Empire Total War Portugal Episode 3: The March to Victory...

Toreno

Welcome to my Lets Play of Portugal in Empire Total War, with Darthmod!  In this Third Episode, with Spanish attempts to life the siege of Madrid foiled, it is only a matter of time before it will fall to the Portuguese, giving Portugal its first territorial gains of the conflict.  Additional information  Link to Darthmod: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?562420-DOWNLOAD-DarthMod-Empire-v8-0-Platinum  Please note this is an unofficial video and is not endorsed by SEGA or the Creative Assembly in any way. For more information on Total War, please visit www.totalwar.com.  Social Media ⬇️ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Toreno17 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toreno5/videos   Game: Empire Total War  ⬅️

Transcript

00:00Hello everybody and welcome back to this let's play of Portugal in Empire Total War.

00:11When we last left it, we had just won a big battle around Madrid against Spain, had beaten

00:18off some pirates in one of the trade routes and was just getting ready to start investing

00:24in new buildings, checking out research and well, generally moving on with the game.

00:33First of all, I'm going to upgrade the military governor's residence to the military governor's

00:38encampment. That will unlock more troops. We'll get artillery, 12-pounds of artillery,

00:46sepoys, colonial troops, not sure how good these ones are. They're slightly better than

00:53the colonial militia. Not sure what else I can upgrade at the moment, can't upgrade

00:59the roads unfortunately. Could upgrade to a government chamber, better check how much

01:04money I'll get though. I'll get another 2,000 so something to keep above 6,000. That will

01:12add a bit more to tax and unlock us some new infantry. We'll know we've already unlocked

01:18most of that infantry but might as well upgrade it to get the tax boost. It'll take a long

01:26time to pay off but still. We need to recruit some more troops actually. Line infantry definitely.

01:33Could get some cannons but I think I'll wait a little bit. We did finish a building up

01:39here. I think it might have been a weaver's cottage or not entirely sure but we finished

01:44something. Still going for the ring bayonet. I've got to have another go at trying to negotiate

01:50the upgrade powers. I'm just going to pause it while I do that. While I try and negotiate

01:55different technologies I'll resume it when I'm back. Welcome back everyone. Just finished

02:02the diplomatic negotiations. I wasn't actually able to get any new technology. I tried offering

02:08the plug bayonet for new technologies but I did manage to get a bit of money off of

02:13the United Provinces for the plug bayonet. I don't know what they're going to do with

02:18it. I'll say they'll take Spain's bit of land off here. I don't know if they're at war with

02:25Spain still. I'll just check. Yep they're at war with Spain. Oh they're at war with

02:32New Spain. Oh yeah Spain, yeah. So maybe it's because we're allies or something. Couldn't

02:37get any other techs. I was offering the plug bayonet in return and money but none of the

02:46other powers wanted to buy it so I'll just have to research it all myself for the moment.

02:51I'm still trying to get the ring bayonet. Might move on to canister shot afterwards.

02:56Let's just do the end turn. I'll just let it go through Britain and mates and see what

03:02they're doing. After them I will skip it as usual and get back when the action has started.

03:09Welcome back everyone. Nothing really happened in that end turn. This fleet over here was

03:15attacked. Oh let's skip that. Yeah this fleet over here was attacked by Venice but thankfully

03:22it more like a group of war but it was probably right next to Spain so they're out of danger

03:27at the moment. We've got a successful mission. Spain hasn't done anything. I don't know if

03:33these Sarmies over here are going to try and relieve Madrid but for the moment they don't

03:38seem to be doing anything. We've got another trade upgrade I think. We've got some more

03:46line infantry. We're going to send them up. We're going to send them straight up to Madrid

03:52while we recruit the next lot. As you can see we've got quite a big army up there now.

04:00Saxons have just been destroyed. I don't know where they are. They're over here somewhere.

04:05I don't know what province this is. It would have been theirs anyway. Ah they've been taken

04:11by Portugal. I haven't actually sorted out my trade routes. I know I've captured some

04:18ships over in the Ivory Coast. We did capture those ships. The pirates. I'm going to move

04:28some of them to different trade routes to just stop the enemy ships from taking it themselves.

