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I love this show. I trampled the Carthaginians every time always played as the romans. Just held the troops together and held my Calvary to counter attack the flanks after battle was joined.
Hannibal surrounded the entire army and slaughtered them leaving no room to move just die.
Ha, ha. You people are funny. Arguing about realism in an entertainment show. It's not meant to be any more realistic than a game of Chess. Too many armchair generals ...most of us wouldn't even get over the Alps alive in the first place, let alone fight a battle at the end of it. Go read a history book and do some hiking?
To make it clear about why those cav won, this games was modded to make it more realistic and accurate as it would have a wider audience than the game itself. So yes it is RTW, however it is moded and changed to edited.
@lordyrch maybe for you, on easy, i used ranged calvalry to get enemys to attack my walls of phalax, then watch them get chewed up by them, then i had normal foot solders charge their flanks to slap there shit up, i really didnt even need cavalry that much, just to gode ppl to attack or as a quick fix if my flanks were getting attacked, that and the classic ramming through a bunch of foot solders making them break rank and run
C'mon guys- they're not gamers, their police officers that may never have played strategy games. Also, in RTW you knew more about the enemy than these people did
I dont recall Roman army at any point in history to use all their cavalry as the 1st wave. This is like a giant middle finger in the face of all Total War and strategy fans, saying : "look here, we are doing ridiculous stuffs but it's ok since you too dumb to realize".
@ThomasYorkshire It really does when you play it on the hardest difficulty with all the odds against you. I'm 15 and my friend's 16 and we've both studied the seven military classics of ancient China and played Rome Total War ridiculously well. We could probably beat princeofmacedon if the odds were even in any battle. In antiquity, commanders like Hannibal or Alexander the Great were only the best from a small class. The 1% best people at Starcraft could beat Hannibal easily.
im sorry, but it appears that this people don´t know nothing of strategy and Rome total war , since when there is cavalry strike on the opponents cavalry with infantry support, when the heavy infantry is far away? is the PC controlling the roman army?
Oh god, they are so horrible at Rome. They should have been using their cavalry to nuke the Velitaes before they could do anything. If the enemy presents you with a unit which totally sucks against cavalry, and that's wat you have, that's what you use.
Ahh the fun of deserters. Gets even better in m2tw when those timurid war elephants accompanied by a 10 dread general start riding into your crusader kingdoms.... thank god scotland has the english channel.
Guys guys, RTW online battles are basically Tactikk battles. The Strategy part is in the campaign. They use RTW to show us what happened in the fields of Canae.
THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT CANAE, NOT ROME -___-
So please stop saying that "they dont know anything about how to play rtw."
@Zofar It DOES imply that there cannot be a draw...read it "only one can win", the sentence itself sets the condition/effect that (repeat myself:P) only one side can win.
I see the perspective you have taken in saying that both sides cannot win (you can only have one winner) so in part, you are correct:)
We are looking at this from two points of view and are both right...
1) Statement implies that a draw is impossible/not taken into account,
@master1140 No, you're implying that someone HAS to win, which is not implied at all by the statement "only one can win" for example, if I were to say "Only one person is allowed to have this apple" it means that one person can have the apple, it does not mean, however, that one person has to take the apple. In the statement "only one can win" the world 'only' does not mean it's the only possible outcome, but rather it means that only one person is able to do the verb (which in this case is win)
I guess your average Joe really doesn't study military history, let alone have a basic understanding of ancient warfare at all. Surround and envelope. It's that simple. Lol. Use the cavalry for hammer and anvil strikes. Works every time.
Do you folks also observe idiocy when watching these 'teams' get their arse handed to them on a E-platter ? ? ? If they put teams on TV , comprised of folks like most of us , this show would still be broadcast , and no doubt have spawned a few more , i.e. HALO ect...
Here is what they should have done. Gallic inantry in the middle flanked by the libyans. Hanibal in the middle to inspire the gallics becouse the gauls are unpredictable. When they won the cavalry fight they should have circled round and waited the Roman infantry to engage
they started off beutifully but they should have used the mounted javilen men to lure the roman velites into the iberian infantry then move the pikemen up front with the mounted javilen me behind so they could assult the front then bring the gauls in from the side and the heavy calvary from the other side and the light calvary from the back.
