A lot of my heroes were met with negative traits and debuffs simply because they waited too long within a settlement that had high happiness. The game itself actively encourages a particularly aggressive playstyle and punishes a slow and cautious approach. If you start losing resources, the first and best option to remedy that is to find a minor settlement that deals with the resource you’re lacking and to take it over, usually by force. Your main resources are Stone, Wood, Bronze, Food and Gold.
The resource management is much more important in the early game, as by the late game you, and every other faction, will have a nearly limitless supply of resources. With all the systems the game has in place, it follows that there is a lot of micromanagement to go hand in hand with the resource management. To their credit, Creative Assembly have tried to make these systems as accessible as possible with the advisor telling you to do things as and when required and there is also an overlay whenever you open a new screen which can be toggled, so you’re never left wondering what each screen means for too long. I don’t know if these systems existed in previous games but it took me a few hours to finally get up to speed and for the game to “click”. I may have just been dense, but finding out about it at the stage I did was far too late to make the most of it. The King of Men system for Agamemnon didn’t even cross my path until I focused on the narrative missions and I had to appoint one of my heroes to it. It was even later in the game I realised I can make my game go faster by completing missions that further the narrative.
It was only halfway through my game I realised that you can court favour with the gods through prayer or sacrifices for stat boosts. Despite this familiarity, it is a particularly dense game with a multitude of systems which I didn’t even get to grips with until at least 30+ turns in. The advisors are there, the map is as expected and nothing looks out of place.
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Upon starting, everything looks like Total War. These events are generally great fun and it is where the game is at its best. When inside you then fight a night battle controlling the units inside the city and the rest of your army outside. When you besiege Troy, you get the option to use a Trojan horse and can select 6 units to hide inside it. The biggest one I came across was the siege of Troy while I was playing as the Achaeans. There are some scripted events in line with this. However, once the campaign is over, there isn’t much to bring you back as it feels like you have seen all it can offer. These missions can be ignored but the game is simply better when you complete them. You are also given Epic missions throughout the campaign which furthers the narrative, such as landing Achilles in Troy. This is what happened in my playthrough as the game seems to want you to play to the narrative. Once Achilles finds out about his friend/probably lovers’ death, he goes on a rampage. If you know the story of the Iliad, Achilles gives Patroclus his armour and is then killed in battle. During a playthrough as Achilles I had the option to allow Patroclus to wear my armour into battle or to deny that request. Troy really pushes the narrative of the Iliad and it is the best way to play the game. This Total War has something akin to a narrative (no surprise considering the depictions of the Trojan War in Greek literature) with missions popping up that actually advance the story as well as normal missions to do a variety of things such as vassalize a state or hire an emissary for rewards of stone, wood, bronze, food and gold. Alternatively, you can win a Total War victory giving, you some options as to how you want to approach the campaign.
Of course, you can research a Trojan horse too but this only allows you to build siege towers and you don’t actually see the horse until you besiege Troy. In keeping with the source material, this Total War has a Homeric victory option which involves wiping out Troy as the Achaeans or doing the opposite as Troy. This game is based upon the Trojan War as told most famously by Homer through The Iliad, adorned with characters made famous from Homer’s poem like Agamemnon, Achilles, Menelaus and Odysseus to name but a few.
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Initially released free on the Epic game store, it was an opportunity I found too hard to pass up and perhaps this would be the game to reignite my love for the real time strategy series. The more fantastical Warhammer Total War games didn’t really appeal either, so we come to A Total War Saga: Troy. I’ve not been as interested in the more tightly focused games like Thrones of Britannia as I loved the grand scale games like Shogun, Medieval or Rome. That last Total War game was Rome 2 and it’s only recently that I’ve managed to properly get into it. Personally, I haven’t played a new Total War game since 2013.
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