04:36Still get quite a bit of money from it. Let's check over here. We've got some more galleons

04:42here I think. Where is it? They're the galleons I started with. Ah no I didn't start with

04:49that one. It's quite an experienced galleon that one so that's quite good. I'm going to

04:54get the race field one. It's a quite experienced one. And the brig. We're going to put them

05:00over here. This is just to stop the other great pals from grabbing them themselves.

05:04We should still make about the same amount of money. I mean we could just move them to

05:09different places and get a bonus for the more on one spot. As far as I'm aware. Right. What

05:16else do we need? I don't think I need to sort anything else out for this. We haven't got

05:21that much money so I'm going to let that build back up. I'm tempted to attack Madrid. I mean

05:29they're only going to hold out for another three turns. We do outnumber them but they're

05:35still in the trench. I think they lose troops every round. Not every then turn. Not many

05:42but still. I could try demanding their strength but I might wait until the next turn to do

05:49that. I'm going to end the turn. I don't think there's anything else I can do this turn.

05:55I'm just going to let it go through the first few again. I'm just going to pause it again

06:01and I'll get back to you when something happens. I'm just pausing it now. Welcome back everyone.

06:09Well Venice finally decided to attack me again. This time the withdrawal didn't actually take

06:14me all that far away. So I'm going to save the game quick. I'm going to leave a link

06:23to skip this part of the video but for those of you who want to watch I will again be doing

06:31the battle. They've got about four ships and we've got three. I think one of their ships

06:37hasn't even got a cannon. Right we're in the battle now. We're just going to as usual get

06:44them into a line in front of their fleet. Try and cross the T as usual. So they've got

06:52two light galleys, a fifth ray and a brig. I've got a brig, a sloop and a fifth ray.

07:01I can't see these light galleys being too much trouble. Well it depends what cannons

07:07they have but I think in the vanilla Empire Total War, I don't know if it was ever patched

07:11but it turns out they were given something like 128 pounds of cannons. Something ridiculously

07:19big. 64 pounder I think it was sorry. When you consider the biggest cannons most nations

07:25get is about 24 pounders. They were pretty big guns. I can't remember why. I think it

07:32was a glitch in the programming or it had been programmed wrong. But those ships, despite

07:39having relatively few cannons could pack quite a bit of a punch. They could do quite a bit

07:45of damage from long range. I'm hoping Darth Modders fix this. I did use these light galleys

07:52myself in a battle when I used to play this and they were quite effective in a fleet.

07:58They were easy to destroy but they could cause a lot of damage before they went down. Mod

08:04way out of proportion of what they should have caused. But hopefully, like I said, they've

08:09changed that. We're just going to get in front of their fleet, hopefully. They're getting

08:16near us quite quick. We haven't really got the wind in favour of us. As we turn towards

08:23the wind a bit more we might make it a bit better. We're not going straight against the

08:27wind now. We've got a bit of wind but not much. Which isn't helpful but we're not going

08:35to get in front of them. They're just too fast and they've already started firing at

08:42us. Why are these ships slowing down? Right. I don't know if we've even got a shot at them

08:50yet. Oh, we've got some shots at them. But I don't know if we've done anything. I'm going

08:55to try and gradually close the distance between the two fleets. We're still getting shots

09:04off at them but it's all not very accurate. They're all round shots so we're not slowing

09:09them down. I could try switching to chain shot but I'm not sure how much good that's

09:15going to do in the long run. It might be better but I'm not sure if we've closed the range

09:24enough. At this range we're probably just as likely to hit their sails as we are the

09:30actual ships with the round shot. It won't cause as much damage obviously but we're shooting

09:37them off. That ship's fifth rate is already engaging their fifth rate. So I'm going to

09:42get them to try and turn around a little bit. Try and cross their T. I'm going to get these

09:49ones to start closing the distance again. They're doing it in a funny way. I'll click

09:58here and they don't turn for some reason. Switch to chain shot. We should be just about

10:05in range. Let's see. Yep, they're firing. It'll cause a bit of damage. Not enough to

10:12stop them but maybe enough to slow them a bit. Will this ship fire? I might have to

10:20do this manually. When they don't fire I don't know if we're actually out of range. I mean

10:26we can still hit them. I think the AI just decides there's not much chance. I mean there

10:32we still hit them even though the AI reckoned we weren't going to do it. I think I may have

10:38just taken out one of my own sails. That's slightly embarrassing. I'm not sure if it

10:44was me. I mean we were in the way of that quite a bit at the time. That's not very good.