It really does seem inconceivable that the commanders could have lost their hold on the battle so badly after their brilliant start with the cavalry, but we're considering this in hindsight and with a running commentary from an omnipotent voice over. Still, Cliff didn't really have a plan to deal with the Roman infantry from the beginning.
i've never played this game before but an odd thing I've noticed is that charges have no momentum and everyone simply stops as soon as the forces engage. That roman cavalry charge should have easily scattered the motionless Carthaginian cavalry
its like having your line in football 20 yards back and standing still, waiting for the other team to hit them
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So simple too: phalanxes in the middle with decent core infantry covering their flanks, skirmishers out front to goad them into the middle, heavy infantry at the further flanks to charge in. As long as the phalanxes lock the romans in combat and can't get flanked, your cavalry can smash theirs and wheel in from behind, massacring the infantry.
I can almost understand: people with no knowledge of computer games and only a tiny knowledge of history thinking the Numidian cavalry are like medieval knights tough enough to charge heavy infantry head on and get away with it.
What I don't get is this "split in two" garbage: depends on the Romans falling for it and splitting their army to meet your two parts rather than staying together and crushing one. A strategy that a child can see the flaws in nevermind an adult. Defeat in detail indeed.
at around 5 mins the numidian cavalry should have taken more casulaties, they may be great fighters but they were charged by 2 units of cavalry taking a charge at the halt
Oh yeah and I guess when they do Plataea they'll talk about how the Spartan Hoplites have two hit points, and how they can take two killing blows before they die. Or maybe they'll explain how units gain experience by killing more. And how the chevron system works. Or better yet maybe show them how to use the console function so that their archers shoot flaming rocks. The point of the show is not to showcase Rome: TW, its to use it to simulate something historical.
Before even watching this video completely, I ask. Why simulate Battle of Cannae. I have little knowledge of history but Cannae is amongst the most ridiculously amazing battles of all times. It took Hannibal to pull of strategy never seen before. And now people who probably know little about warfare, and even less about this game just send everything they got head on? I mean, what? This you have to see this can't end well.
i do not know how u can possibly lose once their cav is dead sprint you cavalry to each flank and wait for the infintary fight to start then smash their flanks. get you reserves and reinforce the center battle line keep hannibal close to inspire troops lmao not hard ! :-)
What are you talking about. This is just showing what happened in the real war. The real war was like this. And what do you mean computer? They planned out what this "computer" was going to do anyway.
also why do they say this is the battle of cannae? the players didnt use any of the tactics used in the battle of cannae so its just a regular battle against the computer..its not the battle of cannae at all.
i used to love this show when I first saw it a few years ago on BBC, now Ive actually played the game and watched some documentaries based on these battles..and realise that everyone on this show (including the experts) have no idea what theyre talking about..and watching it is quite cringe-worthy
those guys are idiots, how does cavalry with a few javelins, a small knife and a shield beat roman cavalry that has some armour, a long spear and a shield?
with a spear you can more easily kill cavalry than you can with a small knife... pure bullshit
Well it is not AI, it is player they are vsing, someone who knows how the units should act for historic accuracy, seeing as they do some moves which AI doesent. But I know what you are saying
To be fair to the players in this instance the Roman 'steamroller/freight train' tactic is one i utilize fairly regularly on RTW and it works 9/10. Hannibal was a military genuis and this Carthagenian army probably would have got smashed if he hadn't been in charge
Cannae is obviously a much much harder battle than the majority given to these clowns. If you consider the folks who did spartacus vs crassus did everything wrong and still won. They would have been eaten alive on this one...
The units and skins are modded to be realistic like if they wanted the germans to massacre the romans they would change there attack or else rome would cream em.
