This Total War Expansion has NO RIGHT Being THIS GOOD

[@KingsandGenerals]

Ooooh! Age of Charlemagne is possibly the best Total War expansion. I love it!

[@AndysTake]

Yoooo! Glad to hear it, my friend!

[@zakgour9786]

Glad to see kings and generals appreciate a amazing KZbinr

[@aramokurdo]

no KINGDOM is then Barbarian Invasion

[@fredrikeriksson5199]

Ceasar in Gaul and Fall of the samurai are my favorites :D

[@-hms34]

@@fredrikeriksson5199 True true :)

[@grandengineernathan]

Unfortunately, age of charlemagne suffers from at least two game breaking bugs. First shield values are not in the game meaning that every unit has abysmal armor and 0 missile block chance, and second, frankish archers (and other units) are bugged and once they hit their third tier you can no longer recruit them, so good luck finishing your campaign without archers

[@cathulionetharn5139]

Really? I rememvber my archers doing fuck all against shieldwalled units

[@grandengineernathan]

@@cathulionetharn5139 yes, but in shield wall they still get the 15 or 25% bonus from the shield wall. And since archers deal about 30 damage against 100 HP units, then you might think that they don't kill anything in the beginning but after 3/4 volleys they will drop like flies. If you hover on the armor stat, you will notice that for every unit the shield value is 0 but increases when in shield wall

[@JakeBaldwin1]

Are these bugs still prevalent? And are there mods that can fix it?

[@cohortConnor]

Meanwhile half the Alans roster is inaccessible in GC 😂

[@taswitka6567]

They probably still bugs yea. We would hear about a patch release otherwise … (and it’s only been an hour since the initial complaint). Even if we get the devs attention immediately, which I hope you go and do, it should take maybe a week to get it fixed

[@kubinol]

In my opinion the best total war expansion is the "Fall of the samurai" from Shogun 2. This DLC is good but the fall of the samurai is the G i tought.

[@AndysTake]

FOTS is amazing for sure, absolute legend

[@swvwc8393]

Fall of the Samurai is a power-trip expansion. Absolutely a blast, but cannons and artillery are just WAYYY too overpowered.

[@kubinol]

@@swvwc8393 agree and naval artillery is too much opp

[@TheRacy]

@@swvwc8393 that's pretty accurate

[@hundun5604]

@@swvwc8393 Don't forget the gatling gun :/

[@benjaminliuytfsp]

Kingdoms for Medieval 2 was hands down the best. 4 unique campaign maps with new factions and updated rosters and mechanics. Praying hard for medieval 3

[@georgethakur]

You can really tell the people who made Kingdoms _loved_ what they were doing.

[@hundun5604]

Yes yes, and many great mods that game has. Btw, I'm seriously worried CA fucks TW:M3 up. If it ever comes that is.

[@ares106]

can you imagine how amazing this would have been with a full European map?

[@AndysTake]

I CAN imagine it, which is why it makes me sad... like I said, I'd love to have at least Constantinople in it :/

[@Mr.HeisenbergTheCook]

I wonder if that's something modders could do. I mean, there are already mods pushing the start date to the 7th century so it should be possible to change the grand campaign factions and start positions accordingly, especially since a lot of the units, character models and 2D art are already in the game.

[@stirpsromana]

@@Mr.HeisenbergTheCook Wr're going to get a map editor soon

[@sercastamere9853]

It would have been cool, HOWEVER the more they add medieval DLC for other games the less likely they are to make a BETTER Medieval 3.

[@wasneeplus]

As much as I like this area in this period of history, that really was a missed chance. The war between Charlemagne and the Saxons is cool and all, but in the east you have the death struggle between Byzantium and the caliphate, determining the future of western civilization. That's way more interesting.

[@pawekorczak7302]

In my opinion Attila is the most underrated total war. They slayed the mood of the era. Perfect music, not really common period and great campaigin make a perfect match.

[@Lowco5]

I may be playing it safe but my fav expansion is Barbarian Invasion. Playing with the religious and the horde system for the first time, trying to hold the empire together, it' s just so interesting and so much fun (and frustrating at times)

[@AndysTake]

That was an amazing expansion for real!

[@NinjaSushi2]

M2TW Kingdoms is my favorite. BURN THE HERETICS!

