I get that not every place had a wall or palisade, but why the hell would you build a redoubt or keep in the center and then leave it open? No gates. no barricade you can close, wide open and usually they give you a garrison that's too small to even cover the openings.
I've been defending the total war people for a while, and have always wanted a viking game, but I feel like they're just being lazy as shit and releasing the same game with an overhauled setting.This should definitely be an expansion for Attila. I think they should make a new engine. Edit: I know there are a lot of things that are improved, but I can't help but feel like a modder could make this if they had more freedom.
it is an expansion. pretty much. stand alone which is better for people who don't want to buy attila. and if you think a 40 dollar expansion is too much, just look at xcom.
For that price they are not asking to much and at least for me i was never nor will i ever be interested in buying Attila. I can't point out any one thing i don't like about Attila but it just does not speak to me. This do however and i would probably never buy this if i had to buy Attila first.
to be fair, most of the changes to TOB is in how the campaign map works. battles might be just attila clones, but the troop system gives the game a completely different feel. instead of just tossing soldiers at the enemy, you suddenly have to conserve your troops, at least in the early to mid-game. late game is mostly the same autoresolvefest tho.
I have always thought it would be cool if the developers allowed you to create your own faction from scratch. You could create units and uniforms, pick religion and culture. Stuff like that. Then u could use your faction in online battles.
Thanks for the video. I'm going to be using Circenn and this is the best video I've see showing that faction. Looks like crossbow and high level sword will be keys for this faction.
I'm glad great fortresses are back, that's the one unforgivable part of TW warhammer for me. I hope they make them great in warhammer III and the china one
looks ok, but i got burned so hard by Rome 2 when it came out i will wait at least 1 year for the price to drop, the bugs to be fixed and the first 100 DLC's to be included . I hoped for something that was qualitywise as good as the Britania expansion Medieval 2 but with all the things learned about gamemaking till 2018. Frankly this looks like a Britain centered mod down to a point where some of the new units are working weird, like that disappearing ram.
I ain't buying it until after real reviews drop after launch. I know the lemmings who preorder will keep CA afloat but I still don't feel like getting burned again.
P. Sinnet we dont really hear of much artillery and siege towers in this particular time period/area. I really wish CA had introduced some new mechanics to make sieges interesting without them.
@P.Sinnet It's a computer game and thus fiction. Nothing here is historically accurate, but it doesn't have to! It's supposed to be fun and cater for our need to picture the past in an interactive and visually compelling way. And that I feel it does amazingly! :)
I like the idea that there are less buttons to push. This is total war, its about battle and strategy, its not about hitting the turbo button to get an edge in battle.
the fact is the long bow has reached the power before the 14 it's just the weapons were only used in wales so it's a local weapon that why the english make so much time to control the walesr... we all know it in 14 and 15 cause of the utilisation of this weapon during the french war and withou that the rosbif will be easily dompted in battlefield ;) so yes the long bow was used before the 14th. and maybe if you read the description of units in the game u will see that we have founded some archer tombs from this time !!
the black blades are a reference to some older sources talking about heroes with big black swords and weird javelins and such. They just worked it in as a little easter egg ref
The Galoglass were Viking mercenaries in Ireland so it wouldn’t be unusual for them to use Dane axes considering grate swords were not being used commonly at this point.
The siege mechanisms are superb, it's the combat that worries me. It seems that units are just cosmetically different for the most part, 1 on 1 combat mechanics do not seem to even match Rome 2 sparring in this video... Those crossbows, with their cost and effectiveness, seem to be too strong? Would like to see some more sieges, this map def. needed more soldiers in the battles (y) great video none the less
Well, 1 on 1 combat isn't really how fighting was done in that era, though. A lot of 1 on 1 combat would look neat, but would be very unrealistic, and in my opinion, TW is already quite unrealistic, so I don't mind it. Doesn't mean though that the animation doesn't look bad, or that I think they def. should improve it.
No, they didn't, and they didn't look like that at all. Also only the vikings had actual longboats. They were sleek little things without the trireme decks shown in this clip. The rowers were the soldiers, and they sat right next to the shield wall. When they were done rowing, they'd raise up and strum their bows.
you are right that the ships are too big, but you are forgetting about the Busse. If you didn't know the Busse was a large ship used to ferry large amounts of men and cargo, and was used to gain an upper hand in naval combat, due to its large crew size, but you are also right about the rowers being the fighting crew, even on a Busse this is still how the ships were run. but the size of the ships in game are on average too big. a Busse could only hold 70-90 men.