Yeah. Easy way to remember it is that Hannibal's big three battles happened one year after the other. Trebia was in 218 BC, Trasimene was in 217 BC and Cannae was in 216 BC
WTF, Romans ALREADY had Praetorian cavs? LOL
TehLamzaks 5 days ago
I feel old, I remember watching this exact episode on bbc.
TheTunderwood 2 months ago
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andresrojas22 2 months ago
If I had 10000 guns I would have killed 2 million
commanderAnzal 2 months ago
Where is the prince of Macedon when you need him??
commanderAnzal 2 months ago
..."The teams plan is working"? the team didn't do f all, the computer set it all out for them...
Dbirkin1 3 months ago
Ironic, for once police officers are the ones being charged at by horses....
TheShame311 3 months ago 3
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ASSHOLELA 4 months ago
I love this show. I trampled the Carthaginians every time always played as the romans. Just held the troops together and held my Calvary to counter attack the flanks after battle was joined.
Hannibal surrounded the entire army and slaughtered them leaving no room to move just die.
Malice1111 5 months ago
I like how women call cavalry horses lol
Bucketheadhead 5 months ago
check out "denverstotalwar" on fb
armandorivas82 5 months ago
@lfc4lyfdalton
u know that that was a year befor TWR cae out
icemoomoo 5 months ago
Ha, ha. You people are funny. Arguing about realism in an entertainment show. It's not meant to be any more realistic than a game of Chess. Too many armchair generals ...most of us wouldn't even get over the Alps alive in the first place, let alone fight a battle at the end of it. Go read a history book and do some hiking?
digglyda 5 months ago
"They got charged by some horses." I don't hold much hope. Let's watch on..........
Tappermccabe 6 months ago
To make it clear about why those cav won, this games was modded to make it more realistic and accurate as it would have a wider audience than the game itself. So yes it is RTW, however it is moded and changed to edited.
colonellemon 7 months ago
@colonellemon no its not RTW. its engine is based on RTW but the game was realesed after this show so...
XVIIIIXXCVII 5 months ago
The real Rome total war did have this much strategy and depth to it?
demonduri 8 months ago 3
@demonduri Yes it does.
TheDeathCrasher 7 months ago
@demonduri yes sure
Hopeforhumans 6 months ago
@demonduri No it didn't. Roman Total War is "Hold heavy infantry line, envelop with cavalry, win, rinse and repeat"
lordyrch 5 months ago
@lordyrch Try it online
CommissarXIV 5 months ago
@lordyrch maybe for you, on easy, i used ranged calvalry to get enemys to attack my walls of phalax, then watch them get chewed up by them, then i had normal foot solders charge their flanks to slap there shit up, i really didnt even need cavalry that much, just to gode ppl to attack or as a quick fix if my flanks were getting attacked, that and the classic ramming through a bunch of foot solders making them break rank and run
xxdomoxxkunxx 5 months ago
2 units of equites should destroy those numedians... They are obviously overpowered with armor and exp
deedeeke1991 9 months ago
@deedeeke1991 i don't think so
Hopeforhumans 6 months ago
Are they trying to tell us its the largest Roman army ever assembled?
Kytuzian 9 months ago 5
I swear that two full units of equites would mash one unit of nubian cavalry in normal circumstances, especially because they charged anyday.
MrAtah26 10 months ago
the issue here is more than one person is playing. not one kid and a mouse
StargateMunky 10 months ago
I would slaughter those Guys!!!!
MrGreek12 10 months ago
@lfc4lyfdalton my 2 year old son would of played better than them :L
KaiGamer 10 months ago 3
C'mon guys- they're not gamers, their police officers that may never have played strategy games. Also, in RTW you knew more about the enemy than these people did
HardWarUK 11 months ago
( lol ) The gamers obviously don't know the rudiments of ancient warfare, much more about Cannae.
ManilaSyndicate 11 months ago
I dont recall Roman army at any point in history to use all their cavalry as the 1st wave. This is like a giant middle finger in the face of all Total War and strategy fans, saying : "look here, we are doing ridiculous stuffs but it's ok since you too dumb to realize".
colodius 11 months ago
These guys are idiot's i know whats happening all the time when i am playing a Total War game.
