Hey PCGaming folks! I don’t know what happened this year, maybe reaching my mid-thirties finally unlocked the “dad game” part of my brain, and I started to all of a sudden get super into tactics games, after only having a passing interest in them my entire life.
Tactics games have been fun, but I want to sort of branch out and play some strategy games. 4X games like Civ have gone right over my head, but a friend said that Total War: Warhammer III would be up my alley.
I have had a look at it, and it does look pretty cool. But is this a good starting place for someone who is completely new to the strategy genre? Outside of the original Red Alert that I played when I was like 8 and just liked watching tanks going BOOM, I am basically a strategy baby and need some guidance!
Any of the Total War games are awesome for that. If you can get your hands on the original Total War: Shogun, that’d be a great entry point.
Total War: Rome. Also good.
I think those give you the basis for how all of these ones work. I’d also keep handy a copy of Tsun Su’s Total War. That book is what these games are based on.