Total War: Pharaoh - Your Chariot Awaits

Total War: Pharaoh is the brand new Total War game set during the Bronze Age collapse, and I've got my hands on it very early indeed, so let's see how it's shaping up...
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[@Israelyguy14]

Interesting facts about Ancient Egyptian Warfare: They mostly used maces. They didn't invent (good) helmets for several centuries, however. Because of so many blunt force wounds to the head and face, Egypt developed head surgery and dentistry *very early*, to the point where in some burial tombs, we have high ranking court officials such as... head surgeons and dentists. Source: Soldiers Lives through History, The Ancient World, by Richard Gabriel

[@JoeR1066]

Props to you for giving your source bro.

[@Petrico94]

There's something to be said about what you learn from surgery when your religion involves removing vital organs from royalty and preserving them effectively forever.

[@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740]

Tbf, a mace is a pretty easy weapon to develop. It's stick with hunk of metal at the end. Basically one step up from a club

[@KleinesStein]

“We got good dental at least”

[@kevineberwein9608]

"What have the Egyptians ever done for us!?"

[@saag024]

Can't wait for the moment that Jon says indirect fire from his archers while they're clearly firing directly at the opponent

[@ManyATrueNerd]

... If there's a sandstorm and they reasonably wouldn't be able to see their target, does it get to be indirect fire then...?

[@azynkron]

If you are on the receiving end, I don't think you care whether it's direct or indirect.

[@KleinesStein]

@@azynkron well if you have a shield then you definitely would care lol

[@lloydchaddings]

@@azynkron what? Knowing whether the arrows are coming from the sky or in front of you would be pretty important in how you respond lmao.

[@coletalbot4007]

@@ManyATrueNerd why can't I turn on notifications anymore Jon?

[@KashouWannabe]

"The Medjay are expendable" * Bayek of Siwa will remember that. *

[@Antares00]

Okay, given that the tooltip for sand is literally 'it's coarse, rough and irritating - and it gets everywhere' (4:55), I may eventually buy this game just on the strength of the memes

[@KleinesStein]

If they don’t fix all the issues it has then I would say wait until it’s on sale. It’s overpriced for what it is atm

[@keith-beerman]

You'd be amazed what stuff like that doesn't survive betas. So many things in the Diablo IV friends & family alpha that were hilarious that did not make it to retail.

[@piotrwegrzyniak5798]

@@keith-beerman though to the release survived "This is my spear. There are many like it, but this one is mine." so maybe the sand gets a pass too

[@CoffeeFiend1]

You're the first KZbinr to actually recognize the significance of the Stance Automation and more importantly that it let's us facilitate something which us oldie vets have been requesting for the last 20+ years.... Namely the somewhat colloquial 'Cannae Maneuver'. Who remembers playing Cannae back in the day and thinking this looks hard but I can surely just do what Hannibal did right? Except we couldn't because we were missing the most essential opening mechanic which was a way to facilitate a measured withdrawal starting in the centre to create the inverse bell curve. In 20+ years no Total War has ever given this, there's not been any measured withdrawal, there's been routing off the field and there's been moving manually in which units spin 180 and goes in the direction you clicked. Literally being able to withdraw backwards in formation whilst facing the enemy is a groundbreaking mechanic in terms of adding strategic depth.

[@CuriousCauliflowerX]

Which is very sad that adding this basic thing took 20 years and it was added to a cash grab that should've just been a troy expansion.

[@TheTanoshimu]

3:46 “The bit everyone’s waiting to see” the Sea People’s!? :D “It’s the chariots” :/ 13:40 YAY THE SEA PEOPLES

[@TheNamesDitto]

exactly how i felt lol

[@notabot5464]

Fun fact: Jon leading the Egyptians to defeat the sea people is actually perfectly in line with historical sources. The Egyptians defeated the Sea People, however it was such a Pyrrhic victory that Egypt lost the ability to project power outside of its core along the Nile, leading to the empire disolving.

[@thevoidlookspretty7079]

I like to see it as Egypt didn’t beat the sea people, they just survived them.

[@PoisonInc]

This is the first time I've heard about these Sea People. So bizarre we don't know for certain where they came from. Well, from across the sea but yeah.

[@notabot5464]

@@PoisonInc The entirety of the Bronze Age collapse is fascinating, as we have incredibly limited archaeological and historical records surviving from that period. The most accepted current hypothesis as I understand it (I am not a subject matter specialist) is that a series of ecological disasters (posibly volcano/seismic related) led to widescale famine, which led to political revolts that collapsed the major empires that had previously ruled over the near east. These disasters also likely caused a spike in raiding for survival, resulting in the mysterious sea people recorded in egyptian sources.

