The MASSIVE Total War Gamble that PAID OFF - Total War Attila 2023 Review
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Say what you want, but THIS IS THE BEST TOTAL WAR GAME OUT THERE - and I'm NOT YELLING. Total War: Attila is the most hard core, the most demanding (in both a mental and performance way), and arguably the most complex Total War game ever made. Offering a tough as nails campaign, awesome expansions, and a horde of mechanics, this is my favourite Total War game - perhaps of all time. Seeing as there is a Steam Spring Sale going on, I thought it was time to venture back to Attila and revisit this gem once more, letting you know exactly how I feel about this game today, and whether Attila is worth a buy in 2023.
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You do know that there is a Lord of the Rings mod called Rise Of Mordor right? which was mad for Total war attila
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This game has so much potential. It is sad that CA abandoned it. Modders would have a field day with the proper modding tools.
Sega is the real problem. Board member meetings, "maximize profits, cut off support for the older titles". Greedy fucks.
Have people really tried to convince CA to update it and optimize it? Arent they going to listen if enough people ask for it?
But there already are plenty of mods for it? Radious, Para Belum and DIE if I remember correctly
You can copy some shader files from Thrones to Atilla to improve performance a bit.
@@Maesterful dei to rome 2, fall of the eagles+europa perdita to attila
Total War: Attila actually inspired me to research and write my history masters thesis and now PhD dissertation on Attila and how the Romans viewed him and the Huns as the embodiment of the apocalypse. The game actually nails a lot of historical details and themes well. Thanks CA for helping move my career as a historian forward!
Thats great, for me it inspired reading several books on Arian christianity and other early christian varieties
That's actually pretty cool and great to hear! - Would love to read it once it's published (if it's public available, then*)
Nice one. I used to play Rome TW and memorise the provinces and main cities for my university exams (Ancient History) , really helped to flesh out history in my mind
@@Calvinizo Thank you! My Master's Thesis is currently published. Its called The End is Upon Us: Attila the Hun and the Christian Apocalypse.
Nice one mate, is there anyway to read your thesis? I'm a bit curious!
Attila probably truly is the best total war game. The survival element of playing as Rome was super unique, and played surprisingly well. Both the battles and mod support are second to none, which makes it the perfect game to experience many different time periods with the best battle mechanics a game could offer.
Now imagine Attila with a trade system as good as Troy!
Barbarian Invasion had the same thing
I agree, Carter!
Between Attila and Rome: remastered which one would you choose to buy ?
@@chadecvsavgvstvsgermanicvs1598 Attila, of course! Like I said, it's the best one haha. But, I also think you can't go wrong, so maybe buy based on interest in the time period. I'm not as familiar with Remastered though, so my recommendation can really only go one way between the two
Untrue
Age of Charlemagne is really fun as well. I love the early medieval aesthetic.
The Western Roman Empire campaign on very hard is still the most fun I've had in a single TW campaign.
Play it on Legendary and see how frustrating it is. However, is is fun when you have dilemmas to solve and the drama it procures when your favorite general will die and you cannot save him through save scum.
Me too! I've never tried it on legendary but good lord I have a few different saves of the tales of two empires. Eastern Rome is also fun, once you get a financial base things get crazy.
The fact that this game has so many challenging aspects to it. Every single feature had some type of survival in it wish made every turn challenging and rewarding.
- fertility land now might not be good in the future
- How bigger your armies and unexperienced your armies are, how easier for them or the general to break away from your empire or start a revolt
- Family trees become complicated and the political aspect could get worse if you don't manage it correctly
- Attila is coming to get you
- The settlement destruction is probably the worst thing that could happen to you in any total war game. Burning the entire land so your fertility level is just 0 when you reclaim it
How in the world did Creative assembly not developed this further and still struggled with endgame challenge after this game? This was the perfect answers for future TW games in terms of Scope and style. Especially crazy to think they didn't do something similar when Warhammer started to release.
I love Attila TW, it’s so gritty, the winter attrition, the politics, destabilizing factions with diplomacy.