[@anakinvader9120]

Yesssss! I HIGHLY agree

[@eduardoalvarado1244]

It is the most difficult campaign in the history of Total War

[@OdisraFlyrunner]

Fall of The Samurai was my favourite expansion. After going through the Sengoku Jidai with the Tokugawa, it was fun going to the other side with Saigo Takamori's faction and basically recreating history. Gameplay was also quite different, forcing you to adapt a lot if you wanted to keep being melee-focused.

[@ManiacMVK]

As a Total War Veteran for many years now, i can tell you FoS IS still the best expansion! I don't know why these guys started in 2023 advertising for "Age of Charlmagne"? Maybe they testing a new PR-Marketing campagne with CA in cooperation?

[@stefankatsarov5806]

@@ManiacMVK 100%, they are just hyping up modern totall wars.

[@Ronin.97]

FotS is definitely the best expansion i've ever seen in most games let alone total war. I absolutely loved the naval combat from empire being brought over as vanilla shogun 2's navy gameplay was pretty boring. Love seeing those massive firing lines of gatling guns and cannons and ironclad ships all set in Japan

[@justinwillingale2086]

Yeah I remember being great at playing as samurai on the fall of the samurai got ganged up on by online players switch allegiance got fire power plus with all the land I had in various resources I was able to builds fast my navel powers was grand always had ships near by for a bombardment. Plus where this fortress was located my cannons couldn’t hit main points of the fortress so k noticed a mountain side which could allow for two units of cannons which was in direct location of the castle from obove so I was getting direct hits

[@ej191]

I always thought this DLC had sooo much potential

[@AndysTake]

It does, and some very exciting mods will come out!

[@dambigfoot6844]

My only complaint about Age of Charlemagne was how easy it felt after the initial hurdle. For example if you formed Spain or England it felt easy to take on the entire world. Vanilla Atilla didn’t feel that way you could have Western or Eastern Rome and get dog piled and feel like you could lose. Idk it just felt like AI would never go hard against you on the campaign map

[@elbeto191291]

I really liked the Belisarius campaign too. The Roman Expedition gameplay is really refreshing and interesting. This one feels a bit unfinished and rushed, for example, the unit rosters for many of the factions feel small and shallow, although it has really good ideas for a future Medieval 3

[@AndysTake]

The Belisarius campaign was interesting. The thing I didn't like all too well in that was just how absolutely bleak and dark the campaign map looked.

[@HoneyBadger1779]

Interesting. However modern Total War suffers from a severe case of world shallowness. What does that mean? They keep adding all kinds of semi-realistic but also obnoxious mechanics related to all kinds of management screens for your family and your empire and agents and everything, but the map is dull. It's essentially a paint the world simulator by taking major settlements. The map is just a leap frog from one area to the next, oftentimes getting stabbed in your rear end as soon as you move your army out. Well they keep slapping more graphics onto the map, other than a few terrain modifiers it's generally useless. What do I mean? There is not much of a sense of strategy or accomplishment, just essentially waiting until your enemy is vulnerable or you have overwhelming force and then sniping their major settlement in a turn with the DA auto resolve. There's no sense of accomplishment in taking territory. The settlement mechanics are dumb. How to add more life to TW: Add in separate satellite assets you can interact with like Empire and Shogun. Villages, campuses, ports, mines, farms, foundries, pastures, etc. Add back in forts and towers. Add in the growth mechanics from TWM 2 and Rome. Add in religion/culture from medieval II. Recruitment pools from medieval II.

[@philnerius7645]

The lack of meaningful campaign map objectives is my biggest gripe with Total War. There is nothing to fight over, but the settlements. Not even geographical features like river crossings and mountain passes matter, since they are not represented in the battle maps. All in all, the campaign map is criminally under utilized. Some games had this figured out 20 years ago and CA still struggles to implement these basics. Meanwhile they come up with a plethora of unique but mostly unconnected campaign mechanics for the different factions of the TW:WH games.

[@aerosdacillo1227]

im just waiting for modders to add regions in Rome 2

[@abigfish1620]

I think Attila is still my favorite total war title. its my favorite period of history and I love the game mechanics. I could play as the late roman empire a thousand times and it never gets old. I have over a thousand hours in the game. Charlemagne is ok, I enjoyed it, but I like the base game more.

