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Videodiario con le battaglie storiche per Total War: Attila.
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00:00Well, I'm a fan of drama.
00:03You are dramatic.
00:05Yes, I'm a fan of Jack Bauer.
00:07You are, probably uncomfortably so.
00:09Which explains why we are now being divided into four parts through space and time
00:14and have a clock ticking over.
00:16Because it's 24!
00:1824 episodes of Rally Point was the point that I was very slowly and painfully labouring to.
00:28Right, we have a lot to cover.
00:31We've got a lot to talk about and we've got a lot to recap.
00:33So, can we please warm up the recaps-mobile?
00:38It's going.
00:39Yeah, that was me just putting the recap-mobile in gear.
00:41Now let's careen down Recap Street.
00:43Okay.
00:44Wildly.
00:45So, just swerving to avoid Total War Battles Kingdom there, which we announced.
00:50Dude, what is Total War Battles Kingdom?
00:51So it's a persistent online strategy game where basically the world is persistent.
00:57So you log off, you go do stuff, you come back and stuff has happened to your realm as you've
01:01been building it.
01:01Indeed.
01:02It's pretty awesome.
01:02Based in the 10th century.
01:04We've got medieval knights, there's terraforming and there's conquest.
01:07Everything you've hoped and dreamed of and more.
01:09Total War Arena.
01:11That is the next one.
01:12Well, we blew the lid straight off that with a load more information on that.
01:15People have been playing it, we've had the closed alpha and that's been going down really well.
01:18We are talking monstrous online battles of ten men a side, each with their own commander, three units and buckets
01:25of death!
01:26It's wicked fun, three units is actually really, really fun to control.
01:29They have special abilities and stuff, it's good.
01:31It's really in depth.
01:32We'll be rolling out the closed alpha to more people soon, so you'll get to go hands-on with it
01:35hopefully pretty soon.
01:37Yeah, so we had them a boat in San Francisco, we also had one at the British Museum in London.
01:41Indeed, both of which were spectacular.
01:43So we had press and select community come along and play all of those games we've just talked about.
01:48And they got a load of time with Total War Atilla.
01:52Total War Atilla which is coming out very soon.
01:54In fact, February 17th.
01:55Oh wow, that is hella soon.
02:01Now, we've been playing Atilla.
02:03Yes, it's freaking hard.
02:04It is very, very hard.
02:05And do you know who knows most of all about how hard it is?
02:07That would be Simon Mann!
02:09Simon Mann, who is the man.
02:10And he's going to be talking through the five hardest things in Total War Atilla.
02:16Cool, my name's Simon Mann, designer on Total War Atilla, and I'm going to talk to you about my five
02:20favourite features and challenges in the game.
02:26So, first of all is sieging the unique settlements.
02:29I think it's a real challenging situation.
02:32Each of these settlements has been built to be a kind of unique scenario that the player's got to play
02:36through.
02:37So, settlements like Ravenna, for example, you've got swampland surrounding, which slows down all your units, meaning you take more
02:43damage while attacking.
02:45You've then got Rome, which is kind of the old capital of the Roman Empire.
02:49And it's kind of huge, it's large, and the walls are actually very difficult to take.
02:54They're quite sporadic and spread out.
02:56It's not a long circumference.
02:58And you've really got to use the siege escalation to take these settlements, similar to Constantinople, where the Theodicium walls
03:04make it really difficult to get in.
03:06But after escalation occurs, you've built ramps, and it actually makes it easier for you to get your siege equipment
03:11and siege towers up to the walls and into the settlement.
03:17So I suppose my second biggest challenge is going to be playing as the Western Roman Empire.
03:21It's our first legendary start pos.
03:23It's really difficult.
03:24So, all the other factions, especially the barbarian tribes, like the Saxons and the Picts and things like that, are
03:30all trying to take chunks out of your empire.
03:31You've got to survive and hold on until you're powerful enough to actually spread back out and reintroduce yourself as
03:39one of the major factions of the game.
03:40And you've got to deal with everyone hating you, but at the same time deal with the internal politics.
03:45So, at the time kind of the empire was weak, this is a whole new leadership, and you've actually got
03:50to try and manage the different kind of parties and political factions within your own empire.
03:55And balance that while trying to fight a war on all fronts.
03:58So it's kind of like internally and externally everything is in strife, and it's a very difficult kind of game
04:04to play.
04:07My third biggest point is climate change.
04:09Now, this is nature itself almost kind of rising up against you, and you've got to deal with the snow
04:15line moving south.
