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It took a recent nosedive of catastrophic proportions, hit rock bottom with the End Times, then blasted through into the molten core of the world with Age of Sigmar.

However if you go back to the...

Just make up a new character. CA could add a hero designer. You can add ahistorical characters in all the other Total War games and it's never been an issue.

Games Workshop's lore is neither...

I suppose the simplest way to look at it is that a dwarf army wins by ranged combat. You'll probably win your fair share of brawls too, but the best way for dwarfs to win is force the enemy to engage...

Agree with this. End Times and everything since then has been GW shamelessly trying to make money off the Warhammer Fantasy setting while at the same time lazily feeding it into a paper shredder....

I'm playing a co-op game on VH as the dwarfs and using loads of crossbows supported by catapults (nearly half the army), but it's a lot of micro involved to get them to effectively focus fire. Course...

Given that you can now hide generals in forests and the AI actually has to go looking for you, I can't wait for wood elves. Also dark elves just cos.

The lore is inconsistent at best because of how patchy GW were with updates, and it's worth remembering they dumped everything in Fantasy Battle into the lore dumpster to start Age of Shite or...

Sisters of Sigmar are in Mordheim I think.

Think elvish units are mixed male and female because they're basically all one big androgynous heap anyway. Most of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle lore is a couple of decades old so they'll probably...

There's not a lot in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle line up, but that line up is really old, unbalanced, and hasn't been worked over properly by a dedicated team in many years. I would expect, and...

Could possibly see them doing a Rome separatist pack. The Romano-Britons and Gauls etc could be interesting in this time period. Britons notably so because this era is in the ballpark for when King...

I think they got the army transports right this time around, the sea-sickness thing really worked in the context of the game.

That said though it shouldn't have been in there anyway. They really...

I nearly dumped Total War after Rome 2. Attila was the first Total War game I ever held off from buying on the first day. I lasted a day before picking it up, because the campaign did look...

Of course the game has to make everything into a viable mechanic, hence the level of destruction, which is perhaps a little bit too total to be believable (although some settlements were actually...

I play on a forty minute timer because I've never had a battle get close to the hour mark when it's being heavily fought, or even close to the forty minute mark if both sides are really going for it....

I don't think the game ending with most of the map razed and uninhabitable is by accident. The game is about the end of the world, as it was seen by the people at the time. I mean the Roman Empire...

Normal Total Wars are about building empires, Attila is about the death of empires. Hence the raze mechanic. Hence the Huns. Hence the winter.

By all means cry more folks, but the idea that this...

Here's another one.

I think all this talk about historical accuracy needs to take a step away and look at what Total War actually is. It is a very gamey game, not arcadey, but it is definitely very much a game, with...

I've noticed that after a while it becomes much rarer for factions to die out completely, they get pushed out of their homes, but stacks resettle somewhere else.

In fairness I do like the fact that you get the DLC stuff anyway, you only have to pay if you want to play it.

In the low-end irregular units you find some women fighters. In the professional units and higher tier units you don't.

It says a lot about people that of all the many, many, many, ahistorical...

I wouldn't be too down on Warhammer folks, yes, it's a fantasy setting, but it's a pretty good one. I get that it would be a concern that a fantasy game might steal Medieval 3's thunder, but...

Another reason I think they need to do an Empire or similar era game soon is they need something to justify the dev time and ballache of naval combat, because other than Empire the naval combat has...

Total War is a game based around armies made up of no more than twenty units each of precisely uniform size and composition. The entire army, unit and battle system is a completely abstract construct...

I think a Warhammer game would be great next. There's a lot of mechanics in Attila that really suit the Warhammer universe, horde armies and the proper razing of territory for example.

Must...

It makes much more sense to take down a gate with an axe, or even swords or whatever, than it does to throw an infinite supply of magic torches at it.

You can't even put a woman in an infantry unit in a video game without people being offended. It's political correctness gone mad.

There aren't that many notable warriors full stop, not that we really know a lot about or can confirm their existence as fact. Knowledge of this time period is spectacularly limited and comes from a...

This kind of thing has been sadly inevitable in the USA since large chunks of the political mainstream decided to go full-bore anti-science. On the political right there's groups like creationists,...

In fairness to the Total War series, the prices haven't changed. I mean not counting sales. Pretty sure the first TW game back in 2000 cost the same as this one. I mean sure they have DLC, but it's...

It's a testament to these weird times we live in that I'm not even sure if you're joking.

I can see where you're coming from, but I don't think the disparity is going to expand, I think it's going to reduce. These weren't people who were eating enough that they'd bulk up and get big...

Anybody who paid thirty quid for Attila and thinks that Creative Assembly are lazy devs needs to wake up and smell the economy. If there is one thing we can say with complete certainty about Creative...

I got a smallpox outbreak in one of my campaigns and to be honest all that seems to work is waiting it out. But even that doesn't seem to actually be working very well. Disease comes and goes.

It's the new best Total War. I was worried after the stinkpig that was Rome 2, but this is a brilliant game.

Pros:

1. Factions that are different. Not just different units, but actually...

Back in those days pretty much everybody lived a life of hard physical labour, men, women and kids. They were also not as big as people these days, with the average Roman soldier only about 5'7...

Thanks for this, haven't played these lads yet, keep meaning too, but SO MANY FACTIONS TO PLAY.

1. Seems to depend who you are, but it's much tougher than other TW games. The enemy doesn't die when you take his home province, he just becomes a wandering horde. So eradicating the enemy becomes a...

Thanks for that, I was going to ask the same thing. Wondered if they'd been taken out because they'd be obscenely powerful on the Huns if they worked like in the other games, allowing you to pick off...