[@MexiCoe]

Is it Atlanteans? please say yes 😅

[@Anonymaus209]

@@PoisonInc All I know is that they _probably_ weren't fish-people.

[@CAP198462]

Please release the epic three hour long version of the video with all the historical tangents.

[@lunaaryal8745]

Seeing units fight while walking backwards is the total war mechanic we didn't know that we desperately wanted 🤣😭😭

[@rhel373]

I hope it's actually useful in gameplay terms. Though even if it isn't it'll at least look neat.

[@richardpowell1772]

I know I always wanted it. You could replicate the Battle of Cannae with exactly this mechanic.

[@quimble2177]

I hope it isn’t like siege escalation. Aka in one game, and never seen again

[@patrickmiller7399]

This exactly, having a way to let the center collapse smartly and then envelope the enemy is one of the oldest and best maneuvers for an army

[@kollo3869]

Who's we? For as long as I can remember, I've noticed that if I need to pull my soldiers back, I lose an extra few just because they've turned their backs to the enemy. This has been an issue for long and at least I am happy to see they're finally doing something about it

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

The increased ability of everything to be very on fire seems most encouraging. Not for the hapless inhabitants of the late bronze age, obviously; but "war without fire is like sausages without mustard"; so a nice feature for the rest of us.

[@mattnelson2501]

The tool tip when he hovered over the sand tho 😆

[@Mathmachine]

A new ancient era setting Total War game? Welp, time for a new 50+ part series!

[@anumeon]

Jon made sure to make the enemies run home to their mummies....

[@sirstamfordraffles6557]

Had to include an ancient Egypt pun. Very well done 👏

[@chriswoodend2036]

Jon! You did not break history. Both times the sea peoples are said to have arrived, it was Egypt that held their ground. You MAINTAINED history. Which is very on brand. Good job Jon.

[@tealcformerfirstprimeofapo22]

This is indeed very exciting. Also I enjoyed the star wars reference in the description when looking at the effects of fighting in sand.

[@BaronVonMott]

I'm not so bothered about the whole "magic ladders" issue myself, but seeing those ladders as an actual siege construct again is giving me nostalgic flashbacks to when I first discovered the Total War series with Rome 2 😂

[@lcmiracle]

If you have no issue with ass ladders, you desire to be hang

[@Yews]

@@alexwalters35 That was probably the best moment to come to the franchise because earlier games were either really clunky (Shogun/Medieval), prohibitively difficult (Shogun 2), or borderline fantasy (everything pre-Empire).

[@internetalias1613]

​@@Yews tbf Rome 1 & 2, Med 2, Empire, Atilla and Shogun 2 are still the best games in the franchise.

[@Yews]

@@internetalias1613 You’ve listed like half the games in the franchise, that’s not how ‘best-ness’ works. 😀 Also every game in the franchise has its own problems, like in Rome and Medieval II the gameplay is excellent but the UI is shit and they are not really historical (fantasy factions with fantasy units), in Empire the historicity is leagues ahead of Rome and Medieval II but the technical side is a total mess, in Attila the general design is brilliant but the setting isn’t familiar to most people and it’s bugged to the point of being nigh unplayable... Warhammer features cool factions with cool units and literal magic and flying units and whatnot but it all feels super clunky after you play Three Kingdoms, which is easily the best in the franchise in terms of gameplay design but the setting is completely alien to most franchise fans and there’s not very much content...

[@cochemoche]

The entire Art of War book if it was about the Bronze Age Collapse: "It's just a lot of mopping up, just mop the enemy up, lads!"

[@inductivegrunt94]

Great to see Jon give this game a shot. A new historical Total War game is very welcome. And Jon really knows how to play this game like a legendary general.

[@TheBlackBrickStudios]

Dang, Jon got his hands on this game so early, I didn't even knew that it existed.

[@Ancusohm]

Ooh, this is awesome. I love your bronze age knowledge and you Total War videos.