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Attila is also my favorite I love the uphill campaign as the Roman factions
Name checks out!
Attila and Empire are extremely underrated. I wonder if it has to do with the in-game strategic considerations being much greater challenges
I'm p sure it mostly has to do with the little things that are different from rtw and m2tw. A lot of people hate that you recruit units at generals rather than settlements, and hate that units cannot travel without a general attached to them. A lot of people hated removing population numbers (and altho Empire had populations, they made absolutely no sense). A lot of people hate not having the graphs/statistics to compare your faction to the others ones (I hate that too, but not a deal breaker). A lot of people hate that there's only 4-6 buildings slots per settlement. A lot of people hate the minor settlements that you can't build a wall around.
I just don't hate those things that much, and really like a lot of the new mechanics and things that Attila and Empire have going for them.
What made me stop empire total war was how bad the ai was at siege battles and just how many siege battles there were in the game. The ai is literally building themselves a death trap.
Just tried it for the first time, and it runs miles better than Rome 2! Spread the word! So many RUclipsrs push this 'Attila is unoptimized peasant trash and thats why its bad and runs bad' propaganda
I just got this game yesterday because of being on sale. Been contemplating between the Total War Hammer 3, Attila and Rome 2. Glad I got the Attila.
Awesome!
Try the Fall of the Eagles mod! It's great!
@@sid.h I downloaded Thrones UI. I might try The Fall of the Eagles mod. Hope the game won't crash
@@reynaldbatul2259 Fall of the Eagles+Europa Perdita, as well as the accompanying sub mods. There's an official list of compatible sub mods made for FoTE.
@reynaldbatul2259 Fall of the Eagles is pretty stable. I play this mod a lot as Abyssinia. Also, the WRE and ERE.
Atilla for sure has the best UI of maybe any TW. I can remember spending so much time in the tab screen using the different overlays to plan my empire layout! The beauty of the artwork married the game mechanics so well.
Med 2 definitely better
Attila TW best TW.
Still hoping for performance updates🥲
Medieval 2 the best one by far.
@@elmarm.5224 It'll come, brutha.
You are a brave man.... because god dammit your right!
Rome 2 and Med 2 both way better
Attila is by far the best Total War game that has ever been released. It is also the last of the Historical Total War games. I have more hours on Attila than all other TW games. I hated Rome 2's campaign and just could not get along with its economics and its buildings system, nor the faction design. Attila is a far superior game, in my opinion.
Agreed, Attila is far superior.
Modded Medieval II Total War is still better than any other TW game in history. Attila is less optimized than Saints Row 2 and GTA IV were on release.
Give the DEI mod a shot, made Rome II worth it for me in spades
Troy is based on history...
Also, The British isles game is based on histroy.
Shogun 2 did have a fertility system as well. I was happy to see that brought back.
The feeling of winning the campaign as the Romans, especially the Western Romans is the most gratifying feeling ive ever had from a total war game
Bought all of it , have over 5000 ours on warhammer. But by the gods I love Attila , needed a minute and watch your vids about it. Subbed and thank you 👊🏻
Yoo, thank you so much, my friend, I truly appreciate the Super Thanks! 🙏 5000 hours huh, damn, you must really love that ;)
@@AndysTake haha I did , warhammer serie is ok / good. But I felt it was time for change and found your channel. It made me feel the need to look Attila. So thank you again for your time and energy you putt in to it.
1000 hours on Attila and did not know you could gift regions to Hordes 🤣
"I have 1 word for you. Skill issue" THATS TWO WORDS! Anyway, Atilla really stands out from every other Total War because of the fact you have the ability to play as a massive empire in decline or a Horde marauding across the land or a minor power finally catching its big brake. Its less "Expand, Conquer, Profit" and more "Objective: Survive!". Not to mention it puts more recent TWs to SHAME with its Government system including your family tree.
