Dacia VH/VH - Part 1 - "Facing Thrace" - Rome: Total War

hello and welcome to my brand new very hard very hard campaign if you've been watching my channel for a while you know that I'm on the path to trying to find the hardest campaign in Rome Total War so I started with the Spanish campaign figuring that that would be the hardest campaign because for more economy and the weak weird non- diverse units but after 14 parts of the Spanish campaign we've made a lot of progress I won't spoil it for those of you who haven't gotten that far yet but I'm not convinced that Spain is the arst campaign anymore it can't be with the other options available there's just no way so there's been a thriving debate in the comments all of my videos on which is the hardest campaign because I've been talking for a while about starting up a second very hard campaign people say numidia people say DEA people say Parthia even but I think it has to be DEA and I will kind of explain my reasons as I get through the campaign but today we're starting up the Das campaign very hard very hard we're going to be running this campaign in conjunction with the Spanish campaign so instead of doing two videos a week with the Spanish campaign we're going to do one Spanish video and one dation video per week all right let's get into it I'm going to skip the faction trailer because it's buggy for some reason when I'm recording on OBS so you're not going to get that but you can look it up if you want to see it uh but let's load up the starting position and go over why this is such a brutal campaign so it is the summer of 270 BC and we are the Deans and look how horrible this starting position is if you've never played as DEA I would say this has to be the hardest starting position because at least as the numidians you have access to some you know easy targets you can just take Carthage you can maybe pick an invasion into Spain and you at least have your back against a wall there's no one who can attack you from the south or the West not so as DEA we have thce to our East our Southway with Macedonia and the Greek city states to our West we have the Roman faction specifically the bru ey they have a chance of pushing through this region we have the germanian up here we have the cians up here and we start off with the worst economy of all of them the worst number of units of all of them it's just horrible so let's go over what we have at the start of the game so we have two settlements porism and campus AIS Oris is actually pretty decent it's a large Town 5,252 population and it's almost to get up to the highest level of city as the Das the minor City so that's a pretty decent City but then we have campus aigis and this is just a town with 2,800 population has the benefit of being ready to upgrade to a large town at least but that also means we have to spend 800 dinari to get to that large town and that's a problem because we only have 3,000 dinari and it doesn't get better from there right off the bat we are projected to lose 487 dinari the first turn just when we click end turn so we need to do something about our financial situation because we are just going to hamage money and we need to pay for upgrades and we're not going to be able to as far as starting armies we have an army outside of porism kind of in the direction of the thians we have an Army in porism and one in campus aigis we have six units of War band one unit of folksmen two units of Archer warband two units Barbarian Cavalry and three generals so kind of an interesting spread of units um nothing incredibly strong as a front line like we don't have polights we don't have a lot of Cavalry or you know anything really good but we have kind of a decent enough Army that we should be able to make some Conquest so that is our one saving grace and the other Saving Grace is we actually have really good generals so first off we have Skyes this is the general over on the thian side and this General has has genius which is the best trait in the game plus three influence plus three command plus three management he has bloody for plus one command plus one morale Lively for plus one management increased to movement points and 5% discount on construction costs he even starts with a good retinue the Civilized slave so this is an incredible General to start the game with our faction leader zyis is not so good um has a Bard which is good is sharp which is good but sanguinary is horrible for commanding troops in battle and while he has five stars of command just that minus one morale off the bat is really bad it's it's a real shame so zyis will be kind of limited in his use as a general but the influence will help for keeping cities satisfied so not the worst faction leader in the world up here in campus aigis our faction Heir on the other hand is very good also has bloody has sharp has natural Bor and leader these are all great and also has armor so this General starts with plus two morale which is really good and five stars of command so overall very good our faction there so very quickly we kind of want to talk strategies here because I definitely need to be careful about how I expand we want to do this correctly uh we don't want to mess up because we are not going to get a second chance if we make a mistake lose an army or go negative with our economy we're never coming back that's the thing with Dasa you get one shot to do things correctly because next turn you will be negative money