04:16Winter's getting colder, your armies are taking damage.
04:19So, as the kind of game shifts and move forward, like, your fertility is going to lower across your provinces.
04:25This lowered fertility means you've got less food, so you could be producing lots of food from your farms, and
04:30then in a single turn suddenly, it's all gone.
04:33You've got to restructure and rebuild, so you don't get these famines occurring, which lower army recruitment, stop growth.
04:40You know, these are really horrible things to get, and it's a real challenge to try and deal with the
04:44problem when it arises.
04:46But also, as well as that, you've got to deal with things like disease.
04:48So, you know, you're going to catch diseases, they're going to spread to different factions, to your own troops, to
04:53your characters,
04:54and you've got to kind of deal with that challenge, and the fact that your kind of ground is shifting
04:59under your feet, as it were,
05:00and there's very little you can do about it, you've just got to kind of hold on and survive.
05:06I think kind of my fourth biggest challenge is playing as a horde.
05:09So, as a horde, you're really vulnerable, right?
05:11You only have one or two armies, and you have no cities or walls to hide behind.
05:15You've also got to kind of rely on other factions' lands in order to survive.
05:19So, when you encamp to get your growth and build your buildings, which give you some of your finance, you
05:25know, you're making enemies of the people whose lands you've settled in.
05:28But you've also got to kind of move along with the climate change, right?
05:30So, as the fertility lowers, you're going to be moving through hostile lands, and lands that will become hostile by
05:35your presence.
05:36They'll start hating you because you're there, and using up all their resources.
05:40So, you've got to deal with that, and try and balance keeping yourself alive against kind of not making too
05:46many enemies,
05:46and then finally coming down on you, because once there is a concerted effort to destroy a horde, the horde
05:51will not survive.
05:54So, I think one of, if not the biggest challenge in the game is going to be Attila and the
05:58hordes, the Huns.
06:00They're going to be coming down from Scythia, and they're going to start striking at your lands, creating a swathe
06:04of destruction,
06:05which you've really got to hold on, right? You've got to kind of handle this wave and just deal with
06:10it.
06:10You won't be able to kind of fully push them back. You've got to just keep defending, keep on the
06:14defensive, and hold out against them.
06:16But also things like, if you're the Romans, for example, they have faction traits which will actually lower your morale
06:21when fighting them.
06:23So, you know, you really should be scared. This is the apocalypse coming for you.
06:32So, we haven't really talked much about the historical battles in Total War Attila,
06:35so we thought today we will change all that, me and James, by showing you some of the battles that
06:39are in the game.
06:41So, James, there's a few historical battles in Attila, isn't there?
06:44Yeah, we've got Nine, which is a bit more than was in Rome, too.
06:48It spans about 170 years of history.
06:51So, you have some of the big battles of the time.
06:54Adrianople, which is the first time a Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire, emperor was killed in battle, killing the Goths.
07:03Ouch.
07:03And we've got a few of us. We've got, at the very end, we've got a battle where Justinian tries
07:10to reconquer Carthage.
07:13And, yeah, but today we're going to go with the Huns versus the Western Roman Empire in goal.
07:19Nice.
07:19We're going to play on the Catalonian Plains, and we are going to be, we're going to be playing on
07:25hard.
07:25On hard? Yeah.
07:26What could possibly go wrong?
07:28Okay, so James, quite an important battle, historically, this one, right?
07:32Very. Up until this point, the Huns had pretty much been a very big foreign side of the Western Roman
07:40Empire.
07:41They'd fought with the Eastern Roman Empire, and now they've got a confederation of Germanic tribes, and they're pushing into
07:48goal, and this is the Roman response.
07:50So you've got the Visigoths alongside you as well, fighting by your side. It's quite an unusual setup, really, isn't
07:55it?
07:56Surprising allies for the Romans, but, you know, at the same time, the Huns were not just a problem to
08:01the Romans, they were a problem to everyone in the region.
08:04They forced a lot of peoples to come further into the Empire to seek shelter away from the Huns, because
08:10the Huns were just a different kind of enemy.
08:13I guess it's one of those kind of key moments in history where it's like the battle lines have been
08:16drawn and, you know, choose your allies and make a stand.
08:19And it seems to me like it was a bit of a stand from the Western Roman Empire against the
08:24huge kind of might of Attila and the threat that he posed to civilization, really.
08:29Yeah, I mean, he was very content with just destroying, but at the same time he was trying to form
08:35his own kind of Hunnic Empire.
