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  • i bought this game cause of you, your a real good player you know that.

  • can use war elphants

  • I love the soundtrack to this game

  • i just hate that chartago dosent have any regular archers!

    just some fucking slingers!

  • very very .... VERY good job man!! that is freaking amazing how you move your whole phalanx around-which is very heavy and inflexible... just like a line of roman legionaries. and you have beaten the totally superior enemy phalanx with your unfavorable historical phalanx which is again xD soo epic!! man you really got it, you are THE master of masters xDD

  • Nice as allways

  • what is your standard army picking for Carthage?

  • More battles like this plzzz

  • i liked the element of surprise very tacticful

  • I studied Hannibal and you fought this battle almost exactly like Hannibal fought the battle of Trebia. Inferior troops and numbers, but used the element of surprise and the Numidians. SICK

  • I think it is Mago, not Majo...

  • how manny denari do you use

  • awesome show of tactics

  • So you ever gona do a Rome TW video agian Prince? Or you gona stick to Napoleon? :)

  • it says on his progile itll be a constant feature,so eventually there will be a RTW

  • Awesome ambush. Brilliant =)

  • how did you make the numidian cavalry to charge on melee battle without have wasted all their javelins??? At the moment of the surprise...thnx

  • @DARKX3NTURION holding alt key and right cliking makes missile troops go melee /charge

  • is there any book on hannibals tactics, or his life?

  • It depends. In the "History of the people" , in the book about romans, you have loads of text about hannibal. I have all the books..

    Unfortunately, the book is over 10 years old and the language is finnish.

  • ah the element of suprise, has won many great battles.

    nice one ;)

  • dude nice hiding man you need to teach me a little

  • That was a HECK of micro... Congrats man. This must have been the best gave I've seen of you.

  • Am I wrong, or Mago was Hanniblas brother? He was together with Hannibal in the infantry ranks in Cannae I believe

  • He was his brother, i can't remember if he was also his cavalry commander or like you said, fellow infantry.

  • Yes, he was a cavalry commander, as we see in the battle of Trebia.

  • Yes, mago vas hannibal's younger bro.

    He also ordered him in the battle of Trebia to flank the romans with his cavalry.

  • all hail hanibal and the numidians

  • awesome battle

  • How do you hide your troops?

  • they hide automatically when in forest

  • Which is the most expensive and best unit in this game?

  • So anyway the point of this commenting is that Carthages historical troops are underpowered. Sacred Band are semi feasible troops for Carthage. Carthage did hire greek troops sometimes and this would have been hoplite troops. Lybian spearmen and Poeni spearmen in real life were very tough very well trained troops. Also Numidian cavalry was also very well trained cav. They were very light cav but the could outride almost anyone.

  • did carthage actually have a sacred band? i mean, i know about the theban sacred band, but i'm not sure whether there was a carthaginian sacred band.

  • There was a Sacred Band in Carthage. They were wealthy youth of nobility trained young to be Hoplite type soldiers. So Sacred Band is feasible for Carthage just not common place in their armies. Most Carthaginian armies would have been mercs but Carthaginian citizens often served as cavalry troops and officers.

  • thx for the info!

  • Also Carthage would definately have had access to archers. This is another failing the game gives to carthage that should be rectified. Syrian Archers would have been available to hire for the use of Carthage. That is one thing most people may not know about carthage. Almost their whole army was mercenaries. They were high quality troops and tough in battle. Why do you think Hannibal was able to beat the Romans while out numbered so many times?

  • You played any mods? Pretty accurate portrayals in Europa Barbarorum.

  • Nice use of a historical Carthaginian Army. I hate though how the game under powered the Iberian infantry. Iberians weren't elite by any means, but they could hold their own against hastati or princpes. Most of the time Hannibal was out numbered so his Iberian type infantry couldn't stand against the Romans directly. It wasn't necesarily due to quality though.

