Total War: Rule Britannia, literally.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Oh god...Youtube has now created...Total War Memes!
How to Play as the Eastern Roman Empire

Lets get down to business! To Defeat... the Huns!

I stumbled across this guys videos a while back, they are gold.

[Great Houses of Xie]

Playing on anything less than Legendary confuses me <,< (unless I'm just getting my nether region spread like the beaches of Normandy by the AI when trying to play as Empire in WH2; if'n ya wanna see me get schrecked like never before, I can stream that jazz like it's hot for your sadistic pleasure, lol)

[United Muscovite Nations]

Playing on anything less than Legendary confuses me <,< (unless I'm just getting my nether region spread like the beaches of Normandy by the AI when trying to play as Empire in WH2; if'n ya wanna see me get schrecked like never before, I can stream that jazz like it's hot for your sadistic pleasure, lol)

I don't understand why you would want to play on legendary, all it does is allow the AI to cheat by making their troops much stronger than yours, not by making the AI actually better.

[G-Tech Corporation]

Playing on anything less than Legendary confuses me <,< (unless I'm just getting my nether region spread like the beaches of Normandy by the AI when trying to play as Empire in WH2; if'n ya wanna see me get schrecked like never before, I can stream that jazz like it's hot for your sadistic pleasure, lol)

I’m a big fan of Normal/Normal with modded AI. I want troops to have balanced stats, and realistic recruitment, but to fight a helluva a lot smarter.

[Zanera]

Playing on anything less than Legendary confuses me <,< (unless I'm just getting my nether region spread like the beaches of Normandy by the AI when trying to play as Empire in WH2; if'n ya wanna see me get schrecked like never before, I can stream that jazz like it's hot for your sadistic pleasure, lol)

I’m a big fan of Normal/Normal with modded AI. I want troops to have balanced stats, and realistic recruitment, but to fight a helluva a lot smarter.

Easy is dumb, Normal feels 'realistic' to me, like if you do smart things it gets you into good places, but if you march a regiment up to the cannons ready with canister shot you're going to have a reasonably bad time.

[Great Houses of Xie]

There are a number of mods that claim to make AI "better." I have yet to see any of them actually work as advertised, hah, having experimented with a ton of them. Therefore, I thrive on the challenge presented by unrealistic recruitment numbers, drastically increased AI statlines, and aggressive strategic AI.

[The Krogan]

Playing on anything less than Legendary confuses me <,< (unless I'm just getting my nether region spread like the beaches of Normandy by the AI when trying to play as Empire in WH2; if'n ya wanna see me get schrecked like never before, I can stream that jazz like it's hot for your sadistic pleasure, lol)

I'll play an easy campaign when I just feel like de-stressing and completely wrecking everyone.

Though on normal playing Shogan 2 I had to hold myself back from winning to early as the Shimazu, especially when one of my vassals just started gobbling up territory.

[The Two Jerseys]

Fucking Empire pirates spawning galleons out of nowhere and plundering all my trade...

Just wait till I build a bunch of ships of the line, because once I wipe out their fleet and blockade their ports, I'm sailing my doomstack armies halfway around the world and assraping the West Indies!

[Genivaria]

Fucking Empire pirates spawning galleons out of nowhere and plundering all my trade...

Just wait till I build a bunch of ships of the line, because once I wipe out their fleet and blockade their ports, I'm sailing my doomstack armies halfway around the world and assraping the West Indies!

One of the first things a European power should do is wipe out the pirates imo, they're just so fucking annoying.
Especially if you're the Dutch.

[Genivaria]

So anyone else here love Europa Barbarorum 2?

[The Two Jerseys]

Fucking Empire pirates spawning galleons out of nowhere and plundering all my trade...

Just wait till I build a bunch of ships of the line, because once I wipe out their fleet and blockade their ports, I'm sailing my doomstack armies halfway around the world and assraping the West Indies!

One of the first things a European power should do is wipe out the pirates imo, they're just so fucking annoying.
Especially if you're the Dutch.

I'm the Marathas.

I don't even start the game with a single fucking ship.

[Genivaria]

One of the first things a European power should do is wipe out the pirates imo, they're just so fucking annoying.
Especially if you're the Dutch.

I'm the Marathas.

I don't even start the game with a single fucking ship.

-Marathas
-No proper line infantry
My sympathies.

[Zanera]

Fucking Empire pirates spawning galleons out of nowhere and plundering all my trade...

Just wait till I build a bunch of ships of the line, because once I wipe out their fleet and blockade their ports, I'm sailing my doomstack armies halfway around the world and assraping the West Indies!

One of the first things a European power should do is wipe out the pirates imo, they're just so fucking annoying.
Especially if you're the Dutch.

I captured the islands gave them to other powers.

I'm the Marathas.

I don't even start the game with a single fucking ship.

-Marathas
-No proper line infantry
My sympathies.

Maratha is still OP tho.

[Genivaria]

One of the first things a European power should do is wipe out the pirates imo, they're just so fucking annoying.
Especially if you're the Dutch.

I captured the islands gave them to other powers.

-Marathas
-No proper line infantry
My sympathies.

Maratha is still OP tho.

If I wanted archers, infantry, and cavalry I would play Medieval 2.
Which is exactly why I play Medieval 2.

[The first Galactic Republic]

I captured the islands gave them to other powers.



Maratha is still OP tho.

If I wanted archers, infantry, and cavalry I would play Medieval 2.
Which is exactly why I play Medieval 2.