[@renshalmans1596]

OMG this just made my bloody day! Thank you john

[@Skycroft1000]

Hmm... bit worried about the chariots already. Historically speaking, chariots absolutely cannot slam into enemy troops. Or slam into anything really - they fall apart easily if they hit something. But I guess that's Total War, fully treating horses as battering rams and chariots as the same... it's really hard to do a last minute retreat in Total War. But for both chariots and cavalry the shock they aim to deal is _moral,_ not physical. You charge towards the enemy looking big and scary hoping they will break, and you can ride them down. If you _don't_ break, you wheel off the charge at the last minute, but you certainly don't keep going and slam right into them in a collision that will kill absolutely everyone involved including the horses. Heavy cavalry can do that under certain circumstances but chariots absolutely cannot. Also a bronze age total war game with sieges that doesn't include the primary siege technology of the bronze age... but total war has never figured out how to make ramps work I guess. In fairness, it seems to me a tough challenge. But it's a pity that Total War feels often like it doesn't take on tough challenges like that anymore. Whereas with the older total war games, things like fire-by-rank or other tricky unit abilities often were very finicky to put it mildly but the _ambition_ there was something to be admired. I just don't feel the same kind of think with this game. I presume the campaign side of things will be building on Troy's multiple currencies thing though, so that's something.

[@Skycroft1000]

@@gdouble4710 Scythed Chariots came much, much later, in the Iron Age, not the Bronze Age. They also are not designed to crash into the enemy lines, but to ride _alongside_ them and hit them with their scythes. Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but their effectiveness was sorely lacking from the sources we have. The Romans, at least, thought of them as a gimmick weapon with limited effectiveness against any actual decent infantry formation. Chariots (the regular kind) were absolutely the super weapons of the bronze age but they were so as mobile firing platforms and not as charge weapons. You _could_ probably sometimes charge them effectively into infantry but as I said in the OP that works because the infantry will tend to break when something big and scary is running at them with high speed. It's human nature to run from such a thing. But if the infantry _didn't_ break you would break off the charge and wheel away, you wouldn't continue until actual physical contact because that would result in the chariot breaking apart. Siege towers in this time period, btw, as also designed as elevated firing platforms where you can have your own archers suppress the enemy archers on the battlements so your troops can make the ramp. They are _not_ designed to deliver troops onto walls.

[@fin5317]

I wish total war would move away from so many stats on the front end it feels formulaic especially for the historical titles it feels like a sandbox rather than you actually commanding an army. Something like the weather system knowing that 5% whatever changes almost defeats the purpose of emulating weather's effect on battles which was randomness and often chaos. Also much larger maps with more varied terrain would be lovely too

[@Mankorra_Gomorrah]

Also I wish they’d get rid of the red/orange/green markers over units. It distills the game to “click unit, right click unit with green icon over, avoid units with red icons.”

[@Wyrmshield]

I was waiting for a lightning strike in that first battle

[@madwellmusic8995]

Exactly. Rather than having campaign progression improve units, they just come with the units. Which makes me believe the progression system will be horribly implemented and not reflect the economic complexities of the Bronze Age.

[@hex_1733]

So good to see my fav youtuber make a video on it!

[@LiveLNXgaming]

looking forward to the full lets play. have missed the total war content and long plays.

[@ogrejd]

"After Ramesses II succeeded in defeating the invaders and capturing some of them, Sherden captives are depicted in this Pharaoh's bodyguard, where they are conspicuous by their helmets with horns with a ball projecting from the middle, their round shields and the great Naue II swords, with which they are depicted in inscriptions about the Battle of Kadesh, fought against the Hittites. Ramesses stated in his Kadesh inscriptions that he incorporated some of the Sherden into his own personal guard at the Battle of Kadesh." I'm surprised. I'd thought that it was only the Peleset (later known as the Philistines) that the Egyptians had hired any great number of from the Sea Peoples... EDIT: Sad to see that the second battle was against generic enemies. Hopefully that's something they'll fix in the final relesae because the Egyptians DID have names for the various Sea Peoples they fought, after all: Denyen, Ekwesh, Lukka, Peleset, Shekelesh, Sherden, Teresh, Tjeker and Weshesh...

[@SomeOne_86]

I think they're named just the Sea Peoples in the last battle because you're supposedly fighting the whole coalition of them.

[@foltrap]

I was already very hyped for this, the new unit controls sound AWESOME.

[@jurriendevries3673]

The battles look really good. I like the focus on infantry, hopefully this'll make me use a bit more light infantry which I usually don't bother with in Total War games. I do hope their going to add a lot more than the planned 3 civilizations. It feels weird to have a bronze age collapse without the Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians. But we'll have to wait for a proper look at the campaign map I suppose.

[@jurriendevries3673]

@@alexwalters35 Yeah, the days of Rome and Medieval II are behind us for sure... I find myself wondering what Post-Modern Gaming is going to be like, cause Modern Gaming is a shitshow, excuse my French.

