(And it is really cool to see your Hero and the other Hero going mano-a-mano in the middle of all that). You get to set up formations and arrange everyone, but battles frequently come down to absolutely brutal melee brawls that are just big, snarling fights. The use of mythical heroes provide literal hero units that can swing a battle and take on entire armies on their own using powerful abilities, but if they get killed, everyone’s running for the exits.
I am not a huge lover of the Bronze Age, but I have to say that I feel like this installment captures the combat well. The Total War AI has always had a Madden-style “Fuck you there is is no way you’re going to win” element hidden in it and this is a way of turning it into an actual mechanic rather than just being infuriating. Get in a slap fight at the wrong time and suddenly not only do your neighbors hate you, so do the mighty and powerful Trojans, and they may arrive to kick you in the teeth. So the usual dance of diplomacy and death also has that sword of Damocles (related reference! ha!) hanging over it. When the war comes, that shit is on, and you need to be ready for it. And it doesn’t matter if you made friends with the other guys well ahead of time. Each civilization is part of either the Danaans or the Trojans and, eventually, that war is going to start. Troy also adds a big, fat ticking time bomb in the form of the Trojan War. The hero and faction leader provides another area to manage, be it their moods, missions from god, or the delicate balance of keeping everyone fat and happy on titles and responsibilities so you can use them later to stab people in the face. You also need to explore, practice diplomacy, send out merchants, and, ideally, make friends. Expand by conquering neutral settlements and armies, keep your settlements inline, find excuses to fight in the real-time engine. The campaign mode will be familiar to TW veterans. (You can also get the Amazons free if you link your Total War account and your Epic account at the moment, so obviously, there’s DLC on the way.) And if you want to build a giant horse full of surprises, he’s the only one that can do it. Odysseus is a master of spies and can recruit armies in foreign lands and build unique units on the coast. Sapedon can find rare resources that provide substantial bonuses and is a master of trade, using it as a leverage for influence in other factions’ territories. Agamemnon keeps a coterie of heroes and managing their positions in court provides a powerful benefit, and he can enforce his demands more easily than other rulers. He can also colonize ruined settlements without an army, which is a tremendously powerful ability, though there is a cost attached. Menelaus is an aged but still mighty king who can summon units from the roster of his allies at any point on the map. Paris even swoons over Helen, as you might expect, and his mood affects his army. Priam’s heirs Hector and Paris must vie for Priam’s favor to earn a spot as his heir. On the other hand, Aeneas gets Divine Omens and literal missions from (the) god(s) and can ask the spirits of the dead for assistance. As you might expect, each leads a relevant faction or civilization–no I’m not going to tell you which one, do the damned reading and write your own damned papers–with various bonuses and drawbacks…Īchilles leads the Myrmidons and you must manage the mood of King of the Emo Warriors while his units are based around fast offensive strikes. Your choices are: Achilles, Hector, Menelaus, Paris, Agamemnon, Sarpedon, Odysseus, and Aeneas. The Troy setting means you need Heroes, and your choices are a few dudes you might’ve heard of. You need to know basic military strategy like setting out screens of skirmishers and using archers to wear down oncoming troops, and you also need to account for terrain and weather and ten thousand other things. When armies clash, they do so in polished RTS-style battles that are quite detailed. The Total War formula remains unchanged: There is a turn-based mode where you manage your faction or side or civilization through building buildings, sending out armies, dispatching spies and diplomats, and so on. MonsterVine was supplied with PC code for review It was epic before nerds ran that word into and through the earth’s mantle and actually epic, not finding an extra chicky nuggy in your McDonald’s order. If you skipped the reading in college, a bunch of Greeks got mad at Paris for being Mr. The Saga branch of the Total War series is a particularly interesting project, dialing down on the sweep of history across a continent to focus on a particular era or particular event. The Total War series has thoroughly mined history–Samurai, Medieval, Rome, Napoleon, Vampire Counts, China, more Vampire Counts–and yet they keep on digging.
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