Excellent game, if you're into Total War this one doesn't disappoint. Diplomacy is hard as I imagine it would be in those ages, people take time to trust you and relationships are fragile so when you decide to execute 472 Prisoners from a previous battle make sure its a foreign opponent and not a one sharing your own borders. I learned this the hard way; Playing as Mercia (Age of Charlemagne DLC) thought I'd send a message to my neighbours for declaring war and taking one of my settlements. I was the more powerful faction I had better tech and more numbers in my armies yet upon executing 472 prisoners I immediately became the most hated person in the North East former allies were disgusted and declared war, within a few turns I was surrounded and losing the campaign it was as the name suggested; "Total War".

The enemy acted with surgical precision capturing specific settlements that produced food and sent spies to incite unrest among my people.. One by one my settlements were erupting in rebellion and shortly after being captured by enemy forces, a few more turns passed and I was able to secure peace with one faction enabling me to rebuild my decimated forces. By this time I was seriously annoyed with what used to be a relatively successful campaign turned upside down into a losing streak I tried my hardest to recover my settlements but failed miserably, all because I executed a few hundred barbarians of the same blood lol.. Turns out they also don't respond well to you amassing a higher tech force of shock troops and raiding the newly captured settlements only to raze them one by one executing every prisoner you encounter. This is by far the hardest way to make friends in TW:Attila; BUT has to be one of the most fun at the same time, feeling like a king, taking a settlement and burning it to the ground has to be my new favourite method of uniting the tribes into one Kingdom. 10/10 would raze North-Eastern Europe again - Definitely worth it's price. I don't even have to mention the graphics but 10/10 physically burning a village to the ground with flaming arrows while in battle is priceless lol.. (fire lowers morale, why wouldn't you take advantage of burning every building) It's a beautiful game, one of the best releases if you're not a total historian and just like to watch the world burn, TW: Attila is what's missing in your life ☺

Excellent game, if you're into Total War this one doesn't disappoint. Diplomacy is hard as I imagine it would be in those ages, people take time to trust you and relationships are fragile so when you decide to execute 472 Prisoners from a previous battle make sure its a foreign opponent and not a one sharing your own borders. I learned this the hard way; Playing as Mercia (Age of Charlemagne DLC) thought I'd send a message to my neighbours for declaring war and taking one of my settlements. I was the more powerful faction I had better tech and more numbers in my armies yet upon executing 472 prisoners I immediately became the most hated person in the North East former allies were disgusted and declared war, within a few turns I was surrounded and losing the campaign it was as the name suggested; "Total War". The enemy acted with surgical precision capturing specific settlements that produced food and sent spies to incite unrest among my people.. One by one my settlements were erupting in rebellion and shortly after being captured by enemy forces, a few more turns passed and I was able to secure peace with one faction enabling me to rebuild my decimated forces. By this time I was seriously annoyed with what used to be a relatively successful campaign turned upside down into a losing streak I tried my hardest to recover my settlements but failed miserably, all because I executed a few hundred barbarians of the same blood lol.. Turns out they also don't respond well to you amassing a higher tech force of shock troops and raiding the newly captured settlements only to raze them one by one executing every prisoner you encounter. This is by far the hardest way to make friends in TW:Attila; BUT has to be one of the most fun at the same time, feeling like a king, taking a settlement and burning it to the ground has to be my new favourite method of uniting the tribes into one Kingdom. 10/10 would raze North-Eastern Europe again - Definitely worth it's price. I don't even have to mention the graphics but 10/10 physically burning a village to the ground with flaming arrows while in battle is priceless lol.. (fire lowers morale, why wouldn't you take advantage of burning every building) It's a beautiful game, one of the best releases if you're not a total historian and just like to watch the world burn, TW: Attila is what's missing in your life ☺