Also If provinces don't have enough food for THEMSELVES let alone the Empire they get unhappy, who would have thunk the peasants need to EAT? (makes ya wonder why that isn't in Rome 2, it literally has the exact same system in place) As noted Your troops can even become disloyal as well as your generals, It really captures the Harsh nature of the period. The phrase "how far will you go for Rome?" has never been more tested.
And as noted, the modding scene is really cooking off, their is no doubt a Lord of Rings mod will be made, their is always one.
There is already one. It is called Dawnless days
well I was today years old when I learned you could gift regions to hordes...I am only half way through the video but that was enough of a shock to mention it. 167 hours played in the game am I am just learning this. Western rome is fun to play, even more than western rome in Barbarian Invasion i would argue since I usually don't end up half a trillion gold in debt as the WRE in Attila lol.
There's a mod that lets you gift regions to anyone. It's called Make Attila Great Again.
I really wish I could like Attila. However what really put me off where two things. Firstly Vassals and Allies tend to randomly declare war on you in the late game(even with highly positve relationship). This really pissed me of after a long campaign of the WRE, where I take great effort of resettling and vasslising barbarian factions to create stable border and trade, only to have it all blow up randomly. Basically the only sensible thing seems to be to burn everything down you can't hold directly. And respawing Huns armies never appeared to me as being a good mechanic.
this isnt even a real total war game, its a survival game. who wants to contain the dumpster fire the best? no thank you.
My favourite thing about it is the sound effects during battle, when someone yells COMITATENSES or the horns during charges, great sound.
Attila was the first Total War I actually played. Granted, it was not the easiest title for entering the Total War world. But once I had become used to it and was fully immersed in it, no other Total War I played after managed to captivate me as much.
There are a lot of things that make Attila feel truly unique.
Even without any roleplaying mechanics, like in 3K, the TWWs, Troy or ToB, the campaign is super immersive. The gritty atmosphere is really felt strong.
As you mentioned, the buildings having almost all having negative effects, means that building up is tougher and expansion will feel painful until a province is fully stabilized.
And the climate change and Attila's impending arrival gives you a sense of looming threat that truly brings more dynamism to the campaign. It gives you a reason to expand and build your empire. You're not expanding just for the sake of being a great conquering, but to be able to survive. If you didn't get strong enough by the time the doomstacks of Attila come, you'll get wiped out or atleast you'll have a very hard time.
Even in south-eastern regions far from Attila's reach, the Sassanids and their endless puppets play the role of the big local boss. You know you'll eventually have to fight them but until you can, you gotta play a subtle balance.
On top of all that, the migrations of various germanic and gothic hordes, coupled with the opportunist expansion of other barbarians on the ruins of the western roman empire make it for a highly unpredictable campaign.
You wanna be the first to grab those juicy fertile provinces before other opportunist barbarians take it under your nose. But if you rush in too early, you'll have a hard time strengthening your position there, without the money to buildup/convert and with units still inferior to romans.
So you gotta decide between rushing the best provinces before anyone else but then struggle to hold them in the early game, or waiting to build up your forces and your money through pillaging, before making a more secure expansion, at the risk of being opposed to fellow barbarians, which could then give you a lot of ennemies.
I usually do not fight the huns...easier for me. Attila has LOTS of women, which make great wives for your guys...
Andy Great Video man! Attila is actually my favorite TW. Mainly because the awesome mods havent played vanilla in a long time
The mechanic I HATE is that you can only have such few governors. Thats honestly just a blatantly stupid limitation that makes no sense. Other than that I love Attila.
It is fairly easy to be honest. you just have to build buildings that works best on maintaining your public order and stick with the formula once you found it. You have to factor food, religion, immigration, sanitation, and the ability to generate money to make a good and stable Province.
Not really an issue, don't put governors into frontier provinces, and keep military in the frontier provinces to farm rebellions and fight off invaders
This is the game that is so hard to play that makes it fun to solve. I have played many factions that I find hard to play as and also set the difficulty on Legendary. However, it is not fun when you finally defeated Attila or become the most powerful faction. Because you already know you won...
