinion
502. 15:56so i can get an idea for some of the
503. 15:58other really cool campaigns in the game
504. 16:00that i may be glossed over
505. 16:01but as always guys thank you so much for
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