#TROY TOTAL WAR UPGRADE#

The late game was also where I began to run into issues with Troy‘s hybrid approach to the legendary nature of the Trojan War story. Even fast-forwarding through the computer’s turn, by the late campaign my turns were extended greatly as the game showed me agent action after agent action, with little to gain from it.

This would be impressive, otherwise, but there’s a reason Three Kingdoms got rid of the agent system in the first place: It slows the game down immensely. The Gorgon I mentioned from before - an independent, snake-wearing woman who can empty out a settlement’s entire garrison with a glare - is the highlight of the bunch, while the other two feel a bit like juiced-up versions of the more mundane agents.

#TROY TOTAL WAR UPGRADE#

Factions can upgrade their settlements to increase their unit cap for various agents, and then acquire “epic” ones based on mythological creatures. So closely, in fact, that at a fundamental level the game feels more like a Total War title from the days of Shogun 2 or Rome 2 than one that followed Three Kingdoms.įor one, agents are back, and there are tons of them now. All that was left to do to claim the jewel of the Mediterranean was to stand on the control point for a couple of minutes while the flag changed hands.Ī Total War Saga: Troy makes some interesting changes to the Total War formula - you can read about most of them in my initial impressions - but by the end of a campaign or two, it’s a bit hard to tell exactly why Creative Assembly chose to stick the Saga branding on the game when, barring those explicit new features, the game hews closely to Total War convention. Instead, Troy’s walls succumbed to the ire of the god Poseidon, crumbling from a devastating earthquake.Īfter that, poor Paris - the bloodied victor of a power struggle with his brother Hector over the throne of Troy - was ground up under the wheels of Achilles’ war chariot as the Greek armies under Achilles poured through the gaps torn by the quake. Embarrassingly, they didn’t fall by the hand of mighty Achilles and his giants (he got some giants on an island after convincing its king to join his faction), or the siege towers the other Greeks were working on. It took some time (about a hundred turns, give or take), but the mighty walls of Troy finally fell.

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