So I decided to play Lakhmids this month and decided to rebel the Sassanid Empire and try to defeat Attila at the same time. So far I have 7 failed attempts to find the right formula on succeeding. Wish me luck!
Best of luck, my friend!
You're right, this is a very sophisticated game and your review was suitably nuanced and vey well presented to boot! Thanks for making content like this worth watching and not as tedious as the usual knuckledragging gamer fare we're so used to on this hellsite!
Nice to see Attila get highlighted Andy!🙏
Absolutely, my favorite Total War too. I only play with Fall of the Eagles though - even better. The power, dominion and control mechanics are awesome and give you something to do all the time. Diplomacy works pretty well too. Battles are challenging, especially with Fall of the Eagles. Love it
Total war games come and go from my steam library constantly, but one remains constant. Attila
When I originally bought Attila I almost immediately returned it when I saw the overworld map drop down to 30fps. I didn't want to deal with the headache of getting it running properly, I just wanted to play a working game. But...the other day I saw it on a website for like $5 so I figured I may as well TRY getting it working, and wow, I'm very disappointed with myself for returning it so quickly the first time. They must have released a patch or two since I first bought it because it runs SO much better than I remember. It still doesn't constantly stay at 60fps, but after turning some settings down it pretty much does while I'm in battles and works fine while I'm in the overworld map. I'd highly recommend people giving it another chance when it's on sale. I was up until 2am fighting three or four full armies of Huns at the same time with my rinky-dink army and WON! Best feeling ever!
Total War Attila is still the best Total War for me. It was brutal, but more realistic. I loved that. Western Rome campaign was the best i ever played in Total war franchise
I'm playing a Western Roman campaign right now (Fall of the Eagles+Europa Perdita) , and my initial strategy has been to raze every settlement I have to the ground except for Italy itself. Then just grow out from there. If I can't have the European/African holdings, no one can. FoTE also introduces heavy maintenance costs to city centers, so it becomes untenable to hold onto all of your regions.
That sounds awesome!
That’s how I play Barbarian Invasion, except I hold a few more regions.
@@efes4068 Can't roleplay when you're -30,000 in debt lol
It's my favourite total war game. it took me a while to get in to it, but it's now my most played total war game
All Total war games which i cant play with reasonable Performance at high and shadows on: Attila
My favorite total war game: Attila
Life can be hard
Ah yes Total War Attila 2015 the last 100% Historical only tent pole title from CA. Now it's the end of the 1st quarter 2023 and all we've had since were 2Saga titles, 2 Warhammer titles, 1 semi mythical/historical game.
And yet CA continues to remind us how they're the biggest games developer in Europe and how they have/can have multiple teams working on projects . But still no news of a new Historical title 🤔.
I was on the official Total War YT channel earlier, looking at all the awesome Warhammer trailers ( yes i'll give CA credit for those ) but see how far back you have to go on there for anything other than Warhammer news !
If CA are incapable or unwilling to do Historical by now they should just come out and say so.
game idea is/was awesome, but vanilla game is not really good, but a great constructiontool for awesome mods, attila is also my favourite "modern" tw game at the moment
DLCs + mods = great game. Vanilla ATW is terrible
I love that you're a big TW: Attila enjoyer, I always thought it was a great game that, like Three Kingdoms, was done dirty and dropped too soon by CA.
I wonder if a game would work if you started at an age at the height of the roman empire fully united one of the powerful emperors, with an expanded map maybe new Mechanics like Imperial authority weakened by defeats losing territory ect or rebellions, also there can be slave revolts or gladiator revolts ect would have to balance it but you have more options to control the empire and could even transfer it back to a republic if wanted
Could probably work if one gave interesting challenges or had deep enough mechanics. But there would perhaps have to be some spin on things in order to make not just a “I’m the boss” kind of easiness.
@@AndysTake make the german forests more of a focus and of course the eastern front the roman camapigns against the germans were legendary but never managed to completely subdue them you gain honorific titles to your imperial name for taking swathes of land ect I think it would have to have more focus on the empire management side maybe great projects ect
Try Imperator Rome with the coming Attila connection.
