History YMMV / TotalWarAttila

* WinBackTheCrowd: Is receiving extremely positive reviews from fans (to the point Total War Center, a site infamous for its hatred for Rome II, has been giving it huge amounts of praise), and is being considered far better then its buggy counterpart, and one of the best games in the series.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: The ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' series meets SurvivalHorror. "Survival Strategy", as the devs call it.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Is receiving extremely positive reviews from fans (to the point Total War Center, a site infamous for its hatred for Rome II, has been giving it huge amounts of praise), and is being considered far better then its buggy counterpart, and one of the best games in the series.

* NightmareFuel: Units hit by [[KillItWithFire flaming arrows]] will sometimes catch fire, writhing in agony on the ground while screaming before perishing. It's a lot more gruesome than most of death animations in the game because of how drawn-out it is. Flaming ammunition is generally more effective, but at what [[WarIsHell cost]]?
** [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You can choose to raze a conquered province]], destroying the town there and [[KillEmAll presumably wiping out all the people that were living in it]]. From that point on, the settlement that was there will be [[SceneryGorn nothing but dilapidated ruins]] and the area where it was on the map will be scorched and vacant. When Attila invades Europe, vast swathes of the map become like this. Looking out over where the Huns have been and seeing the dozens of [[GhostCity abandoned cities]] is downright chilling. The landscape is so bleak that it makes you wonder if civilization isn't just going through a tough time, but [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt truly dying]]. Worse yet is that a good chunk of the factions have been eradicated by then, leaving just you and Attila. The Huns may still be lurking around somewhere, [[NothingIsScarier obscured by the fog of war and not immediately visible to you...]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: ''Good lord'', the '''Theme of Sicily'''. Despite being a minor, unplayable faction in the ''Age of Charlemagne'' DLC, there ''insanely'' popular, with already several mods made solely to increase their rooster, and make them playable on the grand campaign. It helps that they have unique units (despite being unplayable without mods), and they're essentially an early version of the Byzantines.

* MemeticBadass: '''Attila'''. The game (and it's promotional videos for that matter) hypes him up as an unstoppable, apocalyptic badass destined to annihilate the world. After beating him in open combat for the first time, you ''will'' feel like a badass.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Is receiving extremely positive reviews from fans (to the point Total War Center, a site infamous for it's hatred for Rome II, has been giving it huge amounts of praise), and is being considered far better then it's buggy counterpart, and one of the best games in the series.

** [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You can choose to raze a conquered province]], destroying the town there and [[KillEmAll presumably wiping out all the people that were living in it]. From that point on, the settlement that was there will be [[SceneryGorn nothing but dilapidated ruins]] and the area where it was on the map will be scorched and vacant. When Attila invades Europe, vast swathes of the map become like this. Looking out over where the Huns have been and seeing the dozens of [[GhostCity abandoned cities]] is downright chilling. The landscape is so bleak that it makes you wonder if civilization isn't just going through a tough time, but [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt truly dying]]. Worse yet is that a good chunk of the factions have been eradicated by then, leaving just you and Attila. The Huns may still be lurking around somewhere, [[NothingIsScarier obscured by the fog of war and not immediately visible to you...]]

** Choosing to [[SaltTheEarth raze]] a province causes it to [[VideogameCrueltyPotential burn up while screams emanate from it]]. From that point on, the province is devoid of life. The settlement that was there will be [[SceneryGorn nothing but dilapidated ruins]] and the area where it was on the map will be scorched and vacant. When Attila invades Europe, vast swathes of the map become like this. Looking out over where the Huns have been and seeing the dozens of [[GhostCity abandoned cities]] is downright chilling. The landscape is so bleak that it makes you wonder if civilization isn't just going through a tough time, but [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt truly dying]]. Worse yet is that a good chunk of the factions have been eradicated, leaving you and Attila. The Huns are still lurking around somewhere, [[NothingIsScarier obscured by the fog of war and not immediately visible to you...]]

* WinBackTheCrowd: Is receiving extremely positive reviews from fans (to the point Total War Center, a site infamous for it's hatred for Rome II, has been giving it huge amounts of praise.), and is being considered far better then it's buggy counterpart, and one of the best games in the series.

* NightmareFuel: Units hit by [[KillItWithFire flaming arrows]] will sometimes catch fire, writhing in agony on the ground before perishing. It's a lot more gruesome than most of death animations in the game because of how much more drawn-out it is. Flaming ammunition is generally more effective, but at what [[WarIsHell cost]]?
** Choosing to [[SaltTheEarth raze]] a province causes it to [[VideogameCrueltyPotential burn up while screams emanate from it]]. From that point on, the province is devoid of life: the settlement that was there will be [[SceneryGorn nothing but dilapidated ruins]] and the area where it was on the map will be scorched and vacant. When Attila invades Europe, vast swathes of the map become like this. Looking out over where the Huns have been and seeing the dozens of [[GhostCity abandoned cities]] is downright chilling. The landscape is so bleak that it makes you wonder if civilization isn't just going through a tough time, but [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt truly dying]]. Worse yet is if the Huns are still lurking around somewhere, [[NothingIsScarier obscured by the fog of war and not immediately visible to you...]]

* EnsembleDarkHorse: ''Good lord'', the '''Theme of Sicily'''. Despite being a minor, unplayable faction in the ''Age of Charlemagne'' DLC, there ''insanely'' popular, with already several mods made solely to increase their rooster, and make them playable on the grand campaign. It helps that they have unique units (despite being unplayable without mods), and they're essentially an early version of the Byzantines.

