Total War: PHARAOH

[Angnomynous Wasp Scholar]

Bronzecucks seething in the replies

 

[Lacrymas]

I played some more and first impressions are positive. Legendary (or Very Hard)/Very Hard is essentially impossible, so play on Legendary/Normal. The court mechanics (at least for the Egyptians) aren't bad actually. By sucking up to the commander, I was able to get tier 6 units in the early game. I chose violence as my legacy path and it's a nice gold dump with some pretty powerful effects (although some of them are overpriced imo). Archers are severely overpowered atm, so maybe wait for balance patches. I'll probably wait for some patches myself, especially to fix the turn timers which have been acknowledged by the devs to be bugged, but to rein in archers as well.

 

[His Dudeness]

Got it when it was free on Epic Games. Do I get the cool complete version or the shitty one?

EDIT: Nevermind, confused it with troy.

 

[ADL]

https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/february-2025/totalwar_pharaohdynasties
key prices gonna crash down for anyone interested. Seems to be reviewed well after the big update.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Ye

https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/february-2025/totalwar_pharaohdynasties
key prices gonna crash down for anyone interested. Seems to be reviewed well after the big update.

Yeah, it's pretty good and worth the price of the bundle on its own really if you had any interest in anything else in there.

 

[itsme]

Is this relly worth buying? If so what to buy? Because Ive seen ppl selling TW Pharaoh and TW Pharaoh Dynasties. Isnt Dynasties a free addon?

 

[mediocrepoet]

Is this relly worth buying? If so what to buy? Because Ive seen ppl selling TW Pharaoh and TW Pharaoh Dynasties. Isnt Dynasties a free addon?

They're both sold as parts of the same purchase on Steam these days. I know it's confusing, but they launch separately. Dynasties has some mechanics reworks but you'd have to go looking to see what those actually are, I don't remember anymore. Anyway, if you're in to Egypt and the bronze age, it's probably worth a look. I thought it was interesting and has mechanics that support that era with some mythological impacts of the gods you worship.

 

[Lacrymas]

Pharaoh's biggest problem is the homogenization of the factions compared to Troy. However, if you want to try out Pharaoh and not Troy, I'd suggest playing with the Pharaoh Revised mod.