The Busse were rare and served mostly as flagships for royalty. Also they appeared only later in the viking age. “Ormen lange” is a great example. The Skeid were much more common, and they could hold up to 100 men of the _lething._ But most importantly, they didn't have a _deck,_ like depicted in the game. The rowers sat right next to the “ripr”, or gunwale of the ship. Putting a deck on the ship is just a very lazy omission of the game designers.
Those islands could are a wasted opportunity as impassable terrain. You could make a Salamis/Thermopylae type of battle there. You block the attacking ships and while placing artillery or ranged units on the island. This way you force your opponent to use some of his ships to engage you land units and waste their manpower and/or ammunition. Also general dueling area would have been awesome
It's viking leg. They would eat mushrooms, dress in wolf skin, howl, and then jump a few kilometres every day just to train for that one day where it might come in handy. True history!
I imagine it is based on Dun Phadraig, also known as Downpatrick the burial place of St Patrick. The final resting place of Magnus Barelegs. Also where John De Courcey made his seat of power when he subjugated Ireland for king Henry.
"different era, different animations" so in real 900 AD battles, people just hit each other on the shield in the same exact animation before randomly falling over? ok dude. nice excuse for lazy coding
Mcface I have a master degree in Warfare History and i can tell you for sure that 80 percent of casualties were due to Heart attacks and fire arrows. Many braves were killed by the stress.
Come to think of it (I don’t have Thrones btw), the city layout reminds me of Shogun 2 Total War’s castles.. Also one of the many things that threw me out of immersion was in Rome II when I have costal naval battles - I have ships sink within swimming distance of shore and all the soldiers drown. Not to mention the water wouldn’t be deep enough to engulf the entire ship in water. It would also be nice to have a mechanic where a portion of soldiers that are near the shore can swim onto land to continue fighting with morale, fatigue, and ammunition penalties. I know some soldiers that are heavily armored might drown but units that lack armor such as levies should be able to swim..and while I’m writing this I suddenly remembered in Rome Total War Barbarian Invasion units could swim in rivers..ah good times..
Most Americans think that Scotland is a part of England , when in fact it's a part of the UK . Edit : I'm neither from the UK nor America but I sympathize with Scottish or Welsh people not wanting to be identified as English .
Irish pronunciation: Dùn Patraic is pronounced Dune Patrick (meaning the fort of Patrick, today it's called Downpatrick). Midhe is pronounced like Mead, the modern county is now called Meath and it means "middle".
If they made a new engine for Medieval III, then honestly, that'd make up for them not having made a proper standalone historical title for several years. I'd happily pay 60 bucks for that. 😍😍 Castillon 😍😍
i have watched many of your massive videos especially Rome 2 and its saga. i like how you controls your camera. i need to know how you makes that zoom out completely from the top giving an overall view of the battlefield from top.?
Question: can you still just board with one ship at the time? Double boarding was really common as long as boarding existed l. And sometimes even triple of smaller boats attaches a larger ones. So why total war never allowed you to use your numerical Advantage
Irish Lad here, 'Dun Patraic' = Fort of Patrick. It's pronounced "Done Patrick." A dun is an ancient or medieval fort. ... The term comes from Irish dún or Scottish Gaelic dùn (meaning "fort"), and is cognate with Old Welsh din (whence Welsh dinas "city" comes).
Yeah I think the jumping from ship to ship is really lazy and they come back to boarding animations like boards or ropes pulling each other in in future games
He mentioned about a naval battle between Danish and Norwegian Vikings in Ireland, yet I can't seem to find it online. Anyone else know what he is talking about?
i know that this battle is old but you forgot the shield wall formation it would make your troops last more in the defensive positions innstead of just bracing and sorry if I wrote something wrong but I am from Uruguay and 19 years old so wile I can undestend english I dont know very well how to write it
It’s weird because I feel like if they would’ve released this as just an expansion on Attila even with the same price tag, I would be received better in the community.
you should play more of some rome2, attila and warhammer(s) then. Being honest I really can't say for sure till I actually play this game, but I still suspect that they are testing out some new game mechanisms in Thrones of Britannia, which they will put in use in Three Kingdoms.
