Cults are free for you to build and upgrade, but fill your whole empire with level 4 Christians and you will find yourself starving from their food penalty. Again, going along with history, I tried to salvage the empire with the use of Christianity, and that’s when I had a pleasantly unpleasant surprise. Cults improve sanitation, which helps you combat problems with plague in a thematically consistent way. The addition of cults is also impactful in this aspect. Since Total War is about history but your choices are free, it means the series needs to tell history through mechanics, and this DLC does a nice job of it.Įmpire Divided adds in little snippets of “choices matter” mechanics, giving a legendary feel to your main character while adding to the mystic religious atmosphere of these uncertain times. Aurelian rules with an iron fist, and that means, yes, steamrolling your enemies (a little too easily, but whoever complained about winning?).
Here’s where the mechanics of the game come in. No, not the Romans in Palmyra under Queen Zenobia, and not the Gallic Romans, but the Romans led by the guy who actually put Rome back on track: Aurelian. On my first playthrough of Empire Divided, I decided to stay faithful to History and choose the Romans.
If you’re a history buff, that sort of thing will draw you in. In my experience playing Wrath of Sparta for example, other than the Greek font found on the map and the more (annoying) island-hopping style of combat, what I noticed most was my advisor telling me historical facts about cities I clicked on. The extra history is the reason you might want to pick up Total War DLCs. Come for the history, stay for the addiction. Empire Divided focuses on a chaotic third century, when the empire was at war with itself.
Rome II has had a multitude of DLC’s itself, and justifiably so – the empire spanned a continent or three over the course of a millennium or two. There’s enough content in its DLCs to equate the value of a full release, but for a lower price. If you’ve played one Total War you’ve played them all, right? Well, not exactly.
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