r/historicaltotalwar

Fell in love with the series during my childhood, watching videos on Rome 1 and Medieval 2. Years later I ended up playing them, before eventually switching to the Warhammer series.

Recently I’ve had a real craving for the historical titles again, but I fear I’ve been become too acclimated to the modern mechanics of Warhammer 3. I’m interested in which titles you guys recommend! I’ve been thinking between Rome 2 and Attila, Attila mainly for the Dawnless Days mod. But I’m very open to the vanilla experience any title might have to offer. I’ve been thinking about Thrones and Troy as well.

Edit: I would also enjoy some fun sieges as well. Warhammer 3 sieges can be quite lackluster, and I’m looking to have some of these epic defenses that made me fall in love with the series all those years ago. I’ve heard Thrones has excellent sieges, I’m just not sure about the rest of that game.

Having never played Total War Rome 1 I have sunk 14 hours into the remake and desperately need a way to slow down battles. Units break after only seconds of melee even before I can rotate my cavalry around, and I find that battles usually just end up an ugly mess of cascading routs before I can even understand whats happening. As a result battles feel either one sided towards me or just unfair and confusing. Even my Roman heavy infantry (princeps) seem to fold instantly at mid cavalry charging them face on while braced. Everywhere I go online seems to blame Rome TW 2 for this issue but to be honest I found battles there a lot more tactically sound and interesting. Is there a mod or some setting I can change (its not on arcade). This combined with the confusing UI is really souring a game that I wanted to love and still think I will with the right mods or help.

PS: I have hundreds of hours in medieval 2 and Empire total war, I enjoy the older historical titles I just cannot understand how this combat pace is enjoyable.