Most of the reports you get are written in an in-universe way, as if the people giving you the report believe that the gods are the reason why things happen. Or that is at least what the game wants you to believe. Pray to the gods and you might get bonuses, ignore them and they get grumpy. The gods are also taking a more active role, and are treated as real in the game.
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Harpies are just javelin throwers with weird bird wings in their hair, making them look like Johnny Depp in that movie we all probably just want to forget even exists. Centaurs for an example are people who are doing something as crazy as actually riding horses into battles (they’re an exception to the no horse riding rule), and the cyclops is just a really big guy with a big weapon and a baby elephant skull on his head (if you’ve seen an elephant skull you might have notice that they have what looks like a big eye in the middle). There are “mythical units” in the game, though they’re not represented by big impressive monsters, but rather people. Different factions have differing army compositions, but none stray far from the basics. Soldiers are wearing bronze armour, and are armed either with long spears, clubs, swords, slings, javelins or bows. There’s also a not many horses being used, with the few horses that are here pulling chariots rather than carrying people on their backs (at this time they had not managed to breed horses that were suited for carrying someone into battle).
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All of Greece is covered, plus some parts to the north, as well as the westernmost parts of current day Turkey.Īs the game is set during the bronze age armies are armed with weapons and armour of that time. The game map covers a comparatively small area (at least compared to other Total War games), with Crete being the southernmost part of it, and current day Istanbul being as far north as it goes.
Chariots don’t do very well in the woods, for obvious reasons
There are also a fare few neutral factions, that are just there to be conquered or traded with. These represents the two main sides in the war, with the Trojan factions being more likely to band together with other Trojan factions, and Danaan factions being more likely to make alliances with other Danaans. There’s at the time of writing also a DLC that adds a third superfaction). There are two “superfactions”, the Danaans (probably more famously known as the Achaeans) and the Trojans, each of which has four nations in them (plus any DLC factions. No matter which on the factions you choose to play Helen has been taken away from Sparta and brought to Troy.
Though unlike in the Iliad the siege of Troy will have to wait, as both sides has to conquer their surroundings first.Īnd so starts Total War: Troy. On both sides of the Aegean Sea armies are mustering, preparing for the inevitable conflict. Paris has carried away the beautiful Helen to Troy, and war is looming as Achilles swears to bring her back to Sparta. Total War Saga: TROY is set in a mythical bronze age Greece, during the time of the Iliad. Archers take up position on a hill in order to rain death on the city defenders Story & Setting
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