Sub Commanders The Errantry War Against The Empire Cinematic Version

Hey, what's up guys, it's Oakley and welcome to sub commanders. It's been a while since I've done this but now a glorious comeback Bretonnia versus the Empire so for those of you don't know the way it works is you have two main armies where each player Plays a specific role in their force think of it like total war arena meets traditional total war So for instance here for the Empire Gojira commands all melee infantry So his build here is gonna have Volkmar warrior priest a wish hunter six flagellants a tattersall Four halberds and then six great swords So his primary role is gonna be to the kind of take on the infantry fight And then wolf here is gonna command skirmishers artillery and basic cavalry. He has an Empire general three gunners with the Silver bullets. He has four basic Knights a handful of cannons some hellstorm rocket batteries and especially some magical both the Hammer of witches and also this one Which is the Sun maker? So this is pretty intense. Finally indie pride has the elite cavalry and he has a steam tank So he has six Rijksgaard here plus a Zintler's Rijksgaard Really intense stuff to demigriff Knights one being the upgraded Altdorf Griffites And of course the steam tank definitely check out indie prides channel for his perspective He does great stuff and he played in this battle and he has his own recording So that'll be fun for you to check out now on our side for Bretonnia. Benny here has the lady the fay enchantress and Enchantress and he leads the peasants the footsquires and some artillery so you can see his build up to the top He has a nice variety of units and they're pretty actually well shoved up the six footsquires at triple chevron silver for battle pilgrims and then of course for Trebuchets because why the hell not a critical element of any Bretonnia force, so he's gonna be a key unit of ours Rick here is gonna be moving forward. He also has a couple peasants, but mostly he's gonna be focused on a mid tier cavalry So his force here is Luan a damsel He has two battle pilgrims four mobs a grail relic For errant Knights for Knights of the realm and three questing Yeah, questing Knights. So pretty big build lots of Calvary And then finally I'm gonna be rounding off the the little bit here with Albrecht of Bordeaux And I am bringing the elite cavalry and a flying cavalry So I've got some pretty badass units Albrecht a paladin four Questing Knights to grow Knights one girl guardian to Pegasus Knights and one hippogriff Knight So that is it for the summary of all the forces and now we're gonna get to the deployment of the two armies I'm gonna switch over to live replay from the battle so you can enjoy that. All right, how do we want to do this? I mean if we want to if we want to block their cannons We might as well put a bunch of artillery here and then we can shoot lob stuff up and over I think and hit him Okay, what do you think about that? Yeah, we could Draw their attention we can put Archers to push up and hold the woods here Yeah, we could push the hill. Yeah, I think we should push that way And then nice Knights ready in the open in the center So do you want me to deploy my trebuchet all for my trebuchets on that near that hill so I can walk to the hill Or because they're gonna have they're gonna have units over here. So we need something to protect like if we need to I can try and bum rush that with With a bunch of flyers We'll see I wouldn't put all your trebuchets there Maybe two on the left and we need to keep some yeah kind of in reserve somewhere So my infantry blob can just go anywhere that you want defense leave all your peasants out Like strung out. I don't know along here ish Just to absorb any cannon fire or draw fire if they don't turn off for you fire at will Okay, I kind of want to keep them Fairly close together just so when they get in combat, they all have the grail reliquary Oh, yeah, when we get in combat, we'll definitely do that. But like early on they should be Catching as many cannonballs as they can That grow reliquary would be better suited with my troops than yours Okay. Okay. Where do you want me to do my main Calvary? Engagement actually, you know what? I have kind of like Ready in the open fields, but you want to spread them out. So we're not gonna get shot too easily Peasants sprinkled in the front is good Let's see. What else do we want? I think this is looking pretty good So we have the two trebuchets kind of suppressing the hill the other ones kind of here is pretty good I think that's a fair fair position Yeah, well we're kind of all hedging our bets on this side which I guess works Yeah Don't have too much spread out on the far, right? Maybe like yeah that one questing night here hidden in case we need to flank around But I think most of our stuff should stay together. I've already got some nights here hidden They're gonna have such a bigger army. Oh what we have more troops than they do Yeah, that's what peasants will do. They must have brought seen things in Illuminati like ******* crazy, too Yeah, but we only have four peasant. They only have four likes 160 units The rest of them are all 120 just like regular Empire troops So yeah, it must have a lot of high tier ---- like Demi ---- like that. Yeah, so, okay again Let's try and push to hold here Candice to suppress I'll send my flyers over Okay, and the play up the left will be that turn. Yeah turn trebuchet