LegendofTotalWar does Historical Battles on Legendary

**Modestus** · May 23, 2014, 10:16 AM

The AI looks terrible in the Carthage battle does not appear to have any tactical awareness whatsoever, some of the AI units on the wall don’t seem to even fight back when attacked.

Something that was suggested could be a problem even before the game was released was that multiply capture points would divide the AI and allow the player to defeat its army piecemeal.

You had some nice little tricks but the AI is comatose.

**totalwar_legend** · May 23, 2014, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by Modestus

The AI looks terrible in the Carthage battle does not appear to have any tactical awareness whatsoever, some of the AI units on the wall don’t seem to even fight back when attacked.

Something that was suggested could be a problem even before the game was released was that multiply capture points would divide the AI and allow the player to defeat its army piecemeal.

You had some nice little tricks but the AI is comatose.

Yes there is pretty much no AI in the siege of carthage. But that still doesn't make it easy. They outpower you by a huge amount. Straight out attack can't work. You have to take them apart piece by piece.

**Lugotorix** · May 25, 2014, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by totalwar_legend

Yes there is pretty much no AI in the siege of carthage. But that still doesn't make it easy. They outpower you by a huge amount. Straight out attack can't work. You have to take them apart piece by piece.

I watched about a tenth of the video until you ordered your Triarii in. Everything was in hand until a path-finding error with the mounted general and bodyguard triggered the counter-attack. I'm pretty sure I can do it like cake now on normal if I proceed cautiously. Thanks!

That far west tower can hit the capture point if you take it.

**Ano2** · May 23, 2014, 08:20 AM

Why do Legend's videos keep making it to the front page news? Has TWC just become his self-promotional site? There are tons of mods that could use publicity yet week after week we just get more this crap.

**totalwar_legend** · May 23, 2014, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by Ano2

Why do Legend's videos keep making it to the front page news? Has TWC just become his self-promotional site? There are tons of mods that could use publicity yet week after week we just get more this crap.

I post requests for front page announcements on these videos because they were heavily requested of me to do. I have also been covering a few mods as well. They make it to the front page because the majority of people want to see it. Some people don't want to, and that's fine. I don't try please everyone, that would be impossible. About half the posts on the front pages are mod promotions so I don't understand what you're going on about.

**DarrenTotalWar** · May 23, 2014, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by Ano2

Why do Legend's videos keep making it to the front page news? Has TWC just become his self-promotional site? There are tons of mods that could use publicity yet week after week we just get more this crap.

The goal of TWC isn't just to showcase mods, but also videos and content that people may be interested in. It's up to the modders to ask for their stuff to be promoted on the front page, and if they don't someone in content staff will usually bring it to the news teams attention. Also, if a mod is in progress and doesn't have anything substantial to show yet, it isn't really front page worthy.

Legend posts multiple videos a day, from just a quick scroll on the front page, his post was on 23rd of May and I cannot find a second post currently on the front page that goes as far back as the 7th of May. So worst case scenario, right now you are seeing a piece of content from him once every 2 weeks.

Legend is also a very well respected up and coming YouTuber with a dedicated following and it makes sense for TWC to help him out, and for him to help TWC out.

I dunno what you think of my videos, but I am on the front page a lot, this is because I try to provide more of a service to TWC and less of an entertainment show, that being one of reviews, discussions and guides.

Furthermore, we (content staff) also have a very cool series of videos planned for specific to TWC members coming soon that has a huge amount of work going into it from what I have seen so far.

This is total war center. A place for all things Total War. (and the community surrounding it). We show something on the front page almost every day, and if you were to show a new mod every day, by my count, we'd run out of fresh mods in about 2 months. To fill the gaps, we have entertainment, guides and news.

Hope that clears some stuff up, lastly don't call anyones stuff crap, it's just rude. Criticize it for what it is, bring up points etc. don't just dismiss it as crap.

