Barbarian factions can pack-up their entire nation and take to the road once again, leaving their permanent settlements a ruin behind them. That city you burned to a cinder 5 turns ago? With a few easy investments, it was on the road to being a thriving trade and manufacturing hub!Īttila changes the rules. But all the damage was temporary and easily fixed. Each of those games did a good job of making it look like the world was coming undone as armies fought pitched battles and cities and fortresses changed hands time and again. Nothing this dramatic ever happened before in Total War. Cities burn, and depleted empires grapple with battered tribal armies for control over the ashes. The barbarians are in the early stages of a Civ game, exploring a dangerous new world and dueling for the best places from which to start a new empire. Everyone else is playing something new, and far more volatile, than a traditional Total War game. There's really only one faction that is still playing traditional Total War: the Sassanids in Persia. The trick is making sure you don't get knocked off-course by competing powers, but everyone is basically playing the same game.Īttila doesn't work like that. Typically, Total War follows a predictable arc: start small, make a few strategic expansions, leverage your newfound power into an empire. It's not that Attila's a throwback to the good old days of Total War, however.
When I went to bed at night, I was thinking about the offensive waiting for me the next morning. Early morning gave way to lunchtime in a blur of hand-to-hand combat between thousands of medieval warriors, careful court politics, and the painstaking work of empire-building. When I revisited Attila's add-on campaign The Last Roman and tried out the Age of Charlemagne campaign, it felt like I'd fallen into a time-warp to 2003, when I played Medieval: Total War day and night to the detriment of sleep and school.
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