On a more cosmetic front, things look a bit nicer. This impacts the fertility of the land so units there will reinforce more slowly, and it means enemies can’t take one of your cities and use it as a staging point. If enemy forces are encroaching on one of your cities and you simply can’t hold it, then you can raze it to the ground, taking some of the loot with you and devastating the land. Another new feature is the ability to employ, uh, a scorched earth doctrine. The minor diseases will just offer a bit of a debuff, while the more dangerous ones can completely rip through your population and cause huge amounts of damage to your economy and infrastructure.Ĭharacter and army experience and skills now come from skill trees, so you can aim for particular benefits and get them as you choose. If squalor gets too high in any given settlement, diseases will break out, and most of them are transmittable – armies can cart them around the map and infect your other cities, for instance. Sanitation is much more important than in Rome 2 due to diseases. You’ll need to appoint a governor in order to enact any edicts in a province, too. Family trees have been reinstituted appointing someone as a province governor means that the province will benefit from any skills he’s learned over his career, and should that province come under attack, your governor will take the role of general. The UI has been vastly improved, with a new building browser, the ability to zoom in and out much further than before on the campaign map, a huge “event feed” log listing everything that happens during your campaign, and panels on all of your armies showing what buffs and debuffs they have. With threats from all sides and their forces spread thin, playing as the Western Roman Empire will force players to retreat and lose provinces before they can actually regain the strength needed to fight back.

The section of the campaign shown had players taking control of the Western Roman Empire, a huge bloated mess that’s completely impossible to control from any single location. I’m sorry, it’s been awhile since I’ve played it, so bear with me. Some of which may actually be stuff that was already in Total War: Rome 2. Updated details: Right! The stream has finished, and I’ve got a vast amount of notes. We do know it’s set in 395AD, that Attila the Hun is the big enemy, that it’s a stand-alone follow-up to Total War: Rome 2, and that it’s out next year. Once it’s done, though, we’ll be back with information on everything revealed. ORIGINAL STORY: Creative Assembly have just announced Total War: Attila, the much-teased new Total War game.ĭetails are thin on the ground right now as the reveal is still going on, but you can watch the reveal live on the EGX Twitch stream.

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