08:38And the Visigoths probably didn't figure too big into that plan, and especially the king who's took to the field
08:44today pretty much does not like the Huns.
08:48The Visigoth king is actually involved.
08:49He is, and historically he died in the battle.
08:52Well, let's hope that doesn't happen today.
08:54Yeah, and also in the battle, if I remember rightly, Attila himself was driven from a field and had to
09:02seek Secretary in his camp.
09:05So he was driven from the battle himself.
09:07Well, I don't think we'll feel too bad if that happens.
09:09I'd like to kill him in this one if I get the chance, and I can see him up here.
09:13Yeah, it looks like they're making some early starts, the Huns there, Raiders kind of smashing into those Visigoth forces
09:19on the right.
09:19Yeah, and they're smashing into infantry, not spearmen, so they're actually causing quite a lot of damage.
09:24And I almost had the same thing happen to me over here.
09:27You pull that back, I need to get my spear units engaged here.
09:31As you've seen me, I have fought this battle a few times, and every so often I'll forget to block
09:38this cavalry charge, and my infantry take a lot of damage for it.
09:43So they're using diamond formation though, which is quite interesting.
09:45It's useful, but you don't really block the skirmishers quite so well, and that leads to a lot more casualties.
09:52Yeah, I guess if you've got a lot of sides open to you, then you're going to take a lot
09:54of missile damage.
09:55Yeah, most definitely, and you can see initially driven off that cavalry charge, and I've still got my units here,
10:02but I'm going to have to march forward here.
10:04I've got this large cavalry contingent here, so I kind of want to help my allies.
10:08So is that your goal with those cavalry there, you're just trying to support them as the gods really, and
10:12keep that flank from collapsing?
10:14Yeah, I don't really want my allies to break too early, and that is something that can happen, especially under
10:19the Huns.
10:21Their cavalry is just so strong, so they do have a habit of really just moving forward.
10:26But these battles are very dynamic, so what we've had in the past is we've had battles where it's scripted,
10:33which basically means you play it a few times, you kind of get an understanding of how the air is
10:36going to play.
10:37These are not scripted, so even though there are certain events sometimes, which might be, like...
10:44How the battle starts?
10:46The battle starts and certain terrain features they might go for, but at the same time you also have like
10:51Adrian Opel,
10:53you have cavalry that eventually turns up in the field, but in reality the way the air reacts and the
10:58way the air fights is different every time.
11:02Which is really good because you can't get into those situations where you're just reading a response and playing the
11:08same battle twice.
11:09Every time I've played this battle it's played completely different.
11:12Yeah.
11:13So, interesting question for you here. If you were playing against Attila in a multiplayer game, and you looked at
11:20his army setup here, what do you make of it?
11:23How has he done historically versus what the Total War multiplayer community would put up?
11:27I think the Total War multiplayer community, if they were fighting with the armies they generally have, they would do
11:32quite well because we have a lot of good micro.
11:34But when the armies they took to the field, the Huns, a lot of skirmishes, and that used to frustrate
11:42a lot of these armies historically.
11:44Because, you know, as good as their cavalry might be sometimes, they were never really able to deal with the
11:51kind of hit and run tactics of the steppe tribes and that caused them a lot of problems.
11:57You can see right now, I'm trying to catch this group of horse archers, but if I chase after them
12:01I'm just going to get in a stern chase and it's just going to not end very well for me.
12:05Yeah, I guess that's part of the goal as well with the skirmishers, to try and lure you away from
12:10having a solid line, to make you chase them and then end up with a situation where if they come
12:14back at you, you're not going to be quite as ready to deal with it.
12:17Most definitely, and this fight's devolved into two big skirmishers here, and Attila himself is just sitting there.
12:24My general is getting picked out by a lot of skirmishers, and even my infantry at the centre here is
12:29buckling with a lot of the barbarian infantry that they've brought to the field.
12:34is causing me a lot of issues, so I'm going to take a run and try and get Attila here,
12:39and drive them from the field.
12:40I guess that's one of your best shots, isn't it? If you can knock out Attila himself, then that's going
12:44to be a massive loss for them.
12:46A huge one, a massive morale loss for them as well. There's some elite Ozagoth pikemen in the centre over
12:53there, which is causing me a lot of issues, so I'm not really having much luck.
12:56But my general's starting to do hammer and anvil over on this side, which is very good.
13:01Hopefully I'll be able to break a few of these, and with my allies, maybe even manage to get victory
13:07here.
13:09But you can see my left flank is completely shattered right now. It's falling back under the pressure, and with
13:15that I'm going to start pulling back a bit, I think.
