Gatling Fun Total War Fall of the Samurai Online Battle 239

Hey what's up guys it's Oakley and I'm playing Total War Shogun 2 with IndiePride. He is going to be playing as the Satsuma, we've got a nice big parrot gun here and then also unlimbering in the front we have some Gatling guns. And these things are super fun to play with, you never really see them too much. They're not that powerful and they're pretty glass cannon-y but when you can pull it off it can be very fun. So Indie has Satsuma, I have a force of Tosa units and yeah let's go over our composition. So this is kind of an interesting fight because it's two more modern armies from F.O.T.S. against a second modern army that's moving up, a mirror Satsuma. But then also Takeda has taken the field and he has the entirety of his forces hidden away in the woods over on the far side so we're not going to see him just yet. This Satsuma force is pushing forward, he's got a variety of, it looks like Imperial, Infanterie des Marines, United States Marines, lots of elite forces so it's pretty high funds. A Black Bear line in the center which is going to be pretty squishy but he's going to try and push the flank a little bit more heavily. On this side however he's pushing forward with his Sharpshooters and they're going to start to take some of the punishing fire from our guns that are going to open fire. Let's take a look at these because I always find the gun firing effects are super cool in Shogun. Man the sound effects too are freaking awesome. Yeah, there you go, load the breech, oh, what the hell, did we get a dud? Oh I think I know what happened, the enemy went out of range. So yeah what's basically happening over here is the enemy's taking a real shellacking from our forces. I mean look at these hits, this is some World War 1 level bombardment on infantry formations. This guy's going to pick himself up but I don't know if you could say the rest for his comrades being blown up into little bits. Takeda's going to be assembling on the hill and look at this mass of roving Samurai Swordsmen. So this is a little bit scary for our guys. You can imagine this running over our force but I'm pulling up slowly and steadily, Red Bear in the front and then backing that up a unit of Yariki and then behind that Imperial Guard Cav, Shooter Cav that are pretty good and then I've gone ahead and deployed my Gatling gun in the forward position. On the right the woods are exploding. Yeah this is pretty crazy stuff, you definitely want to be on the side where the gunshots are firing from behind you and not landing at your feet. And yeah this Gatling position is going to be great for forcing the enemy back if we need to. I'm going to do a bit of a feint with my Yariki here just to unmask what was in the woods and it's a ton of Samurai Bow Warrior Monks, an entire force of Bow Warrior Monks with a couple of Bow Samurai. So this is an interesting composition, hidden away in the woods, it's going to be hard for us to shoot them, well of course until they're revealed. But yeah they're starting to take some potshots at our guys and I was going to try and maybe snipe these units, hit them, but they are taking already punishing amounts of damage from Indy Pride's force and we're joking, oh my god, we're joking in chat like what the hell is our opponent doing? He's just taking these shots, he has no cannons of his own, so it's just going to be punishing damage being dealt on this side and he's not really moving forward at all. You know if you're going to sit here you might as well pull back out of range. Yeah the front lines are going to be taking ridiculous damage. Imperial Guard Cab is going to be shifting around to the right side, let's go ahead and take bird's point of view and this is one of the things that people miss in Shogun 2 is the actual point of view that you can get with troops and even in combat you get to see your troops fighting. Huge cavalry force massing behind the hill. Just on the other side this is where I have my own Yari and they're lining up in the red bear behind this, pushing up. God this is so cool, look at that, all the lines and in the back shots landing amongst those troops. So this is not where I'd want to be. If I knew Takeda was on the field the last place I'd want to be is on the bottom edge of a hill where you can't see. The cavalry force give you about 5 seconds before any force getting over this hill charges you. But that is exactly why I am rolling in with my gatling guns in case the enemy wants to try something like that, well they're going to get a machine gun to the face. On this side I'm also starting to push up. I have some standard samurai backing my forces up so with the traditional gun lines pulling ahead, these are the freshly