Evidently, this resource constriction (which I would otherwise applaud) magically doesn’t apply to the AI, who can have huge amounts of food generated from almost no territory. But this is only possible if you are willing to engage in the diplomacy system, in order to afford the rather high upkeep of having all these soldiers. It gets almost farcical when you realize that you can force the AI into a weird dance by shuffling just enough of an army (i.e., your B-team) around your hometown, e.g., move out of homeland, let the AI approach, shuffle back, AI gets cold feet, and in the meantime your main army (your A-team) pops up behind them. I then see said western Greeks, down to one single city, magically spawn an entire army of troops more advanced than anything I have (with about 7 cities by this point) and then march past 4 of Diomedes’ cities, which were all undefended, get to my cities, sack one, and then run away just as my main stack arrives. Also, again suspiciously conveniently, decide to ignore several enemy cities (as in my allies, their enemies) and come straight for me.Ĭonsolidate area, decide to focus on the northern Greeks, because it looked like my ally Diomedes has the western Greeks nicely sewn up.
#TOTAL WAR SAGA CRACK#
Now, difficult expansion in and of itself is not a problem, however…Ĭonsolidate start position, crack some skulls in the west, take some cities, get attacked by Hector, who somehow lands just as my armies are in the west, and who conveniently bypasses many other possible targets.Ĭonsolidate again, expand west, keep an eye out for the Trojans, get surprised by the northern Greeks, who again decide to invade conveniently just as there is little defense. Seeing as this is a turn-based game, the longer this goes on the more you find yourself spinning your wheels, unable to expand and condemned to defense forever. Further afield, you have the other Greek states, but, unlike for example pretty much all the factions in Total Warhammer, there is not a clear path for you to go and get established. There really isn’t anywhere convenient to go, because the two people nearest to you are Diomedes (stronger) and Ajax (equal) who are your allies. If you take out the Corinthians and the Tiryns (the red guys to the south) then you have two provinces, but are then almost completely hemmed in. Red is your enemy to the south and the yellow is one of the neutrals. Green are your allies, hemming you in left and right. I say precarious, although “confusing” also applies. You start in a fairly precarious position, and the game help is not helpful (which I’ll discuss that a bit more later). However, I am not convinced this evaluation is correct.
Why him? Well, the game says this is the “easy” start, so it made sense to start with him. In my first 3 playthroughs, I was Agamemnon. I’m starting with this, because it is in my opinion the single worst thing about the game. I get my resource engine going and start to have fun, and then notice that Hector must have been training everyone else, because I then get enemy armies marching past 3 or 4 other cities, belonging to people they are at war with, and homing in on an undefended settlement, and then I notice this happens as soon as I move my main stack out of my homeland.Īnd so, we come to the first Achilles Heel, or ἁμαρτία (hamartia, meaning weakness, flaw) if you will. This time, Hector stays very far away, and armed with considerably more wisdom, I pay more attention to what my agents do, specifically my Envoys, who reduce the upkeep of my armies, which is an incredibly powerful ability that the game “help” never explains, despite its tedious loquacity (I had to turn all help messages off because I was getting swamped with useless messages.) Thankfully, I’ve been keeping up on my sacrifices to Soteria, and so I escape miraculously unharmed, and Zeus intervenes to let me have another go (The new game button is godly!) Despite these similarities, Hector went entirely off-script, and invaded from half the map away, with suspicious accuracy and timing.
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