If a multi-year siege isn't to your liking, there are more insidious ways to weaken your foes. Hopefully this new feature won't prove the new game's undoing. Total War is a series that has consistently struggled with its AI. But as players grow familiar with the system, I can see exploits emerging. In the few battles I attempted, the computer successfully countered my attempts to hem it in. This, I think, will be the test of Attila's AI. Pushing through the barricade will take time, but moving around lets the defender funnel their opponent into a more disadvantageous position. For attackers, it becomes a tower defence style gauntlet. Troops can then be moved to occupy these spaces. Before a battle, you can set up a limited number of barricades across pre-marked positions. That was thanks in part to the new barricades.
It was a valiant defeat-my ultimately doomed troops taking out far more of the opposition than they had any right to. My walls were crumbling, my buildings were fragile and my men were outnumbered. Creative Assembly's hands-on demo featured a single battle against overwhelming attackers. This was the state of the settlement I was given to defend. You get into a level of escalation where there are breaches." At that point it will be easier, or you can wait even more. "There are corpses everywhere, and some buildings are destroyed. Wait six or seven turns, and decay will set in. Attack instantly and the settlement will be pristine and difficult to conquer. Now sieges last for years." The length of the siege affects a city's defensive potential. "Previously sieges were quite contained," says Gaspar, "and relatively short in terms of the campaign. To counter this, siege tactics have been more fully developed.
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