Also, regarding your list of "improvements", those are ALL things that we had in previous titles. Should we be grateful they implemented 360 battles? All previous historical titles had them, battle mechanics you say? That is simply a lie. There is ZERO, and I say, ZERO unit collision in this game, (as its essentially the same as Attila and RWII), ZERO unit weigths and mass. Rome 1 (from 2004!) had WAAAAY better unit collision and mass than this sh*t. The UI doesnt look bad, but it doesnt look "vikingy" at all, totally out of touch with the theme. Campaign improvements? Ive heard in multiple previews that the supposed "strong narrative" is in fact, weak and random. If they REALLY wanted to improve the campaign, they should allow the vikings to sail up the rivers, and have river battles, but that is way too much work for CA. Im only saying this because I LOVE Total War, I have been a fan since the first rome, but seeing the way this franchise is heading, they have to ALOT more work to impress me. This doesnt impress me AT ALL, neither did Rome II/Attila.
The boats are way too large. And the tiger-jumps the warriors are making are ridiculous. While ramming would occur, it wasn't commonplace. Naval viking armies would tie their boats together to create a floating fortress, and then barrage enemies with arrows, rocks and whatever else they could throw until they came close enough to board them. Otherwise the game is accurate in that boarding plays a _huge_ part of viking/ancient European warfare.
Invicta good thing, because Attila shows that I should have no problem on high, while I barely get 25 fps in the game. Really looking forward to buy this one in summer.
kebman really I wanted Rome to focus on the Ceaser time period more. There was the Gallic campaign and then 2nd triumvirate campaign. I wanted a sort of 'Caesar in Italy' campaign. Maybe give Phatsallus in historic battle.
Kinda disappointed that a wrecked ram doesn't just block the chokepoint until the debris is cleared by hand. That would make the handling of siege engines much more interesting, for both sides. Still not sure what people were expecting, though, looking at a lot of the complaints about battle animations or "it's just Attila" comments. The only thing missing is random complaints about "SJWs" somehow ruining it.
the ships look stupid being that size... just reduce the size of the ship and the number of men on them... historically the armies fielded at this time were usually not huge anyways.
CA must really get their priorities in place now. It is clear that there is favorism over those who do not criticize the game. Legend is bringing constructive criticism to the game and issues that they are neglecting. In addition to that, it shows very bad judgment power of CA by blacklisting him when he requested guidelines and information in regards of the NDA case. The company is in a situation where they neglect critical and constructive criticism that the player's has given them over a long period of time. With this current speed here, they are going to tense their legs on themselves. I love the series, however this is going too far.
I doubt in the hundreds of battles fought in that period, any of these small armies had the resources to build a siege tower to storm a hill fort...let alone 5
Oakley, Your troops got 3216 Kills. So it looks like the towers killed about 298 men. So... Together with some of your swords they are at sum the second best unit per kill. ;) Have a nice day.
"Dun Patriac"
"Down Patrick"
Downpatrick, where I went to school!
No sieges though...
What school?
Who's askin'?
Some green high cunt just
Same
A glorious Glasgow kiss comin yer wae .
I get that not every place had a wall or palisade, but why the hell would you build a redoubt or keep in the center and then leave it open? No gates. no barricade you can close, wide open and usually they give you a garrison that's too small to even cover the openings.
I've been defending the total war people for a while, and have always wanted a viking game, but I feel like they're just being lazy as shit and releasing the same game with an overhauled setting.This should definitely be an expansion for Attila.
I think they should make a new engine.
Edit: I know there are a lot of things that are improved, but I can't help but feel like a modder could make this if they had more freedom.
it is an expansion. pretty much. stand alone which is better for people who don't want to buy attila. and if you think a 40 dollar expansion is too much, just look at xcom.
For that price they are not asking to much and at least for me i was never nor will i ever be interested in buying Attila. I can't point out any one thing i don't like about Attila but it just does not speak to me. This do however and i would probably never buy this if i had to buy Attila first.
to be fair, most of the changes to TOB is in how the campaign map works. battles might be just attila clones, but the troop system gives the game a completely different feel.
instead of just tossing soldiers at the enemy, you suddenly have to conserve your troops, at least in the early to mid-game.
late game is mostly the same autoresolvefest tho.