trained recruits starting to line up but I do like how this battle is a bit more drawn out and a bit more ominous. And here is going to be my revolver cab, these guys are pretty awesome, extremely short range troops but they punish enemies for getting close, fire really quickly and you'll get to see that in a little bit. I'm going to do a bit of a feint in the center now that I have my gatling gun starting to move up into position. And I'm just trying to bait the enemy, they're going to pull sharpshooters in response and it's going to be enough to bait the enemy back into range of our guns and he's also going to be moving forward with his gatling gun. And so we're going to slowly secure the battlefield with these guys. Speaking of gatling guns, I believe Custer, famous for Custer's Last Stand, where he got wiped out by an Indian force that he completely misjudged the size of. I had heard somewhere that, taking some preliminary losses, but I had heard somewhere actually that he had the option before deploying of bringing actually some gatling guns to the fight and he opted not to, wanting his force to be a bit more mobile. So yeah, he would have wished he had a gatling gun like we're going to have in this battle. But anyways, my Yari Ki here take pretty punishing damage but I'm able to nonetheless crash into his forces. A bit of that move was sacrificial but what it does do is it pulls his guys into range and what I really wanted to do was provoke an engagement and allow the gatling gun, the gatling fun here. Oh my god. Let's start to get some shots off. Oh my god, they're clipping my guys. A lot of those shots hitting my units but it's pretty punishing. Oh my god, here comes the Decade of Charge and they're not willing to engage. God, gatling guns are so freaking awesome and in Shogun 2, being able to control them manually is way more fun. So yeah, the enemy cav is going to be drawn out of position. This is punishing. I want to see this down the line. Oh, those shots are clipping more of my guys than anything. Let's see what that looks like in the distance. I mean, that is a prey and spray kind of gun. So my guys have been decimated but they still hold the front lines and there are just corpses strewn across the field. The cavalry here got mowed down as the big targets that they are. What's actually happening over here is there are some ninjas that pulled around to try and kill our cav and our cannons but what we ended up doing is I pulled up my revolver cav and shot them. I killed a fair amount of them on the charge and I'm going to continue to shoot into them but now in close quarters combat, these ninjas are going to start to take out my revolver cav pretty handily so I'm going to have to pull out of here. But yeah, while we were distracted with that cavalry charge, they had pulled out ninjas from this flank and completely tried to charge into our armstrong guns but they took punishing fire over here. Revolvers took out a fair amount of those troops and then in the pursuit, they chased away my cav and I was able to shoot them up and here's another shot. Let's actually go ahead and see what it looks like from the revolver cav's perspective. My god, they're dual wielding. That's so freaking cool. I didn't even notice that. Jeez, man, brutal to be these ninjas training all your life and then all of a sudden you get akimboed to the face. The music is suitably tragic. Oh god. Alright, let's go ahead and put this back on play. I just wanted to enjoy a little bit of the epicness. Three of them still alive but they're going to get charged and run over and those are Hanzo Shadow's elite, almost like hero samurai. Looks like the enemy is going to try and move back in but I'm coming even closer with my gatling guns. I want to start to turn their attention on this wooded position which is continuing to take fire. Indie Pride here, still at arm's length from these forces. Looks like revolver cav of the enemies is going to try and push on this flank so we'll see how this battle gets underway. Meanwhile, the enemy is going to do a big push on this side. The Takeda is on the move. I get early preliminary shots and I'm going to have to pull out and the morale of my troops is going to start to waver as Takeda crashes through our lines on both flanks. I attempt to intercept with some katana. We'll see how that goes. One of them is beaten back but now here comes the swarm. Look at this. No dachi. Tons of units. This is actually going to be one of my cav going on intercept to slow these guys down and I try to break this assault and it's working a little bit as I try and rally my forces. Revolver cav going to be shooting into this force. Shogatai here popping Banzai which was a good move because they're already down to