Having played these, I had my answer to the question of whether combat had been improved with an emphatic “yes!” It’s not quite at Shogun 2 levels - the peak of the series’ combat (without mods) - but it’s easily a match for Attila or early-game Total Warhammer battles. These battles worked like Total War should: heroes were powerful but not dominant, formations tended to hold for most of the battle, cavalry could dominate but only if they didn’t get stuck against spearmen. The Yellow Turbans followed this up by splitting their forces and invading, in ways where I could attack them. This was not good, but it was not good in a way that made tactical sense. In my first major engagement, I was so outnumbered and didn’t react well, and was quickly routed.
I had smaller armies with better generals and units going up against much larger, less disciplined hordes. This provided an ideal opportunity to test the new combat balance. A desperate peace left me without any place to go but against the local Yellow Turbans, the rebellious peasant army of the era.
My initial phase was a decent bit of expansion against the local Han losers, but once I went against Gongsun Zan, I started struggling. I had three theories as to why this was: first, that in the preview I played Liu Bei whose faction power was raising cheap peasant units that I was playing in the Dynasty Warriors-like Romance mode instead of the more historical Records mode and that hero units were ridiculously powerful.Ībove: Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan battle for the north in Total War: Three KingdomsĪs Yuan Shao, I started a Romance game, so I could play the titular character and his heroes like Zhang He, Wen Chou, and Yan Liang. My key issue with the combat was that battles turned into chaotic, too-long scrums instead of tense tactical encounters with tight battle lines and brilliant manuevers. After they’ve worked with Three Kingdoms a bit more, I can say that it definitely seems like the delay has helped it play much more like what I hope for in a Total War game. Sega PR approached me with a preview build recently to see how the game had been updated - particularly if the combat felt better. Around that time, Sega announced that it would be delay Three Kingdoms for two months. Learn more about what comes next.Ī couple months ago, I previewed Total War: Three Kingdoms, with the initial reaction that the combat was worrisome and the strategy was on the right track. Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10.
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