10:52I'll have to look more where I'm shooting at next time. Still got some sails thankfully.

11:03Get a broadside off here. I don't know why we're not firing. Yeah, it did quite a bit

11:08of damage there. This ship, the fifth rate should be in range to take out their sails.

11:15Go on, unfurl your sails while I shoot. Yeah, it did quite a bit of damage there. Took out

11:24one of their rigs. I mean masts, sorry. Bit of their rigging. Not doing so well in nautical

11:31terms today. Got to get them to turn so we can shoot a bit at this one. Maybe get behind

11:40this one, now it's lost a bit of speed. No, no, get behind, not in front. Not attack,

11:46sorry. I'm going to move these ones over here. I'm going to send them to board the galleys.

11:52They only have a very, very few crew. And where their decks are so low, like where their

12:00ships are so low in the water, we should be able to just riddle them or grapeshot. I think

12:04the fifth rate should be able to deal with these two ships, more or less. Just going

12:14to get it behind there. Try and get these ones out of the way of its broadside. It's

12:23causing quite a bit of damage to our brig, which isn't good. Speed it up a little bit

12:28again. Turn it this way so we've got him in our sights. Put our sails away. It'll take

12:42a bit of time for the order to respond, so we should move forward enough by then. This

12:50ship's almost out of the broadside. Ah, he's switched to my sloop now. Which isn't so bad,

12:57I mean it's got less damage, so hopefully it won't cause too much damage. Sorry, hopefully

13:04it won't be as bad in the damage. Brig's started firing. Not sure it's going to cause much

13:09damage, but... well, good effort, I suppose. They've put their sails away, so they're not

13:17going to cause much damage with chain shots. I'm going to switch back to round shot. Try

13:22and take out some of their cannons and crew. You can just see there we've got some good

13:27hits in. And he's got his sails back out. That'll be a good time for the chain shot.

13:35Ah, this ship's basically dead in the water. With its sails gone and going against the

13:43wind. We can get their ships just stuck in place, hopefully through lack of sails or

13:55going against the wind themselves. We should be able to get in the right position to deal

14:02some major damage. I might try and do that now. I mean, the galleys haven't got the problem,

14:07they've got horsemen, so if they haven't got the wind they can just row here. I mean, they've

14:13done it quite well. I mean, they've gone slowly, but they could probably go that much faster

14:19against the wind than we could. Right, I'm going to speed up again. Ah, he's

14:26kind of crossed my T. And he's killed my admiral. Ah, I think he's killed my admiral. That's

14:33good. Hopefully he doesn't cause any morale losses, like cause our sailors to leave the

14:42battle. Caused a bit of damage there. One of their galleys is wavering, so we must

14:51be doing something right over there. And we're boarding their ship. We've got like well over

14:56double their men. Right, let's try and get between these two

15:02ships. We've got the wind with us this time, so we'll cross both their T's hopefully.

15:08Well they're starting to waver as well. We've caused them some damage taking out their guns

15:15and their crew. And now we're parked in the right position to deal damage to this ship.

15:23Yeah, that's quite a bit of damage. Fell our sails away, or put our sails away.

15:30And they're both wavering now. And they're going to take a while to get

15:36out of the way of our ship. Our ship's guns. So we can hopefully cause a bit more damage.

15:43But they're routing now. I mean, we've probably fooled them, but let's see if we can get them

15:50to surrender first. We're going to switch to chain shock so they

15:54can get their sails back out. If we could take out their sails then we could just board

15:58this ship and deal with them on our own. Oh no, they're going to send him after that

16:06one. Doing a bit of damage to their sails, but

16:12not as much as I hoped again. Switch back to round shot perhaps.

16:18They've surrendered. I'm going to send this one to board over here.

16:22By the time it gets there it should be routing. Yeah, it's routing.

16:27I'm just going to go to chain shot again. Switch them all to chain shot actually.

