Every time I load one of the older titles up, I quit after ten minutes because I just can't enjoy myself. Yet, when I sat down this morning and played Thrones of Britannia, I HAD FUN. Now, I'll admit that with the exception of AI, the battles in ToB aren't really anything great. They're more or less the same than Attila, and not as good as Warhammer. The same goes for graphics and animations. #A total war saga thrones of britannia review seriesĪnd I think the map of Britain is too big (personally), and that units move too slow across it.īad design has plagued the Total War series for years, and it really pains me to see the games criticized for 'lack of innovation' while they're actively moving away from it.Each turn still represents a quarter of a year, though, and armies haven’t had their movement range changed significantly, which creates some oddly immersion-breaking conceits when zoomed in this far. It can take multiple years to march from Portsmouth to Inverness, for example – a feat that a hiker could accomplish in less than three months, even at a quite leisurely pace. It makes me wonder why the designers didn’t opt to have one turn represent a month or even a week instead. Some level of abstraction is expected, but this really stretches my suspension of disbelief. I was forced to make a tactical decision of where to deploy my badass battalion.Elsewhere, Thrones of Britannia is packed with new campaign mechanics that range from meaningful to negligible. Perhaps most notable is that armies are recruited from a single, global pool and technologies, rather than buildings, are the main way of unlocking better units.

Since the pool refills semi-randomly over time, you’re forced to either raise a smaller army of your best units, or round out a larger one with weaker units. I really liked how this encouraged me to not have every stack be fully comprised of Elite Praetorian Murderlords by the late game, while forcing interesting tactical decisions about where to deploy my badass battalion and which part of the line could be trusted to the farmers with sharpened sticks. The problem with most of the other new campaign stuff is that it becomes far too easy to manage, with rewards for success and penalties for failure each feeling underwhelming. #A total war saga thrones of britannia review series.#A total war saga thrones of britannia review full.

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