[@GoErikTheRed]

Classic Jon. Expecting archers to stand their ground when charged by heavy infantry

[@KashouWannabe]

I was hoping that you got access to this. I wanted to see a historical Bronze Age TW from a historical TW KZbinr.

[@TwilightStar91]

I don’t even like Total War, I came for History Lessons with Jon. Hopefully when the campaign comes out you’ll get to really talk about the true history behind it 👏

[@minij7bobcats]

8:36 “To shreds you say?”

[@craig3119]

A series on this would be most welcome 🙏

[@yorkshirebhoy4049]

Man the gives me flashback to the early 2000 and playing Pharaoh great times.

[@ollyclass]

It seems like they've actually made an effort to bring in real strategy again unlike recent games which seemed like everyone had the peasants from Rome 1 instead of actual units. No longer just blob vs blob. Ashame the archers still look like a cute shower without the brutal thuds of the older games.

[@Mob135]

Naaaaaaaaaa.

[@TheNamesDitto]

I hope we see Jon trying to survive the sea people in a campaign. Really loved his Rome: Remastered campaign

[@knosje]

oh wow, didn't know this would come out. amazing

[@d.k.t.3380]

As hard as they've clearly worked on the attention to detail in the cities, is there any word if they are bringing back the ability to look at your cities outside of combat from OG Rome: Total War?

[@abc123tiktok]

Pharaoh Jon franchise in future? I can't think of more perfect video with a culture worshiping cats.

[@itzmystic5808]

4:51 I enjoy a good Star Wars reference

[@conehed1138]

Ooh a bronze age total war game? Bronze age mods for Rome were some of my favorite back in the day

[@Zippee2020]

I was hoping you’d do this one John 😀👍

[@paulfigueiredo3168]

I'm terrible at every total war game. Getting the bronze age collapse in game form...I'm going to have to buy it anyway.

[@Hydrcow]

is it just me or did they get inside the walls because Jon sent his units out to counter attack and the gates were left open

[@sirstamfordraffles6557]

No, I think that’s exactly what happened there xD.

[@shorewall]

When your units rout, they flee back into the city, which opens the gate to let the enemy in. :D

[@El_ProfeDeHistoria]

It is time!

[@qh777]

It was my hope that the campaign agents and generals and troops on the battlefield spoke some reconstructed ancient Egyptian

[@ItsDooby]

Chariots. The original glasscannons.

[@Jukrates]

I'd love to see Jon play the Elder Scrolls mod for Medieval 2

[@ScorpionChaos69]

What a Game, what a fight, what gameplay, what a strategy, WHAT A GAME CASTER!

[@zavierfrost]

3:20 That Attack of the Clones reference.

[@bobbys332]

RTS' may not be exactly your forte but I would totally be behind watching you do a video on Age of Mythology. Maybe even a series at some point. Considering the setting and all the mythos it incorporates/plays with, I think it would be utterly hilarious. Since you have now looked at Total War Troy and Total War Pharaoh you have multiple games under your belt that are similar enough in era (and you have your degree) that you could do a comparison and complain vehemently about how the story was so "Gamified".

[@sp0ckz0mbi3]

Finally some historical Total War

[@513james513]

Wait! Creative Assembly is finally doing a bronze age Total War and they're leaving out Assyria??? Only Egypt and Assyria even survived the bronze age collapse...

[@zackrodriguez6653]

John is it time to run another United Provinces of the Seven Netherlands campaign?

[@burntbybrighteyes]

Honest comment here. I used to be a bit Total war fan but kind of drifted away from the series a few years ago in favor of other games because I wasn't happy with the direction they were taking. Anyway that's all besides the point. I haven't played a Total war game in some years but I remember that they always looked good. At 1:00 minute when the video transitioned to game footage I burst out laughing thinking this was some kind of joke. Uhm.. is my memory that mistaken? The graphics look abysmal. It's an early build, sure but wtf?

[@willprocter878]

ive been what for a bronze age total war/paradox game for ages...finally

[@elijahm3688]

end game crisis: the bronze age collapse

[@TheDarthMushroom]

Ohhh yes

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Chariots in Total War were always kind of weird to me. From what I've seen most Chariots either served as Battle Taxis (Carries heavy infantry to where the fighting is where they dismount and fight, and are evacuated by the chariots as need be) or skirmish units (throw javelins and such from range and use the chariot's speed). But Total War seems to love the idea that Chariots just rammed into people.