So happy they added this as a settlement, I live in the town now called Downpatrick
I have always thought it would be cool if the developers allowed you to create your own faction from scratch. You could create units and uniforms, pick religion and culture. Stuff like that. Then u could use your faction in online battles.
8:28 those are the ferry men referenced in rome total war, finally we get to see them in action
Those are some huge ass viking ships :D
4:18 oh so immersive thats why i love CA for their realism.
TIGERJUMPIN VIKINGS MKAY!!!
I miss the Empire and Napoleon total war naval battles.
Thanks for the video. I'm going to be using Circenn and this is the best video I've see showing that faction. Looks like crossbow and high level sword will be keys for this faction.
You actually won! Congrats, very fun battle to watch
Another good invicta video, keep it up man.
Wow when they said they upsized the cities compared to history they weren't kidding.
I'm glad great fortresses are back, that's the one unforgivable part of TW warhammer for me. I hope they make them great in warhammer III and the china one
looks ok, but i got burned so hard by Rome 2 when it came out i will wait at least 1 year for the price to drop, the bugs to be fixed and the first 100 DLC's to be included .
I hoped for something that was qualitywise as good as the Britania expansion Medieval 2 but with all the things learned about gamemaking till 2018.
Frankly this looks like a Britain centered mod down to a point where some of the new units are working weird, like that disappearing ram.
I ain't buying it until after real reviews drop after launch. I know the lemmings who preorder will keep CA afloat but I still don't feel like getting burned again.
One yr m8 did ye buy it?
How historically accurate are the battering ram and siege towers? Because they look fairly identical to Roman ones in previous games :P
P. Sinnet we dont really hear of much artillery and siege towers in this particular time period/area. I really wish CA had introduced some new mechanics to make sieges interesting without them.
There are only so many ways to build a wodden siege tower
ladders or climbing gear/hook ropes would be more into the style of it and large tree freshly choped for a ram.
as far as i remember they didnt disappear after bringing down a gate
@P.Sinnet It's a computer game and thus fiction. Nothing here is historically accurate, but it doesn't have to! It's supposed to be fun and cater for our need to picture the past in an interactive and visually compelling way. And that I feel it does amazingly! :)
I like the idea that there are less buttons to push. This is total war, its about battle and strategy, its not about hitting the turbo button to get an edge in battle.
uploaded on my birthday :D love your commentary dude
happy birthday
I never understood armor piercing crossbows in games like these. Crossbows only reached the power of a war bow in the 14th and 15th centuries.
It’s in literally every game that has crossbows. It makes sense for gameplay kind of, but I still don’t like it.
the fact is the long bow has reached the power before the 14 it's just the weapons were only used in wales so it's a local weapon that why the english make so much time to control the walesr...
we all know it in 14 and 15 cause of the utilisation of this weapon during the french war and withou that the rosbif will be easily dompted in battlefield ;) so yes the long bow was used before the 14th. and maybe if you read the description of units in the game u will see that we have founded some archer tombs from this time !!
Great video, invicta! Oh and nearly at 300k subs! You can do it!
I found this channel like a week ago and I just realized you're Oakly Hi-def of Halo forge fame.
I'm glad you were able to find a new niche
the black blades are a reference to some older sources talking about heroes with big black swords and weird javelins and such. They just worked it in as a little easter egg ref
The Galoglass were Viking mercenaries in Ireland so it wouldn’t be unusual for them to use Dane axes considering grate swords were not being used commonly at this point.
The siege mechanisms are superb, it's the combat that worries me. It seems that units are just cosmetically different for the most part, 1 on 1 combat mechanics do not seem to even match Rome 2 sparring in this video... Those crossbows, with their cost and effectiveness, seem to be too strong?
Would like to see some more sieges, this map def. needed more soldiers in the battles (y) great video none the less
Well, 1 on 1 combat isn't really how fighting was done in that era, though. A lot of 1 on 1 combat would look neat, but would be very unrealistic, and in my opinion, TW is already quite unrealistic, so I don't mind it.
Doesn't mean though that the animation doesn't look bad, or that I think they def. should improve it.
