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  • U played THE GREEK CITIES, against PARTHIA, and u took spartanks, omg, ofc, ure gonna win, i guess i would rape u in 1 on 1, if u have 'GAMERANGER' add me im 'Pecomania'

    we play 1 vs 1 :)

  • cheap ass tactic

  • Omg... U are just a really sucky noob if u use this tactic...

    When i play i like to attack head on becouse many people think that when u have the spartans, u have to form a square and camp

    When i use the spartans i just attack them at once. becouse people would think that i am going to form a square,and then would they bring a lot of archers. so i can easily take them out. Btw i almost never use greeks.. I am more of an Roman/Barbarian guy. i dont really like phalanx men.

  • ha ha yeah with fully upgraded spartans ;)

  • @TheTurnerBurner lol :D

  • camp more....

  • I thought I was the only one who used this tactic (when I'm a noob in RTW *^_^*)

    Its good against A.I but to a human player? I don't think so...

  • Hehe you are really a noob.

    Spartan isn't the best, they are very weak beceause they cost too much and you can replenish them only in Sparta and Syracuse.

    Heavy hoplite is better, when I play Greece I always conquer Rome using heavy hoplite, they have the same stats as best roman infantry before the reform.

    BTW when it comes to play Greece against Scytia...is god damn fail Greek has no cavarly at all.

  • this should be titled im a noob and I corner camp

  • like is hard fighting with best units of the game

  • @Iloveibrahimovic Yes but Spartans have one very weak part. You see, Parthia has Catprachts who are best for outflanking and attacking on the back. Spartans are invincible at front and some times (if they are gold/gold) on flanks. But rear are there weakspot. Don't always count on Spartans.

  • you have a strong army with gold

  • if you lost then it should be how not to fight with spartans!

  • you know if you played online you would get raped

  • Red line camping isnt allowed when playing CWB rules.

  • You played so much like a noob, you shouldn't play like that lol... EVER!!!

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  • your main flaw was simple. you put ur troop at the incline of the bottom of the hil. giving parthian inf the hill advantage. which makes them at least twice as effective as they normally would.

  • @animewarrior3 and the calvary charges even more deadly from momentum

  • this is by no means a fair match of units. the Spartans are one of the best units in this game and the Persian infantry without a doubt the worst. if you really want to put Persia to the test in this game, you will have to use their armoured horse archers. they are the best unit of their kind in the game. i could defeat that formation easily with nothing but archers and minimum infantry.

  • @TheScienceofnature parthia has no amoured mounted archers. only armenia.

  • @animewarrior3 you are right. i think the exotic unit Parthia has is some kind of an armoured camel. Cataphract Camels i think it was. i don't remember these units very well, i haven't plaid the game for years. but they do have Persian Cavalry which is some sort of medium horse archers. and they also have the Cataphracts, which every other eastern faction has in the game. if they ever make Rome 2, i suggest they pay more attention to Parthia. after all Rome defeated all but the Parthians.

  • I use this tactic myself but I never use archers. I use cavalry for mop up duty after they run away, and there is no danger. So I only need about 2 units of cavalry. But you lost this battle because your lines were too thin. I have killed over 4000 Romans (Bruti) with only 5 units of Spartans. Also works in defense of a city. Find a few choke points to defend the plaza and they will never win. Also if they only have one or two ways in a good supply of highly trained phalanxes never lose.

  • @omega14j1 have you ever played on very hard, very hard...? Then they'll win...

  • @omega14j1 sorry but this is lame tactics.

    You should fight on the middle of the battle field not make use of weak points of game such as this when you gather your army in the corner.

    This is lame as hell.

    BTW heavy hoplites are better than spartan beceause you can't replenish spartans in othe rcities.

    Outcome is after few battles you have no army and you lose.

    But Heave hoplites need 3 tier of infantry building so when you capture 3 level or bigger city it is there usually.

  • Good strategy, and genius idea with putting the phalanxes up agains the edge of the map, so they don't get flanked, but you need other, thicker phalanxes to beat those cataphracts.... either that or send out your calvary earlier to eliminate them

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  • Do Spartans ever lose moral to the point that they run away?

