Three kingdoms - Total War
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Be interesting to see if this game is on a new engine or not. They have been using Warscape since Empire.
They need to introduce new features, better sieges would be a good start, would like to see more unit customisation too, officers that you can upgrade skills on to make units more individual instead of clones.
Warhammer total War was their best release since Shogun 2 IMO as it introduced flying units, magic and heroes at the cost of a dumbed down campaign. But they have done a really good job on the races playing different.
CA need to take all the best features from the previous total war games and put them in this game. The scope looks small and they can reuse animations for all the races so they have no excuses.
The total war fans who don’t like the fantasy titles deserve a good historic game after that poor Rome 2 dlc and unambitious Atila.
They need to introduce new features, better sieges would be a good start, would like to see more unit customisation too, officers that you can upgrade skills on to make units more individual instead of clones.
Warhammer total War was their best release since Shogun 2 IMO as it introduced flying units, magic and heroes at the cost of a dumbed down campaign. But they have done a really good job on the races playing different.
CA need to take all the best features from the previous total war games and put them in this game. The scope looks small and they can reuse animations for all the races so they have no excuses.
The total war fans who don’t like the fantasy titles deserve a good historic game after that poor Rome 2 dlc and unambitious Atila.
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Yeah the sieges are boring in warhammer but the custom settlement mod for the campaign is very good. Except the ai on some of the maps can’t handle it.
The more I play this, the more I am enjoying it. Got to the part where there is 3 large kingdoms and a massive war is going on.
I am finding the balance between food and economy buildings challenging, those large cities really require a lot of food.
The reform tree is really good as is the family tree and diplomacy options.
I am playing on very hard campaign, normal battle difficulty. would have lost early doors if not for machine gun towers. So works both way. Besides if you get fire arrows or trebuchet they become trivial.
Trebuchets with explosive shots are immense, must have for any army therefore so is a strategist.
The game is well optimised, playing on ultra at 4K with extreme unit sizes and don’t notice much if frame drop.
Dare is say it, this is the most polished total war yet. Overtaking shogun 2.
I was in the fence buying this and only bought on release day, as this period did not interest me much.
Well I am totally hooked now, would recommend anyone who has not tried total war to buy this.
Surely if you fan of the series then you will have this already.
I am finding the balance between food and economy buildings challenging, those large cities really require a lot of food.
The reform tree is really good as is the family tree and diplomacy options.
I am playing on very hard campaign, normal battle difficulty. would have lost early doors if not for machine gun towers. So works both way. Besides if you get fire arrows or trebuchet they become trivial.
Trebuchets with explosive shots are immense, must have for any army therefore so is a strategist.
The game is well optimised, playing on ultra at 4K with extreme unit sizes and don’t notice much if frame drop.
Dare is say it, this is the most polished total war yet. Overtaking shogun 2.
I was in the fence buying this and only bought on release day, as this period did not interest me much.
Well I am totally hooked now, would recommend anyone who has not tried total war to buy this.
Surely if you fan of the series then you will have this already.
Three kingdoms for sure, it’s the newer game.
Shogun 2 was good as was rise and fall of samurai dlc but 3 kingdoms is better.
The diplomacy is civilisation standard now with all the intrigues.
I have bought every total war on release including dlc except Atilla and thrones of Britannia and this is the best release so far imo.
Dare I say it but the battlefield ai is also getting better. I have lost a few times and the siege ai is better too.
The ai will use fire arrows and trebuchet to destroy the defense towers or siege long enough to collapse walls.
You also get events sometimes, like if you are sieging and your army gets diseased you can spread the plague into the city.
Or if you bring sieges and detect a tunnel you can collapse it.
Spying is a lot more in depth too, not played around with it much but I believe if you spy goes far enough the ai may use him as a general which he can defect with the army to yourside.
Still learning much about it but it’s great historical game. If you don’t like overpowered heroes then you can play records mode which is more a like to other historical total war with bodyguards as part of the general unit.
Also you can outfit your generals with better weapons and the model actually reflects these changes on battle map, same with armour and horse.
Really hope some these features make it into warhammer 3.
Try playing records mode and play as Gongsun zan. Records mode get rid of op hero’s and makes games play like older total wars.
Gongsun zan has nice part of map, Eliminate the faction north of you and you have one front to concentrate on.
Note factions do play similar in this game except for maybe the Yellow turbans who have different tech tree.
Note harder battle difficulty than normal apparently makes ai behave better, for example archers not wasting ammo on your hero’s in romance mode.
Also get a strategist ASAP and put two trebuchets in your army and try to get flaming ammo skill. Those trebuchets will then get you 500-600 kills each in every battle.
Gongsun zan has nice part of map, Eliminate the faction north of you and you have one front to concentrate on.
Note factions do play similar in this game except for maybe the Yellow turbans who have different tech tree.
Note harder battle difficulty than normal apparently makes ai behave better, for example archers not wasting ammo on your hero’s in romance mode.
Also get a strategist ASAP and put two trebuchets in your army and try to get flaming ammo skill. Those trebuchets will then get you 500-600 kills each in every battle.
You can actually turn the superpowered heroes off and play records mode, this gives the generals just a bodyguard units like all other historic total wars. You can also turn off arrow projectiles aswell just like in every other total war.
3 kingdoms has its faults for sure, I think cavalry is overpowered and so are Trebs plus arrow towers are devastating, more in your favour than ai.
It’s still the best vanilla historic total war experience though, it’s also the most challenging in my opinion on legendary and the best optimised.
Warhammer 2 is still my favourite total war just because of all different factions and how they play different but 3 kingdoms campaign ai is another level and a very close 2nd.
3 kingdoms has its faults for sure, I think cavalry is overpowered and so are Trebs plus arrow towers are devastating, more in your favour than ai.
It’s still the best vanilla historic total war experience though, it’s also the most challenging in my opinion on legendary and the best optimised.
Warhammer 2 is still my favourite total war just because of all different factions and how they play different but 3 kingdoms campaign ai is another level and a very close 2nd.