Total War Thrones of Britannia in 2021 - Is It Any Good? 

*What do you think of Thrones of Britannia?*

it really is a shame that Thrones has such a small player base, it has some of the best multiplayer siege gameplay of the recent Total War titles

It's always fun to here Alex talk about when he used to do Anglo-Saxon reenactments, or his knowledge of Anglo Saxon fighting

Play as the Vikings and turn against your own country even if The Uk isn’t a thing yet. And by turning on the UK I mean the Anglo Saxons

This game is good despite the support being ended so early.

Honestly I had the same opinion as you when it came out, "meh", and because of that I never really bothered to get it, though watching this kinda made me want to try it, dont think I will buy it, though I definitely want to watch more, would be awesome to see you play a Viking series!

It's a great day when Alex the rambler uploads

Thrones is a pretty good addition to the Saga series. I Enjoyed leading Mercia to victory against all others and forming England, that now comprised of the entirety of Britain and Eire. That said most Total War Players I know are waiting for Creative Assembly to get over the Warhammer fantasy series so they can buckle down and start work on Empire II or Medieval III.

To quote isorrow "What the Hell's wrong with you? Why are you playing Thrones of Britannia?"

Hey alex, if you do empire in 2021 would you want to check out my mod, Empire Extended?

Despite the bad reputation this game had, I really enjoyed playing it. Maybe it's the time period but I genuinly did enjoy game mechanics as well. For sure one of my favourite TW games.

While I don't like Thrones of Britannia, I did enjoy hearing Alex just talk about Anglo-Saxon Britannia. It's like a feature length episode of Rambler's history corner!

The issue is that your bought your PC instead of building it. What a monarchist move. The true proletariat build their PCs.

Empire Total War was my favourite, once you had exterminated the pirate faction of course.

For British viewers on steam Thrones of Britainia is £7.49 on steam, well worth it at that price. This is until sept 30th when the sale ends

Can’t believe that I’m one of 500 people playing thrones 😑 I personally love this game

First of all, I think TOB has some of the best, most interesting and fun to play settlement designs. I think they are severely underrated. Unfortunately this is held back by the fact that the AI is irreparably stupid. They literally just run at you. It makes for painfully repetitive battles. A positive here is that the actual animations, and unit interactions when in combat feel very good, and strikes a nice balance between having defined lines of battle, and areas or times where it can get a little brawly makes the combat at least visually, pretty entertaining. I remember me and my friend doing a co op campaign and I was spectating his siege defense, and towards the end when he routed the enemy, one of his longbows died from the walls and struck one of the fleeing guys in the neck, and the animation and sound was *chefs kiss*. However I have had only one memorable battle in this game and it was because I somehow took my 450 units and defeated an army of nearly 2000. I basically used the Roman technique of rotatating my infantry line to keep them fresh, while my archers slowly picked away at their back line and I calvary sniper their general. It wasn't even the hardest battle I've had in total war, but that's the only memorable one in TOB sadly. Idk why we cant have a game with the settlements of TOB, the battles of shogun 2 and medieval 2, and the politics (with some work) of Rome 2.

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Shieldwall overhaul plus road to valhalla are very good mods for anyone who wants to try it.

I like thrones and have well over 100 hours, but i only actually played in 2020 well after i bought the game as when i bought it it's features were confusing and new to me. So in essence i bought it, hated it, didn't play, played, then loved it. One thing i will say is that it can get monotonous as much of the factions have the exact same playstyle(shield wall and two or three archer units with maybe one or two cav), save when norse factions occasionally have long axes. The sieges are super easy and can be cheesed as you can simply have a unit break through a gate on the opposite side of the settlement of where your main army is, and have them walk to and take the town square. It's a beautiful and fun game with huge potential and gives an in depth look into the early middle ages and especially the history of the british isles, but unfortunately it's potential will probably never be fulfilled due to CA's policies and the way they make their games Edit: I also love how archers were given a bit of a boost with the ability to do critical damage; i felt like they were actually powerful and loved archers in this game. I do wish they had normal sized archer units tho another edit: I genuinely love thrones and think it's design and general style is the direction total war should be going in. Bigger maps, realism, etc. And there were huge quality of life improvements. The one part i don't like is that there wasn't more unit variety (don't get me wrong there was alot but i wish there was more) and that it felt repetitive.

Empire total war was class. shogun 2 was my fav.

the grand campaigns are fun but 90% of the factions start with 20% of the map so its kinda crappy for someone like me who enjoys building up a weak faction to the strongest

Thrones is probably my favourite of all the Total Wars, I'm not really sure why all the hate? Maybe people from outside the UK aren't interested in the setting?

the series peaked with Medieval 2 for me, never been able to get into another one since even though I buy them all, always seem to go back to the Medieval 2

I have had fun with this game to be fair. Mostly Irish ancestry so I like playing the Mide campaign every now and then. Only completed 1 campaign though and that was an Irish/Welsh co-op

Try this with the Bran Campaign AI mod and it is a freaking brutal and bloody experience!