and if you spend any money on upgrades which you have to do you will be negative next turn so you better have chosen correctly so here's my plan for this campaign what we're going to do is take tyus as quickly as possible we want to take tyus because there's a good amount of population there knocks out one of the two thran settlements and that leaves their weaker Northern settlement which is relatively easy to pick up once we've taken tyus and we just want to kind of consolidate this whole area here so that we can hold our Northern front on the river protecting us against the cians and then just kind of push South and not be worried about being attacked on all sides the obvious candidate for this task is Skyes this is a great General we just talked about and he has the best army that we start with so he's going to camp out in some Woods for now because we first need to talk to the thians try and get some money off of them with our Diplomat before we March onto their land and try to take them out of the game well also get our spy into their region just to have a look around see what we can learn about them up at campus aaz zigis we want to take all of our troops and begin marching down in this direction and the reason for that is that over here we have sesta and sesa I forget which is which these two settlements are incredible they have a ton of land trade and eventually sea trade they have um because they have all this I believe it's wine and gold so they can get both both of them can build mines um as can actually most of my regions which is really nice most of these cities can build mines um including I believe tyus over here so we will have a lot of income from mining but later in the mid game these two settlements will be worth the majority of my income so definitely want to secure those before the Romans do on the off chance that I can avoid being at war with them by never having to take a City off of them that would be ideal so we're going to beine over there with Vina our faction air and hopefully pick those up ASAP so we will head over in this direction and we're going to try and catch that army with our Barbarian Cavalry from pisum um I'm contemplating whether we take zyis as well I think we probably don't and the reason for that is that zyis is more of a liability in battles than anything I'm going to leave him over here just in case we need to raise an army if we get attacked by cians or anyone like that we want to have one General around here that can buy some mercenaries and defend the Homeland I have a plan with these two warband units and that is actually to get them across the border into campus aigis and just disband them because we're going to be losing 500 dinari a turn uh I can't afford that so I would love to get rid of the 400 upkeep per turn of these two warband units and C campus Isis would benefit from growing a little bit so you know kind of kill two birds with one stone get campus ziggies a little bit bigger and save some money I think that's a great idea as far as how we want to spend our money on turn one I think this is pretty obvious we need a warlord's hold in campus I ziggis and in porum we want to purchase mines mines will get us 200 dinari per turn once they're built so they'll pay for themselves in 10 turns which will fly by pretty quickly and then after that they'll just be fueling our economy so we definitely want those as soon as we can get them in all of our settlements and in campus I ziggies it'll be really nice once this is next level of City because we can start getting some better upgrades in campus is ziggies we need to probably bring down the tax rate um we're going to build a unit of Barbarian peasants and hopefully that is enough do not need to bring down the tax rate yeah we can leave it at normal tax rate if we build a unit of peasants and we can prevent that from rebelling all right there's nothing else that we can do this turn we've used all of our move points we've used all of our money so let's see how much money we have after this turn ends hint hint it's going to be negative so let's see itga 572 yeah ouch um let's continue our March towards the seses um and we're going to continue trying to catch them with our calry we see a quinc come but we don't really have any need for a quinc come at this time it's not that great of a settlement we'll pick it up a little bit later we can now take the two units of War ban that we started with in pisum and disband them in campus aigis so our population there is now 3,16 that's great and now that our public order is 110% because of the peasants we've trained here we can actually bring up our tax rate to high which will get us an extra about 127 income per turn that's great next up we want to bring our Diplomat into thran territory and we're going to send our spy North because we're going to see anyways what these troops are just by having our Diplomat speak to Kus but I am curious what's going on up here so what have they got at campus getai three units here two units here really nothing good at all in campus getai so that should be pretty easy to take once we take tyus let's bring this Army as close to the Border as possible I think you can hide in this little mini Forest um but I'm not really sure I don't think it matters whether you're hidden or not as long as you don't cross over the Border I think we won't cause a transgression and mess with any diplomatic relations end of turn report oh yeah