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00:30Now we've had a lot of requests on the forum to see these guys in action. Now these are some
00:34of the barbarian naval units that we have in the game. These ships are made of good solid European oaks
00:40so they're very tough, they're very high hit point ships.
00:49Now these Swabian Swordmasters are the front loaded hard hitting melee combatants so we really want to get boarding those
00:57enemy ships and activate their special abilities which are frenzy and heavy. So they'll fight really hard, they can go
01:02toe to toe with some of the hardest troops out there.
01:05Now these heavy barbarian ships aren't quite as streamlined and built for ramming as much as these Mediterranean ships are
01:11but they will do a little bit of damage when they go in and they first impact but largely what
01:16we're aiming to do here is kill all the crew on board this other ship.
01:23Now one of the barbarian ships is being boarded here, now this is a medium raider here, it's got club
01:27levy manning the gunwales there so they're not quite as tough as the Swordmasters but they will give these boarding
01:34pastati a good run for them.
01:44And here we have several units of longbowmen showering arrow fire on this artillery Queen Karim so you can see
01:50here all the crew are dead now, well all the fighting troops are dead so the oarsmen below decks are
01:54deciding that discretion is the better part of valour.
01:58So moving on to some more of the Mediterranean ships here, what you're seeing is a number of fast moving
02:03firepot DIRES assault ships.
02:06Now these guys are very fast moving little attack ships and they've got these, as you can see from the
02:11front there, they've got these little firepots hanging from stanchions on the front which will explode when they come into
02:15contact with enemy vessels.
02:17And here we can see some fire arrows in action as well, now of course again these are going to
02:21do incendiary damage to the ships and actually have a chance of setting the ship ablaze.
02:25But they'll also be damaging the troops on board as well.
02:30Now as we've mentioned in the past, ramming is a key new tactic in Rome 2.
02:35It does a decent bit of hull damage and if you can coordinate your attacks correctly what we've got here
02:40is three small ships attacking ramming into one larger ship so all those troops can board and fight simultaneously.
02:46But if you really want to impress your commanding officer, take a large hexarim or heptarim such as this ship
02:51here, point it at a smaller vessel and let it fly.
02:55When these larger ships get a header speed up their sheer momentum and mass can literally tear another ship in
03:01two when they strike.
03:07Well I do hope you've enjoyed this very brief look at naval combat in Rome 2 and we'll have more
03:11for you very soon.
03:12Enough!
03:16Siguntum is lost and our western allies have failed us.
03:22Where was the last report of his whereabouts?
03:25My spies in Iberia tell me his fleet has sailed.
03:29We must expect an invasion at Massalia!
03:32Wizards let it be quite a fight!
03:47Grazie per la visione!
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