![]() ![]() Their faction roster combines the best of the Roman and Celtic armies with the excellent Comitatenses and the Celtic Gael Knights. The Romano-British represent the remnant peoples left in Britain in the wake of the Roman retreat from the island. If you lose Britannia to any other faction a new emergent faction the Romano-British. In the north, you’ll be fighting off the Celts and the Saxons with the limited resources of Brittania. On the military front, you’ll have to manage four fronts to fight on: Britannia, Germany, Illyria, and Africa. You’re dealing with both pressing managerial and military problems. On top of this, the empire is swimming in corruption and the religious schism between Christian and Pagan is far worse than in the East. It also has far more vulnerable borders to defend. The Western Empire was never as populous or as Urbanized as the East. The Western is in far worse shape than its cousin in the East, as it was historically. There are now two Roman factions: The Western and Eastern Empires. It’s not the hopeful future of the main campaign where you sought to build an empire that will last the ages: Barbarian Invasions is about just surviving. In the East, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Persians are locked in a struggle they’ve been in for nearly 200 years.Įach faction is poised on the brink of collapse. Manpower is now at a premium, after the Crisis of the Third Century, plagues, and previous invasions the Empire is a shell of its former self.Īs for the Germanic tribes, well they’re about to have a bad time themselves, as Attila the Hun is on the move. Rebellions are all too common, your borders are overextended and the Barbarians who’ve you’ve kept divided for ages are now ready to come and take your land. Throughout the empire, corruption and religious struggles run rampant. Rome has grown too big to even maintain a singular authority. It’s a time of decay, the old ways are failing, that empire you built-in Rome Total War that was so glorious? Yeah, that’s this monstrosity now. There are fewer factions, less troop variety, fewer provinces, fewer armies at your disposal. The campaign isn’t just smaller in terms of there being fewer factions, there are also literally fewer provinces in the game 72 compared to the original’s 103. Few Total War worlds are so well-realized and so focused. With the Roman Empire being split between the rising Christians and the older pagan tradition.Īll of these factors coalesce in the amazing campaign of Barbarian Invasion. On top of it all, you’ll now have to deal with the struggle between Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Paganism. Now that they have their troops on par with the Romans and the Romans are trying to cover far more territory at the start than they were in Vanilla, there’s a more even playing field. ![]() Mostly gone are the naked warbands of the Gauls and Germans, replaced with hardened warriors who can go toe-to-toe with the Romans. The biggest difference from Vanilla RTW though is between the factions is the close of the technological gap between the Romans and their barbarian neighbors. Instead of the diversity of faction cultures which you have in Rome Total War, hew you’re limited to the: Romans themselves, Germanic Barbarians, Steppe nomads, and the Sassanid Persians. As for the other factions, you’ll have to fight your way into the heart of the ailing Roman Empire and carve your way through to the richest regions to give your people a new homeland. This setup commits players to a steady sense of progression and expansion giving them a connection to the empire they built, Barbarian Invasion inverts this trope.įor the two fractured halves of the Roman Empire, you’ll simply be tasked to survive the waves of barbarian migrations, and hold together your massive crumbling empire. Most strategy games feature you starting small and rising up to become a great power. Rome Total War is a grand expansion of the series bringing it into 3D and introducing new mechanics, Barbarian Invasion is more about thematic and strategic changes to the Total War formula. Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion – RetrospectiveĪ year after its release Rome Total War received its first expansion: Barbarian Invasion. ![]()
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