The Disintegration of Total War's "Order of Battle"

Or "battle structure", or "army cohesion".

Your units can't work together while some of them can't work at all.
There's no point in trying to have an integrated tactical plan that utilises armies when single entity units turn the battlefield into a MOBA, and your actual units are so often not much more than spectators.

Here's the playlist for this critique series:    • Total Decline: A Total War Analysis  

The cavalry merry-go-round of 3K:
   • Total War: Three Kingdoms - The Futil...  
The devolved discoordinated spread out clusterfuck that was my first Total War gameplay in 5y:
   • Total War: Three Kingdoms - Heroic Vi...  
Ramming gates with heroes in Troy:
   • Troy Total War - Ramming Gates with H...  
The fundamental constant of katana vs. yari in Shogun 2:
   • Shogun 2 - Katana Samurai vs. Yari Sa...  
My speedrun gameplay of Mission 2 of Soviet in Red Alert 2:
   • Red Alert 2: Soviet Campaign (World R...  
The consistency in Dishonored 2 critique, this good video should have more likes:
   • Why Dishonored 2 Sucks (For Content C...  
My using of spear circles in 3K to blob for trebuchets. Look at the kills the spears have at the end of the battle:
   • Total War: Three Kingdoms - Cao Cao (...  
Pikes being utterly worthless in Medieval 2:
   • Medieval 2: Total War - Pikes Being U...  
The extremely ambitious 3K battle:
   • Total War Impossible Battles 3 - Thre...  
The appropriate fragility of cavalry in Shogun 2:
   • Cavalry are not strong in Shogun 2  
The snorefest fight in Troy:
   • Troy Total War - Battle Difficulty Co...  
The Third Age gameplay:    • Third Age - Gondor Campaign (VH/VH) -...  ,    • Third Age - Gondor Campaign (VH/VH) -...  

0:00 Intro
0:45 The spur of the video
1:40 Unit abilities and 3K's hideous meta
3:15 The relegating effect of heroes and single entity units
5:00 The importance of consistency
11:00 The extreme disincentive from infantry in Troy/3k
13:00 The proper role of infantry in Total War
14:15 The consistence of effective gameplay in these games
15:00 The frustration of Scotland play in Medieval 2
19:00 Spears in 3K vs. spears in Shogun 2
23:30 How infantry played in Medieval 2 and Third Age

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