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  • i hate it when people have like 15 archers cuzz all they do is sit there and shoot u

  • the cavalry just went to work on his whole army. this was amazing

  • bridge battle s are a bit dumb, the makers should have made it a bit better

  • NICE work

  • Bridge battles are so annoying... the first part is just archers exchanging fire for an hour, then no one wants to move cause if they do they'll get pwned.. and we wait, letting our archers just take more shots, then our archers run out of ammo... then nothing happens except waiting and shifting. Then I quit, it's just so time-consuming and pointless.

  • @Recruitsoldier just go through the water, its not only the bridge u can cross, in BI u can also svim...taking the initiativ and being the attacker is often a good thing as you can do what you want and and thereby knows what will happen, ur opponent dont.

  • @ptccashmoneymaker Yah, and guess what happens if I take the initiative? My opponent puts a gold/gold phalanx right at the end of the crossing, and crossing a bridge or water makes your army deorganized, so they're very easy to repel. Meanwhile, they spam arrows with their ten units of archers, and I can't do anything but hide and wait.

  • @Recruitsoldier depends on who you are playing as and against - as said urself, wait till no more arrows, and then attack with cavalry - if u r fast enough u can just run in the water around them, and wait for them to fully restore to be "fresh", eventaully elephants and CATAPULTS will make short work of a phalanx formation...even if ur elephants dies like flies, they will take up so much space that the phalanx will be disorderly...but i would go for catapults --- why? beats archers :)

  • @ptccashmoneymaker This is exactly why I don't like bridge battles. I don't want to wait ten minutes while our missiles duke it out. Onagers suck, if they use flaming ammo, they miss 95% of the time, and if they use regular ammo, they only kill three guys per hit. If I use archers against his infantry, then his archers will make short work of mine.

  • @Recruitsoldier changed ur army layout, change faction - u just saw pom doing it, and it depends on ur opponent. dont be so negative be more positive, maybe ur onagers will have a lucky such. ^^

  • @ptccashmoneymaker The thing is, I'm not PoM, or even a good tactician. As you saw, he made it across the water and caught the enemy off-guard - which is taking the initiative, as you said. But what if the enemy had put some Royal Pikes at the end of the river crossing? PoM's units would be ripped to pieces. He would have to wait for the enemy to cross. That's like, the one thing you can do at that bridge battle - wait at the river crossing, or cross it yourself.

  • @Recruitsoldier Ahah, so now u finally said it urself. Its about skill, u dont have to be PoM in order to win a brigde battle...u can win against the ai, and it really isnt THAT hard to win - as said use other troop types and cross from the river banks instead of using the bridge, that will give u 3 choices and u can try attack from all 3 sides...i would go with superior missile troops, to force the other to attack...and if he/she didnt attack i would win...simple and easy. :) but a bit boring

  • @ptccashmoneymaker The whole freaking bridge battle is a matter of moving or not moving. That's why it's boring. Stay on your side, and get shot down, or rush to the other side, and get sliced down?

    That's barely strategy to me. Also, like Prince, I never play against the AI, except in campaigns, where bridge battles hardly happen. And the AI always just rushes all their guys over the bridge, then I surround them at the other end, then I chase the chain-routed units with cav. Boring.

  • @Recruitsoldier Ok---as u can see PoM just won a brigde battle by attacking...so its possible, and hard, and i found them very interresting, but thats a matter of taste - i like a challenge, some just dont.

  • @ptccashmoneymaker You think I don't like challenges? That's the reason I don't play the AI. It's way too easy. Bridge battles aren't challenging to me, it's just time consuming. If the enemy is smart enough to put two pikes at the end of each crossing, I can only shoot for ten minutes. If the enemy isn't, I can rush over there and wage a real battle, provided he is too slow to put another pike where I'm crossing. It's really just a two-option fight.

  • @Recruitsoldier now thats what i mean, u dont think out of the box - i just said there r more than just a brigde - u r way too focused on it...let the enemy come to u by going away from the brigde hiding in the forest, go to the sides and cros u can cross the river 3 places included the brigde...so 2 pikes isnt enough...besides have better pikes and u win...for u there is 2 options for me theres alot, thats the diffrence and i respect that.

  • @ptccashmoneymaker You don't make any sense anymore. You think I'm not aware there are two crossings? The only difference that makes is some people don't know there are two, and some do. If they do, they'll be sure to put a pike in both places. If I'm lucky and they don't, I can cross, provided he doesn't move a pike there before my infantry gets over. In the meantime, he'll shoot my units with arrows, and then it's just a matter of waiting.