@@geoffwitt4227 what do you mean “coming”?
There is no other TW that i played more than Total War: Atilla. From all games of the series, i love the dirty and dark visual style of Attila at the most. It catches perfect the dark times which it represents. And, dont forget the massive amount of genious mods like Ancient Empires, Terminus etc. .
Im on a low end laptop, and Attila performs way better than Rome 2 for me. Honestly people complaining about performance just cant face the reality you need top expensive rigs to play almost anything in high definition, its not the games fault if youre pumping everything to max and what you have cant handle it.
Honestly this goes to show how little we ask of CA. Attila has a lot of ridiculous problems (some might have been slightly patched since I haven't played it in like 3 years but I doubt it). 1. Corruption, I remember I had over 100% Corruption as the western roman empire once I expanded into anatolia. Basically conquering new land reduced my income significantly. Only had income from provinces with governors and trade. Meaning that I could field like 4 armies while owning half the map. While an opm could have 2 to 3 armies.
2. Trade I made over 10k gold (maybe much more i dont exactly recall) from trade with the eastern roman empire due to duration of trade even though the ERE was just a opm by that time.. completely unbalanced. If it wasn't for trade though I would have 0 chance as I had almost no income as said above
3.WRE and ERE are way too weak. In most of my campaigns (when not playing as rome the west falls before attila is even the leader of the huns and the east falls shortly afterwards
4. Devastation makes the game boring once u defeat the huns. There was me and the rest of the world was empty (except for the east) they should have replaced razing with "extreme "looting where all buildings are destroyed but the city remains for example(i know there are mods for that but Im discussing vanilla not the work of the community). It's no fun to have half of the map empty. Additionally I would like to see the huns make vassals instead of just destroying everything. It would be more historically accurate as the huns did have tributaries and make the game more fun.
Finally I would like to add that I don't say this as someone that is just mad because the game is hard or something. Quite the opposite, I was able to save the WRE while only losing parts of britain and france. My problem is that poor balancing and bad thought out mechanics make the AI completely unable to hold the roman empire for even a couple of turns and makes the late game (after defeating attila extremely boring).
Ps.just remembered that they were unable to balance the huns so the huns pay no maintenance for armies and have armies just spawn for them 😂 + attila needs to be killed like 3 times. I dont mind the difficulty but surely there is more intersting way to achieve this
I bought the game plus (age of charlemagne, empires of sand, and celt culure pack) and Im kind of excited to start playing this. Have sunk 100s of hours into Rome 2 DEI but this seems like a fresh twist on a quasi-familiar setting. I was wondering if anyone has anything to say about the other 3 culture packs (slavs, vikings, longbeards) and if they worth buying. Unfort theyre no longer on sale, but maybe next time.
I have played over 8000 hours. I have all the packs, except for the Roman campaign. The different add-on factions are all good, and are all different. The vikings have interesting characteristics. Sweden's resistance to winter/snow is a nice benefit.
Age of Charlemagne gives you access to vikings and desert cultures while also giving you a bunch of new units and buildings and mechanics. I'd always get AoC first. I've heard Slavs are op because of their poison arrows. Celts have cool ambush mechanics but I could see them getting old. langobards are interesting but again, are included in Age of Charlemagne
This game no longer works for me and some steam users for quite some time now. As good as it was, CA has done very little in the way of supporting it’s clients to troubleshoot. Very sad.
What do you mean the game no longer works? Like it just doesn't start?
Attila is the basically the Nightmare Mode of Total War games. You have to suffer endless humility in the WRE campaign in order to rework your economy and cities till you can finally get things back in line. However, once you have your cities back under control and start amassing your armies, you can harness war machine that is nearly unstoppable.
I took so much pleasure surrounding Attila one last time and smashing his forces, reminding the barbarian invaders that the Western Roman Empire pays its debts.
