Instead of fighting aboard ships, the game assumes you can unload at one of the many small islands of Aegean to fight a land battle. I could tell because it was missing some things like sea battles. This title is a “Saga” because it’s more focused and less ambitious than some of the other games, like Total War: Three Kingdoms. But don’t expect to use any of those ships for naval combat because the game doesn’t have any. Helen of Troy may have had the face that launched a thousand ships. They will join you eventually, when the time is right and conditions favor you. So I wouldn’t pay a lot to a faction in order to get them to join you. So you may inherit a faction economy with some real problems, and you may have to disband a bunch of their armies in order to bring the economy back into proper balance. The danger of Confederation is that factions that are about to give up will be more likely to do it. I was able to do this numerous times, and it helped me gain ground against the Trojans and squeeze them from multiple directions. That means they join you, bringing their armies and cities with them. This means that a faction that likes you a lot will agree to confederating with your faction. One of the best ways to gain ground is through Confederation. You can conquer lands through military means or colonize razed settlements to gain footholds across the region. If you take over Crete (known as Knossus in the game), you gain one of the victory conditions for Menelaus and also get a lot of resources. Total War Saga: Troy rewards you for successful play in a lot of ways. But he was such a key character that I didn’t permanently eliminate him from the game.Īnd while I’m living proof that the game can hold a strategy buff’s attention for many hours, the game has its flaws. That involved some necessary fratricide, and I accidentally assassinated Agamemnon once. And in this game, I had to conquer many of my Greek comrades before setting off on an island-hopping campaign across the Aegean. I played one of the earlier Total War games, Total War: Attila, for hundreds of hours, as I tried to save the Roman empire from collapse. The real-time battles are best fought only when you have close battles where you don’t have numerical superiority the campaign level duels are best fought as auto-resolved battles when you have overwhelming odds in your favor. As with all Total War games, you can fight them instantly in a strategic-level battle on the campaign map, or you can choose to zoom in on the battlefield and fight in real time with your companies of soldiers on a 3D landscape. Rebels are threatening one of them so you have to take them out first. You start out with just four cities including Sparta under your control. I played as Menelaus of the Greeks, the king whose wife Helen was wooed away by Paris of Troy. This game uses the same familiar interface that has served the series well. And during lockdown, I’ve fortunately had the time to play a lot since its debut on August 13, when more than 7.5 million people downloaded the game for free in its first 24 hours on the Epic Games Store. I’ve read or listened to these books multiple times, and the game brings back good memories. I’ve wanted to play this kind of game ever since I read The Iliad, The Odyssey (about Odysseus’ ill-fated return from the war), and The Aeneid (about the escape of Troy’s Aeneas and the founding of Rome) decades ago during school. The subject matter of Total War Saga: Troy had me hooked early. There are a few cinematics at the beginning of each campaign to motivate you, but the rest of the story is up to you. It’s a Total War strategy game, where you move armies around on a map and fight when they meet on the battlefield. If you’re expecting a grand narrative to go with the great story of the Trojan War, this isn’t your game. It was a long, slow slog to get to Troy, but I eventually conquered it. I’ve played this game a lot because I like the historical setting, and that’s not a bad reason to play a Total War game. I didn’t get to spend much time at all with Total War: Three Kingdoms or Total War: Warhammer II. I love the Total War games, which combine real-time strategy on the battlefield with grand strategy on a continent.
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