that's brutal minus 3572 dinari from Mostly Construction and some recruitment but yeah horrible economy hopefully this gets fixed very quickly this is why I'm playing so aggressively cuz this can get out of control very quickly we have a new family member Aina has just been born congratulations and there's nothing else we can do this turn let's go ahead and end it we're going to keep marching Vina South to this area we've almost caught up with our Cavalry not quite yet but hopefully by next turn we will have caught up not so sure now dcom our Diplomat can finally speak to thce so we want to first get trade rights off of them perfect and then we're going to offer them map information in exchange for let's try for 1,250 anari that's a lot to ask for there we okay they countered with 970 that's a lot of money that puts me in the positive I'm happy with that um let me see if I can get their map information for really Dirt Cheap honestly I don't really need it because I'm about to attack them but I will offer it to them for 100 dinari no they can't accept it that's fine now Sky Can You Reach tyus This turn I believe you might be able to so let's get our Diplomat out of the way and let's get our two units of Cavalry to Siege tyus and then can we reunite our infantry with Skyes yes we can I don't know if this is going to be okay I think we'll be fine hopefully we don't get attacked by all these armies at once uh can I maybe just have my Diplomat stand here I don't know if that will work at dissuading them from pulling all their armies but I can take tyus next turn so hopefully I manage to do that before I lose this Army because it's rather important we are at War of course with thce and Carthage is at war with the Greek cities so I can guess where that's happening on Sicily now we finished our minds in porism we can't really afford anything but we can take a look now at what the available religions are as daa so let's take a look at the three options we have hellis which is going to give us naked fanatics morale bonus to troops of two which is actually pretty awesome and happiness bonus the Sacred Circle of Bendis gives improved Farms up to plus three and happiness bonus and the secc circle of zalmoxis gives light weapons heavy weapons and armor plus one and 15% public order bonus so that's decent um I don't know I'm kind of feeling more that this might be the best option just because morale bonus plus two is pretty incredible that's that's a huge advantage that means your troops almost never break but for now we can't afford anything anyways so we will probably just purchase nothing here now one thing is that we can purchase Archer warband so at some point that will be really useful Archer warband is awesome to have in the early game just best missiles that you really start with as any faction so yeah that's that's pretty awesome we might be building some of those pretty soon we have a general duras who has come of age I believe duras is the son of zyis um isn't great just has anger and no positive traits not sure if we want to do anything with this General but maybe we'll send him off to sit in tyus after we take that off the frictions we'll just send him South our end of return report looks a little bit better profit of 162 that's better than losing money um but yeah I don't I still don't feel great about our economy we're going to have to see how that turns out there's nothing else we can do this turn um unless we could potentially build a wooden Palisade we could but since I don't see anyone who could attack campus zagis yet it's pretty far north and there's just mountains up here I think we're safe to not have any kind of a wall there for now so the macedonians want to talk to us let's get trade rights with them and then let me see if I can get any money out of them so I'm going to offer them map information and I'm going to try to get a thousand dinari out of them I don't know if it'll work let me try maybe 1,00 let's see what they say they'll give us 760 I'll take it that's not bad that's a lot of money for me okay over here oh wow we have this is quite the battle Skyes with my six units is being attacked by satis and his six units including 82 heavy Cavalry and this is a pretty decent army with let's see any morale Buffs yes plus one morale from the comedian yikes a little bit scary and what else is here mostly ptas which is good but the fulman will be pretty difficult and then the Army trapped to tyus is just Bas a decent is general and one unit of heas so if we can win this huge Victory but that is kind of an if honestly uh we'll just have to be smart in this battle so this is great Fortune we have massive High ground Advantage um at least we can take a high ground Advantage hopefully they don't also drop on The High Ground but I think we'll be okay um let's pull up our war band to right here put our folman here and we'll get our Archer War band right up here Archer War band are some of the best missile troops for having high ground something like Rodan Slingers we experience this a lot as Spain don't have the ability to fire off of high areas because they have such a straight projectile path but archers have the arch so they can fire over the hill without harming their own troops so that's good let's go ahead and get this battle started and see where they drop okay they do drop on the low ground which is great let's get up here with our war band and our folksmen and then we will