fire will off and let's try and pick Good targets probably prioritize great swords or Good cab that they have yeah If we want to push super hard up this hill I may need another Lord support If you want to bing belong over here, just so we can take this hill and give covering fire as we push up I'm gonna keep Faye in the woods along with her Damsel because I've got I think we could really make use of curse of the midnight wind oh Shit they start Yeah, all right sweet take the hill oh, they're all on this side take the hill okay, yeah, this is good So let's move our infantry up so we can hold this position and just overwatch They're gonna try and move to react. Yeah start going around the right side looks good And then I think we can move our trebuchets up a little bit, but try and stay outside of whatever range stuff they have So that is it for the opening deployment phase That's a snippet of the live commentary that was done of the battle itself if you do enjoy that I have a full Version from my perspective where you can check it out the entire battle live from my side So if you want to continue that narrative check that one on otherwise this video is gonna be mostly done with cinematic shots So I'm gonna be splicing in views like this and then in cinematic shots. Well. That's kind of redundant It's just you'll see it's gonna be really epic stuff because this is a battle worth covering with epic shots So I wanted to make sure I came in and edited a lot of things on the left flank And he's gonna be pushing forward with his huge Roving rights guard force, and he's gonna be trying to press us back get around our flank threaten our units Perhaps try and strip away some of our trebuchets. He has called France. He has a damsel. He has a Another unit as well a jade wizard however We're gonna tell our forces over here to start just punishing them So Benny is gonna be told to target this force with trebuchets, and it's gonna be enough to dissuade Indy so already We're getting some call-outs and some communication and getting a little bit of zone of control It's really nice to have that with the trebuchets we were thinking we would get outgunned by the enemy but for the time being we seem to be doing okay while we're out of Range and We're not necessarily sure we want to contend with the enemy on the right flank so we're gonna pull back a little bit with our Cav just bide our time Keep them at arm's length and then start to press the left because that's as you heard in our deployment phase our game plan seize the left push up through the forest with cavalry with archers with squires and Just use this as our hold strong position, and then move up the trebuchets on the far left however once We start to get into position. This is when we start to realize Oh ----, they brought a lot of hellstorm rocket batteries from the enemy's perspective This is what I'm talking about the cinematic shops, and I'm gonna be splicing into this and yeah It's definitely gonna be worth it This is really really good stuff, and this is one of the reasons why we put the mob out front yep They are meant to catch all of that type of fire and absorb a lot of the enemy's ammunition but You know we only have so many peasants to throw at the enemy before it has to be Dealt with the Knights themselves And that's gonna be coming around soon But on this side we now are locked and loaded in position the trebuchets are gonna start to fire And we have a perfect arc up over the tree line and the tree line actually prevents the enemy from firing back And now you can see it's gonna be starting to land and chip away at the enemy great swords as you heard Also earlier in the commentary. I told my allies Benny to make sure we prioritize our targets and to hit the great swords in particular The enemy is gonna respond in kind and rather than targeting the peasants They're actually gonna start to strike at our rear lines over there That's where we have more battle pilgrims and juicer targets So you start to see a back and forth of shots on all sides This is a cool opening skirmishing phase, and this is one of the things you'll see with Subcommanders is because everyone plays as our own Independent force the battle is forced to play out a little bit slower a little bit more strategic because no one can go at it By themselves you have to wait to time your moves with your opponent or sorry with your ally So that's what makes it really cool really interesting I think it brings out the best of Total War one of the neat things about this is It kind of creates Now I wouldn't say super realistic, but at least a little bit more realistic battlefield Command problems whereby gaps will open up between players because Communication is not completely perfect when you don't have full control and so the slight missed timings in units are gonna create opportunities for the other Enemy to exploit so you'll be seeing a lot of those types of situations in this battle on the right hand flank And he's moving forward posturing with his Rex guard, and we have a couple more units positioning over here for instance this is gonna be My lord, and he's kind of on overwatch or no actually sorry that was Rick's Lord he's watching and then Benny's gonna try and support with the trebuchet, so they're doing a good Kind of overlapping support role on that flank meanwhile over here We're starting to move up Rick is committing a couple more units But Benny's gonna open fire with his peasant