Which total war game is the easiest for a newbie ?

[Kramskyy]

Hi so i basically want to get into the total war but i have no experience about the series. And i dont have much knowledge about strategy games too. I only played Red Alert 2 as a strategy game about 4 years ago. So what game should i pick ?

[NouH]

I don't think there is a ''Easiest'' total war, just put any of them on the easiest difficulty and its done, what you really want to look for is what total war is most to your taste.
Do you like Samurais? go with Shogun 2
Do you like Medieval Knights? go with Medieval 2
Do you like Romans, Greeks and Barbarians? go with rome 2
Do you like fantasy and big monsters? go with warhammer 2

Any of these games on the easiest difficulty will be a walk in the park for you, so just choose which you will like more and buy.

[Kramskyy]

So i ask my question on something different than. Which one is more less overwhelming ? I do like fantasy and big monsters but i dont know if i can be overwhelmed by the game

[THEDOSSBOSS]

Shogun 2 is the simplest and easiest to learn. I caught on to just about all the mechanics by my 2nd or 3rd campaign. There are plenty of newbies who have started at Warhammer though, a huge number. There is a steep learning curve for these games, but once you get the hang of it it gets really fun.
Shogun 2 is the easiest

[waxman80014]

I would say rise of the samurai, once you have that down go to the main game, one you have that down go to fall of the samurai.

[Hat8]

Originally posted by Daft Funk:

Hi so i basically want to get into the total war but i have no experience about the series. And i dont have much knowledge about strategy games too. I only played Red Alert 2 as a strategy game about 4 years ago. So what game should i pick ?

Rome 1 is perhaps the best game with the best mods. Medieval 2 is also great.

[MedicineStick]

First post is accurate on easiest difficulty you can't really lose plus picking whatver historical era you like best will factor into how much fun you have. But I can say I started with Medieval II before I ever heard of Steam and I've played well over 2,000 hours since then. Rome II is probably my favourite so far but the construction/recruitment systems in the earlier games are more simple but not better per se.

[Mile pro Libertate]

All of them are easy to get into: most mechanics are intuitive and the advisor/pop ups do a good job telling you the rest.

If you need more info, you can read building and unit descriptions, and with Shogun 2, Rome 2, and Attila, there is an in-game encyclopedia function as well.

TW games are not "study sims" or "grognard wargames," where you have like a 250 page manual and need to read 10 pages just to learn how to put troops into formations or something. ;)

As far as campaign difficulty...as others have said, it really just depends on what settings you play and which faction you choose.

Read the campaign descriptions and ask around the forums for your TW of choice, and you'll identify a couple of east faction to start playing as.

Then just set difficulty to Easy or Normal and you'll be fine.

[rory.b.p]

Rome 2 has the simplest UI and playing as Rome in Rome 2 even on normal or hard is basically equivelant to playing the easiest faction in any other TW game on easy.
Rome 2 as rome would be the easiest least overwhelming campaign to start.

Med 2 would probably be the worst starter although it is one of the best games, it has a lot going on and very little in the way of explanations but it is a superb game.
Shogun 2 would probably be your middle man not as straightforward as the latter games but not as complex as its predecessors.

If you go for Shogun 2 as the starter I actually wouldn't recommend starting on easy as well it is to easy and you will learn very little except possibly not spamming castles without farm upgrades.

[PMA mode:Stoicism Egoisto]

go attlia if you wanna see destruction of rome :D

[Kramskyy]

Thanks for answer. I think i am gonna go with rome 2. But can we just buy Rome 2 not the Emperor Edition ?

[TGCMactar]

why would you ever want the non emp edition lol

[Mile pro Libertate]

Originally posted by TGCMactar:

why would you ever want the non emp edition lol

Lol what?

[PMA mode:Stoicism Egoisto]

isnt rome 2 and rome 2 emporor edition the same?

[TGCMactar]

Originally posted by Daft Funk:

Thanks for answer. I think i am gonna go with rome 2. But can we just buy Rome 2 not the Emperor Edition ?

he wanted a non emperor edition of rome 2
he thinks its cheaper ( i doubt it is)
and no it is not the same, its like an update on all the horrific bugs on release

[Hori]

Originally posted by TGCMactar:

why would you ever want the non emp edition lol

Because Emperor Edition actually screwed up more than it fixed?

Originally posted by Daft Funk:

Thanks for answer. I think i am gonna go with rome 2. But can we just buy Rome 2 not the Emperor Edition ?

There is no 'standard' Rome II anymore. Emperor Edition replaced it (it also replaced cool graphics with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ones (they call it 'improved'), rich colours with washed-out ones (they call this nonsense 'naturalistic'; clearly never been to a museum, otherwise they would know that the old colours were actually more historically accurate than this 'naturalistic' ♥♥♥♥♥), wide building rosters with half-arsed ones (quarries, groves, temples to Vulcan? Everything gone!), amazing Roman-themed user interface with some wet-sugar piece of ♥♥♥♥♥ which is also bloody broken (they say this new interface improves immersion. I say: someone hasn't been to a museum. And the technical side of things is utter nightmare) etc. etc.; In the last update they removed region names, which contributed to the bloody immersion more than the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Emperor Edition update). I'm glad they left us tools to revert most of the harmful changes.

P. S. I'm currently busy with just that, by the way: reverting Emperor Edition bollocks to pre-Emperor Edition state. Rome II is a great game but Creative Assembly keep randomly destroying it with weird updates that do more harm than good; if you buy it, make sure to download the old interface, old faction colours, old graphics and some gameplay mods because currently the game is worse than it used to be. The only good thing they did lately was the Empire Divided campaign and the cults, politics, banditry and sanitation systems it brought with itself. Empire Divided update would have been flawless and I wouldn't have had anything bad to say abot it if it didn't, for some god-awful reason, remove region names.