It would have been better if you used the correct roman troops... I am almost certain this took place during premarian Rome and the most certainly did not have urban cohorts back then.
@Xelbak. Appion and Plutach took what was passed down to them as an eye witness acount that Spartacus Waring stolen Tribune Armour ran straight for Crassus Fort off a few soilders and was hacked down( Appion) , the Other was that he whilst trying to get to Crassus he was stabed in his acilles tendon and was then hacked to bits (plutach) even mine is a short cruder account of what they wrote they both conluded that his body was killed and was never found.
Well I did win a war against Rome with an elite unit (9 experience, full shields and swords) and my best commander and since im rich I hire a lot of Mercenaries to help or I bribe the Romans
No most were Samnite dissidents who were still pissed off they got beaten in the Italian war 15 years earlier by Sulla. The rest were a motley crew of slaves and criminals
realmente sos un pecho frio no tiene gracia ... no tendrias q haber usado a los escipiones !! tendrias q haber usado cualkier raza menos los scipiones!!
What you do is build four large armies. One to siege Rome itself; One to fight the SPQR outside Rome; Two to act as guards. 80 units in total, well led by your best generals, all the best equipment etc. Don't even bother attacking Rome until you have about 250,000 denarii, control of your borders, post marius, your capital as a huge city, lots of legionaries and onagers. Then, you will be Emperor
Depending on which faction you are. As the Julii normally I have Patavium and Carthage as huge cities while Arretium is normally only a large city, since I don 't build farms. (Having a large growth bonus post-24,000 = bad)
You can also fight the Senate's legion just outside the city, which bings the defenders in as reenforcements, after which you can slaughter them in the field.
when i play as julii, the biggest problem for me to overcome is junii faction.They have a very large army even if they had less cities. Any suggestion?
Against the Julii, if you come from the north to kill, them, take out the senate first. you may have to flush the barbarians out before you go northernly.Really, you should just park your biggeer armies next to them when you are in the middle of the game, before you declare war.
beating the other roman factions is hardly a problem. Just make sure you have at least 3, preferably 4 archer auxilia units in the army. Use them to decimate the velites first, then turkey shoot the infantry. Also, you need to ensure that you defeat the opposing cavalry. Once you've done that, do the double envelopment as at Cannae and you're set.
For me the toughest opponents are actually the Germans and the Dacians, not the other Roman factions.
wow it seems we have very different problems. I actually beat germans and dacian first until the only left of the map are roman factions. i recognize that i have two problems to beat junii first ,they're way numerous than my army in the border (modern russia).second, my finest army was concentrated in africa and greek, you know it wasn't easy for me to just move them as it would lead riots in cities where i put them. anyway thanks for the battle advice
I try to avoid war with the Germans preferably until the archers auxilia appear. Otherwise, he has better infantry than me (spears beat the hastati) and better archers (the chosen ones vs. my ordinary roman ones). Im which case the only resort left is to let the Germans attack you in the open, you pick the spot and deployment and try to ambush them as much as possible.
In my current game, Dacia is close to extinction, the Thracians got the better of them before I can intervene. Never seen it b4
i prefer to attack germania as the first thing. don't care how better they are, if they are on my road to glory, then i gotta splatter them :) but the AI is stupid, that's probably the main reason i attack germania first haha. once, i had around 100 and the enemy around 1,000. i actually won the battle, it was a "heroic victory". lol!
oh lol i'm sorry for adding a comment while not really knowing the background. when you said that you avoid germania, i thought you meant the roman point of view.
that is when you are trying to play safely, but if you are a good tactician, you can win using just 1 army. that army holds off the armies that come to stop you, and those being besieged, with your armies, if you organize them properly, can easily shatter an army several times your size.
what i do is expand straight into germania, and from there, split the armies in two. one goes into the gauls, and the other into scythia. but my problem is that i have to spend too much time in one settlement after i conquer it. cause that settlement has to be "rested" so that my general and the rest of the army can go out and conquer. is there any way to do that as fast as possible without leaving any troops behind? even if it involves cheating, it's all right. plz tell me if you know.
