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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