* TheyJustDidntCare: There are Picts, Ebdenians and Caledonians in this game. Unfortunately they didn't have enough time/inclination to design a separate Celtic/Bretonnic culture for the game so they just use Germanic or Nordic assets to represent them. This leads to such things as the Picts sweeping down upon Roman Britain with a horde of Norse berserkers and Viking warriors. The recently released Celtic Culture DLC pack fixes it though. They use the same campaign intro as the Germanics and Norsemen though, so your supposedly "Celtic" warlord will be kneeling before a statue of Wotan. They also didn't get their own building models like the Germanics or Romans, so be prepared to see a lot of Wodin statues when besieging Celtic settlements.
** There were no such people as the "Ebdanians", that name being a 19th century transcription error for the "Eblani". Strangely, the Eblani were correctly named in Rome 2, the previous game.
*** The High King of Ireland at the time of the game was Nath Í mac Fiachrach, but the faction leader for the Ebdanians is a fictional character called Vosenios.
*** Ireland's religious status at the start of the game is 100% Celtic Pagan, but the 5th century chronicler Prosper of Aquitaine recorded that there were Christian communities in Ireland at the time.
** This is also present but much worse with the Antean and Sclavenian factions, who are supposed to be Slavic tribes, but use Germanic assets and have Turkic paganism as their religion. Hell, even the Celtic factions had their own religion before they got their DLC makeover. On the other hand, Turkic paganism and Slavic paganism are to an extent rather similar, but this still doesn't excuse the Sclavenians and other Slavic tribes not having their own faith.
** You could also make the case for this with the Viking DLC factions. They're an extremely strong culture to play as, no doubt, but for the most part they're just Saxons with much more attack power. Notably, unlike the Celts or Longobards, they didn't get their own saga storyline or unique general. Despite being probably the most suited culture for it.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: ''Good lord'', '''Theme of Sicily'''. Despite being a minor, unplayable faction in the ''Age of Charlemagne'' DLC, there ''insanely'' popular, with already several mods made solely to increase there rooster, and make them playable on the grand campaign. It helps they have unique units (despite being unplayable without mods), and there essentially an early version of the Byzantines.

** You could also make the case for this with the Viking DLC factions. They're an extremely strong culture to play as, no doubt, but for the most part they're just Saxons with much more attack power.

** You could also make the case for this with the Viking DLC factions. They're extremely powerful, no doubt, but for the most part they're just Saxons with much more attack power.

* TheyJustDidntCare: There are Picts, Ebdenians and Caledonians in this game. Unfortunately they didn't have enough time/inclination to design a separate Celtic/Bretonnic culture for the game so they just use Germanic or Nordic assets to represent them. This leads to such things as the Picts sweeping down upon Roman Britain with a horde of Norse berserkers and Viking warriors. The recently released Celtic Culture DLC pack fixes it though. They use the same campaign intro as the Germanics and Norsemen though, so your supposedly "Celtic" warlord will be kneeling before a statue of Wotan.

* TheyJustDidntCare: There are Picts, Ebdenians and Caledonians in this game. Unfortunately they didn't have enough time/inclination to design a separate Celtic/Bretonnic culture for the game so they just use Germanic or Nordic assets to represent them. This leads to such things as the Picts sweeping down upon Roman Britain with a horde of Norse berserkers and Viking warriors. The recently released Celtic Culture DLC pack fixes it though. They use the same campaign intro as the Germanics and Norsemen, so your supposedly "Celtic" warlord will be kneeling before a statue of Wotan.

* TheyJustDidntCare: There are Picts, Ebdenians and Caledonians in this game. Unfortunately they didn't have enough time/inclination to design a separate Celtic/Bretonnic culture for the game so they just use Germanic or Nordic assets to represent them. This leads to such things as the Picts sweeping down upon Roman Britain with a horde of Norse berserkers and Viking warriors. The recently released Celtic Culture DLC pack fixes it though.

** This is also present but much worse with the Antean and Sclavenian factions, who are supposed to be Slavic tribes, but use Germanic assets and have Turkic paganism as their religion. Hell, even the Celtic factions had their own religion before they got their DLC makeover.

* TheyJustDidntCare: There are Picts, Ebdenians and Caledonians in this game. Unfortunately they didn't have enough time/inclination to design a separate Celtic/Bretonnic culture for the game so they just use Germanic or Nordic assets to represent them. This leads to such things as the Picts sweeping down upon Roman Britain with a horde of Norse berserkers and Viking warriors. The recently announced Celtic Culture DLC pack will probably fix it though.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Is receiving extremely positive reviews from fans (to the point Total War Center, a site infamous for it's hatred for Rome II, has been giving it huge amounts of praise.), and is being considered far better then it's buggy counterpart, and one of the best games in the series.

* TheyJustDidntCare: There are Picts, Ebdenians and Caledonians in this game. Unfortunately they didn't have enough time/inclination to design a separate Celtic/Bretonnic culture for the game so they just use Germanic or Nordic assets to represent them. This leads to such things as the Picts sweeping down upon Roman Britain with a horde of Norse berserkers and Viking warriors. The recently announced Celtic Culture DLC pack will probably fix it though.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: Attila: Total War served as this trope after the disastrous release of Rome II.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Is receiving extremely positive reviews from fans (to the point Total War Center, a site infamous for it's hatred for Rome II, has been giving it huge amounts of praise.), and is being considered far better then it's buggy counterpart, and one of the best games in the series.