The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Battle of Frigidus. Total War: Attila
Aired: 2015-05-15
Duration: 14:41


=== Battle Of The Phrygius River (09:26) ===

[00:00:09]  Greetings you, proud sons of Rome.
[00:00:13]  Today we're gonna do God's work and I thought this battle would be very interesting.
[00:00:19]  Considering how much I've been talking about Christianity versus Paganism, and as it is a reoccurring theme, I thought that the Battle Of The Phrygius River would be very appropriate for me to play, as I am on the wrong side, as it were, since I am a Pagan myself.
[00:00:37]  But, as I always say, like I have a lot of true friends who are Christians and you can be a true friend and a Christian as well.
[00:00:43]  And as always, I will remind you all that I have my no less than two necklaces necklace I don't know how you say it, really they have a cross and the all father himself.
[00:00:57]  It's one necklace I have.
[00:00:59]  The other one is you've seen this before the hammer of Thor and the cross of the Christians.
[00:01:12]  So the Phrygius River I've actually played it on very hard already.
[00:01:17]  I will just go with hard now, because it is much, much harder to be interactive and to make a cool let's play than when you're just by yourself and playing.
[00:01:29]  So that's the reason for it and that's also the reason sometimes my performance isn't isn't the best when I play ladies, but as you see here, conflict arose within the Roman Senate due to the Christianization of the Empire.
[00:01:44]  After gaining power in the West, Flavius Eugenius appointed pagan senators to key positions in the government.
[00:01:52]  Taking umbrage Teodesius, Emperor of the East, attacked at the Phrygidis River.
[00:01:58]  And now obviously Teodosius was a devout Christian, so he couldn't have none of that pagan paganism.
[00:02:09]  And then also I I'm merely speculating now, but I suppose it was a bit of a show off between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire, where the Eastern Romans tried to solidify their power as the the better of the two.
[00:02:26]  So we're gonna go into the battle right now.
[00:02:31]  And you see they are.
[00:02:33]  We have Visigothic allies, but they outnumber our Romans.
[00:02:39]  So we're gonna start the battle right now for God himself.
[00:02:45]  alright let's enjoy this cinematic true friends pagan sympathizer Eugenius leader of the Western Empire contests the Christianization of Rome the Eastern Emperor Theodosius I a devout Christian has marched an army from the east to challenge Eugenius Theodosius legions are bolstered by his Visigothic allies led by their chieftain Alaric Alaric the Glorious
[00:03:15]  The two sides finally clash on the banks of the Frigidus River.
[00:03:19]  The future of the Empire will be decided on this battlefield.
[00:03:24]  Alright, highly glorious indeed.
[00:03:27]  Let's take a moment to admire the Visigoths first.
[00:03:37]  Look at this, the crack units of the Visigoths.
[00:03:42]  And we will actually do like this.
[00:03:45]  The key to this battle is taking out the General Eugenius the Glorious.
[00:03:54]  Now, the fun thing here is I would actually rather have been the pagans, but I'm doing it for my Christian true friends.
[00:04:00]  And I actually have a Christian true friend who is studying to be a priest.
[00:04:05]  So, Josef Edwal, big shout out to you, much love from your semi-pagan friend here.
[00:04:13]  But I will make you make all my Christian true friends also shout out the patriarchy at Facebook.
[00:04:20]  So, this is for you guys.
[00:04:24]  But let's not get overconfident now.
[00:04:26]  We will try to win this battle here as well.
[00:04:33]  And the key to that lies within taking out the general.
[00:04:37]  So, I'm gonna send out my own cavalry in all actuality to try to, as usual, take out him as soon as soon as possible.
[00:04:49]  A lot of SS there.
[00:04:51]  Hard for a Swedish guy to pronounce.
[00:04:55]  Also, Alaric I is our Visigothic ally.
[00:04:59]  And I've actually thought about naming one of my sons Aularik.
[00:05:06]  Really cool name.
[00:05:07]  Now, it isn't a common Swedish name or anything, but if it ends with Rik, it can be quite common indeed.
[00:05:16]  Frederick is a common enough Swedish name, actually.
[00:05:21]  And I know a guy called Gutrik, also.
[00:05:24]  Very, very cool.
[00:05:27]  And then another one of my sons called Gustav.
[00:05:31]  In all actuality.
[00:05:32]  A lot of Swedish kings bear that name.
[00:05:37]  So I'm going to speed up the gameplay just a bit now.
[00:05:41]  And they are responding to my advances there.
[00:05:51]  And we're going to let the Visigoths take the runt there.
[00:05:56]  And we're just going to sneak up behind them.
[00:06:01]  And see what crack is.
[00:06:06]  Okay, cool.
[00:06:08]  Their general is.
[00:06:12]  Alright, let's speed them up.
[00:06:16]  Not the gameplay per se, because this will be crucial.
[00:06:21]  Utilize heavy shots and on you as well.
[00:06:29]  And go time now, brothers for God himself!
[00:06:37]  No, get at him, boys.
[00:06:45]  I'll corn him.
[00:06:46]  Get at him, boys.
[00:06:49]  Heavy melee cavalry.
[00:06:51]  And the key to the battle lies within taking out this general.
[00:07:00]  Ah, there we are.
[00:07:01]  Come on now.
[00:07:03]  Glory to Roman!
[00:07:05]  to God in heaven. Glory.
[00:07:15]  And now it would be prudent to walk in with the rest of my troops here.
[00:07:26]  But as I said, the key to the battle lies here.
[00:07:32]  Okay, they're getting a lot of support there from their infantry.
[00:07:37]  I'm still rocking my barbarian beard.
[00:07:40]  It would probably have been more suitable, I mean, if I was clean shaven, as according Roman ideals I'm gonna try to get.
[00:07:57]  Get him.
[00:07:59]  Don't you flee now.
[00:08:01]  Come on, Aeginis.
[00:08:03]  The punishment of God will be upon thee.
[00:08:10]  Let's admire when he dies now.
[00:08:13]  Yes, glory to God in heaven.
[00:08:20]  His false gods could not stop him.
[00:08:24]  Save him.
[00:08:25]  I mean obviously, their pagan gods could not stop the true father god.
[00:08:38]  I'm feeling a bit bad here to to slay my, my pagan brothers like this actually.
[00:08:44]  Okay, so this went better than expected.
[00:08:47]  This we should have.
[00:08:48]  The battle now in all actuality should not be that much of a hustle when, when the general is dead, because that is the case when in Total War, that you get the general, and that's, that's good.
[00:09:06]  It's really good, because when, when you lose your leader, you you don't know what to do and the morale is breaking.
[00:09:17]  Now, what Alexander The Great did that was what made him so lovely always led the charge, so the men could draw inspiration from that.
[00:09:27]  He led from the front, did not ask anything of his soldiers that he wasn't willing to do himself, and that obviously is is inspiring.