  • dude but the result screen did not come up got any sugessions

    but still you truly rock the house and you trash anybody

  • hail princemacedon

  • you are a history god and a RTW god

  • probably Alexander would win .I mean Hanibal was a good comander in open field...but he was a much better ambusher...almos all his grat victorys were well planed ambushes.Alexander would probably take him out.

  • Also Alexander's troops were arguably of better quality and training.

  • i woud love to see hanibal vs alexander.but i think that alexander will win :) he is the best :p

  • dude this will get you blocked in about 1 minute, do you realize "criticizing Alexander in any way will get you blocked"

    besides romans were one dimmensional at the time and alexander faced many different opponents such as indian elephanta, barbarians, and persians

  • I swear to god if you keep playing like you are you will be known as the 'KingofMacedon'

  • i think he is the KING lol u wonna fight the KINGofCathage i dont play online yet as i dono how XD lol but ive played with my friends by connectin computers and a pro with carthage POM id kick ur arse lol

  • Extremely impressive fight, the way you hid that portion of your cav and struck the manoevuring companion cavs was awesome, always keeping the numerical advantage in every part of the battle. Awesome micro with those phalanx units also dude! 5/5

  • POM ur so wrong head of the cav was Hannibals brother he died when he had 2 fight the roman cav back at all cost

  • nice didnt think you were gonna make it carthage all the way

  • carthage rule lol hannaball barca XD

  • Nice maneuvering. At the first I thought you were about to be doomed. Impressively fought, man

  • Back when i played RTW Carthage was my favorite Faction

  • Im just curious, did armies of around this era fight in armour and use weapons like they do in this game? or is it exagerated, for example the ranks/lines they use, the colours/clothing, would battles look like this back then only on a larger scale?

  • too general of a question(s)

    This is a videogame BASED on fact, but it's not an accurate portray of fact. Some of the armor is right, but some of it isn't. Too general of a question, man.

  • @PrinceofMacedon hey PoM who do u think would win 1 on 1 battle alexander the great or hannible?

  • do u ever use the SPQRR romans

  • obviously

  • Must of shat himself when you surprise raped his calvary

  • We both had fun with the game ;)

  • i was suprised a lot when they came out of the woods but i still almost pulled it off. I made the mistake of chasing his cavalry when i shud have taken otu the infantry force =p

  • What do you think about Hannibal? Some people are low enough to call him a "one trick pony" or a "strategic idiot", even saying that he should have never made the Alpine march.

  • He was good, but he was indeed one-dimensional. He fought against an opponent who never changed his tactics, and who had an army deficient of cavalry. It's no wonder that he lost several siege battles. Also, the one time that he fought against an opponent without a cavalry advantage, he lost (Zama). He also lost a naval battle for the Successors. He was good, but he looked extra-good because of the poor opposition he fought against.

  • Wasn't he always also plagued by bad luck at crucial moments? Alexander and Caesar, on the other hand, seems to always have fortune on their side. Not that take anything away from their greatness, just that chance had a great part to play in everyone's success.

  • Plagued by bad luck?  He was plagued by poor opponents. You must've been reading Dodge.

  • Hannibal's infamous elephants were useless eventually. They won him many battles but eventually the romans learned to part their phalanx to let the elephants through the gap. Then the legionairres would spear the trapped elephants to death.

  • first-sorry for my english :)

    you cant say that Hannibal was just good :).One-dimensional, even worse:)). He is one of the greatest generals in history,only Alexander and Caesar(in his time period)can be compared to him, and "de gustibus non est disputandum".

    I would only like to point out few arguments, Hannibal-Alexander in comparison,not in any way trying to disrespect Alexander(but since you seem to know much about him..)

    :

  • 1.)Alexander commanded macedon army as a macedon king, so he had has troops loyal to him not only becouse his personal valor but also becouse of his bloodline.

    Hannibal had army consisted of carthaginians,celto-iberians,g­auls,numidians,greeks.. and only his personal authority to keept them thogether.His army never had a mutiny unlike Alexanders.

