Granted, Creative Assembly’s crazy history can be exciting to watch and even more exciting to regale to your fellow gamers, but there’s a certain challenge in re-creating real-world scenarios. In short, it’s what makes Total War such a fun series to play.Īs a historian, however, (and I love typing that because I can almost hear you sighing and rolling your eyes) sometimes I like things to play out the way they really did. You can see Muratha India invade mainland Europe from Portugal and Attila the Hun veer wildly off course and decide that Britain is a much greater target than Constantinople. It’s this unpredictability that can lead the Roman Empire to be subjugated by the Italian States - a faction that has barely ten unique units altogether. While it may base itself on events in the past and model its troops, civilisations and terrain on real-world counterparts, once the End Turn button is pressed all gloves are off.

The folks at Creative Assembly have always rather firmly stated their belief that the Total War series is ahistorical. Articles // 29th Apr 2016 - 6 years ago // By Alex Hamilton Being Rome's Barbarian Bros in Total War: Attila - Part 1

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