Ships should be about 60% smaller the historicism has disappeared from these titles
I'm pretty sure those factions had some similarly sized boats
No, they didn't, and they didn't look like that at all. Also only the vikings had actual longboats. They were sleek little things without the trireme decks shown in this clip. The rowers were the soldiers, and they sat right next to the shield wall. When they were done rowing, they'd raise up and strum their bows.
exactly this
all the hype for this game and they dont get things like that down
you are right that the ships are too big, but you are forgetting about the Busse. If you didn't know the Busse was a large ship used to ferry large amounts of men and cargo, and was used to gain an upper hand in naval combat, due to its large crew size, but you are also right about the rowers being the fighting crew, even on a Busse this is still how the ships were run. but the size of the ships in game are on average too big. a Busse could only hold 70-90 men.
The Busse were rare and served mostly as flagships for royalty. Also they appeared only later in the viking age. “Ormen lange” is a great example. The Skeid were much more common, and they could hold up to 100 men of the _lething._ But most importantly, they didn't have a _deck,_ like depicted in the game. The rowers sat right next to the “ripr”, or gunwale of the ship. Putting a deck on the ship is just a very lazy omission of the game designers.
Those islands could are a wasted opportunity as impassable terrain. You could make a Salamis/Thermopylae type of battle there. You block the attacking ships and while placing artillery or ranged units on the island. This way you force your opponent to use some of his ships to engage you land units and waste their manpower and/or ammunition.
Also general dueling area would have been awesome
4:25 legs of steel. Look at those jumps
It's viking leg. They would eat mushrooms, dress in wolf skin, howl, and then jump a few kilometres every day just to train for that one day where it might come in handy. True history!
The Circenn are ABSOLUTELY NOT in modern day England
I imagine it is based on Dun Phadraig, also known as Downpatrick the burial place of St Patrick. The final resting place of Magnus Barelegs. Also where John De Courcey made his seat of power when he subjugated Ireland for king Henry.
Total War: Thrones of Britannia looks really good ;D
the fighting animations look like shit :/
seriously what happened to the awesome animations from Shogun
Different era/place, different animations.
Its called progress dude
"different era, different animations"
so in real 900 AD battles, people just hit each other on the shield in the same exact animation before randomly falling over?
ok dude. nice excuse for lazy coding
Mcface I have a master degree in Warfare History and i can tell you for sure that 80 percent of casualties were due to Heart attacks and fire arrows. Many braves were killed by the stress.
Mcface Only so many ways to swing a sword
The problem with all single player games is that you never stop feeling alone no matter how big the game is unless it has a really good story.
Come to think of it (I don’t have Thrones btw), the city layout reminds me of Shogun 2 Total War’s castles..
Also one of the many things that threw me out of immersion was in Rome II when I have costal naval battles - I have ships sink within swimming distance of shore and all the soldiers drown. Not to mention the water wouldn’t be deep enough to engulf the entire ship in water. It would also be nice to have a mechanic where a portion of soldiers that are near the shore can swim onto land to continue fighting with morale, fatigue, and ammunition penalties. I know some soldiers that are heavily armored might drown but units that lack armor such as levies should be able to swim..and while I’m writing this I suddenly remembered in Rome Total War Barbarian Invasion units could swim in rivers..ah good times..
at first didn't like how u set up but after watching I'd say that's was a decent job x
Would like to point out that the The Circenn came from modern day Scotland not England.
Most Americans think that Scotland is a part of England , when in fact it's a part of the UK .
Edit : I'm neither from the UK nor America but I sympathize with Scottish or Welsh people not wanting to be identified as English .
the soundtrack is crazy
Irish pronunciation: Dùn Patraic is pronounced Dune Patrick (meaning the fort of Patrick, today it's called Downpatrick).
Midhe is pronounced like Mead, the modern county is now called Meath and it means "middle".
Those longboats are massive, Surely the scandinavians never made boats as big as Bronze Age Galleys?
The strange recruitment is a good mod it fixes to troop pools the more you don’t use a unit the more likely it will refill
Why not Medieval III? you could have done it with these mechanics...
Emperor Demetrius thats what we are all dreaming of
Invicta I hope they do it, it is such a good game
I definitely don't dream of a med 3 with this shitty engine. no thank you.
If they made a new engine for Medieval III, then honestly, that'd make up for them not having made a proper standalone historical title for several years. I'd happily pay 60 bucks for that.