    2.)You said that Hannibal had lame opponents, but did you ever considered that he made them look bad?

  • Scipio brothers did far better in Iberia against Hasdrubal and Hanno..And you cant say that Nero or Fabius were week opponents. On the other hand, Darius was no military genius.

    3.)Hann.had inferior(quality) army than the romans, Alexander had superior army than the persians. Except Immortals and eastern heavy cav they had little to show beside numbers. I supose we all know how powerfull was the roman army

  • 4.)at the time of Alex.attacak persia was for sime time in decline,Romas were on the rise. After victory over Hann.they didnt have a good opponent and took over Mediteranian relatively easy, ashaming macedon and seleucid army(but that werent armys as good as alex.-not to think that im trying to imply that they would won that easy or even won in the battle with alex.phalanx)

  • was it true that alexander the great killed his own father king philip or was philip assasinated?

  • King Philip II was assassinated.

  • do you need a powerful pc to play this game?? love this vid btw thanks :D

  • Not really. My computer sucks.

  • hey how do you play medieval 2 without it freezing every second? cause apparently you just said you comp sucks. mines alright but it lags every second.

  • thanks prince :D

  • nice battle

  • Thanks, man, and nice profile pic

  • nice battle!

  • Thanks, man.

  • como el taductor ha traducido falta lo que queria decirte espero que tu puedas entender mejor lo que quiero decirte español lo que pienso es que usas muy bien la caballeria y los arqueros pero con la infanteria normalmente no te complicas mucho y que si usaras tacticas más complicadas podrias ser el mejor del rome uno de los mejores sino lo eres ya.

    espero que puedas traducir lo que digo ya que con el ingles no me manejo muy bien.

    un saludo

  • que?

  • Hey prince, awsome battle, id love to fight you again, but i know you have alot of requests so i dont wana bug you, but if you ever have time and feel like it, send me a message or something =)

    - Flint

    Oh yeah, and did you ever get the Pivot program you asked me about?

  • It's now really hard for me to play anyone at RTW (unless they join my game when I host one). But we'll see.

    And I got so busy with other stuff that I never got around to trying Pivot out yet. One day...

  • Prince, what are your PC specs?

  • Why do you ask? Everytime I answer this, I get some overly-obnoxious comment in return. So I want to hear a good reason why you want to know.

  • I'm not here to be obnoxious. If I was i simply wouldn't post. I just wanted to know what your RAM is. Sorry I asked...

  • I don't what my RAM is, but I use a GeForce 6200.

  • Dude awesome battle, perfect hannibal tactics :)

  • Thanks, Achilles =)

  • Carthage is one of my favorite factions, but i do not use the elites usually. I usually use 2 or 1 Sacred Band and about 5 or 4 Poeni Infantry.Good Battle by the way lol.

  • You mean like the army I used in this video? lmao

  • No,I didn't count ur units,thats just my usual army LOL lmao

  • I love your battles can always try to see them I would like to know your opinion hacerca to what I said and I was close to the truth or I am wrong. PLEASE ME LIKE A ONE DAY check ITEM THAT YOU STILL SAFE TO won me JAJAJAJAJA A greeting

  • hello prince of Macedon, I have seen many of your battles and I would like to give my opinion I think that a bug you have and if it would be best resolved at least three best players in the Rome total war believe that the use of cavalry and archers as we say here in Spain "de puta madre" but with the Infantry are good but could be better if you used tactics more complicated because they usually do not greatly complicated the infateria at least that is what I find.

  • I have no clue what you're saying. All I can understand is that you're saying I use simple tactics? If so, then you better prepare yourself for a mental beatdown.

  • He wasn't guiding my army. He was being pessimistic. Initially, I thought he saw something that I didn't, but it was just him panicking. Luckily, I stuck with the gameplan (that I set), and we won because of it. I'm the one who said bring the anti-cav infantry, and use them to beat his cav in the end. And that's exactly what happened.

