It plays well, however, and there’s a pace and fluidity inherent in its design.
It still feels like a fairly big map, though probably closer to some of the campaigns previously featured in Total War expansions.
While the campaign map is nowhere near the size of, say, Total War: Rome II or Total War: Warhammer, Creative Assembly have zoomed in and packed it full of smaller regions, provinces and settlements. It’s cool to look at the map and see Lunden, Mameceaster, Snotingaham and other cities that continue today but with slightly different names – no, you won’t spot Milton Keynes on here. The rest of my knowledge is a little hazy, but that gives Thrones of Britannia the opportunity to teach me some things.
I’m loosely aware of the fractious nature of the kingdoms in the British Isles, the way that the vacuum of Roman power was filled by the Anglo-Saxons, and obviously the Norman conquest that pivoted around the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia takes players back to 878 AD, a time where Britain and Ireland were still divided up by by vying rulers and their kingdoms, under the looming shadow of Viking invaders from the seas.Īs a Brit, it’s a setting that speaks quite well to me, but it also takes me back to a period of time that I”m not particularly familiar with.
That’s what the Total War Saga series is meant to explore, and Thrones of Britannia takes us back to a suitably fractious period in British history. Total War is known for its sweeping grand strategy that consumes entire continents with the machinations of empires, but there’s an awful lot of history that doesn’t match up to that scale.
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