😍😍 Castillon 😍😍
Am tired of Europe am happy we are going to China something new to conquer and not the same fucking map over and over and over and over
i have watched many of your massive videos especially Rome 2 and its saga. i like how you controls your camera. i need to know how you makes that zoom out completely from the top giving an overall view of the battlefield from top.?
Why, if the game is set without any Mediterranean factions are the boats not more accurately scaled?
they should definitely be way smaller but I'm guessing they kept em big to facilitate naval battles
In the norse countries you actually learn some about the seabattles. At least in Norway
Question: can you still just board with one ship at the time? Double boarding was really common as long as boarding existed l. And sometimes even triple of smaller boats attaches a larger ones. So why total war never allowed you to use your numerical
Advantage
A really cool fact is that Alfred the Great was the founder of the Royal Navy!
Hmmm, conquering britannia bringing back memories of my mount and blade days.
Still waiting on Three Kingdoms
those herculean jumps are giving me Dawn of War 3 PTSD...
jumping like 4 meters away in full armor... bullshit
What recorder system for the recording you use to record. Do you use any editing software. I was looking at Nero or Vegas software. Awesome
Please do more of these videos from different wars in history. Awesome
Irish Lad here, 'Dun Patraic' = Fort of Patrick. It's pronounced "Done Patrick." A dun is an ancient or medieval fort. ... The term comes from Irish dún or Scottish Gaelic dùn (meaning "fort"), and is cognate with Old Welsh din (whence Welsh dinas "city" comes).
Also, there is no K in the Irish, so anywhere you see a C, pretend it's a K. That will help a lot.
The defensive settlement looks like a gigantic eye.
well, you kinda predicted the new sea battle mechanic in warhammer 2 hahaha
I am no expert, but those siege works seem pretty advanced...
Were Longships that big? I thought they were smaller.
they were smaller mostly but here CA kept em big to facilitate naval battles
#sad
cou2707 they look like busse indeed.
I don't get it. I never played Total War. Do you control all these units or does it just play out? In the video it seems to just play out.
Now give us Total War: Game of thrones. Thank you.
Is their a record of Gallowglaich in this period? I though they were late medieval era? 14th to 16th century?
looks really nice
6:50 the giant battering ram magically disappears
yeah that is such an odd mechanic
Yeah I think the jumping from ship to ship is really lazy and they come back to boarding animations like boards or ropes pulling each other in in future games
He mentioned about a naval battle between Danish and Norwegian Vikings in Ireland, yet I can't seem to find it online. Anyone else know what he is talking about?
i know that this battle is old but you forgot the shield wall formation it would make your troops last more in the defensive positions innstead of just bracing and sorry if I wrote something wrong but I am from Uruguay and 19 years old so wile I can undestend english I dont know very well how to write it
Did the Picts have the same type of ships as the Vikings? They could have at least changed the heads on the ships from faction to faction.
Is this game worth it? It's the only total war I have missed after Napolitano total war. I am currently playing warhammer 2 total war.
I wish I was excited for this but i's basically just Attila with extra steps.
I really hope this isn't the final product... If that happens to be the case, I hope it allows for campaign and graphical modding.
It looks good!
What computer build do you have? How much would it cost
Hmmmm I'm going to call bullshit! Reminds me of the rome 2 tw showing.
just awful imo. total war saga is just a fancier name for a dlc...obviously comes with a higher price tag aswell.
there is basically nothing new here.
Well, it isn't that higher, the price. It is only 10€ more than Fall of the Samurai.
did you play to the campaign ?
By the name it looks like this is the Irish city of Down Patrick up (north?).
It’s weird because I feel like if they would’ve released this as just an expansion on Attila even with the same price tag, I would be received better in the community.
is this a mod? or is it a stand alone game? I never heard of this and I love total war.
might give it a go. got abit worn out with wh 2.
Dun Patraic is Downpatrick in the north of Ireland
It's basically Attila... It's barely a reskin.
CA have lost me totally over the years.
Attila itself is basically a reskin...and I agree.
MasterEsben18 Show me the Hun faction then
you should play more of some rome2, attila and warhammer(s) then. Being honest I really can't say for sure till I actually play this game, but I still suspect that they are testing out some new game mechanisms in Thrones of Britannia, which they will put in use in Three Kingdoms.
