Total War's Campaign Map: From Interesting Decisions to Making Numbers Go Up

Following my feature length Total War: Fall of a Franchise video in February, let's take a look at how older Total War games had surprisingly good campaign map gameplay, unlike popular narratives would have you think.
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00:00 False Assumptions and Misconceptions
1:30 What makes a good game?
6:27 Technology Progression: The Good Kind
10:05 Allegiance Mechanics in Shogun 2
13:55 Three Kingdoms: Numbers Going Up
15:45 DLC Diluting Good Games
18:40 Warhammer's Failure, Featuring Nasmr
21:22 An Idea I had
22:46 Outro


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