[@MattZaharias]

There's a shader bug in Atilla that degrades the framerate which also affects a few other titles and there's a mod that can fix it. Seems like they fixed it for Charlemagne!

[@soozo30]

Which mod is this?

[@MattZaharias]

Hey guys, the mod in question involved taking the shaders from Thrones of Britannia and dropping them into Attila. It's actually better to go in and edit your preferences file and change the number of threads to 8 and increase gpu memory value to 4000 (maybe higher, if you have more than 4GB of graphics vram).

[@stefangeorge2844]

Should try Age of Justinian if you're looking for Early Medieval East-- and you can play as the Merovingian Dynasty, the precursors to Charlemagne-- they are the ones the Pippinids, Charlemagne's ancestors, overthrew.

[@soyentak5076]

Rome: Total War: Barbarian Invasion was the best. Trying to keep the Western Empire up was amazing.

[@LOLandBehold]

That's interesting that they went that far forward in time!

[@GermanOlle]

Not the first time: "Empire Devided" DLC for Rome 2 did that, too (ca. 500 Years)!

[@marc8959]

Fall of the samurai expansión for shogun 2

[@thejesterofwoe7778]

DEI is by far my favorite but for Attila? Its gotta be 1212 Anno Domine

[@sam9son]

0:21 someone forget Fall of Samurai

[@Stefan-vz4pm]

love this channel even though i only just found it, please keep it up.

[@AndysTake]

Love to hear it, Stefan, thanks for watching! :D

[@kadirbariskose]

i never think about to giva a chance to Atilla but your review make it unavoidble

[@AndysTake]

hahaha glad to hear it ;)

[@isaacplanas4948]

Total war Attila get my atention to enter Total war universe, and this expansion convinced me to stay.

[@AndysTake]

Heck yeah :)

[@Ultraelectromagnetic]

Age of Charlemagne is my second favorite TW expansion, the top being Fall of the Samurai.

[@TheDAWinz]

There is a good mod that allows and expands theme of sicily, but agreed the Romans should of been a choice, Sicily is a good starting point.

[@jereboy2005]

It's hard to pick my favorite expansion. There are a fair few that I would consider not worth their price and many are just ok or fine. But my heart is always happy to see and play these 3: Age of Charlemagne, Empire Divided, and Barbarian Invasion. All 3 really added some spice to their respective games and I actually played more than one campaign in each of them. I think twisting my arms would probably be Barbarian Invasion, mostly out of nostalgia

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

It also has impressive artwork for all the factions just look at the buildings :P

[@AndysTake]

Indeed!

[@kryzzan7039]

Wish my PC wasn't a potato, been wanting to play Attila for a few years, but I lag while playing Rome 2 and Atilla is infamous for lag.

[@munkey69]

There's a great mod for it that adds the Byzantines.

[@majorianus8055]

Its really a shame that theres no byzantines here. They have more influence and strength in Italy than petty kingsoms like Asturia or Mercia

[@SolusBatty]

Alright. Just purchased it and will give it a go. Atilla was one TW title I ended up missing.

[@daviddavies3637]

How many Total War games are there now? Some have been hit or miss for me but my favourite is still the first one I played (and actually bought at full price around 2005?) Medieval: Total War II. Ooh! Just noticed Atilla can be had for a fiver!

[@R.Specktre]

It is a dlc that I still play, modded. However, it is not without its flaws and limitations, but, provides thousands of hours of good fun. Glad you are having a good time and are pleased with vanilla.

[@VRichardsn]

Ok, you sold me on it.

[@stormtrooperdavis6887]

Rise of the republic was a great one as well.

[@joecarter1486]

My favorite dlc is Ceaser in Gaul. That Rome campaign was my first dlc win in total war, my third win in general (after Chosokabe and Shimazu), and my first legendary campaign.

[@crish.9277]

I have never given a go to this mood, but now I gonna have a long weekend starting tomorrow. I gonna buy this mood and give a good try, and of course I gonna mess with the workshop, so thanks, dude

[@randomguy80]

When you upload I always watch it instantly. Your humour and the interesting games you cover make this one of my favourite youtube channels. Keep up the amazing videos

[@AndysTake]

Those are some amazing compliments, my friend, thank you so much! So glad to have you here!

