Can Rome Survive This Start? Rise of the Republic TITW (5)

The people have spoken, and we’re diving into the hardest Rome start in the entire game!
This is Rise of the Republic, Legendary difficulty, and yes… we’re doing This Is Total War.

Every faction declares on Turn 1.
No diplomacy.
No breathing room.
Just pure chaos.

The challenge is simple to explain and brutal to execute: can Rome survive 50 turns while the entire Italian peninsula - and half the Mediterranean - tries to erase us?

We’ll be outnumbered, ambushed, surrounded, and starved of every advantage the Republic usually enjoys. This is Rome before empire, before power… when survival itself wasn’t guaranteed.

If you enjoy desperate early-game battles, impossible odds, and razor-thin tactical decision-making - you’re in the right place.

Let the war begin!

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Highlights:

00:06 Battle of Anagni
16:55 Battle of Ostia
25:01 The First Battle of Cures
31:51 Siege of Veii
53:23 Second Battle of Cures

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