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Anonymous09/07/24, 17:24No.1844705THEY MADE READY FOR WAR
/vst/ HAD FALLEN INTO SHADOW
THE EARTH GREW COLD, AND THE WINDS WHISPERED OF Total War: Attila Thread.
https://youtu.be/kpd_BH5W-sk?t=285
AND I BEHELD A BLACK HORSE. AND HE THAT SAT ON HIM HAD A PAIR OF SCALES IN HIS HANDS. ATTILA WAS BORN. ALL KNELT BEFORE HIM. FOR THEY KNEW HE'D DEVOUR THE EARTH AND SET ON FIRE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE MOUNTAINS.
ATTILA THREAD WAS BORN FROM DARKNESS AND DESPAIR.
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Anon09/08/24, 15:31No.1845392
anyone have the patched data packs so the game runs a little less shit?
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Anon09/08/24, 20:40No.1845655
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XQU8k8XVAA
> Last night, the crying of the fanboys kept me awake...and I had a terrible vision. I saw the fall of our franchise: low budget remasters under a harsh sun... Historical Total War, gone! Why would CA send such a vision? They are not cruel; they have watched over us. We have had victories aplenty in game awards. Our community sail to all corners of the forums. Yet even now, I fear. I cannot help it. We are the envy of mobile gamers. They tell terrible lies about us. They do not understand, so they lie. But the Warhammer fanboys, they are the masters of falsehood. New Historical Total War will come, I am sure of it. So. I will have no more false visions...and I think the fanboys will be quiet tonight.
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Anon09/08/24, 20:48No.1845666
I think I will need to get back to it. Which barbarian nations is the most fun to play? And I know, why not Romans. Just want to play some barbs.
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Anon09/10/24, 01:37No.1846713
Oh cool, the Attila thread's back. I need to get back to the Rome playthrough I was posting in the last one.
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Anon09/13/24, 04:08No.1848901
Has anyone ever played as Sassanid Empire? It seems almost pointless with two Roman Empires in far more interesting situations although it's nice there is an option to play as them.
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Anon09/15/24, 19:36No.1851096
I would love to play this game, but the performance is just too bad. There is nothing I can do. When I try the battles fps drops to 20 when units blob. It's by far the most appelaing game I would play but like I said I just can't get it to run properly.
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Anon09/20/24, 16:08No.1854785
picrel is imperator relesase
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Anon09/20/24, 21:29No.1854995
Why is the ERE soo comfy?
>More defensible balkans
>Rich capital in a good location
>Can retreat to it in case shit goes south in the balkans
>Very easy to make cash
>Only real theat is the south and east
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Anon09/21/24, 05:53No.1855249
How do i win open battles, while outnumbered and with no archers nor cav?
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Anon09/22/24, 10:58No.1856211
What is the current state of the campaign map modding tool? Are we going to see an expanded campaign map soon?
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Anon09/24/24, 01:06No.1857336
Is it normal to lose this many troops in very hard? Or is it the expected amount?
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Anon09/24/24, 10:38No.1857522
Noob's question while we're at the topic of horse archers. How to I make horse archers and other units with "can shoot while moving" shoot specific unit while circling around them?
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Anon09/24/24, 15:48No.1857698
I may divert some resources south once the German situation is more in hand, as I already intend to send a legion south to assist Stilicho against the Visigoths. They may continue further south afterwards and assist my North African legion, which I could also beef up with some spare dosh. The Mauritanians seem to be well behaved, though the Garamantians could certainly use a quashing before they take any more of Egypt.
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Anon09/25/24, 12:35No.1858546
>Gods of the Afterlife, spare my arse!
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Anon09/25/24, 17:39No.1858754
>go play Warhammer if you want to play non-human factions.