Ethan15811 11 months ago
Soooo this must be a joke. Are you sure it's not just a four year old kid commanding the Catharginians?
andrewb261 11 months ago
God, I WISH Rome Total War required this much critical thinking and strategy.
ThomasYorkshire 11 months ago 23
@ThomasYorkshire It really does when you play it on the hardest difficulty with all the odds against you. I'm 15 and my friend's 16 and we've both studied the seven military classics of ancient China and played Rome Total War ridiculously well. We could probably beat princeofmacedon if the odds were even in any battle. In antiquity, commanders like Hannibal or Alexander the Great were only the best from a small class. The 1% best people at Starcraft could beat Hannibal easily.
e102ewan 1 month ago
Who controls the Roman army?
BrodieLewin16 11 months ago
@BrodieLewin16 A person that works with the show.
Ethan15811 11 months ago
i just wish this great series was in better quality :( but thanks anyway evilpuspin i'm really enjoying it! :)
boomaslang 11 months ago
i just wish this great series was in better quality :( but thanks anyway evilpuspin! :)
boomaslang 11 months ago
i just wish this great series was in better quality
boomaslang 11 months ago
im sorry, but it appears that this people don´t know nothing of strategy and Rome total war , since when there is cavalry strike on the opponents cavalry with infantry support, when the heavy infantry is far away? is the PC controlling the roman army?
RomanLegioXx 11 months ago
Who are those clowns on the side of every Legionnary formation holding that pole? are they the Formation leader or some priest?
CMDRFandragon 1 year ago
@CMDRFandragon There were the "Centurion" the formation leader. it was a very prestigious position.
TarroYoko 1 year ago
When they're scouts got killed i was like *facepalm*
SternMann93 1 year ago 5
ouch, it really hurts to see them playing like this xD
martijnny 1 year ago 3
Oh god, they are so horrible at Rome. They should have been using their cavalry to nuke the Velitaes before they could do anything. If the enemy presents you with a unit which totally sucks against cavalry, and that's wat you have, that's what you use.
ZeekyHB0MB 1 year ago 2
Hahaha oh wow
2BCBattlefield 1 year ago
No, they should have let cluny the scourge do this, not prince of macedon, he's way better, and he's english (this was shown on the BBC)
rugbart11 1 year ago
@rugbart11 Im fairly sure that they both have more talent at games like this in their little fingers than all these people put together...
SOLAnimations 10 months ago
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ArsenalGiantsPs3 1 year ago
god my 6 year old son is better than these on rtw lol
gillykiller316 1 year ago 4
Ahh the fun of deserters. Gets even better in m2tw when those timurid war elephants accompanied by a 10 dread general start riding into your crusader kingdoms.... thank god scotland has the english channel.
silentblacklist 1 year ago
0:30 "hey guys who are those guys over there?" "where?" "over there the guys riding towards...oh" +8 dead scouts
hello1182 1 year ago
The cav should've used the ALT attack.
JondyInc 1 year ago
Guys guys, RTW online battles are basically Tactikk battles. The Strategy part is in the campaign. They use RTW to show us what happened in the fields of Canae.
THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT CANAE, NOT ROME -___-
So please stop saying that "they dont know anything about how to play rtw."
VictumRoManius 1 year ago
after the initial cavalry manouvres, they basically did nothing. no orders, no movement, nothing. crazy :|
ShawDAMAN 1 year ago
when you need to destroy an opposing army
WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
Prince of Macedon!!!
MTCoblivsicas12345 1 year ago 6
@lfc4lyfdalton obviously there musicians they wouldnt know their ear from their arse
MTCoblivsicas12345 1 year ago
I bet you guys wish you can show these noobs how it's done?
WojekSiren 1 year ago 6
@WojekSiren yeah,definetly,they suck,i could beat them with a unit of german berserkers,and im rubbish at the game XD
mockingbird3346 1 year ago
Im sure theres some guy controlling the romans here the ai us usualy dumb and predictable
seankinsellasean 1 year ago
They maked such stupid mistakes '-- they've missed a lot of strategy basics!