  • Good!!!!!:)

  • you could of won this battle if you act quickly at 2min of that u should of send more troops in the middle knowing that its loosing little by little but you send the army to the middle too late and also you should of use the cavalry as your advantage knowing that they are fleeing.

  • I can defeat parthian army(eastern infantry and others) with only 2 squads of spartan army.

  • Corner Camper

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  • Oh cmon, gold vet spartans dont need any commanding. Just let them sit there and they decimate even elephants! Theres a reason why they cost 11,000 to make them in a custom match.

  • Bad idea to use your horses as last resort. SHould've used your archers to back your hoplites in melee

  • this is really really known technique

  • Hate line campers. That's the major problem with RTW, everyone only knows how to defend.

  • @ichibang15549 He is just a tactiful player.

  • The Spartand definately used archers. They may not have been Spartan but they still used them

  • You should have withdrew cav and archers and put all of the spartan hoplites in the corner very densly, that way their cav wouldnt get through. (they got in through the gaps in your line)

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  • Parthia has sucky infantry. Why go vs Rome?

  • @jellybob9 parthia may have sucky infrantry but lets be honest...does infranty matter when u have cataphracts ;)

  • more like how to max out spartans with gold gold gold and rape weak units that arent upgraded lol

  • I like greek ancient culture and history spatans of all, and from all the hype in the specials on history chan. the spartans in this game look retarded, I mean a robe and a bowl cap... come on

  • @jizmacdacusha thats why you get and make mods

  • @jizmacdacusha I agree. They did come out with a a new skin for the Spartans but I was really dissapointed when i saw how pathetic they made the Spartans look. They were supposed to look intimidating, not like they just got out of the shower

  • how do you lose with Cretan and Spartan spam? that's just sad lol what a noob.

  • Shouldn't have put them at the bottom of a hill

  • better title is: How to fail with spartans

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  • Corner camper :s

  • Place weak infantry on outside stronger next then archers in middle place cavalry in a hiding spot so If all goes to shit u just flank and cut em down

  • My position of choice would be a large hill with a 360 battle view and some strong infantry and cavalry

  • We're under ataaack!!

  • How is it possible you managed to have such casualties against the worst infantry ever stepped in the desert..

  • good vid... the spartan shields look like beer caps!

  • honestly this is a lame game :|

  • lol 4:17 " we're beeing ATTACK" ( twice) really you are beeing attacked I was wondering where all the corpses came from?

  • 4:20 purple mass looks like witch on a broomstick...

  • Spartans often employed slaves (Helots) to do the other roles, such as Archers and Cavalry. The horseman, however, rarely fought on horseback and usually only threw spears, javelins, rocks and such at the enemy. They were primarily scouts. As for siege weapons there were hardly any due to the lack of need for them. If a Spartan Army was in need of any type of siege weapon, they would usually make it on the spot.

  • wat a noob just to be funny I'd just sit my army out of range and watch you be a dumdum. only cpus and dum players would fight some1 doin this. and I see you also gave spartans all gold attacc,defense and experience and fight nearly an entire armies of militia troops you booboo dogg fight in the open and take a large number of them out then It'll be somethin to watch

  • umm easy setting ftw

  • you lost simply because you werent able to utilize the full potential of the spartans... 1st, you shouldnt corner camp... 2nd you should have formed a square, archers inside cavalry wreaking havoc outside... 3rd you should have rotated your spartans each time the enemy withdrew... 4th you should have fought on an inclined field where the enemy would come up to you... To be a spartan is to be always outnumbered...

  • @JonJonAdamson but spartans outnumbered a persian army it's just greeks made them sit that fight out. it was part of the greek counteroffensive

  • I've always been taking my cavalry, and hit the spearmen from the rear flank when they're distracted from behind, if you're attacking them, that is.

  • too gamey for me.

  • was this a recreation of the 300 battle?

