6 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing Total War: Attila

[@thisistotalwar]

*Let us know 1 thing you wish you knew before playing Total War Attila!*

[@IceniTotalWar]

How femanding it's been on every PC since launch ! Still waiting for that future hardware optimization CA 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thisistotalwar]

@@IceniTotalWar Maybe at the 10 year anniversary 🤣

[@legiohysterius4624]

How to use javelins. If you try to fire over your unit your unit will be massacred by your own unit. However If you get behind Any enemy unit and fire they will decimate that enemy unit in like 20 seconds

[@IceniTotalWar]

@@thisistotalwar Maybe in the Remaster 😁😁

[@thisistotalwar]

Haha

[@richarohm9935]

I chose the Irish, went on to unify Britain, and captured the Western Islands and the Eastern Islands, helping my barbarian friends swallow every piece of Western Roman land in the process, and then set up trade lines, united a dozen barbarians from Western Europe into a huge AI army, and fought Attila in a war of attrition, where you just had to maintain trade, give money to various barbarian tribes. Somehow, it has a 4th century NATO feel to it

[@Loregamorl]

4th century WETO (Western Europe Treaty Organization) Giving arms (iron) to the Germanic tribes so they can duke it out with Attila

[@Asealkaz]

I always do this with the visigoths 😂

[@idontlikerome2744]

What a war that might have been

[@Spider-Too-Too]

Based

[@Spider-Too-Too]

Based

[@edouardlorge4059]

as the franks, I learned at the end of my campaign why my first line broke so rapidly in battles: my second line (axes) throw their axes at the first line killing half of my own men as soon as we clash with the enemy front line.

[@thisistotalwar]

Thats a hard lesson learned!

[@OttoNicholls]

I am playing the Eastern Roman empire at the moment. I started the campaign by upholding my food supply with wheat farms built in the most fertile regions around my empire. However no matter how many i built i was in a constant state of famine. I wish i knew about the climate change before

[@thisistotalwar]

That's a rough lesson!

[@cheddar1554]

What’s the correct thing to do?

[@ArtunErkin]

Yes what is? ​@@cheddar1554

[@korrakoanashi7551]

@@cheddar1554disassemble buildings that take food, n disassemble churches to get better upkeep

[@sellosama9741]

First huns campaign finally Atilla became old enough raised an army with him as general 1 turn later he got assassinated was a fun campaign 😂

[@thisistotalwar]

Hahaha can imagine the fury when it first happend!

[@Chris_MarMar]

I wish I knew to manage sanitation and order properly before playing lol. I was steamrolling the campaign but then i got hit a plagues and rebellions at the same time and now I'm in constant civil war lol. I forgot that this game was mostly about survival. This is probably one of my favorite TW games just because of how dark and grim the atmosphere is.

[@thisistotalwar]

That combined with increased immigration penalty can quickly go south!

[@agenthunk5070]

I started noticing these things about year and a half ago...and got really good in this game and the mods.

[@jota357]

First time I played Attila, as the WRE I learned about the re-spawning Huns the hard way. My first plan was to amass all of my men and destroy absolutely all Hun armies at the same time. I played it on regular difficulty, found 5 of their armies and tried destroying them all but one SINGLE army of like 3-4 half-strength units got away, just out of reach. Later, I heard about the need to kill Attila himself. However, if their armies only re-spawn the next turn. Could my tactic have even worked?

[@thisistotalwar]

They would have just respawned, only when Attila is killen the mechanic is "broken". Loved the plan tho!

[@jota357]

@@thisistotalwar I thought I might trigger some sort of glitch or bug, where the game would register the Huns as defeated because they have no armies available.

[@faeezf]

I wish I knew that the farm produces less and less food as the campaign progress

[@Neutral_1zed]

1:45 “I wanted to conquer the great city of Rome” Hahahaha, that’s your first mistake. Assuming that Attila is world domination like other TW titles. *It’s survival.* Also for climate change, I heard it doesn’t hit the southern region as hard so there’s that saving grace.

[@sethleoric2598]

How to play as Western Roman Empire: Step 1.) Put on the Guts theme Step 2.) Cry.

[@thisistotalwar]

😅

[@agenthunk5070]

I got lucky one campaign to kill attila with a champion or spy,cant remember 450 something ad.

[@thisistotalwar]

You don't hear that to often!

[@agenthunk5070]

@@thisistotalwar true.

[@timokaaarp7779]

There are so many great mods I never play vanilla - never. Rome Era Chapter's is my current fav (after 1,200 hours of MK1212, AE and more)

[@thisistotalwar]

I kept my eyed om Rome ers for q while. How stable is it these days?

[@IceniTotalWar]

Yep all very useful things to know 👍👍. I thought CA did a good job pre-release of hyping up the climate effects and the settlement damage debuff. I also learned from LoTW how to deal with the Huns. The Wonders buffs didn't get as much news as they could have, just like the Ancient Wonders Videos were removed in Rome Remastered 🤔🤔 but as you say a buff is a buff ! Actually i do use the Wheat farms a lot in my campaigns but in northern areas i do eventually convert them over but keep them in the east, converting to Camel/Horse/Sheep ? farms mid game is not much of a burden usually.