    Furthermore, I'm one of the top players online. I wouldn't lose to you. You're just a Campaign-Only Player who has to use Cheats to win.

    Keep dreaming.

  • Prince wud own u. u r just a cheating campaign player. tactics don't win battles in RTW manuvering does. if he hadn't got his phanlanx out of the way of mine i could have rolled right on through. i made a mistake with my cav which lost the attle. if he had just followed tactics i would have steamrolled him. Prince has tactics and micro thats why he wins. tactics aren't enough to beat prince! u sound like JOMEN lol

  • He's just a punk. Jomen would AnimeFreak2178 easily. No question about it.

  • If you have to cheat in campaign mode then you would get your ass handed to you by Prince. The random crap that happens in campaign mode is meant to help you do things like manuever and micro better and, more importantly, have you make the best of what you got. Campaigns would be boring if you got the elite units from the start.

  • Don't bother with that scumbag.

  • your so good at this game i want to fight you lol

  • Awesome, so there's now over 310 people online who want to play me.  I've already played 100. But now, this is getting ridiculous lol

  • dude, i want 2 play u again, maybe this time not on a map with trees :p. u get a lot of requests so i dont care when.

  • lol ok, well, I think the best thing to do is just find me by chance online (just like this game).

  • Nice ambush prince!

    So are you playing RTW again? or just doing commentaries on old battles?

  • I think he just does commentaries on videos he likes though im not sure :p

  • Wow, old news...I've been playing for more than a month now. You can see that from the battle #'s. I label all of my battles. When I said I stopped playing, I was in the 1,200's. As you can see, I'm already in the 1,300's which means these are new.

    Keep in mind that I'm not playing as often as I used to.

  • kuul

  • thanks

  • ITS A TRAP!

  • yup

  • Nice battle prince!

    I think even Hannibal would have been impressed by that ambush.

  • Thanks for that =)

  • good battle like alwayz man!! -majorApocaylpe

  • Thank you, Major =)

  • Great battle. Love the Ambush.

  • Thanks, Igor =)

  • that was a carthaginian gang bang on the right flank

  • Indeed =)

  • Is Medieval 2 better then this? or is Rome total war better?

  • Depends on your period prefrence. M2 is newer, but both games are great. Personaly i prefer Rome. :)

  • Please stop asking me questions more than once. This is the 2nd question you've asked me where I responded twice already, and yet you're still here asking the same question.

  • My mistake, bad memory :(

  • wow dude great tactics! great ambush ! and great victory !

  • Thanks, man =)

  • Wow this one of the best battles, never seen anybody effectively hide troops and spring an ambush.

    gg

  • Thanks, man ;)

    By the way, I have several ambush battles.

  • great game ;)

    is it me or is it satisfying to see an enemy standard bearer die?

  • The proud macedonian standard falls!

  • I rarely see it for some reason lol

  • Great battle man! I was just wondering, is there any battle wich you have uploaded to Youtube that you have actually lost?

  • Yes, actually, I have quite a few losses posted. The reason you don't see many losses is because I don't lose often.

    I'm the real thing - I don't fake my videos.

  • What recording software do you use?

    Great vid 5/5

    Check out my rtw vids

  • Thanks, man, I use FRAPS. And I'll check out your vids in a bit.

  • That surprise attack in the back of his companions worked better then I would have thought possible. Good Video

  • Thanks, man, it was thrilling just waiting to see if the ambush would work or not.

  • really good prince! 5*stars

  • Thanks, man, glad you liked it ;)

  • nice battle prince,i am really impressed,i award you with the title SHAMRAT(king of kings in my native language)is usually refered to a king who has defeated atleast ten kings.if these battles were real by now u would have been the ruler of atleast 1/3 of the world..great video

  • Thank you, friend, for the title. ;)

    And what is your native language if I might ask?