I usually do not fight Attila at all. He has LOTS of women, so a good source for lots of wives for your guys...
I have over 8000 hours on Attila. It is THE best. Depending on the faction, it plays WILDLY different, so it is like multiple games at once. I recommend getting all the DLCs, as that is where the diversity is.
“He who defends everything, defends nothing.”
Instead of just YET ANOTHER LOTR mod, I'd really love to see a Conan The Barbarian-based mod set that overhauls the world into Hyboria, this game is DYING for a mod like that exactly, and Total War could greatly sync well with the Hyborian setting extremely well.
It also has the best soundtrack by far since Rome 1/Medieval II
I'd love to see a sequel that adds some of the other mechanics that CA has developed, like the supplies mechanic from Britannia. Something like that would definitely highlight the differences between settled faction armies and hordes.
At the very least, I wish CA would release a patch to scale the UI for 4K and above.
I'm badly addicted to WRE Attila. Mixing and matching mods helps keep it fresh.
I've been loving the "weaker towers" mod. It nerfs the insufferable gattling gun arrow towers.
Have you played eastern Rome yet?
I used to dislike this game because the performance was so awful, but something seems to have changed. I don't know whether CA patched it or if it's the unofficial community patch, but I went from getting 30-40 fps in campaign no 120+ fps.
Run so smooth on Linux mint
what patch? have you seen anyone else say the same thing?
@@unityofvitality-5875 i have noticed that some areas of the campaign map just have dogshit performance no matter what you do, while other areas run well. there is a community patch on the steam workshop
its definetely best of 3 Total War game. Empire Total War was also very good game and CA has made their worst mistake by abondaning them...
The Western Rome and the Ottomans on very hard is actually challenging and fun to play...
This is a great game. Pair it up with Crusader Kings 3 and it may be the best medieval strategy/battle game to date. There is a mod out there but it's working through some stuff.
For historical fans (in my humble opinion) a hybrid of Attila and Troy would yield the best total war experience possible.
Attila and Shogun 2 are my favorite total war games
10/10 for campaign, complexity, history
and the modding community❤
Absolutely love this game - Definitely not for the faint-hearted if you want to play as the Western Romans though
Saving a huge crumbling empire is a totally different experience than expanding from 0 and one of my favorite. Unfortunately Shogun 2 runs so much better so I'm sticking with that.
Attila, the best of the franchise 👍
I'd die for a TW: Attila Remastered version in 64-bit, more modding support and an easier way to edit the campaign map. Rn, the RAM lock, limited core/multithreading use and bad support for modern GPU's, is killin' it for me in comparison to TW: Warhammer franchise. But it's still a fun game like Rome 2, for me. - it's just the bottlenecks within the games that render high end PC's almost redundant from my experience and test runs.
I was hoping they would do something similar with 3 kingdoms and do a final DLC that took place once the historic 3 kingdoms were established and vying for power, with a start date around 218 or 219 (right before sun Quan betrays lui bei and kills Guan yu) since this offers more expansion opportunities for the 3 empires and makes each start feel a bit more unique while being different from the other start dates
I remember one of the best campaigns I have ever played in a TW series and it's with this game with Fall of the Eagles mod. I played as the WRE on Very Hard and OH MY GOD was it difficult!! But I was able to hold on to Gaul, Iberia, and North Africa by fighting every single siege defense battle! After playing so long I was able to tame public order and start pumping out legions. Then Atilla came I held the river in (Ilyria?) with 5 to 6 stacks as I saw that the Huns were beelining with 8-10 stacks. I held them at the river crossings and encamped near cities in that area, every battle was a gargantuan 4 stack battle with reinforcements coming from both sides! I did this until Atilla died, the scale of battles in this game were awesome. I also played ERE against Sassanids and the same massive scale battles!
Love this game. The music, the units, the complexity of the campaign... underrated game. I think the name turned off many players. Total War: Fall of Rome would have been more descriptive and more encompassing.