[@kayeka4123]

Supposedly the Hittites actually did use their chariots as battering rams, which is why their chariots were made much heavier and tougher than those found in Egypt.

[@imnw2263]

3:24 the sand description lmao

[@Yews]

‘Manyatruenerd’ sounds vaguely Bronze Age Anatolian written like that.

[@perigeedynamics5941]

So nice to see someone educated in History comment on the history.

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

Great! I love Egypt

[@uriyacobikeller1737]

John, you didn't break history, Egypt was the only power who resisted the sea people, so you actually were totally historical!

[@katarjin]

For a second there I thought it was the other Pharaoh game...not in to the Total war games but yall have fun.

[@GFTAidan]

Please please please do series

[@johndaarteest]

Jon great to see you doing a TW game again but I've often wondered why you've never done Rome II.

[@Nerathul1]

He did mention once he doesn't really like it. As the first of the new total war engine its very scruffy and frustrating.

[@quno5174]

I’d much rather see shogun 2 than Rome 2 myself

[@Langburkersdorfer]

yes

[@o-mangaming5042]

I asked about it a while back. Basically Rome Total War is still his favorite Total War and he doesn't think Total War Rome II does it justice. He does like Shogun II and is quite happy to play it on the channel at some point. Just a matter of finding the schedule space for it.

[@quno5174]

@@o-mangaming5042 hoping for the day he plays it to be soon 🤞

[@mariusbehm9874]

the game locks realy good i watched the first lock from CA

[@Sparks95]

The combat sounds like a decent upgrade over the last total war game

[@yoimsecond]

I'm really curious why they are hiding the campaign map so much, that's the part that interests me the MOST, yet I can't seem to find any previews of it

[@azynkron]

Ehr.. it's called Pharao and it's in the bronze age. I think it's pretty safe to assume it takes place in and around Egypt. So, Rome TW but moved a bit south. If you think otherwise, I would love to hear your reasoning.

[@yoimsecond]

@@azynkron it's obvious to me where it's going to be set, but I'm interested in the scope, design, size all that kind of stuff, the campaign matters to me personally more than battles lol

[@o-mangaming5042]

@@azynkron What things will we be able to do on the campaign map? Will we see a return of Troy's resource system? How will settlements work in campaign mode? There's definitely a lot of questions to be asked about it.

[@legostarwarsfan1662]

Most likely because this is still a really early preview. They did the same thing with troy and Warhammer 3 (at least) where the first previews are just a couple of battle scenarios.

[@Langburkersdorfer]

Oh yes. JON!!! This is fine.

[@KingFunky]

I love how spread out the men are, it's not just blocks fighting other blocks

[@oll-turny-llo8200]

In ancient warfare, disciplined heavy infantry was mostly blocks of men working in unison - phalanx, cohort etc.

[@KingFunky]

@@oll-turny-llo8200 beyond the ancient world as well, but its soo boring visually

[@oll-turny-llo8200]

@@KingFunky I get what you're saying, but i'd rather have a realistic game over a pretty game. Heavy infantry should feel heavy, weighty, slow and blocky. medium infantry less so and light infantry should be spread out fast and feel weightless. I can't speak for modern total wars post 2013 as I havn't played much of them past that point, but that's how Rome 2 felt for example and i feel they nailed it. If you want less blocky units you should try incorporating lighter units into yourt armies. use the blocky ones to stand firm in the centre and use the lighter inf to flow round the flanks if you have cav superiority.

[@KingFunky]

@@oll-turny-llo8200 Each to their own. And I'll keep that advice in mind next time im warmongering lol

[@s7robin105]

Biggest issue I have seen from all the gameplay videos I have watched is that the chariot charges are rather underwhelming. Which is not great considering this was the period they were the most important.

[@Monkey_SK]

The Total War collapse would seemed to have got this game over to Jon in record time. The feedback on the trailer video was not great from the fan base, so CA must be a little worried. Will he interesting to see what a campaign looks like and how historical this stays in thelong run. Troy had a lot for fantasy stuff in the end.

[@MST3Killa]

Troy did nothing for me. It felt like a cheap/rushed game. I dunno, I just feel CA is kind of going through a lot of motions with these installments.

[@Monkey_SK]

@@MST3Killa Agree. I'm worried they will just re-use a lot of Troy and re-skin things. Saves a lot of time and allows this yearly TW game release to continue. Which I think is killing the games in the long run.

[@Ale_ssandro]

I cannot see the point of a Total War with so little variety in units. Atfer Immortal Empires i cannot immagine a more fun TW. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but this feels sooo old, seen countless times before.