get our Archer War band here as quickly as possible and we'll kind of just guard them with Cavalry just in case someone charges up the hill at them I would love to get some shots in with the Archer warband hopefully as much ammo as possible but I think this should be fine as long as they let me get some shots in we'll have a pretty big Advantage here one thing we need to be aware of is that reinforcements are coming from The High Ground so while there aren't many reinforcements they will have that advantage on us when they do come so got to be aware of that let's kind of well first off let's get our archer in position we will leave them on fire at will for now but we'll turn off Skirmish mode and let's pull up our folksmen nice and close to these archer warband in case we need to pull them back abruptly all right let's see what kind of damage we're doing so I believe they're firing at the militia calry first they've lost o quite a lot of Cavalry already so this is a pretty great start we want to do a lot of damage to the militia Cavalry before they ever get any missiles off let's fire up the folksmen because they have pretty bad armor and will do a lot of damage if they reach us so we definitely want to get some shots into the fman yeah that's brutal going to do a lot of damage they're just walking slowly up the hill so I would not advise this if I was thce but you know whatever floats their boat so they look like they may be charging let's get ready with war cry for all of my units in case we do get charged and let's begin firing at the general because we need to do some damage to that 82 strength General's bodyguard before this battle gets too messy now we are being attacked by the General's bodyguard over here we're going to use our fman and Cavalry to fight them off and we'll bring our general over there for morale purposes let's keep our Archer warb band firing at the general body down here below the hill ooh not good we had a break of our Barbarian Cavalry we're going to use our rally troops ability and hopefully fight this General's bodyguard off let's do some damage over here maybe okay so they ran away let's just fall back we want to do as much damage as possible before the battle properly starts and we've done a lot of damage to the general down here so that's good let's charge these folks men and get our archers back believe we can break these folksmen fairly easily cuz they're already wavering broken perfect okay let's round up as many of them as possible and we'll resume our use of The Archers as quickly as possible o okay not good so the enemy General's bodyguard with strength of 46 is attacking my general we really cannot afford to lose this General so runs perfect okay killed the enemy king that's good let's turn everyone's attention to fighting this General over here and let's get our archers to safety if we can we're going to use war cry over here for the extra 10 attack and let's fight these folksmen off we should be able to win that fairly easily where's my general not in a good position at all kind of want to get my general out of here let's get our Barbarian Cavalry into the action now that they've reformed we haven't lost our general yet but it's not looking super good here we want to make sure that we kill this General as quickly as possible cuz if this battle ends we don't want that General to survive we'll charge down the hill at this General over here just because it's shaken and it's a pretty weak unit I believe we can break that and we did manage to kill the other General so B is seriously lacking in generals now after this battle we broke their other General and that should be the last we see of them and let's charge these pelas with our infantry we'll send one unit of infantry down at the other pelas and our general will clean up the unit of pelas over here and what have we got over here militia Cavalry they will probably win against my Barbarian Calvary if I charge into them just cuz we only have 53 in this Barbarian Cavalry and they've already broken so we got to be careful with that how are we doing over here doing well just cleaning up this broken unit of pelas yeah now we need to make sure that we get as many kills as possible here we've killed 78% of the enemy Army it's not quite enough we need to kill more so let's hunt down these pelas with my Barbarian Cavalry and we're going to stop firing with our archers just because they are killing our own Cavalry stop [Music] firing I don't think we can catch these militia Cavalry over here how much of the enemy Army do we kill 91% and that is I think an average of the two armies so hopefully at least one of the armies will disband I killed both generals so that will help with disbanding I'm not sure if both armies hit that 85% threshold though so we'll just have to see that's all we're going to get from this battle so once we clean up these last few troops we'll go ahead and end the battle I definitely was a heroic Victory we killed 953 and only lost about 300 troops so that was awesome majority of those kills actually came from Archer warband and the general that makes sense but pretty decent effort from everyone we managed to heal some of that Barbarian Cavalry that broke early on so that's good with that we do manage to take tyus now um actually have the opportunity to see do we have a general campus I ziggies I don't think we do if we did I would use enslave population and the population from tyus would