16:35Since we haven't got to worry about them attacking us now.

16:40I don't think any ships have been sunk again. I think traditionally, or historically, it

16:46was the case that most ships were captured in battle.

16:50So I suppose that's not surprising. Because it was quite expensive to build these

16:54ships and they were pretty tough for me. When you think they were just solid bits of

16:59metal each other. Like, unless you actually hulled the ship

17:02or set fire to its magazine it wasn't going to really do that.

17:07It wasn't going to be taken down that easily. Alright, we're going to try and take out their

17:13sails. I'm going to get a bit nearer.

17:16I think he's getting out of range from us now.

17:23Alright, we're going to chase him with the 5th Ray and the Sloop.

17:28We've lost too many guns on the 5th Ray. Briggs lost a few.

17:33The Sloop's lost nearly, well not half, about a quarter.

17:37Between a half and a quarter I'd say.

17:41Alright, we're going to start the board there.

17:45Switch him to Grapeshot just in case something does happen.

17:50Cause the least damage to the ship. Park him alongside with Grapeshot.

17:59They're surrendered so I'll send him to attack with Grapeshot.

18:04Just in case something bad happens. Oh, no, it's won the battle.

18:10We could get 2,000 if we sell all of it. I'm going to add the 5th Ray and the Briggs

18:16and see what that leaves me with. That leaves me with the light galleys.

18:21I'm going to sell them.

18:26Right, I think we've made money for them. I'm not entirely sure.

18:31I'm going to let this keep rolling because we're right at the end of the round.

18:37Oh, we've been locked. Ah, that would be by the Arbury Estates in there.

18:43Oh, we can't get to our ports now. That's not good.

18:47Oh, we've got a gentleman. That's good.

18:50That will help us develop more technologies, I'm hoping.

18:57Yeah, I think that's taken a turn off of the ring bayonet.

19:00We'll have it by the next turn. Just get our saboteurs to do some stuff.

19:07Just get their traits increased.

19:13Yep, there we go. Just quit them.

19:16And check our troops.

19:19Ah, I'm not sure whether to recruit any more troops.

19:23I mean, I could use some more but we're getting to the point where we're going to be losing money.

19:28We're gaining about a thousand every turn, which is not a lot.

19:33Let's just check...

19:36I've tried demanding their surrender, but that didn't work.

19:41They've got two more turns, and that army from Spain came over here for some reason.

19:46There must be a good turn away from here.

19:49I don't know what they're trying to achieve.

19:52It doesn't seem to be making much sense where they've gone.

19:56Let's check out our ships. We could go and blockade Venice.

19:59That might make a peace with them. It might force them out of the war.

20:04I think we can reach them in one turn. Yeah, we can.

20:08Let's just see...

20:10We might get some recon on what the Venetians have.

20:15They've got a fairly strong army.

20:18Oh no, that's mainly garrison troops. They haven't got that much of an army.

20:23They probably could have sent some troops over here to knock them out of the war, but...

20:28Too late now.

20:30And they still would have had over here, I think, anyway.

20:34I'll try and see if I can make peace with any of these enemies.

20:38Venice, Spain, New Spain...

20:41I'll try the Barbary States. I think they actually make peace quite easily.

20:45I might be wrong.

20:48Oh no, I'm not going to pay you that much since you haven't attacked me.

20:53New Spain. Let's see if I can make peace with them.

20:57Nope. I'll try Venice and France.

21:01France hasn't actually done an awful lot. I can only assume Britain's causing a lot of trouble for them,

21:06or they're not really taking part in this war.

21:10I mean, they don't seem to be doing an awful lot.

21:16I'm just going to go to Spain.

21:19Can I actually request... I understand why I asked for regions.

21:24What do they have in...

21:28Their main colonies are Florida, Cuba and Hispanola.

21:34That's probably where the Dominican Republic is.

21:38New Spain hasn't been merged with Spain yet.

21:44They've got all the really good colonies, really.

21:48They've got the good provinces.

21:51New Mexico. Is it New Mexico?

21:54Oh, that's their capital, so I can't demand that anyway.

21:57But yeah, most of the New Mexico and some of these ones are pretty rich territories to capture.