  • Lol your army could have been 1/4 that size and still have won easily. Pontus doesnt really have what could be called a strong inf core.

  • @Gam3sA10t That's not Pontus you tard. its the Parthians

  • @rotvold Lol my mistake mr insulting. Parthians then. Either or since neither the Parthians nor Pontus has a strong infantry base. love how everyone single comment on this entire video is by nerds sizing up there Rome Total War muscles. Egadz

  • ok your use of the spartans is good and all if your pinned against the end of the map but if i was playing you i would just sit back with archers and take out all of your archers then pick of your spartans and what do you do if you are in the middle of the map or attacking then what would you do

  • spartans rape in general, i've managed to hold a large city without walls with just spartan hoplites against 7 hard roman armies (mixture of spqr and the 3 famalies). basicly i funneled them in the streets where i used the spartans as a blockade (since there are 2 main roads in the large city that lead into the sqaure, i used 10 units for each of the 2 roads). the kills were over 11,000; whilst casoulties were under 200 . it was a pretty simple wait and see type of thing

  • like the intro lol

  • 1. if you had an archer battle he wouldve destroyed you becouse you will lose shooting uphill.

    2. All he needed to do is charge wtih the eliphants and they wil go amok and shatter your lines. :D

  • You also stretched the phalanx too far.... no wonder you lost, theres like 2-3 rows of men, phalanxes are meant to be used with 5-6-7 rows of men in them, so if one falls, the guy behind him keeps the spear wall pointy. Its hard for cavalry to break through 7 rows of soldiers, due to the sheer amount of spears and manpower, while two roes is nothing, not enough men, not enough spears, not enough power.

  • Those are not tactics, thats just cornercamping with units that are Fully upgraded and fully promoted, talk about crap. Try that online and i would just bombard your general and archers with Heavy onagers. And if you came out and attacked my forces,i would let you take the front row then bring round the back and basically divide and conquer your armies piecemeal.

  • There is a way to beat the spearmen in Rome Total War (any of them, including Spartan Hoplites). You just have to attack different flanks if you can send your cavarly behing the flanges they are dead for sure, other way is to send archers first and kill anything they can, then back and send your melee units and then fire another round of arrows.

  • @cmorenor89 Thats why you have 2-3 rows of troops, to stop your cavalry from getting round, Phalanxes are the best units in the game when used properly. i generally have the flanks in non phalanx mode to make the troops more flexible. i then send in cavalry to harrow the archers while the main infantry force is in combat with my infantry. I also tend to use skirmishers to their full potential when possible to annoy your forces :P. Flanks are used waaaay too much by the AI.

  • @bobindashadows22

    You think that you would be able to get that much spartans with a normal money level? I'd kick your ass if you tried to fight me with greece

  • @TheRoopeKonna Well this guy didnt use normal money, all of his units are fully upgraded and promoted

  • i got a video with 2000 men vs 12000 enemy's wich have some elephants without lag can some gyes watch it it is really cool the enemy has legonaires and some normal persian units and archers and stuff they dont have worse units theyre upgraded and it was played on hard mode i also got a greek campaign of 43 parts and it stil contineus i concoured rome im now defeating egypt so if you want total war series on youtube watch my videos please!!

  • I was beginning to wonder why the number of corner campers on MP was growing. Youtube instruction videos on how to fail :(

  • @SithDarthMax

    corner campers are easy to take down with 2-3 arty units, and some missile units. dimms down the forces, so you can creat a weak spot in thier flanks, thuse destroy it with elite units allowing the more basic units to creep in. either that or the germanian beserkers put a decent hole in thier defence.

    as long as they're not elephant spammers...i seriously hate elephants

  • @lordarchron

    Sadly having played the game since release and having been in the Sith clan for four years i know that CWB rules do not allow artillery units, any non rush army should have at least 6 GG archers, and that elephants can be knocked out with a volley or two of flaming arrows. Berserkers are not a good unit to use against a corner camper at all and a three year old can figure out that elite units are required. Luckily only spartans can beat catas, and theyre too expensive at 15 K.

