Attila - pulled the trigger at 50% and I'm glad I did...

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Well, finally picked it up at 50% off sale they just had on steam. Played prologue, bit glitchy but then that's the nature of CA prologues, so it felt right at home.

Then turned to GC and started as the ERE. No particular reason. Under attack from the first turn, barbarian hordes everywhere, and dear god who pissed in the Sassanids cheerios, I've got full stacks, multiple full stacks, coming at me from the desert that are slaughtering me, not to mention they had half the freaking map as puppet states who are all now coming into the picture for a bit of fun as well. I don't honestly know if I can turn all of this back, I'm losing territory pretty much everywhere.

And wtf is going on with sanitation, disease keeps popping up, and to build almost anything of use contributes to this problem, to say nothing of the cost of being Christian (why would you make it more expensive to be Christian? Is this CA just insisting that you go ahistorical and turn the ERE to Roman Paganism? Hardly seems like the way I'd design them, you'd think some level of encouragement would be designed in to play a faction as they actually existed in history).

I like the battles better than Rome 2, the pace and the interface just feel better to me, and the performance at least for me in tactical and strategic is better, I've got the whole thing maxed and it works fine. Love having politics back, although I've absolutely no idea what I'm doing with it yet. And even though I complained about religion above, I do like having it back in, just griping about why it would be Christianity is set up to be so expensive for the one empire you'd obviously expect to be played that way.

The activity of the map is fantastic, there's so much shit going on everywhere every turn, this is what I wanted Rome 2 to be, active, engaged, instead R2 just sat there like a dead fish head staring at me like I was supposed to supply all the entertainment.

Ok, to net it out, I've only played 15 hours, I'm going to lose this campaign I'm pretty sure, and I think Attila is just fantastic.