Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia - Circenn Let's Play 

edit: Im not saying the game looks bad.. However, these smaller sagas shud be more complex. Why cant we sail our units up rivers only to have them ambushed and have to dock on the edges of that river and fight it out in the woods up hill? We could customise units and their skills in battle (why we couldn't do this in Warhammer is literally beyond me), appoint captains, customise forts and cities to play to our advantage. In keeping to the old formulae, your restricting yourself. This most likely is to do with the speed of release. Changing aspects of the game are tested in the games themselves and not tested before release with a long development time. There is a distinct lack of innovation regarding these games.

I am so worried about combat animations. Its seems ''just stab who is in front you'' guys has come back.

Nice cheat-mode enabled at 8:03 in the top right corner of the screen: AI factions bankrupt: 1

The campaign map really looks gorgeous up there in Scotland. Great work on that!

Really love the art work!

I saw the Angry Joe video of this and it looks really cool. It looks to have a lot of real history in it.

You know the one thing I hope they carry over from warhammer is the difference in play style/unit composition. I think that's what made warhammer a great game. it's what why the sales did so well.

Emphasis on the detail, that 's what we see as promised.Well done CA!

At 4:39, there was a character portrait with a blue crown. What does the blue crown mean?

can't wait

Will this include Ikit Claw for the Saxons?

muh stone of destiny

Well I know who I'm going to play with first.

So my name is pronounced like quirquen with Q/K in gaelic? o_o I always tougth it was circenn like with S/C in spanish/catalan.

Nice to see some good siege maps after the absolute disgrace that were the Warhammer siege maps.

i wish this was past or around 1066, this is too close to attila

Give the units some trousers man...

There were no crossbow in the UK until 13th century

you made like 3 new shield designs ? cuz everywhere i look i see the same shield pattern over and over again

I hope to support the Arabic language, does this dream come true

Yawn

I hope we can play the multiplay kampagin with more than 2 player! :D

Absolutely love the art style, sorry to say I will have to wait for a sale.

Will you guys bring some nice viking battle music into the game?

viking was never used colloquially to identify the danes.

Please tell me it won't take days or even weeks to release blood again.

This is not a 35€ game

This game screams Game of Thrones Mod lol

Terrible game. We want Three kingdoms gameplay/news!

Can't wait to make the kingdom of ALBA!

and then theres me waiting for warhahammer 3 news or norsca :P

Saga's should be time where you can push boundaries of total war and actually implement some new mechanics for a change! This will be one of the worst total war games, so much is removed, there are no agents (spys, champions) no forced march/raiding stances, no religions, no mercenary or AOR, no naval units only those land units turn into naval. SO much is cut out when you should be used the SAGAs as a testbed for the main historical releases!!!!

OK WE GOT IT, IT'S ABOUT TO RELEASE GODDAMMIT! Can we now know something more about 3kingdoms or, hell, even Warhammer 2 next dlc pls? I just want to see something that is not copypasted from an old game in terms of battle mechanics.

Not gonna buy the game, sorry. I have bought Warhammer, Empire, Rome 2 Attila and medieval 2 and I can say I enjoyed medieval the most. The way you are going isn’t for me, especially the lack of variety and small features like automatic regeneration ( no need to retrain), needing to have a general in each army and lack of armour upgrading that make these late release too arcade like.

I played all the factions on Very Hard difficulty, but Circenn is bloody ridiculous. You start off with two alliances, and two very powerful factions declare war on both of them and utterly crush them quickly. In a 20 v 20 fight, Circenn is the only faction I found impossible to win against Vikings. Total bullshit. It's a boring TW game anyway, almost any other one is better.

You could buy this game.. or just go play a better game like medieval 2 that has more mechanics a systems that are fun and battles that dont last 5 minutes with 5 minute loading time. Or crusader kings two which does pretty much everything better than this game will ever do

These unique mechanics for each faction seem both gimmicky and arcadie. I'm really not a fan of Warhammer type campaign mechanics for the sake of making the factions seem different. Like, why do Mercia get hordes when no one else does? Why can't Alfred silence people who question his right to rule?

Um did may be a little random to ask. But well be able to build other religious builds beside churches?Also will be other religious beside Christian and Norse?

I love the art style of the intros.

So there is no controlling in the soldiers in this game? Just watch a cutscene? No thanks.,

Please make Three Kingdoms with the quality of Shogun 2. Not like this.

When are you are you going to do totalwar on other devices

9:02 Shrek confirmed.

why waste time playing normal/normal?...

Please, return interfase frome attila

hey ... when the f will there be a new update to Total War Warhammer 2? You promised the Nords long time ago. Nothing have happened yet.

This is attila right?

CA had to concentrate making Warhammer II and Three kingdoms without saga

These villages, cities that are attacked are empty, it is a pity that there is no added population that walks around the town. Why will not they add population to the city, when the battle takes place on the map? In Rome total war 1 you could see your city and there were also people in the city.

This game could be so good! I'm just curious if DLC is planned for this, as the map could be used for other eras.