22:04I'm not sure what else I can really do in this turn.

22:09I'm just going to check my fleet.

22:13Brazil, Ivory Coast.

22:15Yeah, this is the fleet I have out in India.

22:18It's not that powerful, but like I said, there's not really much in the way of naval opposition out there.

22:26Let's just check our regions.

22:28The population of Goa is still declining, and so is the tax base, I think.

22:33The wealth. That'll increase it by three.

22:37That'll be virtually stopping it, but not quite stopping it.

22:42And let's just check out what's the largest army we have.

22:47We've got one in outside Madrid still.

22:51I'm going to end this turn.

22:53I'll probably have to end the video after this.

22:56I mean, not much has happened.

22:59I mean, maybe we'll get a battle.

23:01I have to apologise for this video being quite boring.

23:04Ah, that's not good.

23:07But yeah, not much has happened. I can't really help that, I'm afraid.

23:13Ah, there we are.

23:16We can hopefully end this video on a good note.

23:20We have a big battle.

23:23Let's check how many men we have.

23:28We outnumbered them a lot, but I'll do a battle.

23:33Welcome back, everyone.

23:35We're on the same battle map as we were before.

23:38Well, not unexpectedly.

23:40So, pretty much going to be keeping it how it was in the last battle.

23:45For a few changes.

23:46One, I can put my cannons up here, where they're a bit more safer.

23:49Now that we've got less of them.

23:51Well, we've got one of them.

23:55I'm going to move the cavalry up here.

23:59We've got some new troops as well.

24:01We've got the militia.

24:03We've got line infantry.

24:05So they can hopefully take the brunt from the Irish Brigade.

24:10How many line infantry have we got?

24:12We've got two.

24:13I'm going to put one on each flank and build the rest in with militia.

24:18Keep my Irish Brigade infantry sort of as a reserve.

24:23Like last time, I'm going to have to wait until the battle has started before I can place these troops properly.

24:30I've actually got more troops than I know what to do with.

24:34I'm going to go up here again.

24:36I haven't got a general's bodyguard this time, which is not so good.

24:42I'm going to put them all up here behind the perimeter for the moment.

24:45Then I can just keep them as a general reserve.

24:48Place them in battle as and when I need them.

24:51Well, except the guerrillas.

24:53They can go up there.

24:55There's less of them this time, but they can still deal some damage from longer range.

25:01Line infantry are going to be the ones doing the brunt of the fighting up here, I hope.

25:08I don't want to rely on militias too much.

25:13I suppose some of these troops around here could...

25:16I could assault the fort again, though.

25:18Like I said in the last video, it was assaulting the fort in another battle of this.

25:23Right, one of the previous battles that caused it to crash in the first place.

25:27I'm wondering whether to just destroy them all on the battlefield.

25:32There's that mortar.

25:34There's their one mortar they have.

25:36I thought they had more than one in the...

25:39Oh, maybe they died of attrition.

25:42I think they only had like...

25:44Oh no, Dad.

25:45There was a three-man one and a ten-man one.

25:48Maybe they've just done what they did last time and sent them into battle as foot soldiers.

25:53Which is pretty wasteful, but...

25:56Well, I'm not going to stop them from doing it if it gives me an easy victory.

26:01Easy kills.

26:03They haven't got any reinforcements coming for them this time, so that's a good thing.

26:08I could try and batter down some of the walls over here.

26:12I mean, they're out of range at the moment.

26:15Oh, there they are. There's their mortar crew.

26:18Yeah, I'm going to stop attacking the wall for the minute.

26:21I thought it would be out of...

26:23I was going to attack it while the troops were out of range, but they've just come into range.

26:28Maybe their mortar's been destroyed. I don't know.

26:32Maybe they've patched and sent them in as foot soldiers.

26:37As usual, I'll just wipe them out pretty quickly.

26:42Send another lot of troops to...

26:45Send the Irish Brigade just to finish off the little perimeter here.

26:49Only a little gap there that I doubt they'd be able to take advantage of.

26:54Get my horsemen into ranks near the enemy.

27:00They seem to be charging all at once, which is...

27:03If they'd done that in the last battle, they would have easily won.

