It's once again time to share your favourite memories! This week, we are of course looking at the Bronze Age Total War games — tell us your stories!
#Bronze Age Memories
tawdry snow
zealous ferry
The Bronze Age mod for RTW was pretty fun. Not super polished, but it felt like you administered an empire in an overlooked setting. As for the vanilla games, I found both extremely boring and the LL-fication of factions was terrible. However, my memories from the Bronze Age mod, handling all these rebellions and building up my infrastructure are very cozy.
pale mango
I still remember well when Troy was free on Epic and I downloaded it and played 3 battles encountering serious bugs in every single one of them and then never touched it again 😅
idle mica
when Troy was first published players could exploit the trade system by offering long-time resources to exchange one-time resources, then cancel the deal so no need to pay anything, and do the cycle again. Then while I played as Odysseus and had done so for hundreds of times, a fix patch came and added diplomatic reliability penalty for such a exploit. After the patch worked I found my Odysseus reliability is -656! it immediately caused almost all other factions declared war on me (The only exception is Menelaus), it was a truly TOTAL WAR! I spent nearly 200 turns to finally eliminate all my enemies, barely evading the possible tragic end
zenith mortar
TW Troy.
When Epic Games gave Troy for free ... first seen this giveaway on TW Facebook page , that's why I downloaded Epic Games to grab Troy ... then I installed it ... it was around 11:00 evening ... I was like let's do little sneak peak and go to sleep... its ended at 6:00 in the morning when my alarm clock rings 😀
quick oxide
After securing the land of Hatti, King Suppililiuma erected a series of forts in the natural chokepoints toward the heartland of the Empire.
When the Sea people invaded, they devastated the coastal outposts, and tried to pick on a key city whose stronghold was also guarding the inner lands - but that's where the True King of Hatti was garrisoned and with 2 stacks he pushed back against the Sea People 4 stacks. The battle was gruesome, funeled into a corridor of tall grass, the invaders retreat was then set alight by (target ground) fire arrows and the spread pushed the sea folks to recklessly throw themselves on the Hittite axes.
At the end of the day, it was considered a Cadmean victory, but this battle effectively blunted the sea people invasion into Hatti (the land of Canaan and Egypt were not so well prepared/lucky)
lapis dagger
I had Agememnon and Odysseus ready to sack troy waiting for Achilles who was taking his time by boat, late as usual. Memnon taking Ithica was pretty funny, and of course Achilles giving cerberus belly rubs, and making enemies flee when he hit his aristea. And all the nice locations on the campaign map, mount ida, niobe's rock, knossos not to mention olympus. Awesome that they appeared on battle maps too.
merry star
the time i first played Pharaoh at the Gamescom in 2023
lapis dagger
Playing as Achilles or Penthesilea and being best friends with the other.
rare atlas
Holding the line with irsus heavy infantry. While battling 4 egyptian armies. Led by ramses.
OR that time i made 8 queens guard doomstacks. Recruited in a fully upgraded province. And swarmed from the south to north.
heavy jolt
my family were so happy when i got my sister pregnant.
we made huge offering to Min afterwards.
autumn star
The first time I played the battles to capture the 3 legendary mythological beings, what an epic experience!
Watch the faction DLC trailers... ABSOLUTE CINEMA!
When Rhesus and Memnon arrived, it was truly incredible! A real gift to the community.
TROY has so many incredible moments, from the trailers to the numerous gameplay challenges, which vary across 3 modes!
toxic moth
I remember playing as Tausret and being married to Seti to help secure upper egypt. The Sea People arrive and we are not ready. Not only that, they kill Seti and I am now a widow. I decide to marry Memnon who completely took over Amenmesse and all Kushite land in a military alliance. Together we fight off the Sea People and Libyan raiders but it doesn't stop there. My military recruiting province is hit with plague for 12 turns, making it so I can only recruit 1 unit per turn in the peak of the invasions. The crises mode also hinders your reinforcement numbers, so it takes turns to fully recoup after a fight. There i was outnumbered by the enemy, barely able to recruit. Lower egypt could not be defended and gets swallowed up. 2 stacks vs 4 stacks of sea people fights was not uncommon, but after defeating 4 stacks at one moment, another group of 4 showed up and my numbers could not hold. I lost my elite, tier 4 and 5 army with rank 9 chevrons. All while I had to recruit a new batch of them at 1 per turn...
It was super fun playing that crises on very hard and it is why Pharoah is such a great game.
hard cape
I’ve been obsessed with the Trojan War since I was in elementary school. Later when I played Rome 1, I always thought, “wouldn’t it be cool if there was a game like this but for the Trojan War??” I always wanted to play as Hector since he’s my favorite hero in the story, but as time went on I gave up hoping that game would be made. Fast forward near 2 decades and when I heard TROY was being made, I freaked out!
Opening the campaign map for the first time was amazing. It is the most beautiful campaign map I’ve ever seen in any game, the music is phenomenal (I bought the vinyl), and the mythology easter eggs and scenery blew me away. I finally could flip the script and defend sacred Troy, defeat Achilles and turn back the Greeks like I wished happened in the story.
Total War gave me the two things I wanted in a total war game. A chance to play as my favorite Roman, Mark Antony, to defeat Octavian (thank you Rome 2❤️) and a chance to play as Hector to save Troy from Greek vengeance. Thank you Total War!!!!! ❤️
autumn star
I’ve been obsessed with the Trojan War since I was in elementary school. Later w...
Nice. TROY is gorgeous.
heavy jolt
i hate TW Troy,
but love TW Pharaoh & the Homeric Trojan War.