The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Battle of Soissons. Total War: Attila
Aired: 2015-05-09
Duration: 11:03


=== Best Games: Barbarian Mode (01:55) ===

[00:00:06]  Greetings you proud sons of Rome.
[00:00:09]  I thought to record a historical battle here in good old Total War Attila to pump myself up before hitting the temple.
[00:00:19]  And I'm looking rather like a barbarian.
[00:00:22]  This is the first Let's Play I make with a face cam where I actually have my beard.
[00:00:26]  So barbarian mode right here.
[00:00:30]  And I'm gonna save the Catalonian planes for another week or so.
[00:00:36]  This is the one I've been looking forward the most to.
[00:00:40]  might make a cola with someone to play that one because that's the most epic one in my book.
[00:00:46]  We have, I don't know how you pronounce it, Susson.
[00:00:51]  So we're gonna go with that and then we'll gonna work ourselves down and probably make an episode for each of these if they are if this episode is appreciated.
[00:01:01]  So let's head into it.
[00:01:02]  I'm gonna go with difficulty hard here actually.
[00:01:06]  Usually I play on very hard in my campaigns, but we're gonna go with this one.
[00:01:14]  So we are actually the Franks and yeah, as I said, I have the barbarian mode on here.
[00:01:23]  So it will be an exciting battle for sure.
[00:01:29]  And I have actually never played with the Franks up until this point, so it will be nice to play some more of the factions in this brilliant game.
[00:01:37]  And I might say it before I said it again, I'm really, really impressed with Attila.
[00:01:42]  It is one of the best games I have played.
[00:01:50]  So with that said, let's head on into the battles.
[00:01:54]  Start battle.
[00:01:57]  Let's enjoy the cinematic.

=== Frankish Ambition Battles (09:01) ===

[00:02:01]  The Western Roman Empire has collapsed.
[00:02:05]  A rump state, the domain of Suesanes, remains in Gaul, led by Siagrius.
[00:02:12]  However, Siagrius' lands are coveted by the neighboring Franks.
[00:02:17]  The Frankish king, Clovis I, has challenged him to battle.
[00:02:22]  The capture of Suesanes would double the size of the nascent Frankish kingdom.
[00:02:29]  Alright, go time.
[00:02:32]  Go time in.
[00:02:34]  Today, we claim Swesenez for ourselves.
[00:02:37]  Swesenes.
[00:02:41]  Alright, let's advance carefully here.
[00:02:45]  We have a large army here.
[00:02:48]  Frankish cavalry guard.
[00:02:52]  And there is their general.
[00:02:53]  We're gonna try to aim for him to get at him.
[00:03:01]  Voila, look at this.
[00:03:07]  Glorious.
[00:03:11]  Let's have a look at the units.
[00:03:14]  Ah, beautiful.
[00:03:17]  brutal frankish infantryman here ready to fight the ready to fight goal and And are they responding to my threat here?
[00:03:33]  The Axis will in all actuality, and this must be Clovis then.
[00:03:44]  Scout Equites.
[00:03:47]  See if they can catch them here.
[00:03:50]  Are they going straight at us?
[00:03:56]  Okay, cool.
[00:03:58]  They uh, went straight at us there.
[00:04:06]  All right, get at him.
[00:04:07]  medium calorie boom okay that I did not see that coming that That was a strategic mistake on my part.
[00:04:25]  I thought I could admire the scenery a bit first, but I but I could not.
[00:04:32]  Okay, let's get those boys first there.
[00:04:38]  All right, pikemen will have to be.
[00:04:44]  Okay, you can stop there, true friends, exploratares okay, they will be an easy match for our superior troops.
[00:04:59]  Now I've played quite a bit with my Western Roman Empire campaign and then also an Eastern Roman Empire campaign.
[00:05:05]  I haven't made any let's plays on it yet, but I will probably show you some of it at least.
[00:05:14]  Let's zoom into this charge now.
[00:05:17]  Oh fuck, look at that.
[00:05:19]  Good god, not jealous of those, of those poor Romans.
[00:05:24]  We're going to try to avoid friendly fire here.
[00:05:33]  Okay, we can't be standing here and...
[00:05:45]  Alright then, there is the general.
[00:05:48]  We could turn this battle right here, right now, if we want.
[00:05:59]  Gonna try to get, get around him somewhere some way.
[00:06:04]  I mean glory to Frankia.
[00:06:13]  And obviously, if you haven't seen the Vikings the third episode they are they are fighting the Franks there.
[00:06:27]  Frankish Lancers admire this rear charge now, true friends, boom now.
[00:06:36]  Glory to Frankia.
[00:06:40]  I was gonna say Rome or Macedon, but it would have been, it would have been a false shout.
[00:06:49]  Okay, let's I for a circ on you at least, and now get their general boom.
[00:07:09]  This is a bloody and brutal battle, and now I might have said this in the past, but I say so many things and make so many videos.
[00:07:17]  I might as well talk about it some more.
[00:07:22]  I love historical gaming because they always learn, because they always learn so much.
[00:07:31]  So I had no idea about this battle until I, until I chose it for this.
[00:07:36]  Let's play.
[00:07:37]  So that's one of the cool things with with like total war, for example, you learn so much.
[00:07:50]  So now I know about the Clovis expansion into into France.
[00:07:57]  Okay, we need to break you from the Torres.
[00:08:02]  I'm gonna try to break away with you also here light skirmisher Shouldn't be any problem.
[00:08:19]  And can we get you as well?
[00:08:27]  Mounted death.
[00:08:33]  Men of Germania, love it.
[00:08:36]  And see there are Hercularia Signores.
[00:08:42]  Cool.
[00:08:46]  If we could use get at their general, I would be a very happy Germanic tribesman.
[00:08:56]  Glorious.
[00:09:00]  Can we...
[00:09:04]  Ah, glory to Germania!
[00:09:13]  They will indeed.
[00:09:15]  They will indeed.
[00:09:18]  So yeah, I wish I could elaborate a bit on the Frankish expansion into France or into Gaul or into the Roman territories there.
[00:09:29]  But I will actually do this now.
[00:09:31]  And I would like to invite you to do it as well.
[00:09:34]  Like, take a good few hours.
[00:09:36]  Once in a while, go into Wikipedia and just read up on things you don't really have a clue about.
[00:09:46]  So you know that for future reference.
[00:09:48]  And then also, when you are on Wikipedia, you always tend to tend to click extra links to read on and stuff.
[00:10:04]  They are Frankish lands now, boys.
[00:10:09]  Okay, cool.
[00:10:11]  Wonderful.
[00:10:12]  And battle.
[00:10:13]  Period quickly.
[00:10:14]  I realized that this was by no means any display in tactical prowess by my part.
[00:10:23]  I just mainly want to make this video because I'm really excited for it.
[00:10:28]  Just wanted to show some more of Attila, want to play the Franks, want to play this battle.
[00:10:32]  Some additional testosterone in there, some additional history knowledge, want to show my beard in this angle.
[00:10:38]  So I hope you enjoyed the video.
[00:10:43]  And yeah, I'll try to play through this if this is well received.
[00:10:49]  And now I will go on and hit the gym.
[00:10:53]  I will bench for the hench in all actuality.
[00:10:56]  But that will have to be for another video.
[00:10:58]  Anywho my I'm the Germanic tribesman of glory.