  • @ptccashmoneymaker This is basically what I CAN do - If he puts two pikes at the two crossings, I have almost no chance. If I shoot his pikes, he'll shoot my archers. If I use artillery, he'll just move back, and if I attempt to cross, he'll move forward. If there is only one pike at the bridge, I can attempt to cross with the other crossing. If he gets another pike there, however, I can't do anything. I can also wait until he crosses, but in the meantime he'll shoot, and then we wait.

  • @Recruitsoldier whatever u say so, u just saw PoM doing it...nough said

  • @ptccashmoneymaker I didn't say I didn't WIN bridge battles, I said I don't like them. I didn't say that eventually, the part where our forces finally manage to fight each other on one side of the bridge, bringing in the real strategy, never happens, I just said I really hate waiting so long while the archers shoot each other, and while both of us stand still waiting for the other to move.

  • He must hate those archers xD

  • dude that was the best battle in the world omggggggg.

  • Why low graphics settings?

  • i would of sent a good size portion of my army to block u off if it was me

  • oh wth, i never saw that little path

  • im your big fan lol

  • wow...i dont want to serve under you IRL...

  • I bought the game today and now I have to save for a new video card b4 I can play it

  • 2nd battle of Hydaspes- lol

  • this reminds me of the hydaspas

  • @dsettleascii Was that the battle with the Indians Alexander had? The Hydaspas

  • Hey i just got rome, and playing macedon vs rome is hard sometimes, my phalanx just dont do enough damage to urbans.

  • Hey prince there's a saying from General Patton, "Hold 'em by the nose and kick 'em in the nuts" and that's exactly what u did with ur phalanx and cav- great vid 5 stars

  • me i just prefer to let my opponent cross then as they are forming ride in with all i have and destroy them lol

  • Wow. He won on a bridge map with a pike army, against a more balanced legionary army. That's pretty skillfull.

  • good luck rome XD

  • if he would of guarded that part, i dont think it'll b a "dumb bridge battle"...most likely a bloody bridge battle like all the others. bridges r for campers like me XD

  • You played this how Alexander The Great crossed the river to India.He's main force of 22,000 men where horassing the Indian commander.And Alexander was in the other side crossing. :P

  • wow well played :)

  • that strat was used by Alexander the great agenst the indians

  • This is one of your best battles.

  • something is rong you didn't lose youre general

  • 1:He doesn't want any noobs screaming "PoM, PoM!"

    2:So many impersonators already using his name

    3:Privacy

    Just read his channel, it's there in the FAQ.

  • so he dosent get harassed online

  • Phalanxs ftw.

  • nice battle prince u pwned him

  • fashionably late lmfao wow prince

  • lol i would hate to be one of ur peltasts

  • You just perfectly OWNED his units,btw,if your defending as MACEDON putting pikes in the only entrance is epic.

  • Bridge battles suck!! You need massive open spaces and differant terrain like the Egyption Dunes(or something like that)

  • nice battle you smoked him

  • nice battle

  • yet again you win a battle that looked to be lost...niced job prince

  • I wonder how fun rome total war would be with a macedonian campaign... greek states have the maybe worst cavalry in the game

  • there is one, its an expantion called alexanders conquest or something......it you want to play macedania in caimpaign, you can just unlock it.

  • actually you can't, you have to get into the game files. Already did that though :D although I'm giving a try to new factions to experience their troops (get ready for online battles). Seluceds are damn hard I must have like 1 and a half banners of egyptians heading towards my capital, and with invading parthian and armenian armies. Hopefully I'll get out of that

  • what's with low quality video?

  • i like the way you ended the video. "I'll never do a bridge battle again.

  • this is kinda of like the battle of the hydapsus river.

  • dude a 8:05 got pwned

  • wow the peltos crossing the bridge was really epic

  • i love Bridge and Fortress battles its so much fun

  • Today when i was playing a 2v2 on this bridge map or something close to this map with a bridge i thought about that there has to be another crossing way instead of the bridge and my teammate was throwing his units away and he wouldn't listen to me or the enemy who was trying to tell him to throw his pilla against the spartans blocking the bridge end.

  • why do never your enemy bring spears? like i dont have the game but even i understand that a sword unit. will be crushed by a pike unit , right?

  • romans dont have pike units

  • Usally the pikemen would crush the swordmen if they pikes were in a phalanx if not then its a pretty fair battle.