go into campus isigi but instead it would go into porism which would actually be a bad thing so we can either exterminate for some quick cash or occupy I think occupy is the right way to go here because the tax revenue from having tyus be a large city will be really important so we're going to see if we can calm down tyus this is not tyus there we go tyus okay so they're somewhat appeased we're going to build mines as soon as possible and we can retrain these Archer War band we may just build a second unit of that they were so useful in that last battle I think it's worth doing now duras over here we got to decide what happens with him I'm thinking duras will sit in tyus so so we're going to send them over here and then the Army and tyus once we've been rested up and people in tyus have calmed down a little bit we'll send them up north and take campus getai off the rations we're going to come back to these mines at the end of the turn see if we can still afford them but I think we are going to purchase mines in tyus um just because that extra 200 income from mining each turn will be really worth though over here we can finally reunite these two armies let's let's just go ahead and do it here and then March over here and sesta is the first Target it's still a rebel City so that's fantastic and that should be a pretty easy battle let's take a look at our faction announcements Sky's got a famous warrior a foreign hostage and confident Commander actually dcom got a foreign hostage and see who that is interesting that's the Diplomat got a foreign hostage that's great Sky Le is looking really good now management of six command of six influence of three yeah this is shaping up to be a very good General and we got very Lively for plus two management plus 20% to movement points 10% discount TR construction costs so these mines here that are usually 2,000 dinari are actually 1,800 so I'm going to go ahead and buy them while we have this General here so I don't forget to cue them because that's just such a great deal end of turn report we profited 3,500 dinari that turn a lot of that did come from diplomacy and from taking tius the little bit of income we got from that so it's not an honest reflection but our economy is doing much better I would say it is under control if not thriving up here in pisum I think we're just going to need to knock down the tax rate a little bit here because they're pretty unhappy we're almost at the next level of settlement minor city um you know probably three or four turns we will hit that next level and can get an upgrade here and then public will be in check for the rest of the game something I'm going to try to avoid in this playthrough that I didn't do in the Spanish playthrough is building taverns because that 5% 10% public order bonus due to happiness is just not worth the really horrible traits you pick up and especially the retinue you pick up slobber to Goan drunkenly I forget exactly what the name of the traits are but they totally ruin all your generals so I'm going to just avoid taverns as much as possible I'm curious what happens next around tyus because these two armies are honestly prettyy tough and we don't have that much in tyus here so I don't know I'm a little bit concerned about a Counterattack from the thians but we'll just see what happens let's go ahead and end the turn hopefully they don't besiege me right now cians are offering trade rights we'll take that and let's sell them map information for we're going to go for 12 00 I'm worth a little bit more now that I know where tyus is and they accept it I could have offered more probably and they would have taken it so cool I'm happy with that let's buy their map information for I'm going to offer them 300 dinari just because I would actually like to know what's happening up there yeah worth a 300 dinari just to know who owns these settlements later in the game we profited 265 dinari even though we purchased mines in tyus so that's great Macedon has just made an alliance with thce that's not great um clearly that puts me at odds with maedon but since I'm probably within 10 turns of knocking th out of the game might not be a huge deal um hopefully Macedon will kind of forget about being angry with me once knock th out of the game but we'll see yikes a little bit concerning I'm not really ready to take on maedon this early duras is going to continue marching over to tyus next turn he'll hop in there and looks like they're preparing for a Counterattack against po Lum instead of trying to take tyus back kind of makes sense they're just going straight for my Capital so let's go ahead and send my general and all of his army up north we'll leave behind one unit of War band to defend tyus just so we don't get surprise attacked and lose the city and then we'll build some Archer War band here yeah we want more Archer War band cuz it's not unlikely that we're going to be attacked at tyus so we need to be able to defend it let's go up and yeah we can't quite attack this Army I would love to fight this Army even both of these armies um as soon as possible I don't want them getting in around Port Lum because that would be really hard to defend uh yeah if we can fight them in the open field over here that will definitely be a good thing for me this General has honestly nothing too great same with this Army yeah they don't really have that many troops I took out a lot of their troops over here so they shouldn't be