The Western Roman XP might seem like a trash can fire! No historian has ever explained this time period so accurately and in one sentence. Every modern historian much teach this time period with those exact words. As an armchair historian for over 20 years I salute. Thanks for the lol.
Actually, I have found that it can be made a lot easier by holding Britain. It´s tough at the start, but well worth it ultimately, because it protects Iberia and Africa from the northern tribes, who usually focus on Britain first. The African Provinces are not that difficult to hold, because Roman infantry and town structure are both ideal for defense. As for your other borders, abandon the region east of Italy (Pannonia?), but hold your line in France. Try to persuade hordes to take one of your regions. It will stop them from moving, keep them at peace with you, and they will even take care of your rebellions. When your front has been stabilized, you can send a few armies to destroy them at your leisure. From there, it´s just a matter of slowly conquering everything.
@@AndysTake Also, if you can, try to build Imperial Libraries in your rich provinces, mainly Italy and Africa, while you still can (you lose that ability as you advance your tech). Basically, if you can build 5 Imperial Libraries, you get a 100% research speed bonus, which is absolutely insane. It´s especially useful to get faster access to the technologies that reduce corruption and increase taxes and happiness. You get a huge advantage over the other nations, and won´t really suffer on the military side, because all you need is Legio and Comitatensis Spears.
Attila's campaign really does feel like the best iteration of the Total War formula at least in terms of difficulty. Every other Total War game to date just is waaaay too easy and trivial on the overmap. They should lean more towards its standard for how public order/sanitation works in future, but I doubt they will because people will complain.
Attila was my first Total War and pretty much the only one I’ve played. I do think the overmap is too complex. Having to remind yourself to deal with Diplomacy, Politics, Public Order, Food, Squalor, Agents, Building, Technology and only THEN your army, is a bit much. Too stressful. Not to forget all the minute upgrades to armies and characters. And there’s so much more unnecessary bulk. Perhaps if the UI would lend itself more towards these things, make a better overview. Oh and that’s without mentioning the horrible controls on Total War games in general when it comes to battles. Maneuvering units in the way I want is pretty much impossible.
Yeah, back in the shogun 2 and rome 2 days, I used to occasionally use the "use agents to ferment a revolution, let the rebels take the province then take the province from the rebels" strategy to snipe regions from other nations without declaring war. I've tried the same strats in the newer warhammer games... it's basically impossible. Even for the player, it's generally hard to get to the point where public order is an issue, and with the AI cheats, I barely ever see AI with less than like +15 happiness per turn.
As a hardcore ATW gamer and modder, 2000+ h withouth counting modding, love this video. TW fanbase was and still is giving absolutely no respect and love for this masterpiece. Yes, it isnt perfect, sure, but it is hands down the best TW ever, the most complete, the most immersive, the most longlasting. Imho the immersive strategic game Ive ever played on PC.
Thank you so much for saying that, Alvise, means a lot! Total War Attila is an amazing Total War title, and just might be my favourite ever not counting nostalgia and for-its-time factors. Absolutely love it!
I spent way more time in Attila than any other Total War combined. The DLCs, the mods and even the base campaign with its massively interesting time period might be one of the most fascinating total war games.
Sorry for the copy and paste I have heard the critics regarding optimisation. I really want to buy this game but I really need a solid 60 FPS+ at very high/ultra. Is this game fixed? Will I get a constant 60FPS+ with my rig? CPU - Intel I7 10700k Mobo - ASUS Rog Strix Z490-E Gaming Intel ATX Motherboard GPU - Gigabyte 3080 Gaming OC RAM - 16gb Corsair Dominator Ram 3200mhz Based on your response, I will be buying or not.
Attila is one of the hardest in the series and that is why I love it. It's very immersive and the graphics are still great. Sorry.. but Rome 1 and medieval 2 are eye sores at this point and the battle controls and AI are brutal to go back too. I'm not sure why this game is always ranked low in the various youtubers ranking lists. I'd put it up in the S tier for sure.
What? Medieval 2 has still a perfectly enjoyable graphic compartment, for Rome 1 there is a remastered version and both are way more fluid and stable than Attila
@@K.Marx48it has a charming, nostalgic and unique graphic style. But objectively the graphics don't hold up today. They're pretty outdated by modern standards.
