Total War: Attila will be on sale for 75 percent off during the contest (and is actually on sale now as part of the Steam Lunar New Year Sale), cutting the price to $11/£7.50. It will also be.
.NOTE. Some DLC is missing.
Welcome to!A subreddit for all of those who love the Total War series. Viking Forefathers: A lot of people complain the factions don't feature terribly good unit rosters, and in any case resemble the Saxon unit roster a lot. Only buy Viking Forefathers if you think playing with their faction traits will be interesting, though admittedly, their faction traits are some of the most special and powerful in the game.Longbeards: The factions have more unusual unit rosters, making them more fun to play. The factions also have really weird and unusual faction traits. I'd definitely buy Longbeards if you could only afford one faction pack.Celts: The Celtic faction pack adds an entirely new playable culture group, and is the only way for you to start in Britain (because people apparently have a fetish for lacking offensive options) outside of playing the WRE (which I feel shouldn't count). I personally think the Celt factions are one-dimensional and kinda bad, but hey, if you wanted a faction pack to add a lot to your game, it's still an entirely new culture group you couldn't play otherwise.
If you can only buy two faction packs, I'd buy Longbeards and Celts. I'll disagree and pick Celts over Longbeards. The entire Celtic roster is new, while Longbeard are Germanic and there are a lot of germanic rosters in the vanilla game. The celts some cool units too, playing as the Ebdanians was great because I didn't use to use skirmishers / skirmisher cav much, but their unique units (Kerns are amazing) make an interesting playstyle - solid heavy infantry, good skirmisher cav who can handle themselves in melee decenty well, and skirmishers to destroy the enemy while your infantry holds them.The big thing with the celts is raiding becomes so useful.
Attila is balanced so it's usually best to not expand too quickly, and use sacking to build up before you build out. Add in the huge raiding bonuses (celts are also the only barbarian faction with a unique general skill tree) and I was getting 3k a turn from a single army raiding. None of them are must plays. They're all worth it though if you want to play a campaign with one or more of them (8 dollars for 50-150 hours of gameplay to get minor victory with one or all).The Viking Forefathers have pretty awesome traits (Geats can do winter offensives due to a lack of snow attrition, Danes get no sea attrition, Jutes get increased income from raiding, etc.), not sure about the units: haven't played a campaign out with them. I understand they have good heavy axe infantry like the ERE.The Longbeards factions have crazy units.
Berserkers, dirt cheap units with expert charge defense, scattershot slingers, barbed javelins and lances, anti-cav light infantry, lots of crazy units. They still have bog standard German cavalry, but their infantry is crazy.Celts have statistically bad units, like the Iceni in Rome 2, but they get guerrilla training like the Hattori clan to make up for it. They get a 100% unique unit roster (no German/Nordic units), so they're pretty good.
Great dogs and shit. I think they're great. Langobards are melee infantry focused, with a far more offensive and dynamic style than Franks. You want to get in those charges and use your berserkers. You don't really have a good answer to enemy shock cavalry, because Horse Hewers can be fairly difficult to use.Burgundians are kind of like R2's Odrysian Kingdom. They have strong shock cavalry, missiles, and shock infantry, but you are left with Germanic Spears to hold your line.Alamans. Eh, they don't look that interesting.
Never tried them or thought much about them. Longbeards if you want to play with an unbreakable never shaved godan's chosen unit. Celts if you want the possibility to always fight at night and guerrilla deploy. Viking forfathers if you want a slaughter machine in the form of Huscarls.
Blood if you evere zoom during battle. Verdict: If you play online battle, all of them could be useful for a slightly different experience imho, if you want a new experience in campaign, it would be a close call but I would say the Celts, as they play differently than other factions, though the longbeards bring something new unit wise, it still feels like playing as franks because of the starting position, same as the Viking forefathers with the Saxons because of unit resemblance.
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PS, Would be good to wait for sale if you could.
