She added, “Historians don’t think that there was just one Trojan War. The way we’re approaching the subject, those legends and myths hold a kernel of truth that inspired them, and that kernel is there for us to try to understand.” “It’s not just retelling the legends that everybody already knows. “Our approach, what we called ‘behind the myth,’ is our intention to visit the historical period that inspired the legends,” Georgieva said. So rather than focus on just that episode, Total War Saga: Troy focuses on a conflict between the regions that may have gone on for decades, said Maya Georgieva, Troy’s game director at The Creative Assembly, in an interview with GamesBeat. While that is fine material for an epic poem, it’s not big enough for the scope of a Total War game, even a Saga. Homer’s The Iliad focused on the ninth year of that 10-year war with the Trojans, during an episode when Achilles, the great Myrmidon hero, had a fight with Agamemnon and the dispute led to tragic consequences. Hence, Helen is said to be the “face that launched a thousand ships.” Agamemnon’s force includes more than 1,000 ships of soldiers with spears, swords, and bows. Together, the Trojan army and its allies fought off the invading army of Greece for a decade, with the wider conflict lasting 20 years. Paris fled to Troy and sought the protection of his father, King Priam, and brother, Hector. Agamemnon was more than happy to invade the territory of the Dardanelles Strait. The pride-hurt king appealed to his brother, Agamemnon (the ruler of Mycenae), and they recruited their allies throughout Greece to bring Helen back. In Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, the mythical Trojan War began after Troy’s Paris made off with Helen, the wife of Menelaus. Your adviser in the campaign for Total War Saga: Troy is none other than Homer himself. You can expect to play a campaign game for hundreds of turns, or multiple days of gameplay. There are more than 200 different towns and cities on the game map. That game was set in ancient China.īut Troy’s scope is pretty big, encompassing all of the societies bordering the Aegean Sea, from Greece to modern-day Turkey. The Sagas take the innovations of bigger games, such as Total War: Three Kingdoms, the 2019 game that introduced mythical gameplay combined with historical gameplay, as well as single combat between faction leaders. This game is from the Saga subseries, which has a more limited scope and time frame than other Total Wars, with fewer innovations. But I’ve been looking forward to this game because it combines my love for literature (I read The Iliad back in junior high school) and military simulation (I’ve played the Total War strategy games since the first one came out in 2000). When two armies meet on the field, a real-time battle ensues, where you can zoom out to see the big battle or zoom in to see a single company of soldiers battling the enemy. On the other side, Argos brings to the battlefield "well-rounded axe and sword infantry, combined with quick flanking units".In Total War turn-based strategy games, you can feel like you’re the general of an army on a battlefield, as well as the commander-in-chief of a regional war. The soldiers from Salamis are focused on defense and they wield huge shields. Ajax, the giant of Salamis, and Diomedes, King of Argos, give a name to the new DLC pack, which includes a total of 18 new units for the game. That said, a new couple of factions and their respective heroes will be available for the fans of A Total War Saga: Troy in a new DLC this month. Of course, you have to pay for those DLCs but that is something that most of us are used to do by now, and the additional content is usually worth the money, in the case of Total War games at least. It also allows them to keep the players interested in their games and allows those players to get just the content they want for their games, instead of having to deal with a massive number of options from the start. Overall, it's a good way of enhancing the content available in each game with new heroes, units, and tactical options. It happened with Total War: Warhammer and Total War: Warhammer II and it's the same for A Total War Saga: Troy. All those familiar with Total War games know that Creative Assembly adds quite a lot of new factions to their games after release via DLC.
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