Recent reviews by Sotnoc

Η Ῥωμανία. Nuff said, αδελφέ μου

It is a fun economy game and I like it

Best DLC for the game and a bold design decision by Paradox to make the game harder. With all of the stat creep worse and worse each expansion/patch, Conclave did a complete 180 and made the game harder.

It's a far more authentic experience, as good internal management of vassals is harder yet is more rewarding, while playing the absolute monarch gets you removed from power pretty fast. These internal management changes also make 'playing tall', or not blobbing everywhere just a bit more interesting as there are more things to do apart from constantly plotting your expansion.

Adding microtransactions to a 6 year old game that is kept on life support by free mods

one word: Sh*t. 24 Minutes on this game was way too much for me. It is nothing like Total war and is made for the super casual mobile market. Oh yeah and there are micro stransactions! I love that sh*t

+ Horde Mechanic opens up hundreds of possobilites and a new approach to Total War
+ Seige battles have been reworked making them fun and exiting not a slugfest like in previous titles
+ New start positions. You can start as massive established empires like the Roman Empires or the Sassanid empire and try to maintain yourlands against the onslaught, the huns have a very unique feel as your empire is all satrpies as your a 24/7 horde. Or you can start with the classic start as the Juts, Danes, Geates, Saxons and Franks, and you can choose your factions destiny as a great migratory nation.
+Possibility for awesome DLC
+Political system ad family system give the game a slight CK2 feel
+ Destruction mechanics let you wreck havoc on te battlefield with fire or on the campaign map for the destruction of provinces
+ Religion and events
+ Is its own game
+♥♥♥♥ tonne of immersion
+Legendary start as Western Roman Empire will surely spike rage quits
+apocalyptic feel
+global cooling (end game challenge)
+Game gets harder and harder the more you go on not the snowball effect of every other total war game ever
+Total war Chronicles is a cool little gimic

- Family tree and lots of other features should have always been in Total War
--------- No blood and gore to make game kid friendly
- Cinematic lag
- can't release or release and play as factions that don't exist at start of game
- cant freely change religion. Sorry people no Celtic Sassanid empire!
- Recommended requirements are more minimal requirements
- Cost
- Enemy armies chase you across the globe
------------ DLC whoring

Although it isnt the prittiest game on the market and the economic sysem requires a Phd in economics Victoria 2 satisfies everything.

+++ political system stops countries from blobbing (unlike europa universalis)
+++ No dumbing down
++ Balanced combat, as well as a nice amount of units (not to many not too little) and provide nice custimization of forces
++ Great powers and secondary powers make the game feel more real
++ Neat Political system (upperhouse, Elections and reforms)
+ Factory system
+ attention to deatail: Each country has its own flags fro Monarchy, republic, fascist and communist. And most countries have flavour events
+ Westernization is great

--- Learning curve kills players
-- Trading system I still dont get after about 100 hours

Also note: You need to have played at least 2 or more Grand Strategy titles before playing this (total war does not count.)