The reasons i'm not going to buy this game is : 1. It has no new audio assets. Apart from the intro OST in the video, everything else is recycled from previous installments. Have you ever played your favorite song on repeat until you hate it? this is exactly how i feel when i listen to any audio from this game. 2. You haven't addressed any AI improvements. Will the AI just cheat and start creating DOOM Stacks out of thin air? Do i have to chase enemy stacks across my HOLE empire while they sack and pillage my villages and cities, creating huge public penalties and war weariness because they will not stand and face my Armies straight on? 3.Game performance. The game slows down Dramatically and sometimes it crashes while the AI turns are calculated. Especially in the LATE game(+50 turns). I hope you take the time to optimize ToB. 4. A lot of the new campaign mechanics feel punishing . The main reason Total war games are fun is because i can conquer the hole map with a thriving economy and my formidable Armies. Instead of getting tools to achieve this goal i'm given a vague and counter intuitive loyalty system that i have to constantly babysit so i don't get civil war. So much micro managing for so little reward and very harsh punishment if i choose to neglect it. 5. Diplomacy The hole thing feels very cryptic and counter intuitive. Why does the AI not accepting a mutual beneficial trade agreement ? Even if they like me a lot they will turn down defensive pacts and peace agreements for no apparent reason. The hole concept should be thrown away and be replaced with a I owe U system. Much simpler and more apparent on how it works. I did something for you , you do something for me.

I hope creative assembly realizes that what may make or break this game is its launch. I sincerely hope that this game runs smoother than Attila or Rome 2.

I'm sure I'll be very excited for this game....if CA hasn't made Attila already. They just feel too similar overall.

Can't wait for the game. Especially that Soundtrack in the intro.

I have loved Total War since playing Medieval and Rome back in the early noughties, but this game really does not grab me at all-mainly because I am not that historically interested in the Viking period of Britain and the homogeneity of the factions/units. But I don't blame Creative Assembly at all for choosing this, as lots of people were clamouring for a Viking/Dark Ages TW game in the forums for over a decade-now they have what they wanted - the same goes for China and Three Kingdoms but at least that is something a lot more interesting for me and could prove to be completely different to anything we've seen before. What I would love is if they kept mechanics that were really successful from previous installments such as the view settlement on battlemap mechanic and I want a return to the length of battles from Medieval II. Since Rome 2, battles are over within 3-5 minutes on average. It's really annoying not having that feeling of accomplishment and epicness from winning a battle-In Medieval 2 you cared about your men and you could really feel the weight of the clashing between units, now it all feels very 'arcady' and rushed. Nevertheless, despite my grievances, I love Total War and I cannot wait to see what they have in store for us in the coming years. One can only dream of a Game Of Thrones Total War spanning Westeros and Essos once the Saga is finished on TV/Books

Man, can't hardly wait to play this beauty!!! =D

Are we going to get a Wessex playthough at some-point

three kingdoms

Is it just me, or is there too much border gore?

As a Viking, I will be playing the most Vikingest faction first.

Keep these vids rolling!

do the vikings next plz

Looks ok, I guess?

Will their be a blood and gore DLC? I'm really not that interested in the game otherwise

meh.

Faroe Islands, Shetland Islands, Jersey, Quernsey, High town and St. Anne are all missing. All Islands played major role of constant invasion of britania. please consider. Thanks.

the voice acting and music seem good. which is a relief and a massive improvement from Rome 2 and Atilla

Will there be any other viking faction expect dublin and northumbria?

ITT: whiny fantasy players

Wenn will teh Game come out?

I have not seen one video on RU-vid, showing how this game performs on Ryzen. That's not good.

And more importantly, will there be again a buyable blood mod?

This isn't Norsca CA, so close yet so far.

I don't care that much about the campaign I never play it in total war games I only play Online Battles like 2v2 or 1v1

Yes, but what about Ragnar?

Don't buy this game, it's a scam. It is a platform for a cash shop. Wait 2 years till modders fix it. There are better games out there.

pahleeezzzz let all the pre-order people play the early access game! stop pumping out videos you already have my sheckles let me play!!

What? I don't think that anyone in Britain, except vikings, could really move their entire army by sea. Some english kingdoms could build a few ships, but it would not be enough. And i newer heard that Scotland had ships. In this period there was a very different style of warfare. English kingdoms had greater armies, but they were not mobile enough to catch smaller viking army, because vikings most of the time escaped the battle by the ships and raid less defended settlements. And you showing us viсe versa. You could create really different and memorable style of playing for every kingdom only using history, but i don't think you even thought about it. I thought sagas would be more closer to historical period, but it seems they are as much fantasy as Warhammer series.

I jus hope to god this is optimized for a regular computer. I don’t want to need a 8gig video card to play this

We need real faces on the family tree for a better immersion! Please don' t release it with those pictures. I need to know which woman my King is going to marry ahaja

Is Jorvik (York) gonna be under Nordic control at launch considering most of the isles are thriving monetarily and happy under danelaw at this point in time? How is the public order handled seeing as people were happy under danelaw? Will there be a disadvantage to Saxons holding Norse/danelaw territories and vice versa? Is the Poor management of Dublin by the Norse gonna be obvious as well? How will the Norse-gaels be represented, it seems like here they are represented more as invaders than peaceful settlers which is troublesome. Oh and one final question, will we get proper unit cards with actual portraits?

Too many Celts, not enough vikings.

Use drop the ball on this one, what an absolute waste

So does this count as historical or fantasy since there are fictional characters mentioned right away in the intro?