[@armandom.s.1844]

Attila is a really underrated Total War game. It fixed the main problems of Rome II (as much as it could, not the ungodly provincial system), but suffered the handicap of being the sequel of the huge dissapointment of Rome II in its horrible beginnings.

[@Robin-sf3gk]

I wish it had the diplomacy of three kingdoms. It has the most interesting time period of all Total wars

[@Robin-sf3gk]

@@rory6860 I think I like the first millennium so much, because it‘s very underrepresented in media. Most historical movies, novels and games are 12th-14th or 18th-20th century or in antiquity ages. I wouldn’t depend it so much on benefits with total war mechanics/gameplay. If I would take that in account I think 30years war would be the most interesting.

[@parrythetrojan]

Great video, and again GREAT THUMBNAILS ALL DAY LONG!

[@analien4813]

I do wish Theme of Sicily were playable without mods, and that the Byzantines were around in more than just Sicily.

[@brendan9868]

I honestly prefer Age of Charlemagne over the main Attila campaign most of the time. The massive amounts of factions and huge map can be overwhelming for me and get pretty taxing on my pc. The smaller faction list and smaller map in AoC makes it run much smoother and generally feels more relaxed to play. I also do like the UI changes in it, adds a nice time period aesthetic to the game. Only real downside I can think of is was some type glitch that would happen sometimes where I couldn’t recruit archers after a certain point, which obviously brings in some strategical issues lol Overall tho definitely top 2-3 total war expansions imo, which is saying quite a bit cause I really loved the expansions in rome 1 & 2

[@djocharablaikan8601]

Pilps needs to do a video on this

[@forlornfool221]

Medieval 2 Kingdoms comes to mind.. for myself

[@ddjay1363]

I first played Attila not long after it came out. I uninstalled it after about 4 days as the campaign was repetitive, predictable and in a word... boring. I tired it again a little while later and it was still the same, plus the performance issues. Some years later, about 3 weeks ago I installed Attila again and played it for more than a week,just the vanilla game, no DLC's, no mods and gave it a good go. I played all the (very limited amount of) factions. The factions are just a copy and paste production: The 2 'Barbarian' factions are nearly exactly the same. The 2 Roman ones are the same. The 'horde' Hun factions are the same, etc etc. You have to pay as much if not more money than the base game costs to get some variance, different 'flavour', 'mechanics' and a few 'new' units/buildings etc in the game via 'DLC's'. Lots of the DLC's don't give you much and some of them are just 'playable' factions that are already in the game but are behind a paywall, which is a shady business practice that CA/Sega are known for and what they get criticized the most for. Once again I found the game repetitive and predictable and devoid of any real substance. The game is an improvement on Rome 2 (well, anything is an improvement on Rome 2) in terms of graphics,UI and the 'family tree'/'Governors' feature. What is the most improved is actually the battle AI; much, much better than Rome 2 and pretty much most Total War games except Three Kingdoms. The Charlemagne expansion does look good though and is actually an expansion and not just a 'DLC' of re-skins, stat-changes, a couple of buildings but with the same voice-overs etc. The most highly rated 'culture pack' DLC's ( on Steam) are the 'Celts', 'Empires of Sand' and of course the Charlemagne expansion. I will wait untill Charlemagne goes on sale on Steam to give it a try. At the moment I am trying out some overhaul mods to see what they are like. I don't play Rome 2, I play Divide et Impera which in my opinion is the best overhaul mod made for any Total War game and makes Rome 2 an actual game. I won't play the vanilla Attila game really as it just doesn't 'draw me in' so I hope to find a good overhaul mod that is the equal of Divide et Impera, or close to it. We'll see. 🙂

[@AndysTake]

I understand, good on you for giving Attila a try! I personally love it. As for mods, there's always the MK1212 mod which is just insane, and I don't know if you've heard, but they managed to crack the campaign map modding codes, meaning in about 1-2 years we'll have entire overhaul mods, like LOTR, with a LOTR campaign map, in Attila. Also, the Anno Domini mods for Charlemagne are looking sweet, and will come out sometime this or next year!

[@philnerius7645]

Had and still have the same experience with either Rome 2 or Attila. Lose interest always immediately. Gameplay is repetitive, the campaign map is awful (especially when compared to it's predecessor) and the general art style does not appeal to me at all.