27:06Or at least caught me to lose a lot more troops in the process.

27:12I mean, they would have won, or I would have won a pyrrhic victory.

27:18I mean, I did lose half my troops. I suppose you could argue that was a pyrrhic victory.

27:23But I had reinforcements. They didn't.

27:26I had a few line infantry on the way to battle.

27:29Their army had to retreat from battle.

27:33Honestly, I thought it would turn back up again and attack and try to relieve the fort.

27:39But it seems to have gone off on a wander about.

27:42Maybe it got destroyed by the British or the Netherlands.

27:46Or the United Provinces, as they're called in this game.

27:49But I digress.

27:53They're gone, so I'll just deal with the remnants in the fort.

27:59Their mortars are about to reach here.

28:03I'm not sure why they've gone well ahead of the enemy army.

28:06I don't know if they're running and walking, or if they're being kept back to launch one big attack.

28:13This does seem rather wasteful.

28:16I mean, they barely got in range and they were just massacred.

28:21Half of them dead.

28:24I forgot a lot of these guerrillas had slightly better range.

28:27I mean, they've done very well.

28:30I'm surprised they only got a little bit of experience.

28:33Although, I suppose with massed volleys, like when they were going into battle against the other line infantry,

28:39they were probably losing quite a few troops and not causing as many casualties.

28:44They're probably better for going against generals or something.

28:49They just need to get a few shots off to kill one or two highly important people or something.

28:56I'm not sure they're so good at the whole not standing in line and fighting it out.

29:02The enemy's starting their line up.

29:05I'm just speeding it up a little bit because they're taking quite a while to deploy this time.

29:10They're definitely thinking it through a lot better.

29:13Last time it was just some random charge at one time that just didn't seem to work.

29:19I'm going to try and start moving my cavalry up a little bit.

29:22Try and attack some of their armed citizens.

29:27They're the most numerous, I think.

29:30I think there's 400 there and 200 there.

29:34Oh, I forgot to speed it up.

29:37I forgot to put it to normal speed.

29:39I could deal with them. Get them routed.

29:41I mean, there's lots of them, but they're not very strong.

29:45If they were going to win, they're just going to win through sheer weight of numbers.

29:50But if I can just get them to rout, or at least deal some damage to them...

29:55Oh, we've lost our general. That's annoying.

29:59Literally the first person to die. That's even more annoying.

30:03I'm going to pull them back and let the cannon deal with these lot.

30:09Oh, we're not running. We're just marching alongside.

30:13I'm not sure how that works, but...

30:16We're still killing most of them.

30:19It didn't seem like we were doing much when we were attacking.

30:22Now we're retreating and doing even better.

30:25They're not even fighting back.

30:28They killed my general and then they've just wandered off.

30:31Well, not wandered off, but just marching alongside.

30:35And I've killed someone now.

30:38Which isn't good, but still.

30:41Get them to retreat properly now, hopefully.

30:44Before the guerrillas start opening fire.

30:47I'll send them this way, so we don't get stuck in the crossfire.

30:51So we don't get stuck behind them troops.

30:55And hopefully at a range of them before they start attacking me.

31:00Oh, they're chasing me.

31:04I'm not sure what they're trying to achieve, but...

31:08They're almost at my lines.

31:12Cannon's not going to be able to fight them too much longer.

31:17But the guerrillas have started opening fire.

31:20That's good.

31:23Let's make sure they're all on guard mode.

31:26Because I did have this problem where they were not on guard mode.

31:31I think it was the militia that... yeah, that's it.

31:34Militias that aren't on guard mode.

31:37That would have broken my line and my troops would have run off after the enemy.

31:42So that would be quite bad.

31:45They're starting to open fire at them.

31:48They're starting to cause some casualties.

31:54Pull my guerrillas back a bit.

31:58That's the best angle I'm going to get.

32:01Pull them back to draw them into my militia's fire.

32:10They're just outside their range, but...

32:13If I pull the guerrillas back a bit they should be forced to follow them.

32:18Almost there.

32:21Just in range now.

32:24They're not going to cause much damage from that range, but...

32:27Better have them fire and miss most of their shots than not fire and hit most of them.

