Total War: Attila - Initial Thoughts

[edyzmedieval]

Napoleon excelled on the battle side, making it more of a "Total War" rather than an empire-building game that was Empire. So in this perspective, I'm definitely looking forward to Attila.

[Hooahguy]

New Attila dev blog!

Will post comments on it later.

[Neric]

I like the overall darker mood of the graphics. If that can be transferred into the gameplay, Attila might be distinctive enough from Rome 2 to be more than just Rome 2 with missed features, e.g. some sort of family tree.

It will be interesting so see, how Attila hinself is going to be implemented. Could be as a new faction or some lategame overpowered steamroller who doesn't care about building, destroys everything in its way and cannot be stopped; at least in the first stages of the invasion.
I would favour the last, but this tends in the direction of "losing can be fun" - not a popular concept for marketing.

[The Stranger]

well he was stopped eventually historically. so i dont know why u have to lose per se. but diplomacy and intrigue played a big part in it as well... which has never really been the strong point of tw series.

[Neric]

Lose per se just when your standing right in the door as Attila & friends are knocking it down. Maybe CA manages to give diplomatic options, but the first wave should be devastating if you try to oppose the invaders; at least without allies. I you live to do something another day by diplomacy or having enough provinces out of harms, way the late game could be kind of a reconquista of the lost and scorched provinces.
Still there's the problem of getting history and gameplay along, without loosing too much of either one

[Hooahguy]

So theres a livestream of Attila going on right now on the CA twitch site (link) and they arent showing many new things but the music is rather good now! Even makes use of the infamous Mongolian throat singing.

[Hooahguy]

So here are some of the details provided in the dev livestream, courtesy of Reddit:

Main campaign details - All religions have their own buffs and benefits.
9 different religions in the game.
- Building Browser!
- Diseases can spread trough trade routes, armies and more and can cause diplomatic penalties.
- Constantinople will be a unique settlement and big. Very big.
- Minor settlements CAN have walls in ATTILA!
- There will be civil wars in ATTILA but they will work out different as Rome II's wars.
- More dillema’s, events and more.
- There will be cultural-specific music themes.
- There will be new army stances. Forced march now gives fatigue penalties when attacked.
Characters
- An assigned governor will grant an edict and bonusses and will be represented on the battle map when his city gets attacked.
- You can marry people from other factions to get them in your family tree.
- Different characters will bring different personalities in diplomacy. Because of this diplomatic relations will be more dynamic.

Agents
- More agent actions will unlock when you level up an agent!
- Results of agent actions will be displayed as 2D animations.
Attila - ATTILA will always attack other nations. This cannot be avoided.
- Attila can be killed or wounded

Units and Factions
- Sassanids, Saxons playable, more playable factions will be revealed overtime.
- A lot more specialized ships. Boarding, ranged combat, ramming.
- There are male and female units in Total War ATTILA.
- Some Immortals and Cataphracts units will be in the game.