13:18But some of my units are just skirmishers now, and they've got no ammo, so they're pretty useless.
13:23Just get them stuck in there, come on. Send me in.
13:29It's a big, messy fight, and without any of the cavalry being on the field, they're getting chased off.
13:35But you can just see here, the Hunnic cavalry trying to chase down the skirmishers are just being picked off
13:40in this stern chase.
13:42Yeah, this is not really good for them. That's not the kind of encounter you really want.
13:47But over here, yeah, we've finished off the majority of the infantry of the Huns.
13:53But, yeah, there you go, the General, the King of Agosses fell.
13:58He's gone.
13:59And that's going to be dangerous for the rest of his army.
14:04I'm going to go down here and try and deal with what's left.
14:06It looks like you're doing alright here, actually. I mean, the bulk of the Vatellis forces that came here, you
14:10seem to have actually managed to deal with.
14:12I've seen this go a few different ways.
14:14The problem we have now is a lack of real cavalry in skirmish, so I can end up being just
14:24willed away once again by just constant harassment from the range units that they have left.
14:29So is it a valid strategy, do you think, in this kind of battle, to go through the skirmish as
14:33far as maybe a crack on them, or is it okay?
14:35Well, then they just run away from me.
14:38You've got to be very careful with your cavalry, so I'm hopefully going to sort out these.
14:44But, yeah, this group here is what I would really like to take out, but they've got what's horse arches.
14:48And you said they had some pretty good sort of barbarian spearmen?
14:52Yes.
14:53Ostroth Spears or something.
14:54They had some Ostroth pikemen who were elite pikemen, and they're good, but if I can get my skirmishers involved,
15:02they generally take them apart.
15:04But, yeah, it's getting them in there, really.
15:06And when you skirmishers are out of ammo, then...
15:09Yeah, basically, then it ends really badly.
15:12But, yeah, I'm cleaning up this infantry pile here, and...
15:16Yeah, playing a bit of a numbers game, though.
15:17Yeah, I mean, technically on the victory barrel we're ahead, but I don't know how much I believe that.
15:24I keep messing up my formations, as people see.
15:27Because I'm still trying to play it sometimes, like ROM 2, like the way you do the formations and so
15:31on.
15:32And we have a different thing now, which is I set my formation beforehand.
15:35So, say I just want a big long line, I'll do that.
15:38And then it will set a line, I'll just hit Group, G, and then it will stay in that formation
15:42no matter what I do, which is really, really useful.
15:46Yeah, so I'm going to see if I can use my cavalry here to chase these guys down.
15:50You can see it's the skirmishers left from that point of view, my cavalry's going to be quite effective here.
15:55And I always say the key to winning this battle is to keep your cavalry alive as much as possible.
15:59But, if they stay in a long line like that, that's great for me, because they can keep moving back
16:04as well.
16:04If they spread out, then I'm getting hit from all different sides when I'm trying to charge down one unit.
16:08So, this is the best chance I've probably ever had of winning this battle.
16:12And you can just see the chaos that's been left on the field from the two armies clashing, or four
16:17armies in a way.
16:21Yeah, it was a very indecisive clash historically.
16:27These guys went to fight, but they just traded casualties.
16:32But it really did blunt the initial assault of Attila and his hordes.
16:36So, a very key battle for the Western Roman Empire.
16:39And, if anything, just really a setback for the Huns.
16:42I guess that's it. I guess it's one of those battles where, you know, you do nothing.
16:44Then Attila's just going to walk all over you, so you have to do something.
16:47And if that means losing a lot of men, then it means losing a lot of men, but at least
16:51it stops that threat.
16:53Yeah, so you can see I'm picking off one or two of these units of bow infantry.
16:57Which is definitely something I need at this point.
17:00But every time I stop to engage one of these units, you can see me just getting peppered by the
17:03horse archers here.
17:05So, I'm going to give up a chase on Attila and hope he comes back to the fight.
17:08Because that's kind of what I need right now.
17:11Looks like Attila's going to stick out in the wood clearing there and just firing arrows at you.
17:15Yeah, this was the enigma of the steppe people posed to civilized armies.
17:21And something really which wasn't really addressed until a much later era of gunpowder and professional armies.
17:30I've had to deal with some bow warfare.
17:32Just nomadic cultures.
17:34Nomadic cultures really just posed a massive problem.
17:38And a one which, like I said, didn't really get fixed until economics and population brought more equal playing field
17:47for...