SonOfLusitania 1 year ago
Generals charging into the frontlines and getting themselves killed? Yep, DEFINITELY rome total war.
Docus254 1 year ago 4
they should just let the prince of macedone do this.
jimswe 1 year ago 30
@jimswe It would be fun, some 8 guys against POM, and they all lose with a crushing defeat xD
SonOfLusitania 1 year ago 5
@jimswe that would be overkill.
deadlycatthefirst 4 months ago
@jimswe Oh god, he'll rape them all!
Robolord77 1 month ago
looks like cops are incompetent dipshits all over the world
aseglkj 1 year ago 2
"Only one can win" - Nope, you can draw as well:P
master1140 1 year ago
@master1140
would either side want to?
MoonlitGamer 1 year ago
@MoonlitGamer No, but the point I was trying to make is that it's a possibility:P
master1140 1 year ago
@master1140 "only one can win" does not imply in any way that there cannot be a draw. It just means that they both cant win.
Zofar 1 year ago
@Zofar It DOES imply that there cannot be a draw...read it "only one can win", the sentence itself sets the condition/effect that (repeat myself:P) only one side can win.
I see the perspective you have taken in saying that both sides cannot win (you can only have one winner) so in part, you are correct:)
We are looking at this from two points of view and are both right...
1) Statement implies that a draw is impossible/not taken into account,
2) Only one side or the other may win, not both.
master1140 1 year ago
@master1140 No, you're implying that someone HAS to win, which is not implied at all by the statement "only one can win" for example, if I were to say "Only one person is allowed to have this apple" it means that one person can have the apple, it does not mean, however, that one person has to take the apple. In the statement "only one can win" the world 'only' does not mean it's the only possible outcome, but rather it means that only one person is able to do the verb (which in this case is win)
Zofar 1 year ago
@Zofar ok. (someone has to end this useless debate over nothing:P)
master1140 1 year ago
WTF how come a phalanx formation is charging while in phalanx mode?!
tefras14 1 year ago
I guess your average Joe really doesn't study military history, let alone have a basic understanding of ancient warfare at all. Surround and envelope. It's that simple. Lol. Use the cavalry for hammer and anvil strikes. Works every time.
drhelio212 1 year ago
What kind of an idiot would leave his cavalry static?To be effective cavalry must be on the move.
Shqiponjaezez 1 year ago
I cringed as they forgot to counter-charge at the start :/ Great start :P
doctorrodders 1 year ago
hannibal is an amazing genreal proably the 2nd greatest military leader evr alexander the great being number 1
thef1fan 1 year ago
Cliff the stiff.... and this guy is supposed to help keep order on our streets!
wierdwesterner 1 year ago
My main tactic in this game is charge them. Doesn't work :(
princeMigi 1 year ago
Do you folks also observe idiocy when watching these 'teams' get their arse handed to them on a E-platter ? ? ? If they put teams on TV , comprised of folks like most of us , this show would still be broadcast , and no doubt have spawned a few more , i.e. HALO ect...
tell me what you think ....
88Thyra 1 year ago
theyshould fight PoM they are using hasiti
showfire100 1 year ago 3
Then make a cresent with the liyans from the sides and charge with cavalry from the rear.
LordofPontus 1 year ago
Here is what they should have done. Gallic inantry in the middle flanked by the libyans. Hanibal in the middle to inspire the gallics becouse the gauls are unpredictable. When they won the cavalry fight they should have circled round and waited the Roman infantry to engage
LordofPontus 1 year ago
Up until they got flanked they were definately doing the best Ive seen any team do aside from the family that fought the battle of stamford bridge
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Is this for real? holy shit, how did they even pull this show off, it's based on an (imbalanced) video game!
This is ridiculous
RJoudrey1235 2 years ago
lol yeah, you are right.... but still fun to watch.
