A market town will always be a market town and a church settlement will always be a church settlement. The issue with this is that it removes much of the variety the previous games afforded in building settlements. The closest the game gets to true innovation is to feature historically accurate settlements and structures on the map, such as churches, farming communities and towns in the state they were back in the period.
Many features are either directly copied or dummied out versions of what we saw in Atilla. The narrow lack of breadth in the game (focusing solely on the British Isles in the latter half of the 9th Century AD) should have allowed for an immense amount of mechanical depth the likes of which Total War has never seen, but there is none of this here. Thrones of Britannia does not have this justification. This is especially irritating following my gripe with Warhammer I & II's campaigns being a little shallow: the justification in that case is that the races and factions featured in the game are so diverse and different from each other that many of the usual Total War campaign features wouldn't really work for many of them, and to develop specialised campaign mechanics that have the depth of Atilla for each faction would be a massive ask. The problem with Thrones of Britannia is that it removes many previous features without bringing anything new or interesting to the table to replace them. The central issue here is that the Total War series is one of incremental steps: as the games are released, certain aspects of the campaign and battle mechanics get modified, removed, dummied out etc. I normally spend a few weeks formulating an opinion on something before finally publishing my opinion, but Thrones of Britannia has left an extremely sour taste in my mouth, not least because I am an avid Total War fan and booked the day off work to play this. I'm not one to give kneejerk reviews to any products: I feel it's a little insulting given the amount of time a developer puts into a new I'm not one to give kneejerk reviews to any products: I feel it's a little insulting given the amount of time a developer puts into a new release.
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