Total War: Rome II - Suebi vs Rome (Online Battle #20)

Yo, what's up guys? This is Oakley, and I'm gonna be doing another online battle, and yeah I figured I'd stock up on a couple of these I'm going out this weekend going up to SF gonna party a bit We have a long weekend I hope you guys are having your own long weekend that you're able to enjoy it We have a lot of fun stuff on the agenda I'm gonna go like ATV in the dunes and stuff like that paintballing so it's gonna be a nice break I figured before I headed off and did all that stuff though I'd at least record a couple games to send out to you guys In case you have some downtime you wanted to watch some Total War anyways I'm gonna be playing as Swaybee and admittedly. I haven't really played too many games as Swaybee. I don't know why Like I've seen some players play as Swaybee in the tournaments I think the fact the reason probably is because Swaybee is most is well. It's obviously a barbarian faction, so they're mostly Dealing with kind of brute force, and that's kind of not what I like to do with my tactics as you've seen in my videos I like to finesse and do a lot of Work dancing around with maneuvering But I've actually found that if you're able to use this brute force army and use it with finesse It can actually work really really well, so I have you know played around a couple matches with them and here my opponent is Rome So it looks like he's deployed on the low ground looks like he didn't want to fight on the hill I didn't want to either, but I deployed here because I thought my opponent would so You know we should have probably communicated that beforehand and had like a gentleman's agreement to go to the right But because there's no communication I see his main army is there But I'm not gonna be foolhardy enough to turn completely to face him he may actually have a flanking force moving up the hill So it's best for me actually to go and clear out the hill first make sure there's no one there And then turn about and face him anyways my composition is gonna have a lot of different types of units. I'm gonna have Basically two of these longbow hunters because I always like to bring skirmishers in my armies even though you find that most people don't like To bring skirmishers especially in tournaments. I think they're invaluable. I think that they can give you a positional advantage They can make your enemy react to you, and they should have a lot of advantages if micro'd correctly Anyways, I brought two of those guys, then I have four of those swordmasters three berserkers two Wodanized spears two of the Germanic scout riders two of those noble riders And then two kind of crap levy infantry the levy infantry are there to be kind of meat shields Anyways these forces have scattered around the top and they basically don't see anyone and I know he doesn't have more forces hiding in the woods past them because they're still on the They're still hidden whereas if he had hidden units there It would tell me that my own units were revealed thus telling me that he has units in the vicinity So it's kind of a weird way that the line of sight can work It kind of allows you to scout your opponent Based off whether or not your guys are visible or not so anyways. That's a little thing I wanted to tell you so what I'm trying to do is start positioning I'm gonna move through this front my opponent is looking like he's moving up in group command So he's gonna be reforming and facing up against me It looks like he's gonna be making a push for these woods So I'm gonna try and reposition my forces here if anything I'll have the higher ground and I have these Hidden cavalry behind the hill now that he hasn't seen as well as some cavalry over here on the left which you always see me Do in every battles have some hidden units? There's no reason not to um as you saw in a previous battle even though my opponent no Knew that I had hidden forces. It's still caught him by surprise when I revealed them so Keep it in forces even if you're just gonna pull them out and put them in your main army You might as well because in the off chance that your opponent does a mistake Then you can obviously go ahead and exploit that so right here what I'm trying to do is push on the right with my calvary Try and get his attention focus there And then I'm gonna charge with some more cavalry right here With the hopes of catching his slingers unaware, so he's kind of caught in a panic So these guys are moving in on two fronts my opponent is kind of like Swarming bees nest that's been to serve so now I'm gonna pull this cavalry in the front away They're just doing the screening and you can see right there the natural move of my opponent is to move to the skirmishers behind his Line, but that's why I move these guys around the flank, so I'm gonna try and charge in But he has too many units in the near vicinity, so I'm gonna pull out a little bit Let my guys throw their spears and just keep moving like that you can see I'm even dodging some of the spears He's thrown I'm gonna engage with those guys