It’s their starting position that makes them OP. They can gobble up India quickly and easily, and that gives them the economic power needed to overpower any and all enemies. Europe is also really passive towards them. The western nations just go all Chamberlain on them, focusing only on their own conflicts, until Indians are knocking on their doorstep. The orange horde eats up the world in every single one of my long playthroughs, and it’s annoying that I always have to beat them back. I’d like to see the Persians, or Mughals, or British win every once in awhile.

[Impaled Nazarene]

If I wanted archers, infantry, and cavalry I would play Medieval 2.
Which is exactly why I play Medieval 2.

It’s their starting position that makes them OP. They can gobble up India quickly and easily, and that gives them the economic power needed to overpower any and all enemies. Europe is also really passive towards them. The western nations just go all Chamberlain on them, focusing only on their own conflicts, until Indians are knocking on their doorstep. The orange horde eats up the world in every single one of my long playthroughs, and it’s annoying that I always have to beat them back. I’d like to see the Persians, or Mughals, or British win every once in awhile.

There was a period where the Mughals would win every 3/5 games

[Great Houses of Xie]

Wat. Just because Marathas doesn't have proper line infantry doesn't mean they use bows, lol. Sikh "line" infantry have the same shooting stats as the best line infantry Europe has to offer, plus having obscenely high melee stats, making some household guard cavalry look like chumps. If you're not taking cavalry, that's just dumb (admittedly, you're not fighting on VH, iirc, so, you can do whatever you want and still win *shrug*; not using cav against a player is almost an auto-loss). It doesn't help that the Marathas is, as far as I can tell, actually the easiest faction to play, lol, cuz they start with tremendously easily attainable resources and trade routes. Furthermore, the enemy can only attack your home territories from one direction or via sea

Did I mention Sikhs? Cuz Sikhs.

Definitely pirates are an easy way to expand without fighting against any larger powers.

[The first Galactic Republic]

It’s their starting position that makes them OP. They can gobble up India quickly and easily, and that gives them the economic power needed to overpower any and all enemies. Europe is also really passive towards them. The western nations just go all Chamberlain on them, focusing only on their own conflicts, until Indians are knocking on their doorstep. The orange horde eats up the world in every single one of my long playthroughs, and it’s annoying that I always have to beat them back. I’d like to see the Persians, or Mughals, or British win every once in awhile.

There was a period where the Mughals would win every 3/5 games

And I've heard that Britain and the Netherlands actually used to try and attack India. They were made more passive in an update apparently.

What we have now isn’t good though. I have the mod the game to make the AI more balanced.

[Impaled Nazarene]

There was a period where the Mughals would win every 3/5 games

And I've heard that Britain and the Netherlands actually used to try and attack India. They were made more passive in an update apparently.

What we have now isn’t good though. I have the mod the game to make the AI more balanced.

Just like the random update that made britain naval invade but only Ottoman Egypt.

[United Muscovite Nations]

I've never actually played a campaign in the newer Total Wars, so, how is this for a start as Macedon in Rome II? Note the date (not playing with any additional turns per year mods). Basically what I did was conquer Epirus immediately, then turned and attacked Tylis, and got a defensive alliance with the people just north of me.

[Great Houses of Xie]

My first playthrough for R2 ever was VH Macedon. Unfortunately, it has been so long that I don't remember what your side missions were, so I couldn't say whether or not what you did was good in that regard. Because side missions can give a lotta bonus income, you'll want to accomplish them whenever possible.

However, typically, you want full provincial control, so as to be able to issue edicts; if you don't have a full province, you can't issue edicts. These edicts can give you bonus taxes, happiness, culture conversion, or food, so it is imperative that you capture full provinces. If this means that you will have few allies because neighbors are obnoxiously holding one part of a province, so be it, heh

In your campaign, I think you'll need to capture Naissos and Odessos to finish off that province.

[United Muscovite Nations]

My first playthrough for R2 ever was VH Macedon. Unfortunately, it has been so long that I don't remember what your side missions were, so I couldn't say whether or not what you did was good in that regard. Because side missions can give a lotta bonus income, you'll want to accomplish them whenever possible.

However, typically, you want full provincial control, so as to be able to issue edicts; if you don't have a full province, you can't issue edicts. These edicts can give you bonus taxes, happiness, culture conversion, or food, so it is imperative that you capture full provinces. If this means that you will have few allies because neighbors are obnoxiously holding one part of a province, so be it, heh

In your campaign, I think you'll need to capture Naissos and Odessos to finish off that province.

Yeah, that's my plan, but I want to consolidate first before I campaign against them, build up my armies and all that.

[Impaled Nazarene]

So, it turns out that playing as Pompey is easy. Nobody likes Lepidus who leaves Carthage undefended turns 2 and 3. Octavian sends all his armies up north and fucks off all game and Antony just stays neutral and schemes until he's the only third left. By then the Balkan tribes are big and pick his northern holdings apart. All I have to do is take out Egypt and march through hell Anatolia. GG Pompey has restored the Republic. Even though that's not how the game works.

[Great Houses of Xie]

To be fair, playing as ANY of the Romes is freaking easy, lol, cuz they're so big and they start with already substantial armies/economies. More or less the same thing happened while I'm playing as Zenobia on Legendary as it did playing as Octavian. Marc Antony got sandwiched by myself and Pompey in that campaign; whomever the historical leader is got sandwiched in my Zenobia campaign. In both campaigns, they were pushovers; the final Rome then declared war on me, but by then I'd already gotten so huge that it's too late for them to stop me and my doomstacks/economy

[NeuPolska]

Another reason why we need Stainless Steel to be like Darthmod in that one is made for every Total War

Game gets harder as you get larger and the economy fluctuates instead of just accumulating money