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Anon09/27/24, 20:07No.1860318
Is the Medieval mod better now? I remember it being pretty barebones, except for the units
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Anon10/03/24, 21:56No.1865192
>Quicksaves
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Anon10/04/24, 02:23No.1865448
How unlucky did we get? The fact that the Roman Empire collapsed, and got overrun by many foreign tribes? I mean India and China survived as civilizations, even though they were various cycles, while Rome didn't.
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Anon10/04/24, 07:39No.1865588
In my own WRE playthrough, the north-african desert tribes were my only true allies that never betrayed methough admittedly, going Pagan pissed off the East
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Anon10/06/24, 21:26No.1867701
bought this game a couple days ago because I got on a kick of wanting to play a Roman strategy game and my old copy of Rome 2 wasn't quite cutting it anymore. It's fucking kino and does a better job of simulating the feeling of surviving the apocalypse than most actual "post-apocalyptic" games. It's stressful as fuck but in a way that feels fun instead of tediousI started my first game as the Visigoths because they're the faction I think is coolest that doesn't have a "warning: you're going to get raped" starting difficulty rating, raided the Danube and Greece for supplies and released Dacia and Macedonia as tributaries to fuck with the Eastern Romans, then moved into Illyria, smashing 3 Western armies in a battle where I was outnumbered 2.5:1 and leaving the path to Cisalpania open to other Germanic tribes while I snuck around the north side of the Alps. After sacking all of the cities Rome still had north of the Alps (as well as Mediolanum because the opportunity presented itself) I bumrushed Gaul and finally settled in Aquitania, then attacked the Romans across the border in Hispania and seized Tarconensis too.Stabilizing and settling two provinces at once was a bit of a doozy but after all of Italy (including Rome) was razed by the Huns and the Western Empire effectively does not exist outside of southern Hispania and North Africa, I think I'm in a good position to finish them off and consolidate all of Iberia as my own, especially after beating the Huns in my own war after they were done with Italy, all of my northern and eastern neighbors are on friendly terms and I have a nice buffer to focus on finishing off the degenerate Latins once and for all
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Anon10/09/24, 24:37No.1869341
>wounding but not killing Attila in an assassination unlocks the "kill Attila" steam achievement
kek
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Anon10/10/24, 04:24No.1870145
what’s better, this or barbarian invasion?
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Anon10/10/24, 18:42No.1870551
>4 hordes standing on the furthest border of my realm eats literally all the food in my entire empire
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Anon10/11/24, 06:45No.1870904
Barbarian Invasion rules. the western romans are not total pushovers like in atilla, they are really desperatly holding onto italia and sending stacks upon stacks after me, its a true struggle.as much i love atilla, west rome is a cake walk, just a few auto resolves and you are all good, in this mod they have way better troops then me and more, so they rape in auto resolve.
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Anon10/15/24, 21:27No.1874258
I just beat valens but the game sends me back to my previous turn, wtf is going on?
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Anon10/16/24, 21:48No.1875170
Whats the current optimization protocol for 14th gen intel cpus for this game? I want to play it but it uses wayy too much of my cpu and thats why I don't play it. My gpu and ram is fine though, its just the cpu.
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Anon10/23/24, 19:36No.1881280
>playing ERE in stainless steel
>it's around 1306
>declared war on venice around the end of the 13tn century since I have a solid grip on Italy bar pisa/rome and genoa
>hungary, my day 1 ally (its 196 turns, playing with the balanced SS ai), broke my alliance and allied them after I took venice's starting islands
>lay siege to venice
>realize hungary allied with venice somehow
>try to ally hungary again
>can't because I annexed venice already and the game engine doesn't allow you to ally countries who have allied dead countries
>forced to raise several new field armies around the balkans in case hungary inevitably wars me
This is the only bullshit I already dislike about Med2. I'm more shocked mods like SS didn't amend this. The fact that this is likely a engine issue is something I just can't wrap my mind around no matter how many alcohol shots I take while playing.What's really damning is Hungary is huge because I'm been using them as a comically oversized guarddog in the Balkans the greater eastern European world. I feel like I was quite literally bankrolling them because I lovebomb them with gifts and tributes that last years. I'm nearing the very end of this Short campaign already (on late era) anyway so once I finish sieging rome I'll target them next.
