Love carving enemies up with Heavy Infantry? Pick Denmark. Every campaign throws up new problems and offers enough factions to please any gameplay style. Or, worst of all, one of your generals defects and takes either an army, or worse, a whole settlement with him.
Just when you’re about to overwhelm your main rivals, one of your allies suddenly turns on you and strikes at a badly defended settlement. Just when you think you have a faction on the ropes, their last army ambushes you unexpectedly in the woods. The campaigns are also really unpredictable. You can also avoid one of the aspects entirely if you want to focus solely on battles or empire-building (the computer can auto-resolve battles without you playing them, or can set taxes and building policies to govern settlements automatically it you want it to). The mix of siege battles and land conflicts adds plenty of variety to the combat, while random events, bad luck and AI factions lack of predictability can often leave you scrambling to face new threats to your empire. Maybe because the series’ dual style gameplay of having Real Time Battles spliced with turn-based management was so successful. Only its predecessor, Rome: Total War, holds a similar regard in the minds of the fanbase. The fact is, the Creative Assembly has never matched the standards of its mighty fourth entry in the Total War series, and none of the CA’s rivals have offered a compelling alternative either. This game may have been out well over a decade, but despite it’s successors possessing more powerful game engines, better graphics and more varied gameplay, it’s still one of the best RTS’ (Real-Time Strategy) and TBS’ (Turn-based Strategy) games of all-time.
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