bowman and so from the perspective of our line You can see them just opening up at the tree line. We're gonna start targeting the flagellants really weakening the left flank The enemy is gonna respond in kind and again try and funnel Excuse me pummel our forces over there who are masked, but the enemy is full-on rush mode At the same time we notice that they have no halberds up front so we're gonna pull all our infantry into the woods and do a fighting retreat and Just wait for the cavalry to come in we've signaled to well myself and our allies to bring them up And then we've also signaled to the artillery commander to start suppressing key units Meanwhile the enemy force here is gonna start firing back at us This is gonna be wolf He's gonna be targeting everything into the woods this reminds me of the opening scenes of gladiator where you have all the artillery firing into The woods everything exploding in here, and so it's a really cool cinematic shot to see We're being somewhat protected by the woods, but it's not gonna be doing too much Yeah, look at all our guys seeking shelter in the woods and what they're doing is they're kind of opening a big gap in the central Plane which normally would be a bad move, but when it comes to Bretonnia Peasants making way for Knights. We're gonna engage in a charge. Yeah, that is the battle standard of the day Now with this kind of move happening with our infantry rolling into the woods We're gonna pour forward with some of our Knights And they're gonna see the awesome Perspective of the peasants running to the woods with explosions happening and they see this gap and they're gonna exploit it Meanwhile on the right Indy is a bit detached from his force Which is gonna be a good opportunity for us to exploit And up through the center the enemy is charging forward with the flood zones Here is one of those those times where the enemy has miscalculated their Their teamwork, and there is nothing to support these flagellants. We get a nice big fat hit with the cavalry get clean moves enemy Priests are gonna try and deal damage to us But we pull out before enemy skirmishers or anything can punish us so I would say our Coordination is going much better on this front We even managed to get a knight behind These great swords and just do tremendous damage up through the center My questing Knights are almost in position, and I'm targeting those great swords on the right The enemy is kind of being a little bit more cautious They see all of our squires moving on the right, so they're gonna try and reform Indy is probably being Chastened by his teammates to do something because otherwise they're gonna be triple teamed and so he's gonna swarm forward with one of the Biggest Reichsguard charges you will ever see and this is gonna be a multi front battle So you do miss out on this a little bit if you watch the live commentary You don't get to see all the intricacies, but here we're gonna be seeing every little bit played out in full detail Back to the main line here is the gap that I found and so my units are gonna pour forward Artillery still targeting the run units, but now they're gonna refire at the center on team chat I'm sure the enemy is just shouting into their mics to try and suppress this force before it hits the great swords But alas it's too little too late We hit them in full force and in the distance you can see some of my flyers also striking at the enemy units from the back So the enemy is a bit in shambles, but soon their cohesion is gonna be found once again The enemy skirmishers are gonna start to pull up So that is gonna be wolf's forces the gunners hand gunners in particular gonna be here They're gonna be here to plug the gaps and so I spot an opportunity to try and perhaps strike again With one of my cavalry units, and we'll see how that goes meanwhile over here our guys are dealing a lot of damage But here where I tried to plug the gap with my cavalry The reinforcements from wolf arrived just in time the Knights were eager to exploit this gap, but take a look They're gonna get a face full of lead here So this is good teamwork on our opponents part Gojira and wolf teaming up nicely to here hold the line and plug the gaps Artillery and close support also suppressing our flying units and Lords and there is one Brutonian charge rebuffed But the flyers that are in here in the mix are gonna be pretty critical We're gonna try and suppress this position We don't necessarily have that many troops to take out the enemy and I get a little bit spooked here I was gonna land and try and take out the enemy But I got scared off by the two hand gunnery forces and so I'm gonna pull back and try and deal with the enemy mainline here Some more units are gonna get charged Just murdered by the Hippogriff Knights But the enemy is gonna respond in time with suppressing fire and the hand gunners are in position. Look at them firing into our forces Doing lots of damage a lot of my Pegasus Knights are taking a beating man These forces wish they had canister shot a net being cast on my left units holding them in place But the Hippogriff Knights are gonna be able to land and now we're gonna start to tie down these guys a little bit We'll see if the enemy coordination is enough But so far it doesn't quite seem to be there Although right in front of your screen, the general does charge into the action. So he's gonna try and salvage these forces So this is pretty epic. We're trying to