  • greek calv vs archers = total domination :)

  • I feel sorry for your opponents o_O

  • lol at about 6:21 the guy said "fear mats" xD

  • it's more like fear maths

  • you really like that hammer and anvil dont you :p

  • "Kets rush forward and start this party" :)

  • Why is it that a lot of people on these videos thumb down things where a guy tells a joke, like Milasz303, or where they give tips, or say that the enemy should have etc etc?

    I have a feeling i'll get thumbed (joke!)

  • i was soo tempted to thumb u right there lol.

  • you are a RTW god!!!

  • lol fashionably late...

  • " it sucks being a pelstast right now , but there you go!"- lol jokes

  • Huh, March 13th is my birthday. Now I can add "PrinceOfMacedon's last bridge battle" to my list of epic event on my birthday.

  • you have A LOT of videos don't you ??? O.O

  • hahaha wow u fought that battle on my bday nice

  • man i love ur vids! ur hell good at this game :D this one's my fav!

  • he should have target your general with the archers

  • it wouldn't have made a difference. I almost always lose my general, but I almost always win all of my battles anyway.

  • hmm, id play you if i could play online, youd be a good fight.

  • @PrinceofMacedon dosent it get boring winning all the time?

  • Dang. Outgunned, outskilled, and outnumbered and you still managed to pull it off. Nice.

  • You got everything right except for "outskilled" lol

  • @PrinceofMacedon little bit of an insult by him haha

  • u own half of the rtw vids on youtube lol

  • i didnt know you could go through the water like that

  • Only if it's shallow water

  • lol, the greek cavalry crashed the party... nice battle.

  • Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

  • NO $HIT. I am SAYING CAVALRY! Would you like me to say both words back-to-back so you can hear how I pronounce both words? I pronounce them differently. FFS

  • they're the same word stupid

  • i dont know if anyone has asked this yet but are you gonna get Empire total war....by the way your really good

  • Thanks, man, and I will buy Empires. But I don't plan to play it much because I HATE the time period. I'll probably play Empires LESS than Medieval II.

  • told

  • ive watched a couple of your videos and your awesome bro...kinda a random question but how good are you with factions like parthia?

  • Any Eastern Faction is strong.  So it's easy to own with them.

  • ok for some reason i cant play so good online with them but im ok with greeks and macedon and romans just not easterners

  • nice fight m8!!! ur reactions r amazing and i didnt even notice the way u apparently said calvalry wrong so fuck off FRjohn lol nice game ne way!!

  • Thanks, man, glad you enjoyed =)

  • way to go man i love your vids you've gave me very helpful hints on your vids thx ur vids are great!!!

  • Thanks, man, glad you find them useful ;)

  • beautiful, loved those tactics ^^

  • Thanks, man, this one was tricky ;)

  • that was a nice battle i like the way u use entire units as diversions poor guys :)

  • Thanks, man =)

  • dude i really dont see a problem with the way u say calvary unless i missed somthing anyway i thought that dude had u man but somehow u got ur calvary through there and got behind him.. nice job but if i were him i would have put a calvary unit in the woods and came in behind you pikes....

  • The guy is trolling me (with different names). Plus a lot of people have no respect for the way different people talk. If I said "cavalry" and "calvary" next to each other, people would hear the difference.

    Anyway, glad you enjoyed the battle.

  • Nice fight O.o I thought when you crossed the bridge with your 2 pikes that you were doomed hehe awesome maneuvers ;)

  • Yeah, some of that wasn't pretty lol

  • LOL when you kill the enamy general it looks like execution.

    I rely like the bridge battles becouse if you are defender and you have got phalanx you lost 100 and kill 1000,it is pretty

  • your opponent is probably dumb then

    a phalanx on a bridge battle isnt always the smartest, especially with no CWB, if you catch my drift...

  • C-A-V-A-L-R-Y!!!

  • I AM saying "cavalry," R-E-T-A-R-D. Open your ears. I'm sure a troll of your magnitude has very large ears.

  • Macedon, i've watched this video about 6 times and you are definitely saying CALVARY. I don't know why you're getting so defensive when people correct you on this. Instead you should be thanking them because now you won't sound dumb when you make another video.

  • Hi, troll, how many new accounts must you make?

    Furthermore, would you like me to say "Cavalry" and "Calvary" so that you can hear the difference between how I say each word? There's a big difference.

    I know how I talk. The only person who sounds dumb is you since you're making the mistake of thinking everyone talks like you.

