It's more that the game just decided that 164 BC was time for a civil war, so eight full-stack armies and four full-stack navies materialized out of thin air on top of my capital city. In fact, none of my generals actually took part in the revolt, so it's not quite fair to call it a civil war. Before and after the revolt, my influence was still at 43%, with no change in the gravitas or ambition of any general, whether part of my family or not. Side note: a civil war finally erupted in my Macedon game. That's what the game's missing, more factions. But no worries, they're already hard at work on DLC packs for the Seleucids and the steppe nomads. The only things that Paradox's latest might be said to lack are Total War's increasingly frantic and floaty tactical battles, which should shame CA to no end. In those respects, Europa Universalis IV blows this out of the water.
Nothing connects and you don't know why because the game won't tell you. Now I have 43%, which worried me for a while, but I couldn't really do anything to change it, no matter how many promotions, adoptions, or bribes I performed, so I ignored it for the past fifty turns and am better for it. I started out with 93% influence in Macedon. Things like Gravitas, Influence, and Ambition, which should be at the core of the design, make zero sense in execution. It's impossible to make a mistake in this game because nothing really matters. You have no real control over what it thinks, it's just there to be conquered. Don't worry, the diplomatic AI doesn't matter. You can resurrect the army with all its upgrades intact back home. They all give similar bonuses and your general will be dead soon anyway. Creative Assembly obviously had some cool design ideas about limited resources with the agents, provinces, and armies, but it's all lost in an empty game that scrambles at every turn to assure you that nothing's of any real consequence. Well, I've put in thirty hours of digging and the depth is nowhere to be found. Most people take it all in good faith and assume that the depth is there if they just start digging.
It puts on a brave face, so if you're new to Total War games, strategy games, or just games, it plays pretty for baby. The game is completely and totally broken. The fact that most reviewers were only willing to damn such a mess of a game with faint praise has been really frustrating.
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