This Total War Expansion has NO RIGHT Being THIS GOOD

Boy, oh boy, I tell you. When I heard that Total War was bringing us a massive 400 years into the future, and allowing us to play as Charlemagne himself, I was so seriously hyped.
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Age of Charlemagne is the quintessential DLC and expansion for Total War: Attila, a Total War game very dear and near to my heart. Age of Charlemagne takes us into the early medieval period and the birth of what is going to become early modern Europe. As Charlemagne, you are tasked with uniting Francia and Germania, and perhaps even Italy and Iberia if you find your TRUE power. But this expansion offers so much more, and in this video, I'll take you thought this entire expansion, its factions, battles, highs and lows, and what Creative Assembly could have done to make it even better.
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[@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

[@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 :/

[@FCKMRZ]

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]

@@FCKMRZ 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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 :/

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@isaacplanas4948]

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

[@AndysTake]

Heck yeah :)

[@serek_heterogenizowany]

CA hasn't playtested this campaign. This campaign pack is pure comedy. The amount of public disorder a player is faced with is disgusting. A few turns in whichever campaign you want and all your province revolt. For example, you are at war with one faction. They dont want peace. You can afford maybe two stacks. You can' be everywhere. Enemy starts raiding your provices far away from your reach. Guess what happens - they revolt, your war exhaustion goes up. A few turns later you basically fight against your own people - the rebels. It's basically unplayable. The only faction I could have a normal campaign was Mercia. Don't bother playing other factions. Yet if you dare, be prepared for a mental breakdown. Take Avars as another example. Your religion is different which completely halts your progress and expanding is non existent. You can't leave your province because -30 public order penalty will slowly turn into an open revolt. So, your sitting in your province, trying to get another building slot to fix this problem. Your income is low, you just burn turn after turn. If that was the idea CA had in mind while designing this campaign pack, well, I salute them. Edit. One more thing - constant fires/earthquakes/floods destroying your capital, so you have to spend your precious money on rebuilding your buildings. Great work CA. Trully the best Total war expansion ever.

[@soyentak5076]

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

[@aerosdacillo1227]

im just waiting for modders to add regions in Rome 2

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@thejesterofwoe7778]

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

[@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.

[@kadirbariskose]

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

[@AndysTake]

hahaha glad to hear it ;)

[@sam9son]

0:21 someone forget Fall of Samurai

[@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.

[@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!

[@MedjayofFaiyum]

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

[@AndysTake]

Indeed!

[@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.

[@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

[@Ultraelectromagnetic]

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

[@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. ;)

[@djocharablaikan8601]

Pilps needs to do a video on this

[@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!

[@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.

[@analien4813]

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

[@parrythetrojan]

Great video, and again GREAT THUMBNAILS ALL DAY LONG!

[@VRichardsn]

Ok, you sold me on it.

[@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

[@DaroriDerEinzige]

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

[@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

[@NinjaSushi2]

0:33 that was dope!

[@SolusBatty]

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

[@peanutwars]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@I_hunt_lolis]

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

[@Staerkebombe]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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^^

[@VerekEdits]

Hmu if someone wants to play a coop campaign

[@JonnyDoey]

Great mods exist for Age of Charlemagne too!

[@AndysTake]

As mentioned in the video :D

[@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.

[@willemsaltzpyre7792]

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

[@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.

[@FreshToDeath617]

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

[@ivanvidovic5995]

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

[@shellbackbeau7021]

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

[@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.

[@lmccampbell]

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

[@stormtrooperdavis6887]

Rise of the republic was a great one as well.

[@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.

[@taylorwilson6655]

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

[@AndysTake]

oh awesome!

[@franzbauer1367]

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

[@ew264]

No, Charlemagne did create the holy roman empire, it then collapsed under his son. Otto I then revived it many years later.

[@NinjaSushi2]

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

[@forlornfool221]

Medieval 2 Kingdoms comes to mind.. for myself

[@alessandrogini5283]

There Is a mod about the severan dynasty time?

[@NinjaSushi2]

Age of Charlemagne sounds badass!

[@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

[@andreitabun2353]

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

[@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 ?

[@armenrastgouian2988]

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

[@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.

[@andreaspanahi6810]

Age of charlemagne was the reason I bought Attila.

[@PP-sj7pl]

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

[@waltonsmith7210]

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

[@spxdel8520]

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

[@Tanuvein]

Definitely my favorite expansion in TW.

[@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

[@konradkubera4224]

My Mercia campaign was the best. I love it.

[@AndysTake]

Mine too! Played on legendary and loved it!

[@psychzach1588]

Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai is my favorite

[@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.

[@NinjaSushi2]

Kingdoms is my favorite expansion!

[@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

[@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!

[@mitchellline4242]

What Thrones of Britannia could've been

[@fartz3808]

The only thing that ruins this campaign for me is AI stupidity and ineptness. Major factions like the Franks, Lombards, Avars even the Moors just tend to lose half their territories to a backdrop 1-settlement npc faction which completely ruins the anticipation of two powerful rival factions facing off in endgame. The AI is simply too bad at playing large factions competently and it's always the little factions (like the Saxons) that give the most grief.

[@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?

[@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.

[@NinjaSushi2]

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

[@Venoxisguides]

Great take

[@aol13aol57]

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

[@waffleman6666]

Man whole reason I never got or played this is everyone hated it I mean I couldn’t find 5 ppl who said to buy it even if they liked it lmao is it true that 3 kingdoms is same engine?? I have great rig can play Tarkov on full graphics and it ran like such rookie it just now started running fine

[@kostasmpyras]

Nice clickbait thumbnail lol

[@HavanaBobChannel]

Shogun 2 FOS and Attila AOS the best