about half strength with two Takeda charging in. At least I can blunt that but my main line here is getting absolutely shattered. The other one tried to pull back but it's now going to get charged by Yari-Ki who are going to pull through the gap and just as this is happening and the units pushing forward look at all these bow units swarming forward. Looks like the enemy could overwhelm us on this front but now the trusty Gatling gun has deployed itself and this is the moment you guys have been waiting for. The Gatling gun in action. Oh my god and this is freaking brutal. Machine guns into this big blob of pheasants and they're going to try and shoot back at us but Jesus Christ. So much damage. Look at this ----. Have you seen this much death? Parrot's guns are going to join in. Oh my god. Oh and you can hear the bullets whizzing overhead. This is freaking epic. Even if these guys had armor I mean nothing's going to stop you. Christ. Absolute massacre on this front. The Takeda is going to book it on out of there and look how much death and destruction from the Gatling gun. That was absurd. That's going to beat back that flank. On this side the enemy is going to continue to push forward. Naginata warrior amongst a lot of unbreakable units going to be pouring into my ranks. The cavalry has even punched all the way through to my rear lines. We're going to try and defend the Armstrong guns. I'm going to try and pull back my Imperial Guard Cav. Enfantry de Marine is going to turn about to try and beat back these Takeda forces. More shots whizzing overhead but the Takeda are super numerous and they're not going to give up the chase that easy until Indy Pride gets in the back and now our Revolver Cav can swivel around and do work. The Gatling gun is going to be seen off. Looks like a couple enterprising Takeda came and took me out. So the Gatling gun has been silenced here unfortunately which is going to allow these Bow Warrior Monks to pull back up. They're a little bit cautious. They still don't know what to do with those guns. But I have actually the Imperial Guard Cav here. Let's go ahead and watch these. These troops have spotted the weak blob of Bow Warrior Monks. Cock up their revolvers, shoot them in the face, and then charge into combat into this massive blob of troops. You can go ahead and see this. I've grabbed three of these Bow Warrior Monks and after being Gatling gunned to death they're going to be routing pretty quick. I'm going to go ahead and target the next one. So I'm doing a good job of pushing these forces back. Starting to take pretty heavy losses but I think it's well worth it to knock these guys out. Takeda has cleaned the floor with me on this side. I'm pulling back with my last Katana Kachi but they've sweeped through my ranks and I'm going to have to reform on the forest edge here. Rallying my troops. The rest of my Katana falling back. Heavy infantry is going to pull back but they've yielded much of the terrain there so despite Takeda's heavy losses, once they close the distance they were able to do pretty punishing damage to me. Looks like they're going to try and push through the center with more cavalry as well. That is absurd. And now Indy's own Gatling gun has also pulled up. Looks like he's just barely out of range of the troops but this enemy force has refused to engage Indy at all so it's been a standoff while we try and collapse on the enemy on this front. And look at this giant blob of troops. Pretty cool and I love this Revolver slash Imperial Cav just shooting right over your ranks. Oh god. Let's go back on this side as the enemy has decided to reform it's ranks and now I've gotten perhaps the ball is back in my court. I decide to seize the initiative and we'll see how the enemy deals with this. They had one bow samurai trying to shoot to my Katana Kachi but it's time for the charge now. Imperial infantry really holding the center down, destroying United States Marines plus another Imperial Guard infantry and some Tosa Riflemen with extreme range. They're helping to pin this down and now finally Indy's going to move up with his really healthy blocks. Let's watch this. And this is just Black Bear. I mean Black Bear should collapse pretty readily. I mean Indy's pulled up to point blank massacre range against Sharpshooters. Holy crap. On this front the charge is underway. Enemy General being thrown straight into the mix and he does tie down our front ranks. And they're going to charge after my infantry who are going to pull out. So just as I said the ball was back in my court. The enemy charges in on both sides. It's going to do a lot of damage. I am still shooting point blank into these samurai but I think they're going to have the best of me. And here comes more guys