Some towns have unique buildings, with special effects.
You’ve also got two Orc factions nearby who like to cause trouble. That means definitely wiping out the Vampire Counts, and almost certainly killing off Archaon, the big boring suit of armour who heads up the Chaos faction. This province is situated in the West of the Empire, and you need to regain the whole place to get the Short Victory. The Empire starts in a single region-Altdorf-but can swiftly and easily regain the other regions in its province. Piss off the dwarfs or the humans by fighting any of them, and you’ll have a lot more problems to handle. Neglect the East and South for too long, and you’ll have big armies on your doorstop. However the Southern Greenskins and Eastern Vampire Counts aren’t that far away, and are very willing to push into the Empire proper once they’ve established themselves. The Dwarfs and Brettonia even have a grudging respect for the Empire, which can blossom into an alliance when Chaos attacks.
They also don’t have a huge cultural axe to grind against them, unlike the Vampire Counts and Greenskins. Though their neighbours aren’t allied, they aren’t exactly hostile (save perhaps for Graf Todbringer in Middenland) and they’re mostly desperate to survive. Personally, I'm just glad to see a multiplayer game get a second chance, after seeing so many games fizzle out and shut down over the past few years, and in this case, I feel the odd melange of ingredients might just result in something worth keeping around long-term, assuming they can polish it up a little further.The humans of the Empire might have the easiest start of any of the Total War factions. Right now there's no difference in content between the original (failed) beta and the current playable build on Steam, but the developers do have plans to work on new content over the coming year, assuming players decide to stick around. Players who got in on the older version of the game are apparently being rewarded for their loyalty with a stack of currency and items in-game. The translation is more than a little rough, admittedly, but it's at least accessible enough for English-speakers. The setting is Three Kingdoms-era history (with ancient Roman soldiers playable as well, just to add to the hodge-podge feel of the game), the combat mechanics are shamelessly lifted from Mount & Blade, and the progression systems and game structure are copy-pasted from World of Tanks, right down to requiring you to fill out an individual troop type's research tree before you can progress to the next unit type. Tiger Knight is a freakish frankengame, assembled from components of other, more popular titles and while it may not be more than the sum of its parts, it has a lot of parts to add together. While undeniably a little on the rough side (feeling almost like a throwback to the early days of Korean-led free-to-play gaming), the couple rounds I've played cooperatively against bots have been enjoyable enough, in an awkwardly familiar kinda way. It's a bit patchy, but might be worth a look, given its free-to-play nature. Thankfully, 2018 is set to be a year of new beginnings, and Chinese publisher NetDragon Websoft have dusted the game off for a second, international-geared release via Steam. I even missed the game shutting down last year.
I'd have expected the blend of historical Chinese warfare, familiar siege and mounted combat mechanics and massive-scale PvP warfare (7v7 matches, each player leading a regiment of up to 30 AI soldiers) would have caught my eye, but apparently not. Somehow, the original release of Tiger Knight flew completely under my radar.
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