 So it has come to this Good men torn from their kin To rage and spill the blood of other men's foes Greetings my esteemed subscribers. I am taking an ever-so-quick break from my rather hectic schedule to have a look at Total War Troy. Now, I will not play this yet. I won't make a let's play per se, but rather just a Quick overview I might give it a go later in the autumn when things calm down a bit But at the moment I have far too much on my schedule to Put aside time to properly enjoy this fine game But I thought to just show it to you also thought to give you a book recommendation You probably saw it on my Instagram account. It's a Series of four books which retells the Iliad and Odyssey, but rewritten to make it a bit more Easy to digest for a modern reader now Of course, you can read the original Iliad and Odyssey But if you want to get through it a bit faster make the language a bit more understandable then I can definitely recommend the The book series. I'm on the third book right now. And yeah, it's good stuff So that is the book recommendation for the day or book recommendations. Should I say so anyway? We are here in bronze age Greece the Greek world and we're gonna have a look at the main heroes So the trailer I opened up with I'd say Achilles in my imagination looks a bit more youthful than In the trailer, but you know, it's all good. Anyway, so we have here The main guy Achilles warlord of the Mermidons you can play as him Looking quite aesthetic indeed then we have the king of men the Mycenaean king Agamemnon the main driving force behind the The invasion of Troy. He is the main king of the Greeks and he obviously wants Troy as a prize Then we have Odysseus the brains behind the operation and also the main character of the odyssey His way back to his wife in Ithaca So yeah, good good man right here Also his idea to create the Trojan horse that eventually brings the the Western Greeks the victory then we have the tragic Menelaus he gets Cucked by Paris he gets his wife Helen stolen by Paris and that is the Spark of the war so they go to war on his behalf, but it's Also due to his older brother's ambition. So I can remember on here. So those are the Western Greek heroes you can play as then we can look at the Trojans right here We have Hector my favorite character in this whole in this whole epic saga You know dutiful older brother who defends his city against the invasion force So you can place him and if I do play this during autumn I will probably play as him or perhaps as Achilles. Who knows we'll see then we have the the villainous Paris Paris of Troy who abducts Helen from from Sparta when they're there on an Diplomatic mission so you can play as him as well. And here you have the legendary Anais if I pronounce that correctly and you have plenty of Later European peoples who claim descendentship from this individual So they're the last Trojan who manages to escape westward then you have here a King of Lysia you can play as well. So we're gonna have a quick look at The campaign itself is looking at the aesthetics. So choose Achilles And yeah, you have a bit of different options Here I'm not gonna go in far too much I'm just gonna get into the game Are we mere play themes of the gods? Or do we plead divine influence to justify our foolish choices You've risked the safety of Troy Troy is my home now You have my oath If you will be returned to you brother, I can fight go Seek shelter There'll be plenty of fighting ahead Helen's flight was a grave wound to a key and pride King Menelaus will have his revenge And his brother will have his war with Troy Just as the gods intended Right so another Epic intro there and you can see the artwork in the background here quite true to the time period as well So that is nice to see no doubt Oh swift footed Achilles There is only one response to Queen Helen's abduction And that is war Brother your foolish passion has doomed us King Agamemnon of high-walled Mycenae must avenge this insult to his brother You are the ultimate warrior King of Thea and Commander of the Mermidans Glory in battle is my God-given fate Your ally King Lycomedes rules the Isle of Scyros As a boy you were sheltered in Lycomedes court on your father's command Now you must protect the old King in turn He'd both threats from enemies like the Elopians and Opportunities that come your way through friends such as prosperous King Oelius and his son Ajax the lesser The independent Thessalians could be a bulwark for your western flank Keep your courage lion-hearted Achilles for you know well that fortune favors the bold Fortune favors the bold a most correct The enemy sends their warriors against you to ravage your lands and sack your cities that perhaps they underestimate your strength March out Engage them in battle and put them to flight Right so we can see the map is looking Absolutely splendid. Let's say look at this water. I want to go for a swim. It's looking at it so yeah quite quite nice graphics as well and See the sand colored things The sand colored map areas where you haven't explored yet. So I suppose you can do that then Your Achilles there with some of his troops So anyway, it looks quite nice nice graphics nice aesthetics also in the background if you look at the skyline there, it's made in the same artwork as we saw in the loading screen So yeah, good stuff good stuff. I just thought to show you that now I will Continue with a four mentioned hectic schedule So if you haven't already done so you can follow me on Instagram and telegram if you want to keep updated on Things and get book recommendations, etc. So anyway, thank you for watching and have a great rest of your day XOXO