Top 5 Campaigns in Total War: Rome Remastered

Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro & Summary
1:26 Egypt Campaign
3:25 Carthage Campaign
5:42 Greek Cities Campaign
8:40 Pontus Campaign
11:06 Seleucids Campaign
14:09 Honorable Mention: Rome
14:46 Honorable Mention: Germania
15:28 Conclusion

Whether you're a beginner or a returning veteran, Total War: Rome Remastered has 19 factions to offer you on your next campaign. Which is the best faction? OR what campaign is the best? We will be answering that today, discussing my Top 5 Campaigns. We'll be covering Rome, Egypt, the Seleucids, even the dreaded Pontus. Enjoy!

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[italianspartacus]

Thank you so much for watching today guys! You can find the link to my Nexus store above if you haven't picked the game up already! BUT!! It's 50% off if you own the game, so make sure you take advantage of that through Total War access!

[shadowstryker]

Seleucids have such a cool looking color scheme to me

[Antidragon-nlby]

I also remember loving the Salucids for the shear diversity of their roster; they have a bit of everything and are passably competent in each category.

[nickharvey]

Cheers Spartacus. I was in my late-20s when Rome came out. So many hours sunk into it - the music is so evocative. I was always a Carthage boy - the clean, purity of their colour scheme and the ability to roleplay a counterfactual Punic War was irresistible. I have to agree with your Seleucid pick - easily my second favourite campaign. Also with you on the Scipii, all the way.

[wardochurchfan]

I forgot how little factions there are in this game. I’m so used to having tons of factions in games like Rome 2 and Attila.

[Owlrider]

Seleucids definitely have the best late game roster in the game. With that said, 1 of my favorite factions in the original Rome Total War was the Scythians, which were only accessible by editing the game files. The Scythian roster is so unique and so incredibly powerful right from the get-go that it lets you snowball incredibly quickly and your tier 3(max for barbarians) cavalry units can give tier 5 Roman Legionnaires a run for their money and with some knowledge of the game and half decent micro completely dominate thanks to how OP cavalry is in this game. Just beware of sieges as that will be your biggest downfall.

[TheIYFGamingTM]

Macedon and Thrace are pretty fun, too imo.

[HeavyMetalGamingHD]

Egypt is kinda ridiculous, because they can win the short campaign so insanely fast. you really have to play fast as the other factions to not lose to egypt without ever meeting them. they only need to conquer a bit of rebel territory and a few seleucid settlements, who get stockpiled from every direction.
The coloss is also quite ridiculous. My first campaign was with the brutii and at the moment I conquered rhodes, I was not able to spend my money anymore. Building and recruting everywhere, but my money still increased. So I bribed pretty much all of egypt. I bribed most of their generals. I had at one moment almost as many egyptian generals as family member generals. And I was never at war with them.

[gowiththeflowbee]

Started my Carthage campaign today. Already destroyed Scipii and Gaul has taken over Europe lol

[johannesreus]

Parthia is also a really fun campaign if you somehow get their cities to not rebel

[stephenkopp]

Seleucids were always my favorite to play, as a kid I remember being so proud to win a grand campaign in under 70 turns with them!

[spamzor]

The biggest flaw in Rome TW for me is the lack of development possible in barbarian cities. It makes the lategame a drag with rebellions, and could definetly use some creative writing.

[roberttaylor]

I think Armenia deserves a spot in honorable mentions: clearly cataphracts and horse archers with a decent phalanx and legionaire unit are a pretty good roster overall, but what makes it great is that you can make cataphract archers in a minor city and none of their units require more than a large city. Meanwhile seleucids and carthage need to wait until lv5 to get their best cavalry, and dont get anything as good as cataphract archers until a large or huge city.

[ChrissiC]

I conquered the whole world with Julii within in the first 30hrs I played. Rolling through now as the Seleucids and man it's a breeze, enjoying it a lot.

[Antidragon-nlby]

I have only a fraction of the freetime that I used to, so it's good to know what to go for right out the gate. Thanks!

[LyricalDJ]

Excellent list, ItalianSpartacus! I do disagree on a two points:

1) I don't think Carthage has good infantry. At least, not until you get to the very top (Poeni infantry and Sacred Band). I hear Carthage's infantry was buffed a bit and that's great but without those (or knowing how they affect the actual battles) I would always advise new players who want to play as Carthage to focus on their cavalry and navy.

2) My experience playing Pontus was that, yes you are limited by poor early units and small settlements (thus also economy) at the start but there are mitigating factors. The Greek Cities are most likely preoccupied more with the Scipiones, Brutii and Macedonians, the Seleucids can't really spare much when they have to face the powerhouse of Egypt (of course I hear Egypt was nerfed a bit, interesting to see how that changes things). Leaving Armenia. And because of the mountains and sheer distance players should be able to hold Armenia at chokepoints and ideally see them coming by placing some forward watchtowers. That is, until the player is ready for a counterattack.

I think you listed all my favourite campaigns, the two at the top being the Germanic tribes (diverse roster, solid spears, nice for a quiet start and fun battles), the Greek Cities (strong hoplites, using navies, the challenge of managing your territories and different enemies). Never played as the Seleucids though.. imagine they're quite fun as well.

[johnirby]

Armenia or Seleucid migration campaign is probably the most fun thing in the game. You can immediately build a port and load all your family and army in a boat and take Thessalonika in turn 6...change it to your capital and abandon your home lands. My favorite was migration to England. It takes some time to get there but it is incredible to play from the British Isles....destroying Gaul and Germania and the Romans just hit Armenia or Seleucids when they invade into Europe 🤣

[roberttaylor]

Pontus might be my favorite faction to play. All of the units you mentioned are great, but i actually start out just spamming pontic light cav then pontic heavy cav. Theyre actually surprisingly decent, especially en masse, and especially the pontic heavy cav. The only missile cav that can contend with it are the cataphract archers, but its half the cost of those. They form the backbone of my army. Ill line them up in front of an infantry line, have them throw javelins to provoke them, then once they start breaking their own line ill pick apart their infantry line with mass cav charges. I found that pontic light cav is better at dealing with sieges than militia hoplites or levy pikemen: as pontus i can sally against a sieging army, and use the cavalry to pick apart the enemy and even help support my general to kill their general. But as seleucids i usually wait for them to assault so that i can force them to walk into my phalanxes when they assault. Another great thing about pontus is that the tactics of the pontic heavy cav, cappadocians, scythed chariots, chariot archers, and phalanxes can all be used well in different combinations.

[fedupN]

Seleucids were always the most interesting campaign, IMHO, back in the day. Bit stressful but lots of fun. Sheer variety of options and shifting fronts made them a fun challenge. Haven't gotten around to remastered yet, though I do have it.
Agree with the list but, since I always make it a point to the CRUSH the miserable Pontus folks and not a big fan of Egypt, would substitute Parthia in for them. Can't wait to try Numidia.

Also, thank you for giving Carthage some respect! I loved playing as them back in the day. Aut inveniam viam aut faciam.

[cleankaibaandthegentlemen]

I really enjoyed playing the Greeks. I made a giant army pretty early in the game and conquered Rome (the city) and was funny watching all 3 houses trying to re take the city.

I’m currently playing the selecuids on the remastered version. I remember playing them as a kid and actually getting conquered because everyone was attacking me. This time around I’m taking it easier and focusing more on expansion to rebel cities and building up income before trying to fight back hard.