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You’ll see them rear up before slowly advancing into close-quarters combat, negating any bonuses from impact. To complement this, all units with shields now have the Charge Reflect attribute, which means that if they’re stationary and braced when charged by cavalry, the horses will refuse the charge.

We’ve also reduced infantry charge distances, as the short, sharp clashing of swords and shields makes combat feel faithful to this intimately intense combat style. To reflect this style of warfare, we’ve reduced the distance between soldiers in many units, with dense blocks of tightly-packed soldiers. It’s the tactic with which Alfred beat the Great Viking Army at the battle of Edington, and remained predominant across battlefields of the era. Those coming from Total Warhammer might be disappointed that the most novel thing on offer here is units of ferocious war dogs, but it's still satisfying to watch a charge of pugilistic puppers who’ve just decided the opposing frontline have biscuits in their pockets.This is the era of the shield wall. West Seaxe has some seriously nasty late game cavalry, for example, and a few units of Welsh archers with flaming arrows will make short work of an approaching siege tower. 'Faction-specific units are few, so personality comes from unit specialities. It'll hit Windows first, with Mac and Linux versions to follow 'shortly after.' Still, that's 5.8GB you won't need to download on Thursday.Ī 10% pre-order discount makes Thrones Of Britannia £27/€36/$36 on Steam right now but OBVIOUSLY don't pre-order even though people OBVIOUSLY are. I don't know how substantial the preload lump is the system requirements say ATWSTOB needs 30GB of free hard drive space, but those always include a nice safety margin.

If you've pre-ordered the game all the kids are calling ATWSTOB, as of four minutes ago you can download 5.8GB of it in advance - though not play until it's actually out, obvs. So hey, you cheeky pre-orderers: know that you can now pre-load Thrones Of Britannia on Steam ahead of its Thursday launch.

Ah but sure, you know what's coming: it's another Total War, and you can already read Nic Rueben's Total War Saga: Thrones Of Britannia review for our official word on it. 'Never pre-order,' we say, then youse go and pre-order A Total War Saga: Thrones Of Britannia right into the Steam top ten.

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