If you havent played Attila or Rome II, your argument is invalid AF. Attila was a reskin of Rome II and this is a reskin of Attila.
Also, regarding your list of "improvements", those are ALL things that we had in previous titles. Should we be grateful they implemented 360 battles? All previous historical titles had them, battle mechanics you say? That is simply a lie. There is ZERO, and I say, ZERO unit collision in this game, (as its essentially the same as Attila and RWII), ZERO unit weigths and mass. Rome 1 (from 2004!) had WAAAAY better unit collision and mass than this sh*t. The UI doesnt look bad, but it doesnt look "vikingy" at all, totally out of touch with the theme.
Campaign improvements? Ive heard in multiple previews that the supposed "strong narrative" is in fact, weak and random.
If they REALLY wanted to improve the campaign, they should allow the vikings to sail up the rivers, and have river battles, but that is way too much work for CA.
Im only saying this because I LOVE Total War, I have been a fan since the first rome, but seeing the way this franchise is heading, they have to ALOT more work to impress me.
This doesnt impress me AT ALL, neither did Rome II/Attila.
16:26 Lol, best soldier we can get
It's Downpatrick. And Mide is Meath.
Also Circenn is Scotland, not England
The boats are way too large. And the tiger-jumps the warriors are making are ridiculous. While ramming would occur, it wasn't commonplace. Naval viking armies would tie their boats together to create a floating fortress, and then barrage enemies with arrows, rocks and whatever else they could throw until they came close enough to board them. Otherwise the game is accurate in that boarding plays a _huge_ part of viking/ancient European warfare.
The city seems huge
I wonder if I could run it!
Akshay Kumar Jha performance seems to have noticeably improved over Attila so I would think you could.
Invicta good thing, because Attila shows that I should have no problem on high, while I barely get 25 fps in the game.
Really looking forward to buy this one in summer.
When you really want to play Caesar 5 more than Atilla, umm, I mean Britannia.
kebman really I wanted Rome to focus on the Ceaser time period more. There was the Gallic campaign and then 2nd triumvirate campaign. I wanted a sort of 'Caesar in Italy' campaign.
Maybe give Phatsallus in historic battle.
Kinda disappointed that a wrecked ram doesn't just block the chokepoint until the debris is cleared by hand. That would make the handling of siege engines much more interesting, for both sides.
Still not sure what people were expecting, though, looking at a lot of the complaints about battle animations or "it's just Attila" comments. The only thing missing is random complaints about "SJWs" somehow ruining it.
They need to overhaul the combat mechanics and animations, city generation seems good though
Wish TW Warhammer sieges were like this
blades are probably black due to the amount of carbon put into the iron during the forging...
My uncle used to give me a Scottish hello whenever I saw him too.....
the ships look stupid being that size... just reduce the size of the ship and the number of men on them... historically the armies fielded at this time were usually not huge anyways.
CA must really get their priorities in place now. It is clear that there is favorism over those who do not criticize the game. Legend is bringing constructive criticism to the game and issues that they are neglecting. In addition to that, it shows very bad judgment power of CA by blacklisting him when he requested guidelines and information in regards of the NDA case.
The company is in a situation where they neglect critical and constructive criticism that the player's has given them over a long period of time. With this current speed here, they are going to tense their legs on themselves. I love the series, however this is going too far.
Damn I still haven’t played Attila. Should I skip? And buy this instead it actually looks pretty good. (:
awesome game!
I doubt in the hundreds of battles fought in that period, any of these small armies had the resources to build a siege tower to storm a hill fort...let alone 5
would be a pretty boring siege without siege engines though tbh
Agreed - i was referring to only the siege towers.
shamefur dispray CA....shamefur dispray!!
27:28 "Please, stop stabbing, come on, stop it!"
I suggest you refer to actual historical similarities rather than fantasy. Instead of a Helms deep charge, it was more like a Vercingetorix charge.
Why are the boats so big?
“We’re gonna cross spears” 😏😏
Please do a 3vs3
@1:40 troops are floating?
its pronounced down Patrick. Its where St. Patrick is buried
This should be a DLC for Attila....
Hate how some of your troops stand still while they are being engaged. Wrap around and fight!
Oakley, Your troops got 3216 Kills. So it looks like the towers killed about 298 men. So... Together with some of your swords they are at sum the second best unit per kill. ;)
Have a nice day.