  • @SithDarthMax member his spartans are upgraded, catas and berserkers can get rid of them head on that is if you a messed up warlord/king and don't value their lives

  • @lordarchron Sadly arty isnt allowed on clan and tournament rules. Catas do not kill upgraded spartans. thats the only spear unit that can put a dent in cats without the Backspace+Alt attack trick.

    a zerk wont dent a phalanx. A volley or three from a Gold gold archer will amok elephants. If you really want to fuck a phalanx, charge it with a gold gold urban, give a run order behind the phalanx and watch em run trough the spears.

  • I laughed my ass off, you are serious?

  • LLLOOOLLL

  • *COUGH*noob*COUGH*

  • LOL noobish tactics and positioning....

  • What game is that.

  • u should have rushed froward with ur cavalry when they broke ur line and y u should have kept most of ur infantry in the 1st line

  • noob tatics and u lost this fight

  • @grando111 its not noob you know wana know why. One its just a deffence not an offence 2. the enemy troops will get tired and not fight good

  • EPIC BATTLE!!!

  • I actually quite enjoyed that though I must say it may have gone differently if you'd had most your troops in the first line and had your formations deeper, with melee deeper is always better, and I approve of the corner tactic, how else can you show Spartan's at their best without something resembling the hot gates.

  • cornenr camping how original

  • hahah corner camp noob lol

  • thats a formation for cowards ...

    offline and with spartans with full experience against countrymen without bows .

    If they had bows that would be fair

  • People need to research before they say anything if they did they would find that Spartan's, like other Greek Hoplites used archers. They may not have been spartan's themselves but their armies had them none the less.

  • @SilentRaeth1 glad someone with knowledge commented.. :)

  • @SilentRaeth1 ya.....the papal states were the most powerful military....

  • @SilentRaeth1 well actually the greeks used a LOT more of peltasts than archers!

    for example: battle of Marathon, battle of Thermoplae

  • @brammatie2 Yes they did, I was just generalizing. No one at the time mentioned anything about the usage of either.

  • lol....300

  • Can someone tell me what faction has the best archers in this game someone plz reply

  • @ddtank1

    Don't really know myself which are the best in the game but the archer's in the video, the Greek mercenary ones are very good, and the Macedonian archer's are good as well. The Greek and Macedonian archer's are my favorite to use and they seem to be the better ones in the game.

  • omg we're under attack by pink pyjamas!!!!!!!!

  • Haha Sparta existed only of brave soldiers and slaves, lots of slaves,

  • o no men in pajamas are attaching us

  • man tht is lagy

  • if u had 3 units of spartans which werent upgraded and werent in the corner and fought against parthia and won, that would be inpressive but wat u did was lame...

    THATS NOT HOW TO USE SPARTANS.... unless u r a really big noob

  • Wow nice tactic

  • Spartans Didnt use any Archers. They saw using the bow as a cowardly way to defeat you opponent as it was from a range.

  • @hazz21 wrong

  • @gleke HaaHaa Wrong ? Learn Your History You Idiot.

  • @gleke what do you mean by study sparta? like in a university? I want to take history but im not sure what to study. I hear different unis study different things, are the Spartans a fun history lesson? :3

  • @gleke you're weong not hazz21... they just had spartan hoplites!

  • @gleke no they think the bow as a cowrdly!

  • @gleke In fact hazz21 is right. Spartans never used archers, I dont know where did you get another info

  • @gleke I beg to differ they didn't use bow due to that they used only a spear and shield with a secondary weapon xiphos (swords)

  • @rece42 Actually spartans recruitted archers from other cities like Crete....

  • @WastedViking I never knew that :D

  • @rece42 Glad to be of service ^^

  • @hazz21 you just said wat they said on the film and most of it IS NOT REAL and spartans did hire mercenaries who were ranged fighters

  • @1234ppp5 I never said anything regarding any film. Can you read properly ? And yeah so their not Spartans. Their Mercenaries I never said they didn't hire mercenaries. Jesus Can You Read You Retard ?