  • sham rat? lol...sounds like me.

  • Nice Prince that was so beast..inferior army in every way and you still pull it out. and great tactics and micro all around great battle

  • Thank you, man, glad you liked it.

  • haha almost at battle # 1337 :p

  • lol nice

    I didn't show battle #1337, but it was a Macedonian victory over a Seleucid player.

    1337

  • nice work man, excellant work with the ambush tactic

  • Thanks, man, glad you enjoyed that.

  • i just started watching these yesterday, so I've seen 25-50, I like how you use more tactics than others(especially the guy who used the noob circle)

  • Thank you.

  • Holy shit that was amazing!

  • Thanks, man, glad you liked that =)

  • In most of ur battles you always look down, but in the end its you who reigns supreme

  • You mean I look depressed? lol

    Anyway, thanks for the comment

  • Worded that wrong, i meant to say the odds look against you

  • Oh, I see. Good, because I wasn't depressed lol

  • Hm. Interesting tactic. Personally, I probably would have put the Sacred Band on the wings and the Iberians in the center, but your strategy worked out in the end. One of the things I find more interesting about your videos is that you talk about stuff in the background. In other people's videos, you just watch random men slug it out and have no idea what's going on.

  • The initial deployment didn't matter because I moved everything once the battle started to break the enemy's phalanx. Also, you shouldn't expect your Iberians to fight in a centre-role against Pikes. They'll die really fast. That's why it didn't matter where I deployed them. I was going to move regardless.

  • i love the hannibal accuracey... the ambush and troop selection. hes one of my favorited generals of that time.

    keep the videos up, they rock!

  • Thanks, man, I'm glad you enjoy Military History as well =)

  • Out of all of your battles I think that I may have enjoyed this one the most. It was really quite amazing to see you win the battle against superior troops, that you honestly should have lost, by using a combination of surprise and flexibility. Bravo good sir bravo

  • Thanks, man, I appreciate that.

    And have already watched all 160+ of my videos? If so, then I'll be uploading my next video in 2 days. Thanks again.

  • Unless I missed a few accidentally I have watched all of your videos with voice commentaries. I have also watched several of your forays into other games although I do prefer your TW series games.

    I really enjoy your commentary. It is very good. The high quality option makes videos worth watching too. You are one of the few people who I find really worth watching for TW games on Youtube.

    In addition to that your attitude (read: not an ass) really impressed me too. Thanks for the videos.

  • Thank you, Tempest, for your comment. I respect my opponents if they are civilized. But trash-talking gamers who disrespect others get no respect from me. So I won't be so kind to gamers who don't act like humans.

  • good game very well done micro with the inftray i wish i can see the infantry part that would be more exiting :(

  • Well, I tried to show every aspect of the battle, but I focused on the ambush because that was one of the trademarks of Hannibal.

  • well i still get the case for medieval 2 would the cd key be there?

  • It would be either on your manual or a separate piece of paper. It will CLEARLY say "CD-Key" so there won't be an issue of what the CD-Key is.

  • well iv never played medieval 2 online because i lost the disk, is that why its not working because i never played it on that version

  • That's why I first said it should work if Medieval II worked.

    You need to register for an account at gamespyid

    And if you've never typed in your CD-Key, then you're screwed. Because in order to type in the CD-Key for Medieval II, you need to re-install the game (which you can't).

  • Your too gd, one question i have the kingdoms expansion but i cant go online for sum reason but i made my account with game spy, whats up with that?

  • Thanks, man. Also, Kingdoms uses the same exact CD-Key as Medieval II. So there shouldn't be a problem.

  • well when i try to connect it just wont let me, i put in the cd but just wont work! lol

  • But you've never had trouble connecting with Medieval II? Just with Kingdoms?

  • Patman, when i go on youtube, that's the ONLY thing i look for. I like watching Princes videos more then playing the game.

  • haha thanks, but yo