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Anon10/24/24, 24:39No.1881444
Genuine pain.
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Anon10/24/24, 24:48No.1881447
playing as the Garamantes, why do my fucking Legionary defectors not throw their javelins when they charge? if I leave them idle they'll skirmish with them, but they refuse to actually use them for their intended purpose
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Anon10/24/24, 01:36No.1881468
The Huns allegiances with the Syrians, the Philistina, and Phoenicians has made the Huns indomitable.The Huns have been converting so much to radical Hun paganism.
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Anon10/24/24, 01:48No.1881472
I recommend to the Huns to send two full~stack armies down to the levant. It’s going well.The armies are taking so much wealth raiding, taking, and abandoning cities that were apart of a faction in my modded version called “deranged cultists”, the truer name for “Israel”.
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Anon10/24/24, 02:04No.1881487
Best mod?
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Anon10/24/24, 04:04No.1881522
Attila the KEKED
LMAO!
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Anon10/30/24, 19:49No.1886335
are there hidden requirements to subjugate a faction militarily other than them only having one settlement left? I need a puppet state for one of the bonus objectives of my faction's mission line, but for some reason I don't get the option to subjugate the one region faction I'm at war with. Do they also have to not have armies, or do I need to border them? Or can you not subjugate factions that can form hordes? Those are the 3 potential problems I can think of
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Anon11/16/24, 03:02No.1896354
HUNS FIELD ONAAGEEERR
T. Frustrated WRE Legendary player
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Anon11/23/24, 16:29No.1900996
How to make this game run better?
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Anon11/23/24, 22:59No.1901200
God I wish Attila had a campaign that wasn't made to be as painful as possible. The battles are the absolute peak of historical TW but I just can't be bothered with the aidsfest that's the campaign.
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Anon11/28/24, 22:05No.1904415
I have a problem where I auto-battle everything. I try to strategize so there's no risk when I engage, which means I might as well auto-resolve. Even when it's uncertain, it's still more time efficient to spend a few minutes on the campaign map rebuilding things than to spend 25 minutes in a battle. And if it looks like I'll definitely lose, I'd rather let the auto-battle deprive me of a rare miracle victory if it means not having to suffer through the typical depressing curbstomp.I like the idea of fighting a great battle every once in a while that shifts the geopolitical situation. But really the game is either easy enough where everything can be auto-battled, or it's just a slugfest of fighting through army after army and it's too stressful.
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Anon12/10/24, 07:57No.1910827
current noob here, as I just bought the game on Steam sale back in December 3. I played as the sassanids and I suffered from civil war because I didn't know jack shit about the politics of my faction. help.
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Anon12/16/24, 18:28No.1914456
Are you guys playing Ashila with Fall of the Eagles? I like the units
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Anon12/23/24, 20:37No.1919979
I'm interested in getting a new TW. Trying to decide between Three Kingdoms and WH3. Don't really care about WH but the battles look fun as fuck. I love setting of 3K and I like the idea of the diplomacy. Do you need the DLC for these games? I assume you can pirate just fine?
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Anon12/28/24, 07:43No.1923484
So is there any way to declare war on someone my client states like without them chimping out and rebelling? I’m trying to maintain a buffer zone of Germans but they just get way too uppity the moment I want to fight someone in their general vicinity. It’s annoying having to constantly beat the krauts into submission, even if it is kind of accurate to the period.
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Anon12/29/24, 14:32No.1924283
Cohors: Kind of tanky but just sits there and can't really fight back.
Legio: Equipped with 2 javelins and can actually pack a punch in melee.
Legio Comitatenses: Can not only hold the line but will consistently defeat barbarian infantry.Remember to research military technologies. Your garrison units are counting on you.