charging in. I should be able to hold this little position here. I'm pulling back with my Imperial Cav. Charge into these Nodachi but bows actually still in supporting position. It looks like they're going to once again claim the force here. So this is pretty punishing. It's going to leave my own forces here stranded but at least they dealt with the samurai and now they just have a shooting fight with bows. That should go very much in my way. The pursuit is on. Nodachi chasing after my guys but it looks like they're not quite going to get there. A couple more start to get stranded and here comes the Imperial Guard Cav. Oh my god unload a volley on the samurai in the woods. Some shots still firing over and that's my own guys who've decided to fire into this pursuing blob. And now they're going to start to get picked off. Yeah Nodachi can pop bonsai but oh yikes. Not much they can do to keep them alive. It looks like the enemy general has fallen. He was in the fight I believe over here. I may have sniped him but his unit has gone bye bye. My own General's bodyguard gets charged. Oh god he's swiftly cut down here. Here he is. Let's see if he can even survive and it looks like yes he does survive that Nodachi charge. He's going to go on gloriously to chase them off. I think he's the last man in his unit here. Two men. So my general is routed but he will probably make his way off the battlefield. The rest of here is a brutal massacre. Cavalry fighting cavalry with guns. Christ this is such a mess. And these are kind of the funny engagements you see in this game. Getting some good shots against Indy. It looks like Indy's going to get the worst of this engagement. He lost his cavalry somehow probably due to losing the first volley but when it comes to a line fight I mean look at the clouds of smoke coming up on the right. That is punishing pressure. And all the shots that are missing us here are just going to go further into the woods. Snipe the next man over. And that is a sad sight. A lone horse galloping off the field. So it looks like victory here. Yep. And I love the smoke and atmospheric effects. The lingering volleys of gun smoke going up. Such a cool element in the game and I really love that. So anyways this was a really brutal fight. Maybe not necessarily anything super tactical but I mean it was some good old Gatling fun I believe. So I hope you guys enjoyed this one. Let's end the battle and take a look at some of the final stats for both sides. I'm curious to see how many kills we racked up with the Gatling guns. I was mowing down Cav and Bow Warrior Monks so that was relatively satisfying if not well not just relatively that was supremely satisfying I have to say. The rest of our forces seemed to trade pretty cost effectively. The majority of my force stayed alive. I brought 2,700 and it looks like we actually outnumbered the enemy somehow. That is pretty surprising although yeah how did the Takeda have such few men? I believe maybe it was Wiki who had Takeda. Anyways let's take a look at some of the unit stats here. Gatling guns with 169, 183 on the Armstrong guns. Boy oh boy 269 with Amphaltec to Marine. They were probably my main lines. Imperial Guard with 203. This is absurd how many kills we got here. Tosa Rifles with 287, Imperial Guard Cav 304. Oh my god we ate that army alive. Let's see Indy Pride General not doing too much, Imperial Guard Cav yeah didn't get the best of it. He's 2 Armstrong. Oh I didn't know he brought 2 Armstrong guns in Gatling. 173, 135, and 68. So yeah given that yikes our opponents choice to just sit there and let us use up all our ammo definitely did not bode very well. A lot of Imperial Guard Infantry training pretty good. Most of his guys here at the end being uncommitted. Cavalry doing a fair amount in cleanup. Yeah this is the force that just sat there. Wiki brought a fair amount of troops but got almost no kills. Pretty wasted effort. Takeda here has an interesting force. I don't know why he brought Fire Cav Spears of Shizukazake. A lot of elite units which drove down his total numbers and was probably not good. Although once the Katana Cav did connect with our infantry, man they tore us up. But the choice to bring a bunch of Bow Warrior Monks, not quite sure. You probably want to bring a bit more Dodachi and even more Cavalry, especially Katanas. Kichou Ninjas were a good idea. I mean it was kind of interesting. Indy did a good job of kind of alerting me to their presence. The problem with them is they can get run down by Cav pretty easily. So they really needed to destroy our Cav before throwing out these Ninjas. And yeah they just got shot to death and kited around. So anyways hope you guys enjoyed. Stay tuned for more and see you in the next one. Peace out.