Attila is better than Medieval 2. But people are too nostalgia blinded to see It. Attila is the Dark Souls of Total Wars, or more, is a Survival Horror Grand Strategy Game. The most innovative Total War yet.
I think your too stupid to realize that people like Medieval for the time period and historical preference, not because of "nostalgia"
Most innovative seems like a stretch since it is practically just a remake of Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion.
Not even close. Both Rome 2 and Med 2 are significantly superior.
I love playing as Rome with Attila but I find the other factions slightly dull-Rome just folds too quickly when you attack it
Attila is a better investment than Rome 2, it's more polished as a base game by the dev. Too bad the dev prefers to shelf it and use the time in polishing Rome 2
Exactly this…
Only purchased Atilla a year ago in preparation for Dawnless Days, but have played it with 1212 AD and recently played a campaign as the Ostrogoths where I pushed my hordes all the way into Hispania laying waste to the western romans, then settling in Hispania and solely moving west retaking the Roman empire until it will be a Germanic Empire
This is the best TW title in recent years, I’m playing it right now. So many fantastic mods.
I wish the performance was like thrones or troy level. Also wish unit models look better to represent the time.
My first campaign was the ERE, and I was so looking forward to it as I loved Barbarian Invasion. But my armies collapsed in battle for no apparent reason, endless uprisings for no reason and infinite Hun stacks. It wasn't fun and made no sense. Which is why I have played it less than any other TW game and not touched it in years.
Didn’t you play Byzantine empire in M2TW? Same thing happens with the mongols late game.
Best total war game ever. The sun blinds those who see it.
I love this game. But those exploding towers... oh my...
Also, I hate that I can't change my capital.
Exploding towers?
@@charlesmiv3842 Yes. during sieges, when you occupy a certain area near a tower for some time it explodes killing your own soldiers in the process. You could be winning but in the next moment you just lost a entire unit because the tower exploded instead of just being captured.
@@hrk8670 Yeah, that is dumb lol
I actually just played through again recently on Very Hard and Legendary as WRE. Literally just pulled burned everything back to Italia on turn 1 and rebounded exponentially against invaders. Burn, consolidate, expand. It was pretty epic!
You can mod it with Crusader Kings 3. It's just an excellent game with such a massive map.
Man it’s so wild how there is really no other games, anywhere ever like total war. Especially Attila and empire/napoleon. Blows my mind how
If Thrones of Britannia had a campaign with Europe + Middle East & North Africa map, then Attila would have simply been irrelevant
Attila Total War still aged like a fine wine. Because 5 years later, most of the game mechanics from Attila Total War were brought over to Three Kingdoms Total War. Sure there are many new additions in Three Kingdoms Total War such as :
1. fixing the limited governor issues
2. character assignment mechanics
3. character ancillaries mechanics
4. five elements generals mechanics
5. human relations mechanics
6. population system mechanics
7. army logistic supply mechanics to deal with winter attrition
8. overhauled diplomacy
However, the rest of core campaign and battle mechanics were actually pioneered in Attila Total War. When you play Three Kingdoms Total War's records mode you will find that it is basically a heavily reworked version of Attila Total War.
thansk I think I'll buy Attila after I'm done with Shogun 2
When i first saw this game, i didn't like the way the world map looked (i used to play a lot of Rome 2 a few years ago, so that's why). But i downloaded it and actually played it, i fell in love instantly. I always like the challanges this game throws at you.
Ah back when total war had good anti aliasing options. New stuffs a blurfest
Problem with Atilla is that you begin huge... but EVERYTHING is level 1.
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I much prefer Attila over Rome 2 I find myself bored very quickly on Rome 2 could only play a few major campaigns where's I have hundreds of campaigns in other total war titles and something does draw me back to Attila I enjoyed the Belisarius campaign DLC, The siege battles are great here and that sense of world doom approaching the battles are bloody fun but the empire management can be difficult Play the western empire once and if you get completely destroyed don't worry about it have fun then look at some helpful guides tips maybe some playthroughs for different strategies tips ect what's great is that every campaign in total war is yours unique and personal and sometimes its ok to fail, thats part of the fun maybe having that epic siege battle knowing its your last chance to restore your empire ect 😂 i do wish CA had continued to optimise it more as even powerful pcs strufggle i have a 32gb ram i9 with a great graphics card and still 😂 but it does play its just the mid lower range your going to see some issues
Attila got at least one performance update that makes it much better.