Immersive AF. That time when I saw if you raze a province, the game actually visualize your army razing the entire province through giant fire alongside horrific screams. Immediately I thought, "This game is for me" Not to mention the ever changing climate and beautiful artstyle aesthetics (UI, unit portraits, dark theme, everything !). Best campaign.
Attila is mechanically the best Total war game. It's features end campaign mechanics make the game really immersive, it's such a pity that these mechanics were never ported to Rome 2 by CA as Rome 2's time setting is more my cup of tea. Imagine the depth Rome 2 could have with attila's political system and sieges. Guess best I can do is wait until the ancient empires mod is fully fleshed out.
Rome 2 has the politics of Attila after the updates, except marriages between factions I believe. Also Rome 2 with DEI mod is probably even better and more complex than Attila
"And I beheld a black horse and he that sat upon him had a pair of scales in his hand..." Attila was born. All knelt before him. For they knew, that he would devour the earth and set on fire the foundations of the mountains Attila was born, from darkness and despair.
It's really just the perfect point in history for a game like this. There's the corpse of the Roman empire, you can either reanimate it and restore it's glory, or be one of the many factions looking to take a bite of it for yourself. There's the nomadic factions, shaking up the static total war settlement-hopping formula. And then there's Attila's faction, putting constant pressure on everyone and exacerbating all of these scenarios. The fact that you can play any of these from any of the different sides is astounding. I think Attila was just released too soon after Rome 2
The game mechanics of TW: Attila is so unique, intriguing and fun. You basically have this huge world map where it feels like the world is coming to a bleak apocalyptic end because to the lack of food due to the continuous shrinking amount of arable land, and what arable lands that remains is fiercely contested among every faction who is all racing to secure said lands for themselves. Overall, the goal here shifted to just bracing yourself for survival rather than eliminating or subduing everyone else.
Bare hyggelig ;) What makes you love Attila so much? Obviously I’ve stated my opinions, but I just think it’s so well done, so beautiful, and so unique in its challenges and mechanics. Absolutely love it.
@@AndysTake Da burde vi begge være i sengs :P Jeg liker Attila fordi den i bunn og grunn gjorde alt Rome 2 gjorde, bare 1000 ganger bedre. Det og at jeg fikk se mer enn en svart skjerm. Det er virkelig noe majestetisk med å se en kavalerienhet fullstendig dampveivalse fronten til motstanderen
This game is like a Carved Diamond for me. over 2,600hrs played (its sad i know) it's one of the best total war games i've ever played. Rome 2 (683hrs played) was captivating but attila really aces that dark eerie Apocalyptic feeling which i find really nice! The battles also have a deep connection to me when i play, like i'll genuinely feel sympathetic towards my army losses just bcz of the atmosphere this game has and the ratification of imaginative manifestation
Not sad , its amazing! I always develop a deep connection with my favourite Generals and become sad when they die of old age or in Battle , do a quick salute then avenge them by razing the killing faction to the ground. No prisoners taken there
@@Freddex4LYF yeah I get what you mean , I'm playing a historically accurate mongol invasion on the 1212mod , and if one of my khan's dies I will stick to history and absolutely destroy the faction to the ground , also I have a strong connection with faction leaders and heirs , like you but also cus its a pain in the ass if they die 😂
Attila is one of my favorite total war games. i didnt really like the warhammer games, nor did i care for ancient china, so i never got three kingdoms. so i played the hell out of atilla for the longest time. the viking factions are by far my favorite.
Should try fire and swords mod it's great I have a unit pack submod for it as well all factions rosters increased added new shield patterns to them as well some were created by me others were from another modder and in-game shield patterns
@@thomasgagnon2893 I have was playing it other day last alliance mod lord of the rings one it's in beta development I think but crashed when I ended turn other day may play again have to report the crashes
Attila is still pretty unique, in that by playing the any of the Roman Empires(especially western), you have to throw out everything you know about playing 4x strategy games. You start at almost max level in size, this is where other games would deem you victorious. But forget about it, you cannot save your outee provinces, they will get sacked, razed and conquered, you have to know what to give up and where to concentrate your thinly spread armies. The legendary difficulty is much about the player getting their mental mood into this sort of defeatist attitude at the very start. And this is hard since most strategy players will destroy their own faction immediately by putting their armies against the large barbarian hordes at the very start. In this game you have to learn to lose first, then when you have been pushed back to smaller but more easily defended positions, then you can start building armies to take back what you lost.