[@thisistotalwar]

I usually just watched the first trailer then headed straight into the game myself. Completely unaware of all new mechanics 😅 About the farms, maybe not that much of a burden, but if you whey in the economic side of things... sheep/cattle just works more efficent for you campaing :)

[@redonyeh]

I wish I knew playing ERE was actually very easy but now I'm way too far in the game to start over as another faction.

[@thisistotalwar]

I would say tho that it depends on how you choose to play. Trying to keep your original regions is not that easy.

[@Tartarus34]

Minor religions and the shrine of dark cult. You really check this one

[@thisistotalwar]

Hehe I've never converted to minor religions so never built that one. Heard about it though

[@richarohm9935]

I tried to choose the Alans, trade with the Alamans for diamonds, then convert to the dark cult, build every piece of the city into as much industrial construction as possible and occupy the entire North and Siberia, and when Attila arrived, he was faced with a cult kingdom of plague and gold, and since Attila was God's whip, The forces of Alan, who have converted to the dark cult, are the land kingdom of Satan

[@RoBert-on1kb]

There is a special place in hell for people who cheese the total war AI.

[@thisistotalwar]

A place where we all going 😅

[@Jacobs9991]

If you're low on influence, try arranging a marriage with a friendly faction. If you get a wife for your family member from another faction, she'll come with about 100 influence automatically.

[@InimicusXII]

Great video. I knew 3, 5 and some of 1. But the others are really useful to learn about, especially the barricade one! One thing I'm not quite sure of though. You said hurlers and archers get the buff, but do javelin units, or even infantry equipped with javelins like cohors? Either way, I'm happy to subscribe for more total war content :)

[@thisistotalwar]

Think so but not 100 % sure about this. Thank you very much for the sub, really appreciate it!:)

[@thebestofrealmroyale7576]

Atilla so gud

[@SheriffsSimShack]

Can attila be killed when auto resolving? I mean should be possible.

[@thisistotalwar]

The general only dies if you destroy the entire army when chase the army down. I believe this is also true when it comes to Attila, but my mind is a bit blurry atm lol 😅

[@SheriffsSimShack]

@@thisistotalwar For some reason Attila decided its wise to put his Cav heavy army on ships north of Constatinople. And I sank the entire army with auto resolve. I got no message, but I suspect that any message appears when attila is killed the first time. But Attila is also not the faction leader yet. He is just an adult and a general.

[@bdleo300]

Vanilla Attila has some of the worst 'mechanics' in history of TW: endless scripted Huns, 'winter is coming' ice age, nuking provinces, weird hordes, completely illogical upgrade system... I actually like the game, but only excellent DLCs and mods.

[@thisistotalwar]

What do you mean with the upgrade system being illogical?

[@agenthunk5070]

the video for the ending,where in the campaign does it take place?

[@thisistotalwar]

The cut-scene footage? Intro with the Anteans :)

[@agenthunk5070]

@@thisistotalwar ok,kool.thanks.

[@-hms34]

Playing on hard making your unit really bad like less moral, defence, armor etc :(

[@requis267]

I tried playing the game but my screen randomly goes black and only shows the cursor(I can still hear the game though). Do you know of a fix?

[@requis267]

It also won’t let me access the Age of Charlemagne DLC even though it says I own it on Steam

[@thisistotalwar]

Never heard about that issue, updated your gpu drivers? Charlemagne is accessable on the main menu.

[@requis267]

@@thisistotalwar I’ll try updating the drivers today. As for Age Of Charlemagne, when it I click on on from the main menu it shows “purchase campaign” instead of having the option to play. And then when I click on that option it closes the game and takes me to Steam, where it says I already own it

[@requis267]

@@thisistotalwar Thank you for your help

[@thisistotalwar]

@@requis267 No worries!

[@atpcliff]

I don't fight the huns...

[@shooter5439]

Nice vid

[@cyllananassan9159]

1- not to buy it is broken, jackie fish did a battle with 16k soldiers on a new rig 4090 , in ocassions it went down to 18fps

[@thisistotalwar]

Broken is a bit harsh, but yes it's poorly optimized and on the 32-engine so a 4090 won't magically fix this due to the limitations.

[@ZackChannel]

Man you need to understand to everyone has experienced with this game. Your tips are not use for new people with the franchise.

[@tylorsmith7580]

Wish I knew I could just mass stack the cheap op celtic warriors and auto resolve everything. Or the fact young wolves in auto resolve dominate and langobards just regen everything cause of their passive.

[@tylorsmith7580]

Yes I auto resolve because my laptop is running a ryzen 5000 series with integrated gpu lol

[@maou8253]

1. It's very buggy 2. It's very unbalanced 3. It's overpriced for its age 4. It has a lot of DLCs 5. It's unoptimised and runs terribly even on modern hardware 6. It's abandonware

[@jimschlosser1621]

Maybe your PC just sucks lol. I play a coop campaign with my brother, been going for almost a year and we’ve had zero issues.