Thrones of Britannia - A Total War Saga

Andr3w · 15 Dec 2017 at 11:40

satchef1 said:
The campaign map is 23x the size of the British Isles in Attila. So maybe about the same size as the entire campaign map in Attila?

Oh, that makes more sense

CaptainRAVE · 15 Dec 2017 at 11:41

Meh, too safe. Bring back Medieval, by far the best setting.

Patberts19 · 15 Dec 2017 at 12:14

tlrBeta said:
Slightly old thread - is Attila actually worthy of a purchase? I enjoyed Rome 2 and with the price now quite low (see Humble Bundles) I'm considering it

PS. I like the sound of Vikings etc

Absolutely, I've played pretty much all Total War games and Attila is in the top 3 for me.

TallPaul1878 · 1 Feb 2018 at 17:36

https://www.pcgamer.com/thrones-of-britannia-makes-significant-changes-to-the-total-war-formula/

Nice article about what the game brings. Full British Isles to play on, ten playable clans including Gaels and Vikings amongst other British factions.

Changes to recruitment and training to make it more realistic, you have to use archers if you want to improve them rather than just waiting until they are unlocked before recruiting a load of them.

Might finally be able to tempt my dad away from playing Civ 5 and on to the Total War franchise instead

Andr3w · 2 Feb 2018 at 08:12

Will these be full size games at full price like Rome/Warhammer etc? Or are they 'mini series' games? Do we know what engine it will be using? Hopefully it'll run more like Warhammer than Attila!

MikeTheNative · 2 Feb 2018 at 09:39

Andr3w said:
Will these be full size games at full price like Rome/Warhammer etc? Or are they 'mini series' games? Do we know what engine it will be using? Hopefully it'll run more like Warhammer than Attila!

Nope, map is smaller but it's priced 'less than a full release', how much less though I'm not sure. From the footage I've seen it looks like attila.

Random Guy Esq. · 2 Feb 2018 at 11:55

£30 on Steam (although I don't know if that's with a pre-order discount or not), with 25% of the pre-order profits going to War Child.

And yeah, unfortunately it's a version of the Attila engine, which even if they get running smoothly, isn't as good looking as the Warhammer titles. However, given the time period, leaner campaign, and cheaper price, I'd be perfectly fine with that tbh.

youdsy · 2 Feb 2018 at 12:11

Looking forward to this game utilising One cpu core and 20% of my gpu to achieve the cinematic 14 FPS

arknor · 2 Feb 2018 at 13:43

wonder how bad the ai will be this time

kola · 2 Feb 2018 at 17:34

How come this isn't 39.99 on steam was kinda surprised by the price

KingDazza · 2 Feb 2018 at 19:51

As this is a smaller scale map, I hope the occasional AI turn ctd bugs aren't there. Total War used to be my fav franchise, but some of the issues which have been around for a decade, I just don't tolerate anymore.

Random Guy Esq. · 6 Apr 2018 at 20:36

Latest official video, detailing some of the changes to battle mechanics.

Cromulent · 9 Apr 2018 at 06:52

Random Guy Esq. said:
Latest official video, detailing some of the changes to battle mechanics.

I'm so hyped for this game. I'll try and pre-order it so I get the small discount but might have to wait a month before I can afford it. Either way, I think it'll be a fun game to play.

Clav · 9 Apr 2018 at 08:13

Cromulent said:
I'm so hyped for this game. I'll try and pre-order it so I get the small discount but might have to wait a month before I can afford it. Either way, I think it'll be a fun game to play.

Did you pre-order any of the previous titles? If so remember how awful they were on release and wait! If not, it will be awful on release, please wait!

Cromulent · 9 Apr 2018 at 10:24

Clav said:
Did you pre-order any of the previous titles? If so remember how awful they were on release and wait! If not, it will be awful on release, please wait!

I'm a complete sucker for pre-ordering Total War games I'm afraid. I'm moving house at some point soon, so there will probably be time for the first bug fix patch to sort out the issues (I hope).

humanlaptop · 9 Apr 2018 at 11:00

Was trying to ignore this, but who can not want to conquer their homeland in the olden days

Whats the deal with DLC on this one? Is it an all in one package, this is it sort of thing? I mean we will get blood etc from the get-go?

Id prefer 19.99, so i might hold on for a bit... lets see if I get sucked in come May.

humanlaptop · 9 Apr 2018 at 11:20

24.49 on CDKeys, plus 5% Facebook (i think they still do that).. = 23.26

I think thats a buy in.

physichull · 9 Apr 2018 at 12:20

I think Warhammer Total War (I am not a Warhammer fan, per se) has eroded any interest I had in this game. Its undoubtedly going to be a great edition to the TW series, but the variations in the Warhammer factions were a complete joy. Now it goes back to factions that are more or less identical aside from the colour of their uniforms.

Also, is this going to be a bit of a filler in the series? Much like Napoleon was after Empire?

humanlaptop · 9 Apr 2018 at 12:43

I think so, isnt it China the next big one? 3 Kingdoms or is that an online only type of deal?

MikeTheNative · 9 Apr 2018 at 15:05

Yeah that's going to be next 'proper' Total War game. I'm not pre ordering anything from them after the ****show that was Rome 2 on release (and for months afterwards!)