get rid of all the crew Meanwhile on the other side of the battlefield by Indy's Reiksguard His steam tank is continuing to pummel our side doing a lot of damage and actually he's opening up a chance for Indy's units To charge in they do find a little gap hit our trebuchets and they're all gonna pour in here Our trebuchets are gonna desperately try and fire and do damage to suppress these guys But this is an unending column of Knights coming in and they're gonna push right on through the barrage and hit our trebuchets but the one Thing that they did is they over committed here and by going after our trebuchets You can see our Knights starting to get to the surround on them and look in the back Yep We're gonna get a full-on charge into the back of these Knights of the Blazing Sun and Empire Knights and boom This is gonna be punishing stuff Sandwich as they are they were previously outclassed now, they're gonna be demolished We had more reinforcements try and get into the mix The enemy is gonna tie us down and do their own rear charge with the Reiksguard So we're trading blows all over the place here. It is a frantic hectic battle and the enemy is making really good Use of that net of Amin'tok tying down our guys where and whenever possible and really critical moments You saw them do it to the Pegasus Knights who were charging the enemy Gun emplacements and over here. They're doing a good job as well Grail Knights are gonna be pulled in. These are some of our elite reserve forces They're gonna charge in and then on the extreme right flank We're gonna have an engagement through the woods It looks like the enemy Knights here are not targeting our forces and we're gonna just smash into each other here in the woods although the world outdoor Griffites decide that they would be better used in the central engagement where we have sandwich after sandwich taking place and They're gonna get in at the rear of my forces So I don't know how many layers of sandwiching this is but it is a lot at this point And that's why we have Luan Leoncourt in the mix Trying to help out with this engagement, but it could go either way. Although the Reiksguard are starting to crumble More Knights being pulled in they're gonna try and hit some of our forces steam tank also getting a lot of kills So this is very much still up in the air. Although it looks like we're getting a little bit of the edge And these guys are desperate to hit Our trebuchets, but I believe at the last moment we do intercept half of them are gonna hit our trebuchets But not be enough to deal death to the crew the trebuchets themselves gonna be protecting the crew members back on this front the Additional units who charge in from the Empire are gonna see off our forces the outdoor of grip by is doing a lot of work And they may end up doing a lot of damage to Luan Leoncourt So I think he's gonna try and pull out of here. Yep There he goes trying to extradite himself from that situation Steam tank also flying around I and here goes a net so they're gonna pin try and pin our forces Meanwhile far off in the woods here It looks like our questing Knights aren't being defeated mostly because call France is supporting that front So he doing a good job microing his Lord to win those engagements Back in the center. My flyers are still continuing to hammer and anvil those blobs. They're still running amok amidst the enemy artillery my paladins also Among these positions and they have a lot of it tied down which is giving some reprieve to our front lines We're here. We've taken a beating. I think we yeah beat the snot out of both forces enemy great swords are still alive But we still have some foot squires in the woods So we're trading almost down to you know zero for both sides here And now it looks like the guns are continuing to fire that does signal The fact that some of our flyers are starting to die off in the background So once the guns get reignited and retarget our guys that is gonna be bad news for us And yeah, you can see our flyers They're seen off mostly because of wolf coming back with his skirmishers and dealing damage mean all over here We're trying to have a coordinated effort with artillery commanded by a Benny Ulrich is also committing some nights as well as my own nights We're all triple teaming on this side to try and secure this flank We know this is a critical position and we get some nights Straight up into the great swords so this will help turn the tide a bit for us and what we're trying to do is just clear opposition on this front and That allow us to finally curl around the enemy's flank and our goal is to go after this juicy target in the center Still hippogriff Knights with three units left But most of the enemy is free and these gunners are now gonna start to pick apart or remaining forces. They are pretty devastating We really need to get units free, but they're being guarded by halberd Another thing we can try and do is to try and suppress these hand gunners who are currently taking out all of our Pegasus Knights and other units with nets and all that is take a look at that first strike coming in That is us coordinating with Benny and telling his trebuchets. Please fire to suppress these positions So he's gonna do just that mean all over here. I'm gonna move with my Knights and my allies Knights around this flank We're cleaning up the remainder of the enemy foot troops. We're gonna go for a big Sweeping flank through the woods and we're gonna