#Hey Total War fans! What is your

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vapid thistle
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real hamlet
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Hearing the soundtrack play the first time I played the Shogun 2 and FOTS expansion. It matches the game quite well! Like it to this date!

flint otter
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The first Realm Divide in Shogun 2. Seeing the little video featuring the guards on high alert with the announcer essentially telling you : you are entering Total War territory.

(Same with FotS RD altho it's a bit different)

elfin spoke
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Playing the best game my old laptop could play

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Everything was perfect

storm cedar
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Playing the battles. I miss them in the post Rome 2 games. There was something visceral and real about them.

halcyon vine
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My older brother presenting me to the game, saying that you can have thousands of soldiers fighting at the same time. Still remember the first battle he showed, and we both realized total war would be here to stay

real hamlet
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To add, another thing I think was absolutely amazing was the agent action cutscenes. They were very humorous, laughed a fair bit at them! They didn't directly influence gameplay, but they were a really nice addition.

quiet osprey
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An intro video, great music for FOTS, and sakura petals.

steel halo
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Sieging a castle for the first time and expecting to have to have siege towers or ladders but then I watched all of my men start climbing the walls like Spider-Man, it was very cool.

fair barn
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Shogun like first shogun or shogun 2?

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For shogun 2. Uhmmm torpedoing a warrior class ironclad with 2 torpedo boats and blowing it up.

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Or the numerous siege defences. altough the AI is rather dumb....

fair barn
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incognito?

hollow path
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Might as well post here what I also posted on Youtube
Playing as the Takeda, fighting the Mori in the endgame of a long campaign. I had just captured a Mori fortress with my faction leader when three Mori armies approached and put it under siege. The following battle was an immense struggle of defending the castle with my infantry while my general and his cavalry contingent sallied out and ran around the battlefield, seeking weak points in the Mori armies to push them back. I ultimately won a great victory that day.

Alternatively, Mori campaign, my battle to capture Kyoto. Rather than fight Kyoto itself, I saw that there was a small Ashikaga stack right next to the city, so I went to battle with it to drag the reinforcements out of their defenses. I realized on the battlefield that there was a small forested hill on the enemy side and I had a few Wako pirates that I could deploy there. Knowing that the AI prioritizes taking hills and that the reinforcing army would run to take it as soon as they entered the battlefield, I put my pirates there and waited for the enemy to appear. Just as planned, they made a beeline for the hill, the Ashikaga Daimyo running ahead of his army to take the hill as quickly as possible. My pirates, which were hidden in the trees, suddenly came out of the forest and cut down the Daimyo before he could react. When his army approached the hill, they were tired from running and demoralized by their general's death, so my three units of pirates easily routed all of them in a single downhill charge.

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And another moment, playing as the Hattori, fighting to capture a fortress (the layout that has the second tier reachable from a hill in the back of the map). I realized as I deployed that I might not have the forces to defeat the enemies there, but I realized that the highest tier of the castle was only occupied by the enemy's general. And as the Hattori, I was fielding Kisho Ninjas.

In true Hattori fashion, I snuck my ninja up to the back gate, using the cover of a wooded area to approach unseen, used a smoke bomb to hide them, then ran them up the wall and unto the second tier. One of my units went to kill the general while the others began capturing the gates to prevent the other defending units from coming to their general's aid. I proceeded to take the capture point and end the battle with barely a fight.

bold cape
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Having an actually balanced, real, historical game, instead of some fantasy garbage or a mobile-like story game sold as a full strategy game. Come on, SEGA, take over CA and rescue our games!

ocean flare
# bold cape Having an actually balanced, real, historical game, instead of some fantasy garb...

Highly recommend Rome II, Attila, Thrones of Britannia, and Pharaoh if you want historical games made after Shogun 2.

Three Kingdoms is great too, but even the Records mode is based on the fictionalised retelling of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Still, it has a strong historical basis to it. And Troy, despite being based on mythology, bases many of its units on actual artifacts from Mycenaean Greece.

I believe SEGA are the ones greenlighting all the Warhammer games. Wouldn’t surprise me if the new historical games are actually the initiative of CA itself.

fair barn
ocean flare
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One of the best moments I had in Shogun 2 was holding a small, basic fort with a few units - think it was one unit each of Levy Spearmen, Levy Infantry, and Line Infantry - against a Samurai rebellion that outnumbered me considerably.

Ended up using a tactic of withdraw and sacrifice when the samurai units came up into the fort. I had the Levy Spearmen engage all the enemy units in melee while my two other units shot at them, then I called in a naval bombardment on the melee.

I eventually held the castle with only around 40 Line Infantrymen.

dreamy sequoia
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I loved casting, hosting and playing tournaments. I loved how clean the combat was.

Was always fun removing mounted gunners with a perfectly timed fire rocket attack.

red ivy
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"Our men are running from the battlefield! Shameful display!"

cunning coral
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Had my last 1 army pinned at the last settlement I had as Otomo. It was around turn 30-40? And I had a doomstakc of handgunners and my daimyo situated at my last stronghold. There were around 2 full armies but they didn't have any siege weapons

My otomo handgunners valiantly defended that settlement to the last man, though the casualties were really heavy I was able to turn back the tide and push back the enemy

weak mason
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Playing as the Portuguese (enabled via modding) was extremely fun as they had a completely different strategy compared to most other native factions. Other than that any COOP Campaign was pretty epic!

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serene granite
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Playing Total War Napoleon, during the Egypt Campaign ended up having 3 full-stack armies face of against 5 full stack Egyptian/Ottoman armies.

Kept ending in Draws so it ended up being unironically 6-8 Battles (forgot how many) over 3 irl days. Didn't help that after the fact the Mamelukes came up with an entire stack of JUST camel cav.

dreamy sequoia
serene granite
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my mistake