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Anon12/30/24, 03:25No.1924861
It's been a minute since I last posted anything from my WRE campaign (mostly due to being busy with other games), but I did just play a bit more this weekend, so here's some screencaps.
The spring of 407 AD has found the empire possibly nearing the end of a relative respite from the greater part of the chaos of the previous years. The last few years have seen some rare stability from the German border thanks to the subjugation of the Alamans and Marcomans. To the south, the rogue state of Macedonia swiftly sued for peace with the Western Empire after Stilicho tore its army apart outside of Tarentum. Most importantly of all, Emperor Honorius's new program of rotating governorships to assuage the Empire's immigration problems have been working wonders to restore public order, one province at a time. While not every province has yet to be attended to, the amount of potential fires breaking out has been reduced to the point that the Legions are now far more able to contain it. Hispania, in particular, has been stabilized to a large degree (though not without a notable rebellion in Galleaecia that was swiftly put down by the VII Legion). Troubles still brew in the far north for the empire, and tensions are threatening to break out into war once again with the Germans, but things appear, for the moment, to be looking up in Mediolanum.
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Anon12/31/24, 20:33No.1926088
Anyone here plays as the Huns to give any tips? Holy shit it's insufferable how the ai just chases you and your economy can't sustain the most basic units like the Hunnic Horse Archer upgrade
I can win battles but the campaign gamplay is just non stop ballbusting
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Anon01/15/25, 17:13No.1936346
>play as the White Huns
>never enough money
>Sassynigs pulling doomstacks out of nowhere
>can't ever make it past the first checkpoint without getting wiped out
>play as the Sassynigs
>White Huns are invincible killing machines
>half the empire is burned to the ground by turn 50
I love this era but Attila filters me so hard. I'm going back to Rome 2.
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Anon01/19/25, 08:37No.1938805
Another year, another reinstall of Attila.
And yet another ERE run.
Fun fact: I have literally never played as any other faction and I still come back to this fucking game every year just to start and never complete an ERE run.
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Anon01/29/25, 24:07No.1945830
Damn this game is so accurate to history
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Anon01/29/25, 02:50No.1945909
*Clicks on anon*
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Anon02/10/25, 14:38No.1954908
COME, SIT, SHARE MY FIRE
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Anon02/12/25, 19:59No.1956957
Is there a mod to turn the obnoxious "alert noise" off? That stupid sting really pisses me off.
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Anon03/02/25, 10:54No.1972383
Is it me or are the Alani really fuckin strong?Good Cav, good infantry, idk bout Horse Archers but oh well
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Anon03/04/25, 15:46No.1974387
Why is Atilla so based that its the only historical TW that can regularly have its own thread dedicated to it? If you talk to the TW fanbase generally they only ever mention the poor optimization at launch and treat it as if thats a deal breaker. I mean, I know why its good for me I like the game too but im curious why you all think its so popular?
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Anon03/05/25, 24:36No.1974877
Are there any mods that add new settlements?
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Anon03/05/25, 02:15No.1974946
>Only 2 weakness> one is bug CA forgot to fix>two having to take 2 turns instead of 1 turn to recruit after researchThe Alani are so fucking strong once you get them up and running. A few good settlements and you'll have a nigh unstoppable war machine.
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Anon03/05/25, 16:28No.1975060
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnf45OeeHQoI miss this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe.
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Anon03/09/25, 03:19No.1978425
I've been playing 1212AD recently, unironically i think it's really fun but it can also be quite slow in some aspects, i guess that's the point though.
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Anon03/18/25, 03:26No.1988314
Thrones of Britannia with the shieldwall reforged mod is actually the best historical total war to ever exist.
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Anon03/19/25, 24:15No.1989285
It would be the best TW if it could run well. I swear that a decade later no PC I had could run it well.
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Anon03/20/25, 14:07No.1990854
New Attila player here.