My modus operandi with the Julii works perfectly and generally goes like this: jump on Gaul first, you must take Patavium and Milan, which means war to the bitter end, so you should go all the way. Take 2 or even 3 generals with 7-8 hastati and the archer unit and move into Cisalpine Gaul. Pacifying the natives isn't too hard - make sure you destroy any pagan temples and build shrines to Jupiter. They are enough to keep them happy with 3 town watches so you can move the army to the next town.
well, the fact is that i play the vanilla version, so there isn't really a province called "Milan". But there is Patavium, and when I attack it, and conquer it, the Gauls almost always ask to make a ceasefire. So it's not really to the bitter end.
ok, thx for the advice about the town watches!
i don't feel that i would do well with your plan, i just like to stick to the most simple type- take 2~3 full armies of 20 units each, first push up the alps, then split in 2,with 3rd army 1/2.
I've also played the vanilla version a lot, Milan is actually Mediolanum. I don't claim my plan is uniquely successful, but it's always brought huge rewards so it can't be a coincidence. As for town watches, they are really the only financially viable alternative you have to keep the locals outside Italia happy but make sure border towns/cities are within reach of your main armies. Both Germans and Britons like to attack these
I like how the Gallic towns (bar Numancia, of course, grrrr) need just 2-3 town watches to stay calm + Jupiter temples. Good boys they become after half of them are taken into slavery, haha. Wish it were that easy in the East...
Depends how far away the towns are from the capital. I'm doing my best not to allow revolts because sometimes the rebels join their original faction and spring up a huge although inferior army but it's a nuissance. Maintaining peace is especially hard in Iberia and Britain. The location of your capital depends on your expansion, hence, the Julii and Scipii are better off not changing theirs, while the Brutii can safely make Athens or Thesalonika their capital
Another part - 2 generals with 5-6 hastati is transported southwards to Kydonia (Crete), where you land, recruit any Cretan archers you may find, and take Kydonia. Use it as springboard for an invasion of Greece and Macedonia. The Cretan archers are absolutely vital to succeed there. Look to bribe Brutii stacks with no general in them - I'm doing regularly and it's great - you pay 2/3 of the actual cost, and may units have good experience as well.
in 2006 we did a medevil fair to demistrate the way we battled it was 1400 students i was in the front row and its hard to cause u see every thing at u
witch get scary after showing 10 different fomations to help win we did a actual battle
with fake weapons and i thought i die but i didn't
if spartacus's men werent unloyal he could have went home but they wanted money and woman more than freedom what losers its his unloyalty of his men that made him fail and he would have been defeated along time before if all the great solders and legions of the roman empire werent out in other locations fighting
enjoy the video, should have used the chain mail cohorts though
MsGampo 4 months ago
It would have been better if you used the correct roman troops... I am almost certain this took place during premarian Rome and the most certainly did not have urban cohorts back then.
TennpennyKid 1 year ago
@TennpennyKid Absolutely not. In this battle the roman army was led by Crassus and another army by pompey both of whom came after Marius
iamnobodyism 9 months ago
Sparticus was too damn nice to his men and he died for that very reason.
blackyblackblack505 1 year ago
maybe good batle, but bad factions why u not unlock rebels faction?
MatKoReN 1 year ago
@Xelbak. Appion and Plutach took what was passed down to them as an eye witness acount that Spartacus Waring stolen Tribune Armour ran straight for Crassus Fort off a few soilders and was hacked down( Appion) , the Other was that he whilst trying to get to Crassus he was stabed in his acilles tendon and was then hacked to bits (plutach) even mine is a short cruder account of what they wrote they both conluded that his body was killed and was never found.
ps3matty 1 year ago
Well I did win a war against Rome with an elite unit (9 experience, full shields and swords) and my best commander and since im rich I hire a lot of Mercenaries to help or I bribe the Romans
TheAwp45 2 years ago
if you are make an attack on the other roman factions, make sure that you have large armys or else....
p.s if you want to do an naval expedition then take a large army and sail to armenia
raffabeni 2 years ago
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Psartacus had 10 legions. sapartices had 60000 men. Not organized. only about1/4 was oragnized
Polishking222 2 years ago
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whos Psartacus?
sgtbuzzkill117 2 years ago
gladiator hero who put fear into the heart of rome
deathpunish2 2 years ago
u shud have maybe have picked thrace, cuz spartacus was thracian.