[@danielfiene7770]

I like Total War's recent focus on really early history. Looking forward to Total War: Xia Dynasty, Total War Saga: Gilgamesh and Total War: I can't read the title because it's in Cuneiform. (Not Total War: Indus Valley, though. Sorry, but if you wanted to be featured in a Total War game, you should have invented weapons!)

[@kye4216]

Maybe its a pretty minor thing, but i hate the generic green = you red= enemy. I like the unique flag colors for each faction

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

Oh. I thought we were going to be playing Pharoah: A New Era. Now I'm wondering if they released this game with the same title just to add insult to injury since that remake didn't go very well

[@ianrooney4201]

Jon can you play total war warhammer 3 for the culture you’d probably enjoy the green skins they have a fun mechanic involving their gods Gork and Mork. I would enjoy that watch.

[@lordgong4980]

Let's hope the diplomatic game is good this time around

[@LiangPanda]

Hm. The siege battle looks just like the siege battles of Rome and Medieval 2

[@canadaisfat1462]

4:49 Star Wars 2 reference. Look at the cursor.

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I can't quite put my finger on why; but I'm having a markedly harder time 'reading' the expected outcome of two lines running into one another in this one than in other Total Wars that Jon has covered(I haven't played the series much myself, so I don't think it's personal familiarity with the ones that have been released vs. unfamiliarity with this one). Some of the match-ups looked totally hopeless to me; then the opposition proceeded to bounce pathetically off the defense; some looked like the opposition was walking right into the meatgrinder and they just swept forward without apparent issue. I'm certainly no TW expert generally; so I'd not expect great predictions on my part; but for some reason this one has me feeling vastly more surprised and confused by why the engagements are going as they are than I have been previously. Anyone else getting a different-than-expected predictability level here?

[@hydrowolf1]

they should make a game mode ware you have 2 hold the line some ppl think that wen the bronze age collapse was like this my town fell well on to the next oh no the city then country so you have to hold out to stop the rest of the world from going down or have one ware you take them down and have to take them down 2 get food but wen you kill of the countrys your all disband

[@lou1958]

I wish we had a new Napoleon or Empire instead of this. Oh well.

[@CarzorStelatis]

2:14 except for the guys in the front rank who glitch out and don't switch over

[@TheCoal27]

This might be the first Total War I'll buy since Atilla. No heroes (which I never really liked), cool new tactical options, CHARIOTS!! Perfect.

[@Syaniiti]

Still has the shameful hp system, horrible arrow trails and full stack fights lasting 7 minutes it looks like. Well, there's still med2 mods.

[@kenc9236]

For the love of God give us Med 3 before I die!

[@DrLynch2009]

Bronze Age: Total War

[@olehkovch]

Can yOu do Alexander total war?

[@monsieurlaguillotine3481]

Hey hold on wait what? When did this become a thing?

[@darrellparfitt5908]

So you are on defense, one flank is protected by a shallow lake, the other is just open desert. So the AI immediately marches it's general and their heavy chariots straight into the lake. Is... this what's supposed to happen? That decision lost the battle instantly. Chariots don't perform well underwater.

[@oll-turny-llo8200]

Frankly I havn't enjoyed a total war game since rome 2 in 2013 and even that on release was below expectations. They all just feel so soulless these days. I like the time period this is set in though.

[@timothym9398]

What I love the idea of.. if it has a tone and plays like Attila I will love this game. What I'm worried about would be a tone like Attila, but battle mechanics and arcade game play like Three Kingdoms. I couldn't really tell from the video, was their any evidence of a disengagement penalty like Attila had? I really dislike the bouncy ball busywork of charge, disengage, charge, disengage (even with infantry fights head on) that some of the later total war games encourage. Does infantry feel actually "stuck in" when they're sent in and engaged?

[@pnutz_2]

swapping out arms would be useful for porting back into total warhammer, for the greenskins, since Black Orcs are Armed To Da Teef

[@gabrielnunez1970]

So it's a Troy re-skin.

[@LowryYT]

well its not gonna cover the entire eastern Mediterranean now will it

[@5Andysalive]

Egypt collapsed only a little bit.

[@rueisblue]

It spent the next 2 centuries split in half then was ruled by foreigners for 2000 years lmao

[@KashouWannabe]

Several months later and only one video on the title. No streams, no real mentions. Pretty telling how even Jon is getting tired with the decline of Total War.

[@M1K3209]

Iltam sumra rashupti elatim