target the enemy in the center. That's putting on a lot of hurt to our guys Yeah trebuchets still firing away. There are tatter souls which are gonna be giving us a big Bit of trouble on this front not gonna die and they're gonna hold strong until the end of the battle They are very much unbreakable Volkmar Volkmar as well gonna see off our units So enemy still has some unbreakable units on this side That's gonna be seeing us off and we don't have too much that's steady here Mostly because we drew all our Knights away from that engagement decide to abandon it figuring that it was not You know to our advantage to chase after on two unbreakable units might as well go for the meat of the enemy force And that is getting to be the almost unguarded enemy cannons and gun crew So here comes the Knights charging out of the forest after the enemy my flyers also coming back from the retreat So they're gonna try and get in the enemy Our opponents are coordinating Indy calls out for a net to be Thrown out and so he does successfully get a couple of our bigger units tied down But that's gonna be it The rest of our units are gonna charge right in through unopposed straight into the cannon trebuchet still firing the enemy Handgunners are gonna turn around to try and shoot us But we have enough units to detach and swarm around and hit almost everything at once here So for instance, you can see my grail Knights Detaching from that engagement doing an about move and now they're gonna charge right into these cannons I also cast a spell on the enemy to hit them. And so we're trying to just destroy everything here The net is also deactivated. So now we have free reign to kill everything in the vicinity So this is the final potent bit of the enemy's force We're able to see it off and this is gonna turn the tide rather sick, you know significantly in our advantage in our favor What remains of the enemy foot troops are still stuck in the woods, but that's fine We can turn and deal with them now that they have none of the supporting fire of the artillery I'm gonna pivot back to watch a little bit of the combat as it took place in the center You can see the withered remains of the troops there And then we can see a little bit more from a top view this time around of my cavalry Executing the maneuver to get around And some of the gunners trying to shoot at our flying Lords, but it's not gonna be enough Trebuchet is continuing to suppress we were able to stave off The enemy on this side from suppressing them and that was also a big boon They're helping to save the middle fight. It looks like the steam tank also committed to the center and he cleaned up that central fight Over in this position. We did send in reinforcements and I believe we were able to kill Karl France with King long So Lords fighting Lords all around And it was cool to get down to the final phases where it's not just the Lord coming to the rescue but it's each individual player and their particular contingents of units The steam tanks days are numbered Yes It's gonna be able to kill the remainder of our Knights But it's gonna get surrounded and over here the remainder of the Empire forces are shattered so now we can turn our attention to the few remaining units gun crew in the center trying to gail get after our grail relief and I'm a little bit scared for my units who remain over here a witch hunter still in position Volkmar and tatter souls And we only have peasants so most of our units are gonna be chased off and We're gonna finally abandon the guns. This is a position. We staked out at the beginning of the fight, but here it's gonna get Its head bashed in and clobbered by the flagellants who are here gonna kill the peasants manning the trebuchet He's finally getting vengeance and the witch hunter also in here. He's kind of cool amongst the the flagellants I don't know if he did too much in this battle, but it was cool to see him stalking around the battlefield sniping Knights with pistols And yeah The enemy finally has secured a little bit of a victory seizing the hill here and they're gonna turn their attention back on our remaining Forces the grail relief they're gonna try and chase it off our peasants tried to move up here to rally our forces clinking through here with their little bells We're gonna take one look at Volkmar and the other unbreakable forces and the battle Pilgrims here are gonna turn around with their grail relief and go clinking back into the forest Meanwhile, we still have some pretty healthy units. I do want to disengage from the flagellants and great swords. I don't want to engage With that blob just yet so I'm gonna try and reform try and take out the remainder of the enemy and then I'm gonna signal to Benny to try and Turn his trebuchets to deal with that and then meanwhile in the center. We're committing everything my grail Knights Flying hippogriffs everything is gonna be coming in. Yep King Luon Everything is gonna be coming in to try and kill the last resistance from the Empire And that is gonna be the steam tank. It does get a final shot off against our Knights But now it's fully surrounded and there is little hope Yes, this is gonna be the final takedown of Indy's last remaining force pretty epic stuff And he did try and send some desperate Knights in to save the day, but too little too late And yeah, this thing is dropping in health really quickly I give it about three four five seconds That is about all it has to live a