Drfinetely one of the best total war games of all time. I've been playing Rome 2 with the divide et impera mod, Attila total war and Rome remastered and I think that Attila is the best one.
Theyre tough 😂😂 As WRE I had 3-4 20's armies by the alp border to encircle and autoresolve every hun battle theyre impossible for me to beat on normal 😂💪
@@Freddex4LYF you cant effectviely fight 15horse archers especially if opponnent (AI) micro them all the time :D only time I played field battle against huns with similiar army size was when playing alans - bcs they got way better alte game cavalry. Still it was pain.
Thank you man! Great video. Total war attila are always one of my fav total war series. Hopefully CA well attention this game again like them do it for rome 2.
My pleasure, man, glad you liked it! Exactly, I truly hope this game gets some love, especially when so many are playing it still because of mods, but I do love the original campaigns as well. Hope you’ll subscribe for more! :)
@Andy's Take Already subscribed :D. I like original game too and AOC campaign. Attila maybe too profound for new player, need time to dig it. I like attila more then rome 2 cause you can been like wolfpack, hunt then burning or sacking then leave XD. Hun are really badass and cool. Rome 2 are good but if rome 2 have attila system would have more good game experience for me. I play and love both anyway XDD.( Visigoths from attila and Baktria from rome2 ) Thank you again. This video are truly great. Hope more people come see this video.
@@xxx16230 Thank you, that’s amazing. Yeah, Attila is better than Rome 2 in almost every aspect, even though Rome 2 has a very cool time period as well! I actually haven’t tried Bactria, are they cool?
Thank's for this Andy and all other reviews you post. Great work! I thought I'll give you a hint on a absolute outstanding Attila mod, "Ancient Empires". Others has "rewied" it, but it deserves a deeper analyzes and a lot more attention. After playing TW games since Medieval (yes the first one) and a huge bunch of mods, I have rarely been so impressed. AE is just more intelligent in almost all aspects. I have played the DEI mod for Rome a lot, and thought that was the greates one. But now I feel AE actually surpasses it.... Of course it is hard to tell. One have to play an awful lot to be certain that a mod behaves for all factions etc. But watch out for this one, it seems to be something special.
Thank you so much, Rune! I do know about AE, and it’s indeed really good. I’m considering covering it sometime in the future, just don’t know when yet ;) thank you so much for watching!
This is a pretty good video. As an owner of Rome 2 TW with all expansions and DLC, modded with DEI I've been weighing in on the decision to switch to Atilla TW if the Ancient Empires mod improves the experience over the lack luster Rome 2 Grand campaign starting at 270 BC. Video deserves more views.
@@haideramvs3891 - Don't want to identify myself based on location. There's a niche group of people in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh that play TW (including mods). Don't expect to gel with them.
Great review. Personally I much prefer Attila over Rome 2. I must recomand 2 mods. Terminus Imperium, great overhaul mod (not very historical but fun), it adds factions and splits the WRE and ERE into province (client states or military allies with their capital). Also Imperium Praetoria adds a new military building and new units (better more traditional roman units) for WRE and ERE.
Thank you, dude, great to hear you enjoyed it! I gotta say, I too prefer Attila over Rome 2. I just love the Rome 2 map tho, it’s just so colourful and beautiful, while Attila’s is more dark and serious. I just wish they made Rome 2 like they did Attila, having governors is just so good.
i also liked atilla a lot more than rome 2, but then i found out about this mod called divide et impera for rome 2. if you havent heard of it i highly recommend it. its a complete overhaul of the game that makes it much more realistic. it also makes the game much more difficult, which for me was very enjoyable because we all know how easy rome 2 was.
I can't call myself a total war fan, as I've never spent more than an hour on attila. Looking to jump right into it very soon, after I finish my campaign as venice in Tsardoms Total War! Highly recommended BTW.
Tsardom by far has the best map in any tw war game. Eb 2 and third age follow and even those don't come close. Newer map designs though I appreciate the detail it looks like everything is molded with plato. Tsardom looks like they took real satellite GPS image and hyperimposed them on their terrain textures and blended them in perfectly. Innovative, sensible approach which I find maddening bigger companies fail to achieve with all the connections they have.
@@AndysTake I really like the diversity of the factions. Love using the horse archers as the Huns. Love the Alans or Lakhimids for their strong melee and shock cav. Also like playing as the Alamans, Ebdanians, WRE or one of the Slavic tribes if I want a more infantry focused faction. In Charlemagne, Mercia and Avars are my favourites. Anyways, I really like your video. It truly is an underappreciated game.
