A Total War Saga: Troy is getting a new expansion next month, as well as a major free update to mark the Total War game's Steam release. The premium add-on will add a new game mode called Mythos, which doubles down on the game's mythological elements by throwing in Total Warhammer-style monsters and units.
The free update additionally introduces a third new mode - Historical - which is very similar to Total War: Three Kingdoms' Records mode. The main thrust of this new offering is giving every hero a bodyguard, much like in Three Kingdoms. Further to this, the development team has also had to look at each hero ability and either change or replace them, to remove the 'fantasy' elements that teased the base game's 'Truth behind the Myth' setting.
"It's been a process of defining which are reasonable to have as an ability of a larger unit like this," the developer update on the Total War blog reads, "and which are simply too fantastical to be historically authentic. This has impacted every hero across every faction, and basically means a complete rebalance of all our most powerful units for use in Historical mode."
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