Anyone here play any of the Total War Games? I've been hooked on it ever since Shogun: Total War came out in like 2000.

What I like about it is that combines the turn-based Civ type city management style with an actual RTS. When you fight, you don't have to worry about collecting minerals or any of that stuff that's common the C&C/Starcraft games and its family of clones.

I like how the units are actually squads or groups of 60+ dudes with swords/spears/random pointy objects and the extreme realism of the formations/fatigue/morale/ammo that the units are subjected to.

Then the units can get upgraded armor/weapons, and can even get BETTER with experience (provided that they don't all get killed off); as can your general, which gets attribute bonuses for winning more and more battles (or conversely, can get negative attributes for losing too many battles.

I always seem to go on a Total War binge whenever i think about the movie "The 300" or really anything that involves spartans against some ungodly amount of persians.

lol, go to the "I Have Conquered The World" thread. That one's showing a lot of love to Total War.

I hate it.




ow I meant that movie 300

I liked the first few entries. Rome introduced several problems, but they eventually ironed those out. Unfortunately, I haven't enjoyed them as much since, mostly because the AI appears unable to handle the increasingly complex features.

Like three dimensions.

I do love the series.

Played the shit out of Medival total war

I've played empire, medieval 2 and rome. Personally I think the series is alright, but the campaign part of the game sucks. in terms of battling, its decent, except that failed in empire where everything was botched. Personally I find the Europa Universalis series to be better in every way, except obviously for the lack of combat.

i am an addict

Try Empire, it's awesome.

Total War is one of my favorite RTS series (along with Warcraft).

I've started with Rome:Total War when  I burrowed it from my classmate. I later got Medieval 2: Total war shortly after it was released. While waiting for Empire, I also got Shogun. Since my PC is pretty bad, I still don't have Empire :P