

But the harpies are presented as fleet-footed, spear-throwing women who decorate their battle-dress with feathers, while your centaurs are painted tribesmen who excel at fighting on horseback.

Hence, your army may have spearmen fighting alongside centaurs, slingers lined up beside harpies. Troy offers us the first mythic Total War, but does so with an eye that's less poetic and more forensic, trying to figure out the possible fact behind the obvious fiction. Instead he's simply a big dude with a big axe who has a penchant for bovine millinery. See, Troy's Minotaur isn't the one Theseus encountered in the Labyrinth - half-man, half-bull, perpetually lost. It wasn't simply the fact he could smash through a unit of spearmen like a cannonball through a cake. Then I recruited my first minotaur, and that changed things. But the deeper into time Total War delves, the less it has to work with, and fielding armies of clubmen and slingers on the precipice of history doesn't exactly make for the most thrilling military encounters. Troy might sound like an awesome setting for a Total War game - the Iliad is the font from which all other war stories drink, after all. A thousand-year step backward, to be precise.
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There’s a free update that’s available, which happens to add Historical mode. Is it worth it? – Mythos is an expansion released a year after the launch of A Total War Saga: Troy.Ajax faction guide – The mighty Telemonian Ajax acts as the bulwark of the Danaans.Hippolyta faction guide – The High Queen of the Amazons spearheads the advance.Penthesilea faction guide – The Warrior Queen of the Amazons leads her fearsome horde.Well, with your help, he can do just that. Agamemnon faction guide – The King of Men arrogantly boasts of subjugating Troy.He also competes with Paris on who will become Priam’s Heir - please don’t let it be Legolas. Hector faction guide – The honorable Prince of Troy defends his besieged kingdom by forging alliances with his neighbors.Achilles faction guide – The greatest warrior of the age aims to prove his capabilities while trying to manage his erratic mood swings.Divine Will/Gods and goddesses – The gods don’t actively participate in the battlefield, but they do offer you various boons with a lot of synergies thanks to the Divine Will mechanic.
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In any case, here’s how to recruit various agents and some “cosplayers” (sorry, mythological creatures) from a bygone era.

Whether you’ll like that or not is up to you.
