What's the best total war game if I want to learn history?

>>2089822 (OP)
Damm kids these days, back in my day we "learned" history by reading the Civilization IV Civilopedia

>>2089822 (OP)
None. They're all pop history variations.

>>2089842
>What do you mean Shaka Zulu didn't invent the atom bomb and drop it on Boston?!

>>2089822 (OP)
Three Chinkdoms in non-romance mode.

>>2089822 (OP)
>What's the best total war game if I want to learn history?
Europa Barbarorum

>>2089894
>rome: total war 1
Does it work with the remastered version? I can see that og rome 1 isn't on steam nor gog, so I guess I'd need to pirate it then and then apply the mod. Would that work at all or is it more than a drag&drop operation here since the game would be pirated?

>>2089896
I'm pretty sure you get OG versions of RTW if you buy Remastered. That being said, there is EB port for it on workshop if you want to try that out

>>2089894
Came here to say this too. It's great.

>>2089822 (OP)
learned the locations of prominent ancient cities from rome 1
I will never forget the look on my professors face when I could locate everything he asked for on the map (except fucking gaugamela, damn you alexander)

Did they ever fixed the mouse-stops-working problem

>>2089822 (OP)
shogun 1 comes with a PDF manual talking about the history of japan so that you can get immersed and properly larp before you play

>>2090129
forgot pic

>>2090133
Yeah it was great. Still is.

>>2089894

Reminder that there are some inaccuracies that got into EB1 that don't exist in EB2.

>>2091521
Everything in EB is fanfiction. Well researched fanfiction but still fanfiction.

>>2089894
>>2089896
>>2089902
You don't want the Steam version, they did some bullshit to the game that fucked performance. Look for Total War Eras collection (includes, Rome, Barbarian Invasion and Alexander) and use no-cd files that can be found down the list here: https://github.com/anzz1/openspy-client?tab=readme-ov-file
If your performance is bad, try dxvk or dgvoodoo2
If you want to play vanilla, get the original BUG-FIXER v3.36 mod to fix some things that never got patched (later versions you might stumble upon were made much later by other people and they change balance etc)

>>2089822 (OP)
Rome total war is the best one.

>>2089902
you get rome TW and the standalone expansion games if you buy TW Rome remaster
>source: that's what I did

>>2091708
>You don't want the Steam version, they did some bullshit to the game that fucked performance.
you can fix it by installing dxwrapper and downgrading to patch 1.5

>>2093268
>dxwrapper
This corrupts terrain textures on the campaign map and possibly elsewhere in the game. Using dxvk or dgvoodoo2 improves performance (dxvk Version 2.4.1 is the best all-around from my testing) and either of those render everything without issue

>>2093268
I just use russian pirates version on my win7 machine

>>2089822 (OP)
>TW
>To learn history
Lmao

>>2093268
Or you can just use your physical copy or a virtual of it, like a normal human being

>>2091708
Don't know about EB I but EB II works no problem on Steam if you follow the instructions.
t least works as well as vainilla, a game that still has problems and crashes nowadays.

>>2089822 (OP)
None. CA seem to have a strong aversion to realism and historical accuracy, you have to mod that in.

>>2094652
>EBII
Yeah, the Med2 port is better on Steam than the original Rome port was. Though, I did hear some modder claim that the AI in Steam Med 2 is worse somehow than the disc release, but I don't know if that's true. The thing about Steam Rome 1 having worse performance than the disc/1.5 version is definitely true.

>>2094524
its actually better at it than Paradox slop

>>2089822 (OP)
EBII mod for med 2

>>2095171
>Though, I did hear some modder claim that the AI in Steam Med 2 is worse somehow than the disc release, but I don't know if that's true.
It is, but basically every mod under the sun fixes it