#Total war attila faction guide series#

Richard Aldridge - senior then lead designer for Warhammer, Warhammer II and its DLC And as a player, my fondest memories are of the Taira in Total War: Shogun 2's Rise of the Samurai campaign, because it's super-hard but tightly balanced. I find that very interesting as a designer. It feels like there's a lot of narrative around you and your tribe - you abandon your settlement and struggle for survival a bit, and then you find your new lands. It's not a single faction, but I really like the horde factions in Attila, where you can pack your things and seek your fortune somewhere else. Leif Walter - senior designer for Total War: Three Kingdoms And then after that, you feel like you could maybe take on the Eastern Roman Empire, and maybe if you're feeling super-dangerous, the West. You can sort of watch the craziness happen while you're over in the east, building up on top of the old Parthian Empire, and then spreading out and seeing how you do. I think it's a good entry point for people in what is quite a difficult game вЂ“ the Sassanids ease you into that world. From a design point of view, I think I really like the Sassanids in Attila. I've completed dozens of campaigns with other factions, just never ever as Uesugi. As a player, I love him, I think he's the coolest character, but as a designer, I think he's probably too hard! But maybe I'm just not that good at Shogun 2. So I started playing as him - and to this day, and I always play on the top difficulty, I have never finished a Shogun 2 campaign as Uesugi. I was delighted when Shogun 2 was announced and they added him as one of the lords. You've put me on the spot, but back in the very beginning, on Shogun 1, I would always play as Uesugi. Peter Stewart - writer on Attila, Warhammer, Warhammer II and Three Kingdoms, QA tester for Rome II And then the Dwarves in Warhammer as well вЂ“ it's just really nice, that feeling where they're smaller units and I almost feel like I know every single Dwarf by name. That was something we hadn't done much before. You are in a losing situation to start with, and have to decide what to sacrifice first вЂ“ contract to be able to expand. I also like, for similar reasons, the Western Roman Empire in Attila. It's a real challenge and super-interesting. They have an absolutely insane starting position вЂ“ you are the biggest, you're the strongest, but you always feel that you're behind the curve, and there's a lot of running around after rebels, and the British are just sending in troops. I like the French in Napoleon's Peninsular campaign. Janos Gaspar - game director on Total War: Three Kingdoms, lead designer for Attila That's quite a formative Total War experience, for me. I love that thing where the tech breaks up in that fashion. You're fighting through and establishing yourself before everything breaks back down again, and you have to deal with the other Romans. Because I always like when there's a technological divide between factions, like swords versus muskets, I love that whole concept - and it's really great to be the Romans, and have these high-ranking Hastati and Triarii as your bulk troops along with your family tree and your generals, fighting Germanic and Gallic barbarians. If I had to pick any one, because as you say there are like a couple of hundred, I really liked playing as the Julii in Rome 1. Simon Mann - senior designer on Three Kingdoms, designer on Attila and Warhammer At a recent hands-on event for Total War: Three Kingdoms, a heinous idea occurred to me: why not confuse and upset all the developers in attendance (plus a couple more over email) by asking them to pick a favourite faction? The results, which involved surprisingly few headbutts, are below. This is providing, of course, the answer in each case is вЂњbetween 100 and 200, depending on whether you include the DLC and think Sicily is a real country.вЂќДЇrom stinky hill tribes through trim Teutonic phalanxes to bawling rivers of undead, Total Warring has certainly come in all shapes and sizes.

#Total war attila faction guide series#

According to an ancient Sussex proverb, there are as many factions in the 20-year-old Total War series as there are sand grains on a beach, as there are angels dancing upon the head of a pin, as there are grenadiers in the armies of his Imperial Majesty Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Co-Prince of Andorra.