32:36I think they're coming after my cavalry.

32:39They seem to have some odd priorities.

32:42They've got three lines of infantry here and then they've gone straight towards my cavalry.

32:49That is actually doing an awful lot.

32:52Perhaps they just remembered what happened in the last battle where I sent them to flank them all the time.

32:58Maybe they've just seen there's a larger threat.

33:01They've turned around now so I will try and flank them.

33:04They're getting hit by friendly fire I think.

33:09They're starting to try and shoot at them again I think.

33:14We're going to have to deal with them.

33:16They're already wavering, or they were wavering, so I don't think they're going to stay where they were for much longer.

33:23So we'll cause some casualties while we can.

33:26Hopefully we can get them routing.

33:31They're routing so we'll get some of them and then attack the citizens from the rear.

33:40Let's see how things are going over here.

33:43Not an awful lot is happening.

33:46I've got my pikemen still here.

33:49They could go and battle and attack.

33:53I think while they're retreating I will send some forces at least to capture the walls of the fort.

34:00Lock the enemy out so they can't retreat after that.

34:07Or I'll be able to lock them out of their own fort and then just watch them attack the fort.

34:15Which would be rather ironic.

34:22Where are they forming up?

34:25Ah, they're forming up to attack.

34:28That's not good.

34:31Let's attack them from the rear.

34:36Or the flank.

34:38Whatever happens to be easiest.

34:44Alright, we're starting to get some casualties on them.

34:48Now let's switch to these ones.

34:51Before we get too bogged down in the fighting.

34:55Cavalry seems to work best when you're just in the initial charge and first melee.

35:02Once you stick around they start to suffer quite a lot of casualties.

35:10Oh, I thought I was attacking their rear.

35:13We're right next to them now, we're going to have to charge and run.

35:18And their firelock citizenry have turned to the battles we've just seen.

35:28And probably fled again.

35:30They don't seem to be able to make up their mind.

35:35Bring the cavalry out of there.

35:38They cause some casualties but they don't seem to be working as they once were.

35:45Ah, they're...

35:47When I sent them out I wasn't expecting their citizenry to still be there.

35:52Alright, I'll get them moving again.

35:55Alright, they can take the left wall.

35:57They were taking the right wall.

36:02I could just turn around and shoot these ones quick.

36:11Our cavalry is still under fire.

36:13The enemy is definitely acting a lot smarter this time.

36:16They're not just juking it out.

36:19They are keeping their distance.

36:21They do know how.

36:23They realise how I numbered them and they know they're not going to win a full frontal attack.

36:28Although they did at the beginning seem to be using them sort of tactics.

36:33I did think they were going to do one massed attack at first.

36:39Not sure whether to charge in yet with the infantry.

36:45Hopefully a cavalry can finish these ones off.

36:49Hopefully one last charge will get them routing.

36:52If not, charge these from the rear.

36:56Right, they're routing.

36:59These can shift their fire over there.

37:03Which they already seem to be doing.

37:06I'll send the cavalry to...

37:08Oh no, the cavalry is routing.

37:10I mean, they did good.

37:12I think I've not used them so well in this battle.

37:16But we basically got them routing as well.

37:20It all turned out well in the end anyway.

37:24Right, I'm going to get them...

37:26Oh no, I won't get them to run, I'll just skip forward.

37:29Just make sure no enemies have stopped running.

37:33Hopefully I can get my cavalry to return to battle.

37:38Right.

37:40Just these mortar crew again.

37:43I'm really worried about whether to attack them.

37:46After what happened last time with the crash, and the cavalry has left the battle.

37:52Mortars have started firing.

37:55They're going to cause some casualties.

37:58I might make them run the last little distance.

38:01Just to get them on the walls and away from the mortar.

38:06Well, hopefully within too close of the mortar to fire.

38:10I'm not sure if there is a too close to fire sort of range.

38:14I know of cannons that fire right up to your point blank.

38:18But obviously mortars have to fire straight up.

38:22I'm not sure they can do it at such a steep angle.

38:27I'm not sure they're actually firing that either.

38:31They're firing, I don't know if it's against those troops there.

38:35Or these ones here.

38:38Right, we're starting to climb up the walls.