ToB was pretty great, but it suffered badly from folks not recognizing that it was a Saga title and not a full release. It used innovative mechanics, had great sieges, and allowed the Welsh to kick out the heathen Germans and Norse and reunite the Romano-British people under a latter-day Arthur. It also didn't offer all that much replayability due to the close focus on a small geographic area with limited factions. The end-game crisis of a random invasion was pretty solid, too. It shared a lot of good features with Attila, actually, and suffered in some similar ways to bad hype and lack of further support. I'd rank it as my fourth favorite TW game, after Attila, Medieval 2, and Barbarian Invasion, and actually ahead of the Warhammer games (which are probably the most replayable, but aren't actually the best experience).

Actually Thrones of Britannia is really good ever since they fixed the issues and provided decent updates. It has a very good rpg system (whatever you do affects the skills of your generals and politician, it has the BEST audio features in the entire franchise: The chants of the soldiers, the audio of marching soldiers, the epic soundtrack that gives you the feeling that it is a life or death battle..etc To be fair thrones of britannia could have become the jewel of the franchise like 3K but unfortunately the developers decided to not include various missing core features in my opinion.. No forced marches, no ambushes, no intricate trading system, spy network, assassination, political intrigue...etc On the other hand like I mentionned, I see myself re-installing this game every now and then just to re-experience the EPIC battles with fantastic immersive audio and feeling. Lastly there are three excellent mods that will completely change the game for the better: 1) 1066 you can play as the Norman Duke William and invade England have a great battle against Harold Godwinson. 2) Second mod is called Shieldwall. It absolutely changes the entire game making it far more immersive, realistic and improves various features. 3) Radious mod: Fantastic overhaul mod like Shieldwall but different, just check it out. Thrones of Britannia gets a 7.5/10 for me

I play Thrones mainly as the Welsh. My favorite Total War game is Empire Total War. When I am bored of playing other games my fall back has always been Total War Games. I do not like West Seax, nice roster but the Welsh Longbows, Cav and Spears are the best.

I think the supply system that this game has really makes it interesting compared to other TW titles. I've been re-enjoying it recently and it does have some great atmosphere. The graphics are (as Alex have pointed out) really gorgeous!

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My total war ranking :) 1. Medieval 2 2. Attila 3. Empire 4. Rome 2 5. Napoleon 6. Troy 7. Shogun 2 Ive also played a bit of thrones and 3 kingdoms but never really got into them. I havent played the others.

My [personal] advice to enjoy this game is to avoid campaign and play custom battle (it has my best personal favorite custom battle systems). and also I've tried playing the campaign and it gets so boring. I never play that mode.

i had a lot of hopes for this title but the lack of audience engagement really stopped CA from bothering with it the entire concept of a "little" total war game is really what killed it

Honestly, I cannot understand the cascade of negativity towards this game. It is my favourite after medieval 2 and Rome 1.

When it comes to Total War it really is a shame that their fantasy game titles are just so much better than the historical titles. Even myself I would say that Warhammer 2 is my favourite Total War at the moment, even though I would like to say titles such as Rome (1 & 2) and Three Kingdoms are just as good. It would be cool to see Alex evaluate the Total Wars into a tier list and get some more in depth thoughts on the positives and negatives of all the titles throughout their years of release. Video idea possibly?

little did you know alex that a man at 3:40 am is watching this video as we speak

Congratulations for 400k❤🥳

HI!!!! Fourth btw

I was really looking forward to this game but the reviews were just so mediocre for quite a high price

a total war series that had so much to go for, but fell so short. alas. lovely to see you bring it back into the mix in 2021

If you haven't yet you should try the Shieldwall overhaul on the workshop. It's similar to what DEI did for Rome 2 and it adds a lot more depth to the game.

400k subscribers!!!!! Congratulations!!!!

This was a good video, quite informative with Alex's knowledge which was a good addition

well played with the *would you engage* I cannot leave that unanswered Maybe

4:43 You need to stay Stronk Alex!

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One of the biggest gripes for this game is the lack of garrisons for minor settlements. Personally, I rather like the change because it forces you to build small, highly mobile armies as a support system to your full-stack field armies. While your Field Army slowly bounces from strongpoint to strongpoint, your mobile forces harass the enemy countryside or defend your borders. It makes you plan your next moves and try to anticipate what the AI is cooking up.

I have always been a huge fan of history in general and total war games, but the last 5 years I have become obessed with only the Eurasian area. Seleucid Empire is my current love. Anyway I am just a bit burned out on English History, because I have heard it so many times. For any English history lovers, please do check out the history of kingdoms/empires/caliphates along the silk road. So much cool stuff went on here throughout history.

Hey, 400000 subs for my favorite RU-vid the ramblerman! Well done, Alex! Lets congratulate this gentleman.