  • lol cornercamp with the spartand and have the moxt crap infantery you can find in the game as opponent thats just sad

  • @sarangahe eh no

  • @sarangahe no they think the bow as a cowrdly!

  • @sarangahe spartand?

  • @sarangahe Thats Called Boredom my friend

  • they used archers, but they we'ernt Spartan, they would have been mercenaries or Helots so, yeah. They also had Pelopennesian allies who would have Peltast's and Archers withen their ranks :)

  • @jamesupjimmy finaly :) thanks I hope those guys will read this..

    vote this comment up!

  • @gleke i like how u protected thr flanks with the border

  • @jamesupjimmy no they think the is a cowaedly!

  • @jamesupjimmy no they think the bow as a cowrdly!

  • they used archers, but they we'ernt Spartan, they would have been mercenaries or Helots so, yeah

  • ha fail go in to the corner where its nice and safe XD

  • omg noob

  • This video should be titled "How to corner camp with Spartans". Lame.

  • you should how used royal pike men instead there's purple everywhere LOL :)

  • you should how used royal pike men instead

    

  • now try to fight romans as spartans :)

  • I didnt know spartans corner camped

  • corner defense dosn't work in Barbarian Invasion(about 50/50 chance) it depends on the units

  • to someone saying bad things about me

    they use javelins

  • lol dude the only way this would work is if you chose the army for him or he wasn't expecting to fight hoplites (or if you were fighting the computer which is stupid anyways)

  • corner camping much?

  • THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!11111

  • how do i install a mod for this game

  • I think the spartans are overpowerd in this game

  • the spartans must have shat themselves when they saw those amount of troops... damn!?

  • Spartans did NOT have archers, just like they didn't have walls on the city of sparta. They relied on their men and also brought greeks allies and some helots to the fights. And I'm not based on the 300!

  • @dpsantos1994 what they had was small units of skirmichers with throwing spears

  • CORNER CAMP

  • How not to fight with the Spartans... :'(

  • @KillSwitchEngage0101, You are so right! And I'm retarded because I have to say: No, the spartans didn't have archers. Their warriors were just well equipped and well trained. Because of their phalanx formation, technique and good armour and broad shields they could withstand any volley of arrows any enemy might shoot at them without any serious loses. They where true warriors! And I could kill the guy who made the movie 300!? Historically it's all bullcrap!

  • coool

    

  • No, Don't be foolish. Spartan army had archers. They weren't the Spartan elite but the ones who were half citizens. They also had allies that ofcourse used archers. Just 'cause a Holywood movie says that Leonidas hated archers doesn't mean he didn't see their use.

  • @shariItachi i think i know what ur getting at but i think u worded it wrong. The Spartans THEMSELVES will never BE an archer (because of their prejudices about being a macho and stuff) but if allies from other Greek cities, or any non-Spartan contingent, will provide archers then they would use them. The only thing that a Spartan would not want is a Spartan archer.

  • this tactics is gay it ruins the game...its practically a box formation. if it had a army i could break that easy man you simply hold you rcavalry back with some infatry and focus most your infatry at a certain point. the line wont hold even with reserves. you will be forced to either give up your flanks to aid your centre or your centre or wherever im attacking crumbles. if you aid then i use my cav to flank your men along with infantry support easy win

  • you could have picked a bridge,a better vantage point to use spartans.

  • this should be called how not to fight with the spartans

  • if i were playing as parthia in this battle and i had archers i would target as many units as possible with ym archers and fire until they all ran outta ammo then used all my infantry and focused them all on one part of there line and use sheer numbers to break through . :)

  • Congrats, you won withe the spartans.

    But could you won the spartans?

  • Nope they didnt have archers

  • should have made one smaller stronger line would never broken

  • hey gleke spartans never used archers!!!!! read the history

  • on the real history

    spartan dont  use archers

  • lol ofc they had archers -_-

  • @gleke actually spartans didnt use archers( in history not in RTW), only in RTW you control greece not spartans so you get to use archers