[@ddjay1363]

@@philnerius7645 Aye. Give Divide et Impera (for Rome 2) a go. It's excellent and the best overhaul mod in my opinion. ;-)

[@ddjay1363]

@@AndysTake Aye, I saw yer vid about the potential of modding new maps etc. Intriguing and exciting. The vanilla experience of Attila is disappointing though so I will get me a good overhaul and dive in. ;-)

[@GermanOlle]

Maybe "Fall of the Eagle" + "Europa Perdita" could be your DeI for Attila. ;)

[@JonnyDoey]

Great mods exist for Age of Charlemagne too!

[@AndysTake]

As mentioned in the video :D

[@I_hunt_lolis]

Oh damn, gotta try this, looks better than I expected. I only played Attila GC as both roman factions

[@NinjaSushi2]

0:33 that was dope!

[@NinjaSushi2]

Kingdoms is my favorite expansion!

[@Staerkebombe]

*Clouds Across europe, should be an official release on medieval mods...*

[@Tanuvein]

Definitely my favorite expansion in TW.

[@haufe012]

i want to play attila now. Thanks xd

[@AndysTake]

my pleasure ;)

[@haufe012]

@@AndysTake I united Ireland in the age of vikings. England is next. Thanks again^^

[@konradkubera4224]

My Mercia campaign was the best. I love it.

[@AndysTake]

Mine too! Played on legendary and loved it!

[@luowatson6246]

A full expansion to the east could make the entire game-play quite out-of-balance, as the eastern maps have much more factions (ERE and Abbas) and wealth if follows the same regional configurations. In reality is the logistic system and army organization that prevent these great powers to exert their conquest to the west, which are difficult to be simulated in total war series.

[@gerardotejada2531]

My favourite Total Wars are Shogun 2, Napoleon and Warhammer 1. But I recon Attila as the best historical Total War. Its just Im a fan of gunpowder.

[@willemsaltzpyre7792]

To date the only Total War games I have played are Warhammer 2 and 3. Currently addicted.

[@NinjaSushi2]

Age of Charlemagne sounds badass!

[@davyjones1335]

ireland was almost a playable faction for this dlc even have there own units not shared by other factions, mods unlock it sure but its almost like the devs meant to add ireland in.

[@shellbackbeau7021]

Barbarian Invasion is my favorite for sure! Never played age of charlagmane

[@taylorwilson6655]

I'm from Lichfield (the capital of mercia) so personally this one is my all time fav!

[@AndysTake]

oh awesome!

[@TheSentientsix]

Its always hard for me to get into any total war expansion. Most of them use a way smaller map size. I don't know, I guess I just loose interest when its like that for some reason. That goes for games as well. My least played total war games are all the ones that focus in on a smaller region of the world. Like Thrones of Britannia. I think Napoleon total war is a way better game than empire. But I only have 100 hours on napoleon, compared to 900 hours on empire. Can you imagine Napoleon total war with empire's map size. Would be soooo much fun. Anyways great vid!

[@f3wbs]

I agree with AoC being one of the better expansions in Total War; its the reason I bought Attila. It balances the game really well and the way the factions have obvious strengths and weaknesses makes it so you don't always play each faction the same.

[@andreitabun2353]

This DLC would make a good place for a mod like 1212 but for 100 years war

[@MrJabbothehut]

