Paris, for his part, is the Aegean world’s original Wife Guy. His unique mechanics allow him to recruit special troops from other factions he’s allied with, giving him access to a wide range of tools even early on. Grumpy go-getter Menelaus of Sparta is somewhat understandably miffed that his wife, Helen, has run off with Paris of Troy and swears vengeance to the heavens. Their personalities come alive through tastefully over-the-top voice acting and unique campaign mechanics that reflect their place in the epic. Following in the tradition of last year’s Total War: Three Kingdoms, the iconic characters we all probably had to write a report about at some point are at the center of everything. Epic HeroesĤ Images While Troy is trying to present a somewhat realistic picture of the Bronze Age, it’s not shying away from making the great heroes of Homer’s Iliad larger than life.
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This made it essential to learn how to use lower-tier troops effectively, and adeptly combats what I’ve called the “Elite Murderlord Doomstack” problem in some older Total War games. Even as my kingdom grew, I could rarely afford to field more than three or four of these units at a time. The heaviest troops available cost bronze to build, but also consume bronze every turn in upkeep. Gold is very rare and exists as a sort of filler currency that can be used in bartering and negotiations, but it’s not the backbone of your economy and you won’t find much to spend it on outside these international dealings. Troy uses multiple resources: Wood and Stone are needed for most buildings, while Food and Bronze are essential to train and maintain armies. And beyond that, heavy troops come with a significant cost that can’t be overcome simply by building more buildings. I often had to choose between having better troops, or being able to decide the time and place of an engagement. Heavy spearmen are among the best head-to-head fighters around, but are easily out-maneuvered by light and medium infantry. Bronze Age warfare is all about that infantry, and I found over the course of 40 turns that I had to re-learn how to play Total War with these restrictions.Ħ Images To keep things interesting, CA has chosen to emphasize the differences between different classes of infantry.
But they’re not a core part of any of the eight playable factions’ rosters, so you can’t really base your campaign around them. You can gain limited access to a “mythic” unit of Centaurs – the implication being that the first horseback-riders probably seemed mystical somehow to those from other cultures and may have inspired the half human/half horse creatures of legend. Stay On Your FeetThe other major thing missing from these dust-swept battlefields is cavalry. And in attempting to portray this period at least somewhat faithfully, the developers have created a setting that feels extremely new, even to a history nerd like me, in a way that probably hasn’t been rivaled in Total War since the original Shogun.
In fact, a lot of the low-tier troops aren’t much more than shirtless dudes with wooden clubs. The warriors of fabled Sparta bear little resemblance to the tightly-formed hoplites of the Classical and Hellenistic eras. While the towering walls of the city of Troy herself are undeniably monumental and impressive, you won’t find much in the way of gleaming marble streets or grandiose palaces.
A typical settlement in Creative Assembly’s imagining of the era consists of loosely scattered, flat-topped, earthen houses, rough-hewn dirt roads, and primitive farms that seem like they’d be more at home in a film about prehistoric humans.
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