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Total War: Shogun 2

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Josefbugman:
I rather liked how devestating lots of archers can be on pretty much everyone.

That and how the shogunate instantly turns everyone against you at the point where you are reaching your zenith, to ensure that you still have a challenge in the mid to late game.

TheFuriousWombat:
Man Shogun: Total War was so cool and Medieval: Total War was one of the first games I played really seriously and got pretty darn good at. Some many great memories of intentionally starting peasant uprisings through jacking up taxes and then crushing them with heavy cavalry. Rome: Total War was cool too. After that I didn't have a good enough computer to really play the games and when I finally got one that could I didn't have the time. Regardless, I'm thinking of buying this new one pretty seriously. The Feudal Japan setting is really cool and pretty underutilized in RTS games. Will check out reviews and demos first but I have a good feeling about this!

Josefbugman:
I can say that its only been fun thus far. Word of advice though? Make sure that when you take new provinces you remember to turn the tax rate back on after a few turns, I lost a craptonne of koku by not realising that.

the_pied_piper:
I really love the games of the Total War series and Shogun 2 looks like it could be the best of them all. The graphics are outstanding, the AI has been significantly improved by the looks of things (apparently they changed from a European style of warfare to Sun Tzu's Art of War-style warfare which obviously makes sense given the location and also suits the units much better) and the evolution of units and their strengths is incredibly well thought out.

In terms of units there are not all that many but the importance of good tactics and not losing too many men has really been emphasised with hill charges affecting attack/defence power more realistically, poor troop organisation allowing for devastating cavalry charges even against spear infantry and power of bow troops being improved so that they actually have some real effect on enemy infantry and their morale. It seems important to really choose your armies carefully to take the advantage against your enemies and their special advantages and to keep a close eye on management with lots of monetary and diplomacy options compared to the other games.

At the moment, I would say that Rome: Total War is probably still the best but Shogun 2 is certainly having a good go at it and Feudal Japan is a really interesting timeframe for military history though hopefully the map will be opened to Eastern China and Korea, the long time enemies of Japan to open the scope of the game even more (this might be an expansion like Barbarian Invasion was to Rome if the rumours are true). Also, Rome 2: Total War is indeed rumoured to be next in line with the new engine and there is plenty of history left to be played out if this is true.

ackblom12:
I really just wish the narrators had the option of speaking in their native tongue with subtitles. I don't know why but the narrator's super stereotypical accent bothers me a lot more than is rational.

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