there And it looks like it's gonna be a pretty good engagement his guys are scattered And my opponent is caught unawares also some of his guys there were revealed So I'm gonna start moving my forces up you can see my longbow hunters are actually a little bit too exposed I'm gonna pull them back in case his cavalry decides to charge in you can see he's gonna pull his His gladiators back, and they're gonna try and engage in that melee You'll also note that my two cavalry units that are doing this whole Attack right here are gonna be my worst cavalry units. I just need them to strike I don't need my best units getting tangled in case they they get lost or stuck like those units there I'm more It's probably smarter for me to use disposable cavalry units in this case as opposed to my best units They're just there to do an initial strike on his skirmishers create some confusion and allow me to move up So that's why in those situations. I would say don't use your best cav units Anyways what I'm doing right here is gonna start moving up my longbowmen. They have good range my opponent Does not have a very good range and advantage he does have slingers But if I'm able to keep them moving around with my own cavalry then he's not gonna be able to do anything You'd see this is gonna be a very very close call right here his cavalry are trying to engage with my men But I'm just close enough that look at this He's within basically two feet of my men and he decides to disengage You can see you really have to be on top of your micro when that kind of stuff happens and my opponent I think was smart enough not to engage me He would have yes knocked out one of those guys, but at the loss of some of his units Anyways being entangled in my forces right here, so good move on my opponent One of the things that's happened is my isolated unit here has become Oh obviously isolated one of the Benefits of having these germanic scout riders is they have some good speed to them so I can outrun his cavalry or at least keep Them at a safe distance and basically I'm gonna be drawing his cavalry off and trying to save those so I'm gonna keep pulling them towards the edge of the map and What I'm gonna be doing is trying to reinforce with some more infantry units I'm debating charging those guys, but I think I can outrun them So these guys are gonna be coming to the rescue These cow are gonna move around back to try and bait his cavalry to fall back And then I'm gonna tell my archers to target his spearmen because or his gladiators because they're the the weakest armored units I look at this he's trying to intercept I'm just gonna thread the gap and Go right for the back lines of his his army and also reunite with my cavalry there So that's kind of a sick move that you can try and pull a few of faster cavalry units Gonna move my forces up and my opponent is not really sure what to do. He's caught on an open field here Which is nice, but I do have Kind of I'm starting at least to get this round on him what I would do if I were my opponent is I would try and get my Try and match the width of my formation and get his slingers in the middle of his army and start focus firing on piecemeal unit by unit and Don't even worry about my cavalry in the back Just keep his own spearmen in the back so that I can't rear charge him and then that's fine If he keeps his buleric slingers in the midst of his main infantry line There's no way I can charge in there and not take heavy losses So that's kind of a tip. I would give to my opponent. Anyways, what I'm gonna do is try and exploit the fact that I Have more cavalry units, so I'm gonna try and move around and try and push one flank I'm gonna try and use my longbowmen most effectively against his gladiators. I think that's gonna be the best way to do that Gonna keep moving these guys off and you can see I've kind of quartered him into this side of the map It was his fault for coming down here I think it's more of a fair fight on this even terrain, but it's gonna give me the advantage in Being able to corner him. What are you trying to do is push up here? This is exactly what you want to do push up and try and force one wing back But in my case what you want to do then is just pull back and keep engaging with Another part of your army and you can see exactly why I targeted these gladiators They're gonna start falling very very quickly and those guys have crazy attacks So you definitely want to bring units that can counter them and what I think can effectively counter them is gonna be missile units You just got to go ahead and target those guys and you should be good I know a lot of people complain about those guys having ridiculous attack, but at the same time they have low armor So you just got to make sure that you're using the appropriate counters to potential Roman builds And I would say most Romans that you're gonna see are gonna have urban cohorts. So heavy heavy infantry Which I think you can match with the barbarian berserkers They're gonna bring gladiators. So make sure you bring some form of Missile