Thanks, man. I actually have a pop filter, but maybe I’m sitting too close or something, but thank you for the tip! And happy to hear you liked the video, that means a lot!
I’ve played many of the total wars titles. Atilla is by far my favorite. Still play the campaign to this day and have expanded my interest into this chaotic time period.
@@AndysTake sadly no I’m waiting a bit on the extra funds but I’ll be getting it this week! Not sure which faction I would prefer I think I want to play them all haha
@@AndysTake yeah from what I’ve seen of the western empire I like the campaign start. It reminds me of a galactic conquest campaign on empire at war. Especially thrawns revenge mod. You really have to decide which systems to sacrifice at the beginning and then fortify your choke points
I think i made it all the way to 0 kills in field battle, 40 would be good on average :D But when defending, crossbows can easily get 300+ kills constantly.
One of the best total war games ever made hands down if not the best of them all, unfortunatly totally let down by CA who prefered to work on more lucrative games (warhammer which is not my cup of tea and three kingdoms, this one didn't convince me at all tbh) only 1-2 months after attila's release... The campaign is more interesting in terms of challenge and objectives, the atmosphere and cinematics are just superior, even to Rome 2 (that I love as well) I have an advice for every person who wants to play a very good immersive strategy game : just go and play it ! don't listen to those who prefer to play campaign where nothing happens nor those who don't like it because "romans are weaker" (they are so strong and cool to play btw) :)
The last Total War where I bought all the DLCs, played all campaigns and easily put hundreds of hours into. Shame it never got more optimized and more expanded...could have been the pinacle of Total War. Still, one of the best of the series.
Hi, you know what the best mods are for the vanilla version of Rome 2 and Attila Total war, like a list with all the best mods of now, because I didn't know which ones were given the exorbitant number of mods.
How did you set this light blur for closer distance? I have set everythinyg to max (DoF, anti aliasing, texture filtering) but only the very background is blurred for me :( Thanks in advance! Great video btw, made me play the game 5 years after having it bought :)
Hey! Awesome to hear, Gergõ! :D I think what you are referring to is a mod I’m using actually. If you’re interested, I have a tutorial video about it. It’s called How to make Total War Attila look next gen in 2021. Feel free to check it out! I hope you’re enjoying the game! :D
The only thing I don't like about Attila is the morale, troops are like eggshells they break easily unlike with Rome where you can have a long ass battle
if I ever get this game, I'm absolutely playing as west Rome, playing as an empire that is in gameplay designed to be attacked on all sides and designed to lose will me feel like I'm fighting fate. And I bet that it is filled with so many uphill battles it will feel like climbing mount Everest.
@@AndysTake I thought about doing radious on Attila but there was a mod on rome 2 that the generals appearance changed based off of rank and the time of year it is summer,fall winter Idk if they have somthing like that though?
I tried but the framerate on the campaign map is attrocious. Completely new modern system btw. If the developers won't bother fixing the performace, then neither will I.
Yes man, I feel you. It’s a shame to cannot play that game on a i9-9900k... it’s like a Lamborghini in water ... useless as fu** 😒 But anyways nice content, just subbed 👍🏻
@@Wowa9305 Dude, thank you so much! Hahaha I love that comparison. Just need CA to optimize this fricking game and it will be one of their absolute best...
My favorite of the new TW games. Campaign is the best, but man, the battles on higher difficulties do piss me off. Insane accuracy of the AI onagers & missile units usually spoils the mood.
yeah Its more like tactical laser navigated onager :D but try that 1212 mod, they nerfed onagers quite a lot and it feels good, considering that it wasnt some crazy doom machines and you would probably shoot further with bow than with springald onager. :D
My only complaint with Attila was the razing mechanic, while it seems cool and historically accurate it essentially destroys large portions of the map and makes them impossible to resettle
As western Rome I'm able to maintain my own territorial integrity via trading the with African tribes in the south and some of the barbs in the north after I defeat the initial Saxon invasion of Britain I can normally rebuild those northern armies like giving them the desired amount of units and then I can play defense while the emperor builds his army and the hier does the same slowly killing off the Germanic barbs long before attila arrives
Rome's glory peiods are honestly better covered by other mods than Ancient Empires. I want that mod to work so bad, but the performance in battles are just awful sadly. AI being ridiculous and battles being laggy to very high degrees are two of the major problems. I would recommend FIRST TRIUMVIRATE mod instead. That actually works.