17:47Go on, go for it. Go for Attila. It looks like you've broken the back of this one.
17:50I do it.
17:52It's a life of death charge.
17:54He's not giving up. He's not going to be driven from the field. He's getting straight stuck in.
18:00I'm not going to waste my advantage here. I'm going to try and go around the back.
18:04My general is engaged. If he falls here, it's going to be a...
18:07A lot of cavalry in the woods there as well, so not a particular advantage.
18:11Not brilliant, not at all, but...
18:14On equal one what?
18:14There's not much you can do.
18:16Oh, he's in there somewhere.
18:19I think he's doing quite well, but I forgot I have an entire army over here.
18:23Here I am trying to use just my cavalry, you know.
18:26You style him?
18:27I'm profiling.
18:31I've got to say, I've seen you play this battle a few times. This is the most confident victory I've
18:35seen, I think.
18:36Yeah, this is...
18:37A few defeats.
18:38This is on hunt.
18:39Yeah, before anyone says, I've played a lot of Total War in my life, so...
18:44But yeah, it's a feather in my cup, I finally... if I can finally win, I mean...
18:48Yeah.
18:48This is Tilda Hun fighting over there.
18:51I think I might have it.
18:53I have seen the downside of this battle that James was describing, the constant skirmishing.
18:59It's very, very difficult to deal with, because you have to deal with that big middle threat,
19:03and you have to also deal with those scavenger units that are always going to survive until
19:06the end of the battle.
19:07Yeah, it looks like he's about to break as well. Oh my god, please.
19:10Get him.
19:11Surround him from all sides, don't let him escape the battlefield.
19:13I am charging him down.
19:15And historically this was a defeat, and he was driven from the field, but...
19:18I think I might have actually got a kill on him this time. Go on!
19:24Meanwhile, Neen of Archer has been chased down.
19:26That is a big scowl for the Western Roman Empire.
19:29That would be that problem solved, really.
19:30Maybe the Western Roman Empire is never defeated in the version of history I've created.
19:41I think this might even be a decisive victory now.
19:43I don't think it will be a decisive victory.
19:45I think, if anything, it's a close victory.
19:46The Huns are defeated!
19:48Wooo!
19:49Nice.
19:50But have I killed him?
19:52Is he dead?
19:56I blended Attila.
19:58Will it blend?
20:00Yes.
20:00The answer is yes.
20:02Attila was blended.
20:03Pure victory.
20:04Pure victory, there you go.
20:05Which is historically kind of what it was.
20:06It's a win.
20:06It's a win.
20:07A win's a win.
20:08That's what I always say.
20:09Oh well.
20:09So yeah, that's one of the battles in Total War Attila.
20:12The game's out on the 17th of February, so you can play them for yourself right then.
20:17And if you're interested in this battle in particular, then you'll want to check out
20:20the new book by David Gibbons, The Sword of Attila, which is actually based around this battle.
20:29Hey all, I just wanted to take a quick moment to show you guys this, the channel.
20:33It's The Art of Total War.
20:34It's a book we've got coming out.
20:35It'll be available tomorrow, and links to where to purchase that are in the doobly-doo.
20:39And this is all of the amazing artwork that we've done for Total War over the last 15 years.
20:44So all of that is in there.
20:46There's some interviews with the devs, and there might even be a couple of secrets.
20:49So head to the links, check it out, and see what you think.
20:58That's it for episode 24 of Rally Point.
21:00It is in the can, it is done.
21:02But enough of the past, let's look to the future!
21:05Yeah, so we're going to have more information on Total War Arena coming out soon.
21:09Plenty of impressions still coming in on that, stay tuned.
21:12Also look at our Total War Arena Facebook page, the links are in the description.
21:17The next Mod Summit, the third annual, will be happening on January the 30th.
21:20Yes, we make a big deal of these Mod Summers, they're great.
21:24We get the modding community in, the hardcore guys, and we talk to them about what they want from modding
21:28in Total War.
21:29Yeah, yeah!
21:29It's great.
21:30And Total War Battles Kingdom as well, we're going to have some more info on that.
21:34There's also a Facebook page for that, check that out in the description.
21:37Be very tuned to that, and the big noise is obviously, Attila!
21:42Just play Attila, yes.
21:44And it is out on February the 17th, so we probably won't have a Rally Point before then.
21:48We won't see you guys until after.
21:49So, strap in, lock in, buckle up.
21:52Buckle up, play Attila, and enjoy it, and let us know what you think.
21:55And we'll see you guys on the flip side.
21:57See you later!
21:57See you later!
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