Medievaltotalwargod 3 years ago
but the men he helped werent they were africans gauls germans and greeks
deathpunish2 2 years ago 5
No most were Samnite dissidents who were still pissed off they got beaten in the Italian war 15 years earlier by Sulla. The rest were a motley crew of slaves and criminals
pscucailin 2 years ago
he needn't have used a roman general on the slaves side, he should have just used a merc unit with a captain
HootsMcGruff 3 years ago
interesting how Psartacus ordered a strong charge at 1:08
Sacurason1 3 years ago
what's the name of the song?
EudinBorsa 3 years ago
muzik?how to name
gheorghelautaru 3 years ago
actually spqr is not a big problem since mostly they just have rome as their only city
waa167 3 years ago
well it was good that the slaves fought for freedom. but the fact they had nothing to lose, they might as well should of held on to the last man.
ultradumbass 3 years ago
Good job dude.
zakhuff 3 years ago
realmente sos un pecho frio no tiene gracia ... no tendrias q haber usado a los escipiones !! tendrias q haber usado cualkier raza menos los scipiones!!
STRATOTO8 3 years ago
i fucking die when i siege rome everyone breaks allience with me
crazyking121 3 years ago
that's why you siege rome last... SPQR poses the least amount of threat to you compare to other roman factions...
athras8822 3 years ago
What you do is build four large armies. One to siege Rome itself; One to fight the SPQR outside Rome; Two to act as guards. 80 units in total, well led by your best generals, all the best equipment etc. Don't even bother attacking Rome until you have about 250,000 denarii, control of your borders, post marius, your capital as a huge city, lots of legionaries and onagers. Then, you will be Emperor
DRAC250 3 years ago 2
Depending on which faction you are. As the Julii normally I have Patavium and Carthage as huge cities while Arretium is normally only a large city, since I don 't build farms. (Having a large growth bonus post-24,000 = bad)
You can also fight the Senate's legion just outside the city, which bings the defenders in as reenforcements, after which you can slaughter them in the field.
Rogue0071 3 years ago
when i play as julii, the biggest problem for me to overcome is junii faction.They have a very large army even if they had less cities. Any suggestion?
waa167 3 years ago
Against the Julii, if you come from the north to kill, them, take out the senate first. you may have to flush the barbarians out before you go northernly.Really, you should just park your biggeer armies next to them when you are in the middle of the game, before you declare war.
Sacurason1 3 years ago
beating the other roman factions is hardly a problem. Just make sure you have at least 3, preferably 4 archer auxilia units in the army. Use them to decimate the velites first, then turkey shoot the infantry. Also, you need to ensure that you defeat the opposing cavalry. Once you've done that, do the double envelopment as at Cannae and you're set.
For me the toughest opponents are actually the Germans and the Dacians, not the other Roman factions.
DimboTel 3 years ago
wow it seems we have very different problems. I actually beat germans and dacian first until the only left of the map are roman factions. i recognize that i have two problems to beat junii first ,they're way numerous than my army in the border (modern russia).second, my finest army was concentrated in africa and greek, you know it wasn't easy for me to just move them as it would lead riots in cities where i put them. anyway thanks for the battle advice
waa167 3 years ago
I try to avoid war with the Germans preferably until the archers auxilia appear. Otherwise, he has better infantry than me (spears beat the hastati) and better archers (the chosen ones vs. my ordinary roman ones). Im which case the only resort left is to let the Germans attack you in the open, you pick the spot and deployment and try to ambush them as much as possible.
In my current game, Dacia is close to extinction, the Thracians got the better of them before I can intervene. Never seen it b4
DimboTel 3 years ago
i prefer to attack germania as the first thing. don't care how better they are, if they are on my road to glory, then i gotta splatter them :) but the AI is stupid, that's probably the main reason i attack germania first haha. once, i had around 100 and the enemy around 1,000. i actually won the battle, it was a "heroic victory". lol!
jsjuno 3 years ago
Wait, do you say that from the viewpoint of playing Briton or Roman, lol?
DimboTel 3 years ago
oh lol i'm sorry for adding a comment while not really knowing the background. when you said that you avoid germania, i thought you meant the roman point of view.
jsjuno 3 years ago
that is when you are trying to play safely, but if you are a good tactician, you can win using just 1 army. that army holds off the armies that come to stop you, and those being besieged, with your armies, if you organize them properly, can easily shatter an army several times your size.
ultradumbass 3 years ago
That's just not feasible, it means you only expand in one direction.
