Total War: Pharaoh takes the series back to vanilla history. Take a look at our hands-on preview and interview with Creative Assembly here:
" versions - although Nikolov and battle designer Bozhidar Staykov joked that they honestly hadn't seen those.
Units now have up to three stances they can adopt: advance, hold , and fall back. They make use of some fancy new animations, something the Sofia studio again added after specific user feedback from Troy, which requested bespoke matched combat animations like the series has had reserved for special general units until now - something Nikolov described as"quite costly" in terms of development.
All three of these, you might be thinking, sound like pretty vanilla historical Total War battles - frankly, they are. There are small system additions, like those stances and a new stat for armour degradation, which proves especially decisive against certain units, but the big twist this time comes in the form of weather and fire, rather than any mythological, or even mythically-inspired units or features.
"So let's say if the battle starts with dry weather, no sun, clouds, it's looking good. You have your dry patch of land that you want to traverse through - and then the weather changes to a thunderstorm and it starts raining. That patch will become mud now, and you have to adapt to that new terrain, so let's say you want to charge your heavy chariots through that, that space. Now, they will bog down and most likely be killed off. And now you have to adapt.
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