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Total War: MEDIEVAL III - Announce Trailer (www.youtube.com)

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is Pharaoh any good? I wanted a TW: Bronze age sort of game for ages, but this one focusing on Egypt really didn't interest me, can you play as Mesopotamians or the Hittites or anything? Or is it pretty much just Egypt?

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes on all accounts. You can play as Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Caananite, Hittite, Aegean, and Sea Peoples factions just off the top of my head in addition to Egypt. The Dynasties update was huge.

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Egyptian major factions: Ramesses III, Seti II, Tausret, Amenmesse

Egyptian minor factions: Merneptah (unique leader), Setnakhte (unique leader), Napata, Baharia, Dungul

Canaanite major factions: Bay and Irsu

Canaanite minor factions: Ugarit, Emar, Byblos, Damascus, Ashkelon

Hittite major factions: Suppiluliuma II and Kurunta

Hittite minor factions: Cimmerians, Sangarian Phrygia, Malidiya, Alashiya (aka Cyprus), Carcemish

Sea People major factions: the Sherden led by Iolaos and the Peleset led by Walwetes

Sea People minor factions: none, but any playable faction can opt into the Path of the Sea Peoples or the Path of the Marauder rather than striving to become Pharaoh/Great King/Wanax/King of the Universe

Mesopotamian major factions: Hanigalbat led by Ninurta-Apal-Ekur, and Babylon led by Adad-Shuma-Usur

Mesopotamian minor factions: Assyria, Igihalkid, Lullubi, Sutu, Shubru

Aegean major factions: Mycenea led by Agammemnon with his brother Menelaus as recruitable general, and Troy led by Priam, with his sons Hector and Paris and his nephew Aeneas as recruitable generals.

Aegean minor factions: now this is getting really interesting. Ithaca, Thrace, Bоeotians, Aeolia and Lycia.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh neat! I wish they had indicated that better, I would've actually got the game when it was relevant. At least's on sale now for like 75% off right now.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well the Dynasties update I mentioned before, where they added much of this variety, came as the end-of-life update for the game; so you probably wouldn't have seen promo for it if you weren't already playing the game.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Ah, I see. Nice of them to just throw in tons of stuff that was probably planned as DLC, until they saw the game's sales. I still don't know why they decided to focus so much on Egypt instead of the bronze age in general, I don't speak for all historical TW fans, but I do prefer the ones with really big maps to paint.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

There's TW: Troy which would be bronze age I think.

[–] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

You can! There's the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Sea Peoples, Mesopotamians, and the Achean and Pelasgians from Troy. All playable factions with a couple of varying amounts of different leaders to pick from in each culture.

There's two versions of Pharaoh, Total War: Pharaoh and Total War: Pharaoh Dynasties.

Dynasties is really good. It added back in a family tree and plays much more like the old historical games than Total War: Pharaoh. It's still very different from the older historical titles though. The resource management got changed around in a big way. It takes a little getting used to, but it makes sense for the most part.

Pharaoh Dynasties has always run surprising well for me, so big battles feel GREAT. The campaign map is very pretty, and I like most of the new mechanics. Sieges aren't total ass like they are in most Total War games, though still not super great.

I find it a much better Bronze age total war than Troy, but I did have fun with Troy Total War as well.