**Earl Dibbles Jr** · May 23, 2014, 10:23 AM

I don't understand why some of you guys are ripping on legend. Is the AI idiotic? Yep, but that doesn't mean that beating it when it has ridiclious stat boosts is easy...

**riskymonk** · May 23, 2014, 02:03 PM

These historical battles must leave the dev team watching a little red faced. They did their best to programme the AI so that we could get an epic siege or a bloody battle on the field and be a part of ancient history's most famous battles. Anyway well done at least not many players can do these on legendary.

**akma** · May 23, 2014, 03:48 PM

"stacks" of frustrated people around here.
I bet that most of u were unable to beat the AI in those battles.

congrats Legend for yet another nice battle and vid.

**m_1512** · May 23, 2014, 07:27 PM

@legend: Did you consider trying the same on Divide et Impera mod? The mod makes both the campaign and battle AI challenging.

**totalwar_legend** · May 23, 2014, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by m_1512

@legend: Did you consider trying the same on Divide et Impera mod? The mod makes both the campaign and battle AI challenging.

Yes, its on my to do list. With Rome 2 at the moment I'm focusing on multiplayer campaigns and historical battles. I'm also focusing on returning to earlier titles. Many of my subscribers are a little bored with Rome 2 at the moment.

**riskymonk** · May 24, 2014, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by totalwar_legend

Yes, its on my to do list. With Rome 2 at the moment I'm focusing on multiplayer campaigns and historical battles. I'm also focusing on returning to earlier titles. Many of my subscribers are a little bored with Rome 2 at the moment.

No silly we're bored of you going up against the AI. We wanna see you up against players of your calibre. When you went up against delicious that was like gold dust and you did fantastic considering how much h2h experience he has. The campaign battles were better than any online battles we see.

**totalwar_legend** · May 24, 2014, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by riskymonk

No silly we're bored of you going up against the AI. We wanna see you up against players of your calibre. When you went up against delicious that was like gold dust and you did fantastic considering how much h2h experience he has. The campaign battles were better than any online battles we see.

Everyone wants something different. I have a h2h running at the moment as well with DarrenTotalWar. And don't call me silly.

**riskymonk** · May 27, 2014, 04:58 AM

Originally Posted by totalwar_legend

Everyone wants something different. I have a h2h running at the moment as well with DarrenTotalWar. And don't call me silly.

No cutie pie, if they wanna watch players playing against the AI and empty their range ammo before moving in with infantry then they can watch any 1 of the gazillion youtubers who do let's play campaigns. The difficulty determines how long the campaign will go on for, not how good it'll be. You are so cute when you say silly things.

**Macrath** · May 28, 2014, 10:46 AM

Good video. The cities in Rome 2 look amazing. Now if they can make the AI look better than RomeTW's AI we will be in business lol. Seriously there should not be single soldiers getting stuck on walls still, that has been a TW problem since day 1. This video was not only a great example of how to win this battle but it's also a good example of exactly the things that need to be fixed. Currently battles such as this are won simply because the AI does not react properly to attacks. Granted all leaders will have weaknesses in their battle tactics to exploit but thats not what we do in Rome 2, it's not a strategic exploit of an enemies weakness but a simple lack of a valid AI to respond tactically to attacks.

All in all i enjoyed the video and Rome 2 certainly looks like a lot of fun. Granted CA has not made improvements in ALL areas we would like to see but the battle environments and graphical details are just spectacular, and certainly a step in the right direction. I think most people rage so hard at CA and Rome 2 simply because of how much CA Devs hyped up this super new and intelligent AI when really it isn't all that much improved over previous TW titles. Quite similar to how EA advertised their AI for Madden 25 but when you play the game none of the new amazing AI features are present, instead you simply get the AI from Madden 2005. I just wonder if perhaps they put too much effort into making the game look great when clearly the majority of TW players would be happy with a full overhaul of the AI instead of a major graphics overhaul. FPS games focus solely on Graphics, let's keep the focus of TW on strategic gameplay CA