The Degradation of Total War's Testudo

Описание: If you wanted to check the pulse of Total War, what better way to do it than to test one of its most iconic systems, the testudo? And who better to do it than someone that's inflicted absolutely all of its modern Frankenstein iterations upon himself?

The playlist for this video series:
   • Total Decline: A Total War Analysis  

The Reddit thread for this video series:
  / ideas_for_future_total_war_critique_subjects  

Rome 1 being too cool for school:
   • Rome: Total War Being Effortlessly Supreme  
The Ryse: Son of Rome gameplay showing testudo and pila:
   • Ryse: Son of Rome - Testudo Formation - Xb...  
The Gamespot Rome 2 Teutoberg forest show:
   • Total War: Rome II - Teutoburg Walkthrough  
How Rome 1's testudo works:
   • Rome Total War - Testudo Mechanic Examination  
Watching my disciplined Romans melting miserably:
   • Rome 2 - Rome Campaign (Legendary) - Part ...  
The first time we tested testudo in Rome 2:
   • Rome 2 - Testing Testudo (is testudo broken?)  
The extensive testing that showed Rome 2's testudo was borked:
   • Rome 2 - Testing Testudo Again (does it do...  
Examining Rome 2's testudo in 2020, 18 patches later:
   • Rome 2 - Testudo Mechanic Examination  
Maximus Decimus Meridius' video poignantly summing up the "ship with shame" model:
   • Defensive Testudo Fixed? Total War Attila ...  
Examining Attila's testudo and getting a 1-man-thick:
   • Total War Attila - Testudo Mechanic Examin...  
Examining the atrocious testudo of Three Kingdoms:
   • Total War: Three Kingdoms - Testudo Mechan...  
My initial observations immediately upon returning to modern Total War last year:
   • Total War: Three Kingdoms - Historical Bat...  

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0:00 The significance of testudo
8:15 The testudo at Carrhae
10:00 Rome Total War's original testudo
25:05 Rome 2's broken launch testudo
34:00 Testing Rome 2's current (fully patched) testudo
50:00 Testing Attila's testudo
54:30 #OneManThickTestudo
1:10:00 Testing Three Kingdoms' turtle
1:17:50 Conclusion and final words

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