=== Winning Battles and Videos (05:05) ===

[00:09:35]  So it's good that they've taken that kind of psychological thing into the game.
[00:09:45]  So that they aren't totally immune to psychology, as it were, and they'll try to chase those guys.
[00:09:57]  So we're gonna, now that we have basically the game, the battle in our, in our pocket I won't say that yet, but you can admire the action of it stand firms.
[00:10:25]  It would be embarrassing if I lose now, when I talked about winning here, but no, I should have this.
[00:10:36]  And this is about as Christian I get.
[00:10:40]  But I will create, I will start a new campaign with the Western Roman Empire.
[00:10:47]  That that's just something I want to do.
[00:10:50]  And for me to have a, a good YouTube channel, I need to do what I, what I want to do myself, and no, Alaric has been struck down how, how blasphemous, blasphemy.
[00:11:13]  So, and I'm really pumped up for that.
[00:11:15]  I realize that there's probably a higher demand for other things on my channel, but You know, it's rather me playing that just by myself because I want to do it.
[00:11:29]  I love Total War.
[00:11:31]  I've played Total War since I was 14, that's 11 years ago.
[00:11:36]  So I really want that and I hope people can at least sense my excitement for it.
[00:11:52]  So that's actually what's up.
[00:11:54]  But...
[00:11:54]  But if you are more into my other videos, like I try to make a lot of videos regarding everything, so it's not the case that I'm ever taking time out of other videos to make gaming videos or anything like that.
[00:12:09]  And for me to make this historical Let's Plays, like for this battle, for example, I genuinely had no clue before I opened up Attila and said to myself, like, okay, cool, let's make a Let's Play.
[00:12:26]  I had no idea about the Frigidus River.
[00:12:28]  I had no idea that the Western and Eastern Roman Empire actually clashed in open battle.
[00:12:34]  And that's something I really enjoy with gaming as well, that you learn so much.
[00:12:40]  So that's glorious.
[00:12:44]  That's really glorious.
[00:12:45]  I love that.
[00:12:45]  I'm gonna speed up the gameplay now.
[00:12:47]  So we got this victory.
[00:12:53]  Cool, cool.
[00:12:54]  wonderful and um as i might have said like i i do try to this is a learning experience for me as well to concentrate on two things at the same time To concentrate on actually winning the battle and being talkative.
[00:13:13]  So that is progression in all farms.
[00:13:19]  And I am looking at my beard right now.
[00:13:23]  Don't know for how much more I will have it.
[00:13:26]  Perhaps it should have been more suitable if I made a barbarian campaign, let's play with a beard, and then when I'm Romance, I switch back to the clean shave again.
[00:13:35]  But we'll see.
[00:13:37]  I'll shave it, I mean, during the summer.
[00:13:42]  All right, let's boom.
[00:13:51]  The last remnant.
[00:13:55]  In God's name!
[00:13:57]  For God Himself!
[00:14:00]  Highly glorious.
[00:14:02]  Okay, there you go.
[00:14:03]  To all of my Christian tree friends.
[00:14:05]  I dedicate it to you.
[00:14:08]  Alright, wonderful.
[00:14:10]  Cool.
[00:14:10]  Close victory.
[00:14:11]  Theodosius, Alaric and Eugenius.
[00:14:14]  An epic clash.
[00:14:16]  So thank you very much for watching.
[00:14:17]  Feel free to come with any comments that might be fun for me to read.
[00:14:22]  Otherwise, drop a like if you have liked the video.
[00:14:27]  And as I said, more videos of everything is coming.
[00:14:34]  And who am I?
[00:14:37]  I'm the Germanic general of the Roman Empire.