TheGimp505 2 years ago
It's painfull to watch! My god!
petkol 2 years ago
why arent the contestants speaking on this episode, them stressin out is the fun part, especially as im a total war pro.
o01R0NM4N0o 2 years ago
they started off beutifully but they should have used the mounted javilen men to lure the roman velites into the iberian infantry then move the pikemen up front with the mounted javilen me behind so they could assult the front then bring the gauls in from the side and the heavy calvary from the other side and the light calvary from the back.
ifartinurdirection1 2 years ago
lol. Its funny watching these noobs flounder about.
"They're running away..."
"Well turn them around then!"
It'd probably be helpful if they actually briefed these people on the game's mechanics before they started the battle.
Knobbyboy88 2 years ago 4
It really does seem inconceivable that the commanders could have lost their hold on the battle so badly after their brilliant start with the cavalry, but we're considering this in hindsight and with a running commentary from an omnipotent voice over. Still, Cliff didn't really have a plan to deal with the Roman infantry from the beginning.
ArcaneAzmadi 2 years ago 2
it's a shame this video is edited. I would love to see the undedited programme.
Rumpio 2 years ago
the light cavalry scouts got killed.
Doesn't that strike anyone as something that simply would not have happened?
itikalala 2 years ago
Yeah. I was kind of confused as to how she could allow her one unit that she had the sole responsibility to control at the time die...
They probably staged a lot of this to look a lot more dramatic than it actually was.
ISeeTallPeople 2 years ago
lol
i've never played this game before but an odd thing I've noticed is that charges have no momentum and everyone simply stops as soon as the forces engage. That roman cavalry charge should have easily scattered the motionless Carthaginian cavalry
its like having your line in football 20 yards back and standing still, waiting for the other team to hit them
RagingAura 2 years ago
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This is really GAY
UndercitizenDOTcom 2 years ago
How so, bitch?
zweg2 2 years ago
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well it seems we have an incident..it seems that time commanders is gay because it does not pound your moms beaver.. it ARE A FACT that your mom is the most fucked camwhore on the interwebz XD
UndercitizenDOTcom 2 years ago
Arrrgggghhh!! letting your cavalry get sucked into an infantry battle..
Ging1234567890 2 years ago
total epic fail.
So simple too: phalanxes in the middle with decent core infantry covering their flanks, skirmishers out front to goad them into the middle, heavy infantry at the further flanks to charge in. As long as the phalanxes lock the romans in combat and can't get flanked, your cavalry can smash theirs and wheel in from behind, massacring the infantry.
jimthehappymonkey1 2 years ago
I can almost understand: people with no knowledge of computer games and only a tiny knowledge of history thinking the Numidian cavalry are like medieval knights tough enough to charge heavy infantry head on and get away with it.
What I don't get is this "split in two" garbage: depends on the Romans falling for it and splitting their army to meet your two parts rather than staying together and crushing one. A strategy that a child can see the flaws in nevermind an adult. Defeat in detail indeed.
politicalair 2 years ago
at around 5 mins the numidian cavalry should have taken more casulaties, they may be great fighters but they were charged by 2 units of cavalry taking a charge at the halt
MrGargravaar 2 years ago
how stupid are these ppl? why don't they read the unit description?
"strong infantry" = hastati
"strong and disciplined cavalry" = Round Shields
I can't believe they mistook the Poeni infantry, which are kind of good, with the libyan spearmen, which suck ass
cortex383 2 years ago
Oh yeah and I guess when they do Plataea they'll talk about how the Spartan Hoplites have two hit points, and how they can take two killing blows before they die. Or maybe they'll explain how units gain experience by killing more. And how the chevron system works. Or better yet maybe show them how to use the console function so that their archers shoot flaming rocks. The point of the show is not to showcase Rome: TW, its to use it to simulate something historical.
MobiusCoin 2 years ago
lol rtw addict alert, during the real punic wars it was the libyans that outshone the poeni conscripts
whowantsabighug 2 years ago
that was so stupid around 5:30... even in real life it's inmoral to stand waiting for an enemy charge to wipe you out...
debuxman 2 years ago
Before even watching this video completely, I ask. Why simulate Battle of Cannae. I have little knowledge of history but Cannae is amongst the most ridiculously amazing battles of all times. It took Hannibal to pull of strategy never seen before. And now people who probably know little about warfare, and even less about this game just send everything they got head on? I mean, what? This you have to see this can't end well.