too hard to manage but yeah we'll see let's see if we can talk to the macedonians I'd like to get maybe map information off of them I think I forgot to pick that up earlier so we do want that as soon as possible and let's go ahead and besiege sesa we're going to build a few Rams uh yeah we might somewhat starve them out I don't know we'll see I mean Alan mercenaries are pretty easy to kill with archers and Cavalry so this could be a relatively easy battle next turn we'll see so we are being attacked by the thians I should have just stood on the river what do we have here have tennis you bring okay thran mercenaries they're okay can I take these armies honestly this might be lost so we're going to withdraw and fight here against one Army that's much easier yeah we can definitely take them now with two units of Archer warband we will have a pretty big Advantage um if we can use those archers effectively so let's go ahead and fight this battle it should be fine so this is a relatively flat uninteresting Battlefield let's drop on the highest little bit of Hill that we can right here we'll drop like so with our infantry units and then we'll have our Archer War band in front of them and we're just going to do a similar format to what we did last time we'll have our Cavalry on the flanks and I'll try to protect my archers a little bit better this time around last time I was a little bit sloppy so we'll keep a little bit closer eye on them this time archers I'm going to leave them here they'll March into our range and we'll get some shots in and then we'll just reassess after that I am concerned about these militia hop lights definitely um we're just going to stay very much on the Move we don't want to fight these guys headon we want to shoot them with a arrows so if we can make that happen that is ideal they should almost be in range of our archers now let's see what do they have at the front here operation mercenaries how many shots are we going to be able to get in hopefully this does good damage what are we shooting at oh mil hop lights it's actually a good thing to shoot they don't have a lot of armor and Thia mercenaries that's also good so all right let's pull back our archers after this next volley pull back and we're going to use war cry here and then we're going to charge in and we're going to charge in to the General's bodyguard over here as well if we can just kill this General early that will cause huge morale issues for the rest of the battle perfect we've got a break from The General and if we could kill that General that would be fantastic let's send the Infantry over here to finish off the folksmen and I'm going to get my general out of here I don't want to lose my general let's have our archers exclusively fire at the militia hop lights and okay we did manage to kill that General so that's fantastic let's just keep running down all these fleeing troops and then we will kill the Hop fights with just archers this should not be an at all nice easy battle yeah they're trying to flee but they're getting shot in the back not good for them we'll keep our general nearby to these militia hoplight cuz they tend to just kind of break when there are enemies nearby um if if they do then yes perfect we can run them down get some more kills on them let's run these wsman down with my Barbarian Cavalry and we'll run down the militia hotlights with my general I'm sure we've killed over 85% of the enemy actually we haven't quite yet but we will in just a moment but I want to get any experience I can get now cuz you know it's free may as well get it early in the game General will finish up these militia hotlights let's run them down nice and easy perfect and battle is over let's go ahead and end it oh fantastic we lost 36 troops happy with that um and killed 690 that's great and killed the general as well um I don't think the general survived yeah General died so that's great have a new husband who's 16 years old and already a confident Commander no negative traits take him that's that's great oh man tyus is not happy with me let's see does this new general make it any better no we may have to send back some Oakman to tyus is that help okay that's enough to make everything kosher we're going to sit on this little River and hopefully these thran attack me next turn because I'll have a huge Advantage fighting on the river and let's go ahead and at least repair these Archer War band and we have enough money here that maybe we should build a shrine at tyus let's do the shrine to habis that's the one that does the morale bonus right habesis yeah we're going to do that that'll get some extra public order bonus due to happiness and yeah that'll that'll work towards something very good a little bit later Sky's got good commander and we profited 915 dinari fantastic let's look at Sky's oh man already this good at age 32 this early in the game incredible the Romans have begun attacking the Greeks and you know the other things that you expect Spain and Carthage Armenia and the slay assits and en we've completed our mines yeah we knew that that's fantastic let's go ahead and spy on campus gai there's a general in campus gai and a general outside of Campus Getti and once those two die that would be the thians gone from the game so that is one way to get them out of the game now over here at sesa do we want to just try to attack I think maybe the answer is yes I want to keep these episodes a little bit shorter