The only real issues I have with Attila, is the climate change mechanic being a bit overkill rendering too much of the map worthless late game, combine that with the heavy handed corruption punishing you for having a lot of territory and the Roman tech trees locking/taking away your high tier sanitation buildings as you get further into the research tree.
My only real gripe with Attila was how the climate change was implemented. I mean I get it, it makes the game more challenging. But when most of the map drops to the same fertility as the desert regions it gets a little unimmersive for me. That and these few settlements which are missing a building slot for some reason.
There is one thing that bothers me with Attila. The battle mechanics are subpar in comparison to Rome 2. Units can blob and move into each other. Heavy cav versus light cav engagement perfectly highlights this. In Attila, you lose half your unit. In Rome 2, you absolutely crush the enemy. I like the latter.
Holding on as westen roman empire on legendary without giving up ANY territory was the most painful thing i ever did i had to attack all barberians from start and razing to the ground before they can even declare on you if you let them you dead unless you give up provances
Empire Divided for Rome 2 should've been released for Atilla instead :(
Atilla built on Rome II the same way Napoleon built on Empire TW, shame both games are under appreciated
honestly my only problem with Attila was lack of good tier 3 units ...
if im not mistaking western rome had only 4 or 5 tier 3. i always look forward to see my developments pay off by reaching stronger units (i have not used unofficial mods)
That's a feature not a bug that romans lack strong units, especially at the start, it forces you to go historical path i.e. make deals with barbarians and utilize their muscle(units) .
Just imagine if it didn't run like crap though. I can play Warhammer 3, 3K and Troy mostly on high/ultra without issues, but this one still drags behind miles performance-wise. Which is a shame. It's the main reason I've never really picked it up. I'm thinking about trying a Langobard-campaign soon though.
What is your opinion on Troy?
@@s0t5iranger69 I like it for what it is. Not my favourite, but it's fun in its own right. I prefer it without the mythos-DLC though. We already have one Warhammer game xD
I thought that nothing could stop me from infinitely playing Rome 2, but after having a few failures with Attila and then finally understanding how it works I just can't come back to Rome 2, because Attila is just so captivating and satisfying, especially when you manage to stabilise ERE or WRE and get back at those barbarians with your trusted heavy legion...amazing.
Not gonna lie though, Huns at time feel like some bugged imbalance sh...how else would you describe a faction that you can destroy 20 stacks of and they keep re-emerging with 3 full top tier units, lol.
Ostrogoth campaign and forming the Ostrogothic kingdom with rome as the capital>>>
I've actually never fully committed to the Ostrogoths, but it definitely sounds interesting! I might try it
Shogun 2 fall of samurai, Medieval 2, Attila have a special place in my heart. Rome 2 (not at release) good as well.
It‘s a good game, but the siege Battles for the Romans get boring quickly because there are only three or four different maps for standard villages…
Agreed all around, thanks for the content.
Thanks for the comment :)
Personally I always thought the game is pretty great (disregarding the same issues I take with Rome 2, like the unsatisfying province system etc.). Sadly the course of the campaign feels a little unoptimized: Due to the razing mechanic at some point of the game (since the AI does not settle in razed lands) the map ist just kind of empty. Also: if fertility can be actively decreased by razing, there also should be a mechanic to actively increase fertility and counter former razing-effects. But over all I do agree with you - looking forward to all the unlocked modding potential ❤
There's a mod thatmakes them aggressively resettle razed territory if youre into that
best historical total war. thx for review!
I usually crawl back into spain
Fight every city battle trying to kill some horde
And growing back from there
Damn, you just let Rome itself fall?