38:41I'll send them into the courtyard.

38:44Right, most of them are on the walls.

38:47Yeah, we've captured them now.

38:50So they're locked in basically.

38:53They could recapture the walls I suppose quite easily.

38:56But they're locked in for the most part.

38:59Get these men to line up to shoot there.

39:03Get these ones to run the last little distance.

39:06Get these running.

39:09I'll get them running because they're all getting bottlenecked on there.

39:12I don't want a rogue mortar shot to deal loads of damage.

39:19Especially not once we're right at the end of the battle.

39:24They seem to be stuck a little bit.

39:27Looks like they're trying to run into that building.

39:30Not sure why.

39:33Ordered them over here.

39:36Right, get them over there, run them.

39:39Get these ones to turn into this building.

39:42Hopefully we can start shooting at their mortars now.

39:48Hopefully it won't crash this time.

39:51I mean, last time it happened was when I did a bayonet attack.

39:55Do it in slow motion for this.

39:58Just to see the volley.

40:07Right, definitely looks good.

40:10Right, definitely looks good.

40:16And...

40:19They're broken.

40:22Hopefully we can gun down the last few of them as they run.

40:25Just in case they change their mind again.

40:30And end the battle.

40:33Heroic victory.

40:36We won quite a big victory, only lost 100 men.

40:40Not surprisingly.

40:43Who also got the most kills?

40:46They also got quite a lot of experience, as did some of these.

40:49The enemy were basically...

40:52They lost a lot of their troops.

40:55I'd say three quarters of their troops are gone now.

40:58I think I could just auto-resolve the next battle.

41:01It would quite easily take Madrid.

41:04That would be a good ending for the episode as well.

41:07I was hoping to just take Madrid in that battle.

41:10But I didn't see a timer when I got my men into the fort.

41:13But I didn't see a timer when I got my men into the fort.

41:16So I don't know if that's changed in Dark Mod.

41:19Just going to see if anything happens quickly.

41:22Might as well keep it rolling now.

41:25I mean, I might pause it if it starts getting too tedious.

41:28Seems like we're just going through the last few minor actions.

41:31Seems like we're just going through the last few minor actions.

41:34I mean, we're not lying of sight on most of them.

41:37I mean, we're not lying of sight on most of them.

41:40Except the Moogles and maybe a few others.

41:43So it should just go through here very quickly.

41:46So it should just go through here very quickly.

41:49We might get attacked by Venice or the pirates.

41:52But I don't see much happening.

41:55I mean, I can't think what the pirates might do.

41:58I mean, I'd rather not attack my fleets as usual.

42:02And we've unlocked the ring bayonet.

42:05That will definitely help our troops.

42:08Now we won't have to use the plug bayonet, which is quite good.

42:11Now we won't have to use the plug bayonet, which is quite good.

42:14And... ah, that wasn't good.

42:17We've just failed at sabotaging.

42:20And we've just lost our agent in Goa.

42:23That's not such a good place to end the video.

42:26Let's just check.

42:29Let's just change our research quickly.

42:32I'm going to go for Canister Shop.

42:35That will help unlock the Hordant Factory.

42:38I could go for Military Syllabus.

42:41But that would increase the cost, which I don't want at the moment.

42:44But that would increase the cost, which I don't want at the moment.

42:47And we've been blockaded by Spain, which will lead to quite a heavy loss.

42:50And we've been blockaded by Spain, which will lead to quite a heavy loss.

42:53In finance terms. Ah, that's not so good.

42:56And our fleet's all the way up here.

42:59And we can't reach it, because...

43:02Well, I'm not entirely sure why.

43:05It says Britain, but Britain's our ally.

43:08So I don't know why it's saying we can't get past the British fleet.

43:11We'll just check what the odds of winning this battle are.

43:14We'll just check what the odds of winning this battle are.

43:17I think I'll auto-resolve this battle. I'll save it just in case.

43:20There's only Firelock Infantry.

43:24And this is a good place to end the video.

43:27Victory against Spain.

43:30I'll end the video here, and do all the negotiations in the next one.

43:33I'll end the video here, and do all the negotiations in the next one.

43:36Thanks for watching.

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