than we're used to with Spain um but I think I have time for at least this battle here let's fight them on the battle map with the range Advantage from having archers we should be able to pick them apart very easily and this shouldn't be too hard at all so our war band will carry the RAM and we'll use our archers to do the killing let's March forward a little bit with our archers until we're in range of the yyan mercenaries and we'll bring our Ram up a little bit okay we're going to fire at the yans now hopefully we get some good hits into them as they run yeah that's a good volley and now they're turning their back so the next volley will do even more damage hopefully oh brutal yeah we are eating them up and every volley before they fire any missiles is is another I don't know 5 10 15 soldiers who are never going to fire a missile in this battle so that's fantastic all right we got some good damage in there let's go ahead and knock down the gates and we'll get our archers a little bit closer just if we can get any shots in we will I'll speed this up a little bit as it's not too eventful I'm guessing they won't come near the gates again but you never know and I was wrong they are taking another swing at it sure they want to throw some javelins over at the ram but yeah they're taking a ton of damage so not sure what the plan is here the gate is broken your warriors have done Brave work with the battering R let's get our war band inside the city bring our general up as well 76 heavy Cavalry is absolutely crazy with our faction leader here faction Heir I think this is our faction heir but yeah we have the yans coming up and they've broken already we're just going to let our archers get some shots on nice and easy and long as we don't have any action from these lyans let's go ahead and pull our archers into the city as well we will drop actually let's drop like this with our war band like so and our archers right here so if they get a shot they'll have a clean shot and not shoot our war don't quite have a shot unfortunately but let's go ahead and get our warlord in the city get our Cavalry in the city and we can push up with our war band as well let's get our war band to right here and then if the yans try to push up we will have a shot on them so perfect they're firing let's get our Cavalry out of the way this war band we'll use war cry and if we get in a slugging match we'll have a pretty big Advantage here but yeah we're just shredding these guys with archers doing a lot of damage to them not too concerned about any missiles we might take all right let's charge in cuz we're actually taking a lot of damage now but with war cry enabled we'll do a ton of damage against these lyans let's get our general oh my goodness we lost those units that's crazy all right use rally troops hopefully these units reform we can do this battle without them but I'd rather not yeah they reformed andrians I forget they've got some serious stats let's check what their stats are male attack eight defense nine yeah that's better than warband so I guess that's why they did well we will push our archers up a little bit closer they'll get some more shots in on these yans and they're facing away from us so lots and lots of damage oh brutal absolutely shredded that Army wonder how many kills just these archers are going to have and we've killed their General so fantastic we can go ahead and get our Archer War band out of the city we don't want to take any casualties since they're out of ammunition what is left I mean really nothing let's just send in our warlord we'll use rally troops at the last moment so that we don't lose the actual General himself but yeah this will be a nice quick battle Total Slaughter and the battle yep we need fight no more let's check the stats here we got 351 kills with the archers they gained one Chevron of experience we we lost mostly War ban but we got some healed that's okay sesa is ours we will occupy sesa because there's not that much population here and we can go ahead and build mines here um the name of the game is definitely going to be keeping sesta we would love to pick up sesta but this is a very easy area to overextend in you take both of these cities you're going to lose one of them so if we want to do this intelligently we will retrain these War bands regroup for a turn or two and decide what to do next we have a little more leftover money and I'd like to spend it actually because in campus aigis if we buy a land clearance our farm goes up by about 70 dinari per turn and it only costs 600 dinari so that'll pay for itself like nine turns and then you know that's cheddar it's not that big of an investment so I think worth doing let's check in porism if it's the same thing 408 to 476 yep also worth it so we're going to invest in both of those that will also increase the growth rate of their populations so these cities will grow even faster which is wonderful let's go ahead and end the turn see if the thians attack us on the river they do and we are outnumbered but I think we can handle this what are they bringing oh really flimsy stuff I mean good stuff but it's not going to do well crossing a river getting shot by Archer warband so I think we can handle this with our incredible Skyes of daa let's do this I'm really speedrunning how how quickly I can get sky's the Conqueror I love getting conqueror onics so I think we might have that in our very near future we're going to drop our