Kulmataklaus 2 years ago
Well... One team did battle of Gaugamela. :D
Also, another team played as Hannibal at Trebia...
UserNameForYeeTube 2 years ago
God Damnit Claire....
Never bring a woman to a man's fight.
BlowBackBenny 2 years ago
With their cavlary destroyed that should have been a clear victory to carthage, these lot are shit
TrainToSkaville91 2 years ago 2
i do not know how u can possibly lose once their cav is dead sprint you cavalry to each flank and wait for the infintary fight to start then smash their flanks. get you reserves and reinforce the center battle line keep hannibal close to inspire troops lmao not hard ! :-)
shaunere2008 2 years ago
i can see these people playing online vs some kid in a basement
SupaTROopa2 2 years ago 59
hahahaha i can imagine that XD
ManiacMarus14 2 years ago
@SupaTROopa2
hehe yes :)
Fokosmok 9 months ago
Numidian cavalry killing 2 units of roman equites?
VenDettaWoC 2 years ago 5
hmmmmm
smarzotais 2 years ago
yea. equites hecka suck
XcowboybuttsexX 2 years ago
haha, I know right? but this ish based on real historical stuff, not Total War unit balancing
VinnyBloo 2 years ago
I wonder what kinda mod they used for this game. The maps and units seems larger.
Shinos55 2 years ago
u can change the unit scale, to huge in the game options i belive
AKON33344 2 years ago
They made their own mod. It's not released for everyone. Just them.
Notoria666 2 years ago
i dont think its fair that they had people controlling the carthigianians but had no one playing as rome its not a challenge to defeat a computer
johnnyreb1025 2 years ago
It's an edited version of the game, and most likely they've pumped the AI full of historical tactics and so on.
TheAssist 2 years ago
You are wrong they got people playing for the other side.
WilltheAtheist 2 years ago
keep in mind that the man who really was commanding the romans was barley as intelligent as the ai...
smarzotais 2 years ago
What are you talking about. This is just showing what happened in the real war. The real war was like this. And what do you mean computer? They planned out what this "computer" was going to do anyway.
Notoria666 2 years ago
I must say, rome total war is an awsome game, I have it now 4 years and it ceeps amusing me.
There are greate mods of this game, this programe has 1 of the best mods there are.
timmermanstoon 2 years ago
what mod would that be.
tbh SPQR mod is the awsomesauce as mods go :)
ItempIccam 2 years ago
I mean the mod they made 4 this game on TV.
timmermanstoon 2 years ago
i know that :P
but is it publicly available?
ItempIccam 2 years ago
I didn't found it, so I don't think so.
maybe we can ask BBC?
timmermanstoon 2 years ago
it would probably be more efficient to ask lion TV as the BBC just airedthe show lion TV produced it.
id also be suprised if we got an answer :D
ItempIccam 2 years ago
also why do they say this is the battle of cannae? the players didnt use any of the tactics used in the battle of cannae so its just a regular battle against the computer..its not the battle of cannae at all.
masteroflolcats 2 years ago
Because the troops and the terrain is based on the Battle of Cannae
1stSgtEasyCompany 2 years ago
i used to love this show when I first saw it a few years ago on BBC, now Ive actually played the game and watched some documentaries based on these battles..and realise that everyone on this show (including the experts) have no idea what theyre talking about..and watching it is quite cringe-worthy
masteroflolcats 2 years ago
those guys are idiots, how does cavalry with a few javelins, a small knife and a shield beat roman cavalry that has some armour, a long spear and a shield?
with a spear you can more easily kill cavalry than you can with a small knife... pure bullshit
Legolasas26 2 years ago
well they keep going on about how long those Javalin guys have been service so they may of had a very high vetren status.
voltage17121712 2 years ago
"high vetren status" pfffff , they look like a bunch of no lifers , what kind of idiot tries to prove a point in history through a game??