I killed the fag in battle. And I mean I surrounded him with spears and watched his entire unit perish to the last man.
Yet after the battle I didn't recieve any message talking about his death.
What's up with that? Should I reload the battle until that happens?
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Anon03/25/25, 02:44No.1995708
>alright, Honorius, hit 'em with the pax romana
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Anon03/25/25, 05:55No.1995774
>still runs like absolute shit on my 4060 / Ryzen 7 7700Yea, no thanks.
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Anon04/12/25, 16:44No.2016986
For me it's when it's like turn 120 or 80, and you send a Champion outside of your secured territory only to find the rest of Mainland europe is literally all ruins and the onyl states left are by the coast or on peninsulas or islands.
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Anon04/13/25, 23:32No.2018369
So how many of you use my mods then? (Did not know /vst/ existed until a few minutes ago.)
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Anon04/25/25, 22:26No.2019814
Darkness and despair bros...We are so back
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Anon04/26/25, 09:08No.2020127
I played in vanilla and the hygiene system was a pain in the ass. I hate CA too, it's one of the best TW and they don't gave a fuck as usual so it's bad optimised, the game is abandonned. If they can't scam you with 30€ dlcs they don't care about maintaining a game.
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Anon05/06/25, 24:37No.2027105
why the FUCK does Attila look like Vaas from Far Cry 3?
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Anon05/12/25, 21:32No.2034754
Thinking of playing as the Garamantias for a change. Does anyone have any experience as them? Any tips?
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Anon05/13/25, 18:27No.2035623
Going to start a WRE campaign with FotE and Roma Perdita. Thinking of abandoning everything apart from Italy, Iberia and Carthage.
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Anon05/14/25, 22:56No.2036895
Wonderful thread, cant wait to revisit it when it turns 1 y.o
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Anon05/20/25, 01:16No.2042090
>ERE watching Honorius destroying every Christian building on Jan 1st, 395AD
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Anon05/20/25, 06:12No.2042317
>merchants in the ERE 15 years later when the emperor shows up for his 5% interest payment
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Anon05/21/25, 19:47No.2044088
How the fuck do you do buildings. Wich stat is the most important to focus on.
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Anon05/26/25, 03:41No.2048937
Been playing a Rome 2 campaign as Macedon for the first time since WH 1 came outI forgot how good this game is
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Anon06/03/25, 13:52No.2057763
>want to start another WRE run
>don't want to spend the first 5-10 turns demolishing and rebuilding provinces
>don't start another WRE run
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Anon06/03/25, 20:47No.2058126
I wish the WRE was fun but it's pedagogically not because
>Start off technically strong
>Ai aren't afraid, they declare war
>War declaration causes friends to declare war
>At war with the world
>Each one city minor can employ two full stacks
>You have multiple fronts with 3+ factions you need to eliminatE
>once you eliminate them you have hordes of fucking peasants to mow down
>85% of your campaign time is spent fighting defensive siege battles using your formations and basic troops
>Once you stabilize the huns come with a million fucking horsemen that hit like crossbows
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Anon06/06/25, 14:35No.2060490
Cohors - mediocre
Legio - good
Legio Comitatenses - great
Eastern Armoured Legio - amazing
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Anon06/08/25, 21:14No.2062032
Started a Langobard campaign with a bunch of mods on and it has been an absolute blast. The Langobard's have great units (Godansmen, Young Wolves, Horse Slayers, Plated Clubbers) that fuck shit up).I blitzed the Saxons in turn one, the Franks after that, and the Danes a little later.I'm making my anti-Hun armies (Spearmen, Horse Slayers, and Arrows) now and getting ready for the Hordes.GLORY TO GODAN
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Anon06/24/25, 02:41No.2075813
I'm thinking about getting Attila (I mostly stopped playing new total war after Rome 2) since it's $9. Are any of the dlc worth it with the current discount?