Warning: Long Post but worth it. After playing ck3, imperator rome (invictus) and victoria 3 I've really come to realise just how shallow and frustrating TW games have become. The main aim of grand strategy games is to map paint (i know paradox like to say that you can pick your own objectives but let's be real here). The developers then need to add MEANINGFUL AND ENGAGING constraints and layers which the player needs to learn, leverage and master in order to conquer territory and map paint. CK3 has character relations, inheritance of titles, light province managmentand, character developing events. Victoria 3 has economics and pops, imperator has a light mix of all of these (imo it's the deepest empire building paradox game ahead of eu4 if you look at pure mechanics and not flavour which invictus mod fixes anyway). All these layers interact with each other in a meaningful way and allow the player to get creative once they understand the fundamental interactions. Total war's main layer is the RTS battle capability. All other restrictions such as religion, public order, money making etc are all really simple and shallow. The peak of TW for me was Medieval 2 when all the mechanics worked together and allowed for creativity. The problem was that due to the simplicity of the constraints, it was easy to keep them under control and to then build up your forces and ruin the AI. Plus the gameplay loop became super micromanagy and tedious after the initial stage of expansion. CA tried to fix the ease of the game without actually addressing the base problem. The problem that the mechanics used to constraining the player are super shallow (devoid of decision making and thought). What TW now has is artificial difficulty where the constraints on players are so tedious and over the top that it just doesnt make the game any more difficult. It just slows it down and bores you. Army limits linked to territory is the most shitty mechanic ever. In order to gain more land and protect yours you need more armies but you are capped at a certain amount until you take more land is a horrible clash of a mechanics. To add insult to injury, battles have become so much worse post Medieval 2 in terms of visual, sound, and just general immersion such as physics (collisions). This is due to the core design of the warscape engine. The fundamental design of battles is also very boring now and most people dont play past the first 1 or 2 unless it's decisive down the line. This could be fixed by actually having a multi phase battle system split into say scouting, skirmishes, main engagment and running down where each phase would give an advantage lr disadvantage depending on who won/lost it on the next phase. These are just ideas but TW really needs to lean on its strengths as franchise fatigue is setting in. People play TW for the units and battle experience with that element of grand strategy attached to it. As long as battles are deep then the grand strategy part doesnt have to be super deep. To summarise: Total War has failed to evolve in what actually made it fun amd innovative and instead focused on all the wrong things and started trying to copy competitors without realising what made it special in the first place resulting in a horribly boring spreadsheet game that has so many contradicting mechanics purely designed to make the player feel a sense of difficulty that just comes across as tedious.

[@VerekEdits]

Hmu if someone wants to play a coop campaign

[@99batran]

Huge miss that they didnt make Eastern Rome playable. Think about how many playthroughs there will be where people try to reconquer Italy and beyond

[@NinjaSushi2]

How come Wessex isn't in this game but Mercia is?

[@peanutwars]

I been stuck on medieval 2 never played Atila is it actually good ?

[@psychzach1588]

Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai is my favorite

[@taasch2505]

yknow I have been playing TW since RTW. I have played many expansions but none kept me around for more than a few dozen hours. I just like Vanilla campaign more for some reason. The only Expansion I put just as many hours into as the main campaign was Barbarian Invasion. I loved the heck out of that expansion growing up. I loved the Horde feature so much I played BI more than any other TW until maybe R2 was fully patched. But idk I played a good bit of M2TW as well.

[@armenrastgouian2988]

1212AD is probably the best one I’ve played so far.

[@waltonsmith7210]

In my version of Age of Vikings, rebellions dont happen.

[@DaroriDerEinzige]

"Attila - The Expansion which basically included most of the promised features of Rome2. So please, pay us double :)".

[@andreaspanahi6810]

Age of charlemagne was the reason I bought Attila.

[@mitchellline4242]

What Thrones of Britannia could've been

[@FreshToDeath617]

If only Attila didn’t crash every 5 turns with a de sync

[@davelucky77]

Medieval Total War II is the cream de la cream, simply because it design an aspect I think is unrated in a Total war game : Small theatre campaigns with many (highly different) factions resulting of more realism and a since experience.

[@franzbauer1367]

0:58 i'm sorry what? no. charlemagne died 200 years before Otto I. founded the holy roman empire. charlemagne formed frankia

[@ivanvidovic5995]

How to get Byzantine Empire mod to work properly? How far do I roll back my game?

[@Venoxisguides]

Great take

[@serek_heterogenizowany]

Imagine creating the DLC about Charlemagne only to make his campaign totally unplayable due to constant revolts, low loyalty, war weariness. I gave this DLC another try after a few months. Still the same nightmare and mental breakdown.

[@camy252camy3]

Is the AoC expansion compatible with multiplayer? Friend and I are having a blast with thrones of britannia and wondered if this is a good one to follow up with. Just want to check the coop campaign situation though.

[@lmccampbell]

There is a mod that allows you to play as the Roman empire.

[@Henners1991]

I am glad you've got to the point where your video title are only partially in caps. Still missing your face in the thumbnail pulling exaggerated expressions in reaction to the clickbaity premises though.