Legolasas26 2 years ago
Split them in half??? Have they no common sense at all? It's simple maths, if you surround them, more of your men are fighting than theirs!
nashertheatheist 2 years ago
Erf, some terrible mistakes here :(
Yep it's not their job o do war but still...
Kamfrenchie 2 years ago
it would have been great to have two teams, completely great
samosayoe 2 years ago
i had to stifle a laugh when the narrator said 'their existing intelligence'!
Lostprophetzzz 2 years ago
Well it is not AI, it is player they are vsing, someone who knows how the units should act for historic accuracy, seeing as they do some moves which AI doesent. But I know what you are saying
madmike1 2 years ago
I agree
puchy110 2 years ago
i always wished they had 2 teams one team playing each side cos them u have 2 teams of non experts and they both might make similar msstakes
frogspawn11 3 years ago 5
Well in this battle that might be a little unfair.
gv1955 2 years ago
Yeah. Both are noobs, but one got a bigger army.
Deadman1709 2 years ago
To be fair to the players in this instance the Roman 'steamroller/freight train' tactic is one i utilize fairly regularly on RTW and it works 9/10. Hannibal was a military genuis and this Carthagenian army probably would have got smashed if he hadn't been in charge
Cannae is obviously a much much harder battle than the majority given to these clowns. If you consider the folks who did spartacus vs crassus did everything wrong and still won. They would have been eaten alive on this one...
rvnc 3 years ago
jeez the yshould at least use medieval 2 total war engine and use some rome total war mod
magicstorm1 3 years ago
medieval 2 hadnt been released yet medieval was released in 2006
sean151291 3 years ago
No. Medieval 2 was released in 2006.
Avenaur 3 years ago
I'd like to see some competition. These people don't even seem to know the difference between light and heavy cavalry or their tactical uses.
anvilofcrom 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Then the show is almost as stupid and pointless as you are, now kindly fuck off.
anvilofcrom 3 years ago
THey always lose their scouts x.x
crackshack2 3 years ago 3
yea and its so stupid 'cause scouts should return to their army to report,I doubt they shouted all the way to their army before being butchered xD
unurautare 3 years ago
i can just imagine...
scouts:HEY THEY HAVE SOME JAVELIN THROWERS ON THE RIGHT!!!
army soldier 1: what did they say?
army soldier 2 apparently they have babbling brokers on the right!
army soldier 1:i hate brokers! lets get em
Lostprophetzzz 2 years ago
no wonder they always win. there units are like invulnerable against the AI. 1 Light cavalry took on 3 squadrons of equites??
Anonymous9014 3 years ago
there are other players playing the AI
CCPnoob 3 years ago
the pro guy with the mop hair is such a twat
bloodfang07 3 years ago
If they ever make another series of this they should get some people who know what they're doing to play...these people are friggin hopeless.
anvilofcrom 3 years ago 3
Wait wtf were they just charging with pikes?
Vartex 3 years ago
The units and skins are modded to be realistic like if they wanted the germans to massacre the romans they would change there attack or else rome would cream em.
Vartex 3 years ago
I've always wanted to know - are the opponents to the team (in this case the romans) controlled by another human or humans, or are they AI?
Benjamin241 3 years ago
Humans i would say, nobody is 100% sure. But most say Humans. :)
evilpuspin 3 years ago
@evilpuspin yes, i agree, the AI in this game (rome total war) even if they modified it wouldn't be as smart as this
Endurance3952 1 year ago
@Benjamin241
id say humans because they need to recreate the historical action, not the AI's constant frontal attacks and retreats before attacking
tecna64 1 year ago
216 B.C.
Is that right??
JimmySmers 3 years ago
Yeah. Easy way to remember it is that Hannibal's big three battles happened one year after the other. Trebia was in 218 BC, Trasimene was in 217 BC and Cannae was in 216 BC
englishfrenchgerman 3 years ago