I used to love total war but after playing ck3 and just starting hoi4 I realize just how basic they are. Such surface level games with no depth or real strategy. It's like there's only one way to play their games. I do need help with hoi4 I watched your tutorial and my campaigns have not been going well. Please help. Please.

This is an interesting period to me, so it was a shame to hear that people didn't think it wasn't up to snuff when it came out. It's good to see that it isn't that bad, at least now.

They could’ve easily made a GoT mod for this game

Anyone who's interested in this time period, I would recommend checking out "The History of England Podcast" by David Crowther

This is the wrost rambler video,because of thrones of Britannia I have never played it but I sense it’s just feels like a mod for Attila total war by a 13 year old

I had autoplay on and thought I was playing one of Alex's old total war videos. Damn that brings me back.

My favorite is Napoleon total war

Medieval II fans report in!

"Would you engage with this man?" Well, no... Yes!- No wait... Maybe?- I don't know... It's a maybe

I would not engahe with this man, i am a male

A comment for engagement. Lol

congrats on 400k Alex

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The chad Goatee looks good

Favorite Total War: Rome 2 Would I engage with this man: Yes....yes I would

Yass Sir, I comment

Medieval 2!!

The problem of this game is that you feel CA put minimum efforts in it. It looked like a DLC of Attila (who was already a spin-off of Rome 2). Even the music (as good as it is) is taken from the (shitty) free to play Kingdoms...

What have they changed/added in the last couple of years. I thought it was pretty much abandoned. Last and only DLC was 3 years ago. Last patch was nearly 3 years ago...I see now its on sale on Steam 75% off.

I love the siege maps. Some of the best imo

You are teeling me that this game is 4 years old!!! I my god time really pass by!!

Weirdly one of my most played Total Wars, really like the Viking Kingdom factions

I too love the production design and IMO it's a competently put together game with some really good ideas, features and concepts but sadly the whole somehow feels less than its parts, and it quickly (for me) became sort of repetitive and, I don't know, a bit boring. The lack of unit and faction/culture diversity doesn't help either, and it never "grabbed me" like almost all other TW games have. Siege mechanics were quite good though.

I always hated sieges in total war. Can remind when i ran with war-wagons into the enemy’s city and my whole army died because of it 😂🤣

tldw: no, still not good.

Love ToB and I think your video echos my thoughts. I've had some epic AI seiges but then some meh ones as well. But as you rightly point out this is more of a total war issue than a ToB issue. Top work my friend.

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Please no more britannia content. Its incredibly obvious that this game is simply a cash grab to fill a void of releases from Sega! This fullprice title which costs 40 whopping Euros in my country feels like nothing, but a mod of Attilla Total war which happened to be released by the devs of the base game. What I mean is that there are dozen fanmade mods of total war game which are ATLEAST of equal quality than Brittania TW and are ofcourse for free. This whole game shouldnt cost 40 euros, instead it should've been a DLC of Atilla for a fraction of that price. The tiny playerbase is fully sensible for the 3rd full price title of "roughly" the same time period in a row. For every new small or big new feature this game offers there are dozen of features we've already seen in the previous 2 titles.

ROME2

bruh

Only reason I didn't play this game was because of my vow not to ever buy another SEGA/Total War games after something that happened to me and that I wouldn't have had the time either way. Considering I like the underappreciated titles a lot, I imagine I'll love this game.

5:14 'although its just a map of the UK and Ireland' - the Isle of Man is right there, in the middle. ARE WE WORTH NAUGHT?!?

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Try out the radious mod on this game Alex, could make it much better for you.

No :)

the unit cards are bloody ugly looking. I get that it's period correct but it doesn't work

This total war throws me off because it just feels like Attila total war. Not enough to justify a full price game. It’s like a more in-depth Age of charlemagne dlc for Attila lol.

Rome total war and i still play it on my 2019 laptop from 16 years ago

thrones of britannia is a great game and the total war community needs to stop hating. when it first came out i defended it as well, and people who disagreed with me kept comparing it to shogun 2. one of the main complaints people had with britannia was a lack of unit diversity apparently. are they pretending that shogun total war 2 doesnt use the same exact units for literally every single faction? i like shogun 2 dont get me wrong, but everything is the same rofl its just a bad argument to make and compare against britannia. i think the biggest issue people have with britannia is the food mechanic and estates, but once you figure out how to effectively manage that its not a problem. the norman invasions at the end of the game is definitely the highlight of the campaign

What the fu.... What the hell is Mercia doing with cavalry? Angl Saxon culture held it that everyone fought on foot.

“When I used to do Anglo-Saxon reenactment” hello

I've had this on my hard drive for ages and haven't got round to playing it. I took a look a couple of days ago and thought 'what the hell is going on here'. Then I loaded up Empire and have got into a new game of that. Sigh.

I love this one. Even though it gets a lot of hate I really enjoy thrones of britannia

Any total war you play is my favourite! :P I still love napoleon. But three kingdoms kinda stole my heart

Really enjoyed hearing about your reenactment background!