[@jaredgup6537]

I can't attest to the changes in atilla vs the age of Charlemagne expansion (potato pc) but what I will say is I do agree that the significant time difference does help to differentiate the expansion from its base game. Fall of the samurai perhaps being the most extreme and imo fun, sort of change up from the base game shogun 2. But one thing I do regret not seeing is diplomacy being more of a thing. Then again it's not that unexpected.

[@ralado31]

In fall of the samurai (legendary) everybody keeps backstabbing you, your ally that have a marriage alliance with, is literally your relative and has been allied with you for centuries will suddenly switch sides and attack you if you leave the border unguarded for 1 turn but what really got me upset is how a random nation in the other corner of the map will declare war on me AND actually focus on me instead of its neighbors. However that's what made it fun for me, albeit I had to either exploit the shit out of the game or gather a HUGE army and send them on ships to invade Hokkaido (the big island to the north), if you're able to secure this 5 province island the game is over lol, you can safely turtle and slowly invade the countries to the south. Basically, playing in the corners is OP.

[@HavanaBobChannel]

Shogun 2 FOS and Attila AOS the best

[@BadCow94]

I love the period on charlemagne, but I hate the fact that every civ has '' spaniard spear, arab spear, italian spear, saxon spear '' and they're all the same, poor variety of units, also this other bug that drove me crazy was the fact that the chainmail texture bas bugged on most charlemagne's textures ( but not on attila's ) even on ultra

[@NinjaSushi2]

How can you have Mercia and not Wessex? Wessex was around before and after Mercia was a kingdom.

[@sasi5841]

1:08 sad Eastern Roman Empire noises. It's a shame that AoC didn't include the ERE. instead it only had island of sicily as theme of Sicily and made it a non playable favtion

[@PP-sj7pl]

Total War games: from settlement to settlement with 0 strategy involved

[@alessandrogini5283]

There Is a mod about the severan dynasty time?

[@robertfisher8359]

Always enjoyed Age of Charlemagne (and Attila is my 2nd favoriteTW title). It's why Thrones of Britannia falls utterly flat and irrelevant to me. My biggest issues with it come down to the map (omitting Eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean entirely) and the near absence of Roman/Byzantine in the map (twice as bad that it's not playable, as covered) and the complete lack of the eastern expansion of the vikings with the Kievan Rus, the Slavic raids that surged across Europe, the implosion of the Arab Conquests. Thanks for the video!

[@cruznix4741]

My major issue with the AOC units and unit mods is that they all look the same visually.

[@AndysTake]

Yeah that's perhaps my biggest gripe as well. It's the time period though kinda, isn't it?

[@spxdel8520]

Age of Charlemagne was great but you just didn't have any late game troops you accessed your final troops fairly quickly

[@foxreaper7671]

I found the best way to make Attila run better is to just wipe and tribe that migrates into your territory. Just finished a Western Rome run

[@johnathanwhitfield7483]

Why not make a world map of ancient times and technology tier's so you can play as ancient Rome and have technology of the middle ages or higher. So who ever research's the fastest could possibly win the world. Just have the best fun ever you can research up to modern time.

[@FA-qk4eh]

I’ve always wanted to play total war games that are actually based on history as I’ve always played the total war warhammer versions of the game. It’s not even the graphics that put me off it’s just the controls etc feel so bad. Are there any mods that have rectified this in any of these games ?

[@2_protects_the_1]

I'd like to see a third person total war like bannerlord.

[@GermanOlle]

@@rory6860 Never heard of "Spartan: Total Warrior"? It's a Spin off game.

[@ryanspackman548]

I always thought it'd be cool (if impossible) to play as the scouts and champions, etc. Like Assasins Creed or Kingdom Come to find locations to build new fortifications and towns, scout for the enemy, assassinate or sabotage enemies., etc.

[@GermanOlle]

@@ryanspackman548 There is a game called "Warlord: Britannia", mix of Open World, Total War like battles etc.

[@aol13aol57]

Please total war team ..please do fix and upgrade this game

[@HeliodromusScorpio]

Too bad the Hud that was shown in pre-release is not in the final product. Altough it can be modded into the game

[@AndysTake]

what? link?

[@reeceallen583]

I genuinely prefer AoC over base game Attila