archers on either side so we can get nice shots into the river and we'll bring up our Barbarian Cavalry right behind our war band and our general right behind them want everyone to be pretty much together because this is going to be a bit messy we need to make sure we don't have a morale issue so let's get our archers pulled as far forward as possible just so they can get shots in really quickly and we'll get our war band right up to the water with the Cavalry right behind them and my general right behind them so our archers are already firing they going to do a lot of damage firing across this River and let's turn fire wheel off and just fire into the general that's who we really want to be targeting here as they get closer we will use war cry in our war band just so we have a little bonus attack let's set them to guard mode use war cry now and hopefully we've done enough damage here to cause some issues in that General unit now how's our morale doing eager still eager I'm just keeping a close watch on that cuz we don't want that to go poorly the enemy General is actually wavering we can kill this General this battle will be an easy Victory enemy warlord yep killed the enemy General okay warlord is dead so don't charge across the river quite yet we're going to keep firing with our archers and hopefully this is a battle where they charge through us when they fle yeah I think it is so we're not going to charge in with our general quite yet but we are going to charge in with our troops and let's target the hotlights at the back with our archers we want those to break as quickly as possible oh are they breaking oh they're all breaking all right continue the battle let's just send our general through here get a million kills and let's stop firing with our archers don't fire just run let's watch this oh brutal this is why you don't charge across Rivers against archers this is just brutal incredible delicious delicious thr wild all right come on run them down ouchies and let's see what is left almost nothing once we kind of clear out this block on the actual River Crossing we'll just go ahead and end the battle yeah pick up these bels why not right let's go ahead and end the battle we killed a thousand of them and only lost 64 yikes we gained a shun of experience for the warlord and the war band so that's wonderful this is why why we camp on Rivers we are the river trolls that's the Das motto All right so we can try and speak to the macedonians here let's see if we can get map information off of them offer them be 500 dinari I really want their map information great yeah this is important because I want to know what's going on with the Greeks um we can kind of see who owns what this way so that's wonderful and we'll go ahead and send our Diplomat South to try and speak with the Greeks just to get trade rights off of them we don't have ports yet but eventually we will and it will be important that we can trade with the Greeks in tyus we built our Shrine to heis and at the next level we get morale bonus to troops trained here so I I just want to buy that right now but I know that's not prudent so I'm going to wait a second I don't think there's any point to doing this port yet no no reason to do that we'll just hold on to some money we'll need it we lost 2,2 tario that turn because we spent a lot on building those land clearances in porism and campus aigis so that's to be expected now the question is do we March North now or wait for another Army to attack Us in the river I think we just March North now um what do we have in campus getai good amount here we two generals but honestly that's that's all they have here I think we can handle them is there anyone in pois we want to send over to reinforce honestly zyis we're going to send him over because he's not great um but he does have a lot of heavy Cavalry and if we lost him he wouldn't technically be the worst thing in the world because he's kind of crazy so that would free up the way for Skyes to become faction Heir and for over here Vena to become the faction leader which should be pretty good and as promised I want to keep these episodes a little bit shorter under an hour ideally so I can get them out more consistently because every minute of recording takes five minutes to edit so I'm going to keep it a little bit shorter for consistency sake I think this is a great place to end this first part I'm going to try and get a part up every week and I might do more than that on weeks where I'm you know have a lot of free time but going to try to stick to one episode per week definitely um so I'm super excited about this campaign I'm also excited to keep going with the Spanish campaign of course I love that campaign but specifically this campaign is really refreshing totally different all the units that I can train are way different and this part of the world is different so yeah very excited to embark on this campaign with really unique generals like Skyes and zerxis um but I hope you're enjoying this content hope you're excited for the rest of the DEA series and thank you so much for watching have a great day [Music] bye-bye

Channel: TDSNIPER

Views: 1,646

Keywords: Rome: Total War, Spain, Julii, Scipii, Brutii, Egypt, Total War, Roman History, Roman Empire, Challenge Run, Lugotorix, Remastered, Very Hard, tdsniper, tdsniper215, Dacia, Thrace

Id: N0JinyxT4ns

Length: 51min 25sec (3085 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 04 2024