DimboTel 3 years ago
what i do is expand straight into germania, and from there, split the armies in two. one goes into the gauls, and the other into scythia. but my problem is that i have to spend too much time in one settlement after i conquer it. cause that settlement has to be "rested" so that my general and the rest of the army can go out and conquer. is there any way to do that as fast as possible without leaving any troops behind? even if it involves cheating, it's all right. plz tell me if you know.
jsjuno 3 years ago
My modus operandi with the Julii works perfectly and generally goes like this: jump on Gaul first, you must take Patavium and Milan, which means war to the bitter end, so you should go all the way. Take 2 or even 3 generals with 7-8 hastati and the archer unit and move into Cisalpine Gaul. Pacifying the natives isn't too hard - make sure you destroy any pagan temples and build shrines to Jupiter. They are enough to keep them happy with 3 town watches so you can move the army to the next town.
DimboTel 3 years ago
well, the fact is that i play the vanilla version, so there isn't really a province called "Milan". But there is Patavium, and when I attack it, and conquer it, the Gauls almost always ask to make a ceasefire. So it's not really to the bitter end.
ok, thx for the advice about the town watches!
i don't feel that i would do well with your plan, i just like to stick to the most simple type- take 2~3 full armies of 20 units each, first push up the alps, then split in 2,with 3rd army 1/2.
jsjuno 3 years ago
I've also played the vanilla version a lot, Milan is actually Mediolanum. I don't claim my plan is uniquely successful, but it's always brought huge rewards so it can't be a coincidence. As for town watches, they are really the only financially viable alternative you have to keep the locals outside Italia happy but make sure border towns/cities are within reach of your main armies. Both Germans and Britons like to attack these
DimboTel 3 years ago
hey, thx for the town watch "theory"! they're cheap, and great to just get enough order around the towns...
jsjuno 3 years ago
I like how the Gallic towns (bar Numancia, of course, grrrr) need just 2-3 town watches to stay calm + Jupiter temples. Good boys they become after half of them are taken into slavery, haha. Wish it were that easy in the East...
DimboTel 3 years ago
do you usually have revolts in your towns after you have a quite large empire?
jsjuno 3 years ago
Depends how far away the towns are from the capital. I'm doing my best not to allow revolts because sometimes the rebels join their original faction and spring up a huge although inferior army but it's a nuissance. Maintaining peace is especially hard in Iberia and Britain. The location of your capital depends on your expansion, hence, the Julii and Scipii are better off not changing theirs, while the Brutii can safely make Athens or Thesalonika their capital
DimboTel 3 years ago
yes you do
5aznsandaSPAINishguy 2 years ago
Another part - 2 generals with 5-6 hastati is transported southwards to Kydonia (Crete), where you land, recruit any Cretan archers you may find, and take Kydonia. Use it as springboard for an invasion of Greece and Macedonia. The Cretan archers are absolutely vital to succeed there. Look to bribe Brutii stacks with no general in them - I'm doing regularly and it's great - you pay 2/3 of the actual cost, and may units have good experience as well.
Never attack Germania before you really have to!
DimboTel 3 years ago
first kil the rest
kapitein60 3 years ago
i have the game its house of the scippi vs house of julli
decagon8 3 years ago
wow seriously did you have to use this overused piece of shit music?
Cantankerous83 4 years ago 2
I know, it's annoying isn't it
DRAC250 3 years ago 2
you're sooooooo right
kapitein60 3 years ago
in 2006 we did a medevil fair to demistrate the way we battled it was 1400 students i was in the front row and its hard to cause u see every thing at u
witch get scary after showing 10 different fomations to help win we did a actual battle
with fake weapons and i thought i die but i didn't
strikeme5 4 years ago
You're an idiot.
freddage91 3 years ago 7
what is the name of that song?
bradyischamp 4 years ago
"Requiem for a Dream"
by Clint Mansell
xelbak 4 years ago
@bradyischamp got o masterpiece and can heard the song
ScorpioNQueeN195 1 year ago
if spartacus's men werent unloyal he could have went home but they wanted money and woman more than freedom what losers its his unloyalty of his men that made him fail and he would have been defeated along time before if all the great solders and legions of the roman empire werent out in other locations fighting
TAKEMARU666 4 years ago
What the hell are you on about?
freddage91 3 years ago
not bad
jackblackatu 4 years ago
overused if you ask me.
Glorymaker 4 years ago
That music again!!! That is whell a great music for these kind of movies!!
Alue26 4 years ago