unit in order to combat those and then they're gonna bring Praetorian cavalry or other sorts of cavalry that are very strong So bring a couple of your own bring to one or two of their Germanic scout riders because they are good in melee They do well, but at the same time they're quick. They're agile. They can land those strikes on Slingers in case your opponent goes for that sort of build you can see right here I'm dangerously close of charging my berserkers into the line of fire of his Billeric slingers If he had turned around and shot me he would have done a lot of damage to them So that's why I charge in this cavalry unit to try and keep him from doing that I'm not really expecting to land a strike on his slingers. But what I am doing is forcing them back allowing my Berserkers to fall back and yeah, what I've been doing also is charging and what are my meat shields on the right? You can see them moving forward Basically what I'm gonna try and do is expend his Pila make him Target those guys make him engage in combat what I did stupidly is leave these guys out here and you can just see What kind of machine guns those Blair slingers do have they took out most of my unit? So that's gonna prompt me to go ahead and engage in the charge Usually with the Roman army, I mean with barbarians You can take them head-on, but I'm gonna do as much as possible to get around the flank So I'm gonna make sure I do that I'm gonna charge in with one of these crap units and you can see why I'm engaging my berserkers on the right is because My sword masters are gonna be holding the center They're basically gonna be posing enough of a threat that he's not gonna want to charge the center and not turn about And that's gonna allow these concentrated units of like striking power on the right side Which are my berserkers to kind of hammer his right side? So it's it's kind of like a right hook is what I'm trying to say where I'm overpowering my right side That'll smash his flank if he tries to pull off any of his center units Well, then I can charge in with the massive horde of barbarians in the center So that's kind of my thinking behind this Is to start peeling off units and you can see how I keep my center fixed and move the flanks my cover unit right there Is just trying to cause as much chaos as possible. I don't really care That they get killed. They're just there for disruption. You can see because he's disrupting his Balearic slingers They're not gonna be able to shoot at my guys here. Whereas I'm gonna keep shooting at his guys here still we're targeting those gladiators doing a lot of damage and You know, there's not much he can do at this point Besides I would say pull back reform and try and get his slingers to do more damage right here I'm gonna charge in my berserkers into this melee fight, you know, I think on a one-on-one we should be good So I'm gonna keep these guys back. These guys are gonna try and I don't know why I engage that ability But they're gonna try and basically keep his units from moving to reinforce I'm gonna move these guys to help those guys in the flank. Then I'm gonna charge forward with these units here and Over on the right. I'm gonna try and engage more of my berserkers in a in a moment I'm gonna move these guys forward moving my archers back just so they're not Engaged by any hidden surprises and then they're gonna turn around and start attacking at his reserve units You can see right here. My berserkers are gonna move around the flank My general is gonna pop his abilities basically all of them and these berserkers are gonna go ahead and engage his gladiators so you can see the holding action in the center flanking on the side to pin his forces and Right here. I'm gonna go ahead and charge surround his units. You can see he's gonna go for my skirmishers. That's probably fine I'm just gonna go ahead and chase he decides my skirmishers aren't worth it He's gonna turn around and try to hammer and anvil me That's fine. He's charging spear units that have pretty good morale So I'm gonna go ahead and get a rear charge on him Meanwhile these Calvary are gonna be able to charge into this mess and you can just see how there's a lot of the Roman units Are wavering that's because I was able to get the berserkers in on them first who have pretty crazy stats and then I have more units Reinforcing and just the overall tide of battle is gonna just flow right into my hands and I have more units in his rear There's not much he can do about that I can just rear charge to my heart's content and you can just see how all his units crumble Even though he had the best troops he could have you can see they're basically no match to a force like this when you engage them Appropriately, so that's how I would say you should use these barbarian forces the Swaby forces. They're definitely very very strong They have a lot of counters to them I would say probably a mobile cataphract horse archer build could do well against them or spears But anyways, that's my take on how to use Swaby. So I hope you enjoyed see you next time