    Make a new account please because my YouTube page needs more hits (even from desperate dirtbags like you).

  • no one cares frjohn we can all understand what prince is saying because he is very clear and what matters with this vid is that it is entertaining, that he shown alot of tactics and that it inspires people to get the game.

  • If you'll notice, FRJohn, is a troll who has made multiple accounts all saying the same message.

  • Does it matter though its just the way he says it. I have a new york accent, and dont say most of my r's you gonna bitch about that to

  • Thanks, man ;)

  • anytime

  • Teasing the poor archer when he's dying "arghhhh", how heartless. ^^

  • Those archers offended the Greek gods ;)

  • 3:12 You know one of those peltasts was thinking "this is some serious bullshit!"

  • "We didn't sign up for this!" lol

  • No crap, dumbass.

  • You are the best player i have ever seen in that game. And in a few other games too.

    I really enjoyed that video.

    (Sorry if my english is bad. I am from Austria^^)

  • Thanks, man, glad you enjoyed =)

  • how do u geet online at rome ? i cant get online at the servers=(

  • Check out my profile.

  • Yeah in these stupid bridge battle you have to decide in the beginning if youre goin to be offensive or defensive but now he had 9 more archer units than you so i guess you didnt have a choice really. Great manouvers.

  • Thanks.

  • ok i did not se it

  • I personally like my online games to be historically accurate. That's why I hoped you'd win, Prince of Macedon. The other guy not only had 10 archers, he also mixed pre and post marian units, which in my world = heresy. Also, he didn't have any cavalry, and being something of a cavalry fanatic myself I'd have butchered him for that. Then again, you pretty much butchered him anyway!

  • Glad you enjoyed.

  • did yhe arhcers fier a singel shote

  • They fired many times.

  • 1o archers not bad vs phalanx but hi didnt gard them well.he left gust one legionari colhord to gard them if i was ill put 2 at least

  • He guarded them well.  I just moved too fast for him.

  • 10 Archers is almost impossible to beat (working alongside regular troops). But it's also BANNED online. Just because I made it look easy doesn't mean it was easy.

  • yeah... the Roman guy's unit choices sucked. I mean, 10 archers?? I've fought dozens of online battles, and I find that 99% of the battle is decided when choosing units and deploying them. (That's why I really annoy opponents by taking 10-15 mins to deploy!)

  • 10 Archers is actually very tough to beat. But it's also banned in most games.

  • Thanks, man, glad you're enjoying them.

  • good game indeed. I watched a lot of your videos. Don't you ever get bored of Rome??

    Do you play Medieval 2?

  • Watch more of my videos, and then ask me your question.

  • You aint a star man, but your battles are always fun and interesting to watch. Good game as always.

    maybe we'll have the chance to see you playin 1000+ Empire tw battles Don't stop!

  • Excuse me? What's that supposed to mean?

    You asked if I played Medieval II. I told you to watch my videos before you asked such a question. If you would've watched my videos, then you would've SEEN that I played Medieval II.

    "You aint a star man?" What a lame comment, loser.

  • I don't know why he didn't defend the only shallow part of the river. Hmm.  Good idea keeping a force on the other side of the bridge.

  • A lot of online players don't play on Bridges so he probably didn't know it was passable.

  • wow nice

  • Thank you

  • Lol, the greek cav crashed the party at the end....

  • Greek Cav FTW lol

  • Awesome battle.

  • Thanks, man.

  • lol i wondor how it feels to get like 6, 16 ft long pikes shoved through my back, idk why dont i ask the dead guy =P

  • I wouldn't want to find out lol

  • you could actually see the spear being shoved into that guy at 8:05.

  • Very nice lol

  • r u kiddin me. bridge battles are awesome!

  • Not really much maneuvering involved though.

  • I HATE bridge battles! but godd batlle XD

  • Thanks, man.

  • great battle ... again you show us how skilled you are xD btw the quality is very sweet ... if i was that guy i would use fire rocks and aim your general

  • Thanks, man.

    And BTW aiming at my general would be a waste of time. He should use his artillery to hit the sure-targets like my blocks of infantry.

  • Has your general ever been nailed with a flaming rock before? It happens WAY more than it should.

  • "That is how payback looks like." by Prince of Macedon followed with: "Whaaaaarrgh!" by anonymous Roman Archer. -Priceless-

    Great battle there. Nice flank and cavalry movement. The romans just could not counter atack.