Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia

[mikeck]

My issue with this TW is the same as for Charlemagne: there were really no standing armies at the time. I wish they would implement a system where you quickly "raise" most of your forces for campaign but to do so drastically affects food production (or any production). That way the King of Mercia isn't hanging out with a full time army constantly

[W8taminute]

^Oriental Empires does that somewhat nicely.

[CJReich46]

My issue with this TW is the same as for Charlemagne: there were really no standing armies at the time. I wish they would implement a system where you quickly "raise" most of your forces for campaign but to do so drastically affects food production (or any production). That way the King of Mercia isn't hanging out with a full time army constantly

I like that idea. I read that in The Last Kingdom that the fyrd was raised but they would be released for the harvest.

[Surtur]

^Oriental Empires does that somewhat nicely.

+1 for shout out to Oriental Empires! (not biased at all)

On Total War: Does anybody know you you can sail the rivers with your armies? I think this was a fairly big deal at the time.

[JudgeDredd]

I'd quite like this - but I get soooooooooo little time invested from the Total War games. I definitely run a negative play time to cost ratio.

I think I've got about 10 hours or something on the Warhammer one which has been lorded as being the best in the series by many.

[HoodedHorseJoe]

^Oriental Empires does that somewhat nicely.

+1 for shout out to Oriental Empires! (not biased at all)

On Total War: Does anybody know you you can sail the rivers with your armies? I think this was a fairly big deal at the time.

Only one or or two major rivers are represented afaik, an even then it's more that they've extended the ocean inland a bit to allow ships to reach places like London. It's not an official thing, sadly.

My issue with this TW is the same as for Charlemagne: there were really no standing armies at the time. I wish they would implement a system where you quickly "raise" most of your forces for campaign but to do so drastically affects food production (or any production). That way the King of Mercia isn't hanging out with a full time army constantly

To be fair, the two Saxon factions have a 'Fyrd' mechanic where you're only allowed to raise so many levy troops. Starts off at like 20. Go over this limit and your economy starts to suffer. That limit can be raised or lowered by events, and by the number of map nodes you control. It was never really an issue for me though.

[Hofstadter]

I just preordered it.

I LOVE my total wars. Shameless fanboy so....pfft

[Gusington]

Me too. No shame in that here. Still waiting for my code.

[W8taminute]

^Oriental Empires does that somewhat nicely.

+1 for shout out to Oriental Empires! (not biased at all)

On Total War: Does anybody know you you can sail the rivers with your armies? I think this was a fairly big deal at the time.

:)  Yes great game! 

One thing I enjoy about Oriental Empires is the battles take place directly on the main map.  Although the player has no direct control during the battle one must pay attention to the group composition, move orders, and tactics prior to going in.  Plus I love the fact that boats can be used to pepper land units with arrows. 

[Sir Slash]

I hope this game's great but I've been disappointed too many times by CA to be a day-one buyer. Probably after a patch or two and a sale along with Loin-moistening comments, I'll jump in.

[Gusington]

Wuss.

[Sir Slash]

I've been called much worse.  :P    I'm looking hard at the Attila Mod, "Ancient Empires" that takes it back to Rome/Carthage days and looks VERY nice. Not done yet though, I think an update's coming May 18th. Also there's a Medieval mod for Attila too.

[Gusington]

Before I play Thrones of Britannia I need to play one more full campaign each of Rome 2, Attila and Shogun 2.

[Grim.Reaper]

Nice to see preload available today....started mine.  No idea if will be good or not, but always buy this series.  Little surprised only 5.8GB, not sure worthy of a preload:)

[Surtur]

Only one or or two major rivers are represented afaik, an even then it's more that they've extended the ocean inland a bit to allow ships to reach places like London. It's not an official thing, sadly.

Thanks for the info Joe, it is a shame. I think I will wait a little