couple more blows and yet this Lord landing here is gonna do it in and it Should explode boom there it goes So that's victory gain for us on this side a battle for Bretonnia and now the hippogriff Knights are off The Knights are off everything is off and what we're gonna try and do is finish off the remainder of the enemy It's only gonna be a couple foot units here nothing that we can't do with a nightly charge to finish up the flagellants and That's about it for the enemy forces. The only thing that really remains now is gonna be the Unbreakable units up at the hilltop position namely the tattles tattersouls and a Volkmar Our tattersouls here or the enemy's tattersouls are gonna try and get after our poor poor peasants So we're gonna try and shoot them down, but I don't think we'll be able to kill them Mean all over here. You can watch the final epic conclusion of this fight dealt Lord to Lord And I really do hope you guys enjoyed sub commanders This is something that one of you had sent me a message of asking that I returned to it It's a type of battle that plays out really differently very fun I do recommend you try it with your friends and even randoms. It just it fuels very differently It puts an emphasis on troops and tactics that you don't knew normally see in traditional total war And I think it works hand-in-hand with custom maps which allow you to play with larger Settings and fronts so definitely try ahead try and play this with your buddies. I'll be hosting more of these battles Do note that they take a little bit more time for me to set up to coordinate to do the recordings because I want to Get the cinematics for this, but it does take a little bit longer But at the end of the day as you tell it with this battle I mean, it's truly worth it. I'm still playing around with kind of how I want to mix the videos In terms of the style I'll record the battles live And then maybe I'll do a splice between cinematic and live in this case I did two separate videos this one being the cinematic one and then a separate one being the live one which you can check out for sure if you want to So let me know in the comments below what you prefer in style if you like the two different versions You can enjoy it as you please or if you want one where I where I mesh them two together And now this is cool coming out of the forest the remainder of all our forces even the Fae Enchantress also being here and now final climatic engagement Also, be sure to check out any prides channel if you are interested in this type of battle and the tactics that were employees check out his side of the commentary where he Tells the story of the noble Empire hold against Bretonnia and see what their tactics were employed what surprised them what they're expecting to do What perhaps went white right or went wrong? so yeah, this is gonna be it for this engagement and Well, we'll close out with the final little Movements here overall. I do say I am enjoying Bretonnia I do believe some of their units have as people have reported are a little bit opie foot squires according to some testing From multiple people do end up being a bit too cost-effective So in this battle, we brought six of them. So perhaps that was a little bit owing to our favorability in the melee Fight more so than we would have expected That's one unit. Also. I heard that the green knight can perhaps be overpowered But I don't know it's tempered. I think some of the other Knights as well. People are complaining about certain ones of them I think it was questing Knights or Eric Knights. I won't pretend to know I'll just stop my commentary there to check out any pride He does a lot of good feedback on balancing and testing Meanwhile, if you look at the different unit sets, you can see who got the most number of kills Looks like it's pretty evenly spread around The low tier Knights not really getting that many kills overall Knights of the realm doing okay But when you come to my guys, I only brought 478 men to the fight but in terms of kills I got a lot of the kills on the questing Knights Really paid for themselves Grout Knights also getting good damage And the Pegasus Knights also cleaned up a lot of the enemy rear lines getting some triple chevrons on the Royal Hippogriff Knights So they got a lot of value kills Indy prides for us. Also the elite guys get tons of kills world after Griffo. It's 116 Rice guard with getting lots of kills and they traded fairly cost-effectively against our Knights even Karl Franz doing good work Wolf meanwhile who fielded the artillery got so many kills with the Sun maker and the hellstorm rocket battery mostly targeting peasants Whereas his Empire Knights Just got obliterated Faced up against us and I do have to say that his skirmishers just really didn't do too much They killed a couple of our Knights, but not really that much Meanwhile Gojira did a great job with great swords getting lots of kills halberds I think his army traded perhaps the most cost-effectively, but look at him. He brought two times more than wolf Five times more than Indy so you'd expect him to get a fair amount of kills He threw a lot of bodies in the field and that's what was necessary to absorb our peasant Charges. So anyways, hope you guys enjoyed stay tuned for more Leave your feedback if you enjoy this type of content and if you have any recommendations for what we should do next Changes in style changes in factions changes in maps. See you next one. Peace out