I loved playing the new Persians online my friends are like dude we should take the Roman’s out I said we need to take our time with Rome, in time I said what’s the rush, I have white fucking Huns near my doorstep. I said the best my vassals can do is slow down the movement. Of the hun army until I send a probing force followed by an ambushing force to lure them away from my allies. They said how can you defeat their shock Calvary with just basic units? I said I’m leading them to the river their is a river bank with only two ways in just hope you don’t encounter a flanking force they said. I said even if I do re-enactments depending don’t get deployed quick enough. So I gambled my entire campaign into this battle one misstep is the end for me. I said they said best of luck. So I did what I said lead them away from my allies they followed near the river bank separating the two armies away from its mother migration tents. And yea faces off with two armies on the river bank. I mean it’s quite realistic, I stopped them from being able to use their shock Calvary they didn’t flank me they sent their men into two directions most of it was slowed down by my two spear units on the other side and most of them got wiped out by my main force as they came across the other side to meet up with the reinforcements the long way lol while I demolished their forces I simply went across the other side and repeated this process with just spear and slingers with only a single row of Calvary which I then sent to the other side to clean up the arches. I destroyed the Huns in 10 turns. Would of been more if I had set backs. They are like dude fuck I said I know my spear infratry wouldn’t had held out much longer and ranks would of broken if the calvery didn’t run first even with a front on attack they were something els. I would not have defeated them properly in open field at all with their speed and with basics unit in the field, without research I mean I could of at wha cost though the Roman’s I focussed on allies and vassals to probe the Roman’s forces then scorched earth some of their farming provinces which forces the person to actually downgrade other settlements in order to keep up food supply. This tactic is effective in the campaign as I realised they will send most of their forces against you but if you have players online the process is quick an easy ambushes are easy as I always keep a probing force an another in ambush, mode as their spies only see one army, always assassinate spies so they don’t uncover your ambushing army. Lead Rome on a constant chase don’t occupy scorch earth and occupy don’t face then directly especially online players not until you have upgraded, as you can control their movements and where they will go next. Take out ports food production first as this will force people to spend money to upgrade farm settlements and take their attention away from standing armies, takes them longer to build men cost then finances on the campaign. Which it turn takes away money for forces chances of rebellion in the empire is certain through how many turns the biggest struggle in the campaign is power within your own families, make sure to always get the support of lower supporting generals within your faction always discredit the ones with higher support include adopt them to strengthen ties sfter their power has been lowered or make sure loyalty is up.
Rome 2 is what sold me on the Total War franchise and I loved it but when I moved onto Attila I just couldn’t get into it and now every time I try to go back to it I just click around the faction selection screen and then go play something else. When I have played I tried at the franks but just couldn’t figure it out. I’d love to get into it more if anyone can give me a really fun and fairly easy faction to play as
There's only one thing missing in Attila and that's the hold position button. Its hard to control battle lines in a big battle when your units suddenly chase a retreating enemy units and then the most annoying one is when your missile units goes to the front line and you need to reposition them again. For me it makes the game unrealistic.
@@georgetrillana5108 simply because is not a button but an ability: it is very high tear ability for spears and swords. They simply want you play harder, get crazy and shout against every faction that try to kill you. I think they reached the spot didnt they? 😆
Hi There I have heard the critics regarding optimisation. I really want to buy this game but I really need a solid 60 FPS+ at very high/ultra. Is this game fixed? Will I get a constant 60FPS+ with my rig? CPU - Intel I7 10700k Mobo - ASUS Rog Strix Z490-E Gaming Intel ATX Motherboard GPU - Gigabyte 3080 Gaming OC RAM - 16gb Corsair Dominator Ram 3200mhz Based on your response, I will be buying or not.
Hi, Jamie! No, sadly, you won’t be getting a solid 60 fps. You have an amazing rig, and can probably run it better than most, but I can’t guarantee that, sadly. However, Attila prefers Intel CPUs, so you might be in luck. If I were you, I would totally check it out though!
11:41: if you dislike time 2" I actually do like it, but it freezes my PC everytime I play it for more than an hour. So I just okay ancient empires which is basically Europa barbororum lite
I think I mentioned it very briefly towards the end? But yeah, I just havent gotten around to playing it that much and it doesnt have a dedicated campaign yet. But a very good mod for what it is!
